Anil Dash @anildash.com · 12hAnd media making it official policy to treat those attacks as fair game that they would not take seriously, report on, or treat as harmful — even when leveled at their own reporters. Now the White House points GamerGate at its targets daily, through the owners of the social platforms themselves. 121251
Reposted by Anil DashChris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 16hreally worth watching the whole thing play out... 1101482305
Reposted by Anil Dashdr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 29/09/2026the received wisdom of the dnc superfan is not nearly as unshakeable as they would have you believe. as a rule most don't believe in anything other than mirroring the establishment. move the establishment and they will play ball immediately 1042236
Reposted by Anil DashLuke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Every college in this country decided that expelling and/or sending the police to beat the shit out of their own students for the crime of being opposed to genocide was their top priority. That and giving Trump complete control of what they teach. Contrast that with how they treat rapists. 91935529
Reposted by Anil DashAnil Dash @anildash.com · 29/01/2026If you are a person who works in social media, and your job requires you to manage an account on Twitter/X, please ask your boss, in writing, to verify that you are required as a responsibility of your position to be on a platform that knowingly creates and monetizes child sexual abuse material … 122448860
Reposted by Anil DashDaniel @crabmusket.eurosky.social · 19hPer @anildash.com "being able to say, 'wherever you get your podcasts' is a radical statement." AT Protocol and ActivityPub allows you to say 'wherever you get your posts'. 0558
Reposted by Anil Dashcon questi nuovi ritmi americani (she/her) 🏳️⚧️🇵🇸🏳 @racheledini.bsky.social · 18hThread. 05513
Reposted by Anil DashKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 17h“Well, you see, I have to stay on the White Supremacist Child Porn Rape Victim Doxxing site because that’s where my community is” 303084655
Reposted by Anil DashMarc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 29/09/2026The government's AI chatbot is able to say something that no Trump nominee is allowed to. 593181956
Anil Dash @anildash.com · 29/09/2026Okay, just so we have a record: The Facebook Fake-Out, a record of Meta's tactic of transgressing, getting caught, waiting for things to blow over, and then breaking the rules again. I documented the pattern so we have a link to share for the next time they do it. www.anildash.com/2026/09/29/f...anildash.comThe Facebook Fake-out - Anil DashA blog about making culture. Since 1999. 518872
Reposted by Anil DashAlex Rikleen formerly for Senate @rikleen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026This clip from Katie Nolan on @pablo.show captures the vibe perfectly. It's been decades of stories where the villains and bad faith are obvious, but no one ever faces consequences. 538853
Reposted by Anil DashErin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 29/09/2026A thing I learned about Meta when I was trying to understand how their statements relate to their actions a few years ago is that *they just tell absolutely indefensible lies* and journalists almost always let them. They believed no one would ever punish them for it in any way that matters. 121247391
Reposted by Anil DashRuth Zakarin @ruthz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026New Democratic candidate talking point just dropped. 471996336
Reposted by Anil DashErica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Rahm Emanuel covered up the murder of a young, Black man, Laquan MacDonald, by the Chicago Police. He belongs in prison 1022962
Reposted by Anil DashHorizon to horizon, nothing but mistakes ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ @pewtergod.bsky.social · 29/09/2026And I'll never forget the LaQuan McDonald murder. Cop emptied his gun into him in front of other police, and they thought they could cover it up. Rahm Emanuel can never be allowed to make a political comeback. He is everything that is wrong with the big-money centrists who have controlled the DNC. 1616
Reposted by Anil DashAmanda Litman @amandalitman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I love the optimism about Dems winning in November - I share it! And: I'm a tiny bit nervous that winning will free folks of the urgency to fix deeper structural problems in our party that will fuck us in the long-haul if we don't grapple with them. 25709104
Reposted by Anil DashA.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026To people who don’t believe that Kermit the Frog is real: What is the basis for your morality? Where does your moral standard come from? 963599652
Anil Dash @anildash.com · 29/09/2026Hmm, deleted that post about the NYT story — looks like it’s there on me reloading the story from the version I’d loaded a few hrs ago. Not sure if there was an edit or I had an incomplete version of the story. Either way, glad to be wrong. 2400
Anil Dash @anildash.com · 29/09/2026You will be able to set your watch by the frequency with which Musk sets his minions on people during this case, using their usual tactics of death threats and doxxing. And media will cover none of it. 8889227
Reposted by Anil DashKat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 28/09/2026One of the Cornell students accused of gang rape, Scott Kretzschmar, denies it and says through his attorney that they are going to “confront” the survivor through the court system. I can already tell you that means victim-blaming, DARVO, and smears. She is going to need a lot more of our support. 443061689
Reposted by Anil DashNash @radiodeadair.com · 28/09/2026All it took was getting kicked out of the White House press room and suddenly CNN remembers that "lie" is a word. 434554898
Reposted by Anil DashMikki Kendall @karnythia.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026Every conversation about the Cornell case is irritating me because there is no way there was just one victim. Just one report. I need people to stop talking like no one had any idea they were rapists. Go crack open those middle school and high school records. 5406101
Anil Dash @anildash.com · 28/09/2026what's that, boss? you sent me a lengthy email? well, I had the AI read it! can feel myself getting more efficient by the minute. 5870
Reposted by Anil DashMoira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026You know when public attention can reverse a prosecutorial decision like this you almost get the sense that the decision to shrug it off in the first place was not based on an assessment of the quality of the evidence so much as an assessment of the seriousness of the crime. 363574827
Reposted by Anil DashMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026the cornell case has me thinking about christine blasey ford and how she so bravely testified in 2018 about how future supreme court justice brett kavanaugh had sexually assaulted her. i'm thinking about what i wrote at the time and how nothing has changed: 172256437
Reposted by Anil DashParis Marx @parismarx.com · 24/09/2026Just when I think I can’t hate OpenAI and Sam Altman any more, new details come out about how ChatGPT helped a shooter plan one of the worst mass shootings in Canadian history in Tumbler Ridge, BC. OpenAI made an explicit decision not to report the user to authorities.motherjones.comChatGPT helped the Tumbler Ridge school shooter focus on guns, tactics, and terror, our investigation revealsOpenAI’s chatbot fed the shooter’s violent fantasies and planning up to the massacre. 1633421484
Reposted by Anil DashKatelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 25/09/2026Parker Molloy just published this thoughtful piece tonight. It's worth a read imo. open.substack.com/pub/readtpa/...open.substack.comTrainwreckOld habits, especially embarrassing ones, die hard. 1846682
Reposted by Anil DashElectronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 28/09/2026Nobody wants to be on camera everywhere, all the time. Tell the world you’re saying “NO” to warrantless mass surveillance with this striking new EFF sticker; proceeds help us keep fighting for your privacy.shopeff.orgSurveillance Is For the Birds StickerYour movements are your business. Show your opposition to invasive surveillance with this bold EFF sticker. Featuring a striking black, white, and red design, it’s a reminder that our movements should... 213030
Reposted by Anil DashMozilla @mozilla.org · 24/09/2026While billionaires are cosplaying as astronauts Mozilla Fellows are bold enough to build alternative futures. Watch our for Rudy, Iara and Rose and you make your way through UNGA this week 👀 the future is still ours to build. bit.ly/4d0r6m7 014735
Reposted by Anil DashOliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026if we had a liberal tabloid we could have endless stories about young republican rape frenzy and not have to make a single thing up. 623543
Reposted by Anil DashAbdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 28/09/2026When I say we desperately need a Democratic doctor in the US Senate I mean it. 537159184418
Reposted by Anil DashRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Huge bummer when you’re just innocently trying to join and promote a movement that hates Black people, immigrants, and Jews — but then you discover that they have a dark side. apple.news/A9g-feRPSTme... 1133537562
Reposted by Anil DashNicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026The main reason you haven’t heard about campus sexual violence in a few years is because Trump and SCOTUS have made it much, much harder for survivors to come forward. You might vaguely remember that Title IX was a big battleground in his first term. And that we lost. 31790614
Reposted by Anil Dashalan51972.bsky.social @alan51972.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Trump is warning of a "final battle" against Democrats, who he calls "communists, Marxists, and fascists". He is using OUR taxpayer dollars to fund these ads calling us Democrats "the enemy". This is illegal and unconstitutional, like everything else he does. www.cnn.com/2026/09/27/p...cnn.comWhite House airs another government-funded ad, this time with Trump warning of ‘final battle’ | CNN PoliticsThe Trump administration is set to launch another overtly political campaign ad funded by taxpayer dollars, attacking the “fake news media” and “the sick political class that hates our country.” 1291069398
Reposted by Anil DashPop Base @popbase.tv · 28/09/2026Madonna reveals at the #VMAs that she personally DMed Sabrina Carpenter after her team took 5 days to respond to her collaboration request. 1443944
Reposted by Anil DashRebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Campus rape is really widespread; statistics suggest a significant percent of women who go to college will be raped there; feminism opened up a good conversation about it around 2012-13; it's weird when people treated Cornell like an isolated rather than dramatic example of a pervasive problem. 412401520
Reposted by Anil DashVoteHub @votehub.com · 28/09/2026NEWS — Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear criticizes fellow Democrats who say transgender athletes should be barred from women’s sports. “That is not the party that we are. We start as a party of compassion and empathy.” 6854981008
Anil Dash @anildash.com · 27/09/2026One of my favorite recent NFL traditions is the immediate turnover on the first drive, I’m not sure where the practice came from but it’s absolutely hysterical to watch it happen every time. 1291
Reposted by Anil DashMark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Here’s your periodic reminder that Howard Lutnick is still Commerce secretary despite blatantly lying to the public about his personal and business ties with child molester Jeffrey Epstein. 7340121110
Reposted by Anil DashButt Praxis @buttpraxis.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I will vote, make calls, knock doors, take up arms for whoever destroys the online gambling industry 171388182