Uh, one time I pissed someone off by saying that identity and personhood are inherently political categories and they said "do you and @isaacs.bsky.social just sit next to each other and post?" and we were like "lol yes!" Does this count? Also I think that person still follows me 👋

TwoSense@twosense.bsky.social · 2w ago

Dear Bluesky Elders, Tell us stories of the days when Bluesky was fun.

New translation of really good reporting. The sad story of phone scammers who drive elderly Russians to suicide. en.thenewtab.io/telephone-sc...

Russian Phone Scams: When Fraud Ends in Death | The New Tab

Russian retirees have lost savings, homes and, in some cases, their lives after encounters with phone scammers. Why are those behind the schemes rarely held responsible?

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so it turns out it's pretty hard to find maps of the pre-ww2 soviet borders with cities labeled thankfully, alphabet's living up to its mission statement of "to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful" and produces _this_ if you ask image search for such

"I knew that being financially independent was a fluke and I was only adopting the identity of an employed person" how is The Daily Tism so accurate

The Daily Tism@thedailytism.com · last mo.

An autistic woman has said a resounding “no” to feeling insecure about her job in today’s market by accepting that losing it is inevitable, sources have said.

New English-language exclusive on drone attacks and public sentiment in Russia en.thenewtab.io/drone-attack...

How drone attacks are changing everyday life in Russia

Fuel shortages, refinery fires and disrupted deliveries have made the war harder to ignore. A view from inside Russia on drone attacks and public mood

en.thenewtab.io

New translation! A literal fluff piece (with pretty photos) en.thenewtab.io/russia-popla...

Russia’s Poplar Fluff: Allergy and “Sex Change” Myths

Why did Soviet cities plant so many poplars? The New Tab debunks myths about fluff-sucking robots, allergies, tree sex, and a Stalingrad survivor

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Я ищу новаторские русскоязычные репортажи о феминизме и гендере за последние несколько лет. Какие авторы и материалы стали знаковыми?

I'm looking for groundbreaking Russian-language reporting on feminism and gender from the past few years. What made a splash?

A pair of new translations — both reported pieces from freelancers still working in Russia — out today with @thedialmag.bsky.social www.thedial.world/articles/new...

Online in Russia — The Dial

Two reports from The New Tab, a magazine in exile.

thedial.world

Job for social science and humanities-leaning info science course PhDs job-boards.greenhouse.io/datasocietyr...

Senior Researcher, AI Civics

Remote - NYC

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Hey, New Yorkers: Mayor Mamdani is recreating the city's digital service, after Mayor Adams destroyed it. They're hiring devs, designers, and product folks to work on-site in Brooklyn, starting now. You don't even have to be a city resident. Get on it!

NYC PIT Crew

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I have a mole in my networks! If it’s you, tell your guy he can’t muzzle me, but if he stops trying to damage me I’ll consider being polite.

I appreciate @acollierastro.bsky.social’s desire to not make anyone feel dumb, which is noble and the correct stance for an educator. But I am a former academic from basically the wordsiest of disciplines and I composed in LaTeX. Because Word is the literal worst. She is 100% right about this!

Мой вклад в эту публикацию был совсем невелик, но это одна из лучших работ, над которыми мне когда-либо доводилось работать. Это действительно свежий взгляд как на проблемы, с которыми сталкиваются трансженщины в России, так и на российскую армию. thenewtab.io/trans-zhensh...

Транс-женщины и армия в России: история Оли, которую пытались забрать в военкомат

Почему транс-женщины в России рискуют попасть под призыв после запрета смены пола — и как одна девушка спасла другую от отправки в армию

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I'm doing an experiment! Write to me at chat@emilylaskin.com if you want to get an email newsletter from me between 1 and, idk, 20 times a year.

I wrote about how much I hate ballot propositions and whatever the hell else you call direct democracy measures, because I'm a contrarian asshole but/and I care about political power. emilylaskin.com/2026/06/dire...

New translation! Read about one of Russia's political prisoners, jailed for "distributing" a book that's available to the public in Russian libraries and for free on the Internet. en.thenewtab.io/grigory-skvo...

Why Russian Photographer Grigory Skvortsov Was Sentenced to 16 Years for Treason

Russian photographer and musician Grigory Skvortsov was sentenced to 16 years for treason after sharing publicly available materials on Soviet bunkers. This is the full story of the case, the archives...

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My abusive co-parent is trying to fuck up my career because he’s sad that he’s a layabout failson. There’s really no point in saying this publicly but it is true, and I don’t keep his secrets for the sake of social politesse anymore. Call it praxis.

My child enjoys this activity and my last name derives from the Russian word for this animal 🤔

KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘@kojamf.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Toss Your Weasel Wednesday!

Meanwhile, sloughing off my native accent to return to California, where most of my friends believe I am human

I would pay like $25 to bring my toddler to a viewing platform at a big construction site on weekends, someone should invent this business

On the other hand, my most tech-pilled, anti-wordcel take is that AI is killing college and that's fine because higher ed (note NOT all deep inquiry into and beyond the current bounds of human knowledge, just U.S. 2026 higher ed as such) needs to die.

Emily L@laskin.bsky.social · 5mo ago

This is my most wordcel take, but there are actually people who understand how words work and how ideas propagate among human beings, and if they (we, let's not be overly modest) had a fraction of the wealth and power that crazed "founder mode" techbros do, the world would be safer in this moment.

doesn't it seem like the word "indefatigable" has one too many prefixes?

Like, let me get this straight. Your problem is that they’re making a machine that degrades human culture and relentlessly affirms whatever you want to hear and your response is “we have to eliminate the idea of truthfulness because it’s politically useful to do so”?

First of all, I understand if this is too “corny” for you, but I think we do actually live in a moment that is effectively post-truth and you will degrade yourself, your side, and your arguments if you give into this tendency. This is particularly true fighting against “AI” for obvious reasons.

A sentiment I see a lot on here is some variety of “Why criticize the dumb shit people say against data centers when you agree with them that using AI for most of the things it’s being used for is very bad? Isn’t that just making a wedge?” I think there are a few good answers to this.

This is my most wordcel take, but there are actually people who understand how words work and how ideas propagate among human beings, and if they (we, let's not be overly modest) had a fraction of the wealth and power that crazed "founder mode" techbros do, the world would be safer in this moment.

Karl Bode@karlbode.com · 5mo ago

"Never hallucinate or make anything up." yes, you can just demand that the LLM not make errors that's definitely how the technology works

It's Beltane! Days are still getting longer, but by a little bit less every day. They'll be getting longer and longer slower and slower until the summer solstice. Anyway, here's my music selection for this season. open.spotify.com/playlist/4qV...

what the fuck is up, virtue crew? (I’ve been on Twitter communing with the antisocial game theory nerds for 10 days, you all are nicer but they’re more fun.)