This is not a knock on OP - Nextdoor is a trash fire. Not because of the people using it. They are desperately reaching out to their neighbors for connection and mutual support, i.e. community. It's because Nextdoor the app and the company are not community driven, but engagement/revenue driven.

amy brown@amybrown.xyz · 7h ago

it's heeeeeere, you may now read my essay about how i achieved the millennial dream of home ownership and immediately lost my mind on nextdoor. thanks to the @oaklandreviewofbooks.org crew for their ongoing support of me being Like This

I feel as if Umberto Eco would have a lot to say about a simulacrum of human writing being valued more than the genuine article. It feels distinctly American. I may have to dig out Travels in Hyperreality for a reread.

Matthew R Francis@bowlerhatscience.org · 10h ago

I did block a colleague who is increasingly telling us that "AI" is better at writing than humans are, or maybe that humans are too stupid to know the difference, not sure which

Inside my home it is currently ice-pack-on-my-femoral-artery degrees.

Instead of trying to get bigots to come to the side of reason, you should really get every day people who are misunderstanding shit and could use a helping hand but would like to be in community with folks and just don’t know how to, which is a much larger group.

Those fruits are poisoned and he absolutely deserved it.

artnau@artnau.bsky.social · 2w ago

Portrait with Apples, 1909 by August Macke

This is important context. Loomer did not have the epiphany the cropped tweet implied.

Lisa Farrar@lisafarrar.bsky.social · 2w ago

👉Here's the full text of Laura Loomer's tweet. There are two paragraphs at the end that aren't appearing in the screenshot of a number of posts. They're important, I think.

www.instagram.com/p/DbCJF4Dtf4...

Scandal, social media, and MURDER!?! My whodunnit murder mystery is a cross between Veronica Mars and Knives Out and you can pick it up on eBook at your favorite retailer RIGHT NOW! AND, in honor of my son's first birthday, you can pick it up for just $1! #BookSky books2read.com/u/mVJyOp

Defensive white men of the internet, just imagine how many puppies you could pet if you didn’t waste your time harassing women online.

This labubu called the front desk to complain that my music was too loud in my room - at 4pm.

Roxi Horror 💀🌸@roxiqt.com · 3w ago

I know a lot of people have stopped paying attention to labubus which is fine but there is an important update: the newest ones have hair for some reason and look like hardworking divorced mothers from the 90s.

Pete Hegseth: "We need our warriors to embrace the Spartan mindset" U.S. Military: *suffers crushing defeat to the Persians*

I have to say that this situation has introduced me to a whole cast of characters and concepts I didn't know existed. For example, Freddie deBoer and the "hereditary left". I'm not happy that I know about them, but now I have some early warning flags when I should just walk away.

warrior cop@wyattprivilege.bsky.social · 4w ago

Straight up Mob behavior.

Radley Balko@radleybalko.bsky.social · 4w ago

They’re trying to deport the men who witnessed the killing of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo. newrepublic.com/article/2129...

I feel I could start a series called, "Today I Learned, As a White Man" and it would be all the stuff I am catching up on such as: TILAWM: It's written in Argentina's Constitution to "promote European immigration". www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Argentina’s ‘European’ self-image under renewed scrutiny after racist incidents in Brazil

Case involving seven-year-old boy is latest flashpoint in debate over race relations in Latin America

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Saeed Jones@theferocity.bsky.social · 4w ago

Code Switch did an episode a few years ago that quoted someone as saying “I’m not racist, I’m Argentinian.”

i want white people to hate fascism broadly and Nazism (and it's symbolism) directly more

Chile them white folks looked at them red flags and saw six flags!

Hi, I know we all have a lot on our plates right now, but I have to bring this up because I keep seeing her vile face come across my timeline. You know what we're NOT fucking doing? We're not NORMALIZING MTG. MAY I REMIND YOU:

I am failing to see why people are digging in deep defending Plantner. In terms of political calculation, it's a seat flip, not a seat defense. He's Hamburger Hill— of minor strategic importance but so much effort, money, goodwill is being expended on it. It's a sunk cost. Time to cut losses.

Madison Cawthorn is *back*?!

Man's Hilarious Laughter

Alt: Goodfellas Hilarious Laughter meme

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Nancy Hicks@nancyhicks.bsky.social · 4w ago

Madison Cawthorn who was accused of a raft of bad behaviors, including some of a sexual nature, is running in the FL19 GOP primary. Then Senator Markwayne Mullin endorsed Cawthorn in January.

This book doesn’t deserve an ounce of review or consideration. It’s only value is as a paperweight in a CPAC tote bag.

Eric Rauchway@rauchway.bsky.social · 2mo ago

“Vance admits that, about ‘half the time these days, we attend Mass at home.’ (Your book is called “Communion,” my brother!)”

THINK ABOUT IT - dashare.zone ADMIN

Happy National Caesar Salad Day everyone!

Black folk discovered a whites only Facebook page and then this happened/is happening

Manifesting for Mitch

Scrooge - Thank You Very Much

YouTube video by MrChristmasClips

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The Prize Papers Project announces a new collaboration with Capstan Games. Together with the German Maritime Museum and the Gamelab Oldenburg, we explore the Age of Sail by linking archival research with historically grounded game development for the game Ahoy #maritimehistory #earlymodern #history

I'm reminded of what Frederick Douglass said in 1878 about ex-rebels, riffing on the often misunderstood closing of Lincoln's 2d Inaugural: “[W]hile to-day we should have malice toward none, and charity toward all, it is no part of our duty to confound right with wrong, or loyalty with treason.”

"It is no part of our duty to confound right with wrong": Frederick Douglass and Ulysses S. Grant on...

Speaking in New York City in 1878, Frederick Douglass had a warning for white northerners about how they remembered the Civil War. “Good, wise, and generous men at the North,” Douglass observed, �...

journalofthecivilwarera.org

The image here borrows its title from Grant's 1868 presidential campaign slogan, "Let us have peace." Here's what Frederick Douglass had to say about that sentiment.

Jacob T. Levy@jacobtlevy.bsky.social · last mo.

Hey, look at that, what had been subtext is once again just text. This is a Redeemer administration.

hot tip for democratic fundraisers - bounce house version of this at your next family event.

amanda moore 🐢@noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · last mo.

I finally made it to the Great American State Fair. The columns on this fake building are something to behold.

I am not familiar with Norteño music so I didn't know about this song. Glad I took a moment to listen (and translate the lyrics). I love it.

Janet Garcia@gameonysus.bsky.social · last mo.

🔊🔊🔊

On this day in 1870, President Ulysses S. Grant signed legislation creating US Department of Justice. Two primary reasons for DOJ’s creation: protection of formerly enslaved people’s civil rights & to oppose domestic terrorist groups like the Ku Klux Klan. Image: Thomas Nast, “Halt.” Public domain.