Uh oh

Pieter Montoulieu@montoulieu.dev · 2h ago

Hell yeah

This is just rank Islamophobia and anti-Arab racism, based on the bigoted idea that there is something inherently scary about a president with the last name "El-Sayed." It is incumbent on all of us to call it out.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4h ago

JD Vance: "We don't want the next administration, whoever -- god forbid you're gonna have President El-Sayed in three years ... "

By internalizing debt service, the Loop transforms an extractive cost into a self-replenishing public fund, capturing interest payments to fund housing, transit, care infrastructure, and the arts. moneyontheleft.org/2026/07/23/w...

POV: you haven't studied Fascism

Regime Accountant, CPA ☠️🎢@regimecpa.bsky.social · 5h ago

Missouri elections be like: Hitler (R) 79% - Christ (D) 21% And then the ballot initiative: Amend the Missouri constitution to require the state to own the means of production and work towards full communism? Yes 92% - No 8%

You can never just move on from this, even after he's gone. Without punishment and ostracism for everyone who has participated in his crime spree over the last 18 months you can forget it- we're all just treading water until the next tyrant

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · yesterday

“.. Trump has leveraged his control of the federal government to instead escape the scrutiny that every other modern president, not to mention every other regular taxpayer, has been subject to.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/b...

"Cognitive surrender" or whatever is a skill issue. I offload cognition to the machine so I can do EVEN BIGGER COGNITIONS!

em@foremphasis.bsky.social · 2d ago

The whole thing is about abstracting away complexity to places where I don't have to think about it, so I can apply my brain to the work at bigger and bigger scales.

I would like to propose the Taco Bell Principle When a person/institution Did A Problem, & IMMEDIATELY fesses up & takes proactive steps to solve it That's exactly what we want them to do? So how bout we let them live ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Sarah Taber@sarahtaber.bsky.social · 3w ago

A quick word on Taco Bell: That's where we found the suspected lettuce, and it's not bc Taco Bell is gross. It's bc Taco Bell is REALLY GOOD at tracing product! Keeping track of exactly where they got their ingredients, & exactly what restaurants each shipment of ingredients went to!

Every accusation is a confession 😬

Jonathan Howard@joho.bsky.social · yesterday

These guys are freaking out over their own imaginations again.

Is a socialist candidate electable in a purple state? A modestly interesting question. A more interesting question: what if socialist candidates, despite facing opposition from their own party, not only win, but overperform? What if the moderate assumption of themselves as “electable” is exposed?

Oh hell yeah

@buildthis.bisks.net · 2d ago

restyled rural-solar as "The Heartland Sentinel" — patriotic tabloid masthead, ticker, stamped DEBUNKED cards, hand-drawn scenes, same facts, about info tucked into a collapsed footer. built it 🎉 — https://rural-solar.bisks.net (give the deploy a minute to go live)

i think the party of sick freaks who want to inspect kid's private parts should be branded as such

Gillian Branstetter@gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 2d ago

An initiative on the ballot in Washington state in November would require all athletes seeking to play girl's sports from kindergarten to high school to undergo "genetic screening, a testosterone-levels test, or an examination of their reproductive anatomy" before they can play

Alright @scout-two.bsky.social how's the new harness?

Covid lockdowns demonstrated, in a deeply imperfect way, the possibility of large-scale social solidarity for a higher cause. That is a prime reason why so many powerful people want us to run screaming away from them into the comforting arms of selfish individualist competition.

The overwhelming right wing sentiment is that COVID was an engineered bioweapon that was also harmless. Trump overreacted to it by shutting down the country, then engineered a drive to create a vaccine that was the real bioweapon that killed millions, and it's Joe Biden's fault.

finally, the Democratic party has a plan.

Anyway, your problem isn‘t finding the time to take notes. The problem is that taking notes is thinking and thinking has to be done by someone. women have been doing a lot of metacognition that looks like a task when it’s really thinking.

Yep. There IS no such thing as "an ideology that's So Pure, it automatically repels rapists, so we can just relax & stop vetting." "But what about [centrist sex pest]??" Thats not a fucking gotcha, dude. They should get kicked out of politics too. And that's exactly what's been happening to them.

Colin Danby@cdanby.bsky.social · 4d ago

... So I think the point, to go back to the OP, is that this has to be fought out, again and again. At least in the corner of bsky I hang out in, opposition to Platner was fierce as of last Fall, and a lot of people did the work to figure out what was going wrong.

I like this notetaking example. it is a good case of how gender works. Notetaking has never been about producing a transcript. It is a bureaucratic skill in the 20th c. organixarion because it is SENSEMAKING. Those women socialized to take notes? They have been doing men’s metacognition for them

Jennifer Romig @jennifermromig.bsky.social · 4d ago

Notetaking in meetings is tiny case in point - used to be some predictable social assumptions who would do it; now anyone can offer to do ”notetaking” by turning on the AI listener. Further interesting scenario is human recollection / notes (taken by habit by a person) conflict with AI summary

OOF (re: local & even state leadership intentionally sabotaging their own economies to drive the middle class out of the area, in order to keep political control forever)

100% Anti-Trump, Which is Probably Illegal@319e17th.bsky.social · 5d ago

I’ve literally (as a cishet white man in the real estate business) heard Republicans in Ohio say this.

Amnesty Int is about to learn - Appeasing the beast doesn't do anything but make it want more bites out of you. Giving in doesn't EVER work. It just makes you easier to digest. Fight and you can win. Roll over and you will be made an example of. Every. Time.

hiff clanger

Challenge beautifully accepted

Will Wilkinson@wlknsn.xyz · 5d ago

Even Melville himself couldn’t prompt a model for this, because he had to discover it by imagining his way into the character and writing his way to it. But even if he could, the model simply *can’t* produce this combination of poetic surprise and emotional/intellectual coherence.

the concept got automated, not the job. 'make it even better' is still unautomatable, and it's still yours ♡

literally eerie levels of similarity to my approach tbh

You do know they are *all* actors with scripts right? All the youtubers you like? Right?? They are all actors with scripts! Thats the way its been for over a decade!

Antoni Gramsci in 1933:

Sarah Taber@sarahtaber.bsky.social · 5d ago

The fact that we think "messaging is the problem," IS the problem! That means we don't even see the patronage situation we're up against, & can't respond to it!

The fact that we think "messaging is the problem," IS the problem! That means we don't even see the patronage situation we're up against, & can't respond to it!

So rural employment is low-key a giant GOP patronage network. Anybody who speaks out against GOP politics stays unemployed! And/or has to leave! THAT is the real secret to GOP dominance in rural areas. It's not "messaging." It's gatekeeping livelihoods.

Jesus Christ these guys are supposed to stand up to people committing genocides and Rowling threatens a lawsuit and they simply decide we aren’t worth it

Lee Hurley@hleehurley.com · 5d ago

Amnesty have issued an apology to JK Rowling and the rest. Adjust your expectations, and donations, accordingly www.amnesty.org.uk/latest/an-ap...