Kyle Thayer (doomscrolling)
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This is my account for doomscrolling. My main account is
@kylethayer.com
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My official account is now
@kylethayer.com
, where I'll talk about things like
@susannotess.bsky.social
and my book "Social Media, Ethics, and Automation," that includes how to set up a Bluesky bot
social-media-ethics-automation.github.io/book/bsky/ap...
This account will be for my doomscrolling.
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22. Making a Bot Account (Bluesky)
Choose Social Media Platform: Reddit| Discord| Bluesky| No Coding In using this textbook, you will have opportunities to create and run social media bots. Here we will run through how to create a B...
https://social-media-ethics-automation.github.io/book/bsky/appendix/making_bot_account.html
about 1 year ago
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Kate Starbird
23 days ago
My wife has been HIV+ for 34 years. She’s alive today b/c work of activists who destigmatized the virus, pushed medical science to adapt & find ways to treat it, & advocated for gov health programs that helped fund her care. The current U.S. regime may want to go back in time, but we won’t let them.
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Denny Carter
about 1 month ago
Jamelle was cooking. Gift link:
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Prisonculture
about 1 month ago
Alice Wong, Presente. Thank you for everything.
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Bree
about 2 months ago
I've seen this go by a few times on TikTok now and I have to say, I love this idea. We need a way to convince people to keep running even if they don't win, maybe building the loss into it as a troll move is the secret.
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Katie Wilson for Seattle
about 2 months ago
📣 This race isn't over folks! 📣 Make sure your vote counts! Tap the link below to check on your ballot. ☑️🗳️:
info.kingcounty.gov/kcelections/...
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Evan Urquhart
about 2 months ago
Things are still incredibly precarious for trans people. Things are probably still going to get a bit worse purely out of momentum. It will still be, at minimum, a decade long fight to restore what we've lost in these past 3-4 years. But I am so proud of how well we've held up under the pressure.
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jamelle
about 2 months ago
ah, perhaps instead of pumping millions into endless factional infighting Dem donors could invest in making local Dem organizations genuine civic spaces that can reach people during and between elections
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G Elliott Morris
about 2 months ago
Seven data-driven lessons from the 2025 elections
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/seven-data...
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Seven data-driven lessons from the 2025 elections
Democrats outran their polls and swept statewide races from Georgia to New Jersey, on an agenda of affordability and a broad anti-Trump backlash
https://www.gelliottmorris.com/p/seven-data-driven-takeaways-from
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Meredith McClaren
about 2 months ago
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jamelle
about 2 months ago
really important element of this basically total victory is that it puts the fear of god in republican incumbents and may bring the redistricting push to a total halt
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Jennifer N. Victor
about 2 months ago
Came here to say this, but Jamelle Bouie has this covered. 👇 When the Democratic tent includes candidates like Spanberger and Mamdani, there is no crisis, or fight, for the party. IT’S A COALITION, NOT A POINT ESTIMATE.
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Better Things Are Possible
about 2 months ago
Head in hands wondering how this could happen to me, the popular president who posted a video of myself shitting on everyone 2 weeks ago
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Ian Boudreau
about 2 months ago
Everything about this is wonderful
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utopia deferred
about 2 months ago
great example and argument for how damaging Jeffries and Schumer have been as leaders
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
about 2 months ago
"An organized urban wing of the [Underground] railroad called vigilance committees focused on protecting, supporting, and learning from fugitives." Jesse Olsavsky for
@hammerandhope.bsky.social
's latest, just released issue
hammerandhope.org/article/unde...
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The Black People Who Fled Slavery Had a Lot to Teach Their Northern Allies
Black-led vigilance committees not only protected and aided fugitives but also learned from the formerly enslaved as they built a movement pedagogy together.
https://hammerandhope.org/article/underground-railroad-runaways
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University of Washington Information School
about 2 months ago
🎃 Happy Halloween! Information School faculty are full of treats, not tricks. Students know not to be frightened of our friendly professors... unless they ask for a last-minute recommendation. (Kidding! 🐸)
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jamelle
2 months ago
seems that RFK is clearing the path for his CDC to do tuskegee syphillis experiments as a matter of course. in other news, RFK is a genuine monster who relishes in the pain and suffering of those he feels he has control or dominion over
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jamelle
2 months ago
“You can win elections by tacking to the middle; lots of people have. But you can also win elections by staking a moral position and convincing people to agree with you. You can earn support by demonstrating what is important to you instead of just being determined to nod along with what you hear.”
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Quinta Jurecic
2 months ago
After 2024, pundits brushed off the Resistance as cringe. I submit: Yes, it was. And cringe is good. Cringe, in fact, will save democracy.
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Resistance Is Cringe
But it’s also effective.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/10/no-kings-protest-good-cringe-resistance/684595/?gift=DWZS7XsWkZZzV_Qd7Q3wdXB7yxq0ag8cTzjSgS6aUSc&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
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David S. Bernstein
2 months ago
… UVA makes it 5 rejections; 4 remain (Dartmouth, Vanderbilt, UT-Austin, Arizona)
www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...
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U.Va. rejects Trump administration Compact for Academic Excellence
The University has rejected the “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education,” which he received from the White House and Department of Education Oct. 1, according to a community statement released Friday evening by Interim University President Paul Mahoney.
https://www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025/10/uva-rejects-trump-administration-compact-for-academic-excellence
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Governor JB Pritzker
3 months ago
I will not back down. Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power. What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?
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jamelle
3 months ago
pete hegseth, who you will recall has been accused of domestic abuse and sexual assault, has announced a new policy by which you cannot file anonymous complaints of mistreatment. sex criminal solidarity.
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Attacking the imperial core in preparation for war abroad? Is there a term the term for the opposite of the Imperial Boomerang?
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3 months ago
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Joshua Erlich
3 months ago
idk guys, "we're going to train our military on our cities" seems like the kind of thing that's 1) very bad and 2) very easy to message against but what the fuck do i know
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jamelle
3 months ago
the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!
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Aaron Ross Powell ☸️
3 months ago
Trump and Hegseth are, I think, badly misreading the culture of America's armed forces. That doesn't mean they can't or won't eventually change the culture to something that more reflects their psychological pathologies, but they're not winning many converts today.
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Kyle Thayer
3 months ago
Does everyone think about color the same way? Are there color names that can't be translated between languages? I downloaded 6 more years of color naming data from a 2019 project w/
@uwcse.bsky.social
. I reprocessed the data and improved the visualizations. See it here!
idl.uw.edu/color-naming...
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Many Languages, Many Colors
Does everyone think about color the same way? Are there color names that can't be translated between languages?
https://idl.uw.edu/color-naming-in-different-languages/index.html
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Adam Serwer
3 months ago
The wounded knee thing is really Trumpism distilled to its essence. It’s not enough to be able crush people who can’t fully defend themselves, it’s not enough to actually crush them, you also have to love and admire those who do the crushing otherwise the Trumpists’ delicate feelings are injured
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jamelle
4 months ago
i think every democrat who does a cable news hit should start calling trump the pedophile president
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Claire Willett
4 months ago
Q: but what if a full Epstein investigation also takes down Bill Clinton????? A:
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Aaron M
4 months ago
Are we going to see a bunch of influential Dems named when the truth finally comes out? Yes. Should they be prosecuted alongside the Republicans? Also yes.
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Timothy Burke
4 months ago
Elliot Wolk was an MIT math professor who suddenly got very rich & became a board member & major donor; the Wolk Gallery is in the MIT Architecture building & a primary exhibition area for Media Lab (which grew out of the MIT Architecture dept) & I assume we all know Epstein's Media Lab connection
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Veena Dubal
4 months ago
AAUP-HARVARD, AAUP, & UAW WON THE HARVARD CASE!!!!
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Andy Craig
4 months ago
This is like watching a Victorian time traveler befuddled at trying to work an iPhone. Just completely lost and confused by all the intervening context of the different era he's now in.
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Kevin M. Kruse
4 months ago
True story: After the 2008 presidential election, we invited several prominent conservatives to campus to get their thoughts on the future of the GOP. One of them was David Frum, who has gone full resistance in the Trump era. Another was Billy Birthrate here.
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AAUP
4 months ago
Remember this: It was never about antisemitism. It has always been about taking control of higher ed institutions and bending them to the will of authoritarians.
#DefendHigherEd
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Molly Jong-Fast
4 months ago
You guys see where this is going? Right?
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Evan Urquhart
4 months ago
I definitely appreciated reading this list. One thing I think trans people might want to keep in mind is that we are in a heated and very open fight not to be the Democrats' sacrificial lamb... but we are very much IN the fight.
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Moira Donegan
4 months ago
This man is being subjected to a real-life version of Kafka’s “The Trial” as punishment for being the embarrassing object of the regime’s own malicious and chaotic incompetence.
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08...
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Trump Administration Live Updates: Kilmar Abrego Garcia Is Detained By Immigration Authorities, Lawyer Says
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08/25/us/trump-news?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌
4 months ago
The goal:
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Stella Sacco
4 months ago
I don’t think I can be on this website long term. It’s just getting the absolute worst news blasted into my brain from the moment I wake until the moment I sleep. It’s not the fault of anyone on here—there’s just an insane volume of bad news happening at all times. Only now I know about it all
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Kyle Thayer
5 months ago
#AcademicSky
Has there been any work on social media as an evolutionary system powered by attention (an "attention ecosystem"?), analogous to earth life being powered by sunlight/geothermal vents?
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Micah
5 months ago
it has been said over and over but it’s worth reiterating in the face of this horrifying decision: RFK is quite literally joining the war on cancer on the side of cancer
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Gwen Snyder is uncivil
5 months ago
Parable of the Sower really messed with me, but one of the ways it MOST messed with me (in a good way) was its insistence on the inevitability and persistence of change. We're never going back, but also we never WERE going back. This rollercoaster never had a reverse button. Time never does
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Kyle Thayer
5 months ago
I spent some time this summer reading about how speakers work ("driven damped harmonic oscillators," "minimum-phase," etc.) for this (hopefully) accurate diagram. Now it's on Wikipedia
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Micah
5 months ago
there's this bedrock assumption among a lot of people that everyone believes in the same ideals (such as free speech), we just have different ideas of what they mean this is manifestly untrue, these people believe they have the absolute right to control what everyone else says
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Aaron Rupar
5 months ago
Trump on pardoning Ghislaine Maxwell: "I'm allowed to do it"
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Kyle Thayer
5 months ago
I'm reading "Rhetorical Code Studies" by
@brockoleur.com
and thinking about isomorphic code (code that is the same algorithmically, but is named differently and has different meanings). For example, these are all structurally the same, but have different meanings and even political implications:
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