it has been great working with bunny.net! I recommend them often, and would build on their CDN again in a heartbeat

"This kind of thing doesn't just happen! It's because good, passionate people show up and put in work." @pfrazee.com is spot on. @bmann.ca did such an amazing job of bringing people together and facilitating action. Deep appreciation.

The whole of the internet is now run on the things that would have not made it past your email junk filter 20 years ago.

sometimes i forget just *how* crazy the US suburban fear of cities can get.

The Democratic Party would do well to look to the social programs of the Black Panther Party as inspiration if SNAP disappears on Saturday. Just running party-sponsored food drives and regular party-sponsored spaghetti dinners in some major cities would be both helpful and good PR.

Mozilla deployed an AI bot that overwrote 20 years of volunteer Japanese translations, without consultation. JP community leader resigned, and the offer from Mozilla is to "hop on a quick call to understand why they're struggling". FFS. HN discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4583...

It's November 2025. I still run into people that still don't know that many of the protests asking for a ceasefire and humanitarian aid in Gaza, were organized by US Jewish people. ♥️👍🏿 And many of the criticisms calling these protests antisemitic, came from US Christian people. Make it make sense.

One of my underlying working models for non-profit news is that nobody is in competition with each other. We should all be co-operative. We should be open sourcing code, sharing wins and losses, and doing as much as possible to lift each other up - out in the open so newcomers can benefit too.

Billie Jean knows what she's talking about. She was the primary source for this story on anti-trans bias at NYT we ran last year. www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

The nyt editors already have a biased angle in mind. They’re not seeking facts, they’re looking for quotes to fill in a predetermined narrative of bigotry. Every nyt story about us is intended to spread disinformation and foment discrimination. The leadership’s anti-trans animosity is deeply held

Oof. blogs.gnome.org/alatiera/202...

Does anyone know if @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social used any generative AI during his campaign? I'm pretty sure he didn't based on what I've seen, instead preferring to tell real stories from everyday New Yorkers', which seems to stand in stark contrast to the current trends in political media

I don’t think Tech Bros realize how hated they will be if they get the feds to bail them out. Like, bankers in 08 will look like saints next to Silicon Valley.

I just said to my girlfriend that I've had a bit of a rough week (I woke up during the night with pains in my glands after the start of the week was bad MCAS gastrointestinal issues), and my girlfriend replied back: ”You’ve had much more than a rough week“ Which, um, true.

People often push the disabled to take risks with our health. They think if it’s already “that bad” who cares if it gets worse We care. Our baselines mean everything to us. Whatever limited function we have left is always worth protecting. You don’t get it until you get it.

13 years ago today I took this photo walking across the Brooklyn Bridge. After Hurricane Sandy, power had been cut in lower Manhattan long enough for all of the emergency lighting batteries to die; this is the only photo you'll ever see of Manhattan with no lights on.

Probably the most annoying thing about the PDS MFA implementation being email-based is when the PDS just inexplicably fails to send a 2FA code when one is requested. Like, that's the most common reason for me abandoning an OAuth flow: I never receive the token so can't proceed.

#IETF124 ATProtocol video is up on youtube now. www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9tT...

Probably won't make any of this, in bed resting with a stomach ache for the third day in a row.

A reminder that @chadkoh.com did a step-by-step write up of how you can join the ATProto #IETF124 BoF session at 9:30am EST this morning remotely. No cost registration.

1. On Tuesday Night, Democrats won elections nationwide in a stunning rebuke of anti-transgender politics. From Virginia to New Jersey to New York and beyond, anti-trans candidates fell left and right after spending tons of time and money campaigning on hate. Subscribe to support our journalism.

AOC: I have to tell you, in my traveling across the country, I am hearing and have been seeing consistent things from everyday people. And it is that they are terrified, they are frustrated, they are angry, and they are shocked by a president violating the values that we hold dear

So much of what the Democrats got wrong since 2016 was this idea of “we’re going to go back to normal.” There are maybe enough elements of the party who realize now that that idea is a mistake: the way must be forward into something new, energizing, and hopeful.

Democratic party leadership has been on autopilot for ten years, they weren't losing to fascism, fascism isn't popular enough for them to lose to fascism, they were allowing it to fill the void where their leadership should have been. Tonight we're seeing that we have other options. They should too.

I love that Zohran did not praise Cuomo in his speech. You absolutely do not have to say nice things about bad people. We should normalize that in “polite” politics: Praising bad people is not actually “civility.”

I am no longer employed so I'm not blogging Zohran tonight but I can just repeat exactly what I said in June :-) he won on the back of a pro-migrant, pro-trans, pro-working class campaign. and also: Dem pundits are full of shit

I feel like this constitutes network abuse?

i hope this election cycle empowers everyone the next time a centrist liberal says to drop pro-trans and pro-immigrant rhetoric to enthusiastically tell them to shut the fuck up

I sometimes have chats with NHS managers about how to “restore trust” and it’s amazing how poorly they react to the suggestion that people who harm patients should lose their jobs.

NHS Sussex are forcibly detransitioning trans people. These patients need full restoration of their healthcare, and everyone involved in doing this needs to be sacked.

ATvent is such a good name. And yes! Here’s a demo of it and I’ll grab a repo in a bit with some more detail. bsky.app/profile/bail...

So who's doing an ATvent calendar this year?

good time to respectfully tap the "please support worker-led, billionaire-free, independent news" sign

as someone who makes blocklists that are very much a big deal, most of them aren't, and most people running them don't treat it with the gravity that's necessary for T&S work. clearsky makes it look like people care about these things on a mass level

Skywatch's most subscribed to list has 18.5 K subscribers. The rest range from 250-4500 subscribers. On a site of 40 million users.

Walmart, McDonalds and Amazon are the largest employers of people who require SNAP assistance. The CEOs earned between 18-40 million last year, 1000x their median employee income. They took billions in profits, while their workers relied on SNAP to survive. Wanna fix fraud and abuse? Fix that.

I know it's tedious to say at this point, but this is why we need to listen when porn artists and sex workers raise the alarm about this shit. Art and people that can be dismissed as "immoral" are ALWAYS the thin end of the wedge when the powers that be try and assert control over entire systems.

Talking to trans women in tech can help anyone who doubts that women experience the world differently; they can provide you with A/B before/after results. Treat all women in tech better and believe them about their experiences:

What happens if a labeller emits a label not in its service definition? Do consumers ignore that?

If you see any business owners belittling SNAP recipients for accepting government money to get through tough times, maybe look them up on @propublica.org's PPP Loan Tracker to see if they got any of the $793B in bailout money (96% of which was forgiven) projects.propublica.org/coronavirus/...

Landing page, with a backend! This is getting very close to being ready! Wearing my inspiration a bit too strong? I'm open to design critique. What do you think? I'd love to commission someone for some diagrams and a logo, to help finesse this page.

This is interesting 👀

This is pretty amazing, that she thinks anyone is going to forgive her for all of her bullshit.

Eeww, I just had a piece of pasta unsalted because I forgot to put salt into the water. It didn't taste good at all

My girlfriend, an American, is surprised to learn that I've never had pumpkin pie. It's just not a thing anywhere I've lived.

I find it fascinating¹ that there's this belief on the Fediverse that we're on Bluesky specifically because we're not nerds or idealists, we don't believe in all these things, and because we only care about "reach" (as if we wouldn't be on X/Threads if we did)… ¹ kinda annoying

I really dislike the "someone cancelled their sponsorship" emails that @github.com sends, and it's not so much because it means less money for me, but rather because it feels like it's shaming them for cancelling. People's situations change & they can't afford to support my work anymore, it happens

It's not a coincidence that there's so much overlap between TERFs/ TWERFs and SWERFs. Both positions rely on denying material reality in favor of an out-of-touch worldview that treats cis women as helpless victims without agency. It's just a different form of the same cognitive bias.

Whenever I meet a "feminist" who wants to abolish sex work, I instantly know I'm talking with an unserious person who is not willing to do the work. Let's imagine, for the sake of the argument, that they were right and all sex workers were trafficking victims who wanted to leave sex work. 🧵