Reposted by Heidi Lim (she/they)Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 2hPart of why I don't like the AI-or-bust economy is the constant flopsweat of people on the news who say this HAS to work. Quit making everyone so anxious. Goddamn. If this is the next Google then why are you acting like this? I don't remember being told to buy an iPhone at gunpoint. 1454663836
Reposted by Heidi Lim (she/they)derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Neiman Marcus closed its downtown Dallas flagship on Wednesday. The store played a notable role in the history of desegregation in Dallas. Previously, Black shoppers across the US could enter department stores, but they weren't allowed to try on clothes without adhering to certain conditions. 🧵 10458651661
Reposted by Heidi Lim (she/they)Hansi Lo Wang (he/him) @hansilowang.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Eligible voters of the United States, Have you checked your state or territory's deadline for registering to vote or updating your registration for the midterm elections? (SPOILER ALERT: They are coming up fast!) There's a guide for you at npr.org/votenpr.orgHow to register to vote and check your registration statusFor the 2026 elections, NPR has collected deadlines and information on how to register to vote — online, in person or by mail — in every U.S. state and territory. 04835
Heidi Lim (she/they) @heidiheidilim.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I think a lot of folks even in the climate community have fallen for the greenwashing - folks like @ketanjoshi.co are giving us stark figures showing that anyone concerned about fossil fuels, especially us working against climate change, should take a closer look at the AI industry's plans. 053
Reposted by Heidi Lim (she/they)MediaJustice @mediajustice.bsky.social · 30/09/2026For folks both in the Bay and national, join us for #OaklandTechWeek on our IG livestream, where we’ll broadcast our main stage convos for #BuildingBeyondBigTech. We'll broadcast our CA landscape analysis and our "Their Future Vs Our Future" Panel. www.instagram.com/mediajustice/ 133
Reposted by Heidi Lim (she/they)Hilda Bastian @hildabast.bsky.social · 29/09/2026My latest nextgen Covid vax update is online: * New feature* Combined flu & Covid vaccines — the first one has been approved for people 50 & over, and a massive effectiveness trial is beginning in Denmark & Spain ... 1/2 vaxtracker.wordpress.com/2026/09/29/t...vaxtracker.wordpress.comFlu-Covid combo vax & monthly update of nextgen Covid vax newsModerna has the first combined flu-Covid vaccine to cross the finish line. An overview of that race plus an update on nextgen Covid vaccine news. 24320
Reposted by Heidi Lim (she/they)Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/09/2026DoorDash spent $1.4M trying to stop Zohran Mamdani from becoming mayor. This week's historic $131.5M enforcement action against DoorDash for underpaying NYC delivery workers shows why. Yet another reminder that the only thing that can beat organized money is organized people.theintercept.comDoorDash Spent $1.4 Million Trying to Stop Mamdani From Becoming Mayor. Now We Know Why.In a wage-theft settlement, DoorDash now has to pay its workers around 100 times what it spent trying to beat Zohran Mam 6584020611821
Reposted by Heidi Lim (she/they)Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 23/09/2026Of course one of the best science fiction directors of all time understands the science of airborne virus transmission! Steven Spielberg is wearing a high quality mask during the California COVID surge. 181725319
Heidi Lim (she/they) @heidiheidilim.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Great news and motivation for the midterms - I've phonebanked and I will be working with @seedthevote.bsky.social to canvass. Every volunteer shift and dollar is something. 000
Heidi Lim (she/they) @heidiheidilim.bsky.social · 24/09/2026It's 2026 and ridiculous that oil is still being used for leverage in war. 000
Reposted by Heidi Lim (she/they)Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Just gonna light this bag of dogshit on fire and walk away from the doorstep, but the people in media I hear saying AI has made them "more productive" appear to be producing less than ever, and worse things than ever. I wonder if they can even tell. 1265187659
Reposted by Heidi Lim (she/they)Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Actor Gary Sinise took over 1,000 children of fallen soldiers to Disneyland, free of charge Original post 466151572791
Reposted by Heidi Lim (she/they)Stellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 18/09/2026Share if you agree 189103433307
Reposted by Heidi Lim (she/they)Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Maybe the most important political story of our time. People just want the bullshit to stop.gizmodo.com71% of Americans Say They're Completely ExhaustedA CDC report shows that people are not feeling relaxed and restful in the United States. 1401267006702
Reposted by Heidi Lim (she/they)The Onion @theonion.com · 17/09/2026Mitch McConnell Returns To Capitol Hill In Jar Of Formaldehyde 198129162229
Reposted by Heidi Lim (she/they)Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 17/09/2026EXCLUSIVE: In a 20-page order, the judge in my lawsuit for the Epstein Files just ordered Todd Blanche to produce to him, in chambers & by 9/24, the unredacted handwritten FBI notes implicating Donald Trump in the sexual & physical abuse of a 13-year-old girl: youtu.be/Yo1ZUGe_O4o?...youtu.beTrump DOJ ORDERED To HAND Judge UNREDACTED EPSTEIN Files!?!YouTube video by Katie Phang 19737341275
Reposted by Heidi Lim (she/they)Parkrose Permaculture @parkroseperma.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Imagine wanting to banish LGBTQIA people from the military and American life while also being the gayest daydrunk Fox News host to ever “lead” the DoD (no, I won’t call it Dept of War. Congress has not renamed it. It’s still the DoD). These fragile closeted men will do anything rather than kiss. 1415836
Reposted by Heidi Lim (she/they)Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 16/09/2026A Philadelphia family just bought their first home with a $10,000 first-time homebuyer grant funded by a group of Quakers It’s part of the congregation’s racial justice plan to redistribute wealth to Black residents in the Germantown area as a form of reparationsinquirer.comA Philly family bought their first home thanks to reparations from Quakers in GermantownGreen Street Friends Meeting, a Quaker congregation in Germantown, pledged to spend $50,000 a year for 10 years as part of its reparations work. It’s helping Black Philadelphians become homeowners. 222125312874
Heidi Lim (she/they) @heidiheidilim.bsky.social · 16/09/2026The kids demonstrating @alexhanna.bsky.social and @emilymbender.bsky.social's "ridicule as praxis" in the new printed WIRED, in an article about how many youth will never think AI is cool. 040
Reposted by Heidi Lim (she/they)Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15/09/2026A data center in New Jersey spilled 5,000 gallons of diesel fuel into a local creek, putting the area’s entire river system at risk. Is it any wonder nearly 70 percent of Americans don’t want a data center in their community? 402129025613
Reposted by Heidi Lim (she/they)John Rain🥇 @johnrain.co.uk · 15/09/2026Ed Sheeran's tour bus. 76148912907
Heidi Lim (she/they) @heidiheidilim.bsky.social · 15/09/2026this side-by-side in my youtube recs is too funny 100
Reposted by Heidi Lim (she/they)Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 15/09/2026 63177623723
Reposted by Heidi Lim (she/they)Jonathan McDowell @planet4589.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Apparently the commander of the International Space Station brought her dancing pants to space with her 1163137703
Heidi Lim (she/they) @heidiheidilim.bsky.social · 14/09/2026AI boosters fear-mongering about a made up existential crisis to make a real existential crisis (climate change) worse is pure irony. 010
Reposted by Heidi Lim (she/they)Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Every other headline now is "Huge liar who's financially motivated to lie says" 2266211257
Reposted by Heidi Lim (she/they)Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 14/09/2026underrated part of El-Sayed’s messaging strategy seems to be shaming journalists who ask dumb questions that play into right-wing frames. you can’t answer these in a way that satisfies them, but you can make it embarrassing enough that you impose a toll on asking. 186151362695
Heidi Lim (she/they) @heidiheidilim.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Coming back into the non-climate tech world, I'm unfortunately reminded of how much misogyny runs rampant out here. 010
Reposted by Heidi Lim (she/they)Dr. Jillian Scudder @jillianscudder.com · 12/09/2026Today I booked my updated COVID and flu shots! Will get them next week. Schedule your vaccines, folks!! 6585
Reposted by Heidi Lim (she/they)Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 12/09/2026It’s valid to be skeptical of the CDC, given the leadership there. But most outbreak data comes from state health departments. You can easily double check any aggregated national data the CDC publishes by comparing for with state level data for consistency. 16441150
Reposted by Heidi Lim (she/they)Tollytb🇮🇪🇪🇺🇨🇦🇬🇧 @tollytb.bsky.social · 11/09/2026My girlfriend knew I'd had a dodgy stomach, so made me a lovely dinner. 🐢💨 1612107150
Reposted by Heidi Lim (she/they)ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 12/09/2026i am incredibly excited to share our research about how paying people’s rent through mutual aid made an impact on minnesota this year we accidentally collected more data than anyone ever has for an effort like this, and can very seriously say we prevented an eviction bubble that everyone expected 3031021154
Reposted by Heidi Lim (she/they)Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 11/09/2026As @alexhanna.bsky.social and I write in The AI Con (see Ch 6): even though the Boosters and the Doomers like to portray themselves as holding down opposite extremes of opinions on "AI", they are two sides of the same coin. thecon.ai >>thecon.aiTHE AI CONHow to Fight Big Tech's Hype and Create the Future We Want 216435
Heidi Lim (she/they) @heidiheidilim.bsky.social · 11/09/2026I helped make this!! Learned so much along the way, too. 010
Reposted by Heidi Lim (she/they)Mike X. Nichols @mikexnichols.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Thinking about this exchange today 34181044489
Reposted by Heidi Lim (she/they)tunes to make you run away @whippoorwont.bsky.social · 07/09/2026"people are anthropomorphizing LLMs because they are so astonishingly good at processing human thought and language" people will anthropomorphize a chair if you put the stitches in the right place. 425174283863
Reposted by Heidi Lim (she/they)Steve Woodsmall, PhD @drstevew.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Got the Covid and flu shots. Because SCIENCE. 751969220
Reposted by Heidi Lim (she/they)Ellie Mae O'Hagan @elliemaeohagan.bsky.social · 03/09/2026I love the dedication in My Life on the Road by Gloria Steinhem 10385261964
Reposted by Heidi Lim (she/they)Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 02/09/2026What connects Elon Musk, the floods in Nepal, and an AI data center in Memphis? My friend, @billmckibben.bsky.social, who has helped me see patterns for a long time, threads it all together. Prepare yourself. Our full conversation with @ayanaeliza.bsky.social: naomiklein.substack.com/p/climate-vs... 5300137
Heidi Lim (she/they) @heidiheidilim.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Natural gas expansion is one of the top climate risks of Big Tech AI - we were just on our way to phasing it and other fossil fuels out, while renewables have also become much cheaper. The AI boom is knocking this trajectory off course. 000
Reposted by Heidi Lim (she/they)Mary @mfbrodie.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Texans check your voter registration, especially those in Dallas, Collin, Denton, and Tarrant counties. From the article: Suspended voter registrations span the whole state, but these Blue/Blue leaning counties are targets: Dallas: +129,000 Collin: 56,000 Denton: 56,000 Tarrant: + 73,000newrepublic.comTexas Has Suspended More Than 1 Million Voters Ahead of Senate RaceIf you’re one of the people who had their voter registration suspended, there’s still time to fix it. 22942153179
Reposted by Heidi Lim (she/they)Daniel Abraham @abraham.bsky.social · 27/08/2026You know who else has an unfair advantage in sport? Naturally talented athletes. And people with high hemoglobin. And rich people with money for sports camps and coaches. Why should they be allowed to compete? “Fairness in sports” my ass. Never since NFTs have I heard such bullshit. 30115392282
Reposted by Heidi Lim (she/they)Rae Radford @raeradford.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Yep, leave me behind….. #BookSky 583152373460