Complicated, but a fan of simplicity.
❤s cats, crafts, rainbows, kindness, authenticity, good news, and cannabis. Can't avoid politics, tho.
Dw i'n dysgu #Cymraeg & #ASL.
DNA: 🏴 & 🇮🇪. Stuck in 🇺🇲, plotting my escape.
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get library cards and use them often (online e-book and audiobook rentals count!). sign up to volunteer at your local library. donate money to your library’s general fund. run for a spot on the library board.
join and participate in your local “friends of the library” group. donate books (if your library accepts book donations). set up your own little free library. vote for library funding when it’s on your local ballot.
UPDATE: Leonard Peltier speaks at event welcoming him home
Source: UPDATE: Leonard Peltier speaks at event welcoming him home
Trump orders database tracking federal police misconduct to close https://t.co/feBH3bZKKy
Trump expected to take control of USPS and fire postal board
L: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/02/20/trump-usps-takeover-dejoy/
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43123304
posted on 2025.02.20 at 21:21:27 (c=0, p=17)
people who aren’t at the top of social hierarchies often have strong empathy skills because they need to read other humans to survive. but what if all people had highly developed powers of listening and empathy? what if we taught one another that all humans deserve our deep listening & empathy?
did y'all know about the more than 200 PUBLIC DOMAIN chronicles and history books NASA has produced and has available for free?
NASA History Series - NASA
https://www.nasa.gov/history/history-publications-and-resources/nasa-history-series/
am on one of my geekette tangents and just columbused this magnificent collection. i hope someone, somewhere, has it mirrored before the Silicon Valley swine try to get rid of them.
D.C. U.S. attorney #Ed #Martin’s
‘#Operation #Whirlwind,’
which targets statements by Democrats and others about
"Free-Speech Advocate" Elon Musk,
justices and government workers,
is meant to stifle criticism
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/02/19/trump-justice-operation-whirlwind-democrats/
"The Day of Remembrance falls on Feb. 19, the anniversary of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Executive Order 9066, which authorized the removal and incarceration of people of Japanese descent from the West Coast. About 70% of the incarcerated people were U.S. citizens."
Trump-Musk outrage du jour
"The Plan shall require that each agency hire no more than one employee for every four employees that depart"
-- It is going to lead to massive service breakdown within months.
https://bsky.app/profile/dburbach.bsky.social/post/3lhwyria3jc2x
My first zipper bag!
I’ve always been a bit leery of sewing zippers but I found a pretty good tutorial and finally decided to give it a whirl
It’s a bit harder to sew thru the quilted parts than I thought, but it was fun and I bought a bunch of zippers so there’s probably more of these ahead for me
https://www.handmadiya.com/2020/04/flat-bottom-zippy-pouch-tutorial-pattern.html
Kyiv has not been invited to talks between the US and russia aimed at ending the war in Ukraine, a senior Ukrainian government source has told the BBC.
The US special envoy to #Ukraine Keith Kellogg had said Kyiv would be involved in Monday's talks in Saudi Arabia, but the source said no delegation would be present.
Google Calendar removed events like Pride and BHM because its holiday list wasn’t ‘sustainable’
Some Google Calendar users are angrily calling the company out after noticing that certain events like Pride month are no longer highlighted by default. Black History Month, Indigenous People Month, Jewish Heritage, Holocaust Remembrance Day, and Hispanic Heritage have also been removed
Google, "Some years ago, the Calendar team started manually adding a broader set of cultural moments in a wide number of countries around the world. We got feedback that some other events and countries were missing — and maintaining hundreds of moments manually and consistently globally wasn’t scalable or sustainable..."
...Their team can't manage it. Smdh. Please. Come up with something better than that.
https://www.theverge.com/news/608858/google-calendar-missing-events-holidays
UC students sue education department over DOGE access to financial aid data – Los Angeles Times
Source: UC students sue education department over DOGE access to financial aid data - Los Angeles Times
"What should those of us who would like America to remain America, to not see us descend into dictatorship, be doing?
First, acknowledge the reality. If my use of the word ;dictatorship' disturbs you, if your first reaction is to say 'Isn’t that a bit shrill?', you’re part of the problem. The constitutional crisis isn’t something that might hypothetically happen; it’s fully underway as you read this."
~ Paul Krugman
The NFL's removing 'End Racism' message from the end zone -- so... they ended racism? They... ended it, right??
In what appears to be a first, a strain of malware that can secretly steal screenshots from smartphones has infiltrated the Apple App Store. https://www.pcmag.com/news/rare-screenshot-grabbing-malware-found-on-apple-app-store
Researchers trained an OpenAI rival in half an hour for less than $50 https://www.theverge.com/news/607341/researchers-cheaper-openai-rival-training
New from me: Oregon and New York are recycling bad bills written by lobbyists for newspaper hedge funds and billionaires. 1/
Here We Go Again: More bad, protectionist legislation from the newspaper industry
https://link.medium.com/TJlU83VRLQb
@dnc
Lovely! Happy birthday to Grandma.
