As many of us prepare to participate in NO KINGS and other protests, please take a minute for these catchy tips on protecting yourselves. Scrub the meta data from any pictures or videos before posting online. Stay safe out there, friends!

It's clearer by the day that Columbia making a deal with Trump in July was a catastrophe for higher education as a whole. It gave terrible people a bottomless appetite for extortion. The other eight universities must follow MIT's lead. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

1/🧵 For those who may be migrating away from the Bluesky PDS to Blacksky, and want to use the blacksky.community client instead of bsky.app, you can use a uBlock Origin filter to automatically redirect bsky.app links

an incontestable fact of the second trump administration is it is actively trying to sicken and kill as many americans as it can

Members of Congress should be on the streets of DC—where many of them live! —putting their bodies between these law-abiding citizens and ICE. Congress should be demanding names, and promising ICE will be prosecuted when US democracy is re-established. But they are not—b/c they think it polls badly.

I’m begging for some help yall. I’ve lost everything. My damn body autonomy, a baby by my rapist, my job and I don’t want to lose my car or the daycare so please help if you can If you can’t, please just share and boost

I wrote a little about some of the little details you might have missed in this video and why it hit me so hard as a trans person this morning: www.burnsnotice.com/you-have-to-...

Journalist here I’m interested in talking to a federal agency scientist who was fired, then rehired. I can keep you anonymous. I’m on Signal ginnyg.04 Reposts are appreciated!

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They're talking about killing leftist activists. They're talking about murdering people organizing in defense of immigrant communities, doing mutual aid work, and protesting their violence. They are talking about murdering people like me and my friends. We must do more than acknowledge it's fascism.

Oh look at that looks like he won the prize anyway.

His slip of the tongue reveals who’s really in charge. trib.al/mIvP0yE “Illinois governor says we’re provoking actions that are unlawful,” Miller said on CNN. “If I put federal law enforcement and National Guard into a nice sleepy Southern town, is anyone gonna riot?”

that johnson is more terrified of seating a duly elected democrat who could force an epstein vote than having the entire government shut down really makes me wonder about that epstein vote tbh

ICE went after rideshare drivers at O’Hare today, according to statement from Illinois Drivers Alliance

The Virginia Senate just told UVA it’s not getting state funding if it accepts the compact since UVA exists to serve Virginia, its residents, & their interests—not be a tool of the federal govt. Scoop from our student newspaper, who’ve been doing vital reporting www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

This story is NUTS

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I'm livid

UNC has been the place to watch for years. Look what these fuckers have done.

Election results are being undermined right now in the U.S. Not even sure why this even needs to go to SCOTUS. This is not democratic. And the fact that this, and similar cases, are going underreported in the media make it so tbat we don't perceive the slipping away.

“As a neurodiversity advocate and as an autistic person, I’m really grateful for so much of the work that’s been done that allows me to be myself and to be successful being myself.” Link, who has been *banned*!?!? from this platform? thinkingautismguide.com/2025/06/spac... #AutisticWhileBlack

At first the Discord hack didn’t seem that bad because it was initially the third party help desk. But then you find out they had got there age verification data. Come to find out they got 1.5 TB of government id and age verification data. This is going to become a case against age verification.

non-black users using the blacksky.app handle is a bannable offense BUT non-black users are welcome to join the blacksky SERVERS (not the blacksky feed) under either "myatproto.social" or "cryptoanarchy.network" handles source: docs.blacksky.community/migrating-to...

Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000 donated to a political nonprofit she was affiliated with, records show. She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms. (Published June)

Literally one of the biggest stock traders in the Congress.

That's....not...how.... science.... works

C-SPAN caller to Mike Johnson: "Hearing you say that 'everyone is smiling' in cities where troops have been rolled into feels dystopian and insane watching the response to it."

In 1990, a group of Black women took on one of America's largest corporations in a battle for a historic Black school. 25 years later, the've reshaped how we fund, teach, and preserve Black history

Oh look, vaccines work.

really can’t say enough about how mike johnson is a sniveling little coward of a man. a bayou-bred pushover with a dignity deficit that would embarrass renfield

They brought the post back lol. Finish the job. Ban Singal. Rescue your platform.

I think it's important to read carefully: Blacksky is great, and they've got the entire ATmosphere's hopes pinned on them (which is frankly an unfair burden), and this is Bluesky's fault not Blacksky's But it does show that "credible exit" has yet to be achieved, let alone decentralization

Update from Link. He said he still is banned despite being under BlackSky PDS cause BlueSky servers still used? :( idk Just sharing what I’m told.

Let me get this straight: Link, a Black user, got banned for calling out the Bluesky CEO for following a racist. That’s not a good look, especially given Bluesky’s historical treatment of Black users here on bluesky.

This feels like evidence Trump's aides are deliberately gaslighting him, which is unfortunately very easy to do with dementia sufferers (Trump did it to his father) and which aides are using to seize control of the US military for their own purposes.

The dust does not remember the wind (R code) #codeart #genartclub #genart

if you think chatbots are alive or self aware then i think you would be easily fooled by a tunnel painted on a brick wall

The “LLM AIs are actually people and you mustn’t bully them” thing is like instituting a full murder investigation into that train that got walled up in Thomas the Tank Engine because it had a face on it.

stephen miller was not bullied nearly enough in high school

Sen. Brian Schatz, a Democrat from Hawaii, bailed on Bluesky because people kept pointing out how often he would vote for Trump’s bullshit while talking tough. Twitter is supposed to be his safe space where he can talk a big game while rubber stamping fascism so this is clearly devastating for him

Seriously look at this absolute unit

“... do you want to subsidize E-bike lanes in Portlandia?” well…yes

Petition to drop every "AI"/surveillance bro into a hall of mirrors with their own digital camera hooked up to a laptop running ELIZA

I see people on social media who have gotten their feelings hurt sometimes continue to lash out online and I wish I could reach across the screen and just say: "I see that you are hurt and you need to log off now."

Always glad @thetriibe.com exists, but especially now

oh hey we're hitting HN ... now for some reason

PSA to AI enthusiasts trying to talk to the less-convinced: As a drone tech specialist, I occasionally do get VERY frustrated when I’m talking to non-experts about my area of expertise. The answer to this is “logging off for a while,” not “Sephiroth posting about how everyone else is DUMB.”