hey @safety.bsky.app whats the policy for saying "WE WILL KILL YOU" and including a video of you actually killing people? asking for a state department

might seem trivial / overly tech nerdy but I'm genuinely annoyed that these takedowns happen at the PDS level and not the AppView level. the whole point is supposed to be that different appviews can make different calls on who's suspended

Just curious if the Bluesky Safety team is going to evenly apply their guidelines?

Chicago, let’s preemptively make this illegal, okay?

This seem to be a move to grant powers for domestic surveillance using tools usually intended for foreign targets.

The administration appears to be laying the groundwork for designating "antifa" as a Foreign Terrorist Organization. www.state.gov/releases/202...

Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.

Lmao

Do emails that notify the account owner of suspension currently mention which specific post triggered the suspension? (Because if not, they really should…)

Sarah’s THEY KNEW is literally about how the pervasive lack of transparency and accountability in governance makes conspiracy theories thrive and destroys civic trust. Feels a little on the nose.

Sarah Kendzior has never violated a TOS in her life. She doesn't even engage in back and forth arguments with other users. I don't know what she could possibly have done to be suspended. What the hell, @safety.bsky.app?

@pfrazee.com why was Sarah Kendzior suspended?

durbin sucks ass, of course, but it's telling of the rest of the senate dems that he has been allowed to be the senate whip for the party the entire time. this is the guy who's supposed to get *other* people in line

Abolish the Senate. I am absolutely dead serious.

Smoke Signal is an event & RSVP platform built on ATProto. @ngerakines.me just dropped a massive upgrade for organizers & attendees - a new design, profiles, rich text, integrated email notifications, private content for attendees, verified RSVPs, and even MCP support.

ICE agents in Chicago violently detain a non verbal autistic man for being “non compliant” He couldn’t “comply” because of his disability…they don’t care This is not the first time they’ve gone after a disabled person They target the most vulnerable because it’s an easy way to meet their quota

SCOOP: YouTube deleted accounts of 3 major Palestinian human rights organizations— Al-Haq, Al Mezan, and the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights — as a part of the Trump admin's campaign to stifle accountability for alleged Israeli war crimes. ✍🏽w/ Nikita Mazurov theintercept.com/2025/11/04/y...

It's insane that this even needs to be said. “A free country does not dispatch police in the dead of night to pull people from their homes because a sheriff objects to their social media posts,” @adamsteinbaugh.bsky.social speaking to @willoremus.com. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

Smash your Ring doorbell to pieces first thing today if you haven’t already.

Daylight Savings Time is strange to me. We would rather change their clocks rather than change the conventional work day to start later in the winter. It seems our modern idea of work is more immutable than clocks, our relation to the sun, and time itself.

In areas with increased SNAP take-up rates, grocery prices increased *less*

this is something that individual members of Congress could do tomorrow. The government is shut down so they could use their district offices. I suggested in January that they turn those offices into full on community centers where people could find each other re: mutual aid etc...

Grocery stores run on razor-thin margins. The overnight disappearance of the demand stimulated by food stamps will be very bad for their business. Bad enough to exacerbate food deserts. Bad enough to put downward pressure on the overall food supply.

Damn. It’s now become cystal clear that, like Pritzker, Johnson’s gonna use his uniformed muscle to run interference for ICE. We’re on our own.

coop bluesky now

"It’s no accident that US political operatives have been singling out Bluesky as a target for political control and retribution for months." The open networks of Bluesky & Mastodon are the only social media networks not yet under the Trump admin's thumb.

$40 billion to Argentina’s right-wing government. The entire USAID budget was $34 billion.

everyone: we don’t want kings rightwing media: this is a confusing protest line, no one is claiming trump is a king the entire trump administration:

For the moment I'm going to assume this is an automatic take down by maga brigading. But Bluesky moderation is about to be completely broken by the .gov accounts, and their chuds that they are encouraging to join.

A reminder: nothing is truly private on Bluesky. Blocked accounts can still find ways to see your posts. That said, the point of blocking is to starve trolls of oxygen (and these accounts are now all only staffed by DOGE trolls) & to keep your own peace of mind as close to intact as possible.

Before blocking please also consider a small act of resistance that doesn't require feeding any trolls. Every small act of citizenship slows down the propaganda apparatus.

📣 Reporters covering #NoKings protests in Chicago over the weekend may want to print this latest temporary restraining order that prohibits federal agents from using excessive force against journalists and peaceful protesters. 🖨️ storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

GET RID OF YOUR RING CAMERAS www.yahoo.com/news/article...

bluesky is boldly asking the question: what if loading links took longer?

"Had I so interfered in behalf of the rich, the powerful... or any of their friends, and suffered and sacrificed what I have in this interference... every man in this court would have deemed it an act worthy of reward rather than punishment." www.marxists.org/archive/brow... #DismantleWhiteness

Win-win-win

Let’s talk about AI art. theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art

This from @realgdt.bsky.social talking about 'Frankenstein' is so good.

tailscale is so nice for turning your homeserver into a git host and not having to expose any SSH port publicly

ICE getting tailed like it’s a heist movie. Chicago is turning the tables.

The global whaling industry experienced a boom c. 1840-1950 as technology allowed whalers to hunt the Southern Ocean around Antarctica. Under standard models, we would have expected krill populations to have *exploded*. Instead, they DROPPED exponentially. Let's talk about the KRILL PARADOX.

endlessly embarrassing that the powers that be here banned Link. just disqualifying.

Really quite bad that it *appears* that @jay.bsky.team wsnted someone banned because she found him annoying and had @support.bsky.team invent a completely Orwellian excuse based on a nonsense reading of his BSky posts This is the kind of behavior we expect from the Twitter leadership ….

Kinda odd that the reason they denied his appeal seems to be different than the explanation for why they suspended him in the first place. People putting their head in the sand saying "I don't understand why people are mad." Cmon. Side with management if you want but don't be wilfully ignorant.

NEW: After paying for hotel rooms to shelter homeless people, Seattle deliberately left them vacant. By the end of 2024, taxpayers were spending $4,200 a month per empty room at a time when thousands of residents were without a roof over their heads.

The regime's desire for authoritarianism is bottomless, but their capacity is not. Not even close. They rely on bluster and memes to make up the difference. The threat is real, but less powerful than they say. Freedom-loving Americans outnumber them by a lot. Communities can resist. Like this one:

NEW: breach of Discord age verification data. Including some users passports & DLs Age verification is a badly implemented data grab wrapped in a moral panic. Mark my words, as age verification mandates expand, we'll end up more surveilled and less secure. 1/

connect the dots

When you take a leadership position, that means that when people have complaints, they will lay them at your feet. Calling that “harassment” is an announcement of incompetence and weakness. You want people to populate your site/protocol where people share opinions, Jay …