Reposted by Aph ⚡️Simon and Gargamel @kellylink.bsky.social · 20/04/2026This Is Just To Say I have turned off the AI features that were in the update and which you were probably hoping to monetize Fuck you they were stupid so unnecessary and so annoying 6695963544
Aph ⚡️ @hailaphrodite.bsky.social · 16/04/2026I know we all know these AI summaries are shit but cmon man 000
Reposted by Aph ⚡️ceej @ceej.online · 07/04/2026I’ve been thinking about this guy almost daily for ten fucking years. essentially my entire 30’s. when he finally croaks I imagine I’ll let out a sigh so deep it realigns my fucking spine 198140022545
Reposted by Aph ⚡️mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 07/04/2026You know what? I'll admit it. The credible threat by a madman to wipe out a nation of 90 million people for basically no reason (presumably using nuclear weapons) successfully distracted me. I am now distracted. 6771721135
Reposted by Aph ⚡️Micah @rincewind.run · 07/04/2026you have to get him out of office and you have to do it today even if it gets blocked you force an impeachment vote right now how else can you live with yourself if he follows through with this and you didn’t do everything you could to stop it 3662541722
Reposted by Aph ⚡️Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/04/2026I feel sick to my stomach waiting around to see what atrocity Trump has in mind for the people of Iran this evening. It's hard to fathom our other elected leaders aren't able to check him in any meaningful way. It's an indictment not just of voters but of our whole system. We're ruled by a mad king. 1058170274174
Aph ⚡️ @hailaphrodite.bsky.social · 03/04/2026Finally watched The Terror and man, that Jared Harris. Talk about a guy who always understands the assignment! 110
Reposted by Aph ⚡️the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 29/03/2026what if we got a 100% blockrate on it. what if they designed an AI and we unanimously said "nope" 6235151312
Aph ⚡️ @hailaphrodite.bsky.social · 26/03/2026“She said positive things about him in the past so he can’t possibly have abused her” do yall even hear yourselves 000
Aph ⚡️ @hailaphrodite.bsky.social · 26/03/2026Really sad to read Kate Beckinsale’s post alleging verbal & emotional abuse while partnered with Michael Sheen. I’ve been such a fan of him and his work, but the behavior she describes is misogynistic and cruel, and the way she talks about it makes it sound like amends have not been made. Upsetting. 150
Reposted by Aph ⚡️mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 25/03/2026i think sometimes cis people truly have a hard time understanding that jk rowling is a living person actively using her wealth to fund the international assault on trans lives. she’s not some Complicated Author we can have a spirited debate about separating from the art with!!!!! 31130233582
Reposted by Aph ⚡️Stephen King’s KAYLEIGH @ronchronchronch.bsky.social · 02/02/2026Neil Gaiman is crawling out of his bog two years after sexual assault allegations to play the sweet old fantasy uncle again -- complete with name-dropping that book you like & his twee "make good art" catchphrase -- all in order to (of course) sell you his upcoming book. Don't you dare fall for it. 51132558
Reposted by Aph ⚡️Marty Cahill @mcflycahill90.bsky.social · 02/02/2026ICYMI, Gai*man is slinking out of the shadows and posting again, trying to scuttle his way back into the public's good graces. Please take care of yourselves, believe women, believe survivors, and fuck that guy. 391960652
Reposted by Aph ⚡️Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 24/01/2026Alex from our time working together, while he was in nursing school. Later, he moved to ICU, working as a nurse to support critically ill Veterans. He had such a great attitude. We’d chat between patients about trying to get in a mountain bike ride together. Will never happen now 626234997711
Reposted by Aph ⚡️borderless @borderless.bsky.social · 08/01/2026They don't have capacity to terrorize more than 2-3 cities at a time. Which means they rotate teams to new cities without relief. Which means consistent resistance by fresh activists in each new city will break them over time. Which means if you're city's not occupied, rest up and get ready. 9780293057
Reposted by Aph ⚡️Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 08/01/2026Here we go katu.com/news/local/i...katu.comICE shoots two people in Portland, ABC sources saysU.S. Customs and Border Protection agents shot two people in Portland on Thursday afternoon, according to ABC News sources.The shooting occurred near East Burns 16554170
Reposted by Aph ⚡️Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 08/01/2026Yes, JD. Let’s ask them if they think a stay at home mom, avowed Christian, and widow of a veteran deserved to be shot in the face and left to bleed out in her own car after dropping her 6-year-old off at school, for the crime of looking out for her neighbors. Let’s ask everyone running for office. 1455269148309
Reposted by Aph ⚡️Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 07/01/2026This glib statement is all the more risible when you recall how many law enforcement officers used their vehicles as weapons against protesters in 2020... and how many Republican-dominated states *sought to legalize killing protesters with vehicles* as a reaction to the demonstrations 17556791367
Reposted by Aph ⚡️Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 07/01/2026Democrats need to understand that they can just say “It’s insane to threaten Greenland” and “I don’t think ICE should murder Americans in the street” and you don’t need to pretend to link it to the affordability crisis. Say bad things are bad. 155120202970
Reposted by Aph ⚡️Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 07/01/2026Federal agents blocked a man identifying himself as a doctor from reaching the woman killed by ICE in Minneapolis, video shared with HuffPost shows www.huffpost.com/entry/latest... 8547562077
Reposted by Aph ⚡️Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 07/01/2026The woman killed by ICE was Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year old who was the mother of a 4-year old child whose father already died a few years ago. The Star Tribune talked to her mother. www.startribune.com/she-was-an-a... 16069492582
Reposted by Aph ⚡️Lee Cicuta @butchanarchy.bsky.social · 07/01/2026Two queer women with a 6 year old in school today stopped to film ICE and for their bravery ICE agents murdered one before the other’s eyes. The grief in the survivor’s voice is a knife to the gut. Destroying people and their bonds is what ICE has always done. 2243821897
Reposted by Aph ⚡️derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 20/11/2025The people who make Shein's clothes labor for ten to twelve hours per day (in violation of China's labor laws), some up to seven days a week, and earn as little as 15 to 30 cents per t-shirt. 14796583508
Reposted by Aph ⚡️Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 13/11/2025Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN. 367283245855
Reposted by Aph ⚡️derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 13/11/2025thinking about how i get anxious writing emails because i don't want to sound like a moron while larry summers is apparently typing emails like this: u kno she dint want to talk tomorrow. make me bad pheel. 192133111319
Aph ⚡️ @hailaphrodite.bsky.social · 11/11/2025man they did Miss Gulch so dirty… I’m just saying, if some kid down the street was letting their yappy little dog off leash, to come pee in my garden and terrorize my beloved senior cat?? and then it BIT me??!? Toto is a menace and frankly she was right to say so 100
Reposted by Aph ⚡️Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 05/11/2025Mamdani cracks 1M votes, the first NYC mayor to do so since John Lindsay in 1969 43158992861
Reposted by Aph ⚡️Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 05/11/2025I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win 355318658
Reposted by Aph ⚡️Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 11/09/2025“awful people don’t deserve to be killed, but they don’t deserve to be praised, either” is apparently a thought too complex for the pundit mind 601446938378
Reposted by Aph ⚡️A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 11/09/2025Charlie Kirk spent his life‘s work and all of his energy and time targeting out-groups while arguing for a world in which gun massacres would be easy to enact, plentiful, and inevitable, and he became famous and wealthy doing it, and we’re now not supposed to mention that because it’s not polite. 12324927912367
Aph ⚡️ @hailaphrodite.bsky.social · 09/08/2025Watched “Best of Enemies” last night about the 1968 William F. Buckley/Gore Vidal debates and now I am dying for a full feature-length drama about these two starring Michael Sheen and David Tennant 020
Reposted by Aph ⚡️Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 24/07/2025The mass starvation & killing of Palestinians in Gaza at the hands of the Israeli gov’t is a chillul hashem, a desecration of God. Jewish leaders who criticized Zohran Mamdani for three words he doesn’t use should raise their voices loudly here as well. forward.com/opinion/7575...forward.comGaza is starving. Where are the American Jewish leaders?A fear of being labelled antisemitic still deters American Jews and Jewish institutions from taking a position that is morally correct. 17493523340
Reposted by Aph ⚡️Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 24/07/2025I just sent this out. The Jewish people have moral frameworks for this moment. It is a choice not to heed them. Please let us meet this moment, let us see the shattered Temple around us, right now, and our responsibility to it.lifeisasacredtext.comto Jews, on the Gaza faminean open letter: we have been commanded 241012411
Reposted by Aph ⚡️Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 27/06/2025Shabbat Shalom to everyone who recognizes that the safety, freedom & thriving of Jews and Muslims are bound up together — in Israel & Palestine, across the five boroughs, and in many other beloved places. 160101321852
Reposted by Aph ⚡️Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 27/06/2025Zohran: Imagine living in a city where you can afford your rent, your groceries and even a meal at a restaurant now and then without much stress Eric Adams: Imagine a platypus so powerful that it could destroy the city. We need more cops 267248774160
Aph ⚡️ @hailaphrodite.bsky.social · 29/04/2025Genuinely what do I need to do to get this website to stop showing me furry art bc I am truly at my limit. how many times do I have to hit “show me less like this” before it understands that I do not want to look at boobified animals 010
Reposted by Aph ⚡️Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 29/04/2025“There are things you could do or say—as a person in academia, or in the media, or an N.G.O.—that would get them to come after you. But if you know where the lines are, and you don’t cross them, you can have a good life.” www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...newyorker.comIs the U.S. Becoming an Autocracy?Other countries have watched their democracies slip away gradually, without tanks in the streets. That may be where we’re headed—or where we already are. 1161192304
Reposted by Aph ⚡️lukelukeluke @lukelukeluke.bsky.social · 12/02/2025It’s fun starting a new hobby with ADHD because I never know if I’ve found a new lifelong passion or if I’m going to spend $2000 on stuff and immediately lose all interest 1465331443148
Reposted by Aph ⚡️eve6 @eve6.bsky.social · 31/01/2025A small thing I've started doing that has had a tremendous positive effect on my mental health is listening to music instead of podcasts 47311317593
Aph ⚡️ @hailaphrodite.bsky.social · 21/01/2025wow this all feels very scary and bad! I hate it here! 000
Reposted by Aph ⚡️Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 16/01/2025Can tell y'all as someone who was a bit (a bunch) more inside the conversations around repro, saw how that sausage got made that before, during, & after the fall of Roe, Choices Were Made. Painstaking hard work built in coalition was undone. Refusal to wield power is a relationship to power. 336523
Reposted by Aph ⚡️Paul Constant @paulconstant.com · 14/01/2025“I've always tried to be a private person” is something Neil Gaiman actually wrote in the first paragraph of a blog post that’s supposed to convince us he’s telling the truth. Wild. 4747
Reposted by Aph ⚡️Emily C. Hughes @emilyhughes.bsky.social · 13/01/2025the thing about the Gaiman story, as with so many stories of monstrous men, is that it's the same boring solipsistic pathology over and over and over. they all think that they're God's Specialest Boy and that if they do something, it can't possibly be wrong or bad. it's so pathetic. 21293216
Reposted by Aph ⚡️lila pearl @lilashapiro.bsky.social · 13/01/2025I wrote about Neil Gaiman, and the women accusing him of sexual coercion, assault and abuse. www.vulture.com/article/neil...vulture.comThere Is No Safe WordHow the best-selling fantasy author Neil Gaiman hid the darkest parts of himself for decades. 624124463688
![Excerpt from a BBC article: ""We usually work, 10, 11 or 12 hours a day," says a 49-year-old woman from Jiangxi unwilling to give her name. "On Sundays we work around three hours less."
She is in an alleyway, where a dozen people are huddled around a row of bulletin boards.
They are reading the job ads on the board, while examining the stitching on a pair of chinos draped over it.
This is Shein's supply chain. The factories are contracted to make clothes on order - some small, some big. If the chinos are a hit, orders will ramp up and so must production. Factories then hire temporary workers to meet the demand their permanent staff cannot fulfil.
The migrant worker from Jiangxi is looking for a short-term contract - and the chinos are an option.
"We earn so little. The cost of living is now so high," she says, adding that she hopes to make enough to send back to her two children who are living with their grandparents.
"We get paid per piece," she explains. "It depends how difficult the item is. Something simple like a t-shirt is one-two yuan [less than a dollar] per piece and I can make around a dozen in an hour.""](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ks3gpa6ftoyaq7hmf6c4qx4c/bafkreiber7g4o5pujmzmjjzsp5dkz7blfexburuwjispfpv6dki7akjb7a)
