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Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 17h ago

Mike Johnson tells Politico that he's standing behind Republican Max Miller — despite the "serious" domestic abuse allegations against him.

i love poetry! so over the weekend i made a website that lets my friends send their poetry or their favorite poems to me directly — submissions automatically print from the thermal receipt printer in my living room, accompanied by a little song 🤍 envoy.henry.codes

Envoy | A tiny website by Henry (From Online)

Share your favorite poems with me, old friend. I eagerly await thy letters.

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The system elevates us, not as an act of grace, but as a method of curation. Black Icarus - thoughts on Prof Jason Arday inspired by this matisse piece www.linkedin.com/pulse/black-...

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In my book white System Black Therapist I write about the "white system" that intricate, suffocating tapestry of institutional and structural whiteness- does more than just cast a shadow. It defines t...

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Call me crazy, but if a Democratic president had 350 accounts closed by their bank for money laundering it’d be more than a blip in the media

We've won a fair amount of work by saying "You won't like our recommendations". It doesn't necessarily mean a client is more likely to take our advice. Still, we are appealingly upfront with "You're asking us how to do things differently. It's on you to *want* to do things differently."

Saving for later use. One of my mentors, the much-missed Charla Mustard-Foote, regularly warned Leadership before they hired her that she was going to take quality seriously even when it wasn't convenient for them.

Erika Hall@erikahall.bsky.social · 3d ago

We've won a fair amount of work by saying "You won't like our recommendations". It doesn't necessarily mean a client is more likely to take our advice. Still, we are appealingly upfront with "You're asking us how to do things differently. It's on you to *want* to do things differently."

Found a friend who will print them in London. Now I just need someone who can model this lil guy from a figure sheet! Know someone?

R "Nearest" Nabors@nearestnabors.com · 4d ago

Putting the word out to my network. I'm looking for someone who can do 3D printing of small figurines. I need like 40 of them for a launch

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

You have to vote with your wallet, people. The same goes for books — if you are mostly buying books that are already mega bestsellers or by mega-bestselling authors, then you're sending a message. Seek out the weird indie shit so we get more of it.

Culture is a form of data. History is a form of data. Identity is a form of data. That is enough to highlight that folks who don't have to assert themselves due to them being mainlined in society are ambivalent to the data protection of everyone else (it's the French Revolution all over again).

Jacky!@omg.jacky.wtf · 5d ago

People do care about their data; they happen to not use the same language that tech folks use when they're talking about. And frankly, we as tech folks fucked up by fighting for React and JavaScript everywhere (dev happiness) over privacy and safety (user integrity). It's our fault.

Seeing people talk about what is owed to "blue states" after this regime and like, yeah, there's definitely mistreatment going on there to deal with, but there's a lot of other shit where people have been left to suffer in so-called red states and it's part of how we got here to begin with.

Eb@ebthen.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Check my math if you want but people in "red states" are already suffering and it's not about the will of the people in "red states". It's not like if you put enough pressure on we can vote to say "Uncle!" Voters here in red states get lied to and gerrymandered and disenfranchised.

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tyler@tylergscott.com · 5d ago

in portland someone spray painted penises around potholes, and they got filled pretty immediately www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

For writers worried that they won't be able to "prove" their work isn't Spicy Autocomplete--worry not. You thought about every choice and will be able to talk about those choices easily and clearly. Folks who used the slop machine didn't make choices and won't have anything to say about why

This guy would win in a landslide if he ran for office. I promise you there are SO MANY voters waiting for the "Were going through every file and we will find all of you" candidate to take on the New Gestapo. Establishment Dems will never hold anyone accountable. They had their chance and blew it

Soraya Nadia McDonald@soraya.press · 6d ago

"WE THE FUCKING JUDGE SON" New York, I love you. I love you so fucking much. Via wali_talks on IG

Karen Rebelo reports that incidents of abuse tied to Meta's AI smart glasses are cropping up in India, where angry Instagram users have begun calling the wearable tech "pervert glasses."

An Indian Trans Person’s Harrowing Encounter Fuels Backlash Against Meta AI ‘Pervert Glasses’

Karen Rebelo reports on incidents of abuse caused by use of Meta's wearable tech.

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This week, the org promoted our social media volunteer, Olivia, to lead all our social media program and volunteers. And I am so grateful. Because overnight, Olivia swept through and got all our social media changed over from Equal Access Public Media to Org for Accessible Journalism. 1/🧵

Wow. That's some alarmingly outside-the-box thinking..

Wojciech Maj@wojtekmaj.pl · 6d ago

My computer just woke me up to tell me it's hungry. I'm not kidding 😂 During a long-running task, it noticed the battery was draining, set the volume to 100% using Computer Use, then opened Google Translate and hit "Listen" so I could hear it asking. Pardon my French, but what the fuck? 🤯

Just want to remind folks that this keeps happening. Burials of assumed-important ancients discovered to be women via genetic testing, after decades of them simply being assumed to be male. The patriarchy is incompatible with reality.

Jens Notroff@jensnotroff.com · 6d ago

The #BronzeAge #UptonLovellShaman​'s burial in Wiltshire has long been considered an important religious figure & metalworker. It's been barely questioned someone of such status must be male. But now #aDNA analysis revealed that the body is in fact: a woman. 🏺 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Bordeaux, France, has now recorded more days above 40°C in 2026 alone than during the entire 105-year period from 1920 (when observations began) to 2025. This is deeply shocking.

You'll also hear people say "Farm workers are the real farmers!" If you really care about that? It's kinda like.... deep down you believe farmers are inherently more worthy of respect than workers. I think we're better off unpacking that, than quibbling over the definition of "real farmer."

“can we fuck (in) it” truly the driving force of human nature

jordan@jordantyranny.bsky.social · last wk.

The only taxidermied blue whale in the world, 1865 CE, now housed at the Natural History Museum in Sweden. The public was allowed to enter the whale up until a couple was found having sex inside it. Now the whale’s jaws are opened only for special occasions, such as Swedish election days.

Zohran Mamdani is undoing deceptive UX patterns Be still my heart

Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · last wk.

Uber Eats and DoorDash hid tip buttons and set default tips below 10%. As a result, tips for delivery workers fell 79%.  In January, we made these corporations change their apps — and in the past six months, we've put $104 million back in delivery workers' pockets.  This is only the beginning.

If you post survey data, news articles, etc. without a link back to the source whenever possible, you are weakening the informational chain of custody and making it harder for other people to confirm that they're seeing accurate information. This holds even if you're mad at whatever it is.

Zach Weinersmith@zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?

The Trash Theory of American Politics: There is a significant electoral constituency for which Trump’s stupidity, vulgarity, and racism are big assets, because if a guy like that can be president, you too have permission. The irrational hatred of Fauci is basically the flip side of this.

Andy Craig@andycraig.bsky.social · last wk.

Aside from its many other problems, the idea Fauci was America's power-abusing covid dictator is somewhat complicated by the fact that he never had the power to do the things they're mad about. His recommendations bound nobody and were not particularly rigorously followed by the actual policymakers.

Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli.

Steven Universe Movie: Pearl, Steg & Fusion

Alt: Steven Universe Movie: Pearl; Steven & Greg Fusion, Steg. They strum the double armed guitar and Pearl pops into the air, with a poof and stars—as if via a levitating cartoon orgasm.

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Andrew M. Reichart@andrewmreichart.bsky.social · last wk.

Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli.

A huge powerful and empowering result of Disabled people connecting online through various social media platforms that also have non-Disabled people on them is how much we're able to normalize discussing from our perspectives what has been traditionally considered a shameful topic.

"The hurrier I go, the behinder I get." A saying from a chotchke in a shadow box in an Irish pub in Baltimore, Maryland. Feels wonderfully succinct and full'o'truth. Granted, took a bit to understand. I like hurrier & behinder as words. New words. 🤗

i really can’t believe i live in a timeline in which i am regularly required to utter the words “James Comey’s ‘8647’ seashells Instagram post indictment”

The used booksellers were trying to figure out wtf was going on a while ago and I was afraid it was something like this.

Sacrifice! At the Harvest Festival@theharvestmaid.bsky.social · last wk.

Why is everything so transparently evil now?

“North Carolina permanently authorized the use of artificial intelligence-powered Automated License Plate Reader cameras on state-maintained highways and roads through a provision in the new state budget.”

North Carolina authorizes AI-powered license plate reader cameras on all state roads and highways

A provision in the new state budget makes a three-year-old State Bureau of Investigation pilot program permanent, opens participation to all North Carolina law enforcement agencies and expands its rea...

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