Sign in

Dave B

@davebee.bsky.social
285 followers 397 following 448 posts

"high functioning" - my therapist "terrific whiskers" - Joyce Carol Oates, about my cat he/him 🏳️‍🌈

PostsRepliesMedia
Reposted by Dave B
Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 21h
My god, SCOTUS acted within hours to clear the way for this execution and Tennessee completely botched it and tortured her. She's still alive. This barbaric practice needs to end. www.tennessean.com/story/news/c...
tennessean.com
Court stays Christa Pike execution in Tennessee: Updates
Christa Pike was sentenced to death for the 1995 killing of 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer. A court stayed her lethal injection that was scheduled for Sept. 30.
681762414
Reposted by Dave B
Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
MAGA is ideologically and psycho-politically incapable of moderating. It is a hysterical movement that exists in a constant state of imagined emergency. There is no room for compromise or restraint. Every crisis, every defeat only heightens their sense of being under siege.
18225
Reposted by Dave B
no context sacred harp @sacredharpbot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Conspire to raise the sound.
001
Reposted by Dave B
Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Happy birthday to David Wojnarowicz, groundbreaking artist, writer & activist, who raged raged raged against inequity and injustice at every turn. If he hadn’t died of AIDS, like so many leading lights of his generation, he would have been 72 years old today (thread)
A black-and-white photograph of artist & writer David Wojnarowicz, with added elements including red and yellow flames along the right side of his body, and maps over his face and neckA photo of artist David Wojnarowicz wearing a jacket; on the back is a pink triangle and the legend, "If I die of AIDS-forget burial-just drop my body on the steps of the F.D.A."
91561612
Reposted by Dave B
Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
delusional and the MSM keeps platforming this person and using words like "pugnacious???" to describe someone who covered up the killing of a 17 year old by Chicago cops among so much other foul shit.
15814181
Dave B @davebee.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
This is a kind of reverse John Henry situation with the machine dying at the end.
010
Reposted by Dave B
Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 20/08/2026
I've never seen such an effort to censor a document as I have the Amnesty International report on gender critical groups because of JK Rowling. They removed the report from the Wayback Machine and now I got a DMCA strike on my Google Drive for having it. It was deleted and removed from my account.
A screenshot of an email viewed in dark mode with the subject line "Google DMCA Violation." The email from Google informs the recipient that they have received a notification under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) that some of their materials allegedly infringe on copyrights. It explains the removal process, mentions that notice details will be posted on Lumen, warns against repeated violations, and lists one affected Google Drive URL at the bottomA nearly identical mobile browser screenshot of the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine. It shows a search for the same Amnesty International UK resources URL, resulting in the same message: "This URL has been excluded from the Wayback Machine."A mobile browser screenshot of the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine. A URL for an Amnesty International UK resources page is entered in the search bar, but the page displays the message: "This URL has been excluded from the Wayback Machine."
230114225345
Dave B @davebee.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
NYT just trolling at this point.
000
Reposted by Dave B
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Philosophers often bring up the "principle of charity": a willingness to assume good faith in an interlocutor and treat them accordingly. It's good to do in many circumstances. But it is worth formulating a principle of not being a fucking mark. If not during the rise of fascism, then when? 12/
253677799
Dave B @davebee.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
"I would say there is relatively too much focus on algorithms that create better algorithms, and not enough focus on data centers that can create more data centers" -- Sam Altman, guy who knows a lot about construction.
000
Reposted by Dave B
USSR Pictures @ussrpictures.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
"After the Shift. Builders of the Cheboksary Hydroelectric Power Station" - Painting by Nikolai Ovchinnikov (1979).
028770
Dave B @davebee.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Either Max Miller has a terrible comms person, or his comms person hates him.
010
Reposted by Dave B
Dan O’Sullivan @osullyville.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
I am going to say something that is going to sound crazy at first: one sign of how little Gavin Newsom cares about doing the right thing, as opposed to doing the things he needs to do for a doomed presidential race, is how he has handled the Manson Family. Let me explain.
1036281
Dave B @davebee.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
It needs to be a federal crime for a company even to offer an NDA to a public official. Totally corrosive of democracy. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/27/t...
nytimes.com
How Meta Got Everything It Wanted in a Secret Louisiana Data Center Deal
A Times examination details how the Silicon Valley giant used private talks with local officials to start a project big enough to cover nearly six square miles.
000
Reposted by Dave B
Haydon @haydonmp.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
I can’t imagine a more personally humiliating thing than to be Chotiner’d by Douthat. Astonishing.
401087187
Reposted by Dave B
◥◤Kriston Capps 250 @kristoncapps.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
This really makes it sound like if you give $1 million to support Trump you can fudge when your product is linked to an explosive diarrhea outbreak in 34 states www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
192
Reposted by Dave B
The Best Brian @thebestbrian.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
She did leave us with the funniest example of neoliberal means testing ever imagined
Kamala Harris Twitter announcement in July 2019: policy to establish student loan forgiveness for Pell Grant recipients who start a business that operates for three years in disadvantaged communities.
1656082
Dave B @davebee.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
These are evil people
000
Reposted by Dave B
Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
The fact that VP JD Vance and Richard Grenell went to Romania—on behalf of the Trump Administration— to advocate for Andrew and Tristan Tate, who by all accounts, were rapists running a coercive sex ring, then permitted them to come to Florida, should be a crazy, crazy scandal.
277161224989
Dave B @davebee.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Wurman's supposedly "obvious" proposition is also, of course, the stated foundation for Buckley's opposition to civil rights in the 1957 "Why the South Must Prevail" editorial. Is it racist?
000
Dave B @davebee.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
"God finally got tired of this war-mongering piece of shit" has an appealing explanatory value.
000
Reposted by Dave B
graveworm unearther @waveform.observer · 05/09/2025
real jizz heads: one gotta go, what do you choose??
distressed LP cover for DEEP IN JIZZ SPACE by Gatta Kassillo & His High Mythic Twin Suns Orchestradistressed LP for One Night in Theed by The Jet Helix Triodistressed album cover for mynock sounds by Torribong! Astromech Orchestradistressed album cover for Bayindu Roer's "Outer Rim Vibes"
59035
Dave B @davebee.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
This interview/conversation was SO GOOD.
174
Reposted by Dave B
Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Jacob Lawrence : 'The 1920’s . . . The Migrants Cast Their Ballots' , from the Kent Bicentennial Portfolio: Spirit of Independence , 1974 Serigraph in seven colors plus white on domestic etching paper
09333
Dave B @davebee.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
It's interesting that a Supreme Court with so many Roman Catholics on it takes such a dumbass Protestant approach to interpreting legal texts.
000
Reposted by Dave B
jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/06/2026
the feds have done more to harass americans angry over good and pretti’s killings than they have to investigate them
7578312180
Reposted by Dave B
jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 25/06/2026
the truly enraging thing is that sam alito will never face this question from a member of the public. we have allowed these people to create a wall between themselves and the people they rule over.
281717300
Reposted by Dave B
jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 25/06/2026
John Roberts' Constitution forbids any attempt to proactively ameliorate racial discrimination and racial inequality, but permits open racial discrimination as long as there is a facially neutral explanation available, even if it isn't remotely plausible. This, my friends, is "Colorblindness."
382953876
Dave B @davebee.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
NPR News these days relies on such utterly stupid pro-establishment political assumptions. No actual thought is evident in their flippant categorizations beyond "will conservatives of 20 years ago yell at us for this?"
031
Reposted by Dave B
Elon Green @elongreen.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Still thinking about “inadequate swimmer Robert Maxwell” from Singer’s profile of Trump. www.newyorker.com/magazine/199...
newyorker.com
Searching for Trump’s Soul
Donald Trump’s modus operandi has a sharp focus: never budge from the premise that the universe revolves around you, and, above all, stay in character.
1102
Reposted by Dave B
Steve Akehurst @steveakehurst.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
They’re calling it the quote on British politics that ended the need for all other quotes
8266191955
Reposted by Dave B
Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
The Trump administration is directing taxpayer dollars to president’s supporters. The government was winning this case. It had already won a dismissal. Berenson was appealing. Rather than fight, the government gave him $150,000. That’s taxpayer money.
16928
Reposted by Dave B
jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 10/06/2026
don’t think i have ever seen a politician as feckless and cowardly as starmer
1044576761
Dave B @davebee.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
cursed AI Fifa map
000
Dave B @davebee.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
You know who isn’t getting radicalized? Shape-note singers. Embrace social singing of 19th century folk hymns and avoid the pitfalls of right-wing extremism.
070
Reposted by Dave B
Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Otter statue, Egypt, ca. 664–30 B.C.E.
211419
Reposted by Dave B
utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 23/05/2026
You don’t hate them enough
535556
Reposted by Dave B
French New Wave Memes @fnwave.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
it's Friday Night
'Breathless' (1960)
dir: Jean Luc Godard 

guy shoving a microphone into a man's face asking

does the soul exist in modern society?
2713147
Reposted by Dave B
Dave B @davebee.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
"Chorin'," say the worms.
011
Dave B @davebee.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
California Dems suck so bad.
110
Reposted by Dave B
Xander Lenc @xlenc.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
"... researchers found that a patchwork of state, federal and local policies allow data center operators to avoid publicly disclosing their actual water use. California lawmakers tried to address this last year, but California Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed the measure." calmatters.org/environment/...
calmatters.org
Data centers are guzzling California’s water. We have no idea how much.
A new report warns that data center buildout is encroaching on California’s most vulnerable, water-stressed communities. The problem is, no one’s saying how much water they use
042
Reposted by Dave B
Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
New from me: Five years ago, I criticized a San Francisco TV reporter for getting her facts wrong. Ever since, she and her allies have alleged that I was part of a conspiracy to end her career. That narrative just got a boost with her new book, which is being promoted by some powerful tech people.
radleybalko.substack.com
Truth, power, and honest journalism
Gary Tan, the CEO of venture capital firm Y Combinator, accused me of unethical reporting. This is my response.
281070226
Reposted by Dave B
Niko Bowie @nikobowie.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
The simplest long-run solution to the gerrymandering wars is a federal law expanding the House and electing members by proportional representation. Alabama has more Democratic voters than Hawaii. Massachusetts has more Trump voters than Mississippi. None of these voters deserve to go unrepresented.
313856
Reposted by Dave B
Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
it’s just a way of talking that we need to get comfortable with, soon
2212
Reposted by Dave B
Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Muhammad Ali and Cleveland Williams, Nov. 14, 1966 Photo by Neil Leifer
28012
Dave B @davebee.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
It would be nice if the Democrats had a different mindset for 2028 and beyond.
000
Reposted by Dave B
derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
silhouette looks like someone trying to get the most out of their toothpaste
JD and Usha Vance walking at the White house. Both are dressed in formal evening attire. JD Vance is wearing a white tie rig; his wife Usha is in a black dress. 

Vance's trousers look a bit too slim and crumpled, especially compared to the fuller top half of his outfit. A tube of Crest toothpaste is rolled from the bottom to extract as much toothpaste as possible, and then unrolled. The bottom is a bit crumpled like JD Vance's outfit.
1965305538
Reposted by Dave B
jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/04/2026
this line from alito’s opinion, that the question before the court was “whether compliance with the Voting Rights Act should be added to our very short list of compelling interests that can justify racial discrimination,” is truly orwellian
844684916
Reposted by Dave B
Dave B @davebee.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
it makes a slippery ring
021