Recently, people have been sharing their favorite old tweets from the bad site and while it’s a lot of fun to see some old bangers, I thought, “Hey what about some recent Bluesky bangers?” So, here are some of my faves. www.gojeffgo.com/best-of-blue...

finally, Wendell Berry's standards for technological innovation--truly as relevant now as they were in 1987 #othernetworks

a journal that published my work suddenly shut down w/out notice. The editor emailed me after to say it was due to harassment on other social media sites...but not on Bsky. Why the hell do lit journals insist on staying on other, toxic social media. Especially when it means sacrificing the journal.

hi non-Minnesota friends! please share this with your out-of-state networks everyone here is pretty much tapped out, but the impacts of Metro Surge are still looming large here. our black and brown and immigrant neighbors lost months of work, and rent is still due. We need help.

Calling all Minnesota-based writers! We're creating a chapbook of art and writing in response to the illegal ICE occupation of our state. Send us your poems, stories and essays under 400 words — by April 30. Submit & more info: bit.ly/MN-pride-zine

Here's the war story I remember best from my own childhood Passovers: a first-person account of a small Passover observance held by 20 or so Union soldiers during the American Civil War—and specifically the tale of a particularly pungent locally foraged bitter herb.

Chag sameach. Here’s a little reading that grew up with, in the Haggadah a family friend wrote. I thought this was a “standard” reading for Passover. Turns out it was pulled by that family friend as she compiled, from the original letter itself in a trunk or drawer somewhere.

Rent is due TODAY and I’m raising funds for a Minnesota immigrant family in need! This family affected by ICE is in need of $1958 to avoid imminent eviction. Can you help them stay safe and housed? V: @Ian-Coldwater CA: $iancoldwater PP: @coldwater Please share and help if you can! Thank you! 💛

In Minneapolis, there are still fundraisers going on for rent relief. Today's the last day where you can buy a very cool Someone in Minneapolis Love Me t-shirt and contribute to Neighbors Helping Neighbors: truthlizard.net/collections/...

New poem in Midwest Review!

Let us not abandon MN purely because the news cycle has turned

Incidentally… thefriends.org

Stephen Miller allegedly urged Department of Homeland Security agents to “force confrontations” with protesters in Minneapolis in order to win a “PR battle." trib.al/NcbpdiX

"Just because you're not using A.I. doesn't mean it's not being used by a lot of other people, and that's something that you have to reckon with" COUNTERPOINT: no, no I don't

picking this up Monday morning! we're over 21% funded on this rent need. can you chip on share?

hey friends! can we raise $1600 to pay the rent for an ICE-impacted family? my venmo is @ziibiing cashapp $ziibiing paypal [email protected]

“AI products are best understood not as technologies of information […] but of labor management and the accelerated concentration of wealth.” My mantra and yours for the long fight ahead

This blocklist is everyone's friend: bsky.app/profile/did:...

wouldn't it be funny if EVERYONE blocked this Attie AI account @ bsky.app/profile/atti... before they could do anything with it

I facilitated a workshop yesterday evening called “The Poetics of Water” and we had a generative discussion and writing time. I’m going to share the poems we read together and the prompts in a thread 💙

the impact of AI/LLMs on kids will eventually be compared to lead exposure

Best money I spend every month

just this week: -- OpenAI killed Sora -- Disney subsequently cancelled its investment in OpenAI -- Wikipedia is now banning LLM-generated content ...tell me again how this is all "inevitable" and you have to "get on board or get left behind"?

New from me: I talked to organizers in cities around the country on how they are mobilizing thousands to stop ICE from kidnapping their neighbors. All of it is scalable. You can do it in your neighborhood. There are more of us than them.

yes

Elon Musk took over Twitter and turned it into the anti-woke, fascist-amplifying X. There’s been debate about whether to stay since he bought it. But seeing how it’s evolved and the recent Grok deepfake scandal, there’s no good argument to stay. I stopped posting there. You should too.

Secret tricks to get much better results out of the very dreadful 'Google search' these days, plus other search engines for specific things. Statospherically useful for researchers. open.substack.com/pub/cardcata...

Conny’s is open in St. Paul, pricing Saint Paul’s superiority

i feel like people in Minnesota would say the opposite. the response from Bluesky to the ICE occupation has been enormous. it really made me feel like this is a real platform where people are building and connecting.

if there's one conclusion that the study of both labor history and imperialism converge on, it is that the richest people in the world are happy to burn money on control, power, impunity. and the "everything is about profit" version of anti-capitalism does not survive serious contact with either

"The people of the Twin Cities" are the winners of the prestigious 2026 John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award www.huffpost.com/entry/latest...

It’s that time again: I’m raising rent relief funds for Minneapolis immigrant families affected by ICE! Donations are down, but ICE is still here and there’s still so much need. Can you help? V: @Ian-Coldwater CA: $iancoldwater PP: @coldwater Please share and help if you can! Thank you! 💛

The most consistently accurate frame to understand the appearance of articles like this is knowing that The Guardian and OpenAI have a partnership.

As someone who was laid off from Instagram during Meta's big layoffs, I would like to say that Mark Zuckerberg could have given each one of us $10 million as severance and still spent less than he did on the Metaverse, thank you and good night

Only $363 left to meet this need in full!! We're 88% funded in like.... 90 minutes?!?!??!

Hi all. Adopt a rent was alerted to 2 needs that are back rents for February & March and we do not have donors currently. One is A who was detained by ICE from December to February and thus lost his work permit & job. He owes just over $3000 for back rent including march. Can you chip in or share?

I just heard back from the reporter, and I am genuinely speechless. Is “we don’t care” the business model?

I rarely use my little platform here for my job, but managing all that as well as running standwithmn is pushing me to ask for help. Last week, we launched a campaign called MN vs. Big Oil. We are looking for stories of how Minnesotans have been impacted by the costs of the climate crisis.

A gentle reminder

If he's going to get a national profile on the strength of a younger woman's campaign, I'm going to come out and say it: during his short-lived tenure as a math professor, Biss had an inappropriate romantic relationship with one of his undergraduate students. I was that student.

You can call Delta’s customer service line at +1-800-455-2720 but IF YOU ARE A SKYMILES MEMBER (check your email if you ever flew Delta!) then you absolutely SHOULD call the SkyMiles dedicated number +1-800-323-2323 and tell them how deplorable this is. They *give a shit* about your view of this.

I was asked to give my thoughts on generative AI usage in games - here they are!

www.instagram.com/p/DV7NEzkD9F... So thrilled for all the good things coming up for THE NATURE OF OUR TIMES (co-edited by Luisa A. Igloria, Aileen Cassinetto, and David Hassler) 💕🔥💕🔥💕

I'm sure someone smarter has already proposed this, but we need a supercharged Right to Repair 2.0. If companies won't support products, they must release the software to open source. If they don't sell replacement parts, they must facilitate 3rd party efforts (share technical plans).

No, I am not worried about 'declining' birth rates, I accept them as post-modern birth rates, the birth rates that naturally happen once the conditions are set that children can be expected to survive to adulthood reliably and that women are allowed to be educated and become full citizens.

Any time you’re told tech CEOs are brilliant, remember Zuckerberg spent 77 billion on the metaverse and is committed to *600* billion on data centers, yet has nothing to show for any of it lol

Many Washington Post readers have been notified via email that their subscription rates are set to increase. Nestled at the bottom of these emails, you’ll find an asterisk and the following: “This price was set by an algorithm using your personal data.”

We spoke to Black women who started the Target boycott & who sustained it for a yr+. They'll likely never go back. Teacher Laverne Mickens put it like this: “[Black women] will say if & when it’s over. And I can tell you right now: That will be the 15th of never ever.” 19thnews.org/2026/03/targ...