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Poet, Editor, Farmer, Herbalist, Queer as hell. He-Berry (he/him) “The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” George Orwell, 1984
Being undocumented in the United States is not a crime. Being undocumented in the United States is not a crime. Being undocumented in the United States is not a crime. Being undocumented in the United States is not a crime. Being undocumented in the United States is not a crime.
ProPublica spoke to about 150 people who had lived in homeless encampments when cities cleared them out in “sweeps.” We distributed notecards so people could tell us about the toll in their own words. This is what they wrote. (Published Dec. 2024)
“I Have Lost Everything”: The Toll of Cities’ Homeless Sweeps
Cities often take belongings — including important documents and irreplaceable mementos — when they conduct sweeps of homeless encampments. ProPublica gave notecards to people across the country so th...
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This needs to be a bigger story. Google Docs is no longer safe for copyrighted material. Any writer on contract needs to stop using it *immediately*.
Bogi Takács / WE'RE HERE ToC announced!@bogiperson.bsky.social · 44m agoGoogle Docs leaks private information - www.reddit.com/r/IndieDev/c...
Announcing Okay Donkey’s NEW WEBSITE! 🥳 Check it out at okaydonkeymag.com And this month’s newsletter will only further your inspiration with Fiction Reader Damilola Omotoyinbo’s feature all about allowing yourself to write “the messy first draft.” Read the full newsletter at buff.ly/YV3nmHp.
During a probe into possible child abuse, the ex-wife of Rep. Max Miller (R-Ohio) accused him of throwing hot water at her, shoving her, and holding a gun to her head.
Assault, misogyny, verbal threats: Records detail new allegations against Rep. Max Miller
Police reports and filings in a bitter custody dispute raise new questions about the conduct of an Ohio Republican as he campaigns for a third term.
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Reluctantly crouched At the starting line Parsley Sage Rosemary and thyme
"Pronouns used to be a funny joke, Hank. Until the government tried to tell me I couldn't use them anymore. So now I'm adamant about making sure trans people are gendered right. Not for their sake. But because I'll be damned if the US government is going to tell me what words I can and can't use."
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ICYMI: ICE added an estimated 920,000 DNA profiles to the FBI's criminal database in a single year. Most of the people swabbed have no criminal conviction. CBP records show 492 children under 14 sent to the FBI. 21 of them were five-year-olds. One was 4. By @dmehro.bsky.social
ICE Collected Nearly 1 Million People’s DNA Last Year—Including Young Children
Internal documents show ICE's DNA collection has skyrocketed in the second Trump administration. Now hundreds of thousands of people never convicted of a crime are in an FBI criminal database forever.
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There are a lot of great joys in life but being able to go outside and pick fresh basil to use when making pasta sauce from scratch is up there.
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Break to Sing: Seven New Poetry Collections to Read in August
“Elegy, sing the bones to break the cycle. The cycle: Sing to Break. Break to Sing.” –Philip B. Williams’s Lift Every Voice * This month, we see poets collaborating and conversing beyond words on a…
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If this doesn't win awards I'll chew both my feet off
Reactor Magazine@reactorsff.bsky.social · 10h agoA creature wearing a woman's body becomes a lonely man's girlfriend, but the woman suit and his interest start to rot... "Not Like Other Girls" by @ghoulpus.bsky.social is out now at Reactor! Art by A.W. Sommers Edited by @annvandermeer.bsky.social
The only way to discover the limits of your gender is to venture a little way past them
Councilor Flynn just blocked a non-binding resolution calling on the city to set up a coordinated emergency response plan to help Haitian immigrants facing loss of their homes now that they lost their TPS status today. Flynn wants more info on how much helping Haitians in Boston would cost. 1/2
So we’re about an hour into the official city sweep of the Pig’s Eye/Fish Hatchery encampment. A couple of entrances are barricaded with mostly wood pallets, which has prevented city workers from moving in machinery to clear the camp. This has allowed camp residents to move themselves out.
I’m here at the Fish Hatchery encampment in St. Paul as the city prepares to sweep the camp. St. Paul cops are stopping cars coming in but there are dozens of people that have gathered here in anticipation of the sweep in order to help camp residents and document what the city does here today.
Community defense sometimes also means preserving people’s dignity as they are uprooted, and keeping out the skid steers and aggressive city employees.
Mark Wasson@reportermark.bsky.social · 3h agoAnd I’m taking off. A camp defender told me that the city is not going to push in tonight as long as people keep helping camp residents move. There are maybe a dozen residents at the encampment still. Several people brought food and drinks today for people and I think that’s cool
#NativePlants Asclepias tuberosa finally maturing on our tough city Parkway. It is more like dry woodland edge than our full sun richer soil backyard clumps so it blooms later. Such complex architectural flowers in genus! #gardening #bloomscrolling #FlowerReport #SmallJoys #MilkweedForMonarchs 🌱
Privilege is sitting in my air conditioned house while the air quality is unhealthy at the same time minimum wage farm workers pick the produce I eat in the exact same conditions.
United Farm Workers@ufw.bsky.social · yesterday"Rena" sent this from Moses Lake WA where she is weeding carrots for a non-union company. She shared: The air is bad. See my cell phone. The AQI is 166, which is unhealthy. We start at 4am. We'll work 7-8 hrs & earn minimum wage. #WeFeedYou
Reminder that if you're trans you're not allowed to quit ❤️
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Not Built in a Day: How Slavery Made the Roman Empire
From acclaimed author of A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum and historian Emma Southon, a groundbreaking history of Ancient Rome that explores how the empire was built, fueled, and shaped ...
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Just got a report of a scam solicitation w/ contact info harvested from copyright registration lists. The work is unpublished & not mentioned anywhere else; registration included author's cell #, so solicitation was via SMS. Just a reminder that any contact info on a registration is public record.
The HWA has apologized for the AI article and specifically apologized for the inclusion of Indigenous water rights struggles in the AI column, and removed the newsletter writer from their board position. I’m deeply appreciative of the apology and of all who expressed solidarity in my post about it.
If I ever leave education, genAI will be the thing that pushes me out. It's so bad in secondary schools, and the light at the end of the tunnel seems to be getting further away instead of closer.
Prof. Nicole Holliday@mixedlinguist.bsky.social · 3h agoThis is the part that breaks my heart. "Generative AI has broken the sacred contract between professors & students: that the professors are there to teach and the students are there to learn. The understanding has been broken...That’s a very deep part of the grief” www.chronicle.com/article/thes...
I blogged! On GenAI and full-fat plagiarism, and some striking similarities between the two.
The Plagiarism Machine — KJ Charles
Back in the day, as an editor, I was witness in varying degrees to various plagiarism cases. The thing about plagiarism accusations (real ones, not nonsense vexatious lawsuit ones) is, every damn time...
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Beginning to feel like I need to budget a week on the blog for a military primer on 'how the US Navy is the load-bearing pillar of your ability to eat bananas and of folks in developing countries to eat at all.' Not saying that is an optimal situation, merely that it is the situation.