Brian Kelly
@spilth.bsky.social
I am a software engineer by day, a songwriter by night and a geek most of the rest of the time. https://spilth.org
If Robert Aderholt won’t face me on the debate stage—and won’t face the people he was elected to represent—we’ll bring the conversation directly to his doorstep. Help us take this fight across AL-04: chip in $15 today or sign up to volunteer at amandaforalabama.com.
I might be a little less distrustful of AI if the dudes promoting it, supporting it, insisting on it, and advocating for it weren’t the worst fucking people on the planet.
The important thing to know about the Starship launch today is that Elon Musk is directly responsible for an unfathomable number of people dying preventable deaths and has never faced a single consequence for it.
One year on from dismantling of USAID, study projects that global aid cuts could lead to 9.4 million deaths by 2030 | CNN
It’s been one year since the Trump administration dismantled the US Agency for International Development (USAID), with aid cuts leading to the closure of HIV clinics in South Africa, the termination o...
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Do I know anybody in #Poland? I'm trying to get some #Polish language graphic novels of the post-apocalyptic genre. #comics #graphicnovels #postapocalyptic
If you are in north #Alabama or know someone who is, PLEASE follow these two accounts: @kramerforalabama.bsky.social and @amandaforalabama.bsky.social are local women #Democratic candidates running to unseat long-time GOP paycheck-collecting MAGA seat-warmers Robert #Aderholt and Steve Livingston.
Our neighbor Katie Kramer is a 7-time nat'l champion swimmer who has lead large-scale public safety and aquatics programs across Alabama, managed multi-million-dollar operations & overseen public facilities for underserved communities, and serves as VP of Operations at a metal manufacturing plant...
On November 3rd, we can write the next great chapter in AL-04’s history—together. Join our fight to retire a 30-year-incumbent by chipping in $15 or volunteering at amandaforalabama.com
The GeoJSON Previewer and Web Archive Previewer I worked on for NYU is now in version 14 of Invenio RDM: inveniordm.docs.cern.ch/releases/v14... #python #flask #geojson #inveniordm #gis
Not only did I meet Robert Kraft, I worked for him. His kid Jonathan asked me to “remove the black music” from my gameday playlist in ‘94 & I refused so they fired me. I was the cheerleader director at the time.  I sued them for wrongful termination and won. So yes, I know that motherfucker. 
brutusdavis99.bsky.social@brutusdavis99.bsky.social · 3w agoDid you ever meet Bob Kraft?
SUPER happy to announce that we will have a new line of herbal products at the shop starting this weekend! Welcome Danyale Brown of embraceorganics.org, a Metro-Atlanta-Based Farm Stand and Apothecary inspired by a long love of plants and people! #Herbalist #SmallBusiness #ShopLocal #Alabama
btw Kanye did a song Heil Hitler and no one stepped in to oppose his tour(s), which is ongoing. In fact, Kanye is scheduled to perform at one of the stadiums Macklemore has been stopped from being at.
Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 3w agoRapper Macklemore has been dropped from Ed Sheeran’s tour after he made a “Free Palestine” speech on stage earlier this month
Each year on 9/11, the podcast What Was That Like? talks to 9/11 survivors and releases a heartfelt and important commemorative episode. I wasn’t a “survivor,” just a helpless 19-year-old witness, but host Scott asked me to record my story for the Listener Story at the end of the episode.
Felicia was at the Pentagon on 9/11
Podcast Episode · What Was That Like - True Stories. Real People. · September 11 · 57m
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We're gearing up here in NE Alabama for a guns-blazing, full-court agitprop press from now until the midterm elections. Here are a few of the stickers we are printing out on label sheets to give to local youth (and Millenials LOL) to stick up around town, give to friends, etc. #NoFascistUSA #BlueDot
There was a nice little breeze in the park last night to cool us off during our acoustic jam!
(Unfolding iPhone duo) time to unlock my potential (snapping open mechanical keyboard) on my mini computer (hanging three batteries over my shoulder) ‘cause we’re at peak design (AirPlay enabled) and nothing will stop me (slamming apple vision over my eyes) from productivity (my car crashes)
I shut down my #Patreon mostly because their customer service is so awful I just do not want to do business with those people anymore, and they have held onto my last payout over a year. Is anyone else having a problem like this? They just keep telling me to re-enter my banking information...
[cop that just spent his entire six hour shift using flock cameras to stalk the 17 year old high school junior he saw pumping gas next to him this morning]: alright mark have a great labor day, stay safe brotha
Let’s all celebrate and protect these teachers. They’re standing up for transgender youth, let’s not forget to stand up for them! #TransRightsAreHumanRights #AThreadOfHope #ThankYouTeachers #Maryland
Larry Colvin@larrycolvin.bsky.social · last mo."They Will Not Comply": Maryland Teachers Refuse To Out Trans Students After Their District Pivots For Trump Some teachers say they simply won’t comply with the mandatory deadnaming directive. #Blues open.substack.com/pub/erininth...
Here are the items we have available (minus one)! Complete description of each item is in alt text. And a huge thank you to DissentPins for helping me be a loud and proud retailer of progressive, left-leaning, anti-fascist swag, way out here in Trump Store country! #MAGAIsACult #ShopLocal #Alabama
The #DissentPins items are all up in the shop and on the website now, to a great reception! I'm excited! ...and worried I already may need to order more soon since my dad & his friends have already come & snagged 1 of several of the things I ordered 2 of (a good problem to have!) #NoFascistUSA
Coming Up Violets
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If you follow me & you'd like to support a small blue dot in a big red state, please considering purchasing something from my partner's small, progressive art shop: comingupviolets.square.site There are hand-painted ornaments, cute little knitted creatures, wood carvings, jewelry, photos, postcards
Describe your music taste in 3 artists, no genres 🎧 1. Genesis 2. Jellyfish 3. Superdrag
Melissa Santos@ansate.bsky.social · 2mo agoDescribe your music taste in 3 artists, no genres 🎧 1. They Might Be Giants. 2. My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult 3. Old 97s (went for breadth, not fave bands)
We're pleased to announce that we'll be carrying items from DissentPins! Here are 20 items that'll be available in our shop very soon! www.comingupviolets.com and Moon Lake Campus, 5866 E. River Road, Mentone Alabama! #ShopLocal #SmallBusiness #StopTrump #BlueDot #Stickers #Pins #Keychains #Gifts
Alternative rock, anti-macho, standard model, therapeutic touch, information appliance
MC Frontalot@mc.frontalot.com · 2mo agoI'm a... Cash-strapped Pro-choice Foucaldian Video game Space cadet
We've been in the ripping-the-copper-wiring-out-of-the-walls era of society for awhile now. There's no attempts to make anything better. There's no attempts to make anything people want. It's just syphoning gas out of cars and burying people in gambling debt from rigged betting markets.
Sacrifice! At the Harvest Festival@theharvestmaid.bsky.social · 2mo agoWhy is everything so transparently evil now?
!["Print books from the pre-LLM era are structurally guaranteed to be free of this contamination. That alone is a significant advantage," it explains in an article on its website, as quoted by
404. "Physical books published before this date [pre-2022] are structurally clean of modern poisoning tools."
Once focused on helping libraries, distributors, and book shops find and sell books, ISBNdb now helps Al companies bulk-buy anywhere between 1,000 to one million books per order, according to 404.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:pxunhtt4zdl4rkkjub54m5ia/bafkreic7burhqtyy3mrqnzzf5gwr3pokwr6gznvg7p5htr4gz3mghh4hny)
This is one reason I feel compelled to keep my shop open. Here in deep Red Alabama, we are very visibly & vocally anti-fascism and anti-MAGA. People come into the shop every weekend and THANK me for being loud about it. But I can’t afford to keep it up forever if it doesn’t break even. I don’t 1/2
Rita Moore@ritamoore.bsky.social · 2mo agoImportant corollary: people are LESS likely to support authoritarian leaders if people around them don't. This is where "social proof" comes in. Be vocal and visible to social circles and neighbors about your resistance against authoritarians AND your support of pro-democracy candidates and causes
At last! The No Kings fundraiser* cups are available individually on our website! *(the artist will donate 50% of profits to Jon Ossoff's campaign in #Georgia) One has been sold (2nd from left in the front row), but the other 10 are available for shipping or pickup! #JonOssoff #Handmade #Pottery
No Kings Cups | Coming Up Violets
Talented Georgia Ceramic Artist Sam Cordle brings us these handmade, glazed ceramic cups as a fundraiser for Democratic & progressive causes. Until early November, 50% of all profits will be dona...
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