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I know this is hardly the point but I really wish these western chauvinists would take more pride in western civilization and read a fucking book about it

Big tech is laying off user researchers in droves, because it believes that coercing its customers is more profitable than silly things like "making good products people want to buy." But now the FAFO pendulum is coming around, with Amazon's $2.5B dark pattern settlement and #a11y lawsuits galore.

We made jokes at the Thorns match last night. This is bullshit, all of it.

Basically this week: Trump: National Guard! Kotek: nah Trump: ok maybe? Hegseth: NATIONAL GUARD! Trump: YES! Trump-Appointed Judge Immergut: No Trump: CALIFORNIA GUARD! Judge Immergut: NO! Everyone else: wtf is happening, the ICE facility is literally one block.

That tiny trainer is not getting paid enough!

New high res graphic by @superlunaristarot at the @justseeds.bsky.social website: justseeds.org/graphic/no-i...

US gestapo has already unleashed teargas, smoke grenades and pepper bullets at protesters outside the ICE field office in Portland, OR. At least 3 people got brutally assaulted and arrested by federal agents, others with mace straight to the face from hardly an inch away. The violence is horrifying

You. Are. Allowed. To. Insult. The. Police. It’s a core First Amendment principle. This is utterly lawless behavior, for which there will be no (short-term) consequences. That he does it so casually, as they are walking away, in front of cameras. Rightly confident in his impunity.

Today is the International Day of Action for the Prairieland Defendants, marking the 90th day the Prairieland Defendants are held in jail. Along many others, we dropped a banner earlier today and are going to hold a letter writing session from 5-7pm.

ICE - a federal agency in which every salary & each weapon & all the paper clips are paid for by you & me ARRESTED A SITTING ALDERPERSON - a duly-elected queer Latina opposition politician & leader in Chicago's Latinx community AS THEY WERE SEEKING TO ARREST A PATIENT IN A HOSPTIAL

Let's be clear: Trump's attacks on "antifa" are an attack on America. www.theverge.com/policy/79051...

You can ask any priest to bless anything and they‘ll never refuse! I, an extremely lapsed Catholic, had the reactionary neighborhood priest over to do the Latin rites to bless our house and garden. He brought a seminarian and a good time was had by all.

GO DAWGS

That fucker ain’t coming anywhere near my spreadsheets (and shudder to think that if it’s this bad at math what it’s going to do with writing)

The language of non-consent around AI is really telling. "It's too late to be scared." "It's here whether we want it or not." "You'll have to learn to work with it." "You can't fight the inevitable." All just variations of "you're not allowed to say no." Creepy technology made by creepy people.

Ohio’s new age verification law targeting porn goes into effect today, which means people will either have to use a VPN or submit their IDs to use Bluesky. This is Project 2025 in action. The goal is to limit freedom and make it harder to access anything remotely progressive

Before any discussion of "political violence" in this context, reminder that fascists have long planned on going door-to-door murdering dissidents and they have already attempted this with Atlanta Antifa: truthout.org/articles/ant...

The Catholic Church is more in line with science than the current administration and holy shit

Weirdest part of 2025 Portland federal occupation has been seeing the coordinated disinfo campaign building up to it via my boomer liberal npr mom in texas via her relatives and friends on Facebook.

Oregon is #1 in the country for families with children who are unsheltered and we just cut eviction prevention by 74%!!

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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A script you can use if you’re not good at speaking on the spot.

Remember that we’re being lied to whenever we’re told that we can’t afford something that benefits families. Just a couple of weeks ago Congressional Republicans voted to make ICE richer than most of world’s militaries.

“AI” isn’t a tool or technology or even a cluster of technologies with a misleading name. It’s the infrastructure at the foundation of a form of capitalism dependent on data brokering. We should be teaching our students about this and not teaching them about “responsible” use.

"Whoever forbids Antifa, wants fascism! Make Antifa Great Again!" - Bayern Munich fans on Friday, right behind the goal, so guaranteed to be in the broadcast worldwide.

Since he’s crawled back into the limelight amid Trump’s crackdown on left-wing groups, here’s my 2019 profile of Andy Ngo. He’s an anti-antifa propagandist who has a history of whitewashing violent fascist groups, particularly in Portland. jewishcurrents.org/the-making-o...

thinking about how now that I'm five years older my body is gonna be way less resilient about getting thrown down the stairs by federal agents

Hm, @tinakotek.bsky.social can we plz trade YOU to South Korea for a politician that will stand up to authoritarianism?

Rest in power, Assata Shakur. "A wall is just a wall and nothing more at all. It can be broken down. I believe in living I believe in birth I believe in the sweat of love and in the fire of truth. And i believe that a lost ship steered by tired, seasick sailors, can still be guided home to port."

Shhh let them cook

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it). But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

there's a big problem with the culture here on bluesky, and it's that not nearly enough people are posting about the 10 year anniversary of Carly Rae Jepsen's groundbreaking and timeless album EMOTION being this year and how awesome that is

Vaccines cause adults Tylenol causes pain relief Neurodiversity is good

L’shana tova y’all! 🍎 🍯🎷

‘We are losing our archives. I mean this in the most literal of ways, as rising far right authoritarianism usurps and remakes the institutions that hold cultural memory and history; already filled with holes, they now feel like they could be obliterated into nothingness.’

Dear lord please rapture these assholes

“When a human graphic designer sits down to create a design, they typically leave layers in place that can be individually manipulated ... AI flattens everything so I have to manually separate out design elements...The fonts don't actually exist so they can't easily be matched.”

You belong here. #BAONPDX

the revolution will not be televised (they canceled their subscriptions)

"More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history." www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

The Trump administration’s attack on trans rights is more than a headache—it’s state-sanctioned endangerment. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

Folks, you can't report the United States to its manager. There's no superhero coming to save us. We don't need one giant act of heroism. We need millions of small acts of solidarity. Help one person in your community for nothing in return. Then, do it again. And again. That's the revolution.

Dave Klion did a Harpers Letter where are they now 5 years later piece in May of this year: www.thenation.com/article/soci...

"Our human life makes sense not because of artificial intelligence," he said, "but because of human beings and encounter, being with one another, creating relationships, and discovering in those human relationships also the presence of God."

I think, every so often, about how the student protesters in South Korea figured out there was a finite supply of tear gas, and then staged retreating marches that caused police to burn off most of it, before the big "bring your auntie and kids" marches that ultimately toppled the dictatorship.

You can do this OR you can type “Asian-style steak sauce recipe” into your phone like I did. One of those things is extremely embarrassing and makes you look like an inept dork, and the other takes five seconds and tells you how to make steak sauce.

liberals don't want to hear it but this, too, is genocide

Activists in Seattle just sent us this update from the Tesla showroom in South Lake Union. This is the heart of Seattle's tech core, blocks from Amazon HQ and Google's Seattle campus. We can win. We are winning. Keep pushing. #teslatakedown #MuskMustFall