The rebels have liberated hundreds of women, toddlers and babies held in Sednaya prison. They've also released hundred of prisoners some of which were tortured to the point of forgetting their own identity, others held for decades for speaking out against the regime. #freeSyria

If you have a veteran in your family who has been affected that had a policy with one of these insurance companies… You have a case

If you have a disabled family member that was denied coverage and they were pushed out into the street and left there to die. You’re not only have an insurance case you have a civil rights case.

baby wallaby sleeping

We should start referring to age as ‘levels” … because being a Level 56 engineer is so much more badass than just being an “old guy”

I’m still losing followers on X and I have only 1/10th the followers here on Bluesky. I’d appreciate a follow and repost, add me to lists, and so on. It’s hard to be sarcastic if no one’s listening. 👀

In my opinion, the word "smithereens" isn't used nearly enough as it should be. Do you agree???

the revolution is not the same this time

Shhh, right over there you can see a Cybertruck being born in the wild.

Tesla sales plunge again in November: Is this the Elon Musk effect? thedriven.io/2024/12/03/t... Elon Musk is going to have to get a job. First Lady Trump?

If you thought Trump at Mar A Lago parties is a national security threat waitll you see how bad it gets with a loser reply guy that also happens to be the richest man on the planet hanging around the place hoping a woman will talk to him

Some right-wing tech bros wanted to build an AI-themed “network state” in San Francisco. Their GoFundMe raised $0. Now their office is closed. The brief rise and quick fall of City Campus and the Solaris Society, via @missionlocal.org missionlocal.org/2024/12/sola...

I asked more than three dozen tech companies that sell, possess, or help analyze personal data whether they would help facilitate Trump's promised mass deportation operations—Only six responded, and only one said no theintercept.com/2024/12/02/l...

There’s only one cure that can remove Elon Musk from our body politic — put the parasite out of business. Getting rid of this whiny Afrikaner fascist, the Ultimate Welfare Queen, is easy-peasy — just follow this recipe! ▶️ www.gregpalast.com/elon-musk-ba... #ElonMusk #Tesla #SpaceX

Billionaires in the U.S. are .0005% of the population, yet accounted for 18% of 2024 electoral spending. Just 150 billionaire families spent nearly $2 billion. This is not democracy. It is oligarchy. Time to overturn Citizens United and move to public funding of elections.

Now here's a lovely story. 🍀 Many Brits have, because of Brexit, hunted through their Irish past to see if they could get an Irish (and thereby EU) passport. Every problem opens opportunities. This is a beautiful little story of discovering ancestors - and some tips!

Russian Telegram channels report a drone attack on an oil refinery in Kamensk-Shakhtinsky, Russia's Rostov region.

I remember when they banned websites in the early 2000s. I went through the whole list before the ban and looked at it all. Was mostly gore and horrific violence and misogyny … 🤷🏻‍♀️ And most of that was already in the forums they didn’t ban

Blue Sky team, you're building something special and great here. Keep at it. Stick with it. And please don't sell it to an evil billionaire who's going to come around waving a lot of money to gobble it up. Sincerely, a Happy Blue Sky user.

If you needed even MORE of a reason to switch to Bluesky, China is "troubled" by the fact that they've invested so much time on Twitter buying ads, bots, and influencers... only to see the people they're seeking to manipulate (us) flee the site. www.semafor.com/article/11/2...

Is it a bribe? An investment? A payment? Are these distinctions going to rapidly lose distinction over the next several years? Justin Sun, a cryptocurrency entrepreneur targeted by the SEC, bought most of a Trump-endorsed cryptocurrency thefudletter.com/is-it-a-brib...

Kenneth Ragland, the managing partner for Garland Apparel Group, told a newspaper bluntly: “Lots of people talk about Made in the USA as being so necessary, but when the rubber meets the road, most Americans want cheap goods, which do not make it easy for US firms to survive.”

AquaBizarre # 20 - Renaissance Is my latets 1/1 Art available on @manifold.bsky.social Link in comment It celebrates the end of my first year in CryptoArt back - I started this collection in 2019 and here is the 20th artwork under the Aquabizarre umbrella Available with the framed watercolour

Hot from the press Our new collab with #MizzD is available on @superrare.bsky.social 0.25eth Made with love with people we adore A physical print framed available to the collector ❤️ superrare.com/artwork/eth/...

Where there is darkness there is light, where there is ignorance there is enlightenment, and where there is fear there is bravery. Things are never so bad they can’t get worse and they are never so bleak you should surrender.

Ukrainian boxing legend (and brother of Kyiv's mayor) Wladimir Klitschko responds to Joe Rogan...

All I want for Christmas is for Twitter to keep bleeding away millions of users every day to Bluesky until Twitter is nothing more than a bigger, emptier, Truth Social shithole. Manifest THAT. 🙏🎁

What are some accessible Infosec & Opsec resources that activists, journalists, and organizers can turn to in preparation for the Trump admin? Preparing for a fascist regime can feel scary and paralyzing. This seems like an area where people can take control w/ concrete steps. Please share below 👇🏽

Happy to answer that! Dude used his platform to solicit donations for Pine Ridge and they never got the money. There's a lot more in this article.

Vibe on bluesky vs. on eX

Deactivated my twitter account. I created my account in early 2019. It saw me through a divorce, living in a yurt, and many other life events. Y'all were so critical to my support, I appreciated it. But it's over now, that's sad, but I'm glad to have a new home.

Winston helping me at my desk. He won't sit in a lap, or hang out on the desk, insists on being held. 🐼

About a month ago, I was wrapping up an imaging session but still had some dark before sunrise. I got this 60-second exposure of the Orion Nebula (M42). The scope was tracking but not guiding. You can see a satellite transit during that 60 seconds. False colorization using the Hubble Palette.

Others have noted it but I will too: The big reason Bluesky is so hot right now is that the people who add value to social media - the frequent posters in specific fields - are here now, talking to each other and creating the "spectator value" that draws users and attention.

It’s all in the telling.

I think it speaks volumes that right wingers criticize bluesky for being “liberal” and “left wing”, when it’s really just that hate speech isn’t allowed.

One of my favorite builds. This coffee table design came to me in a flash and i had to create it It uses “additive joinery,” to simplify the somewhat complex form. I wanted a project for beginners that didn’t look like shit. This one’s made from discarded library shelving #woodworking 🔨 🧶

I can’t tell you how different it is on X now after so many people have left. I have always followed mostly right-wing accounts because I cover them, and they are running out of people to pick fights with. So they’re just mostly fighting with each other.

So this is pretty cool: I think I’m the first national news correspondent to switch my chyron social handle from X to Bluesky. 💪🏽

Then, start using privacy apps like Session because they can’t do surveillance on you: bsky.app/profile/stel...

LEAK THE GAETZ REPORT!

Oh by the way

me watching Bluesky's user count grow by another million in a day hello and welcome to all 19M of you! 🥳