opened threads. saw this. closed threads. perfect app
Jesse
@jaawerth.bsky.social
Yet another tech worker who bemoans capitalism. Sorry! There are a lot of us! I help maintain fennel-lang, a smol lisp that embeds in all the things. Always trawling for new music, esp. avant-anything. He/they works 🤷
Somehow things that would have been a background gag in a Verhoeven movie are now just real
the City of Boise's increasingly aggressive campaign against the state's repeated attempt to ban pride flags flown by cities is extremely funny
rev. howard arson@theophite.bsky.social · 5d agoi have never seen a higher density of pride flags than in Boise
I’m done saying “this sucks, what a bummer”, Brooklyn Vegan and Revolver were both daily website visits for me at one point and I’m tired of having everything good killed in the service of a few extra pennies in quarterly return. Solidarity with everyone impacted.
Leor Galil@imleor.bsky.social · 7h ago“Music publications BrooklynVegan, Alternative Press, Revolver, and Goldmine have been gutted by parent company Veeps... Nearly all the staff at each publication appear to have been laid off yesterday. Veeps, which is now owned by Live Nation, acquired the publications in 2024 or 2025”
I don't think I can remember a US politician with better messaging than this man. Ever. And that includes Mamdani. Run him for President.
@abdulelsayed.bsky.social triumphing over something like $60 million, $32-ish million of it AIPAC money, is not a "narrow" victory, it's a people's earthquake. This kind of spending is oligarchy in action, to smother democracy through its formal channels, and is getting normalized. Still he won.
in the 2025 federal election, Canada’s federal parties spent a combined $96M CAD on advertising. Haley Stevens spent $84M CAD on a single primary election. Michigan has 1/4 the population. Was Michigan carpet bombed, just ankle deep in Haley Stevens literature? Hard to fathom the scale.
Jesse@jaawerth.bsky.social · 9h agoHilarious to mention the thin margins and disappearing gap in the polls without also mentioning this. I mean, completely expected from Politico and every publication like it. But pulling out it off with a SuperPAC-driven 9-to-1 spending ratio is absolutely a "big election night"
Hilarious to mention the thin margins and disappearing gap in the polls without also mentioning this. I mean, completely expected from Politico and every publication like it. But pulling out it off with a SuperPAC-driven 9-to-1 spending ratio is absolutely a "big election night"
Politico@politico.com · 14h agoProgressives didn’t get the big election night they wanted
There’s a guy on TikTok who posts just him taking a pizza out of the oven every day with tongs and all of the comments are about how their day is ruined from having watched this
For the past five months the only refugees the USA has accepted are white South Africans fleeing equality & safety meanwhile they are disappearing or strapping ankle monitors on any Haitian they can get ahold of. It needs to be understood how thoroughly connected these two things are.
welcome to the Losers Backing Winners club, it’s very exclusive
If you think there was outrage for Christopher Nolan casting a Black woman as Helen of Troy and a Trans man as Sinon Just wait till they figure out what the movie was actually about Oooooh boy
Corporations, Not Immigrants, Responsible for Most Healthcare Fraud theintercept.com/2026/07/31/i...
Corporations, Not Immigrants, Are Responsible for Vast Majority of Healthcare Fraud, OIG Report Shows
Trump officials are focused on immigrants, but the Department of Health and Human Services report on healthcare fraud doesn’t even mention them.
theintercept.com
The disconnect is that black people know non-black people are racist af to the point that they will NOT vote for the best candidate, so Black Americans are forced to be pragmatic and vote around the racism of their fellow citizens.
Batman will always be popular because people love the fantasy of pretending a billionaire isn't depraved.
Yesss, clicking that link to polygon's toot panel origin story was SO worth the time. For both the back story itself, and
Cheryl Lynn Eaton@cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · yesterdaywww.polygon.com/comics/2020/...
El-Sayed: "I believe in equal rights to peace, dignity, and self-determination, for Palestinians and Jewish Israelis alike... If that’s 2 states, I’m for it. If it’s 1 state, I’m for that. If it’s this 'land for all' model, ... or whatever they decide." www.newyorker.com/news/the-new...
Abdul El-Sayed’s Argument for America—and Against His Own Party
The Michigan U.S. Senate candidate on campaigning with Hasan Piker, being a capitalist, and why his fellow-Democrats need to “stop compromising.”
newyorker.com
Sometimes I think, “oh shit. My writing sounds like tweaked Gen AI.”🤖 And nope. That’s backwards. GenAI sounds like a ghost of my writing because they trained the LLMs on piles and piles of work they stole without permission from writers like me.
Jesse@jaawerth.bsky.social · 2d agoI don't think it's solely a function of people being unread. The prevalence of LLM slop just has everyone doubting *everything* and looking for patterns, enough to ignore or forget that some of these patterns are craft, and the LLM's do it because that's what they trained on
TFW you photograph a vinyl cover for Discogs, but don't remove the shrinkwrap, thus preserving your likeness and environs for posterity in multiple online music databases
The effective federal corporate income tax rate: 1950: 50% 1990: 25% 2020: 13% Stop asking "but how we will pay for it?" Restore the corporate tax rate. That is how we will pay for it.
Her account is back! So it was likely automation that was overturned upon review
Jesse@jaawerth.bsky.social · yesterdayUghhh I bet it turns out to be for this ironic comment about her erasure being misconstrued as a threat 🫠 She has, of course, been nothing but gracious, but this matches the M.O. of bsky's overzealous moderation perfectly
I follow these Korean guys on Instagram who just do the same dance in different places and they landed a big one today
What the actual fuck? She was gracious the whole time?? This has to be the most egregious one of these to date It better not be for "coordinated harassment" because she mildly pointed out how badly she's been misrepresented in and erased from media stories + harassed, and people got mad(der) at Ken
Karrid 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️@karrid.myatproto.social · yesterdayWell, it appears that, sometime in the last 17 hours, Gwen Pepperoni was suspended for the crime of pointing out Ken Jennings' transphobia.
