Boston-area folks! If you like deep music, welding the traditional with the progressive & queer… Join me for an evening of music Monday May 4 Aly Halpert Levyosn Batya Levine With jazz great Richie Barshay on drums. Tickets are pay what you can (3rd option at www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticket...) 1/4

When people are like, "Where is the money for X going to come from?" I'm like, the police budget. The money you are looking for is in the police budget. It's in police contracts (many of which mandate an annual increase--PVD's does) & police pensions, but it's also in things like the supply budget

Me: what superhero do you want to dress up as tomorrow? 6yo: Hawkgirl! Me: ….go ask your father.

It's the 7th month of the US bombing random ships in Latin American waters they claim are drug smugglers (reminder that two survivors who were rescued were repatriated, not charged), and the death toll is 150+, and it barely gets discussed.

Nobody ever says this but I think it’s time to come clean Elon Musk is a debit to his race

Also pedophilia and sexual assault

Ok so Batman is theoretically good right But Bruce Wayne is a billionaire which means he exploits his workers, cheats and lies

DHS says it didn’t happen. This isn’t a bug to them it’s the policy. They don’t want to verify. They want people gone. A US citizen who was born in Denver. Deported.

I'm one of those trans women. I worked ground ops for Artemis I. I am torn between celebrating the success of my friends and peers and grieving how my dream of working for NASA was shattered by hateful assholes in Tallahassee

Boston-area folks, I need you to know that the peri peri chicken sandwich at Nubian Market is one of the best sandwiches around. It has a “burnt orange salsa” that I dream about.

“Why don’t women report rape?!” people scream in the comments as literally dozens of comments in the same thread say things like RogerStoneHitJobIDontBelieveHerWhyNowTimingisSuspectSheShouldntHaveHadADrinkWithHerBossSheShouldHaveShownBetterJudgementWheresTheRapeKitAlFranken My lord.

Burn them all down. I don’t care what party.

congratulations to the astronauts who get credit for a moon mission using rocket development work by trans women who had to quit their job and flee the state of florida and can’t celebrate this win with their coworkers

omg those astronauts who are parents? THEY CAN LITERALLY TELL THEIR CHILDREN “I LOVE YOU TO THE MOON AND BACK”

The text of the bill the Mass. House approved yesterday that would censor kids and teens on-line, harm everyone's privacy and help Meta compete with other sites

Massachusetts: The House passed the most draconian social media ban in the country who-cester.blogspot.com/2026/04/the-...

It’s hard to overstate how much of this moment is driven by people who got a taste of accountability and were very, very mad about it.

I need to know how they’re using cholula in zero g. Do they have cholula droplets everywhere now????

sourcing request: I am looking for recruiters or managers at major tech companies who are trying to hire cybersecurity talent. if that's you, and you want to talk to me on background or on-record, please get in touch! contact info in my bio.

my local gov halted new data center development and is pouring the net revenue from existing sites into affordable housing. this has been a far more productive use of the revenue than other localities, which have largely used to it cut property taxes (in a state with fairly lower property taxes)

I’m all for this! And also - can Congress vote to end a war it never actually started? Like would that be challengeable to the Supreme Court?? Impeach that motherfucker. Furthermore ICE must be abolished

say what you want about South Korea, at least THEY got their president impeached and thrown in prison for trying to do some bullshit

Fellow Bostonians, help the North American Indian Center of Boston (NAICOB) stay open! chuffed.org/fundraiser/l...

Yeah, I just bounced out of the SaaS dev management world into nonprofit work for my sanity, but this is part of the issue. LLM coding tools can only be used effectively at scale by skilled seniors, bc debugging and troubleshooting are complex intermediate and advanced skills required to correct...

Future Of Us is looking for U.S.-based artists to produce work envisioning a speculative story about a hopeful possible future. #BlackSkyJobs

Being a human should mean being having access to food, shelter, and healthcare, period. Everyone deserves what they need to survive and thrive, whether or not they're able to work in a capitalist labor market.

I single-handedly run all the same technology that Bluesky, the ~40 person, $136M company does. My @blackskyweb.xyz team does full-stack content-moderation, ships products core to our mission + partners with orgs so we can be a long-term sustainable business If you rely on us pls pay a subscription

NICE. But it would be even nicer (despite no longer being the sex number) if more people adopt rents and help immigrant families stay housed!

Hey Greater Boston! Here's how you can help neighbors: - Donate Toiletries for Haitian Immigrants - Volunteer for the "Free clothing store" on Saturday 11 April - MAMAS Hotline: Connect Neighbors in Need with Resources Find details & submit mutual aid actions at greaterbos.mutaid.org

Sometimes I wonder if working from home for so long has turned me into a goblin who cannot be trusted to interact with other people without making it weird. Then I remember that I have always been a goblin who cannot be trusted to interact with other people without making it weird.

Today is April 2nd and rent is DUE. I'm barnraising for M, a mom in Northeast who has had a very difficult time asking for help for her family because the ICE terror has eroded their trust & sense of safety. They need $2100 total; $100 has already been sent to M. Can you chip in or share? 🌻

It’s so weird that on a holiday where we invite all who are hungry to eat That when a kid who, in previous years, has heard the adults say “this is what was done for me personally” (not US) When that kid is like “what was done for you?” The response is “f you kid I was delivered and not you”

Here's the link to the free pdf of my new book The Inattention Economy: How Women of Color Built the Internet. Access is so important and I'm grateful that the press is platforming it as one file that is easy to download. www.upress.umn.edu/978081669906...

Did you know that on our Office of Campaign and Political Finance, you can find out if your elected officials are using Citizens for their campaign accounts? Go to www.ocpf.us/Filers/ search for your elected, click on Reports, then any Bank Report, and the bank name is listed!

Something I learned a long time ago is that you have to find beautiful and comforting things in life not once life isn't hard anymore but all the time, BECAUSE life is hard. Having been raised in a religion of guilt and shame this was a fundamental insight. More people on this site need it.

I'm also still running this fundraiser to cover relocation costs for trans people seeking to leave hostile US states & flourish elsewhere. So far we've raised $679 for Trans Continental Pipeline. I'd love to get it up to a grand today, so watch the TL for more samples, incl some discovery sets!

Today I’d like to start with a low stakes question that may reveal and uncomfortable truth but also help you out, to ease you into the day When was the last time you backed up the important stuff? You should have an automated solution but until then It’s ok to do it manually. Back up stuff!

I think there should be an anti-april fools, on the exact opposite day of the year we all share uncomfortable truths and engage in excessive, destructive honesty

Repeat after me: If they can overturn Roe v. Wade, we can overturn Citizens United… And we will.

I think that, if you aren't trans, you might not be aware of how awful things in the US have been lately. You might be aware *that* things are not great, but not aware of the extent. So if you're not trans, you might benefit from reading this truly horrifying assessment of the Trump admin […]

I can't believe I got away with writing a TECH BOOK that's about SOFTWARE TEAMS and the research and science in it is fundamentally about COMPASSION and BELONGING and MOTIVATION and COALITION BUILDING

Spouse: (pointing to single serve sundae cup) where are you keeping those? Me: in the freezer

I’ve posted it before, but it feels evergreen The two hardest problems in Computer Science are 1. Human communication 2. Getting people in tech to believe that human communication is important

So they’re at $61/$1,300 & we can do better. Give $10+ bc fuck SCOTUS. Give $10+ bc there’s stupid bsky drama on the wrong goddamn day. Give $10+ bc my kid went to school w/ holographic stickers all over their clothes (“What? I’m visible.”) Then do what you gotta do to make the next person give.

Let's be serious. Forcing an institution to hand over a list of Jews to the government is not the way to fight antisemitism.

Omg why

It’s day 119 of the ICE occupation of MN. Rent is due Wednesday - so many neighbors are still trying to get back on their feet after more than three months in hiding. Please give if you can StandWithMinnesota.org

Just a helpful reminder to everyone: Wednesday is April 1st. If you see a news story or something that looks like a news story that makes you think "ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME??!??" ...the answer is probably yes, yes they are, that's it exactly.

Banging on this that batteries met up to 44% of demand on the CA grid yesterday, roughly equivalent to 6 hoover dams. Cheap batteries are powering the grid. www.linkedin.com/posts/nicola...