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Design Observer @designobserver.com · 27/05/2025

Looking to put those design skills to work? Check out the Design Observer Job Board, curated roles for creatives shaping the future: designobserver.com/jobs/

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 29/03/2025

they want worldwide jim crow

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 18/03/2025

THREAD: There’s a dire situation in Vietnam, at the largest Agent Orange spill in the country. When Trump and Marco Rubio cancelled foreign aid, froze funding and began dismantling USAID, those who were cleaning up the Bien Hoa air base had to halt work. 1/

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Siva @sivav.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

@alissaquart.bsky.social quoted me in Time about the value of poetry in a time of crisis and collapse. time.com/7267756/repl...

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Canada giving Marco Rubio the tiniest red carpet they could find in a thrift shop somewhere.

Marco Rubio gets off a plane to a postage stamp sized red carpet

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Design Observer @designobserver.com · 28/02/2025

Just ahead of Oscar Sunday, dive into the transformative world of makeup with legendary artist Mike Marino. From A Different Man to The Penguin, Marino discusses how makeup tells deeper stories beyond the surface. Full interview by @ahaut.bsky.social

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About face: ‘A Different Man’ makeup artist Mike Marino on transforming pretty boys and surfacing dualities - DesignObserver

On the cusp of Oscar Sunday, we’re talking award-winning makeup that gets under the skin.

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Scene on Radio @sceneonradio.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Thanks, Ryan, and props to Marjorie Kelly (author of the excellent book Wealth Supremacy) for that quote. @emcg.bsky.social

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Design Observer @designobserver.com · 25/02/2025

“It is a courageous act to walk in your truth so that others can walk in theirs." Janelle Monáe joins DBBD to talk about artistic independence, self-expression, and building a creative future. A must-listen in today’s world. Full interview: designobserver.com/s7e12-janell...

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Ellen McGirt @emcg.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Reading this changed my day. Vital insight from one of the most thoughtful leaders I’ve ever encountered.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

I’ve known and worked with @joyannreid.bsky.social for over a decade and it’s been, well, a joy. She’s brilliant and fierce and irreplaceable. One of my favorite nights ever was getting to interview her for this live #WITHPod podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...

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The Making of Joy Reid

Podcast Episode · Why Is This Happening? The Chris Hayes Podcast · 10/31/2023 · 54m

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Something @leahgreenberg.bsky.social told @gregsargent.bsky.social the other day deserves more attention: The reason the contentious town halls last week were largely in very GOP districts is bc swing MoCs won't hold them. newrepublic.com/article/1918...

Greenberg: Absolutely. What I would say is that we are seeing a broad-based wave of opposition sweep the country, including in really deep red areas. We’re tracking town halls that are in very, very safe Republican districts where this is happening. One thing that’s important to name about that dynamic specifically is that *the number of elected representatives who hold actual public open town halls has gone down significantly. And in this case, it’s often only happening in these very safe areas where folks tend to assume that they can have a public meeting without having a ton of people in opposition show up.* So it’s not an accident that you’re seeing these happen in really red areas because those are actually the only people who are making themselves available to voters at this time. I can tell you if you had any of these folks in a swing district who were doing it, they would be experiencing as much, if not more.

Sargent: It’s really interesting you say that. I guess the result is that we get a bit of a distorted picture in the sense that with a lot of Republicans refusing to hold town halls in swing areas, we don’t even get a clear picture of how deep the opposition is in those places.

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Craig Newmark @craignewmark.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Military families struggle with food insecurity, which pisses me off. Help us raise funds for the Blue Star Families food pantry at Fort Wadsworth on Staten Island. #DoYourPart and Buy a carton of eggs for a #militaryfamily and I will match up to $100K: bit.ly/42XByqf (That's a lot of eggs...)

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Ellen McGirt @emcg.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

In case I don’t get to say this later when things get worse, +1. #ILoveYou

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Craig Newmark @craignewmark.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Big news for local news: @knightfdn is investing $25M in @JournalismProj to strengthen the nonprofit news sector. This funding will help grow more local newsrooms and ensure their long-term sustainability. More here: www.theajp.org/news-insight...

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Knight Foundation invests $25 million in American Journalism Project to expand and strengthen local news

New Knight support will fuel investments in nonprofit news organizations and establish new resiliency lab.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 18/02/2025

This is my “daughter of a Black Panther breakfast program volunteer” coming out but anyone who tells you that you have to be public about all your resistance activity should immediately be under suspicion for being an op, or being under the influence of an op

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Ellen McGirt @emcg.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

This. A well articulated and affirming argument at a critical time. I’m sorry it requires so many preemptive calls for civility. Much appreciated

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Ellen McGirt @emcg.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

SNL 50 was the healing vibe I didn’t know I needed

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Design Observer @designobserver.com · 14/02/2025

On this Valentine’s Day, explore the history of a company that sold more than just products—it sold dreams of love, power, and transformation. 💘✨ From the archives 📖 designobserver.com/love-for-sale/

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When Love Was for Sale: Desire, Beauty, and Power in Advertising - DesignObserver

The Graphic Art of Valmor Products

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Design Observer @designobserver.com · 13/02/2025

This week on Design As, we explore pluriversal design—an approach that moves beyond universal solutions to embrace diverse ways of knowing and making change. Guests discuss how this paradigm shift impacts equity, democracy, and design’s role in shaping the world. 👇 designobserver.com/design-as-pl...

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Ellen McGirt @emcg.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Flagging for the amazing answers and new fears unlocked

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Carly Goodman @carlygoodman.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

antifatness is a huge factor in support for RFK’s maha/eugenics project and so fucking many people will suffer as a result

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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Imagine if @aoc @sanders.senate.gov , every dem, SIMULTANEOUSLY held Town Halls where they allowed grant and contract recipients to explain to the country what it is they do and why it's important Invite all media. Including RW podcasters. @spaces Flood the zone Call it a Day Of Transparency

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 10/02/2025

a lotta hit dogs doing a lotta hollerin

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

"I want to perform their favorite song, but you know they love to sue" - Kendrick Lamar

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 31/01/2025

In light of this deeply illegal activity at NSF and the ongoing attack on American science, I'm posting the slides from my 2017 talk at the American Physical Society about the Nazi take over of German physics/why German is no longer science's lingua franca 🧪 🧵 1/26 drive.google.com/file/d/1_MCm...

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, PhD
Department of Physics,University of Washington, Seattle
APS April Meeting, January 2017
Dismantling the (Nazi) German Nuclear Reactor (Pile) at Haigerloch, 50 km SW of Stuttgart, in April 1945

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Matt Pearce @mattdpearce.com · 04/02/2025

Everything is insane right now but one little ray of sunlight is that I just got a new gig trying to use public policy to create as many local journalism jobs as humanly possible. mattdpearce.substack.com/p/ive-got-a-...

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I've got a new job

Waging a new fight for local journalists across the U.S.

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Craig Newmark @craignewmark.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Towns like Waterbury, VT are joining the #cybercivildefense by signing onto the DefConFranklin cyber volunteer program! WaterburyRound covered one of the first efforts nationwide aimed at shoring up the cyber posture of water and wastewater systems. www.waterburyroundabout.org/news-archive...

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Waterbury joins program to defend water systems from cyber attacks — Waterbury Roundabout

Waterbury has signed on to be one of the first municipalities in the country to participate — at no cost — in a program to bolster the cybersecurity of its water and wastewater systems to defend again...

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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

What I should have done in the beginning - here's a starter pack of 20-odd experts who journalists or others might want to read/talk to to understand the gutting of the administrative state (as opposed to broad decline of democracy etc). I've focused on academics go.bsky.app/MaC7vnv

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 31/01/2025

I will help you do it, if you need. You can do it for free.

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Craig Newmark @craignewmark.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

In response to this week’s tragic plane crash, nonprofits and chefs are stepping up. See @eater.bsky.social ’s new recap on how DC Central Kitchen and others are providing hot meals and gratitude to first responders in DC. Lend them a hand if you can. dc.eater.com/2025/1/30/24...

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D.C. Chefs Move Fast to Feed First Responders of Plane Crash

World Central Kitchen and its local chef partners help keep emergency workers fed

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Design Observer @designobserver.com · 31/01/2025

We're kicking off Design Juice Live, a brand-new series from Design Observer featuring candid conversations with design’s leading minds, innovators, and creators. First up? A dynamic conversation between @kevinbethune.com and @emcg.bsky.social you don’t want to miss! 🔗 Details and RSVP below 👇

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Join us for the Book Launch of Nonlinear: Navigating Design with Curiosity and Conviction We're kicking off Design Juice Live, a brand-new series from Design Observer featuring candid conversations w...

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Ellen McGirt @emcg.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

The alt text took me right over the top

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Ellen McGirt @emcg.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Hyper local helping. Community. Showing up. Solve what you can. Pay attention to each other. Be together. Bringing snacks counts.

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Vitalik Buterin @vitalik.ca · 24/01/2025

On the risks of politician coins:

The risk of politician coins comes from the fact that they are such a perfect bribery vehicle. If a politician issues a coin, you do not even need to send *them* any coins to give them money. Instead, you just buy and hold the coin, and this increases the value of their holdings passively.

Furthermore, there is deniability: holding the coin is, in terms of financial effect, a linear combination of donating to the issuer and gambling. Hence you can have the intention of doing the former but when challenged claim that you are doing the latter.

You can even hold the coin privately, and show that you are holding it to whoever you need to show; you do not need any zero knowledge proofs, you just send a test transaction.

This is all risky to democracy, for reasons very similar to what I wrote in https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2021/08/16/voting3.html , https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2020/09/11/coordination.html and elsewhere. TLDR: the economic arguments for why markets are so great for "regular" goods and services do not extend to "markets for political influence".

I recommend politicians do not go down this path.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 23/01/2025

this is actually more significant than a lot of social media protests, at least in the case of the large subreddits like r/nfl and r/nba these are places with millions of subscribers that drive a whole lot of traffic - and may actually drive moves away from Twitter as a result

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Some fascinating things happening on Reddit. 22,000 upvotes on the subreddit dedicated to posting pictures of houses that are over 100 years old.

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Amy Westervelt @amywestervelt.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

I assume most people know this, but seems important to point out basic truths at this moment in time. There is no energy emergency in the U.S. The U.S. is the world's top producer of oil and gas at the moment, and the top exporter of gas, and U.S. oil and gas producers are making record profits.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 14/01/2025

Dear friends in tech: If your CEO is desperately seeking the approval of an octogenarian who assesses technologies based on the advanced criteria of "which desperate supplicant has written me the biggest check?" your pathetic employer is well past its days of producing any innovations. Just leave.

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Colson Whitehead @colsonwhitehead.com · 10/01/2025

Anyone have a debut book coming out this spring? Tell me about it — it’d be nice to hear about something nice! Your first book only happens once, friend!

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 10/01/2025

We’ve been watching the Watch Duty team do absolutely *unbelievable* technical work all week (they’re members of our Fast Forward open source program), handling a surge of millions of people trying to see where the fires are in real time. There are still people who do such good on the internet.

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

I can’t begin to express how bad these fires are. Friends have evacuated to our house and other friends are packing up what they can to evacuate and we are wondering if we are going to have to evacuate too. It’s such a colossal shitshow.

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Karla Monterroso @karlaliliana.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

This is my favorite bookstore and they were already scraping by pre-fire. Please help Octavia’s Bookshelf by buying some things from them.

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David Higham @oldtrotter.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

This letter in the New Statesman a couple of years ago seems even truer now.

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Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

As someone who spent years reporting on Zuckerberg, I've struggled to find something coherent to say about today. Then @cwarzel.bsky.social reminded me of my old reporting. This is what a FB employee said to me in 2020 after Zuckerberg addressed workers following FB-enabled violence in Kenosha, WI.

Screenshot from a 2020 BuzzFeed News story that reads:

One employee who spoke with BuzzFeed News after the event was not comforted by their CEO’s words.

“He seems truly incapable of taking personal responsibility for decisions and actions at Facebook,” they said.

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