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@craigickler.bsky.social
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Passionate about building worker and community power and ownership in Cleveland. Energy Democracy ~Influencer~ He/him

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In These Times @inthesetimes.com · 30/08/2026
Former Post-Gazette strikers wanted to return to their newsroom. Instead, they built one they control. @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social speaks with the worker-owners of the @pittsburghprogress.bsky.social about determining their own future.
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Former Strikers Start Cooperative News Organization
Following firings from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, workers and community members came together to create the Pittsburgh Progress.
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Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Karen fuckin rules, suck shit Bezos
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Save Ohio Parks @saveohioparks.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
@twrader.bsky.social wants Dayton public hearings on AES Ohio acquisition by AI player BlackRock @nckevns.bsky.social @ohiocapitaljournal.com: bit.ly/4wIbTNf PUCO needs to protect 540,000 consumers from rising electric prices, not be "assured" of keeping an HQ and jobs. @mcdemocrats.bsky.social
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Ohio lawmaker pushes for local hearings before PUCO decides on Dayton utility purchase • Ohio Capital Journal
Ohio state Rep. Tristan Rader, D-Lakewood, wants state regulators to take a close look at a plan to purchase Dayton’s electric utility, AES. The $10.7 billion deal would take the utility private — put...
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Comp Dot Co-Op @compdotco-op.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
If joke correctors would like help forming a worker-owned co-op to maintain job stability in this kind of market, get in touch. We'll even help you unionize.
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 10/08/2026
thinking about what one trillion dollars of investment in clean energy would look like and getting so mad i need to lie down with the lights off
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craigickler.bsky.social @craigickler.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Ohio is very charismatic!!!
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craigickler.bsky.social @craigickler.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
THEY SAID IT WOULD NEVER HAPPEN BUT LOOK AT US NOW neo-trans.blog/2026/07/27/n...
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PM2.5 Kills ~9 Million People Each Year Worldwide @tkovach.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
The picture of Messi bathing Lamine Yamal. In the upper left corner, an adult Yamal in his Spain jersey screams You shoulda killed me
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chris “bluesky” poster @chrisrd19.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
It’s like when your food is taking a long time to come out so your server brings some free bread to apologize for the wait.
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craigickler.bsky.social @craigickler.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
It’s us and the billionaires vs the trillionaire ✊
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Chris Steller @chrissteller.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Book cover shows large hands holding midsection of USA: THE MIDWEST:
GOD'S GIFT TO PLANET EARTH!
AN ILLUSTRATED GUIDE TO THE HISTORY AND CULTURE
OF THE GALAXY'S MOST IMPORTANT REGION.
RAYGUN
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trevin @trevinflickinger.com · 16/05/2026
www.ourrei.com/boycott
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Pledge to Boycott REI
Learn why co-op members are boycotting REI after years of broken promises and anti-worker, anti-democratic behavior.
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Jonathan Welle @wellejonathan.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
I blame LBJ.
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Wim Carton @wimcarton.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
"In Guyang-ri, a farming village of 70 households south-east of Seoul, people gather for communal free lunches six days a week. The meals are funded by the village’s one-megawatt solar installation, which generates roughly $6,800 in net profit each month." www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
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How South Korea plans to use the Iran crisis to spur a renewables revolution
Energy crisis unfolding in Middle East has added political urgency, and more funding, to transform South Korea’s solar industry
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REI Union @reiunion.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Visit BoycottREI.com today to pledge, then spread the word to every REI member you know. It’s time we show REI loud and clear: No contract, no gear. #BoycottREI
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Vote to Boycott REI
Learn why co-op members are boycotting REI after years of broken promises and anti-worker, anti-democratic behavior.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 22/03/2026
here you go
A woman in four frames wearing different colored glasses—clear, mirrored, white, and blue—each labeled with power grid options: existing, solar, mixed sources, and just wind power.
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Arrianna Marie Planey, PhD MA @arrianna-planey.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
"These workers are required to stare at horrific content for many hours straight with few mental health resources, are largely managed by opaque algorithms, and, crucially, are the workers powering the runaway valuations of some of the richest and most powerful companies in the world."
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'AI Is African Intelligence': The Workers Who Train AI Are Fighting Back
Kenyan workers are still the underpaid labor behind AI training, moderation, and sex chatbots. The Data Labelers Association is fighting back.
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craigickler.bsky.social @craigickler.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Everything truly is Ohio
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craigickler.bsky.social @craigickler.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
😎
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 07/03/2026
Thing that really gets my goat is the way people are eager to fund this bullshit but you need eleven layers of analysis and a ton of collateral if you want to open a small grocery store in a food desert.
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Jacob @iacobuscaesar.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Nice AI-image-generating tool, but it will never be as great an artist as Onfim, a child who lived in the Novgorod Republic in the mid-1200s and who scribbled these drawings and schoolwork writings on birch bark at the age of 6 or 7.
Onfim’s drawing of himself on horseback as a warrior defeating an enemy.Two of Onfim’s works.  On the left is a copy of a passage from the Book of Psalms he did for schoolwork.  On the right is an apparently autobiographical depiction of a monster labeled with “I am a wild beast.”Some more spelling practice by Onfim with some human figures who have round heads and varying numbers of fingers on their big hands.Onfim’s writing practice accompanied by 7 little people in his particular drawing style, who tend to have very big hands with many fingers.
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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Said it before, but really just a remarkable feat that @patrickwyman.bsky.social's Past Lives has taken on as its first subject the verifiable extant lives of enslaved individuals in the historical record, then expands from thin detail to create fuller portraiture. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...
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Moll and the Indian Slave Trade in Colonial America (18th Century)
Podcast Episode · Past Lives · February 18 · 25m
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J.C. Bradbury @jcbradbury.com · 19/02/2026
These people have no shame.
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Cavs, Guardians eye same unclaimed state funds as Browns – which could help Gateway pay for stadium repairs
The Cleveland Cavaliers and Cleveland Guardians have applied for $105 million from the same account of unclaimed state funds that lawmakers tapped to help finance a new Cleveland Browns stadium.…
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John Farrell @johnffarrell.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
In light of Bad Bunny's lights out Superbowl halftime show, here are three folks I've interviewed from Puerto Rico about how the island can light up its grid with local power: vist.ly/4rdkb
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Bad Bunny Takes On Power | Energy Democracy
Read stories from community leaders about clean energy resilience in Puerto Rico, in the aftermath of Bad Bunny's symbolic Super Bowl performance.
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craigickler.bsky.social @craigickler.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
The Moon is Ohio btw - Neil Armstrong claimed it for the Buckeye state
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Randi @leppla.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
The Cleveland Air Quality Coalition convened last week to call on the @cityofcleveland.bsky.social and @clecitycouncil.bsky.social to protect residents' health by updating the air quality ordinance for the first time since 1977. signalcleveland.org/cleveland-ad...
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Pressure grows to update Cleveland's air pollution standards
Cleveland's health department proposed new rules governing air quality last year, but council has not held a hearing on the legislation.
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NE Ohio Regional Sewer District @neorsd.org · 07/02/2026
huh i would have assumed the red was @cpsc.gov “anchor your TV” posts
A map of who everyone is rooting for in the Super Bowl:

Seattle is green.

New England area is blue.

the rest of the map is red labeled “NEORSD bluesky content”
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John Farrell @johnffarrell.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
This is why we need a new, nonprofit or cooperative model for news. We can't base our sources of information on the goodwill of billionaires (or sadly, on our own government).
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Next time choose *not* to get played.
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Jonathan Welle @wellejonathan.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Proud of Cleveland Owns's role in supporting People's Plumbing, a badass plumbing co-op! signalcleveland.org/inside-cleve...
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People's Plumbing offers pay-what-you-can repairs in Cleveland
People's Plumbing offers repairs using what's called a gift economy model. That means people pay workers what they can.
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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
New Past Lives: Abbas and the Roman Slave Trade (Parthia, 2nd Century AD). On May 24, 166 AD, a seven-year-old boy named Abbas was sold for 200 denarii at the port of Seleucia Pieria. How did Abbas end up there, and where did he go from there? www.pod.link/1852618120/e...
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John Farrell @johnffarrell.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
ICE is making Minneapolis so unsafe that you can’t let your kids go outside unaccompanied. They might be snatched. It’s like a Gen X childhood admonition about strangers made real.
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Seva @seva.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
some people love quoting "the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must." That was Athens saying that at the height of its empire. Few of those people seem to remember what happened to Athens the very next year.
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craigickler.bsky.social @craigickler.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
To be fair, the Bush Administration also didn’t have a plan for Iraq
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Stan Kelly @kartoonistkelly.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Outlook for the new year ...
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Cleveland Scene @clevelandscene.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Coalition urges Cleveland Public Power to reconsider solar project on abandoned Slavic Village site www.clevescene.com/news/clevela...
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Coalition Urges Cleveland Public Power To Reconsider Solar Project on Abandoned Slavic Village Site - Cleveland Scene
Advocates and neighbors want CPP to be more transparent as to why it reneged on a plan to install solar panels on a former landfill site that's been an eyesore for the last decade in Slavic Village.
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AFA-CWA, The Flight Attendant Union @afacwa.org · 23/12/2025
Thank you Flight Attendants and aviation workers who spend the holidays bringing family and friends together. We do this year ‘round to ensure safe passage of those in our care.
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Luke Thomas @lukethomas.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
NEW: @patrickwyman.bsky.social has a history podcast not on great leaders, but more common folk. The theme for this season? World slavery: “Power is inseparable from labor. Power is inseparable from work. Slavery, studying it, what it tells us, is just how inseparable those two things are.”
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craigickler.bsky.social @craigickler.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
The George family is destroying this city. Remember what they took from you!
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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
The first person we meet on Past Lives is Nanaya'ila'i, an Elamite woman from southwestern Iran who was enslaved around 645 BC by the Assyrians in one of their last campaigns of conquest. What can we know about her life? How did she experience the sharp end of empire? www.patreon.com/posts/nanaya...
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Nanaya-ila’i and Her Daughter (Assyria, 7th Century BC) | Past Lives
Get more from Past Lives on Patreon
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Saralegal @saralegal.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
I named my fists Troilus and Cressida because they're rarely produced, lackluster, and mostly just offer a lesson about the futility of violence.
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Miami DSA @miamidsa.org · 26/11/2025
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
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craigickler.bsky.social @craigickler.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
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craigickler.bsky.social @craigickler.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
My theory that anyone with an ounce of charisma and three diet cokes can convince Trump of anything holds true
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molly taft @mollytaft.com · 21/11/2025
my jaw is on the floor and yet im completely unsurprised. trump’s only political conviction is that he loves a handsome winner
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 20/11/2025
If you're wondering why a large chunk of ostensibly left-of-center pundits are waging war on environmental protections in the form of an "abundance agenda," it's because Silicon Valley has quietly developed a culture of rampant pollution.
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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
We've got a cover for Lost Worlds, folks - coming May 5th, 2026. Preorder it here: www.harpercollins.com/products/los...
Cover image for Patrick Wyman's upcoming book "Lost Worlds," depicting sand and ruined buildings against a blue background. Preorder link for the book: https://www.harpercollins.com/products/lost-worlds-patrick-wyman?variant=43084775817250
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