mallorie sullivan

@mallorie.bsky.social

👩🏼‍💻 messaging strategist 📍 columbus, ohio 🐕 mother of two blind dogs

Extreme cold is expected this weekend, with potential snow in the forecast. No one should have to face it alone. Warming centers and shelters across Columbus are open to provide a safe place to stay warm. See the graphic for locations.

December Winter Warming Centers.
3rd Shift. 1015 E. Main St. 614-252-3191. 24 hours/7 days a week. Co-ed and pet friendly. 
Star House. 1220 Corrugated Way. 10:30 p.m. to 2 p.m. Ages 14-24 and their small children.
Jordan's Crossing. 342 N. Hague Ave. 614-564-9616. Open: Monday-Friday 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday 9 a.m. to noon.
Columbus Metropolitan Library Branches. Open for any community member during normal business hours. Find locations and hours at columbuslibrary.org.
Community Development for All People. 946 Parsons Ave. 614-445-7342. Open 7 p.m. to 7 a.m.
The Open Shelter. 1037 Parsons Ave. 614-222-2885. Open: Monday-Friday 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Columbus Relief. 2000 Parsons Ave. 614-252-3191. Open: Tuesday-Thursday and Saturday 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Columbus Recreation & Parks Community Centers. Open for any community member during normal business hours. Find locations and hours at columbusrecparks.com.
Find Nearest Warming Centers: columbus.gov/warmingcenters.
Need shelter? Call the homeless hotline: 614-274-7000.

“this album … isn’t art. the life of a showgirl is made of shein quality rip-offs of other people’s songs that are constructed shoddily and sold in ginormous quantities. art takes time and care. this is profit. it’s content.” what a bar from @mckinneykelsey.bsky.social

No Good Art Comes From Greed | Defector

The packages arrived square and thin and carefully wrapped on Saturday afternoon. There were three of them, but only one was mine. If I could have rejected my package, sent it back from whence it came...

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“The Mid-Ohio Regional Planning Commission issued an air quality alert July 5 for the Columbus area as Canadian wildfire smoke, fireworks emissions and sunny weather were all predicted to lower the region's air quality.” www.dispatch.com/story/news/l...

Air quality alert issued in Columbus region due to wildfire smoke, fireworks emissions

After a few days of jubilant fireworks launching, Columbus' air quality is taking a hit, causing the Mid-Ohio Planning Commission to issue an alert.

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Student & early career journalists in Appalachia, send pitches! We're looking for different kinds of stories—politics, labor, education, cultural trends, life + identity, and more! Rates start at $100 for opinion, $200-$400 for reporting & can increase based on scope. Pitch guide and form below:

A New Call for Pitches for a New Appalachian Era

We continue to tell the stories of our region, with an eye toward deeply-reported modern-day stories of Appalachia’s challenges and triumphs. And if you’re a writer or journalist in the region, we wan...

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The Ohio Lesbian Archive's long-overdue state historical marker has been derailed by the Trump admin’s sweeping war on DEI, which extends beyond diversity, equity & inclusion programs to seemingly include anything that acknowledges the country’s diversity of experience: 19thnews.org/2025/06/ohio...

‘It’s proof of our existence’: This lesbian archive is recording history as it's erased

As the Trump administration cuts programs recognizing LGBTQ+ people, this Ohio archive is doing what queer Americans always have: preserving their own history.

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Starting today, new cooling centers are open across Columbus. Five community centers will now serve as cooling sites from morning to evening, with free access to outdoor pools and spraygrounds continuing throughout the heat advisory. Stay cool and look out for one another.

Cooling centers.
Columbus recreation and parks is operating five community centers as cooling centers beginning Tuesday, June 24 until the heat subsides. these locations will be open to the community from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m.
Dodge Community Center. 667 Sullivant Ave.
Driving Park Community Center. 1100 Rhoads Ave.
Glenwood Community Center. 1888 Fairmont Ave.
Linden Community Center. 1350 Briarwood Ave.
Marion Franklin Community Center. 2801 Lockbourne Rd.
Additionally, outdoor pools will be open from 1-8 p.m. with free admission through the advisory.
Spraygrounds at Barnett, Blackburn, Linden, and Scioto Southland will operate 12 – 8 p.m., free of charge.

🧵 SCOOP: DHS has requested 20,000 records (including photos) from of Ohio BMV to be delivered early next week. The Ohio BMV system logs every query made. Law enforcement already has access but ICE may be trying to avoid detection. 1/

NEW: The Great Lakes hold 95% of all the surface freshwater in the United States. Severe cuts have decimated the NOAA Great Lakes lab. Scientists worry they’ve lost the ability to protect the public from toxic algal blooms, which can kill animals and sicken people. My story for @propublica.org

Millions of People Depend on the Great Lakes’ Water Supply. Trump Decimated the Lab Protecting It.

The Trump administration’s slashing of budgets and staff have Great Lakes scientists concerned that they have lost the ability to protect the public from toxic algal blooms, which can kill animals and...

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NEW: Researchers secretly ran a massive, unauthorized AI persuasion experiment on Reddit users in a large debate subreddit. The bots' answers mined the original posters' identity and post history to generate its answers & created identities such as "rape survivor" www.404media.co/researchers-...

Researchers Secretly Ran a Massive, Unauthorized AI Persuasion Experiment on Reddit Users

The researchers' bots generated identities as a sexual assault survivor, a trauma counselor, and a Black man opposed to Black Lives Matter.

404media.co

ohio issue 2: ✅ would renew and increase the spending cap for a program that funds public works projects related to roads, bridges, water systems and waste disposal ✅ will not increase taxes ❌ is unrelated to the cleveland browns stadium project, which is still under consideration by lawmakers

Issue 2 on May ballot would help pay for roads, bridges - not Cleveland Browns stadium

Ohio voters are being asked to approve a major bond issue this spring. But it has nothing to do with the Cleveland Browns.

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last month, @dispatch.com + the USA TODAY network ohio published an investigation that found tens of thousands of ohioans are attacked by dogs across the state each year. among the findings was that, currently, only after a dog kills two people does state law require that it be put down.

VICIOUS: An investigation into how Ohio laws fail thousands of dog attack victims

Gruesome attacks happen despite warnings, complaints and previous attacks that went unheeded by dog owners and unpunished by Ohio's legal system.

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"this is one massive protest to try to get the attention of our ruling class. we will keep fighting for democracy, for our rights." good story about columbus’ hands off protest — one of 57 across ohio on saturday — from @danaeking.bsky.social

Hands Off protest against Donald Trump, Elon Musk brings thousands to downtown Columbus

As part of Hands Off, a national day of action to protest Trump, thousands of people gathered Saturday outside the Ohio Statehouse in downtown Columbus.

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