Arlene Andrews

Started a new short story - working my way slowly through "The Short Story Boot Camp" by August Niehaus. www.augustwritesabook.com

Wake up, a new scandal that would end any other presidency just dropped. bsky.app/profile/cram...

World's smallest QR code can store data for thousands of years ‪—‬ but you need an electron microscope to see it Scientists created a tiny matrix that stores data by etching its grid into a thin ceramic film with a focused ion beam.

World's smallest QR code can store data for thousands of years ‪—‬ but you need an electron microscope to see it www.livescience.com/technology/c...

upsetting report from @macfarlanenews.bsky.social on another platform several hours ago

Plaintiffs' asserted material harms are speculative and self-inflicted. Plaintiffs can readily comply with the driver's license requirement; there is a driver's license office in Lawrence to which Plaintiffs can travel using free public transit. 10 Lawrence Transit Route 6 goes to the driver's license office. 11 And, of course, Plaintiffs can also get to the office via a rideshare service or through a ride from a friend, relative, or co-worker. Other Kansans can likewise rely on alternative methods of transportation to reach a driver's license office and obtain a new, compliant license. The Department of Revenue has represented to the State that it is prioritizing affected individuals, and public reporting backs up the ease with which it is to obtain a new valid license. 12 And if Plaintiffs ultimately prevail, then they can always get a new license that reflects their gender identity. But at this 9 https://www.ksrevenue.gov/dovoffice.html?countyidparm=152&locationtype=DL 10 https://lawrencetransit.org/fares/. 11 See https://lawrencetransit.org/routes/. 12 https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ejihld4sywvvqwe67cdkn4jq/post/3mfucyhno7s2z pg 33

Not Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach linking to my Bluesky post in his response to the ACLU's request for a temporary restraining order to block the state's invalidation of trans people's driver's licenses

if you're wondering what this means for the water situation this year, the answer involves a lot of hyperventilating

Shani Wallis Full Performance | Britain's Got Talent 2026 Unseen Auditions Week 3 YouTube video by TALENTKINGHD

Holy.

Moley.

Yep. Married women have always worked. Many had jobs outside the home, many more did piecemeal work at home to supplement the family income. There are dozens & dozens of books by historians about this. I know because one of my comps fields was History of the American Family & I had to read them all

Opinion | Wyoming's data centers need a workforce plan This technology boom will require targeted training for permanent skilled positions. It’s up to Wyoming to create that pipeline, writes guest columnist Kevin J. Conlan.

OPINION: This technology boom will require targeted training for permanent skilled positions. It's up to Wyoming to create that pipeline, writes guest columnist Kevin J. Conlan.

An absolute banger of an article, and how we as a society come to envision history in all its variable possibilities.

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The world's greatest @maritvandijk.bsky.social & @piotrprz.bsky.social will teach us modern #Java in a playful way!

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It’s #CyberMentoringMonday!!!! Are you looking for a professional mentor or to learn more about InfoSec? Are you experienced and willing to ‘give back’? Use this thread and hashtag to connect

I am once again making my step goal courtesy of Schiphol airport.

Wildfire season is shifting, but its new time windows vary across Canada and the US drought-prone West New research finds that climate-driven shifts in wildfire seasons in North America are different depending on the ecosystem.

Wildfire season is shifting, but its new time windows vary across Canada and the US drought-prone West www.livescience.com/planet-earth...

More than 2,000 tiny dams are turning a Mexican ranch green » Yale Climate Connections Yale Climate Connections is a nonpartisan, multimedia service providing daily broadcast radio programming and original web-based reporting, commentary, and analysis on the issue of climate change.

“What do you grow on your farm?”
“Water.”

Picard management tip: Don't waste time using social media. Pretend it was never invented.

My name is Marisa Kabas, and I'm an independent journalist who publishes The Handbasket. I'm reaching out about a matter that involves your team and that continues to trouble me. In June of last year, Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press and I filed a FOIA lawsuit against the DC Metropolitan Police Department to compel them to release body camera footage from the March 17, 2025 DOGE raid on the US Institute of Peace. What followed was months of back and forth with their lawyers, arguing why it was in the public interest to release the un-redacted footage in its entirety. Though tiny segments were handed over, that wasn't enough: We wanted all of it.  On February 18, 2026, a DC judge ruled in our favor, and your reporter Mark Segraves sent a kind note of congratulations that day. Then on Monday, March 2nd, the footage was handed over to me and excitedly announced I'd received it and would be reviewing it in the coming days and sharing what I learned. When Segraves emailed me this past Thursday asking for my phone number, I didn't think much of it. But when he called me just before 2pm on Friday to let me know NBC4 Washington would be airing a segment at 5pm, I grew concerned.  Segraves said he'd obtained some of the footage via a FOIA request that week after he heard the footage had been released to me. He said he'd credit the work of RCFP and me, but it was little comfort. I asked if he'd known the day before when he emailed me for my number, why didn't he tell me then? He didn't have a good answer for that. He acknowledged all the hard work I'd done getting this footage released. I asked him if he could hold the story until Monday, to which he replied that he's "not just a blogger" (implying that that's all I am, presumably) and that he'd have to check with his editor. I said fine. Nearly an hour later he called back to say his editor refused to hold the story, but that they were happy to interview me via Zoom to add to the package, and I said I would.

What followed was two hours of furiously writing and posting clips of the footage to Youtube so I could get something published before the 5pm broadcast, and in the midst of that, recording a quick Zoom interview with a person who was about to take credit for my work. At 4:59pm ET, The Handbasket published a piece titled "Police body cam footage shows DOGE knew Institute of Peace was private property during raid." Then I tuned into NBC4 Washington via your website to catch the broadcast, and my instinct to rush to get something out first was proven right.  "It's a story you're seeing first on News4," your newscast began. "For the first time we're getting an inside look at what happened the day the Trump administration took over the US Institute of Peace. News4 obtained more than four hours of police body camera video from that day." What followed was more than six minutes of clips and commentary from Segraves, but it's not until six minutes and 21 seconds into the piece that he mentions my name (mispronounced though he asked for the correct pronunciation on Zoom), "The Handbasket blog," and the RCFP's foundational role in bringing this footage to light. I was angry, but didn't feel there was much I could do. Then I saw the version NBC4 posted to Instagram and TikTok—the video itself made ZERO mention of the RCFP or my work, only briefly acknowledging it in the written caption on Instagram, and not even bothering to do that on TikTok. An average viewer with no background on the case is lead to believe that this footage was released because of your efforts. When I saw that, I decided I couldn't let this go. It's difficult to explain what it's like to spend nearly a year working on a story only to have another reporter and outlet surreptitiously take credit for it; months of work and personal risk only to have another reporter lying in wait to swoop in. What NBC4 did was immoral, unethical, and to be frank, just truly sucked.

I just sent this email to the news director at NBC4 Washington about the unprofessional and disrespectful way they handled publishing the body camera footage of the DOGE raid on the US Institute of Peace that was obtained via my FOIA lawsuit:

For my folks who speak - I'm looking at creating a talk on how I see a future where we can have stable software systems. Does anyone know of a place where CFP are still open, that might accept a USian? I'm going to try for a 45 minute one, but could cut to a lightning talk to get it sorted.

I really, really don't like "oh trans people are just a tiny powerless population with no impact on anything, all these laws are just a distraction" tack and believe it's detrimental to the fight for our liberation, for several reasons.

So...🧵

This was a super, devastating read yesterday (or any day).

I'm making positive progress. Writing, humaning, crafting, and even work. Make this week count: even if that means waking up.

it’s a little bit surreal to be doing ethics training and disclosures knowing this shit is happening in every nook and cranny of the federal government

I think this deserves at least as much sustained attention from US media as Claudine Gay's dissertation

Comic Illustration: Eine ältere Hexe mit grauen gelockten Haaren und einem violetten Dress schwebt über dem Boden, brennende Kerzen und Tarotkarten sind um sie herum. Sie sieht glücklich und zufrieden aus. Der Text über ihr lautet: „Hex The Patriarchy“.

Happy International Feminist Fight Day! 🔥

‘We told you it was coming': Developer never fulfilled its promises to DeKalb for land swap. Now it wants to sell Five years after DeKalb County swapped land with developer Blackhall, a public park remains closed and in disrepair.

In 2024, my "Cop City" reporting for @thexylom.com won me an Atlanta Press Club Award.

Now, @wabe.org confirms what we knew all along: DeKalb County's parkland swap and open contempt of a judge's order to reopen said park has led to no new park but one emboldened Republican now running for Congress

Perspective: A Walk through Weelaunee Forest The trees, the birds, the fungi, and the dirt—none of them care if the Mayor of Atlanta denies they exist.

South River Forest would've still been one of the four lungs of Atlanta had officials followed the law and expert guidance.

In retrospect, this was a dry run for Trump 2.0.

Here's @nonmodernist.com's Atlanta Press Club Award-nominated photo essay for @thexylom.com about what we really lost:

Happy international women's day to all women tall or short, thick or thin, cis or trans! #iwd #international #womens #day

Discworld QOTD, from Lords and Ladies