This is beyond bad, but something easy you, right now, to protect your community? Mask. Everywhere. Normalize it. It will save lives. Maybe yours!

is it not weird that every day there’s a new video of anonymous masked men having the time of their lives beating/shooting/disappearing people and the dem response from the top down is “republicans want to double your health insurance premiums”

Long Covid is more prevalent in children in the US now than asthma. We are fucking destroying the next generations w/our behavior. (And adults.) If you do care about resisting eugenics maybe start by not being the vector that disables a kid in RFK’s US. That is not too much to ask. It really isn’t.

Meanwhile in #Portland

Who Link was here & how he formed site culture, insisting on alt text & accessibility & disability justice, insisting on standing with trans people, mutual aid, irreverent shitposting, shows exactly that this culture of early bluesky that forged the platform is the opposite of what the team wants.

"[W]hen 'bullets crashed through the window and hit Miguel,' he turned to the 18 year-old boy sitting next to him in the van and said, 'I don't think I'm going to make it, get underneath me. Let me shield you.'" #Texas #USA #Incarceration #Deportation #EthnicCleansing

This is what people are ACTUALLY affirming when they say "it's here to stay." The lack of consent machine will become mandatory in order to further surveil us and prop up their profits, whether or not anyone wants the slop it produces, or to have their community devastated by its resource demands.

See also: "Why isn't anyone DOING ANYTHING" Translation: "I'm not doing anything" People are doing things. They are doing a LOT. It's up to you to plug in and participate.

"we cant uninvent ai" no we cant but we couldnt uninvent nfts either and nobody gives a fuck about them anymore

I started keeping a "bless your heart" list to try to exorcise some of the wild petty shit people try to hand me & it's helping reframe the whole interaction. Some people are not well (neither am I sometimes) so now I can just see these pathetic attempts at dominance for what they are & move on

the group & people most deserving of the Nobel Peace Prize this year are the Palestinian journalists in Gaza, who kept courageously telling the world the truth no matter the cost #nobelpeaceprize @nobelprize.bsky.social

lately i've been thinking of this as platform logic. replacing unpredictable human connections with fully controlled, fully visible (to the platform) transactions **is the point of this approach**

This South Side Weekly report on the Chicago building raid is well worth reading. Most striking to me are the indications of collusion between federal authorities and the building owner and management to effect a mass eviction at the blighted property. southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

Welcome to Opt Out October, our collection of tips to slowly break free from online surveillance and throw sand in the gears of overreaching large tech companies. Today’s tip is about establishing good online security fundamentals. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

You cannot be fucking serious

Apple removing ICEBlock, a legal app for monitoring ICE activity, from its app store at the behest of the federal government mirrors what it has done in other regimes. www.iceblock.app

I don't think we talk enough about the very fundamental and insidious role by EdTech consultants in the whole fascist project. And, the fact that administrators defer to them and dismiss or even punish educators that contest or question the AI in education paradigm is telling.

Free Link

well, I will be using that, with attribution

lots of people know Łink from what he did to promote alt text usage here. this tip about pretending you’re describing an image over the phone has been burned in my brain since i saw it

Łink made so much of this place what it is, and how interesting it is that Jay and co find it so easy to ban poc, trans folk and Palestinians while fighting tooth and claw to protect transphobes

⬇️ #StrikeForMutualAid bsky.app/profile/alex...

Help folks however you can: donate, share, comment

This is eugenics And remember: while there's definitely a genetic component to asthma, environmental impacts also can induce it And guess who's most affected by the environmental impacts? Black, Indigenous, other people of color, and poor white folks.

Łink’s the reason I learned what alt text is and why it matters. He helped shape Bluesky’s early culture of accessibility.

Funny how the platforms protect all the worst people while throwing the vulnerable under the bus

OpenAI’s planned data centers will use more power than New York City & San Diego use at their peak consumption, combined. More power than the entire nations of Switzerland & Portugal combined. And San Altman’s buddies in this administration have been cutting all of our energy infrastructure upgrades

Thank you so much for the recent donations my friends 🥹🙏 Please dont forget about me. This most recent displacement has been so hard and so difficult. I dont know much longer this will continue. I still need help to survive this and cannot do it without you 🙏♥️ gofund.me/c717b6b35

We need to turn to lessons from the 60s & 70s with COINTELPRO destroying Black movements from the inside including with assassinations, & the MOVE bombing of the 80s. The same struggles repeat & there are elders with wisdom. And this is why we will not get through without centering Black struggle.

First: L O L Second: Part of my ever increasing cosmic angst is because I'm really having a hard time believing that people with any sort of power will ever 1. give even the daintiest shit about relevant history and 2. voluntarily change plans/projects/products for the better after step 1

The ENTIRE thread, but as someone in ed non-profits THIS It's brutal out there. Applications require like an hour because even though they have your LinkedIn AND a PDF of your resume, you have to enter it into whatever platform they're using (which ofc never auto-imports without lots of errors)

We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.

Marginalized folks know TONE and LANGUAGE CHOICE are only part of what’s being communicated. But those in the power majority are accustomed to spaces that value and demand the faux nicety of polite tones no matter the core message being shared. To them, sounding angry makes you wrong in any event.

The conversation between Klein and Coates showed me that a lot of people who screech about “infighting” on the left aren’t aware of the fact that marginalized people have been forced to learn how to regulate their emotions during conflict, and so, are better able to hear what’s actually being said.

This is not a paid advertisement. Subscribe at membership.theonion.com to receive the newspaper and see more print-exclusive content.

www.nbcnews.com/think/amp/nc... This is evergreen!

Black folk will tell you: The 1st thing cops say after an incident is always a lie.🤷🏿‍♂️ They lie because there's upside in it for them, and no downside. No matter how many times they get caught lying, newspapers will print their next lie as the gospel truth.🤡 And people stop caring before truth hits

Write a letter to your lawmakers using our action center tool urging them to vocally oppose journalist Mario Guevara's deportation. Guevara could be kicked out of the country as early as this week. He is legally authorized to work here and is not charged with any crime.

I really hope folks will take the time to read this. @sharai.bsky.social breaks down why we gotta stop using that word and how it isn't fucking cute to keep pretending we don't know

Used to be a HUGE npr nerd, but had to stop listening because the credulous platforming of blatant gaslighting & propaganda became too hard to swallow But this could get me and my pledge dollars back. Won't even ask for a tote bag, just get on real journalism that will speak truth to power

This Disability Employment Awareness Month, I'm going to judge companies that are aggressively rolling back work from home.

let the gourd times roll

'Suggesting that fascism is the result of mental illness neatly removes society’s complicity and role in the rise of fascism, and also allows anyone who is so inclined to shrug off responsibility. It also obscures how eugenics and disablism are very deeply entrenched in fascism.'

punk rock af

And now for today's good news ... a wonderful librarian now has a full time job getting people excited about books. All kinds of books. Even the diverse ones that the government doesn't want you to read.

Pete Hegseth is a basically a meat cybertruck

The fight for fat lib is the fight for trans rights, disability rights (including Mad rights), anti-racism, gender equality & others I'm probably forgetting. It's ALL about punishing the Other and denying people bodily autonomy & personhood. You can't truly be anti-fascist & support fatphobia.

Doesn't THIS feel like a prayer

just got my dna results back ☹️

Help Emad's family however you can: donate, repost