Jesse Farrell
@jfarrell.eurosky.social
🏳️⚧️ powerlifter, unfree software repairbot, cat mum. 🏉: UBB/Leinster/🇮🇪 (♂️) 🇼🇸/🇹🇴/🇫🇯/🏴 (♀️). @pingouin@tech.lgbt in fediverse. 🇧🇧🇲🇸 Pro-democracy, antifa-scist. Capitalism is a choice.
DHS: "The cruelty is my passion."
Andrew Couts@couts.bsky.social · 25m agoNEW: DHS wants to hire bounty hunters to find immigrants who already left the US in an ostensible attempt to make them pay fines DHS imposed on people in the US without documentation. @dell.bsky.social and @regret.bsky.social report: www.wired.com/story/dhs-is...
It’s true, in the past I would have had multiple editors in my inbox asking me to write about the Cunningham stuff. I haven’t gotten a single assignment request. Trans writers used to be tokenized to write about these things but now that the topic is “mainstream,” those bylines go elsewhere.
Sydney Bauer@sydney-bauer.com · 20h agoI need people to understand that for the last half decade that there’s been an ecosystem of trans folks in sports media who have worked unpaid to serve as experts for context, sources and educators on what it’s like for trans athletes, in hopes of potential bylines and contacts. That’s dried up.
We aren't backed by billionaires. We can only defend trans rights with your help. Please give your support.
Fight back against the code of practice
The government’s transphobic code of practice is now up and running. But we’re not going to take it, we’re helping to fight back. Join us
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"If not for Frances Perkins, Social Security, as Americans understand the program today, would not have been created." A timely reminder from @prospect.org that Social Security was built through intentional political choices and can be strengthened through them, too.
Frances Perkins: The Architect of Social Security - The American Prospect
In her words, Frances Perkins, the first woman cabinet secretary, ‘came to Washington to work for God, FDR, and the millions of forgotten, plain, common workingmen.’
prospect.org
There has to be an understanding that human rights and equality laws are about protecting people from particular kinds of systemically galvanised harm, or the human rights law itself becomes a weapon of the dominant groups.
The Heritage Foundation is run by Opus Dei Catholics Kevin Roberts and Roger Severino. More than 50% of the 100 orgs behind Project 2025 were funded by Opus Dei affiliated Leonard Leo. Miss the faith driven politics and you miss the story. jesspiper.substack.com/p/give-them-...
Give Them an Inch...
And they'll take away women's sports...
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🚨Update: #Lhasa authorities formally arrested activist #ZhangYi on July 28 under the charge of "inciting separatism." He was detained after showing a photo of the #DalaiLama to a Tibetan at Sera Monastery. 🔗 www.nchrd.org/2026/07/chin...
CHRD人权捍卫者网络@chrdnet.bsky.social · 4h ago7月28日， #张毅 被以涉嫌 #煽动分裂国家罪 执行逮捕，现羁押在拉萨市看守所。 7月1日，张毅在拉萨因展示达赖喇嘛照片被捕； 7月18日，他被以涉嫌“煽动分裂国家罪”刑拘。 张毅是八九学运武汉学生领袖，1989年曾被判刑2年，狱中遭酷刑，导致一只耳朵失聪；多年来他坚持纪念六四。
New idea just dropped: a cat library. Like a cat cafe, but with books. Read your library book with a cat in your lap.
Why is it only Ariana Grande who's subjected to relentless media scrutiny for being dangerously thin?
Sheila Smith@jandektales.bsky.social · 6h agoNew Release: JANDEK 0871 Detroit Friday (2-CD) ©Sheila Smith - Photo #jandek #corwood #NewRelease
incredible that the zuck site allows such obviously fraudulent accounts to amass over 50k followers cc @usatoday.com
How did the Trump Administration make an actually good thing happen? Oh, they missed deadlines set by the court
Tressie McMillan Cottom@tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 5h agoCongratulations to everyone who worked their asses off for something that any semi-decent and ultimately self-interested government should have done in penance www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/b...
We're excited to share the results from Mastodon's first #DiscoveryWeek! In case you missed it, earlier this year our Head of Design @imanijoy arranged a week of workshops and surveys to get to know you, learn about your needs and wants, and discover how you're using (and want to use) Mastodon […]
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If you’re a trans ally, please support @GoodLawProject.org’s legal challenge against the UK government’s transphobic “guidance”. goodlawproject.org/crowdfunder/... 🏳️⚧️
Fight back against the code of practice
The government’s transphobic code of practice is now up and running. But we’re not going to take it, we’re helping to fight back. Join us
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Your regular reminder that there ISN’T a “war on cars.” Any objective observation in most cities however, would conclude that for 60+ years there’s been a war on every mobility choice EXCEPT cars. And that’s been bad for EVERYONE, including drivers. Poster via @urbantruth.bsky.social. #UrbanTruth
How *are* those projects going? Well, Musk has already blown past four separate robotaxi deadlines in just the past year. We were supposed to have half of all Americans getting around in fully self-driving Teslas by EOY 2025, but the Tesla robotaxi fleet has actually SHRUNK, down to just 17 vehicles
Elon Musk Has Missed His Own Robotaxi Timelines Four Times Since 2025. Should Investors Still Believe the Next One? | The Motley Fool
Tesla's future rides on its robotaxi ambitions.
fool.com
Tesla *is* profitable, but very much in trouble. It can only juice sales by cutting prices, the Cybertruck continues to be a boondoggle, and its market share is down to 2017 levels. The high stock price is based entirely on wild promises of robotaxis and humanoid robots.
Tesla Profit Falls Even as Car Sales Rebound
nytimes.com
The SpaceX IPO only put 5% of its shares on the market. Another 20% were scheduled to unlock after the Q2 earnings call. That call was yesterday. In the meantime, the stock has fallen over 40% from its initial days of trading. $SPCX 📉 9.25% in pre-market trading as shareholders offload this junk.
SpaceX shares sink after first earnings report reveals huge AI spending plans
Elon Musk told investors that people were "underestimating" his company.
bbc.com
They could always sign up to give comment at a public meeting.
The Wall Street Journal@wsj.com · 16h agoNew York City’s business elites are long accustomed to direct access to City Hall, where even Democratic mayors felt the need to court the city’s wealthiest and most influential corporate leaders. That access is getting shredded by Mayor Zohran Mamdani.
⚠️ Haley Stevens concedes and offers Abdul El-Sayed her “full support”: haleyformi.com/news/haley-s...
I tell this to everyone who has a biometric ID on their phone
SeasonalPun@pixelfish.bsky.social · last wk.Just as a heads up, passwords are protected in legal situations, like when police or customs wants to “just see” your phone, but biometrics are not.
No biometrics on my mobile. Password, only, and no company needs my biometrics, anyway
Matt Zoller Seitz@mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 4h agoI tell this to everyone who has a biometric ID on their phone
🔥 On the night of August 5, FP-1 destroyed Wildberries in Aleksin, Tula region (190,000 m²), - CyberBoroshno This is the 13th burned warehouse of the marketplace. After Aleksin, the picture for 25 key facilities is as follows: 62.1% of the total area burned down, 24.5% affected, 13.4% intact.
El-Sayed: There is so much more that unites us, however much we might disagree with our democratic opponent, there is so much more that unites us than divides us. And so to all of our supporters here tonight watching on TV—tomorrow, we begin to mend fences.
Tech companies getting bigger and building apps I don't need while I'm just over here wishing for software that works right.
Big shout out to all the people who were mad at me for not wanting them to vote labour cause they were “certain labour will be better on trans rights than the tories“, they couldn’t have done it (segregation) without you
The problem is, even if there is a process, it relies on people being transparent and the senate enforcing the rules. And that is clearly not going to happen in this regime.
Talarico’s argument is simple: Stop treating marijuana like a crime. Legalize it. Regulate it. Tax it. Stop wasting police resources on low-level marijuana offenses. Clear the records of people whose lives have been derailed by nonviolent marijuana convictions.
Money out of politics. Money in your pocket. Medicare for All. Michigan... We won. I am so proud to be your Democratic nominee for US Senate. Let's win in November.
