Reposted by @efsler.bsky.socialSheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 18hor in sentience, or in not causing a being to suffer, but solely in the fear of having done to us what we have done to others. That we believe moral consideration should only flow to something more powerful than us as a means of currying favor. And that I find beneath contempt. 39311
Reposted by @efsler.bsky.socialSheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 18hyou're essentially admitting you expect your creation to act like we have acted towards people across the Global South for the last millennium. And what I find repugnant about that is what it says: That we don't base moral consideration in humanity, 18711
Reposted by @efsler.bsky.socialSheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 18hIf we gave the people in Palestine and Congo and Sudan the same consideration some people give AI, those genocides *would be fucking over already*. If you genuinely believe that we need to give a potentially sentient computer program moral consideration lest it kill us all one day out of revenge, 29316
Reposted by @efsler.bsky.socialDerek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 02/10/2026The men who did this have names. Elon Musk. Dario Amodei. Satya Nadella. Mark Zuckerberg. Sundar Pichai. Jensen Huang. Greg Brockman. Trump and his whole administration helped them. Direct your anger at them. www.politico.com/news/2026/09...politico.comTrump says tech execs signed ‘morally binding’ accord to help police AIThe president floated forming a 10-person committee that he said would play a role in overseeing the artificial intelligence industry. 0103
Reposted by @efsler.bsky.socialA.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Hey, I’m just asking questions. Ignorant questions, bigoted questions, questions that have been repeatedly answered for many years. Sorry, but I’m not listening to answers right now; I’m far too busy asking questions. It’s called being intellectually curious. 5161171673
Reposted by @efsler.bsky.socialIrish (he/they)🏳️🌈 @castironirish.bsky.social · 03/10/2026"Not all men." Wrong. ALL MEN. Because we men as a group, are responsible for holding other men accountable for their vile actions, and enough men don't that it could be ANY man. 052
Reposted by @efsler.bsky.socialErin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 03/10/2026TIL there’s a fish that lives in the lowest depths of the Congo River that has stunted growth, no color pigment, and no eyes. And locally it’s called “mondeli bureau,” which translates to “white man in an office” LMAO 111134196
Reposted by @efsler.bsky.socialDominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026"The current level of political animosity is exactly what one would expect to see if an extremist faction attempted to rescind the hard-earned rights of the vast majority of the country’s citizens." There are not enough exclamation points to convey how I felt reading this paragraph 31194478
efsler.bsky.social @efsler.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I will never not be irked getting spam fundraising texts from politicians running in areas that don’t represent me. Just…. Fuck off 010
Reposted by @efsler.bsky.socialryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 30/09/2026it was either malicious negligence on a Hitleresque scale or deliberate murder of as many nonwhite people as possible. I think door #2 is more plausible 18721110
Reposted by @efsler.bsky.socialRebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Time for this classic again. 156164655552
Reposted by @efsler.bsky.socialCharlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o... 11571672057
Reposted by @efsler.bsky.socialJessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Am I shaming you? Absolutely. Someone needs to say it. I’m all for having a laugh at dark things sometimes. Even disability can be funny, and disabled people are hilarious. This isn’t that. This is a “those ‘sick’ people sure are crazy and gross!” laugh. Be ashamed. 965567
Reposted by @efsler.bsky.socialJessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 23/09/2026You got what you wanted! You are living your normal lives, as demanded, free of legal or social responsibility toward disabled people who are still at high risk. Now you’re going to laugh at us trying to find ways to keep going? That’s not just discrimination, that’s dehumanization. 4732160
Reposted by @efsler.bsky.socialJessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 23/09/2026“We’re just having a laugh!” At who. At who. Is it at fucking sick people begging to keep up a venue where they can maybe socialize safely for a bit without risking getting sicker?? Is that the fun morning drama in your life right now? Jesus Christ. 4704106
Reposted by @efsler.bsky.socialJessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I know you’re now rolling your eyes and going “ughhh Bluesky scolllld” and I’m going to tell you right this very second you have absolutely no idea, not one fucking clue, the trauma there is from the social isolation that immunocompromised people have faced since Covid started. 7837122
Reposted by @efsler.bsky.socialJessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 23/09/2026It’s so cute to see everyone having fun with this,you might enjoy the other story about Covid this morning, about a young mom with long covid who killed herself, possibly partially because her husband describes it as her being “obsessed” with her health and “refusing” to get out of bed. Funny, yeah? 271070300
Reposted by @efsler.bsky.socialBrett Hamil @bretthamil.bsky.social · 21/09/2026The "moderate middle" controls like 80% of the media discourse in Seattle, this is v ungrateful of her 6957
Reposted by @efsler.bsky.social[MS] @rockoperapenguin.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Seattle Public Schools further added that the 15 minute lunch break they generously provide elementary school students should be sufficient for a small child to theoretically eat **some** of the pizza. 24413
Reposted by @efsler.bsky.socialBrett Hamil @bretthamil.bsky.social · 24/08/2026"Totally Normal Initiative" #seattle #doomloop @nohateinwastate.bsky.social 210937
Reposted by @efsler.bsky.socialChanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 17/09/2026The Right is winning because they understand people can be influenced to change position on a host of issues including abortion, LGBTQ rights, and racial justice And a bunch of extremely online people are sitting here like "nobody's mind can be changed ever because those people are bad" ok 28016
Reposted by @efsler.bsky.socialSheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 17/09/2026But the healthcare system in this country is a freaking joke. This is medically necessary stuff. It's complete horseshit that this country is like "oh you need medically necessary care? WE OFFER CREDIT CARDS FOR THAT." All Healthcare should be free at the point of service. All of it. ALL. OF. IT. 510216
Reposted by @efsler.bsky.socialStandplaats Kraków could really use some cash! @standplaatskrk.pl · 02/10/2025 41419478
Reposted by @efsler.bsky.socialJanel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social · 16/09/2026I mean if you really want to hear Ed Sheeran without any opening acts you can simply get put on hold with your bank 128115821941
Reposted by @efsler.bsky.socialMax Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Elon Musk: 20+ years here, hates American culture and most Americans, constantly undermines our multi-racial democracy as part of his obsession to restore the Apartheid of his foreign youth, says non-white people can't assimilate Malala Yousafzai: visits Philly once, instantly adopts local customs 695190850
Reposted by @efsler.bsky.socialTimnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 17/09/2026So while you're thinking about a super human, super "intelligent" alien being killing you, here's what's really happening. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...abc.net.auDoctor forced to apologise after AI makes 'scary' error about illegal drugsArtificial Intelligence is listening to many people's medical appointments, but it is not always hearing things correctly. 10415187
Reposted by @efsler.bsky.socialDerek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Actually, fuck it. Just make private equity illegal. The whole concept. 1161
Reposted by @efsler.bsky.socialHazie @hazie.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Covid continues to covid. Infection rates are high. Asymptomatic spread is common. Every exposure could lead to extended illness. One out of every ten people who contract covid are likely to experience long term harm, including, but not limited to heart, lung & brain disease. 04021
Reposted by @efsler.bsky.socialmolly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 15/09/2026remember when a member of richard spencer’s entourage fired a gun into a crowd during his college speaking tour and they kept letting him speak on college campuses? it was about two months after a woman was murdered at an event he was headlining. 181894471
Reposted by @efsler.bsky.socialKat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Conflating anti-Zionism and support for Palestinians with antisemitism is a smear campaign and frankly an actual example of antisemitism. Macklemore has been very clear on why supports Palestine and criticizes the Israeli state: because they are killing and maiming tens of thousands of children. 349847
Reposted by @efsler.bsky.socialRory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Embedded in any kind of claim that the future of art is AI generated work and you'll be left behind if you don't get onboard with it, is the idea that at some point in time there will only be one acceptable medium and aesthetic that audiences will be interested in, which has never been true before 820239
Reposted by @efsler.bsky.socialWalker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 13/09/2026There’s never a good or correct time to curtail one group’s freedom in the name of achieving some political victory. Never. 1376
Reposted by @efsler.bsky.socialjon rosenberg @jonrosenberg.bsky.social · 12/09/2026If AI is inevitable then a 90% AI tax that funds UBI should also be inevitable. 615622
Reposted by @efsler.bsky.socialJonathan Stegall @jonathanstegall.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Even if you were otherwise unaffected, it was a lesson in how easy it is to demagogue people and how isolating it is to not be unified with the sickness, to whatever extent. 011718
efsler.bsky.social @efsler.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Tiramisu with hazelnut praline, inspired by Georgie Grasso of Great British Bake Off fame 120
Reposted by @efsler.bsky.socialJake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 10/09/2026National Jewish Survey, Sep 1, 2026 Generic congressional ballot: 67% D, 26% R Approvals JD Vance: -68 MAGA: -59 Donald Trump: -53 ICE: -50 Benjamin Netanyahu: -40 Marco Rubio: -33 "Israeli policy in Gaza": -30 Barack Obama +32 jewishvoters.org/wp-content/u...jewishvoters.org 281085248
Reposted by @efsler.bsky.socialDerek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 10/09/2026We’re also 2% of Americans and mostly Democrats, so if you think Republicans are doing all that pro-Israel shit to court our votes, think again. They’re doing this to court the votes of other evangelical Christian republicans. It’s never about actual American Jews. They only like us as pawns. 118929
Reposted by @efsler.bsky.socialDerek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 10/09/2026There’s a term for Americans who vehemently support Israel and it’s not “Jews.” It’s “evangelical Christians” and they run the fucking government right now. 435465
Reposted by @efsler.bsky.socialRyan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 10/09/2026I haven't seen much chatter on Seattle Bluesky about Pramila Jayapal endorsing Connie Chan in CA-11 yesterday...Chan is an anti-housing, anti-public transit San Francisco Supervisor who supports reopening the park along the former Great Highway to vehicle traffic. sf.gazetteer.co/pramila-jaya...sf.gazetteer.coPramila Jayapal endorses Connie ChanIn a tightening race, Chan gets the backing of a congressional Medicare for All architect, but Scott Wiener still has a longer resume on the matter 1726845
Reposted by @efsler.bsky.socialJason @jrock08.bsky.social · 09/09/2026I've often wondered when we'd see our first LLM generated legislation and I think I might be looking at it. In my experience one of the hallmarks of LLM generated code is that LLMs hate to delete things and to avoid it they often do this sort of marginal redefinition. 1181
Reposted by @efsler.bsky.socialErica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 09/09/2026The new Vision Zero bill from Rob Saka (basically nonsubstantive/duplicative) has not 10, not 20 recitals, but 29! (They aren't even really recitals because they would ALL go into city code and have the force of law!) They go THROUGH the alphabet and come all the way back around! I am DEAD.seattle.legistar.com 3653
Reposted by @efsler.bsky.socialSheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 08/09/2026and then we're told that what they are *literally bragging about* isn't happening. It's like being told Ted Bundy and John Wayne Gacy definitely didn't just brag about their murder sprees. 121829
Reposted by @efsler.bsky.socialSheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 08/09/2026I think the biggest mindfuck about the genocide in Palestine is that we're not even talking about a thin veneer of plausible deniability. The Israeli government is just composed of a group of proud right wing racists bragging about their various war crimes in the Israeli press on a daily basis, 12571150
Reposted by @efsler.bsky.socialChanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 06/09/2026My pedagogical philosophy begins with the premise that I am helping students become better thinkers than they were before and that doing this effectively will best prepare them for whatever life throws at them, intellectually, economically, and otherwise. 235675
Reposted by @efsler.bsky.socialLong Covid Advocacy @longcovidadvoc.com · 06/09/2026Our statement in response to The Telegraph article: 'How having a disability became cool' Young women, named 'sickfluencers', are turning chronic illness into a lifestyle trend & entrenching a culture of economic inactivity.' by Poppy Coburn, featuring Suzanne O'Sullivan. #longcovid #pwME #POTS 218282
Reposted by @efsler.bsky.socialLogical Drivel @logicaldrivel.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Me in meme form 0186
Reposted by @efsler.bsky.socialTed McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 05/09/2026I could spend years building expertise in a subject, developing questions and approach, honing justifications that people without that investment can grasp and find compelling or I could go into a sector where “shut up and buy this or we’ll make you” is seen as visionary, even if the product fails 17113
Reposted by @efsler.bsky.socialJosephine beckbook.com Riesman @josie.zone · 05/09/2026Not sure how I feel about this collab between Dude Wipes and Chuck Tingle's "My Ass Is Haunted" series 7374