Katie Swayze

Waymo Is Getting DoorDashers to Close Doors on Self Driving Cars The companies have launched a pilot program in Atlanta, where “during the rare event a vehicle door is left ajar, preventing the car from departing, nearby Dashers are notified, allowing Waymo to get ...

“Close a Waymo door,” the job reads. “No pickup or delivery required.”

Beautiful at first glance & looking forward to going back for a longer look!

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omg everybody go draw a horse this is what the internet was made for

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"I know some of you think you’re not qualified, or that you’re waiting for someone to tell you how to do this right. But let me tell you that the person who is going to do that is you. You’re on this call, you have five neighbors right now who are waiting for you to talk to them and get organized."

One of the things I hope folks take away here is that $14,000,000 of your tax dollars were funneled away from US libraries and museums and into the hands of PragerU.

This line graph illustrates the percentage change in agency staff levels from the previous year for nine major U.S. federal scientific and health organizations between the fiscal years 2016 and 2025. The agencies tracked include the CDC, Department of Energy, EPA, FDA, NASA, NIH, NIST, NOAA, and NSF. For the majority of the timeline between 2016 and 2023, the agencies show relatively stable fluctuations, generally staying within a range of +5% to -5% change per year. However, there is a dramatic and uniform plummet starting in the 2024–25 period. Every agency depicted shows a sharp downward trajectory, with staffing losses ranging from approximately -15% to over -25%. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) shows the most significant decline, dropping to roughly -26%, while the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) shows the least severe but still substantial drop at approximately -15%.

This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again.

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Keep a paper map in your car. Then you don’t need your phone to navigate.

Print of all kinds is a rent strike in this technofascist world.

Opinion | I'm a Minneapolis sociologist who studies violence. Here's how ICE observers are helping. Research into how violence occurs shows that disapproval from the people around you can help reduce it.

For @msnownews.bsky.social, I wrote an article about how ICE Watch is grounded in sociological theories of violence prevention.

The reality is that most men will only commit public violence in extremely specific scenarios and ICE Watch disrupts the conditions necessary for escalation.

US history is generally taught as Plymouth Rock, blank space, War of Independence, blank space, Civil War, blank space, World War II, blank space, 9/11, so this checks out

Nursing is no longer counted as a 'professional degree' by Trump admin The Department of Education has excluded nursing as a "professional degree" program as it implements various changes to student loans.

Ummm, were you all aware of this bullshit???

The Department of Education has excluded nursing as a "professional degree" program as it sets about implementing various measures regarding student loans laid out in President Donald Trump's "One Big Beautiful Bill."

www.newsweek.com/nursing-not-...

+1 loved this one

Well deserved - This app is so lovely!

Probably my stance right now:

AI gives the vibes of using a leaf blower vs a rake.

The rake is calm, effective, individual, gets a less than thrilling job done well; the leaf blower makes a fucking hurricane of noise, spreads the misery of the boring job to exponentially more people, takes longer.

The People Want To Read: On Massive Budget Cuts Proposed in Chicago If passed, Chicago Public Library will lose half their budget for acquiring new books and materials.

The People Want to Read: on the massive budget cuts proposed for Chicago Public Library. What's at stake and what you can do, whether or not you live in Chicago.

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A catalog list showing that all copies of a book are either on hold or checked out.

My book is almost due back on Libby & I know I won’t be able to renew it. Maybe a hard copy is available!

…oh.

truly nothing makes me feel genuine, bottom out despair, like we may never be able to correct course, like we are well and truly cooked, like the proliferation of AI

Libraries are reeling after a major distributor shutdown. This Thursday brings bad news for book lovers. Baker & Taylor, one of the largest distributors for print library books in America, is closing down—and throwing the distribution pipeline into (a…

Baker & Taylor, one of the largest distributors for print library books in America, is closing down.

David Costello & Jordan Wood are both worth watching imo.

“If you died, I would cry my little black (goth) heart out.” — my 7yo.

I believe in prison abolition but my limit is people who give loud noise making gifts to three year olds. Those people have to be locked up, I'm sorry.

Lucky me! @noethematt.bsky.social is sharing my work on a cart with all these wonderful graphic medicine books!

very excited for it to be that time of year when i contract a mysterious illness from my children.

The IMLS's Freedom Trucks Project Is Propaganda in Support of Historical Erasure: Book Censorship News, September 12, 2025 This week, the IMLS announced their Freedom Trucks initiative. It is blatant propaganda.

$14 million dollars allocated to the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) was pushed through to the America 250 team to fund "Freedom Trucks"–propaganda telling a whitewashed version of history.

What's happening at IMLS is beyond budgetary concerns.

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But I am also not dispensing medical advice, so.

Today is a really embarrassing day to be a person who pronounces it “acinnaminnophen” on the reg.

The more library books per capita, the fewer residents require nursing care: Japan study - The Mainichi TOKYO -- Researchers in Japan have found that the more public library books a municipality has, the fewer residents require long-term nursing care. Wh

"The more library books per capita, the fewer residents require nursing care: Japan study"

#TLSky #EduSky #SchoolLibrarians #PublicLibraries

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One Week, Four Library Bomb Threats Bomb threats at libraries have become a far too common occurrence. In the summer of 2023–two years into an unrelenting attack on public librarians, as well...

NEW: There have been 4 bomb threats targeting public libraries in the last week.

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This is the guy, Maine.

Headline from the independent: Trump gives rambling speech about trophy wives, golf and the 'great late' Al Capone in politically-charged West Point address

Headline from the New York Times: Trump Gives Commencement Address at West Point, Stressing a New Era

Hard to believe they’re talking about the same event.