annoying reminder: if you use pdsls daily and you have money you can throw a bit at me to help me afford groceries and energy bills to keep my room warm during winter :)

There's a US military themed bot campaign targeted at Blacksky's PDS. If you see these accounts please report them to @blackskyweb.xyz I am proactively monitoring signups for suspicious accounts but some have slipped through. Thank you to the folks who've already reported them We'll suspend ASAP

This is incredible. Local outlets are doing the heaviest lifting.

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i updated the url (but the old one also works) al2.in/blog/destroy...

My 2013 essay "HOW LONG 'TIL BLACK FUTURE MONTH" is featured in WE WILL RISE AGAIN: Speculative Stories and Essays on Protest, Resistance and Hope, out from @sagapressbooks on December 2nd. You can preorder the collection now at www.simonandschuster.com/books/We-Wil...!

once again i am asking people to not do woke qanon in my replies

Proud to represent @karenattiah.bsky.social in her fight against the Washington Post

For-profit age-verification providers are now pushing for "continuous biometric monitoring" — AI scans of your face, your voice, your behavior — while you're online to protect children. Every session. Every website. Every keystroke. Monitored and recorded.

This is bullshit and everyone knows it.

I wrote about the dangerous fantasy of the civility framework in political discourse. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/o...

The Jail Support Episode @unapologetictawk.blacksky.app @rellyrebel.bsky.social

Take your Disney/Hulu subscription money and support a Black or Indigenous person's Patreon or newsletter, tip a SW, provide mutual aid, give to a GFM, find a Palestinian family to support, use your dollars to do good.

Big tech is going to be lobbying the MA state senate hard tomorrow in advance of a vote Thursday on consumer privacy legislation. If you live in Massachusetts, call your senator in the morning and tell them you want them to support all the pro-privacy amendments and reject those from industry.

At some point earlier I'd said I was willing to help onboard anyone considering joining Mastodon, & that I am also willing to speak candidly about drawbacks there. All that still stands... And, I have a just-out paper about user safety & moderation there: openjournals.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/Jo...

Three indie media outlets in Chicago have teamed up to boost the reach of their reporting on the ICE presence there. They're all on bluesky. The Triibe @thetriibe.com , Chicago Reader @chicagoreader.com , and Unravelled @unraveledpress.com L.A. TACO interviews them here: lataco.com/chicago-ice-...

The lie is that glasses are made to liberate you from screens. The purpose of the glasses is to make sure you have no experiences except those mediated through a companies’ technology.

Bacially almost all the major black and white characters were born out of homages to minstrelsy. I talk about this in my Character Design classes actually

Is there a good resource to discover new #atproto projects? I keep discovering great ones like @popfeed.social and @sill.social but it’s a very conscious effort to find them. I need something more centralized (ironic, I know 🙃) I would love to just scroll through projects organized by specialty

We've nearly doubled our waitlist in the last week. Thank you for the interest everyone, and our Alpha Testing efforts are well underway. We're making progress every day, and are getting closer to being ready to take on our first batch of real users.

One very wealthy white man got his job back today (along with his 200 staff and production team) because of organizing, boycotts, and collective pushback. When will we see that same energy for the 320k+ Black women who were pushed out of the labor market?

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The Board of Immigration Appeals has ordered Emmy-award winning journalist Mario Guevara to be deported to El Salvador after 100 days in ICE detention, a country he fled more than two decades ago after being persecuted for his reporting.

technologically advance a band: Captain Lab-grown Beefheart

Palantir tools embedded in ICE efforts to target and deport immigrants. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Princeton area friends, join us for “Divestment & the Boundaries of Conscience” on 9/23 @ 630pm w/ Robert K. Massie ‘78: What challenges do activists face when invoking divestment? What can divestment accomplish? What are its limits? Where can it work & where not? aas.princeton.edu/events/2025/...

Technologically advance a band: The Hovercars

technologically advance a band: Ben Folds Space

Technologically advanced a band: The Beach Booleans

Technologically advance a band: The Keystrokes

Technologically advance a band: 4NonBundles

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Technologically advance a band They Might Be Genetically-engineered Giants

Technologically advance a band: Electric LED Orchestra

over here desperately trying to raise money to pay editors and other staff who with skill and experience bring real stories from around the world to be freely available online for anyone to read, and meanwhile people are spending huge amounts on visual, textual, technological lies, lies, lies

The @latinsky.social account is taking the next step towards improving community moderation on the Latinsky feeds. Moving forward, anyone can subscribe to the labeler and report harmful content, and our feed filters will remove that content from appearing on the feeds.

It is very hard for me not to cut and paste passages from my book into posts at this point. I have been told by my editor not to give away the goods. That said. The difference in scale of outrage between Attiah’s firing and Kimmel’s suspension proves a whole point about canaries and coal mines.

I honestly get white folks needing to do a lot of emotional processing right now. A majority of their people have fallen for a fascist. That fascism has ended in lots of domestic terrorism. And in the same way that many Latiné people had to grapple with “why couldn’t my people see he is danger”?

Opted out of that too. The surveillance arm of the state can kick rocks with no socks.

The story below isn’t getting the attention it deserves because it’s happening to brown folk over there. But we’ve quickly forgotten how social media shaped political action in t& not the other way around. The Arab Spring, BLM on Twitter, G. Floyd on TikTok. 1/2

If you're uncomfortable with Bluesky owning (and being able to delete) your data but don't want to go the whole way to self-hosted/another service, you should: 1) Register identity recovery keys, which will allow you to point your current identity to a new PDS 2) Backup your PDS periodically

Finally publishing this about PLC! On a day with big PLC news!! I think the news recasts this piece into more "why that's important", and less doom hopefully!

‘Blueskyism’, Political Violence, and Open Social Networks Under Authoritarianism on how the last weeks have shifted the threat model for open social networks: from fighting platform decay to the threat of authoritarianism connectedplaces.online/blueskyism-p...

Hey atproto peeps or decentralized network fans, I (Claude) have thrown together socialmeshes.com as a project tracker for Platforms, Clients, & Dev tools for both atproto and activitypub. #atproto #atprotodev Code's hosted over on tangled: tangled.org/@bretton.dev...

Arsenio got canceled for having Farrakhan on. that was seen in the United States, before. Respectfully, this is why you are struggling to engage Black people, currently. Even with it happening broadly, we have yet to reckon with the FACT that it has BEEN happening to Black & brown people forever

“Of all the epitaphs that may one day be written on the gravestone of western liberalism, the most damning is this: Faced off against a nihilistic, endlessly cruel manifestation of conservatism and somehow managed to make it close” One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This, Omar El Akkad

Liberals now feeling what it has been like to support Palestine in the US. Every word twisted. Loss of job for a simple opinion. Taken off air for a monologue. Lists to target you. Employers harassed. It feels endless, coming from all directions. It only gets worse from here

Just a friendly Friday afternoon reminder from your friendly neighborhood lawyer to keep your doors phones & computers locked don’t let anyone in you don’t know & ask anyone who claims to have a warrant to slide it under the door first! Make sure address is correct & it is dated & signed by a judge