molly brooks
@mollybrooks.bsky.social
comics, illustration, knitting(,) and cats
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molly brooks
@mollybrooks.bsky.social
· Aug 23
say hi to precious Marcel!
i’m still doing pet portraits in exchange for eSim donations to gazaesims.com see below for how to get your own. ❤️🩹💚🤍🖤
i’m still doing pet portraits in exchange for eSim donations to gazaesims.com see below for how to get your own. ❤️🩹💚🤍🖤
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"Among the first to appear before the judge was Angel, a 13-year-old. He had no attorney. “Would you like to request voluntary departure, or should I issue a removal order?” the judge asked “I don’t know,” Angel said, bursting into tears: “I have no one. I have nothing.”
www.cnn.com/2026/09/28/p...
www.cnn.com/2026/09/28/p...
Inside the Texas courtroom where toddlers face immigration judges | CNN Politics
Migrant children as young as 2 are showing up at immigration courts nationwide, many without attorneys, to try make their case to stay in the US and avoid deportation.
www.cnn.com
October 4, 2026 at 6:15 PM
"Among the first to appear before the judge was Angel, a 13-year-old. He had no attorney. “Would you like to request voluntary departure, or should I issue a removal order?” the judge asked “I don’t know,” Angel said, bursting into tears: “I have no one. I have nothing.”
www.cnn.com/2026/09/28/p...
www.cnn.com/2026/09/28/p...
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This week’s cover story from reporter Hannah Herner: How Nashville’s historic sites are reckoning with their history of slavery. https://www.nashvillescene.com/news/coverstory/nashville-historic-sites-slavery-history/article_4ad51ac1-5701-4790-8b68-a5fc2c1fd898.html
July 30, 2026 at 1:00 PM
This week’s cover story from reporter Hannah Herner: How Nashville’s historic sites are reckoning with their history of slavery. https://www.nashvillescene.com/news/coverstory/nashville-historic-sites-slavery-history/article_4ad51ac1-5701-4790-8b68-a5fc2c1fd898.html
finally (finally) inking my graphic novel about the history of knitting. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
July 28, 2026 at 6:28 PM
finally (finally) inking my graphic novel about the history of knitting. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
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You fucking love to see it
At libraries around the country, "Avoiding AI" workshops have elicited unprecedented demand.
Librarians are hosting viral 'Avoiding AI' workshops for people who are fed up with Big Tech | TechCrunch
At libraries around the country, "Avoiding AI" workshops have elicited unprecedented demand.
techcrunch.com
July 26, 2026 at 4:26 AM
You fucking love to see it
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WOTD “bumper crop” edition. Foist vs. Hoist. If all this rain has made your garden go berserk and you’re looking to offload your surplus produce, this one’s for you. Remember to lift from your knees when you’re hoisting.
Thanks to @mollybrooks.bsky.social for the excellent suggestion!
Thanks to @mollybrooks.bsky.social for the excellent suggestion!
July 22, 2026 at 1:51 PM
WOTD “bumper crop” edition. Foist vs. Hoist. If all this rain has made your garden go berserk and you’re looking to offload your surplus produce, this one’s for you. Remember to lift from your knees when you’re hoisting.
Thanks to @mollybrooks.bsky.social for the excellent suggestion!
Thanks to @mollybrooks.bsky.social for the excellent suggestion!
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The thing to know about the elderly is that they lose the ability to sense heat with age. So they are likely cooking to death before they realize they are hot. It's why you often find dead elderly heat stroke victims with the windows closed and no AC on. It's why check ins are so important
This is a devastating piece on how awful it is to die of heat stroke. Share it with the air conditioning skeptics you know.
I would LOVE to see someone with actual medical knowledge - so, not me - do a brutal piece like this from the perspective of an elderly disabled person dying without AC.
I would LOVE to see someone with actual medical knowledge - so, not me - do a brutal piece like this from the perspective of an elderly disabled person dying without AC.
What It Feels Like When You Have Heatstroke—and How to Prevent It
Your head is pounding, your muscles are cramping, and your heart is racing. Then you get dizzy and the vomiting starts. Heatstroke kills thousands of people every year. This is what it feels like—and ...
www.outsideonline.com
June 25, 2026 at 2:53 PM
The thing to know about the elderly is that they lose the ability to sense heat with age. So they are likely cooking to death before they realize they are hot. It's why you often find dead elderly heat stroke victims with the windows closed and no AC on. It's why check ins are so important
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NYC, today is Primary Day. Polls are open NOW and close at 9 PM tonight. Be sure to get your vote in before then. For your polling site and more information, go to vote.nyc. Make your voice heard, New York City.
Home | NYC Board of Elections
vote.nyc
June 23, 2026 at 11:13 AM
NYC, today is Primary Day. Polls are open NOW and close at 9 PM tonight. Be sure to get your vote in before then. For your polling site and more information, go to vote.nyc. Make your voice heard, New York City.
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If you are in New York City and can vote for any of the 10 DSA-backed candidates, do it! Early voting is up. This is a very good slate of people and keeping that momentum going is important. Claire Valdez and Darializa Avila Chevalier in particular are important! socialists.nyc/candidates/
OUR Endorsed Candidates - NYC Democratic Socialists of America (DSA)
Our CONGRESSIONAL Candidates It's time for socialists to lead the fight against ICE, war and genocide, and Trump's tax cuts. NYC-DSA is coming to congress. Claire Valdez Assemblymember Claire Valdez i...
socialists.nyc
June 17, 2026 at 8:12 PM
If you are in New York City and can vote for any of the 10 DSA-backed candidates, do it! Early voting is up. This is a very good slate of people and keeping that momentum going is important. Claire Valdez and Darializa Avila Chevalier in particular are important! socialists.nyc/candidates/
happy mammogram day to all who celebrate (anyone over 40 with boobs should celebrate mammogram day annually or as recommended by doctor) 💖💕✨
June 6, 2026 at 1:50 AM
happy mammogram day to all who celebrate (anyone over 40 with boobs should celebrate mammogram day annually or as recommended by doctor) 💖💕✨
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9 months old and still so true. “ If you’re pushing slop or eating it, you wouldn’t read it anyway. You’d ask a bot for a summary and forget what it told you, then proceed with your day, unchanged by words you did not read and ideas you did not consider.”
I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.
I Am An AI Hater
I am an AI hater. This is considered rude, but I do not care, because I am a hater.
anthonymoser.github.io
May 26, 2026 at 12:26 PM
9 months old and still so true. “ If you’re pushing slop or eating it, you wouldn’t read it anyway. You’d ask a bot for a summary and forget what it told you, then proceed with your day, unchanged by words you did not read and ideas you did not consider.”
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AI is bad and ruining human knowledge, sorry to those trying to convince us otherwise.
A network of fake academic journals masquerading as legitimate publications has published more than a hundred AI-generated papers in recent months, in some cases using the names of real professors at top universities without their knowledge.
Fake academic journals are publishing AI-generated papers under real professors’ names
Online academic journals falsely attributed articles, likely written by AI, to several professors, who say the fiasco is a warning about the future of scientific knowledge.
nbcnews.to
May 26, 2026 at 4:01 PM
AI is bad and ruining human knowledge, sorry to those trying to convince us otherwise.
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This. God, this. It is such a manufactured panic and it started the moment they lost the fight over gay marriage. Support trans rights because it’s the right thing to do and also because this is all just a fascist push
Trans people have been around your whole life. You’ve been sharing bathrooms with them your whole life. They’ve been in your communities your whole life. They’ve even been playing sport your whole life.
And you didn’t care *at all* till a few years ago when every right wing org decided you should
And you didn’t care *at all* till a few years ago when every right wing org decided you should
May 22, 2026 at 9:40 AM
This. God, this. It is such a manufactured panic and it started the moment they lost the fight over gay marriage. Support trans rights because it’s the right thing to do and also because this is all just a fascist push
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worth noting here it's not just Wyoming where Republican lawmakers are openly saying they want to boost the state's population by forcing people--even teenagers--into childbirth
From a 2024 lawsuit filed by the Attorney Generals of Missouri, Kansas, & Idaho:
ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
From a 2024 lawsuit filed by the Attorney Generals of Missouri, Kansas, & Idaho:
ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
May 5, 2026 at 12:35 PM
worth noting here it's not just Wyoming where Republican lawmakers are openly saying they want to boost the state's population by forcing people--even teenagers--into childbirth
From a 2024 lawsuit filed by the Attorney Generals of Missouri, Kansas, & Idaho:
ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
From a 2024 lawsuit filed by the Attorney Generals of Missouri, Kansas, & Idaho:
ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
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Stock up.
BREAKING: The Supreme Court has temporarily restored mail-order access to the abortion drug mifepristone, after a federal appeals court curtailed access to the drug.
Supreme Court restores abortion pill access — for now
Justice Samuel Alito froze an appeals court ruling that limited access to the drug.
www.politico.com
May 4, 2026 at 6:16 PM
Stock up.
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A lot of small business and indie artists are unaware of uline’s shittiness. They’re bad! Don’t use them! I am currently using mailersUSA.com for my packing materials, and as far as I know they do not fund fascism.
April 26, 2026 at 5:56 AM
A lot of small business and indie artists are unaware of uline’s shittiness. They’re bad! Don’t use them! I am currently using mailersUSA.com for my packing materials, and as far as I know they do not fund fascism.
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You can watch the six-part BBC miniseries of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, 1979, starring Alec Guinness, for free? www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy [BBC 1979] - YouTube
www.youtube.com
April 12, 2026 at 4:44 PM
You can watch the six-part BBC miniseries of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, 1979, starring Alec Guinness, for free? www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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"problem"
Fox News doc on lower fertility rate: "The problem is teens and young adults, from ages 15-19 the fertility rate is down 7%, and it's down 70% over the last two decades, meaning we're telling people that are young not have babies, to wait until they're in a more stable life situation"
April 10, 2026 at 4:06 PM
"problem"
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Israeli government ministers announced this morning that the ceasefire with Iran does not include Lebanon, while the Israeli army announced that its operations in Lebanon are continuing.
April 8, 2026 at 12:37 PM
Israeli government ministers announced this morning that the ceasefire with Iran does not include Lebanon, while the Israeli army announced that its operations in Lebanon are continuing.
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@nycgovparks.org's tree map is great: full of information, yet somehow still intuitively easy to use. Here's what you see when you click on a particular circle/dot (this one's on a block near my home). Every circle/dot is a tree maintaing by NYC Parks.
🌳 tree-map.nycgovparks.org/tree-map
🌳 tree-map.nycgovparks.org/tree-map
April 8, 2026 at 12:36 PM
@nycgovparks.org's tree map is great: full of information, yet somehow still intuitively easy to use. Here's what you see when you click on a particular circle/dot (this one's on a block near my home). Every circle/dot is a tree maintaing by NYC Parks.
🌳 tree-map.nycgovparks.org/tree-map
🌳 tree-map.nycgovparks.org/tree-map
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One of dozens of videos coming out of Beirut. There are people under the rubble.
Israel is committing multiple massacres
Israel is committing multiple massacres
April 8, 2026 at 12:41 PM
One of dozens of videos coming out of Beirut. There are people under the rubble.
Israel is committing multiple massacres
Israel is committing multiple massacres
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i think if you tweet "a whole civilization will die tonight" you shouldn't go to the hague, the hague should get to come to you
April 7, 2026 at 12:56 PM
i think if you tweet "a whole civilization will die tonight" you shouldn't go to the hague, the hague should get to come to you
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This insane asshole has been doing nothing but crimes since the day he took office, you're the only branch of government with the power to remove him and you're not even going to try because it might not work? Why are you even there? To feel important and do insider trading?
January 3, 2026 at 4:05 PM
This insane asshole has been doing nothing but crimes since the day he took office, you're the only branch of government with the power to remove him and you're not even going to try because it might not work? Why are you even there? To feel important and do insider trading?