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Ursula K. PenGuin

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Librarian. Sometimes writer. Sad and weird in central Ohio. They/them


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before they go after the 64 CRA they are going to weaponize it to make it illegal to address discrimination.

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a lot of people seem to think my annoyance here is with jokes about political violence, which i’m on record saying are fine and cathartic. my annoyance is with people who disengage with effective forms of politics and replace them with fantasies

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Bruno J. Navarro's avatar Bruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social
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She won a Pulitzer for exposing how the country's poorest state spent federal welfare money. Now she might go to jail. "The rabbit's got the gun now," said a lawyer for former Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant, who is trying to force reporter Anna Wolfe to reveal her sources.

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Media Matters for America's avatar Media Matters for America @mmfa.bsky.social
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Heritage Foundation president celebrates Supreme Court presidential immunity ruling: "We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be" www.mediamatters.org/project-2025...

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these people do not intend to ever lose power again

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Ursula K. PenGuin's avatar Ursula K. PenGuin @ikiruined.bsky.social
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Holy shit, these are gorgeous!

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🏳️‍⚧️ Sonic Youth Pastor's avatar 🏳️‍⚧️ Sonic Youth Pastor @josie.zone
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My last word on doomerism, from my Slate essay about The Book of Job:

slate.com/human-intere...

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Ursula K. PenGuin's avatar Ursula K. PenGuin @ikiruined.bsky.social
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I’m not going to give you the rage click, but fire whoever wrote and edited this. They are either propagandists or they are so stupid and incompetent that propagandists own them.

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Ian Boudreau's avatar Ian Boudreau @iboudreau.bsky.social
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The obvious move after the supreme court grants the president absolute immunity for official acts is to make them regret it immediately

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WEST BANK: Alongside the catastrophe in Gaza, another crisis is unfolding in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, where the Israeli military has launched land incursions, conducted airstrikes, restricted access to resources, and targeted health infrastructure.

#Palestine #Israel

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No one can say they didn’t know exactly what this was. Everyone knows this is genocide and everyone knows that everyone knows. It’s all dangerously out in the open. The only way to accept this is to see Palestinians as less than human. No peace or rest for such people ever again.

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Ursula K. PenGuin's avatar Ursula K. PenGuin @ikiruined.bsky.social
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Annabelle and Michelangelo

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Ursula K. PenGuin's avatar Ursula K. PenGuin @ikiruined.bsky.social
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Y’all need to check out SLAY on Tubi. A group of drag queens are accidentally booked at a hostile hillbilly bar, but things take a turn when vampires attack the bar. It is fuckin DELIGHTFUL.

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natou ✫'s avatar natou ✫ @tichatnwa.bsky.social
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🚨WE NEED SOME HELP HERE🚨

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Ursula K. PenGuin's avatar Ursula K. PenGuin @ikiruined.bsky.social
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How do you define what kind of science fiction you like? Hear me out.

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Ursula K. PenGuin's avatar Ursula K. PenGuin @ikiruined.bsky.social
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Shadow of the Erdtree fuckin whips so far. Great new encounters, incredible new places to explore — they are so fuckin good at this shit.

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"Recently Juiced" Garak Tailor (She/They) $130/$700's avatar "Recently Juiced" Garak Tailor (She/They) $130/$700 @comfortingmoo.online
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Moxie has an urgent care visit on Monday. They are estimating about $220 for visit and urine analysis. I'm already in trouble the next few days on my $90 dollar goal for June so this is. . . Not great. So, $300 this weekend is a new urgent need. @/JKNotSoBad $/JKNotsobad PP:@/comfortingmoo

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Ursula K. PenGuin's avatar Ursula K. PenGuin @ikiruined.bsky.social
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Becoming increasingly convinced you don’t have any bad looks — but this is a very good one!

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Paris Marx's avatar Paris Marx @parismarx.bsky.social
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Shein and Temu are cutting into Amazon’s business, so now the ecommerce giant is planning to respond with a discount section of its own. 
It’s another stage in retail’s race to the bottom on labor abuses and environmental harm — and it needs to be stopped before it’s too late.

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Ursula K. PenGuin's avatar Ursula K. PenGuin @ikiruined.bsky.social
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Oof. Now I feel like I have to watch that, and I will Regret It.

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Ursula K. PenGuin's avatar Ursula K. PenGuin @ikiruined.bsky.social
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Still, good to know there might be at least some juice in it. After Obi-wan and Boba Fett I was genuinely getting ready to check out.

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I’ll definitely get to it eventually but it is just such a strange choice. Reminds me of late-stage MCU, as they’re trying to be like, “Enjoy this movie, but you have to watch three other movies and a tv show to really enjoy it,” and people broadly don’t really like that all that much.

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Ursula K. PenGuin's avatar Ursula K. PenGuin @ikiruined.bsky.social
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Good luck, try not to come down with Ohio Syndrome.

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Ursula K. PenGuin's avatar Ursula K. PenGuin @ikiruined.bsky.social
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We need to be training our Presidential candidates to speak more like FromSoft NPCs. “Abortion…? A wondrous procedure! It’s only human to need healthcare, after all. Hehehehehehe”

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Anna Merlan 's avatar Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social
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TODAY: join us in defending the Internet Archive and protecting libraries!! An important appellate hearing is happening this morning, which you can read all about at the link below. And if you’re in New York and you spot our wheatpaste, please snap a photo and share. www.battleforlibraries.com

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Ursula K. PenGuin's avatar Ursula K. PenGuin @ikiruined.bsky.social
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You killed Women Coming on Women?!?!

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Christine M. Moeller's avatar Christine M. Moeller @christinemmoe.bsky.social
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Are you a neurodivergent librarian or supervisor at a US public or academic library? Do you identify as autistic and/or ADHD? Please consider participating in our survey! This IMLS-funded study investigates the workplace experiences of neurodivergent librarians. For details, visit our website! 📚

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Taylor is a comrade who I've known for years. Her family and all of her friends are desperate for any information. She is greatly loved by everyone. If you know people in Bahamas who can help. Please reach out.

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Joseph Cox's avatar Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social
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Turns out Perplexity, the AI company that has been ripping off journalism, started by posing as academics and using those fake credentials to scrape Twitter www.404media.co/perplexitys-...

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Ursula K. PenGuin's avatar Ursula K. PenGuin @ikiruined.bsky.social
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This is when you start shopping around in your mutuals for someone interested in a Strangers on a Train scenario.

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Ursula K. PenGuin's avatar Ursula K. PenGuin @ikiruined.bsky.social
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I always described him as an encyclopedia editor first and storyteller second, but your analogy is perfect.

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Ursula K. PenGuin's avatar Ursula K. PenGuin @ikiruined.bsky.social
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It may have made sense but I don’t know if Filoni could stomach that, tbh.

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Ursula K. PenGuin's avatar Ursula K. PenGuin @ikiruined.bsky.social
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I haven’t started Ahsoka for that exact reason (I’m still early in Rebels) but seriously, that is a truly bonkers choice that kind of tanked my interest from the jump.

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Ursula K. PenGuin's avatar Ursula K. PenGuin @ikiruined.bsky.social
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Yeah. At best, many of the scripts stop at “eh, it’s fine I guess” and I don’t get why. Another pass at a script isn’t that expensive!

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Ursula K. PenGuin's avatar Ursula K. PenGuin @ikiruined.bsky.social
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I forget if it was Lindsay Ellis or Hbomb or some other critic, but their decade-old statement that these companies wanted to produce “no meaning, only lore” has just gotten more accurate as the years have passed.

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Honestly, it is better than most at this point. Disney’s live action show experiments - have been… pretty dire on average. It is like an entire company collectively bonked their heads and forgot how to tell a story.

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Kelsey Atherton's avatar Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social
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Outside the NLRB, hard to think of a part of the federal government that's seen as drastic a change for the better as Interior under Deb Haaland

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Ursula K. PenGuin's avatar Ursula K. PenGuin @ikiruined.bsky.social
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God, Shawntay Dalon is so funny on DETROITERS. It is a crime that she hasn’t gotten more comedy work, that is a great performance on an incredible show.

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We’ve analyzed the House version of KOSA, and unsurprisingly, it is just as dangerous as the Senate version. It’s crucial everyone who cares about digital rights continue to oppose it.

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Ursula K. PenGuin's avatar Ursula K. PenGuin @ikiruined.bsky.social
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Now he's writing about how it's "problematic" to say imperialism is bad, because empires make the best art. I hate this book so much.

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This entire book is just that guy jumping out from the well, yelling, "Yet you participate in society. Curious! I am very intelligent."

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Ursula K. PenGuin's avatar Ursula K. PenGuin @ikiruined.bsky.social
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Yuval Noah Harari might be the stupidest man on the planet.

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"This is banning people from government property,” she said. “Let’s think very carefully before we do that.” She added: “We will see you in court.” (Susan Gottehrer, the director of the Nassau County chapter of the New York Civil Liberties Union).

Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2024/06/24/n...

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Marisa Kabas's avatar Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social
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a shockingly accurate—and deeply depressing—headline.

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Jana H-S (they/she)'s avatar Jana H-S (they/she) @jana-aych-ess.bsky.social
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every time you make up a guy, they appear somewhere in the world, fully formed. most end up under the ground, though. so it's not really worth thinking about

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