Helen

@Bamka
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Advance warning: from tomorrow, I'm going to start sharing a poem each day again; so, if you were ever thinking about closing down your social media accounts, now might be a good time.
We cannot allow this behavior to be considered normal, not even under Donald Trump.
Date announced for national strike aimed at crippling Trump: 'No work, no school'

Ezra Levin, co-founder of Indivisible, said on Saturday that a nationwide general strike is being planned for May 1 that will be modeled on the day of action residents of Minnesota organized in January against the brutality carried out by federal immigration enforcement officials.Appearing at the fl...

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You guys don't get it. It's 4D chess. Art of the deal. Genius move. First you massively enrich the enemy, lulling them into comfort, and a false sense of security, then you give them complete control over trade avenues... Wait the genius move is coming....

I don't want this important news to go unnoticed: the National Library of Scotland's Access team have given names to collection trolleys including: Trolly Parton, George Orwheel, Wheeliam Shakespeare, Daphne du Trollier, Rene Descart, Cart Cobain, JRR Trollkein, Cart Vader, and Mary Wheelstonecraft.

Via @cawston.bsky.social's https://cawston.ghost.io/weeknotes-12-monsters-only/

Weeknotes #12: Monsters Only

A week of interesting chats, admin churn and unexpected tribulations. What happened this week? Monday began with a useful chat with one of our Board members about a large-scale AI roll-out across a multi-national organisation. Initial scepticism has been replaced by seeing dedicated agents delivering huge time savings. Context is

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I only got a couple pics at my local No Kings rally, but these signs begged to be photographed.

Friends and neighbors, I am lifted up. I’m thinking there were easily 150 people on the square of our little university town in east Alabama, and we got tons of honks and waves and smiles.

Notably, the only people flipping us off were middle-aged to old white men. Big shock.

This rally would NEVER have happened in our town during the first Turnip term. Things are changing, folks, and they’re changing in a big way. Hope is a powerful force.

#NoKings

RE: https://mastodon.social/@CdnCurmudgeon/116300943957849883

Maggie's entire philosophy in a simple infographic