I need to be able to turn off reposts for specific accounts because of @goose.ski specifically

Cops busting through a barricade that they set up is pretty tough to misinterpret.

thinking too small. why can't we compete with industrial agriculture? why can't we take over the same infrastructure but make it cooperative? why can't we provide farmers with their basic needs plus a bit more so they can give us their harvest for free, cutting off commodification at the start?

This is real. www.whitehouse.gov/aliens/

People on the right went wild over James Talarico saying that God is beyond gender, saying god is nonbinary or w/e. It reminded me of the time Charlie Kirk got backed into a corner by this college kid.

oooo what are those little spheres? ▶ open in fluoddity

woah ▶ open in fluoddity

badempanada probably started out as a genuine leftist creator but he's 100% a fed now

incredibly frustrating read, but (not to spoil it) I'm glad she's mostly okay now. I have many thoughts but that's the first. the second is that this is an excellent piece of journalism.

so like lemme weigh in on this as someone who is more financially comfortable than many in my generational cohort: everything I have gained seems precarious and temporary because I know the people with real money will take it all from me the second they get an opportunity and no one will protect me.

I'd like to propose that we drain all of Sam Altman's blood and then offer to sell it back to him at cost.

hot take but I personally think there's always enough stuff to make you hate the system under capitalism and it's actually the correct response to living in this hellscape

kinda funny that Trump's Cuba strategy til now has been to starve them of oil and his 2026 Iran strategy will end up giving us the same treatment lol

You don’t have to do this to yourself. There are non-Google options. Kagi is one of rude best search engines I have ever used: kagi.com

I don't think most people are actually religious I think they're just campists

ignorance itself isn't a flaw. I doubt you know what polymorphism is or how to tie an egg loop knot. it's *willful* ignorance that's the problem.

"There's no doubt that Peters is a raging conspiracy theorist who abused her public office and broke the law. But nine years is an awfully long time. She is 70 and-" imma have to stop you right there chief

HP and the Chamber of Secrets on PS2 is actually one of my favorite games of all time. it's open world, you can fly on a broomstick around the whole castle once you unlock it, and the soundtrack is by Jeremy Soule (Skyrim, Morowind, etc.)

my preferred way of solving the AI craze is federally banning AI *in the cloud* (over a certain amount of resources in one location). AI is still fine but it has to be on end-user devices. only exception is scientific research approved by or funded by government in some way.

hey US capitalists, you know what would decrease consumer use of gasoline? 4 day work week. hell, why not 3 day

my hot take on the atproto discourse today is both: 1. if you want to be a part of the community, you can't be openly hostile toward other prominent people in the community (like rudy). gotta be cordial. 2. I, too, am worried about blacksky becoming an "everything app for the black community"

this video is fine but doesn't make/emphasize what I think is mutual aid's key product: connection. if I watch my neighbor's kids for an afternoon I may not get anything tangible but I increased/developed my connection with that neighbor and their kids. THAT'S the unique product, the connection

these people won't start paying real attention to the fact that they're wrong until they start getting ignored and left behind. if they ever realize their error, it's obviously good to help them grow, but as of right now like 35% of this country needs to just be ignored politically

hantavirus this hantavirus that I wonder if it's possible to haunt a virus so bad it kills itself

the single most important thing for the left to do for the rest of Trump's term is to focus on creating a cohesive narrative for the path forward, not focusing on bashing Trump/Republicans

lots of people (rightfully) talk on here about how there needs to be another Reformation But Successful This Time against the republicans, but I think it’s pretty myopic to think the Democrats are going to actually do it

not to open up this can of worms again but I feel like appviews should just be called “realms”. that way you can delineate between having an “Atmosphere account with Bluesky” (having an account on Bluesky’s PDS) and connecting to the “Bluesky realm”, or the “Blacksky realm”, etc.

new eeveelution just dropped

yea I take byoopropeeon

[hand to my ear] I’m now hearing reports that a letter shortage has led to the creation of an anti anti ant-AI haters blocklist

what’s the best/quickest way to not see 100 posts all giving similar boring takes about the day’s news in their own words but still see 1. actual news from on the ground 2. important updates if they happen 3. shitposts

The Democrats sense that they're gonna cruise to midterm victory by doing nothing and offering nothing and are using it as a freebie to punch left to make sure the voters don't get any ideas.

recently I’ve taken to asking people I meet what their *second* favorite of something is. movie, song, etc. most people already know their favorite, but having to think through to their second is an interesting exercise

it should be a cloud

federated social spaces should be talking less about how open they are and more about power

“big tent” to me means something different from “big house”. I’m not working with people under the tent like they’re a part of my family. we’re there bc we need to get something done. I’ll work with (almost) anyone if they’ll help me feed my neighbors

there’s nothing more American than advertising. Democrats in power should be using every bit of funding they can find to run ad campaigns about Republicans’ failures. we need a national zeitgeist moment against Republicans, not whatever the fuck Chuck Schumer is doing

mine is that phones and all media has just started blasting young adults with reminders of exactly how fucked up the world is, a little (or a lotta) bit in every post, and at the same time: 1. given them no tools to handle all this mentally 2. given them no evidence the adults will solve anything

“Luddite” is a good term for *some*, who specifically fear how the effects of AI will impact workers, and is a terrible term for others, who are dogmatically opposed to *any form of* AI because of a reactionary ideological response they have to it. it’s a simplistic “ew AI bad” rather than why.

Now I’m just a backwoods small town hyperchicken, but it seems to me that if a company is big enough to existentially threaten the government then you don’t actually have a functioning government anymore.

my theory about why media naturally does this is bc they just want all stories to fit a specific amount of crazy/non-normal/outrageous. too little and it’s not interesting, too much and it feels *unprofessional* to cover it that way, so here they rubber band it back down to more “normal” levels

does this look right idk, feedback welcome

the New York Times is a conservative news outlet

Dr. Pepper is proof that artificial flavors can be objectively good

If you press logout you get forgotten, what's a post but a reminder just how boring our lives ar-ar-ar-are Look at how much fun I'm having, ain't no beauty in the absence of broadcasting to your fo-oll-ow- ers~

honey how many episodes are in both seasons of Andor

If you see this, I implore you to post a picture from whatever device you're using with no explanation.

when you ask 85% of people on here why they hate AI or LLMs, they'll give you thought-terminating cliches or factually incorrect information it's a damn shame, because it weakens their positions when the correct and reasoned 15% is MORE THAN ENOUGH to tear the entire industry down