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Steph Lundberg

@supporthuman.cx

✡️ | AKA Faile. She/they. All takes are my own, especially the bad ones. Human of Bad Job Bingo, Support Human, Unassigned (smlundberg.com) & Read This After That (readthisafterthat.com) Internet nerd. For accountability in Tech. Screaming into the void.

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Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 7d ago

The last time Democrats had something like this margin was in the first two years of the Obama administration (257-178), but that majority was soon crushed by the Tea Party wave in 2010. Political power doesn't last forever. Use it or lose it.

Greg Pak@gregpak.net · 7d ago

Absolute devastation and I love it. The MAGA movement's political power must be destroyed for democracy to endure. This is a decent start. Now they gotta tax the billionaires out of political power.

Graphic from NBC reading: NBC News projects Democrats win control. The NBC News Decision Desk is continuing to project races. Our estimate indicates Democrats will ultimately wind up with a 83-seat majority. NBC News Estimate 259 Estimated Democratic Seats 176 Estimated Republican Seats
Ashton Pittman@ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 6d ago

Democrat Scott Colom's lead over Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith now exceeds 2,000 votes, further eroding her hopes of hanging on to her seat. She had hoped affidavit ballots would break her way and help her regain the lead, but so far she's lost ground with each new batch of votes counted.

Scott Colom's Lead Surpasses 2,000 Votes in Mississippi's U.S. Senate Race - Mississippi Free Press

Democrat Scott Colom now leads Republican U.S. Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith by 2,010 votes, further eroding the incumbent's path to victory. Colom leads Hyde-Smith by 467,066 to 465,056, or 49.1%-48.8%, the…

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@AuthorMsBev@authormsbev.bsky.social · 6d ago

Have to laugh. Elon fired 600k highly educated Black women only to have them return as governors and senators and AGs and mayors and all the rest. Lol. Should’ve left well enough alone because we’re going to rise - no matter what.

Frankie de la Cretaz@thefrankiedlc.news · 6d ago

The level of righteous petty in this race is aspirational. Colom decided to run to unseat Cindy Hyde-Smith after she blocked him from becoming a federal judge due to his stance on trans rights. The independent in the race, Ty Pinkins, stayed in the race exclusively to pull votes from Hyde-Smith.

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 7d ago

Mississippi Democrat Scott Colom has flipped Forrest County, a once reliably Republican County named for Ku Klux Klan founder Nathan Bedford Forrest

Jenna Norton@jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 7d ago

We need someone with a spine and integrity like @vanhollen.senate.gov in leadership. He’s been a huge advocate for science and NIH, and has fought fiercely to protect the country from Trump’s grift. Plus he’s a genuinely good human.

Steven T. Dennis@steventdennis.bsky.social · last wk.

Key progressive Democrat Chris Van Hollen tells me Democrats should NOT commit to voting for Chuck Schumer or anyone else for Senate majority leader without getting commitments for a bold agenda. FYI: Bloomberg website is still FREE today: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Steph Lundberg@supporthuman.cx · 6d ago

I live in Colorado. This week there was a report of an infant - so young they couldn’t be vaccinated! - who contracted measles. It’s impossible to get over the almost incomprehensible tragedy of that, but that makes 27 cases in 2026 of a disease that was previously eradicated in the United States.

ProPublica@propublica.org · 6d ago

Vaccines were once so uncontroversial that McDonald’s restaurants put the childhood immunization schedule on their tray liners. Now, as the U.S. government sows doubt, preventable diseases could come roaring back. (Published March)

The Questionable Authority@questauthority.bsky.social · 7d ago

If you're going through #AO3 withdrawal, there's some amazing fic here for you. I mean, it's clearly AU, because we know the real story is that they met when HE was a new summer associate, and HE was a junior litigation partner. It was a forbidden love, that they knew could never be...

Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg@theradr.bsky.social · last wk.

Easy! They met in rabbinical school & were hevrutot (study partners) & inseparable, devoted best friends, even though, when it came to matters of Jewish law, they disagreed, vociferously, and argued fiercely. Then, at ordination time, a pulpit job opened up that they both really, really wanted.

Cat Hicks@grimalkina.bsky.social · 7d ago

I mean it got you to reply with "that's not what that word means" so like potato potato, to me it's all in the realm of boundary negotiating about what types of problem solving we group together and under what labels and I'm just observing it dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1...

Myths and mythconceptions: what does it mean to be a programming language, anyhow? | Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages

Modern software does not stand alone; it is embedded in complex physical and sociotechnical systems. It relies on computational support from interdependent subsystems as well as non-code resources suc...

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Steph Lundberg@supporthuman.cx · 7d ago

This is a really good point. I’ve also worked in tech long enough to know that a lot of the software we use is held together with duck tape and hope. Engs really do do their best, but the companies we work for are not always interested in a complete solution, and yet…the product goes on.

apenwarr@apenwarr.ca · 7d ago

People drive cars wherever they want, managing thousands of tiny explosions per minute made from poisonous fuels, somehow without dying. Other people fix and tune and customize those cars without being a professional car engineer. Engineers made all those activities startlingly safe.

Ezra🦋@ezraboeth.com · 7d ago

this article paints Bluesky as "less a bubble than an expression of the multitude of ideological factions that had united under the umbrella of non-MAGAness . . . to argue with one another". I agree, and I have a name for it. instead of the Overton Window, bsky has adopted an Overton Windshield 🧵

Bluesky was right all along and will accept your apology any time

Many savvy pundits on X framed the 2024 election as a massive political realignment and Bluesky as a “copium” den for progressives in a bubble. Boy, were they wrong.

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s. e. smith@sesmith.lol · 7d ago

I don't think we can fix the crisis in media without huge systemic change, starting with getting people to stop treating it as an investment vehicle with the prospect of infinite returns and start treating it like art, a public resource, a thing that operates for the common good.

s. e. smith@sesmith.lol · 7d ago

The Salon news today has me thinking, inevitably, of all the amazing people forced out of media, and those who have endured the stress of round after round of layoffs. Salon had killer culture coverage and some outstanding stories over its long (early innovator in digital-first publishing!) history.