This local Wolfdog joined an Olympic ski event and triggered the finish-line camera. This is Nazgul. He snuck into a cross-country skiing sprint this morning and raced the homestretch with some competitors before being escorted home. 14/10 someone get him a medal

The baby Dolly chooks are growing so fast! Just over a week old and already starting to get their big chook feathers #chicks #farmlife #littlefarm

It means the places that capitulated should be shunned even harder . These people have into white washing because they wanted do. They were already fighting scholars and people of color when things were good And folded For an administration that abandoned them

ACLU@aclu.org · 6mo ago

BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide. This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.

I have friends being threatened by their workplaces over the use of toilets they've been using for years without problem.

@theotheories.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Nearly a year into many trans people in the UK being forced to use disabled toilets or asked to work from home pending legal advice and stuff and I haven't seen a single "Izzy's boss told her she has to use a disabled toilet, here's how she feels about it" piece in the papers.

Joanne Bland passed away today. She was just was 11 when she marched in Selma on March 7, 1965, known today as "Bloody Sunday." Joanne led my students on a number of tours of Selma. I usually just sat back and watched her go. She was a remarkable woman, who will be dearly missed. #BlackHistoryMonth

I am a luddite and to me there is a lot of joy in technology. In technology that we deploy for all our wellbeing. Solar panels and vaccines, high-speed rail and wikipedia. But they joy stems from the feeling of being able to be part of humanity in an embedded, meaningful way. Not from buying shit.

Y’all need some goats. 🐐 🐐🐐

Tom Cox@dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 6mo ago

THREAD. A collection of photographs of excellent goats I have met during walks in the British countryside. You will find the all-important captions to each photo in the alt text.

Hey, friends! @ziibiing.com and the awesome folks at StandWithMinnesota have launched #keepMNhoused! Check out keepMNhoused.com and kick in to help folks affected by ICE stay in their homes! ALSO, artists, please join the call for art to help spread the word! (art here by the great @trungles.com)

My people might remember this next time they think about using "African" scam emails as a punchline.

Zecharias Zelalem@zekuzelalem.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Wrote for @theglobeandmail.com: I spent months hearing from African survivors of Myanmar scam camps, where trafficking victims are forced to run scams targeting westerners. Chinese criminals & at least one pro-junta militia cooperate to dish out horrific abuse against migrants to ensure compliance.

Next up, a wishlist with many amazing filaments, but I'm highlighting this particular because today is the first day I realized Ziro put a lot of the gayest gradients in one bundle?!?!? THEY KNOW WHAT THEY ARE DOING, NO ONE WILL CONVINCE ME OTHERWISE! www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...

A group of amazingly generous folks are 3D printing whistles and sending them (for free) to people across the country whose areas are under attack by ICE. They've sent almost a million. Want to help? Buy them filament 👇

Bree (half of Kit Rocha)@mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 6mo ago

I'm going to highlight a few of our printer wishlists tonight! (As always, if you hate amazon, please visit linktr.ee/WhistleWishl... for different ways to help!) This first wishlist belongs to a printer in Minnesota AND has protopasta on it, so win/win??? www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...

Albertans are having a referendum on nine question on Oct. 19, with five being about immigration. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith announces fall referendum on immigration, constitutional questions | CBC News

Premier Danielle Smith wants to hold a referendum in October on measures to limit immigration to Alberta and changes she believes would give the province more rights under the Constitution.

cbc.ca

Via @momijizukamori.bsky.social, the Fundamental Theorems of Developing FLOSS, which are so true they're painful. "putting the 'no' in 'innovation'" is where I really lost it! fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Du...

"tapering plans" for HRT is a death sentence if you've had gender-affirming surgeries, like I have with my orchi, because your body will just wither away and die without hormones. Unspeakable evil. Demonic shit. You don't hate these motherfuckers enough.

Chris Geidner@chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 6mo ago

BREAKING: Trump admin issues new policy aimed at ending transgender-related care in federal prisons. "It's a really dangerous policy,” an ACLU lawyer representing trans people in federal prison suing the Trump administration tells Law Dork of the new Bureau of Prisons policy.

You can find ways to support families and pets in Minnesota, as well as organizations working to defend and advance the rights and opportunities of immigrants below campsite.bio/wrdsmm

Here are the Top 5 Dogs of the week!

we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

This is Ladybird. She's politely requesting butt pats. Will accept them for as long as you're willing to provide them. Could be days. Weeks even. 13/10 (TT: christina.stamper5)

This is Oakley. He has an injury that requires physical therapy and at-home massages. Luckily, his cat sibling River has been training his whole life for this. 14/10 for both

Indian Residential School Survivors and Family Hotline: 1-866-925-4419 Crisis Services Canada: 1-833-456-4566 or text 45645; Kids Help Phone: 1-800-668-6868. First Nations and Inuit Hope for Wellness Help Line: 1-855-242-3310. Native Youth Crisis Hotline: 1-877-209-1266.

“Coerced and forced sterilization is considered a crime against humanity under international law and also constituting genocide... over 70,000 Native American women and women of color were forcibly sterilized just in the ’70s alone, when these eugenics laws were on the books.”

UAINE@mahtowin1.bsky.social · 6mo ago

New Mexico memorial calling for study of forced sterilization against Women of Color advances. New Mexico would be the first state to acknowledge the history of eugenics practices in the US. ictnews.org/news/new-mex...

Brazil has suspended a decree on dredging and privatizing the Tapajós River, a major tributary of the Amazon, after Indigenous protests shut down a grain terminal — but Indigenous groups are pressing for its full revocation. news.mongabay.com/short-articl...

Indigenous protests force Brazil to suspend Tapajós River dredging plan

Brazil has suspended a decree on dredging and privatizing the Tapajós River, a major tributary of the Amazon, after protests shut down a grain terminal — but Indigenous groups are pressing for its ful...

news.mongabay.com

They want to pay us less so they can accrue more profit to themselves. They want us to feel precarious so we are captive to capitalist hierarchies instead of building our own sustainability. And they want to give us non-human villains to fight so we don't notice that it's them.

But I will be that annoying person to remind folks that talking about the tech itself is a red herring. There is something happening here. But it is cultural. We're under assault by people who are actively working to devalue human jobs. bsky.app/profile/polo...

Marco Rogers@polotek.bsky.social · 11mo ago

The current trajectory of deploying LLM tech absolutely constitutes a direct assault on human labor. I understand that and I'm not ignoring it. I will say that I think focusing on the tech as a way to push back is not a winning strategy. The tech is not doing this. Humans are.

Because of my own bad decisions (fed a squirrel) I must now face dire consequences (being stalked by squirrel).

I can confirm this is true and I can also say that the lack of an eviction moratorium is fueling this trend.

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌@chanda.blacksky.app · 6mo ago

Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude

Welcome #5 tiny raptor floof! #chooks #farmlife #littlefarm

Judith Wright warns of the ego of creating a tech god in her poem "Eve to her daughters". "He had to unravel everything, because he believed that mechanism was the whole secret... It was warmer than this in the cave; there was none of this fall-out." hausmannaplit.wordpress.com/wp-content/u...

The Maybe@themaybe.org · 6mo ago

“ These people came along and decided that they wanna build a machine God, and then they end up stealing data, killing the environment, exploiting labor in that process.” - @timnitgebru.bsky.social

“ These people came along and decided that they wanna build a machine God, and then they end up stealing data, killing the environment, exploiting labor in that process.” - @timnitgebru.bsky.social