oh, hey, everyone, I'm gonna be speaking at World IA Day in Philadelphia in a few weeks and registration is open now! If you want a preview of my talk, the BlueSky Plain Language version is: How IA Decisions Helped a Super Siloed Division of a Federal Research Agency Figure Out Who They Are...

Spring dates just opened for the Bay Area's South Asian Radical History Walking Tours: • Sat, March 21, 2026 in Berkeley (almost sold out) • Sun, March 29 in San Francisco The SF tour's offered pretty infrequently, so this is a good time to reserve a spot if you've been curious.

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Hello Philadelphia UX design community. Hope to see some of you here!

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A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:

Most of the time social media really and truly feels like a mistake, but it can’t be all bad because I got to know and be friends with Dan McQuade thanks to it. What a great guy, genuinely everything good, decent, and fun about Philadelphia all in one person. Can’t believe he’s really gone.

I wrote about my friendship with @dhm.bsky.social and the legacy he’s leaving behind for Broad Street review. Many thanks to @byjenamiller.bsky.social for the encouragement to scroll through our text archive. www.broadstreetreview.com/essays/remem...

Follow the money.

Nice piece on Nur-D from @jonbern.bsky.social

What better way to kick off Black History Month than to watch Black zombies eat white people? No. No better way is the answer. www.eventbrite.com/e/celebrate-...

Amazing (not surprised) talk at Through line @spavel.bsky.social ! Can't wait to watch at least 5 more times. 👏👏👏

Hi friends, I signed up for this, please do it with me ✊

I'm attending the Throughlines design conference, and it's lovely to hear the organizers open by talking about how the struggles of dealing with fascism and our current political climate. I'll be posting about Throughlines periodically through the day, so feel free to mute if it's not your bag.

So nice to see caring, competent leadership for NYC. Would be nice to have that here in Philadelphia.

@aoc.bsky.social please post here too. We need you.

Mamdani: "I am in support of abolishing ICE. What we see is an entity that has no interest in fulfilling its stated reason to exist. We're seeing a government agency that is supposed to be enforcing some kind of immigration law, but instead what it's doing is terrorizing people."

I just submitted a talk to @wiadphilly.bsky.social. Your turn: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Long before railroads stitched continents together, mules and their Afro-Indigenous arrieros moved silver, sugar, cotton, and environmental knowledge across borders. In Distillations, @roguechieftan.bsky.social traces the mule as a tool of empire and a symbol of Black and Indigenous resistance. ⬇️

This is the updated, more organized & better than ever way to help in Mpls/ St Paul/ Greater MN. Taking submissions on the site & everything. Look for the ones with non-English language & unfunded, small amounts because they're not getting the love they need.

WHITE MEAT: APPETIZER just made it into its first film festival! paff2026.eventive.org/welcome #HorrorSky #FilmSky #BlackSky

A 5 pm sunset! A small glimmer 🔆

Speaker applications for WIAD PHL now open!!

Tips for following coverage of protests in Minneapolis:

I worked on Kamala’s campaign at HQ and was pretty excited when she selected him for VP. Today, I’m regretting that pick and my excitement. This man is weakness and lack of strategy personified.

🪲 Cochineal, tiny insects that live on prickly pear cacti, powered a global red dye trade and transformed European fashion. The Spanish Crown built a monopoly for control of its production, but Tlaxcalteca growers weren't giving in without a fight. Read more in our latest Distillations story. ⬇️

I'm just so fucking proud of her. Here's her whole speech. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jo54...

Look I'm TRYING to stop posting adorable photos of Mamdani and Duwaji... but that seems to be impossible.

“This is not utopia, this is not some pie-in-the-sky idea. This is something the American people want.” @sanders.senate.gov speaks with @premthakker.bsky.social after swearing in Zohran Mamdani as New York City Mayor.

CONGRATULATIONS NYC!!!! Please help Zohran succeed so Mamdanism can spread through our land.

This speech by Jumaane Williams, New York’s Public Advocate, is truly incredible. It’s hard to combine honesty and hope and he’s doing it so well!

I don't think any of my followers will understand me, but into the void I excitedly scream, "there's a Kaur on the stage! Showing her kirpan too!"

1. This thread makes me think someone should start a tv channel dedicated to music videos 24/7 🤔 2. I miss 120 minutes. 3. I will never forget watching early MTV, the Stray Cat Strut was on, and my mom came in the room, lost it, and I was no longer allowed to watch MTV. 🤣 🙄

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Here we go! Now until 6:00 pm ET on Christmas Day! 103.3 FM : listen.wprb.com #wprbxmas

The sun will rise in #Philadelphia #Pennsylvania tomorrow at 7:19, 28 seconds later than the day before. It will set at 16:40, 29 seconds later than the day before.

Finally, some good news 🧀

In Ecuador’s Los Cedros cloud forest, activists used the country’s constitutional “rights of nature” law to stop mining. A landmark 2021 ruling protected the forest—but the fight isn’t over. Read the latest #Distillations story from @scribblingsam.bsky.social here ⬇️

Make 2026 your year for professional growth. #IAC26 workshops offer hands-on learning from the industry's best in UX, IA, and design.

A deep dive into the aftermath of San Jose, CA traffic violence on a Desi immigrant and her family: “We pray for her to come back to normal every day. Police say it’s a normal case. The man driving was not arrested and the police say it’s a civil case not criminal.” indicanews.com/father-of-in...

Am so excited to bring WIAD back to Philly this year!

Thank you for this thread! In the US we love tidy narratives about heroes and their bootstraps, stories that don't fundamentally challenge power. The civil rights movement was nonhierarchical, grassroots, distributed. We should celebrate folks who lit the path, and also not flatten their stories.

New York City helped my mother become the artist she is today. The next generation deserves a City Hall that lifts up tomorrow's artists as well.

First hot take in a while. If you want people to treat flying/your airplane with dignity, maybe try treating the people with dignity.

Yesterday I tried to put everything I knew about whistles—where to get them, where to get instruction sheets, how to distro—into one place so you can build off it for your own community's whistle needs: dansinker.com/posts/2025-1...

The smear campaign against CAIR sets a dangerous precedent. I personally witnessed staff at the local chapter offer concrete skilled support to my gay, non-Muslim friends after they were assaulted. Are these the people being designated as "foreign terrorists" spreading "sharia law"?

Left Mastodon. Long story, abrupt end, meaning I didn’t get to export my followers. So now I’m trying to re-find my followers here. If you know me, please re-post and follow and suggest people I might also know.

Important to understand this. There's a reasonable chance that your Dem Senator who voted against it and is acting mad now was in on the play. It's the same reason why they scheduled the surrender for AFTER the election this week. They didn't want people pissed at Dems right before an election.

I said this in the summer and it’s still true.