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[Jacinto Dávila @jacintodavila]

"In just 12 days, the public domain will welcome another year's worth of works back into our shared commons. As ever, Jennifer Jenkins of Duke's Center for the Public Domain have painstaking researched highlights from the coming year's entrants
https://t.co/FGVJOP54Dd" @doctorow

[Steve Buchheit @steve_buchheit]

Important to know 👇. Yes I've been following this for a few years. I knew about funeral homes (go in before you need their services), veterinary services (why our local vet doesn't have a doctor every day and the others are weeks out on appointments), and healthcare (the

[Michael Harriot @michaelharriot]

Donald Trump asking the SCOTUS to invalidate an election, suspend the Constitution & just declare him president is wild AF

That would essentially mean the Jan 6 insurrection was successful. There’s no way anyone who knows REAL HISTORY thinks that could happen…

Again.

A thread

[Nathaniel Minor @nbminor]

The latest write-thru of the NYT dad hero Club Q story is even more of a gut-punch than it was four hours ago.

https://t.co/kGcI3Ienyy

[Leah Goodridge @leahfrombklyn]

I want to talk about the racist co-opting by developers of civil rights language to denigrate and describe local residents who challenge big real estate.

Quick THREAD on so called “NIMBYism”🧵

[John Fetterman @JohnFetterman]

It's official. I will be the next U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania.

We bet on the people of Pennsylvania - and you didn’t let us down 

And I won’t let you down. Thank you.

[Cory Doctorow NO LONGER ON TWIT TER @doctorow]

Most of us believe that we do stuff because we want to be good people, and that other people act the same. But the dominant political philosophy for the last half-century, #economism, views us as slaves to "incentives" and nothing more. 1/

[one dozen rats at a keyboard @PanasonicDX4500]

The Houston Astros are a perfectly engineered baseball machine of death no one in their right minds would challenge, but the Philadelphia Phillies are “That sign can’t stop me because I can’t read” personified as a baseball team.

[Pennsylvania Maps @PAMapper]

The Fall Line is an ancient geological feature. Lined by a string of waterfalls, it divides the hills of the Piedmont region from the Atlantic coastal plain.

Now, the line is a near-perfect boundary between left-trending & right-trending areas in Metro Philly.

Why? A thread:

[Rio Romeo @romeovomit]

to keep up w/ audible, spotify is now selling audiobooks. do NOT buy from either of these brands. there's an app called Libby which is 100% FREE that has thousands of old & brand new audiobooks and all you need is your library card number!

[Tansu Yegen @TansuYegen]

German is as hard as life😊

[Ari Sen @ArijitDSen]

THREAD: The biggest story of my life is finally out. 

Since 2019, I’ve been investigating a monitoring tool called Social Sentinel. They bill it as a way to help save students’ lives. 

I found it had another purpose — surveilling campus protests. https://t.co/I0okAqeRen

[Eka Bakie @EkaBakie]

Don’t forget to leave cookies out for Earth, Wind, & Fire tonight

[Democratic Party of Washington County, Oregon @WashCoDems]

Important thread by Cory @Doctorow:
"Those book-banning freaks at the school-board meeting? They *are* freaks - they are on the fringe, out-of-step with American values and the American electorate. Don't let them convince you otherwise."

[Cory Doctorow NO LONGER ON TWIT TER @doctorow]

California's antitrust case against Amazon feels anachronistic, like a witchcraft charge, or some other ancient crime that we no longer prosecute. It's true, antitrust spent 40 year in a coma! The Amazon case neatly illustrates how it was sedated, and why it finally roused. 1/

[Will Watkins @WilliamAWatkins]

"Ain't no rule says a dog can't be King of England!”

- Heir Bud

[rax ‘levon honkers’ king @RaxKingIsDead]

i bought a little notebook. it’s not going to be like all those other times i thought i could use a little notebook

[Hank Green @hankgreen]

Did you know that in the original Gregorian Calendar the months had different names?
January was Greg
February was Ian
March was Greg
April was Ian
May was Greg
June was also Greg
July was Ian
August was Greg
September was Ian
October was Ian
November was Ian
December was Greg

[DEɅN JOHNSON @deanjohnsonuk]

No, a teacher in Ireland was not “suspended for refusing to refer to a child using their preferred pronouns”

A hefty🧵… buckle in…