This is absolutely the end of an era. Dean was maybe the single most famous person inside the company other than the CEO at least among engineers.

kate conger@kateconger.com · 5h ago

Jeff Dean is leaving Google www.nytimes.com/2026/08/05/t...

The Allegheny County District Attorneys Office is a willing helper in suppressing criticism of local government until the evidence becomes too overwhelming for even them to ignore.

Rich Lord@richelord.bsky.social · 5h ago

This marks the second time in recent months charges have been brought — and later withdrawn — against critics of Springdale Borough leadership. www.publicsource.org/springdale-c...

This marks the second time in recent months charges have been brought — and later withdrawn — against critics of Springdale Borough leadership. www.publicsource.org/springdale-c...

DA drops charges against Springdale man forcefully arrested at council meeting

Rosenmund was taken to the ground and arrested during an April Springdale Borough meeting while criticizing a borough agreement with ICE.

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If and until tech companies actually negotiate in good faith and don't lie (which will require substantial concessions at first) people are certainly not obliged to believe them. That's like the entire tech company business strategy of the 21st century, why willingly be a mark.

Jeremy Diamond ☕️@dmnd.me · 18h ago

First, and most importantly, anti-data center folks refuse to believe data center developers and tech companies engage in good faith. They have staked out a purely reactionary position. Negotiation is useless. Just reject everything by default. They're playing this as Always Defect.

I am quoting this at 9:58a EDT, but I doubt it will appear on my profile for several hours. Extremely annoying.

Judith Butlerian Jihad@pghguy.bsky.social · yesterday

For some reason the appview appears to be substantially lagging my posts, and posts and replies I make only show up many hours later.

For some reason the appview appears to be substantially lagging my posts, and posts and replies I make only show up many hours later.

You actually don't have to do the "well, you know, I disagree with MAHA but they're right that there are real problems with The System" thing. That's a concession you absolutely do not have to make.

Im a more or less professional discourser! I love to discourse! But the first rule of doing cool shit club is you don't talk about doing cool shit, especially online. If you find this hard just do what I do: tell yourself you're saving it for the memoir lmao

CN Lester 🏳️‍⚧️@cnlester.bsky.social · 2d ago

Should be pinned to the top of every single intercommunity argument about tactics. In particular: the people doing the kind of direct action work that other people like to fantasise about online are ABSOLUTELY not talking about it online, are you high? Doing the work > masturbatory discourse

FIRE is representing the prof, which is a rare W for FIRE given that they helped lay the groundwork for the panic that got this woman fired.

Kieran Healy@kjhealy.co · 6d ago

Grand to have embarrassing authoritarian shit like this exist alongside people spraining their own elbows patting themselves on the back at the Mark Twain Prize evening for “not being afraid to piss people off” or what have you.

@mollytanzer.bsky.social you wrote an absolute banger with this one, really really enjoyed it.

Judith Butlerian Jihad@pghguy.bsky.social · 6d ago

#81 And Side by Side They Wander - it's technically about a heist but it's really about art and originality and the lengths we'll go to preserve these things. Appreciated the meditation at this particular moment. I would love love love to read more stories in this setting anthology style.

Make the White Sugar Free Monster version of this

Morgan "Joshi Dyke Dickhead"🗡️ 🛡️@girlnextvore.bsky.social · last wk.

Ya girl want me because of my pepsi scent

Honest question - I know it's borne out by the sales numbers, but do people really vibe with the tone of the Dungeon Crawler Carl books? It's an ever-so-slightly glossed up version of a stereotypical 90s/early 2000s gamer that's at times distracting. Unless that's on purpose? Idk.

Judith Butlerian Jihad@pghguy.bsky.social · last wk.

#79 Dungeon Crawler Carl - Finally took the plunge on this one. I can't tell if the author is doing a bit re: some of the tropes and the pervasive misogyny/homophobia stuff, but it's not the most pleasant read. Definitely reads like a particular type of DnD campaign (not complimentary).

this number is horrific not because it’s unusually high, but because it’s perfectly average. on average repeat rapists—who are the vast majority of all rapists—admit to 6 rapes. this is one of the biggest reasons to prevent people with a history of sexual violence from gaining more power!

🤌🍕ᕼᙍᖇᙍ ᖴᓎᖇ ᑤᕼᙍᙍSᙍ🧀🤌@born2.besilly.online · last wk.

SIX??!!??

A very small thing that I did in my life that I have been disproportionately appreciative for over the past decade or so was a small training about how to talk to the press as a source. Off the record, on the record, background, etc, and how to discuss those up front. Super valuable.

Remembering the luxuriously drawn post pandemic apocalypse story Stand Still Stay Silent that came to an early end because the author joined a very very culty Protestant denomination in Finland. Great fucking comic for most of it, you could tell towards the end that it was being hurried along.

Absolutely fuck this guy. Very much commend the bravery of the folks who came forward to talk about Dan Moraff.

Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · last wk.

Exclusive from me — Daniel Moraff, one of the political operatives behind Graham Platner's rise and fall, has been accused of sexual assault. Full story here:

The spam callers seem to have found my work phone which is less than ideal because just by nature of the gig I need to pick up calls from unknown numbers

Pretty stark example of how allegedly progressive pols are still reactionary re: car brain and uninterested in making the built environment better for everyone who wants something different.

Matt Lawlor@mattjlawlor.bsky.social · 2w ago

So this article confirms what everyone long suspected was really going on in the winter/spring of 2025 and why @streets.boston.gov is completely broken at this point. Our city put people who hate street safety improvements in charge of street safety improvements. mass.streetsblog.org/2026/07/22/f...

Apparently the library is now… basing their acquisitions off of my ILL requests? Because, and I quote, “we trust your judgement.” 😳🥹 I have gotten a good grade in library patron. which is normal to want and possible to have.

Chronographia@chronographia.bsky.social · last yr.

I know librarians try to refrain from being arbiters of taste—but the ego boost I received from our regular front desk lady where I recommended a book to her that was so good, the rest of the librarians read it in record time.

you left a hole in my Parkway East but when I saw the Commercial St Bridge slide into place I thought I'd try slide back into your DMs

Judith Butlerian Jihad@pghguy.bsky.social · 2w ago

This timelapse of the Commercial St Bridge being demoed and then the new bridge MOVED is craaaaazy. like what the actual hell, it's so cool that this is something we can do

This timelapse of the Commercial St Bridge being demoed and then the new bridge MOVED is craaaaazy. like what the actual hell, it's so cool that this is something we can do

Commercial Street Bridge Timelapse - Demolition and Move

YouTube video by Ethan900

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going to be real with you, you don't get to revoke non-binary status from someone because you dislike them

@razzledazzil.bsky.social · 2w ago

That’s a dude. Be so for real right now, this a terrible guy hiding behind queerness as a cover for bullying women.

This is really fucking bad for Canada and I hope they jack up exported electricity rates among other measures against the US. The only way to back him down is to hit back.

Sky Marchini@sky.skymarchini.net · 2w ago

holy shit. www.cbc.ca/news/world/t...

There is a reason that two large New York public defender organizations briefed in favor of the Bruen plaintiffs.

Don Zeko@donzeko.bsky.social · 2w ago

People really do go to prison for a long time for possessing guns when there's no indication they were doing anything illegal or dangerous with them. The people who do so are disproportionately nonwhite and poor.

People really do go to prison for a long time for possessing guns when there's no indication they were doing anything illegal or dangerous with them. The people who do so are disproportionately nonwhite and poor.

The conservative legal movement can be trusted to make doctrine on gun rights in the absolute worst way possible, but I would also like folks to guess, without looking it up, what kind of sentence you can get for merely possessing a gun after previously being convicted of a felony.

Mark Joseph Stern@mjsdc.bsky.social · 2w ago

The 5th Circuit, sitting en banc, will decide whether §922(g)—the entire federal statute that prohibits violent offenders from possessing firearms—violates the Constitution's commerce clause. A vehicle to increase gun deaths while gutting congressional power. www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub...

alright, world cup was sick, i'm excited for women's world cup next year too

ArgenFIFA moment. Absolutely ridiculous to give a foul that fast

People say they want "antisocial" behavior on transit handled at the point of a gun where the meaning of "antisocial" varies so widely as to be useless. The desire to have the violence available lurks in a really unseemly way, borderline libidinal for many.

Regime Accountant, CPA ☠️🎢@regimecpa.bsky.social · 3w ago

A lot of people drive to avoid seeing people smoking crack on the train. - the reason people prickle at this is because we know you’re about to propose homeless people genocide lol

I can see the clouds and the sky again!! Let's gooooo