If you don’t have at least one friend or family member experiencing the very stark & devastating effects of long covid (or who was taken by it altogether) consider yourself one of the lucky ones and shut the fuck up.

Elana Levin@levin.bsky.social · 3d ago

Love to have a rando on here basically demanding to see my medical bloodwork results because they can’t believe that long covid is real. This is a proported leftist. There really is a problem and right wing people arent the only ones who are in denial. Have those conversations with people.

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Ed Burmila@edburmila.bsky.social · 3d ago

Appropriate air quotes because the most infuriating part about Americans debating "lockdown" is that it simply never happened. Having to pick up your Applebees and eat it on the sectional does not count. There wasn't even a brief moment where "everything" was closed. That's not real.

The point of the AI narrative was always discourse like this. Transferring the worth of people to weights and measures so folks like this could complain about if models were abusive and excluding enough It was always about historical models of abuse and cooption and no “anti ai” didn’t do enough.

Anil Dash@anildash.com · last wk.

Just in case you still use any Basecamp products, DHH is crashing out about his AI product gently pointing out that it’s bad for him to have extermination fantasies about the Roma people.

Bruh.

Anil Dash@anildash.com · last wk.

Just in case you still use any Basecamp products, DHH is crashing out about his AI product gently pointing out that it’s bad for him to have extermination fantasies about the Roma people.

To every New Yorker with family in Venezuela: we are holding you close.   The devastating earthquakes this week have claimed hundreds of lives and left thousands more searching for loved ones. If you're able, here's how you can support relief efforts:

How to help those impacted by the Venezuela earthquakes

Two powerful earthquakes have rocked Venezuela, killing at least 188 people and trapping at least 200 in buildings.

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The silence on Washington's looting of Venezuela from other Western capitals is really deafening. Imagine what that stolen $13 billion could do for Venezuelans after the earthquake destroyed their country.

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

To every New Yorker with family in Venezuela: we are holding you close.   The devastating earthquakes this week have claimed hundreds of lives and left thousands more searching for loved ones. If you're able, here's how you can support relief efforts:

"In a horror story, the only hope is that understanding the cycle might make it possible to break free of it."

Andrea Pitzer@andreapitzer.bsky.social · 2w ago

The Friday roundup is here, with links to the podcast! I also wrote about why, if you're feeling constant, paralyzing dread, it might be because the movie we're trapped in isn't a disaster flick. It's a horror film.

Today in luxury surveillance.

OpenAI Is 'Very Interested' in Building Out ChatGPT Integrations for Wearables - CNET

OpenAI President Greg Brockman talks a bit about where the company's increasingly Jarvis-like AI agents could be heading next… and in what form.

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Why they zoom in on the woman's face though? That's cold.

Ski Mask Shawty@haveyouheardofg.bsky.social · 2w ago

Uh, who is defying whom again? Which one works for the other?

We have quite a bit of evidence that extreme wealth makes most people literally and clinically crazy, yet we do nothing about it. Save the billionaires by taxing them out of existence and providing universal healthcare--including mental health--instead!

✨ Hamish Steele ✨ Pre-Order Go-Man 2!@hamishsteele.bsky.social · 2w ago

JK Rowling has come for my (female) MP for posting a video about parakeets... with a whole "oh so you know what a bird is, but not what a woman is?" and honestly what is it going to take for people to realise that ASIDE from JK's views, she just has completely and utterly lost it? She's so unwell?

If you're going to argue combat turns white Americans into Nazis: 1) Germany & France has to remove all the US bases 2) They must never serve in law enforcement or any political office 3) This is the most hardline argument against a standing military in the US 🙃

The New Yorker@newyorker.com · 2w ago

How much of Graham Platner’s behavior should be read through the lens of what combat did to him, and how much of it is simply who he is, independent of war? www.newyorker.com/news/the-pol...

Prism does extraordinary work covering stories full of heart that you can’t find anywhere else. They’ve lost significant funding as donors grow fearful of the Trump admin’s attacks against diversity. Please support them & help keep beautiful work like this going: www.zeffy.com/en-US/donati...

Support independent, nonprofit news led by journalists of color

Join Prism's community of justice seekers and truth-tellers, building collective power through journalism. Understanding the full story has never mattered…

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Prism@prismreports.org · 2w ago

“Just being able to hear it & name it, that we’re going through these things, like, ‘Hey, I’ve also gone through that, you’re not alone.’ That is so powerful.” Victoria Valenzuela reports on what happens when a CA summer camp brings together hundreds of children of incarcerated parents.

This is really important. Something I've been feeling but couldn't quite articulate. We really need to be crafting a story for what happens after Trump.

It's wild how no one has actually asked a question about what I meant before deciding they know what I'm talking about. I understand it's very easy to assume what this is referring to. But you don't actually have to do that.

Marco Rogers@polotek.bsky.social · 3w ago

The whole economy is slowly morphing until it only serves rich people.

The whole economy is slowly morphing until it only serves rich people.

My new favorite thing.

i know you’re looking for it. here she is, girls. here she is, world

mattie lubchansky@mattielubchansky.com · 3y ago

posting this Classic over here in honor of the big man himself. adios bitch

Basically.

Kellan@kellanem.com · 4w ago

OH: “Also programming is an activity which clearly happens far from God’s light and as such getting a machine to do it isn’t an abomination”

Afro-futurism exhibit at SFO. Very cool.

Now that the government’s persecution of trans people has gone beyond sports and medicine for teens, where are all the people who insisted they weren’t "anti-trans" but just had some “reasonable concerns"? www.readtpa.com/p/reasonable...

Reasonable Concerns

The wedge on trans people moved exactly where we said it would. The people who gave it cover are still quiet.

readtpa.com

Did anybody read this thread before and start paying attention? What did you learn?

Marco Rogers@polotek.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Did you know that sometimes when people ask you "how are you doing?" they're really asking you to tell them what's been going on with you lately? I didn't *really* understand that until recently. #neurodivergence

One of my "favorite" dumb Musk things is his deeply held belief that other people aren't real. One of his first moves after taking over Twitter was to try to fire "ghost employees," of which he thought they were many. He's a murderous bigot but he also thinks Fake People are robbing him blind.

Razzball@razzball.bsky.social · last mo.

his excuse is they wouldn’t put the starving children on the phone with him.

Would LOVE to see a thread filled with photos of Black dads. Drop a photo of the Black Dad’s in your life! #FathersDay Been missing my late father Spencer so much lately—and especially on occasions like Father’s Day Do your thing, Bluesky 🙏🏽🦋✨ I’ll start. Here’s my dad with days-old me:

Welp! dronexl.co/2026/06/09/p...

Pokémon Go Scans Quietly Trained The Navigation Tech Now Headed Into Military Drones

Pokémon Go players' 30 billion scans trained navigation tech now bound for military drones, via Niantic Spatial's defense partnership with Vantor.

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These assholes back down when we push back. We should push back more often. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/c...

Trump Administration Backs Off Plan to End Ocean Monitoring

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I ordered a plate with fried chicken, Mac & cheese, kale slaw, and a biscuit. They gave me ketchup on the side. Can somebody help me understand what I was supposed to do with that? I'm pretty confused and dismayed.

Naim Lynn: I Was A Little Bit Thrown Off, Jeremy

Alt: Meme gif. Na'im Lynn saying "I Was A Little Bit Thrown Off".

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They Feed They Lion, natou It’s very entertaining to watch www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/49117/...

It is genuinely awful that Dems don’t see being anti data centre as THE bipartisan issue where they could be making headway with average working class Americans. This is a no brainer and now they’re being outflanked by the GOP, Christ almighty

More Perfect Union@moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 2mo ago

GOP Congressman Rob Bresnahan is introducing a bill to restrict companies' ability to sue local governments for rejecting data center applications. The bill would also make developers file a legally binding "community benefit agreement" or lose out on federal tax incentives.

Christ on a bike, this is brilliant. And disgustingly historically accurate. 10/10