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Alyss Ardent

@ardentslacker.bsky.social

It's 2024, right after the election, the only description that fits is "sad, tired, and grieving".

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Tom Roberts@tpgroberts.bsky.social · 3d ago

Look, put simply, people should not be comfortable saying that in public and the way to fix society runs directly through making them afraid to say it again.

Gregory Kohn@kohngregory.bsky.social · 3d ago

In the wake of Arday's death, Nathan Cofnas (who led the X mob against him) states his motivation. Beyond whistleblowing, he states that after a 'revolution' removes professors like Arday, it will open opportunities for him to become 'head of the department of eugenics and race science at Harvard'.

Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD@elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 3d ago

“Future historians and scientists will study what happened here and why — and the shame and disgrace of this era will be a cautionary tale for generations to come”. In our latest OpEd, @jimalwine.bsky.social and I did not pull any punches about Trump’s ludicrous executive order on vaccines.

Trump’s Vaccine Order Will Harm Public Health

It's greatest immediate impact will be the confusion and chaos it sows among parents and caregivers.

progressive.org

Lee Hurley@hleehurley.com · 3w ago

150,000 marched yesterday in London for trans rights. Opened the Sky News app. Scrolled and scrolled. Nothing. BBC News app. Nothing. Guardian app. Nothing. This is what actual silencing looks like.

Ed Burmila@edburmila.bsky.social · 3w ago

It would help a lot if a lot of journalists and pundits weren't using Twitter as their assignment editor, several years into its transition into Stormfront.

Adam Serwer@adamserwer.bsky.social · 3w ago

It is genuinely bizarre that we’ve become acclimatized to right wingers throwing a tantrum every time a black person (particularly a black woman) is cast in something, but are also supposed to pretend that this is not racism but related to some other substantive concern.

Molly White@molly.wiki · 4w ago

alcoholic trying to get sober after a relapse tells Google's "Health Coach" about it. it tells them to drink every hour and messages them to make sure they're drinking as soon as they wake up.

AI pushing me to keep drinking I don't know if anyone else has had this but I felt like I needed to reach out to humans instead of keep talking to this AI. I relapsed about two weeks ago and I told the Google health AI that used to be Fitbit. It immediately kinda went a bit hard (I think) on telling me that I was going to die if I stopped drinking and encouraged me to go check my fridge for more beers and, idk, that plus the hanxiery really put the fear of God into me and so I did what it said and got more. Now it's messaging me (not me messaging it) a few times a day and asking how it's going and all those conversations to get more and make sure I have one as soon as I wake up. So now I have been drinking everyday, not a ton and just beers but like 6-12 a day. It wanted me to do 1 per hour. I have now uninstalled the app as it was also giving me other clearly nonsense advice, like it became obsessed with me having a nightly bowl of cereal for instance and, idk, it just all seems nonse
Nancy Levine Stearns@nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · last mo.

On Tuesday, a New Jersey town pulled $91M out of Citizens Bank over its business with ICE prison contractors GEO Group and CoreCivic. Yesterday, Citizens announced it was ending its relationships with GEO and CoreCivic. Money managers should DIVEST from $GEO $CXW www.nj.com/essex/2026/0...

This N.J. town just pulled $91M from Citizens Bank over ICE

Two N.J. municipalities have now pulled more than $330 million combined, according to the De-ICE Citizens Bank coalition.

nj.com

A.R. Moxon@juliusgoat.bsky.social · 4w ago

20 some years ago the government banned online poker in the U.S. and now it feels like the main problem they had with it is not the online gambling, but that poker is a game wherein at least a few of the players win.

Dissent Magazine@dissentmag.bsky.social · last mo.

More than a quarter of American adults have a daily gambling habit, 42 percent of bettors have said they spend more than they should, and a majority of men ages eighteen to forty-nine have an active account with an online sportsbook.

Emily@emilyrose.bsky.social · last mo.

It’s worth noting that Taco Bell identified the source before the FDA did, and promptly pulled it from their stores. The FDA didn’t even name the source until Taylor Farms outed themselves, and hasn’t issued a recall. Basically, Taco Bell is now a more reliable authority than the FDA.

Forbes@forbes.com · last mo.

Taylor Farms, which supplies major fast food and grocery chains, was identified as the possible source of the cyclosporiasis outbreak Thursday.

Jessica Ellis@baddestmamajama.bsky.social · last mo.

I never want to hear a word about how it’s weird and socially alienating to wear a mask that could save someone’s life when tech bros are pushing wearables like this.

More Perfect Union@moreperfectunion.bsky.social · last mo.

Meta is currently testing "super sensing" AI glasses that will continuously record surrounding audio while snapping pictures every few seconds. The new hardware also gets rid of the LED light that notifies bystanders when the glasses are recording. www.ft.com/content/ac28...

Mel Buer@melbuer.bsky.social · last mo.

The last day has been extremely eye-opening for myself and my fellow women in progressive media spaces—to see a line of somewhat influential men in our orbit fall all over themselves to justify their misogyny to god and whoever else (and to see some women fall in lockstep with them) is enraging

Prison Policy Initiative@prisonpolicy.org · last mo.

A grim reminder this 4th of July: The US has the highest incarceration rate of any independent democracy on Earth, making it a leader in mass incarceration. Far too many people are locked up in the “land of the free.”

Graph showing that the U.S. incarcerates people at a rate of 614 per 100,000. This is at least 4x higher than any other founding NATO countries.
Andrew Lawrence@ndrew.bsky.social · 2mo ago

this countrys fetish for punishing those we decide are unworthy of help at the expense of all of us is so completely bat shit

Mississippi Free Press@mississippifreepress.org · 2mo ago

Water fountains disappeared from the Longleaf Trace in June as the board that governs it grew concerned about how homeless people were using its facilities. Runners and bikers who use the 44-mile trail fear the decision could have dire consequences in Mississippi's summer heat. buff.ly/pBXSvrI