No doubt this has occurred to other bystanders as well, but it would seem that a handful of billionaires dropping $150 million into a single state's election in an attempt to defeat a wealth-tax initiative just about makes the entire case for a wealth-tax initiative.

I just think it's dishonest to say that the politics are unavoidable on other platforms, but they are on X. Its *point* is its politics; you're just saying they exist at a level you find palatable. The guys who doxed my family aren't on the other platforms; they're followed by staff members on X.

can’t get the new season of dark matter out of my head - and east of eden. both will not escape my thoughts. i need more people to talk about movies/shows/books without spoiling them on socials.

WHAT

Marty Lederman@martylederman.bsky.social · last wk.

Samuel Alito: We won't overturn Obergefell because it's engendered reliance interests. Jan Crawford: Well, many people had organized their lives around Roe v. Wade. Alito: No, they didn't. Women merely had an "abstract" interest in "ideas about the kind of society that they were going to live in."

yes. the big takeaway from the crucifixion of Jesus is that capital punishment is good.

i would appreciate more men being vocal that rape is bad and has consequences like not being your friend. i don’t see anyone really talking about the cornell stuff and to be frank, i usually don’t when it comes to this topic.

i live here and think it’s ridiculous we don’t have state tax. take my money for better services already!

Glenn Fleishman@glennf.com · last wk.

We can't just raise taxes in Seattle! Property tax is capped and business taxes are too complicated. We need a state income tax which requires constitutional amendment.

$90?! that was my last prescription cost on the best insurance you can get. people on medicare deserve better.

CNN@cnn.com · last wk.

President Trump said he will give around 20 million senior citizens $90 each to help pay for their Medicare Part B premiums, marking his latest effort to dole out funds to certain Americans weeks before the midterm elections. https://cnn.it/4ytSUHZ

can you believe some of our friends are still on this platform posting like nothing is going on? i know, shaming sucks. but so does child porn. take your high follower count asses and do something about this already!!

Reuters Legal@legal.reuters.com · last wk.

Elon Musk's xAI on Friday persuaded a US federal appeals court to halt Minnesota's first-in-the-nation ban on AI-generated fake nude images as the technology and social media company pursues a lawsuit alleging that the law is unconstitutional.

This is insane.

SI will always be sports illustrated

This is also happening at the same time that Linda McMahon is gutting Title IX and making it harder for sexual assault victims to be heard and get justice www.ed.gov/about/news/p...

U.S. Department of Education Formally Rescinds the Biden Administration’s Illegal Title IX Rewrite, Reinstating the 2020 Regulation

Today, the U.S. Department of Education (the Department) formally rescinded the Biden Administration’s illegal regulation implementing Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 (Title IX).

ed.gov

i was going to retoot that pete quote but i don’t even want to give it air time. that dude does not represent me nor the majority of the people in america.

anytime i think about this world i immediately think about parable of the sower and the gated cul de sac.

Brittany Ellich@brittanyellich.com · 2w ago

Get yourself some friends that you want to go buy an off-grid multi-house compound with in the middle of nowhere.

Get yourself some friends that you want to go buy an off-grid multi-house compound with in the middle of nowhere.

HAPPY THURSDAY!

why is the cell routinely left out of jennifer lopez movie best convos? so many internet top ten take misses. selena and the cell ftw

foods from other “homes” that im missing today: - taylor ham and cheese spk - pit beef sammy’s - bagels - good matzo ball soup - cheesesteak - crab cakes 🥹

man what do you even say anymore

if you want to hire the very best into government service, you need to be able to pay them competitively, otherwise you get the revolving door between industry and government at best, hiring only people with significant wealth who can afford to take the pay cut, or graft at worse.

i have so much trauma associated with cars and i really need to work on this part of life now. i haven’t owned a car in ten years but not having a car in seattle is really setting me back to only being able to live in the city. (i love the city btw)

thank a moderator! > Because lies are told faster than the truth, allowing falsehoods to stand while the truth is written serves to amplify hate.

Tech Policy Press@techpolicypress.bsky.social · 4w ago

Volunteer moderators are a big part of why some corners of the internet still feel human, writes Sarah Gilbert of Cornell's Citizens and Technology Lab. Without them, she argues, we face intertwined crises of knowledge and community.

i know comments on the internet are awful but when news and journalism outlets have a no comments feature on and no way to reach the author, it leaves me wondering how they get feedback cycles or is it just an f off? feels fine for personal blogs but off for mainstream.

Over six months, we tracked the appearance of child sexual abuse material on X. We found images from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children's database, which is considered one of the most highly vetted and which many tech companies block on upload. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/11/t...

Elon Musk Has Pledged to Rid His Platform, X, of Child Sexual Abuse, but It Persists

Reviews by the Canadian Center for Child Protection and The New York Times found that explicit images of children remain on the social media site owned by Elon Musk.

nytimes.com

ez mode solidarity opportunity you might not have been aware of. No Starbucks till the union gets a contract.

Aaron Huertas@aaronhuertas.bsky.social · last mo.

Boycott is still on. No Starbucks till the union gets a contract.

New post on my blog about switching password managers in 2026! It covers: - why your iPhone or iPad, and not your Mac, might be the place to start your switch - the recent controversy in password management and some thoughts on values - and more! rmondello.com/2026/09/07/s...

Baltimore, one of our great civic orgs needs us. Asylee Women Enterprise, which helps asylum seekers, torture + trafficking survivors, and other forced migrants, rebuild their lives here, must rapidly leave their space of 10+ years. Please give to help them move to their own forever home in Hampden!

A Forever Home for Asylee Women Enterprise (AWE)

We’re asking people who believe in our mission to help us reach our goal and build a permanent home for AWE and the communities we serve.

givebutter.com

i dreamt i hosted and moderated a televised AI debate last night and it was really rad.

100% and the flip flop back to humanities with “natural language” and how important it is now to communicate to both people and machines. it’s been a wild roller coaster of education these last 30 years. language and general humanities education is important no matter your role in life.

Lora Kolodny@lorak.bsky.social · last mo.

years of “learn to code” style condescension towards laid off workers outside of tech — only to go cutting coders’ jobs also did not seem like great marketing.

#dogs