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Colette Alexander

@colettecello.bsky.social

I'm a cellist, mom, President of @resilienceinsoftware.org, co-host of @thisisfinepod.com, ex-HashiCorp, ex-Spotify. Talk to me about resilience engineering 💜

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jamelle@jamellebouie.net · 6d ago

i mean, just look at how the populists talked about the railroad barons and others like them. "The fruits of the toil of millions are boldly stolen to build up colossal fortunes, unprecedented in the history of the world, while their possessors despise the republic and endanger liberty."

jamelle@jamellebouie.net · 6d ago

plenty of 20th century examples by my 19th century-pilled mind goes immediately to the railroads, which were HUGELY DISRUPTIVE and deeply enmeshed in politics in ways quite analogous to silicon valley and AI

Prem Thakker ツ@premthakker.bsky.social · 2w ago

New: Macklemore will donate entire $1M of his earnings from Ed Sheeran's tour to six orgs helping Palestinians — and invites Robert Kraft to match him. Says he wants to center Palestinians being killed + journalists & aid workers who keep going. "Their risk is of a far different order than mine."

With everything that has happened over the last 48 hours, I want to bring the conversation back to where it belongs: to the Palestinian people who are still being killed, still living under military occupation, and still fighting for their freedom. I will be donating the entire $1 million of my net earnings from Ed Sheeran's Loop Tour to six organizations working directly to support the Palestinian people. And I invite Robert Kraft to match my donation. Whatever we disagree about, perhaps we can agree on this: Palestinian lives are worth protecting. A Palestinian life is no less valuable than any other life on this earth. That is what this has always been about. Not me. Not a tour. Not the headlines or the controversy. It is about Palestinians right to freedom, dignity and safety in their own homeland. I want to center the parents carrying their children into hospitals without the basic resources to treat them, and the physicians, paramedics, journalists and aid workers who keep going back in. I want to center the organizers and activists who have paid real costs for standing with Palestine. Their risk is of a far different order than mine. Just yesterday, 15 year old Muhammad al Zinati was killed in an Israeli strike while rushing to help aid worker Sherif Lubbad, who had already been injured. He was a child. Both were murdered. Both should be alive. And the ones still under the rubble, whose names exist only in the memories of people who may not have survived to speak them. Writing a check is one of the least costly forms of solidarity available to me. I am doing it because I can, and because these organizations are doing the work while much of the world debates it. But aid alone cannot address the conditions that make it necessary. This is a manmade injustice, and I believe it requires immediate political change. Palestinians have lived for decades without basic rights and should not have to wait another day to be free. That is where my focus will remain. I will …
David Kaye@davidakaye.bsky.social · 2w ago

my guess is that most americans do not perceive these deportations for what they are -- systematic crimes, under a framework directed at the highest levels of government, the evidence of which is in this defiance (inter alia). the rest of the world would rightly call this crimes against humanity.

Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie@audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 2w ago

according to politico, since Jan. 2025, Trump admin has deported 170+ people “in violation of court orders,” “in defiance of legally mandated due process protections,” or “to countries from which they had sought or received protection from torture and persecution” ballsandstrikes.org/ethics-accou...

Hildur Knútsdóttir@hildur.bsky.social · 2w ago

This post is making the rounds again for some reason and therefore I feel I must inform you that they’ve hired another one so there are now TWO forensic pathologists working in Iceland.

Hildur Knútsdóttir@hildur.bsky.social · 3y ago

My favourite fact about Iceland is that we have many, many crime writers but only one forensic pathologist, and he was so busy answering all of their questions that he decided to have a small seminar for writers to get some peace. It immediately sold out so he had another one that also sold out.

UN Environment Programme@unep.org · 4w ago

Global warming is set to cross 1.5°C, pushing climate risks and impacts to increasingly dangerous heights, a new UNEP report warns.   Predicted impacts include extreme weather and threats to human health and economies.

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Andrew R@excelpope.net · 4w ago

I enjoyed the NatGeo thing about 9/11 but this bit really struck me. It's barely a full-formed thought, but if you're already at the stage where dead children are just business as usual then maybe terrorist attacks aren't your biggest threat.

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2amcoffee@2am.coffee · 2y ago

Dog Show Judge: A single hair is out of place on the left ear. Fifteen demerits. Get this beast out of here, disgusting! Cat Show Judge: This fluffy child can do no wrong, fifty thousand points and fifty thousand smooches mwa mwa mwa

mtsw@mtsw.bsky.social · last mo.

if you're looking for the cause of declining good union manufacturing jobs over the last 50 years, domestic competition from right-to-work sunbelt states is a much bigger deal than foreign competition from free trade.