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@bratling.bsky.social
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Human rights are non-negotiable. He/him I’m also found at hachyderm.io/@bratling

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Nora Benavidez @attorneynora.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I just learned that reporter Luis Galeano has been detained in Miami by ICE. This is part of wider trend by the US govt to target immigrant reporters, violating core US press freedom principles. Galeano is from Nicaragua & is believed to have a pending asylum case in the US. I will report more ASAP.
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Bratling @bratling.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
A moment of joy amidst miserable world news:
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Bratling @bratling.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Well this is new: Apple literally lies about requiring a Keynote upgrade. This appears every time I share a Keynote presentation since Apple Creator Studio launched. It shares just fine. It's editable on iCloud. It displays fine on my colleague's Android phone. Something is rotten in Cupertino.
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Bratling @bratling.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
So glad to see people like de With joining where they can help to fix the mess Alan Dye has made of Mac and iOS interfaces.
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Bratling @bratling.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
If the US were a South American country, headlines would be “Trump Death Squads kill another innocent citizen”, not “Federal officers shoot person in Minneapolis”
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Bratling @bratling.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
I see we have reached stochastic ICE killings.
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Tim Recuber @timrecuber.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Should be a front page story in every major news outlet tomorrow but our major news outlets don’t cover Trump like that anymore www.kenklippenstein.com/p/leak-fbi-l...
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FBI Making List of American “Extremists,” Leaked Memo Reveals
Are you on Trump's naughty list?
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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · 14/07/2025
This ain’t about abortion, it’s about punishing folks who can’t afford private care and women who dare to demand control over their own bodies. Shutting down clinics means more undiagnosed cancer, more untreated STIs, and more folks left out here with nowhere to turn.
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Bratling @bratling.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Happy Anniversary to the Republican Party!
black and white photograph of Watergate hotel in 1972. exterior, the main hotel sign is visible at left and the hotel curves up next to it like a dated vision of the future.
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Bratling @bratling.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Let’s all get excited for the Republican party’s Big, Beautiful Tax Hike on people who work for a living. Remember, it’s patriotic to give your earnings to the wealthy! apnews.com/article/trum...
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GOP tax bill would cost poor Americans $1,600 a year and boost highest earners by $12,000, CBO says
The Republican tax bill approved by the House would cost the poorest Americans roughly $1,600 a year while increasing the income of the wealthiest households by an average of $12,000 annually.
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Martha Wells @marthawells.com · 18/05/2025
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INTERVIEW: ‘Murderbot’ Showrunners Paul And Chris Weitz Discuss The Making Of The Series And Potential Future Seasons
Nexus Point News sat down with the Weitz brothers to explore how Murderbot made the leap from page to screen, the creative challenges they faced, their inspirations, and what audiences can expect from...
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Sen. Adam Schiff @schiff.senate.gov · 11/05/2025
Article I, Section 9, Clause 8: “no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.”
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Cooperstreaming ♿️ @cooperstreaming.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
It's crazy to discover how many people believe they love you, but will walk all over you when they know you have no way to hold them accountable, and no means of fighting back ♿
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Bratling @bratling.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
You’re not wrong. But it is a choice to enforce that which is easy to measure, rather than what is a danger. The danger is distracted, impaired, or reckless driving. Speed is just a subset. If we put governors on cars, can we also _please_ mandate blocking messaging apps while in moving cars?
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Bratling @bratling.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
ICE has again deported a US citizen child with cancer. No medical provisions were made, a violation of ICE policy. This is systemic cruelty backed by a psychopath in chief.
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Bratling @bratling.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
a badly needed chuckle:
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Bratling @bratling.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
beautiful aurora borealis video:
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Bratling @bratling.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
a little visibility for Glenn Fleishman’s Six Centuries of Type and Printing kickstarter. so close to being over the finish line! if you love history and/or typography, check out this project and consider backing it. www.kickstarter.com/projects/gle...
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Six Centuries of Type & Printing: New Edition
Help create an affordably priced version of this book that spans 600 years of the history of typography, type casting, and printing
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WCVB NewsCenter 5, Boston @wcvb5.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
US senator traveling to El Salvador to check on Kilmar Abrego Garcia | Click on the image to read the full story
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US senator traveling to El Salvador to check on Kilmar Abrego Garcia
U.S. Sen. Chris Van Hollen of Maryland announced Tuesday night that he will travel to El Salvador to check on Kilmar Abrego Garcia's condition.
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Cooperstreaming ♿️ @cooperstreaming.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Call me crazy but I don't think it should cost $150,000 to $200,000 walk again, especially if there's only a 50/50 chance it will work. But imagine if I lived in a place where they invested in healthcare. Logically they'd get 25-30 more years of work out of me. It would pay for itself 20x over.
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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Fourth Circuit panel, including conservative icon J. Harvie Wilkinson, unanimous in rejecting Trump administration position in case of El Salvador abductee Abrego Garcia.
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Bratling @bratling.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Trump is really leaning into the mafia extortion racket thing: “They want to talk but there’s no talk unless they pay us a lot of money on a yearly basis.” Mafia nickname: ‘Donald “RICO” Trump’ www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...
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Trump says Federal Reserve should cut rates as markets plunge after tariffs – US politics live
US economic council head denies tariffs were part of strategy to crash financial markets and pressure fed to cut interest rates
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Yaroslava @strategywoman.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
5:10 am in Kyiv. Explosions. Kyiv is under ballistic missiles’ attack.
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Bratling @bratling.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
erika hall is smarter than i am. you should follow her.
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Bratling @bratling.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
The Senator from CT nails it: Trump's tariffs are "a means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief." Which is all of them.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Sometimes you just have to ask—why? The Senate voted to strike down a rule capping most bank overdraft fees at $5, a measure introduced by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau that was expected to save Americans billions each year.
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Bratling @bratling.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Today in "Android is Open": Android development work in AOSP will now be private. This is done to reduce Google's costs. Google says "this will allow developers to focus on supporting their apps"… weak sauce. arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...
arstechnica.com
Google makes Android development private, will continue open source releases
Google says this change will simplify things for developers and OEMs.
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Bratling @bratling.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Figma quietly installed some sort of background process during an update. This is not your Mac, @figma.com Product Managers! Do not install things without user permission. NOT OK. (Thanks, macOS, for telling me when an app does this particular anti-pattern.)
Screenshot of a MacOS notification. It says:
Login Item Added
"FigmaAgent" will open automatically when you log in. You can manage extensions in Login Items & Extensions.
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Bratling @bratling.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
It’s adorable that DOJ thinks there is a chance in heck of this happening. arstechnica.com/google/2025/...
arstechnica.com
DOJ: Google must sell Chrome, Android could be next
Google says government proposals would “harm America’s consumers.”…
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Bratling @bratling.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
science is faith. it is a faith of doubt, questioning, evidence, empiricism, and change. science is my religion.
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Bratling @bratling.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
America’s Slumlord in Chief is making sure he never has to deal with uppity tenants again.
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Bratling @bratling.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Hey Jeff…
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Aiyana White @aiyanaewhite.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
If you want America without Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, this is what you’re asking for. And the answer is no.
“White” and (much smaller, lower) “Colored” water fountains side by side in an old timey hallway. Photograph by Danny Lyon, early 1960s.
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Bratling @bratling.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Wow. i didn’t expect Bezos to turn WaPo into Fox but he just did. no wonder their website header no longer says “democracy dies in darkness”. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/b...
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Bezos’ Directive for Washington Post Opinion Pages Leads to Editor David Shipley’s Exit (Gift Article)
David Shipley, The Post’s opinion editor, is resigning after trying to persuade Jeff Bezos to reconsider the new direction.
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Bratling @bratling.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
This explains the WARC file format. xkcd.com/3052/
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Archive Request
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Bratling @bratling.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
@discord.com, why _this_ still a thing you do every single time I open the app? Someone _please_ tell your product managers that Electron apps don't have to be THIS shitty. Silent app updates is a solved problem, and it's ridiculous you do this to us every time. Ugh.
Screenshot of the Discord app at startup, showing a progress bar with the text "Downloading update 6 of 7…"
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Bratling @bratling.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
TIL “competitive authoritarianism”. It is a really helpful model for understanding how Trump has come to power. It is also hopeful, because such regimes are unstable, with many cases of collapsing back into democracies scholar.harvard.edu/levitsky/fil...
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Bratling @bratling.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
i just realized: people who complain about “virtue signaling” are themselves virtual signaling to the other racists 🤔
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Bratling @bratling.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
if we treat life expectancy as a proxy for general well being of a population then it makes sense. trump’s hate-based politics won’t appeal so much to happy, healthy and prosperous people, but if you’re badly off, then voting for the outsider makes sense
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Bratling @bratling.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
the high cost of being poor is especially high in CT:
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Bratling @bratling.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
bleak humor but i still laughed.
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Bratling @bratling.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
vultures and hyenas are the charismatic megafauna of decomposers. i wonder if worms and fungi and bugs get annoyed at how the megafauna get all the attention and glamour photos
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Bratling @bratling.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
introducing Spotify’s Perfect Fit Music program: “music commissioned to fit a certain playlist/mood with improved margins”. nicely circumventing that annoying problem of having to pay royalties to actual songwriters and performers harpers.org/archive/2025...
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The Ghosts in the Machine, by Liz Pelly
Spotify’s plot against musicians
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Bratling @bratling.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
Keep thinking about how publicly held companies like Amazon, Starbucks and Walmart are in essence unions for owners, yet fight tooth and nail the creation of unions for workers. How is that fair again?
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Bratling @bratling.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
The children’s gifts are wrapped. Now to go to CVS for Sertraline and phenobarbital. Christmas joy!
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Bratling @bratling.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
Codingfont.com is fun. I learned that Fira Code is my favorite sans-serif code font, followed by Roboto Mono and DM Mono. DM has some gorgeous descenders; Roboto is exceedingly clear; but Fira’s ligatures and clean geometry wins my heart.
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Bratling @bratling.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
For @cooperstreaming.bsky.social … the insurance problem is system-wide now.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/12/2024
when you have anti-DEI proponents openly going after black military officers for recruiting from HBCUs and suing schools for their black and Hispanic enrollment *even after the schools ended any racial preferences* then the only honest label for these people is "segregationist"
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Nadine Smith @nadinesmith.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
My New Year’s Resolution. What’s yours?
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