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Colette Alexander

@colettecello.bsky.social
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I'm a cellist, mom, President of @resilienceinsoftware.org, co-host of @thisisfinepod.com, ex-HashiCorp, ex-Spotify. Talk to me about resilience engineering 💜

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Mr. Fahrenheit @mrfahrenheit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
“It’s kind of a let’s-take-matters-into-your-own-hands situation. No one’s coming to save us; we have to save ourselves.”
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Inside the clandestine network of abortion-pill mules
“There may come a time where we are one of the only, if not the only, option for the nation.”
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Thinking of that time after Biden got elected, when a VERY fancy lawyer and Dem strategist called me on the phone like, “Moira, everyone at my firm is mad that the Title IX rules are going to be stricter, because it will be bad for our university clients to have to punish rape.”
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Time for this classic again.
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👻 🎃 🦇 Bela Lughosti's Dad 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸 @belalugosisdad.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This is fucking stupid. The Mountain Goats solved infinite personalised music 20 years ago.
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ali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · 30/09/2026
shutting down frat houses won't end rape culture, but it will disorganize a lot of rapists, and i think that's probably worth doing if only to destabilize what is apparently an ecology of organizations that functionally exist to rape women per the whole "purpose of a system is what it does" insight.
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Gary Alexander @garyalexander.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Greek life is so cool because, even if they aren't cooking meth in the basement and some are, they create similar disincentives to blow the whistle or confront other members as the mafia: doing the right thing risks blowing up your housing situation, current social life, and future networks.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This is the trailer that all the major platforms refuse to run as a paid ad:
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Mayfair Cynic @mayfaircynic.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
xkcd.com/1494/
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Insurance
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John Allspaw @allspaw.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
www.adaptivecapacitylabs.com/2026/08/24/t...
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There is more to code review than (automatable) detection
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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Happy Kicked In The Head By A Horse Day, to all who celebrate. It's the 7th anniversary of this absolute banger.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 23/09/2026
Haven't seen a better AI explainer than this one (even if it somewhat overstates the AI safety stuff) www.instagram.com/reel/Ddlt1kR...
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Glen Peters @glenpeters.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
When I think of the Strait of Hormuz & the discussions on whether it leads to a change in emissions trajectory as people get off oil-based products, I think of this graph... It took 4-5 years for aviation to fully rebound after COVID! Figure from here: robbieandrew.github.io/internationa...
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 22/09/2026
They get washed, fed, a sixteen slide PowerPoint presentation on how to raid people’s garbage
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alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
THREAD. Did you know that Minneapolis police deployed 101 personnel to a 7-person vigil held one morning at Renee Good's memorial? The cops generated $1.92 million in overtime cash for themselves.
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alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Anyone who wants to understand how policing works in the U.S. needs to read this incredible local investigation about what Minneapolis police did after feds killed Renee Good.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21/09/2026
i mean, just look at how the populists talked about the railroad barons and others like them. "The fruits of the toil of millions are boldly stolen to build up colossal fortunes, unprecedented in the history of the world, while their possessors despise the republic and endanger liberty."
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
SHERMAN!!
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
They are obsessed with Piker because they believe they can successfully deplatform him. They don't think that they can defeat fascists. Hope that helps.
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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
It’s very simple. A reality TV host became dictator because he turned down a role for Sharknado 4 and that’s why the king of outer space, who cheats at Diablo, got to kill Africa. Now the economy is controlled by a sex cult that has something to do with Harry Potter fanfic because of robots.
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
New: Macklemore will donate entire $1M of his earnings from Ed Sheeran's tour to six orgs helping Palestinians — and invites Robert Kraft to match him. Says he wants to center Palestinians being killed + journalists & aid workers who keep going. "Their risk is of a far different order than mine."
With everything that has happened over the last 48 hours, I want to bring the conversation back to where it belongs: to the Palestinian people who are still being killed, still living under military occupation, and still fighting for their freedom.
I will be donating the entire $1 million of my net earnings from Ed Sheeran's Loop Tour to six organizations working directly to support the Palestinian people. And I invite Robert Kraft to match my donation. Whatever we disagree about, perhaps we can agree on this: Palestinian lives are worth protecting. A Palestinian life is no less valuable than any other life on this earth.
That is what this has always been about. Not me. Not a tour. Not the headlines or the controversy. It is about Palestinians right to freedom, dignity and safety in their own homeland. I want to center the parents carrying their children into hospitals without the basic resources to treat them, and the physicians, paramedics, journalists and aid workers who keep going back in. I want to center the organizers and activists who have paid real costs for standing with Palestine. Their risk is of a far different order than mine.
Just yesterday, 15 year old Muhammad al Zinati was killed in an Israeli strike while rushing to help aid worker Sherif Lubbad, who had already been injured. He was a child. Both were murdered. Both should be alive. And the ones still under the rubble, whose names exist only in the memories of people who may not have survived to speak them. Writing a check is one of the least costly forms of solidarity available to me. I am doing it because I can, and because these organizations are doing the work while much of the world debates it.
But aid alone cannot address the conditions that make it necessary. This is a manmade injustice, and I believe it requires immediate political change. Palestinians have lived for decades without basic rights and should not have to wait another day to be free. That is where my focus will remain. I will …
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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
my guess is that most americans do not perceive these deportations for what they are -- systematic crimes, under a framework directed at the highest levels of government, the evidence of which is in this defiance (inter alia). the rest of the world would rightly call this crimes against humanity.
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Hildur Knútsdóttir @hildur.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
This post is making the rounds again for some reason and therefore I feel I must inform you that they’ve hired another one so there are now TWO forensic pathologists working in Iceland.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
DOGE: "What if Chernobyl, but dumber?"
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Colette Alexander @colettecello.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
This is bad bad bad...
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Patrick Monahan @pattymo.com · 06/09/2026
Homer protecting his sugar
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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
i resent that inside out 2 is temporarily improving my mental health
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the hype @thehyyyype.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
The Strait of Hormuz is open for transit
Scene of Mario jumping around to avoid all the spinning fire sticks in the original Super Mario Bros game
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Ellie Mae O'Hagan @elliemaeohagan.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I love the dedication in My Life on the Road by Gloria Steinhem
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UN Environment Programme @unep.org · 02/09/2026
Global warming is set to cross 1.5°C, pushing climate risks and impacts to increasingly dangerous heights, a new UNEP report warns.   Predicted impacts include extreme weather and threats to human health and economies.
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Andrew R @excelpope.net · 02/09/2026
I enjoyed the NatGeo thing about 9/11 but this bit really struck me. It's barely a full-formed thought, but if you're already at the stage where dead children are just business as usual then maybe terrorist attacks aren't your biggest threat.
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
for example maybe the next administration renames the lake “Sundar Pichai is a Bitch” i’m just spitballing here
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Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
the year is 2027. gas costs $83 and lettuce is at war with us. however every location on every map now says AMERICA
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2amcoffee @2am.coffee · 15/01/2025
Dog Show Judge: A single hair is out of place on the left ear. Fifteen demerits. Get this beast out of here, disgusting! Cat Show Judge: This fluffy child can do no wrong, fifty thousand points and fifty thousand smooches mwa mwa mwa
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
if you're looking for the cause of declining good union manufacturing jobs over the last 50 years, domestic competition from right-to-work sunbelt states is a much bigger deal than foreign competition from free trade.
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Astra Taylor @astra.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Every time a right winger points and laughs at a socialist who was born rich, it should be understood as a desperate attempt to justify their own moral failure to themselves. If you grew up rich and are now a leftist and someone points that out, the proper response is: “Yes I am. Why aren’t you?”
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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
All rich kids should be socialists. It is good actually. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/never-apol...
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Never Apologize For Being a Class Traitor
All rich kids should be socialists.
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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 24/08/2026
Here are 3 minutes of unedited sanderling joy from right before sunset tonight 🥹 🪶
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The Onion @theonion.com · 23/08/2026
Democratic Socialism: Myth Vs. Fact theonion.com/democratic-socialism-m…
MYTH: The workers of the world must unite and seize the means of production from the ruling class by force if necessary.

FACT: The workers of the world should politely ask if they can have Labor Day off this year.
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Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Gary, Indiana has been without power almost 2 weeks.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 23/08/2026
I hope everyone caught this Lancet study confirming that Elon Musk & DOGE are responsible for genocidal levels of suffering & death.
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Evaluating the impact of two decades of USAID interventions and projecting the effects of defunding on mortality up to 2030: a retrospective impact evaluation and forecasting analysis
USAID funding has significantly contributed to the reduction in adult and child mortality across low-income and middle-income countries over the past two decades. Our estimates show that, unless the a...
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ᴢᴇɴ sɪᴍᴍᴏɴs @killlthehype.blacksky.app · 23/08/2026
16 months ago: Never forget how it started.
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Not to be some wild-eyed innocent, but I think it should be slightly bigger news that The Lancet have crunched the numbers and found that Musk's USAID cuts will kill 14 million people. And that's just by 2030. That's 9,600 people a day, every day, until the next world cup rolls around.
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
these guys take it as a given that they would survive and thrive in a world of heightened academic scrutiny despite practicing warmed over pseudoscience
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Ms. K tweets @whatmsksaid.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
hey community, we have another amazing columbia heights teacher’s wishlist. Devon is going into his 5th year teaching and is one of the .5% of Black male teachers in MN. he held it down in his classroom & school community during Operation Metro Surge. 🎁 🎁: www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...
With the school year starting next week, I am excited to be able to start my 5th year as a teacher. After a year of traumatic experiences that our students and community had to endure, I am hoping to come in with a focus on helping students find their love and joy in the classroom again this year. If you are able to support the students in my classroom, it would go a long way for an amazing group of kids and I would greatly appreciate it.
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 22/08/2026
Everything laid out in Project 2025 was talked about openly as far back as 2010, and amplified by big VCs as far back as 2014, but most big CEOs didn’t start to fall in line until 2017 or so. By 2020, they pushed out most execs who didn’t agree with (or at least silently accept) this thinking.
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 22/08/2026
It’s worse than this. Having been in the room with many of them (long ago, before I knew they were psychopaths), the tycoons who are left running the industry have an active contempt for ordinary people, including their own workers. They actively want to oppress, control and punish them.
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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
“A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it would replace, according to a new preprint study led by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health.” ysph.yale.edu/news-article...
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Universal Health Coverage Could Save $1 Trillion and 114,000 Lives Every Year, Yale Study Projects
A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 10/08/2026
If it looks like an Amazon delivery and drives like an Amazon delivery, then it's an Amazon delivery, right? Not according to Amazon. Big companies like Amazon have built a vast network of subcontractors who deliver their packages while shielding them from accountability.
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Crip Dyke @cripdyke.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Gov't to Citizen's United: "Money is speech, spend it how you want, the gov't can't stop you." Gov't to Citizens Who Think Cash Bail is Stupid: "Money is criminal conspiracy and we will put you in jail for spending it in ways we don't like."
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