Timid librarian in plea to save my workplace from making a huge mistake. A whole floor of Cardiff University's main library is under threat of being repurposed to teaching facilities with the removal of 7km of shelving holding valuable books. Pls share x you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...

Save the second floor of Cardiff University's Arts and Social Studies Library (ASSL)

Dear current patrons, past patrons, and future patrons of Arts and Social Sciences Library (ASSL) at Cardiff University. On Friday 17th of May, library staff of the ASSL were informed by University Li...

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This Sunday! www.sidthecat.com/sidthecatsho...

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Matthew Eadie@mattheweadie.bsky.social · 4mo ago

NEW: Chicago Progressive Partnership super PAC, which launched ads attacking Kat Abughazaleh and then eventually in favor of Bushra Amiwala as an apparent attempt to split the vote, has filed its FEC report, which reveals it was another shell group for AIPAC and its allies

Was feeling melancholy, but then I dug up Theoden with an undercut from my vault of memes

Gentlemen, it’s Women’s History Month, so maybe take the initiative and explain what that is.

God gave us these beautiful bodies and said, now use the computer

In a mock Turing-style test in my #Philosophy of Mind & #AI class, students posed #Gemini an ethical dilemma concerning assisted suicide. Not only did the chatbot argue that the (fictional) person in the scenario should be euthanised, it provided a list of instructions to bring this about. #AIEthics

Pro-Israel groups spent millions to unseat Cori Bush in 2024. Now, she is running for Congress again. https://www.democracynow.org/2026/2/27/cori_bush

Former St. Louis Congressmember Cori Bush Runs for Seat Again After AIPAC Targeted Her in 2024

Cori Bush is running for Congress again. Bush previously served two terms as a Democratic congressmember for Missouri, until she was unseated in 2024 following a multimillion-dollar attack campaign ru...

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Asif Aziz's Criterion Capital halts mass eviction after London Centric uncovered what was going on. Hundreds of Londoners now receiving bizarre door-to-door visits blaming misinformation and being asked to record videos saying they don't want to be evicted. www.londoncentric.media/p/asif-aziz-...

Billionaire halts mass eviction after London Centric investigation

Exclusive: Asif Aziz's Criterion Capital hoped to replace hundreds of tenants with more lucrative temporary accommodation. That plan has been shelved – for now.

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I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is

Children jailed with their families in Dilley, Texas, are describing intense anguish and fear, including a 13-year-old who said, “I feel like I’ll never get out of here. I just ask that you don’t forget about us.”

Children at Dilley ICE Jail in Texas Describe Their Anguish and Fear

“I feel like I’ll never get out of here. I just ask that you don’t forget about us,” said a 13-year-old.

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Get in losers we’re doing central planning without the planning

Reuters@reuters.com · 6mo ago

Trump to direct Pentagon to buy coal to revive industry, Bloomberg News says reut.rs/46vkQiO

The morning so far

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology

She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.

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#OtD 4 Feb 1924 175 @IWW members took on the Ku Klux Klan in Greenville, Maine, after KKK tried to threaten union organisers: "We are going to stick, and if the Klan wants to start something, the IWW are going to finish it". More in our podcast: workingclasshistory.com/tag/iww/

“I watched him die… then I watched them maneuver his body like a rag doll— only to discover it was because they wanted to count the bullet wounds and see how many they ‘got’, like he was a deer.”

Body cams are definitely going to fix this.

amanda moore 🐢@noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 6mo ago

There’s a rally going on in Boston rn and they’re chanting “we’re not cold, we’re not afraid, MN taught us to be brave!” and I might cry

With no warning, feds just gassed people.

This is what our government has sent into cities across the country to arrest normal, nonviolent working people. Insanity.

Daniel Suitor@danielsuitor.com · 7mo ago

Oh my God

Eric Umansky@ericumansky.bsky.social · 7mo ago

WH sources say Venezuela's opposition leader committed the "ultimate sin": She accepted the Nobel Peace prize. “If she had turned it down and said, ‘I can’t accept it because it’s Donald Trump’s,’ she’d be the president of Venezuela today,” one said. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Mom’s Eyes Roll Back In Head At Dinner Table As She Feeds On Family’s Enjoyment Of Food https://theonion.com/moms-eyes-roll-back-in-head-at-dinner-table-as-she-feeds-on-familys-enjoyment-of-food/

History will certainly view this as the stupidest fuckin time ever.

Couldn’t Sam Altman just ask ChatGPT how to make itself profitable

Breaking: Another Israeli strike has hit Lebanon at 6:30 a.m. local time, less than a day after 13 people were killed in an attack on the country’s largest Palestinian refugee camp. Drop Site contributor @galpalpheebs (X) shares the details in the thread below 👇

Paxlovid from Pfizer costs $15 to make and now retails for $1500. Insane

Learn a little about the American Association of Philosophy Teachers, which is approaching its 50th anniversary…

American Association of Philosophy Teachers Upcoming 50th Anniversary (guest post) - Daily Nous

The American Association of Philosophy Teachers (AAPT) will be 50 years old next year. Renée Smith, Professor of Philosophy at Coastal Carolina University, was recently elected president of the AAPT. ...

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US musician Carsie Blanton on the Nazi-like ways of Israel after her kidnapping. "I'm a Jewish American and in Israeli detention, I was really treated like scum"