A world without borders is one of the most meaningful things I hope to see in my lifetime, shaped significantly by my experience as an international adoptee.
#StupidSuez@diplomatofnight.com · 3d agoIt is pretty sad that so few people actually believe in open borders
Last week I presented my research on what the trans+ community wanted doctors to learn at #ASME2026 c/o @asmeofficial.bsky.social Went down really well, plus I got this great picture where I'm explaining the art was created by @happytoast.co.uk and not AI, and maybe more importantly, who the cat is
Lisa Coombes@cutscore.bsky.social · 5mo agoToday is my 5 year tranniversary 🎉 I've experienced so many highs & lows but gone through surviving, into persisting, & now thriving despite the world's best efforts. Wouldn't change a thing Seems like a perfect occasion to share one of the amazing pics @happytoast.co.uk drew for me ❤️ (Thx HT!)
Cities dismantled their tram networks to become “motor cities of the future”. The result? You could travel further within 30 mins via public transport in 1957 than you can in 2026. Cities are seeking billions to rebuild networks. Incredible piece of work this.
The Exchange@theexchangeleeds.bsky.social · 2w agoIf you stood on Briggate at 8am on a weekday in 1957, and stood there again in 2026, in which year could you reach more of the city in half an hour? Samuel Bancroft has crunched the numbers. Since the 1950s, Leeds has got bigger - but the city has effectively shrunk.
It is insane that in 2026 docker still has log rotation turned off by default
Today @victoriascott.bsky.social writes about Juniper Blessing, a University of Washington student who was murdered last week, and worries about the potential loss of a better future for young trans people she had always hoped was coming. www.welcometohellworld.com/this-pain-ha...
This pain has to become foreign and unknowable
In memory of Juniper Blessing
welcometohellworld.com
Why is anyone using GitHub for commercial projects at this point? Gitlab has more features in most respects and their more traditional CI system is so much more powerful.
"openai.com" was once the personal homepage of a guy named glenn (2001), and "tiktok.com" was the quaint shared homepage of a couple as their relationship progressed from dating to married with a baby (2000). THREAD!!!
This book "Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents" by Lindsay C. Gibson was a very educational and insightful book. I learned a lot about myself and it taught me about what I lacked when growing up, especially being a gay child, but also in my adult life in relations with family. #booksky
working on a new unified theory of american reality i'm calling "everyone is twelve now"
"The argument for electrifying our railways will become clearer in time." British Rail, 1979.
There is a wholescale concerted effort to rebrand trans children as gender questioning children. If the whole group are re-labelled, then they cannot claim rights as a minority group. If they are all re-labelled, then conversion efforts can just about helping them 'explore their gender'.
Pleasantly surprised by how much _just works_ there is in self-hosted @sentry.io . There's definitely some non-trivial sysadmin in it but I was anticipating far more issues.
hello I am launching my very own podcast with @jordanjamboree.pittbert.gay where we (mostly casually!) chat about car culture in the decline of the American empire, auto racing, and industry news interspersed with tales of our former auto journo careers. we call it TRAN GIRLISMO
Why does everything in Britain feel like there's a big "CLOSING DOWN: EVERYTHING MUST GO!" sign in the sky? This society wouldn't have built a sewage system.
If you're in need of positive and rather wholesome news, there's a high school teacher named Bryan who took a ton of freely licensed celebrity headshots at the New York Film Festival last month for Wikipedia, and I truly can't believe how drastic the upgrade is for some articles (thread)
Incredible how fast things have moved
UK Politics News // Papernaut@ukpolitics.papernaut.co · last yr.THE NEW STATESMAN: Green Party leadership battle heats up as veteran MPs Chowns and Ramsay strive to unify the party against Polanski's provocative eco-populism, raising stakes for their electoral future. - by Megan Kenyon
idk maybe we shouldn't put the whole internet on one host just my opinion
I have criticisms of ICEBlock, but this is authoritarian bullshit, and the fact that nearly all smartphone use one of two app stores controlled by US corporations does not bode well for the future
Alejandra Caraballo@esqueer.net · 10mo agoThere's nothing illegal about ICE block. This is solely about Apple appeasing the Trump regime. With Google removing sideloading next year, these companies will have total control over what runs on your phone. www.businessinsider.com/apple-iceblo...
What character permanently altered your brain chemistry?
Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真)@lizthegrey.com · 10mo agoWhat character permanently altered your brain chemistry?
I made a thread unroller app for Bluesky tbsky.app All you have to do is stick "t" at the start of any bluesky post link, it doesn't even have to be the first one in the thread.
ThreadSky - Unroll Bluesky Threads
Transform any Bluesky post into an easy-to-read thread format. Just add 't' to the beginning of any bsky.app URL.
tbsky.app
