Reposted by Fem Severianjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 20/09/2025i will concede that if you want to influence other people addicted to X, X is worth using. but if you want to influence the actual public, text-based social media is a fool's errand. 2016873561 0
Reposted by Fem SeverianDrop Site @dropsitenews.com · 20/09/2025🚨ACLED: 94% of Palestinians Killed Since March Are Civilians New data from ACLED, the UN- and Western-backed conflict tracker, shows Israel’s post-ceasefire campaign in Gaza has produced one of the highest civilian death rates of the war, with roughly 15 civilians killed for every fighter. 05132 0
Reposted by Fem SeverianDrop Site @dropsitenews.com · 20/09/2025Breaking: Portugal confirms it will formally recognize the State of Palestine on Sunday, September 21, 2025. The move comes just ahead of a high-level UN conference on Palestine. 12513130 0
Reposted by Fem Severianghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 20/09/2025had to read the article to understand wtf was going on here which is that Meta is literally feeding Instagram pictures parents took of their teenage daughters to middle aged men as ads for Threads 372837992 0
Reposted by Fem SeverianCats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 20/09/2025The Raid. Photo from my collection, no date/info. 473125413 0
Reposted by Fem SeverianKarl Friedhoff @kfriedhoff.bsky.social · 19/09/2025It's also worth noting here that Korea's total trade with the US for one year is $240 billion. 0103 0
Reposted by Fem Severianryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 19/09/2025"In the first half of 2025 China’s new additions were more than twice the new capacity installed by the entire rest of the world this year. The #2 on the list, India, installed 24GW. The US at #3 installed 21GW. There is an order of magnitude difference." adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-...adamtooze.substack.comChartbook 409 Beyond the "Marshall Plan": China's solar boom as world-changing industrial policy.In the first six months of 2025 China installed more than 250GW of solar power capacity. 411740 0
Reposted by Fem SeverianBill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 19/09/2025The Heritage Foundation is one of the worst organizations in the modern world. A cesspit of sick nazi fucks. Every single idea, every single person who comes out of it makes the world a worse place. Creepy crawly death cult. Yeah I’m not very fond of them. 101262300 0
Reposted by Fem SeverianFinancial Times @financialtimes.com · 18/09/2025Trump tariffs could fund bailout for US farmers, says agriculture secretary on.ft.com/4guA77ron.ft.comTrump tariffs could fund bailout for US farmers, says agriculture secretaryBrooke Rollins says a package to offset rising costs for growers could be announced ‘soon’ 563314 0
Reposted by Fem SeverianChenchen Zhang 🤦🏻♀️ @chenchenzhang.net · 18/09/2025last year in China a 21yo man killed 8 people and injured 17 in an indiscriminate knife attack at a vocational training school. he was sentenced to death only a month later. there's an interesting report tracing his radicalisation online, also a mixture of "far right" & "far left" influences. 192 0
Reposted by Fem SeverianEd BooOOooOOmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 18/09/2025Mentally I am relaxing in Oscar Niemeyer's headquarters for the French communist party (1980) and nothing can reach me here if I continue to refuse to answer that phone. 21554103 0
Reposted by Fem SeverianPrem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 18/09/2025An immigration judge has ordered Mahmoud Khalil to be deported to Syria or Algeria. News of the Trump admin’s continued pursuit of the freed Palestinian activist comes as it expands its war on speech even further, this time against Jimmy Kimmel.zeteo.comImmigration Judge Orders Mahmoud Khalil to Be Deported to Syria or AlgeriaThe Palestinian activist's lawyers say he remains protected for now by a federal judge's previous order preventing his removal while his case proceeds. 415265 0
Reposted by Fem SeverianTim Shorrock @timshorrock.bsky.social · 17/09/2025How South Korea's collective PTSD about its own experience with military dictatorship has influenced its deep anger about Trump's ICE raid in Georgia and ICE's horrific treatment of Korean citizens. 0159 0
Reposted by Fem SeverianFinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 17/09/2025POWELL: EXPECT TARIFF-DRIVEN PRICE INCREASES TO CONTINUE THIS YEAR AND NEXT 211002291 0
Reposted by Fem SeverianPrem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 17/09/2025NEW: 20 US politicians now say Israel is committing genocide. First Jewish members to do so— Bernie Sanders: "The intent is clear. The conclusion is inescapable: Israel is committing genocide in Gaza." Becca Balint: "…the trauma of the Holocaust serves as a reminder of the power of speaking out."zeteo.comWho Says Israel Is Committing a Genocide in Gaza? Everyone on This ListAfter almost two years, more and more politicians, experts, and human rights groups are finally using the G-word to describe Israel's violence in Gaza, but the list is still relatively short. 11438120 0
Reposted by Fem SeverianCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 17/09/2025Here comes subprime auto-loan delinquencies. 👀 (via Arbor Data)! 30626156 0
Reposted by Fem SeverianKelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 17/09/2025"this was an illegal act, under US and international law. Assassination is against the law according to the War Crimes Act, Uniform Code of Military Justice, and Executive Order 12333, as well as the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights" internationalpolicy.org/publications...internationalpolicy.orgTrump’s Wag The Dog Moment - CIPIf you want to break up a drug cartel, blowing up a boat does little to accomplish that, unless you believe cartels only own one boat. 311834 0
Reposted by Fem SeverianJW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 17/09/2025My goal in life is to get the word "shkrelling" into circulation. It means talking about something in a way that is ostensibly about how evil and terrible it is, but is really marketing for it. 1163 0
Reposted by Fem Severianryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 17/09/2025we need young earth creationists in every biology department, antivax cranks in every medical school program, and climate deniers in every chemistry department 401097156 0
Reposted by Fem SeverianTim Shorrock @timshorrock.bsky.social · 17/09/2025Inside U.S. detention: Korean victim’s testimony of shackles and humiliation. www.khan.co.kr/article/2025...khan.co.krInside U.S. detention: Korean victim’s testimony of shackles and humiliationIt was something he never could have imagined. While at work, he was suddenly chained up and dragged away, and it was only after eight days that he was finally released. Though he had committed no ... 087 0
Reposted by Fem SeverianDave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 17/09/2025There will always be funding for telling rich people what they want to hear. 2450483 0
Reposted by Fem SeverianJW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 17/09/2025I hadn't quite realized how much China's exports to the US have fallen recently. Prior to the pandemic, the US deficit with China was on the order of 2 percent of GDP. Now it's down to half a percent. 16119 0
Reposted by Fem Severianwillmenaker.bsky.social @willmenaker.bsky.social · 22/12/2024Instead of having playoffs, the college football championship should be between the best college team and the worst NFL team. If the college team wins, they get to become an NFL franchise, and the NFL team has to become a university. 442189313 0
Reposted by Fem SeverianJW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 22/12/2024After some MIT students publish an opinion piece in the campus paper criticizing a professor's work with the Israeli military, the paper stops publishing op-eds entirely. A perfect example of how campus speech works in 2024. mondoweiss.net/2024/12/desp... 8735308 0
Reposted by Fem SeverianJennifer Smyth @jensmyth.myatproto.social · 21/12/2024I screencapped so many whole paragraphs from this that it became untenable, so here’s one of many times I threw my fist up in the air: 18422 0
Reposted by Fem SeverianSandra Newman @sannewman.bsky.social · 21/12/2024Fun prank: a YouTube white noise track of ten hours of "Rainfall In a Forest," but, at the seven-hour point, you can hear two people walk past planning a murder 1129041 0
Reposted by Fem SeverianBig Joel @bigjoel.bsky.social · 22/12/2024This is an incredibly common take, and one that I think is less gendered than people like to think, but imo a lot of the time, the problem comes from people radically overestimating the quality or originality of advice, 38138385 0
Reposted by Fem SeverianBill McKay @mckay4senate.bsky.social · 21/12/2024Finally read that WSJ article from last week and this confirms everything I suspected. 1414472908 0
Reposted by Fem SeverianDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 21/12/2024One symptom of a moral panic is that "i've never experienced it, but I've heard its bad elsewhere" because they are responding to extreme and unrepresentative cases that gain disproportionate attention. 13901202 0
Reposted by Fem SeverianErick Fernandez @erickfernandez.bsky.social · 19/12/2024This post from @alexnpress.bsky.social is just too on the nose of how law enforcement is used and implemented to protect the capital of the obscenely rich. 33683552319 0
Reposted by Fem Severianryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 12/12/2024"If 10 percent of working Americans were to use GPT-4 every week, that would require 435,235,476 liters per year—or about 353 acre-feet, or about 0.003 percent what Nebraskan farmers use." prospect.org/environment/... 819626 0
Reposted by Fem SeverianOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 11/12/2024"Though many politicians believe that halting existing or new fossil fuel production is politically unpopular, there is surprisingly limited data to back this claim...we conducted a nationally representative survey." guess what @cplusc.bsky.social found? climateandcommunity.org/research/vot...climateandcommunity.orgVoters Support Phasing Out Fossil Fuel Extraction - Climate & Community InstitutePreventing catastrophic climate change impacts requires ending the extraction of fossil fuels, but the United States is on track to do the opposite. The US is … 9361155 0
Reposted by Fem SeverianAdam H Johnson @ahjohnson.bsky.social · 11/12/2024When people say this or that platform is an “echo chamber” I’m curious what social media platform, outlet, website, newspaper or cable news network isn’t an echo chamber? Which is roughly representative of the US public in any way? If it’s none, then whats the utility of this faux savvy observation? 1325734 0
Reposted by Fem SeverianAdam H Johnson @ahjohnson.bsky.social · 11/12/2024One element here is millions of zoomers watched the president fund and arm the mass killing of children on their TL for over a year so all the precious media pearl-clutching about “political violence” now feels exceptionally empty. Like, what world do you live in? That ship sailed a long time ago 8949253 0
Reposted by Fem SeverianJulia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 11/12/2024As in Tennessee, this ban does not apply to cis children, because the drugs themselves are not a safety hazard. The only thing at risk is a society’s discomfort with allowing young people to make their own decisions about their own bodies. 3342931788 0
Reposted by Fem SeverianOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 11/12/2024"Those invectives preemptively blaming Latinos for the carnage promised by the ascendant Republican Party were made by well-compensated pundits...[Twitter] been converted into a de facto anti-organizing platform that eats solidarity and shits out bitcoin." inthesetimes.com/article/elec...inthesetimes.comScapegoats and SolidarityScapegoat politics is a tempting—but harmful—distraction from the real work of solidarity-building. 525875 0
Reposted by Fem SeverianJoshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 09/12/2024If you don't see it as a moral imperative to oppose the mass deportation of millions of immigrants, I just don't know what to tell you 581985278 0
Reposted by Fem SeverianAcyn @acyn.bsky.social · 10/12/2024Ingraham: The instagram posts from nut bag people ..people celebrating. This this is a sickness, honestly, it's so disappointing, but I guess we shouldn't be surprised.. up next, the other big news out of New York, Daniel Penny, a lot of people think he is a hero. 87980481167 0
Reposted by Fem SeverianMoira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 09/12/2024Charlotte Bennett, a young employee who was found to have been harassed by Andrew Cuomo, has dropped her lawsuit against him after he used the legal proceedings to retaliate against her, including public smearing of her sexual history & court orders for her gynecological records. 1092803898 0
Reposted by Fem SeverianCats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 09/12/2024Superb mixed bean salad. 🫘 Photo from a book in my collection: The Book of Kittens, edited by Brant House, 1951. 171674232 0
Reposted by Fem SeverianJeremy Scahill @jeremyscahill.com · 09/12/2024POLITICO: There’s a “furious debate” in DC “over what to make of HTS” in Syria. The story quotes a US official addressing the group’s official designation as a terror organization: “There is a huge scramble to see if, and how, and when we can delist HTS.” 34615 0
Fem Severian @imhavingfun.bsky.social · 09/12/2024We have what, two months? To spread the idea of jury nullification so far and wide that the jury will have certainly heard of it. 100 0
Reposted by Fem SeverianOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 09/12/2024if you can't handle the suspected hoodie CEO shooter at his "ban fleshlights" you don't deserve him at his "people over profits manifesto" 533063321 0
Fem Severian @imhavingfun.bsky.social · 09/12/2024The fact that ‘the American health care system is fucked’ has managed to break through to every community, political and non, is proof that both: 1. It is a profound, world historic evil 2. The center left party not full throatily calling for its abolition is a crime against intelligence 100 0
Reposted by Fem Severiangita “the formalist” jackson @xoxogossipgita.bsky.social · 09/12/2024One thing I do actually worry a lot about is that men, generally, do not read books anymore 1041308105 0
