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Jane Shi | 皮爬高 echolalia echolalia is out now @pipagaopoetry.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

it pisses me off when niche inter-community conflicts and conversations become viral and multiply marginalized people are exposed to public ridicule from a hostile public and in a deepening fascist social climate

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emily thai @ethai.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

gosh her original essay was so transformative for how i think about my own class privilege, and this followup feels like it mirrors the longer arc of how we're understanding race and class on the left. "in a nation of racism and riches, there is no absolution here."

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emily thai @ethai.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

i find all the effective altruism is a sex cult stuff offensive mainly because it implies that i've been hanging out with a bunch of sex cultists for years and no one thought to invite me to the cult

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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I really want people to think more like organizers. I'm seeing endless debate, and more than a little conspiracy theorizing, about the motivations behind the big companies' warnings about the danger of AI. And almost no discussion about how we seize this moment to demand the policies we want.

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emily thai @ethai.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

TSA agent Kang asked me to confirm that i am over 12 years old, asian on asian crime

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emily thai @ethai.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

to be honest I thought discourse on here had evolved beyond shaming people for like, the concept of having sex with other consenting adults, but apparently not

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I don’t have the background to describe what effective government regulation of AI would look like except to say that it should be a felony to remind me of the Aella sankey chart

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emily thai @ethai.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

you will genuinely never guess who wrote these absolute bars about AI and the tech elite

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Sylvia Chi 齊思涵 @sylviachi.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Behind closed doors, Newsom is negotiating with investor-owned utilities to help limit their liability for the wildfires they cause, while capping how much local govs and victims can recover. This needs to be subject to public scrutiny and input. www.pressdemocrat.com/2026/08/22/p...

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PD Editorial: Newsom puts utilities ahead of wildfire victims

Governor Gavin Newsom believe utilities are asked to shoulder too much after a wildfire. It is an outrageous conclusion that insults every Californian who has watched a utility-sparked fire consume a ...

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

it's always odd when "you should expose yourself to more diverse ideas" always means a certain kind of conservatism instead of like, Indigenous art, new fusion foods, math paradoxes, or the Dvorak keyboard layout

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emily thai @ethai.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

7 years after I first learned about CDR, back when Climeworks was saying they might sell me a soda or a rock... I finally have my deepest wish... a direct-to-consumer DAC carbonated beverage www.drinkmisan.com

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DRINK MISAN

A new lychee-flavored sparkling water, carbonated with CO2 pulled directly from the air.

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Björn Jóhann @bjornjohann.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

AI doesn't use very much water. Don't believe viral memes that lack citations. You know what DOES use a ton of water? Factory farms.

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Lucy Parsons Labs @lucyparsonslabs.com · 23/07/2026

In our latest newsletter is our 2026 summer fellows! They are both brilliant but it was hard to choose: the interest in our fellowship was overwhelming. We blew through our budget for the program but that’s okay! donorbox.org/lpl-summer-f...

Two photos of our research fellows including Aicha who loves Pokémon and cooking. They are investigating the criminalization of sex workers.

Li is an artist who likes cats and is investigating the late night releases from jail.

A link to the LPL summer fellow finds and a screencap that says “you gotta give”

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emily thai @ethai.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

the problem with being a nerd about organizing skills is that I'm so annoying to anyone who tries to organize me. you didn't make a direct 1:1 leadership escalation ask that names my self-interest and a clear next step? sorry it's gonna be a no from me dawg

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emily thai @ethai.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

the bay area is so annoying bc my friend who just moved to oakland was complaining the other day like "i like to bike, but it's so annoying that there isn't a continuous protected bike path here" like yes but shut the fuck up

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Hello! 👋 I'm hoping to raise money for two Bay Area cat rescues. If you post a screenshot of you donating at least $20, I will answer a style-related question for you. But first, let me tell you about the rescues, why they're worthy of your support, and hopefully get you to adopt a cat. 🧵

Two gray cats. One has their pawn on a person's knee.

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David Weiskopf believes in you @dave.bzky.team · 10/06/2026

A very uncomfortable thing to acknowledge is that policymakers need to either force or entice data centers to connect to the grid, and also that data centers can really fuck up the grid. There are not easy answers here, but there are answers, and I'm proud to be at an org that is working on them.

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Louis Römer @lromeranth.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

This mode of white male identity politics often gets conflated with class politics. It happens because signifiers of working-class identity are inherently ambiguous, and underspecified populist discursive categories like "the people" and the "establishment" strategically enable this conflation.

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

"This keeps happening" can quickly become "this always happens" and then "it's always been this way," until you're locked into a sense of permanence and inevitability that have been manufactured by the oppressor.

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illumi @yallchemist.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

umm actually the concept of fun was invented by the elites to distract you from the fact that your life is miserable and meaningless

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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

I don’t think BlueSky is dying but I do think it‘s stagnant because there are only so many unpleasant terminally online politically hyper-engaged left of center aging millennials with personality disorders and a history of underachievement to draw from. We’re pretty much all here already.

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emily thai @ethai.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

you know how that song goes: fuck trump, fuck ice-

a sign, "FREE" spray painted on it, next to a shipping pallet. free pallet sign

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nathan @wiseposter.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

hey re: world historic events, just let me know if somethin changes. i'm not interested in stuff that almost happened or whatever. im busy

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arcadus @birdapp.rip · 16/05/2026

if you want leftist votes, then you have to give concessions to leftist voters. it's really that simple.

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Do dems need the votes of leftists to win elections?

If yes they have to offer polciy concessions

If no its not leftists fault when dems lose

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emily thai @ethai.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

this is so bizarro, our country is so broken

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Lucia for Congress @luciaforcongress.com · 15/05/2026

From this article: When party loyalty becomes the primary argument for a candidate, rather than what that candidate will actually do in office, we end up with more of the same. We cannot expect different results from the same people making the same compromises. buckscountybeacon.com/2026/05/buck...

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Bucks County Deserves Better — That's Why I'm Voting for Lucia Simonelli - Bucks County Beacon

A vote for Lucia is a vote for the Democratic Party we actually need: a party that fights instead of folds, that listens instead of lectures, that is beholden to the people it represents instead of bi...

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emily thai @ethai.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

going "AI is a brainrot lie machine" at people is all well and good for bsky academics but increasingly out of touch with how regular people use LLM tools, flawed or not, to make their lives easier

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emily thai @ethai.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

another example: it is possible to talk about climate in a way that resonates with what ordinary people care about. instead the democratic party is endorsing the guy who wants amazon to raise your utility bills

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Science Magazine @science.org · 09/05/2026

Breaking news: Indiana University plant microbiologist Roger Innes has been locked out of his laboratory by the school in response to a request by one of his federal funders. The move comes after Innes complained about the government’s prosecution of Chinese postdocs. scim.ag/4tsDqRr

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After USDA request, Indiana plant biologist locked out of lab by school

Move comes after Roger Innes complained about the government’s prosecution of Chinese postdocs

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emily thai @ethai.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

while we're complaining about things democrats talk about too much, one thing i've been thinking about recently is how unions represent one tenth of workers but are still fetishized by democrats as if they represent "working people"

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emily thai @ethai.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

I wonder what the world would look like if we had gotten a green new deal instead of an "inflation reduction act" designed to have no enemies and make no allies

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emily thai @ethai.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

if i had a nickel for every time a voter told me "ahhhh wow i so totally personally support X but X can't win an election" i would have enough nickels to win an election

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emily thai @ethai.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

What if... and hear me out here... we voted for politicians that actually answer questions about their policy positions

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emily thai @ethai.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

i know it's fun to dunk on third way on here but how can you be third way and be mad at people who are proposing a third way (grist.org/politics/gre...)

screenshot from the linked Grist article: But Emily Becker, director of communications for the climate and energy program at the center-left think tank Third Way, described the agenda as “Biden on steroids,” warning that it may not resonate as broadly as its proponents hope. “It lacks the imagination of the Green New Deal, and it lacks the pragmatism of the Inflation Reduction Act,” she said. “They find themselves stranded between, ‘OK, do we tell policymakers how to make something durable that works and that has political fortitude? Or do we paint the picture of the world we wish to build?’” That middle ground makes her think the agenda won’t catch on. She also thinks using a populist framing to convince the public to care about climate is unnecessary. “You are lucky to be a clean energy advocate in this moment, because clean energy is affordable energy,” Becker said. “So talk to them about addressing energy affordability and how clean energy can satisfy that.”

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emily thai @ethai.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

one thing about me is i just tried to find spam the canned meat in the international/asian aisle

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emily thai @ethai.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

if we're going to call neurodivergent people neurospicy, can we start calling neurotypical people neurobland

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Steven Lucy @slucy.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

If you think protesting will be ineffective, can you imagine how ineffective NOT protesting would be?

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 28/03/2026

🚨 THIS JUST IN: With over 100 protests still to come, we can already estimate that at least 8 million people participated in No Kings protests today. That makes No Kings 3 the largest single day of protest in American history. #NoKings

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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.northsky.social · 25/03/2026

Apparently Google has only partially updated its satellite photos of Gaza, so there are currently these weird images where whatever algorithm they use is utterly failing to blend before and after shots

Satellite image of two blended photos from above Gamal Abdel Nasser Street in Khan Yunis in central Gaza. The bottom half shows densely packed neighborhoods with, many of which appear to have sustained damage from aistrikes, with some small patches of trees. The top half shows continuations of the neighborhoods in the south, but with much of them now completely flattened to yellow sand and smudges of grey rubble. Google Maps pins indicate that this area contains 2 restaurants and 3 mosques.

Satellite image of two blended photos of northern Gaza. The bottom half shows a small coastal farming community next to a blue sea, with multiple fields of crops visible. The top half gives way to fields completely packed with white and blue tents belonging to refugees.

Image of three satellite photos of an area southwest of Gaza City. The bottom left corner shows small neighborhoods of white-roofed houses lined with green trees, giving way on the bottom right to flattened neighborhoods covered in rubble, red sand, and bulldozer tracks. The top half of the image is a wasteland of yellow sand and grey rubble from dozens of demolished buildings, including Google Maps pins for a mosque and an site marked UNRWA-GFO

Two blended satellite photos of northeast Gaza, showing stands of green trees in the left half giving way to barren yellow sand marked by tree stumps and bulldozer tracks on the right.

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emily thai @ethai.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

last week a plainclothes policeman violently assaulted children who were staging a walkout to protest ICE and i keep seeing people say "well these kids just wanted to skip class" and as an organizer i wanna remind us that people come to movements from self-interest and that's not a bad thing

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emily thai @ethai.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

"If we continue prioritizing funders over voters, we’ll continue yielding expensive defeats."

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Bucks County Beacon @buckscountybeacon.com · 14/02/2026

OPINION: Let Bucks County Voters Have a True Choice in May’s Elections | Sarah Baik believes it's time to put the small "d" democratic back in the big "D" Democratic primaries.

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OPINION: Let Bucks County Voters Have a True Choice in May's Elections - Bucks County Beacon

Sarah Baik believes it's time to put the small "d" democratic back in the big "D" Democratic primaries.

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emily thai @ethai.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

feels notable because the center-left Dem so often whines about it when they lose to a progressive, I appreciate that Malinowski despite the conditions of the race is throwing support behind Mejia in the same way progressives who lose are without fail expected to fall in line behind a centrist

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Cyril Mychalejko @cmychalejko.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Could @luciaforcongress.com be the next @analiliafornj.bsky.social, a progressive organizer from New Jersey who appears on the brink of cementing victory against establishment candidate and former Rep. Tom Malinowski? Lucia walks her talk and she knows what she is talking about.

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emily thai @ethai.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

i was lucky enough to participate in this as a volunteer last year and this year i'll be facilitating it! if you believe fundraising can be an invitation into our movements and you want to hang out with the sharpest donor organizers i know, this is where you wanna be 🔥🔥🔥

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emily thai @ethai.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

went and spoke at a philanthropy conference today with a lot of lovely people and somehow i may have been the only panelist to bring up the imminent threat to american democracy ?

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