Reposted by doc holiday name (actual photo)Sister Golden Bear @sistergoldenbear.bsky.social · 27/07/2025I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by LLM madness, mindless hysterical sloppers, dragging themselves through enshittified apps at dawn looking for an "efficiency" fix, vapid-headed techbros burning down the ancient heavenly connection to the cognitive skills they outsourced 29816
Reposted by doc holiday name (actual photo)Dan Gillmor @dangillmor.bsky.social · 15/07/2025The Wall Street Journal embarrasses itself with ledes like this: "Elon Musk’s SpaceX has agreed to invest $2 billion in his artificial-intelligence company xAI..." Musk controls both companies. He agreed with himself. It's self-dealing and it's sleazy. Do better, WSJ, please... 0379
Reposted by doc holiday name (actual photo)Dan Gillmor @dangillmor.bsky.social · 29/06/2025How corrupt is the Roberts court? It is inconceivable that the spate of more-power-for-Trump decisions from the Roberts court would have gone the same way if Harris was president. We all know what's going on. The extreme right owns the government. It is dismantling democracy and the rule of law. 122044
Reposted by doc holiday name (actual photo)Dan Gillmor @dangillmor.bsky.social · 10/06/2025Mini-Trump DeSantis apparatchik "orders" newspaper to stop reporting on DeSantis corruption. Newspaper editor says, appropriately, up yours. apnews.com/article/o...apnews.comFlorida agency tells newspaper to halt reporting angle on foundation associated with governor's wifeFlorida’s child welfare agency has sent a letter to a newspaper telling it to “cease and desist” its reporting on foster families for a story about a nonprofit associated with Gov. 1144
Reposted by doc holiday name (actual photo)Dan Gillmor @dangillmor.bsky.social · 05/06/2025I don't know whether the Trump-Musk feud is real or just an elaborate con. What is clear is that both of them are sociopaths who lie relentlessly, have total contempt for laws they find inconvenient, and view the rest of us with pure contempt. If they harm each other, that's a win for humanity. 094
Reposted by doc holiday name (actual photo)Siva @sivav.bsky.social · 26/04/2025Want to understand what’s going on? Watch this. You can see me in a purple sweater. www.aljazeera.com/program/the-...aljazeera.comHow technocracy has become our realityDo technocrats pose a threat to democracy? 1115
Reposted by doc holiday name (actual photo)Court💕 Cross @clholly.bsky.social · 10/04/2025With the SAVE act passing through the house I would like to remind everyone that it took the Taliban only 3 years to ban women from speaking #waronwomen #SAVEact 361813735
Reposted by doc holiday name (actual photo)Kevin Carson 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🏴 @kevincarson1.bsky.social · 08/04/2025This is the only Bill ack man we recognize in this house 1879749
Reposted by doc holiday name (actual photo)Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 07/04/2025it’s weird that we’re staring down the second unprecedented economic catastrophe in five years and instead of a novel coronavirus that will go on to kill millions of people this one is just “no one was willing to tell him no” 215186323898
Reposted by doc holiday name (actual photo)Steven T. Dennis @steventdennis.bsky.social · 02/04/2025Cory Booker has broken Strom Thurmond’s record. “I’m here despite his speech,” Booker said. 70102371068
Reposted by doc holiday name (actual photo)John Kostyack @kostyack.bsky.social · 29/03/2025@tressiemcphd.bsky.social: "A.I. is a parasite." In the hands of today's tech titans, its "use case is starving the host — fewer teachers, fewer degrees, fewer workers, fewer healthy information environments." An "antilabor hammer." www.nytimes.com/2025/03/29/o...nytimes.comOpinion | The Tech Fantasy That Powers A.I. Is Running on Fumes (Gift Article)A.I. is just what we need in the post-fact era: less research and more predicting what we want to hear. 082
Reposted by doc holiday name (actual photo)Ed Yong is offline @edyong209.bsky.social · 24/03/2025I’ve had a several dozen requests to write or be interviewed about the 5th anniversary of Covid and said no to all of them… except this one with @alexis-madrigal.bsky.social. Here’s our chat on the things we’ve memory-holed, and where we go from here. www.kqed.org/forum/201010...kqed.orgEd Yong on the Pandemic’s Legacy on Science Research and Reporting | KQEDAs part of our series looking at the legacy of the pandemic five years on, we talk to Ed Yong about how COVID changed our relationship with health news, reporting and research. 231486398
Reposted by doc holiday name (actual photo)David, just David @coldwarhost.bsky.social · 22/03/2025*chefs kiss* 7632114
Reposted by doc holiday name (actual photo)Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 15/03/2025My colleagues and our broadcasts, devoted to telling America’s story to the world — honestly, fairly and with an unwavering commitment to the truth, are being silenced this weekend. open.substack.com/pub/newsguy/...open.substack.comRequiem for the voice that carried a nation’s conscienceVOA's signal for 83 years crossed borders and ideologies—now its silence will speak volumes. 641364606
Reposted by doc holiday name (actual photo)Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 13/03/2025One small thing you can do to make the world a kinder place is take 10 seconds to use alt text to describe the photos and screenshots you post on here so our visually impaired friends can follow along. It also helps give context for jokes. Please and thank you. ❤️ 13514101
doc holiday name (actual photo) @drdepth.bsky.social · 10/03/2025Good talk by @jay.bsky.team and @mmasnick.bsky.social 🦋 #sxsw keynote 030
Reposted by doc holiday name (actual photo)Julie K. Brown @jkbjournalist.bsky.social · 26/02/2025Musk's big payday. www.levernews.com/musks-empire...levernews.comMusk’s Empire Is Reaping $2 Million Per Day From TrumpWhile the billionaire is touting cuts to government, the new administration has already delivered $86 million to Musk’s rocket company since the inauguration. 49652
Reposted by doc holiday name (actual photo)Texas Storm Chasers @texasstormchasers.com · 13/02/2025#Texas #txwx #funny #weather 02410
Reposted by doc holiday name (actual photo)Dan Gillmor @dangillmor.bsky.social · 14/01/2025Another major media commentator quits the Trump-nuzzling Washington Post to start a site on a platform whose key investors are outright Trump funders, and whose management sees no problem helping fascists monetize their vile stuff. contrarian.substack.... Willful blindness...contrarian.substack.comI Have Resigned from The Washington Post, effective today Why I left to help launch a vibrant, new, independent media outlet 063
Reposted by doc holiday name (actual photo)Dr. Samantha Montano @samlmontano.bsky.social · 11/01/2025A THREAD on how disaster donations can be extremely harmful instead of helpful to communities experiencing a disaster. I'll be using the movie Clueless to illustrate this issue but there is also decades of disaster research about this and plenty of first-hand accounts. #GreySky 10299144
Reposted by doc holiday name (actual photo)Grudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social · 09/01/2025By their own logic, the fire is due to the majority of white men on the leadership team 729532
Reposted by doc holiday name (actual photo)Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 08/01/2025The largest wildfire in California history -- the August Complex Fire, which burned more than 1 million acres -- occurred during the Trump administration 31571411971
Reposted by doc holiday name (actual photo)Bryan Edward Stone (שָׁלוֹם) @bestonetx.bsky.social · 08/01/2025Dear President @claudiasheinbaum.bsky.social: Please take us back. 1103
Reposted by doc holiday name (actual photo)Fred Wellman @fpwellman.bsky.social · 07/01/2025They want us to memory hole tearing down the American flag to fly Trump’s. 30889353377
Reposted by doc holiday name (actual photo)Missing The Point @missingthept.bsky.social · 03/01/2025I wrote my first joke for the bots that follow me, hope you like it here goes: 10 110010 01011 001111011 0110 100010 1010001 1111001 1001 101011 0111 110100010010101 101011010 1011 10101011 110010101 1010001010 110000 101010 010 101010 1101 100101 0100101 11011010 10010101010 231475
Reposted by doc holiday name (actual photo)Eephus Tosser @eephustosser.bsky.social · 31/12/2024If you start watching Game 5 at 10:26:37, you can watch the ball drop in New York at midnight. 16436146
Reposted by doc holiday name (actual photo)Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 31/12/2024This is something 14765431229
Reposted by doc holiday name (actual photo)Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 29/12/2024Trump, DECEMBER 28, 2024: "I have always been in favor of the visas... I’ve been a believer in H-1B... It’s a great program" Trump, MARCH 15, 2016: "I know the H1B very well... We shouldn’t have it. Very, very bad for workers... it’s unfair for our workers. And we should end it." 24045611477
Reposted by doc holiday name (actual photo)Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 27/12/2024From Vivek’s Wikipedia page: In 2011, Ramaswamy was awarded a post-graduate fellowship by the Paul & Daisy Soros Foundation for new Americans, a $90,000 scholarship for immigrants and children of immigrants. In 2023 Ramaswamy paid an editor to remove this from his Wikipedia entry. 730792
Reposted by doc holiday name (actual photo)Tristan Snell @tristansnell.bsky.social · 24/12/202448 hours of holiday follow-backs! If you’re fighting for democracy, we need to stick together For the next 2 days: - Follow me, I’ll follow you back - Repost this, I’ll follow you back Happy Holidays! 66432921855
Reposted by doc holiday name (actual photo)Petti Crocker @aquarianairhead.bsky.social · 23/12/2024I’m a little concerned that 2025 starts with WTF. 59210
Reposted by doc holiday name (actual photo)weird medieval guys @weirdmedieval.bsky.social · 23/12/2024snowball fight, italy, ca. 1400 404011871
Reposted by doc holiday name (actual photo)Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 21/12/2024when I was a kid I heard another kid arguing about why he had to do service for others in the gurudwara and his parent was like "if you won't help others what is the point of you" and I've never forgotten that line. 107100342030
Reposted by doc holiday name (actual photo)Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 22/12/2024Reminder that if you read the “Who Goes Nazi” essay, it describes Vance so accurately that you wonder if Dorothy Thompson had a crystal ball 251498263
Reposted by doc holiday name (actual photo)🍁Capt.John E. Rock @johnerock.bsky.social · 06/12/2024Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer is on tonight. The classic tale of when people treat you like shit until they find out you can do something for them. 🦌🦌🦌 376141661608
Reposted by doc holiday name (actual photo)Dan Gillmor @dangillmor.bsky.social · 04/12/2024"Political Reporting in the Age of Modi and Trump" is a sobering compilation of conversations with Indian and American journalists and experts. (I'm grateful to have been included in this group.) I learned a lot from the other folks, and you will too. www.newsjunkie.net/e... newsjunkie.netNewsjunkieNewsjunkie is a responsive provider of information about journals, media owners, people, journalism schools, press rooms, and more. 054
Reposted by doc holiday name (actual photo)GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 02/12/2024it’s the same shitshow over and over again, trump runs amok setting everything he can’t steal on fire while the nation’s punditry wants to hand a ticket to any democrat they can find jaywalking 13903182
Reposted by doc holiday name (actual photo)Stacy Mitchell @stacyfmitchell.bsky.social · 01/12/20241. The conventional explanation for food deserts—that these places are too poor or too rural to generate enough spending on groceries, or too Black to overcome racist corporate redlining — fail to grapple with a key fact: food deserts didn’t used to exist. My new piece in The Atlantic.theatlantic.comThe Mystery of Food DesertsThey didn’t materialize around the country for no reason. Something happened. 19655702488
Reposted by doc holiday name (actual photo)U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 29/11/2024Hope everyone had a safe and non-explosive Thanksgiving! We now turn our safety attention to the next phase of the Holiday Season. 431820426
Reposted by doc holiday name (actual photo)Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 26/10/2024Welcome, new Bluesky users! Please check out the thread below for tips on setting up your account, making your feed more interesting, finding old Twitter friends, search, privacy, stats, and more (and please ask questions if you have them) 33337271156
Reposted by doc holiday name (actual photo)Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 19/11/2024BIG NEWS: A Wyoming judge just struck down WY's abortion bans. And get this: The judge invoked a constitutional amendment codifying a right to make health care decisions... that was passed in 2012 by conservatives who thought it'd screw Obamacare! Just backfired. We explained this lawsuit here:boltsmag.orgHow Attacks Against Obamacare Turned Into Tools to Protect Abortion AccessConservatives amended state constitutions to affirm broad rights for people to choose their health care. Now abortion rights proponents are taking them at their word. 12693462499
Reposted by doc holiday name (actual photo)Veli-Pekka Kivimäki @vpkivimaki.bsky.social · 16/11/2024Bellingcat’s 10th anniversary celebration was a great reflection of its role today as an innovation hub for pushing open source investigations to new frontiers. The event brought together the broader community of journalists, tech folks & experts, and great things happen these all come together. 1/ 434748
Reposted by doc holiday name (actual photo)Unseen Japan @unseenjapan.com · 17/11/2024We're also putting together our own starter packs for our fave people plus long-time supporters of UJ. Here's our first. We'll keep adding to this as more folks migrate over. go.bsky.app/Eno5eAX 1211839
Reposted by doc holiday name (actual photo)𝑪. 𝑫𝒂𝒂𝒆́ @christinedaae.bsky.social · 16/11/2024I am BEGGING you all to please treat sacred places in Japan the same way you would a church (ideally?) A tourist from the U.S. carved his name into one of the wooden torii gates at Meiji Shrine youtu.be/eCsjKYBBo0Uyoutu.be明治神宮の鳥居を傷つけたか アメリカ人男を逮捕 観光で来日(2024年11月13日)YouTube video by ANNnewsCH 1118447
Reposted by doc holiday name (actual photo)Keith Edwards @keithedwards.bsky.social · 11/11/2024updated the meme for bluesky 252782450
Reposted by doc holiday name (actual photo) Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 11/11/20241995. The more things change 16652203
Reposted by doc holiday name (actual photo)Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 11/11/2024I have prepared a primer to Bluesky Alf lore: little-flying-robots.ghost.io/how-i-accide...little-flying-robots.ghost.ioHow I Accidentally Ruined Bluesky With Pictures of Sexy AlfI haven't had this much fun on the Internet in years 24470132
Reposted by doc holiday name (actual photo)Bi King Gent 👑 💖💜💙 @thesnarkygent.bsky.social · 09/11/2024"Working class" means someone who owns a $100k pickup truck, "the arrogant elite" is a queer barista making minimum wage, I am a savvy pundit who deserves a lifetime sinecure from the Washington Post please 71259278
Reposted by doc holiday name (actual photo)shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 01/11/2024stop stop I can’t vote for her any harder 322105041906