Reposted by Cat PanderingMaria Bustillos @mariabustillos.com · 14hHOW had I never heard this wonderful and terrible word 0138
Reposted by Cat Panderinggeoffrey @parsnip.bsky.social · 01/10/2026there are moral arguments against the death penalty in its ideal form but in real life you never need to get there. the prior question is "can the state be trusted to end the life only of the rightly convicted without torture?" and the answer is no 423154768
Reposted by Cat PanderingMax Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 01/10/2026That's where I've been for a while. We can't even reach questions about the death penalty itself because we fail essential predicates such as "fair and consistent criminal justice system" and "reliable death penalty verdicts that leave no reasonable doubt" and, as shown tonight, "humane execution." 181328266
Reposted by Cat PanderingSam Thielmonster @samthielman.com · 30/09/2026The idea that you can make restitution to the family of a murder victim by murdering the murderer because society somehow owes the bereaved another death, is, frankly, sick 614413
Cat Pandering @coxn.skyquarium.org · 30/09/2026Thinking of folks in TN and popping in here to remind y’all that Capital Punishment is a dressed-up way of saying Premeditated Murder. Every defense of execution by the state falls apart when subjected to even a modicum of scrutiny. 010
Reposted by Cat PanderingNovelty Cistern @noveltycistern.bsky.social · 30/09/2026MY BRAIN: hey here's that time you were thoughtlessly rude to a friend. remember that embarrassing gift you gave to your first girlfriend. once you ran into someone ME: please..I am begging you. Can we remember some fucking French. why did I come into this room MY BRAIN: nope. once when you were 4 418136
Reposted by Cat Panderingemptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026In the "Unites States" of "Super Intelligence," "Issues Are Remediated" emptywheel.net/2026/09/30/i...emptywheel.netIn the "Unites States" of "Super Intelligence," "Issues Are Remediated" - emptywheelOnce you realize Trump's morally binding AI code doesn't even spell "United States" properly, the whole sham looks even more ominous. 67604173
Reposted by Cat PanderingTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026The gaps between job roles, job descriptions, and the work people actually do is pretty vast. I don’t mean the work that the procurement person who hires vendors does. I mean the work that people do across orgs. 741322
Reposted by Cat PanderingIlana Horn @ilanahorn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I research teachers' work. There is a known gap between public perception and the actual day-to-day experience of teaching that sociologist Dan Lortie poetically described as coming from "the apprenticeship of observation." This imagination/reality gap creates lots of problems in ed policy. 1012124
Reposted by Cat PanderingPrisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I attended a session last week where over 150 people were learning about election defense. A friend who has been organizing for months invited me. I was curious so I went. It struck me again how bifurcated so much about our current moment is. So much happening that you miss unless u pay attention. 214613
Reposted by Cat PanderingFaine Greenwood @faineg.com · 30/09/2026I would die for the Weird Puppies at the Sacramento SPCA 54889126
Reposted by Cat PanderingErin Keane @erinkeane.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Posted this in 2018. Still remember the night that prompted it. Still so relevant today. 🐝 🐝 🐝 41308250
Reposted by Cat PanderingMax Fenton @maxfenton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026On the one hand, Muse is vibe coded slop malware. On the other hand you could get a $32 check in 10 years if you let it build a stasi file on you and everyone you know or meet. 111835
Reposted by Cat PanderingErin 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. 121259397
Reposted by Cat Panderingevacide @evacide.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Meta Muse appears to read your Apple messages and upload them to the cloud even if you explicitly tell it not to: appleinsider.com/articles/26/...appleinsider.com 1001923996
Cat Pandering @coxn.skyquarium.org · 28/09/2026Just to yes-and here: software engineers are so famously bad at estimating the trade off time value for automating tasks they themselves perform that this comic exists xkcd.com/1205/xkcd.comIs It Worth the Time? 010
Reposted by Cat PanderingRebecca Williams @rebeccawilliams.info · 28/09/2026I tried this Signal registration w/ no phone number option 1) it was easy 2) it requires $2.99 payment to reduce scams, you can pay w/ a Google Gift Card (that you can buy in cash) if you took every other precaution (fresh phone/google account/delete logs, wifi only) that's close to a real burner 15521
Reposted by Cat PanderingDan O’Sullivan @osullyville.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Today I saw the new 4 hour documentary Musk, directed by Alex Gibney. There were too many times to count that a sold out theater burst out laughing at Elon Musk, something he said or did, even sometimes just how he looked. I believe that is his worst nightmare come to life. 14195102199
Reposted by Cat PanderingWill Oremus @willoremus.com · 26/09/2026Meta's platforms have repeatedly been caught running ads for deepfake "nudify" apps that let you virtually undress real people without their consent, but they won't run an a trailer for an upcoming documentary that reflects poorly on Elon Musk. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...hollywoodreporter.comThe Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for Alex Gibney’s ‘Musk’ (Exclusive)YouTube, TikTok and Meta have all turned down the trailer for the Oct. 9 doc, citing “political” content. X won't even take Bleecker Street's calls. The distributor is appealing. 411161519
Reposted by Cat PanderingBrian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Wild. This should create a Streisand effect, which Dem ranking members can enhance by sending the companies document preservation demands. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...hollywoodreporter.comThe Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for Alex Gibney’s ‘Musk’ (Exclusive)YouTube, TikTok and Meta have all turned down the trailer for the Oct. 9 doc, citing “political” content. X won't even take Bleecker Street's calls. The distributor is appealing. 211198350
Reposted by Cat Panderingconputer dipshit @davidcrespo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I’m sorry, but if you bring gypsum - or any damn mineral below 3 on the Mohs scale at all - to a job interview, you’re disqualified. It’s not hard, people. 562064282
Reposted by Cat PanderingJoyce Feral Oates 🏳️⚧️ @marthaharbison.northsky.social · 26/09/2026@jaykaydee.bsky.social said it and I'll second it: Reach out and I will take you birding. It will light up portions of your brain and heart that you forgot existed. We don't even need to be together: we can do it asynchronously. We can voice chat from our respective locations. 2161
Reposted by Cat PanderingEd @notdred.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Carefully laying out a row of these tiki glasses and unrolling my mixology set before saying a word to the interviewer 848932
Reposted by Cat PanderingU.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 25/09/2026Not sure if it would help for you to show up with a smoke alarm to a CPSC interview, but it would make for a pretty fun story. 1222325
Reposted by Cat PanderingDr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 23/09/2026This month's @motherjones.com cover is astounding. Reposted with alt text: 131102401
Cat Pandering @coxn.skyquarium.org · 23/09/2026Sarah has a real gift for turning what are objectively terrible events into a live thread. 010
Reposted by Cat PanderingChris Adamson @invalidname.me · 19/09/2026The Ford app just added AI. This is the greatest thing ever. 382316429
Reposted by Cat PanderingJason Kint @kint.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Eye popping. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft. Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1 4253582335
Reposted by Cat PanderingKathrin @puzzledpeaces.bsky.social · 16/09/2026I have literally forgotten to go to the pharmacy for so long the prescription became invalid. Twice. 2186
Reposted by Cat Panderingthe Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Yo. This is the union calling for a boycott. Here in America people like to say "Well I was already boycotting Starbucks!" No you were not. You were just choosing not to buy their stuff. That is not a boycott. A boycott is an organized, collective activity. "I" don't boycott: we do. 3639531859
Reposted by Cat Panderingonion person @junlper.beer · 11/09/2026it’s wild that the heritage foundation wrote in text that the assault on trans woman particularly in sports is their first step in their efforts to completely abolish all Title IX protections and liberals still don’t believe it’s about more than trans women in sports 7375802173
Reposted by Cat PanderingJacob Weindling @jakeweindling.bsky.social · 11/09/2026The weeks after 9/11 were filled with unhinged Islamophobia and any claim that we were completely united explicitly places them on the outside of who you consider to be American 282301434
Reposted by Cat PanderingMolly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Beware of anyone who is wistful about the aftermath of 9/11. It was a trauma blender of shock, grief, blood thirst, and racism— and it ushered in our surveillance state. 31590104
Reposted by Cat PanderingBill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Oh wait, someone has thought of this before! 922421705
Cat Pandering @coxn.skyquarium.org · 10/09/2026Can you imagine having over 300k followers and revealing that you have no idea how the term “blogging” shifted from 2001 to 2011? 010
Reposted by Cat Panderingjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/09/2026worth tying this into the political economy of the slave south as well. from roughly the 1820s onwards, slavery became enormously lucrative in ways that had never been seen before. slave traders became millionaires. large planters had tremendous purchasing power. just huge amounts of wealth. 8157211153
Reposted by Cat Panderingjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/09/2026to place the sexual and reproductive exploitation of black women at the center of your understanding of american slavery is to see that the system was forced birth and this, in turn, should lead to a more expansive vision of what the 13th amendment actually guarantees. 363072531
Reposted by Cat Panderingjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/09/2026yeah this is a separate conversation but one of the things that hasn’t quite bubbled up from scholarship into mainstream thinking is that american slavery was a system centered principally on reproduction. forced birth for capital accumulation is what it was 232231306
Reposted by Cat Pandering Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 07/09/2026MY CAT: Runs over the keyboad. GOOGLE AI OVERVIEW: A clever observation, you hit a very valid point. 750964
Reposted by Cat Panderingcaroline cash @cashbrowns.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Nancy 9/7/26 … Happy Labor Day 🛠️ 70149153718
Reposted by Cat PanderingDr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 07/09/2026Ronald Hayes signed on to a political ad he thought was going to be about gun control, and instead his words were used to lyingly imply that Roy Cooper improperly released the man that killed Hayes' son. And now repubs are like "he signed the release!" We need to make lying socially wrong again.ncnewsline.comNC father at center of US Senate ad says he was ‘swindled’ by GOP political operatives • NC NewslineRonald Hayes was cautious when he talked to a reporter this week about the political TV advertisement he appears in, talking about the death of his son Shemar, a college football player who was murder... 618050
Reposted by Cat PanderingA.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 06/09/2026"Why should my tax dollars go to giving houses to people who can't afford them?" Why should MY tax dollars should go to satisfying your desire to see desperate people living desperate lives? I'd rather save money and solve the problem, rather than spend money to exacerbate it. 152032403
Reposted by Cat PanderingA.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Our society's unfathomable cruelty to homeless people is not just morally unjustifiable, but more expensive than housing people would be. Cruelty against the homeless is an unaffordable luxury. Abandoning homeless people to avoid offending the Protestant work ethic is an unaffordable luxury. 5058552040
Reposted by Cat PanderingShiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 06/09/2026me: I just want to drink coffee and look out of my office window cat: no 362636350
Reposted by Cat PanderingAsheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 06/09/2026We know how to teach books in the age of AI: small classes, close reading, research-engaged learning (which is how you ’let students see you struggle’). The issue is nobody will hire and pay the requisite # of faculty to offer this. 11915243
Reposted by Cat PanderingOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 31/08/2026"Besides being deeply cynical, Chomsky’s supposed pragmatism has not stood the test of time...We may have manufactured consent once upon a time, but America has long since transitioned to a post-manufacturing economy." Very harsh but worthwhile read. strangematters.coop/noam-chomsky...strangematters.coopChomsky After Epstein - Strange MattersNoam Chomsky – friend of Epstein, defender of dictatorships – was no model anti-imperialist. Can we do better? 561578357
Reposted by Cat PanderingElizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 03/09/2026When I was volunteering at the COVID19 vaccine POD in 2021, people would say over and over again that they were getting vaccinated for the people they love. Last year, only 17.5% of American adults got the COVID19 vaccine. Please get one for the people you love. 💕 752177716
