Bookbuying Shields (she/they)

@gtindivisible.bsky.social has this been promoted in the newsletter on the fb page?

Make a special husbeast welcome home present?

There was a small, ultimately easily defeated, effort in the mid-90s to require up to 20% of telecom companies internet capacity be dedicated to public use; much the same way we used to require public use of TV and radio.

---

You ever feel pain at imagining what could have been?

// just switched from oil heat to electric and installed solar... not enough solar to power everything,... but so glad not to be heating with oil rn.

[Some of this is regionalism. When I lived in the Midwest cheap healthy food was more accessible,... but innovative and exciting food was still $$$.]

Guess it's all about who you are comparing with? Can't vibe with this take.

Cheap food of my childhood is gone. Innovative food feels v. expensive & (in the relatively rural area of New England I'm in) cheap food (what there is of it) feels dull & not healthy.

Everything you said but for Japan?

Something scary to think about: war is a huge source of emissions.

Crowdsource:

I am thinking about buying my turning-7 year old a solar-powered birdfeeder with a camera for their birthday this summer. If you have a device like this that you like... drop a link or a recc below?

#birdsky #birds

Beautiful space though. A lovely looking place to work.

This shelf lighting seems... intense... I wonder if it is motion triggered? Otherwise this seems very anti-preservation minded? #library

Finishing The Tomb of Dragons by Katherine Addison and making progress in André Vauchez' Life of St. Francis

& playing a board game (wife is sick so probably something light even though I really want to play Teotihuacan again soon)

Imaging a human saying to you, "i will only ever tell you what i think you want to hear, based on what i know about ppl like you, how you start our conversation, & what you say during it. Sometimes that will sound like truth, sometimes like errors or lies. Now: Let's talk about your medical history"

We’re excited to invite proposals for ThriveLib 2026!
Reimagining Library Culture Together August 11–13, 2026
Our 2026 theme is grounded in the belief that joy and sustainability require safety, dignity, community, and care.
Deadline April 10
www.thrivelib.com/2026-cfp

10th ICE Detention Death in 2026 Reported 56 Year-Old Haitian National Reportedly Died Monday from "Complications from an Infected Tooth"

open.substack.com/pub/detentio...

a happy birthday greeting card with a cat and cake ALT: a happy birthday greeting card with a cat and cake

Sorry I can't make anything on your list happen this year, but I hope it's still a great day.

Better sourcing:

bsky.app/profile/wood...

Shout out to Boston

Disappointing, but not surprising.
This narrative is so tired.

The Feds Targeted Charlotte. Now a Local Democrat Who Helped ICE Faces Voters. - Bolts North Carolina lawmaker Carla Cunningham voted to mandate compliance with ICE, and derided immigrants on the House floor. The Democrat faces an intense March primary.

JUST IN: North Carolina's Dem lawmaker Carla Cunningham gave the GOP the decisive vote to pass a law forcing police to comply with ICE. She said "all cultures are not equal."

She just lost reelection BIG in the Dem primary to a progressive pastor & activist, Rodney Sadler. 70% to 22%!

Context:

Supreme Court Declines to Hear Hamdi Mohamud’s Case Against St. Paul Officer Who Framed Her - Institute for Justice Today, the U.S. Supreme Court denied a petition for certiorari filed by the Institute for Justice (IJ) on behalf of Hamdi Mohamud. The petition asked the […]

A St. Paul police officer fabricated a massive sex trafficking case and had multiple people locked up under false charges. The Supreme Court yesterday affirmed a ruling that she can't be sued by her victims. She appears to still be employed by the St. Paul PD. ij.org/press-releas...

4 more inches since noon = another free workout

Tomorrow we’re taking up Pause Evictions Save Lives, a policy that will temporarily extend pre-eviction notice from 30 to 60 days until August 31st. This will give residents more time to get resources and support so that families can stay together and we can keep people in their homes.

People are still trapped in their homes in my neighborhood here in Jason's ward, unable to go to work (at jobs which may not even exist anymore), sick with worry over how they’ll pay utilities and remain housed.

It's not over. ICE is still here, and the least we can do is afford families more time.

My middle child loves collards + they're pretty hard to get here so we are trying them this year... I hear they like it pretty sandy so we are going to work a lot more grit into the bed once it's not frozen.

3 sisters is awesome. I have never really wanted my own corn so I've never tried it.

Ugh, that sucks so much I am so sorry.

a man is playing a guitar in a garden surrounded by flowers ALT: a man is playing a guitar in a garden surrounded by flowers

YES! (What's the first thing you want to plant?)

Teens in households making under $75K are more likely to use chatbots for help with all or most schoolwork % of U.S. teens ages 13 to 17 who say they do all or most of their schoolwork with the help of AI chatbots U.S. teens — 10 Household income <$30,000 — 20 $30K–$74,999 — 15 $75,000+ — 7 Note: Those who did not answer or gave other responses are not shown. Source: Survey conducted Sept. 25–Oct. 9, 2025. “How Teens Use and View AI” PEW RESEARCH CENTER

According to PEW, teens in households making under $75K are more likely to use chatbots for help with all or most schoolwork. I read a comment on another platform that said this is amazing news because we are "finally going to close the achievement gap." That is not how I would interpret this data.

"The messiah is an unpaid position." 🔥

The Retreat from DEI: The Impact of Legal and Political Developments on DEI Language in U.S. Private Foundations Following the murder of George Floyd in 2020, large private foundations in the United States widely adopted language related to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) on their public-facing websites. In 2023, a series of legal and political developments began reversing the institutional pressures that had encouraged this adoption: first the Supreme Court’s ruling in Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. President and Fellows of Harvard College (2023), then state-level anti-DEI legislation, and culminating in President Trump’s Executive Order 14151 (2025). Using the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, we constructed a longitudinal corpus of 3,612 archived web pages from thirteen large U.S. private foundations and tracked the frequency of sixty-seven DEI-related terms from 2019 to 2025. Among the nine foundations with data in both years, a Wilcoxon signed-rank test indicates a decline from 2023 to 2025 (one-sided p = .029, two-sided p = .059), with median usage falling approximately 40 percent. The decline was broad-based across many terms. These patterns are consistent with coercive isomorphism: the same process that drove widespread, convergent adoption of DEI language after 2020 now appears to be reversing it. The findings establish an empirical baseline for tracking how political pressure reshapes organizational communication about equity.

🚨What if some intrepid students and I decided to see if private foundations' public stances on justice were thin enough to fold under anti-DEI pressure? We tracked their website language using Wayback Machine. The retreat is real and it seems political vibes alone supercharged it. osf.io/29gda_v1