Reposted by PhyllisErik Loomis @erikloomis.bsky.social · 12/10/2026 As Judith Stein showed in her books about US export policy, especially around steel, the government knew that moving steel production from Ohio to Japan or Korea or Taiwan would hurt American unions, but it would help extend American power overseas. 192
Reposted by PhyllisInspector Ratchet @1nspectratchet.bsky.social · 15/10/2026"Are you taking advantage of your employer 401k match" UH the employer should be taking advantage of my offer not to release sixty live frogs into the ventilation shaft 317345
Reposted by PhyllisJulie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Being GenX/Millennial is such a trip. In our lifetimes, we saw people our age getting wild criminal penalties for pirating music and now have to sit and watch as companies gobble up our work with impunity. 98128373778
Reposted by Phyllis🎃GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE🎃 @golikehellmachine.com · 15/10/2026no one really thinks anyone should be held accountable for anything 31167
Reposted by PhyllisNed Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 14/10/2026The main difference I’ve noticed between West Coast NIMBYs and East Coast NIMBYs is that the former will tell you that they’re worried about gentrification, overpopulation and out of control capitalism, and the latter will just say the thing. 1155193
Reposted by PhyllisEllie Saurus @elliesaur.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Going to the store in a Bobcat because you can't put a loader bucket on a bike. 1302
Reposted by PhyllisEvan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 14/10/2026I am entirely serious when I say that this should be seen as a moderate position. It specifically and surgically dismantles institutions that did not exist pre-9/11 and assigns their functions much as they were assigned pre-9/11. 1355231691
Reposted by PhyllisClaire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 13/10/2026dear future saint pope francis, please bless your earthly bestie bob from chicago with good health and a speedy recovery, that he may live long enough to excommunicate opus dei, lead the anti-AI revolution, and ideally ruin jd vance's career and life in jesus' name we pray, amen 2990138
Reposted by PhyllisRyan Cordell @ryancordell.org · 13/10/2026Me, walking into @illinoisrbml.bsky.social to inspect the spread @caitcoker.bsky.social has out for my class’ visit Me: Wow a 1st American edition of *Moby Dick* in which someone pasted newspaper articles about whaling & reviews of the book Me: do we know who pasted these? CC: um, Herman Me: 🤯 1039492
Reposted by PhyllisTaco Bell Quarterly @tacobellquarterly.org · 10/10/2026Proud to rep as the most official looking Taco Bell account on here, fuck all of this and everything, Amen 21306
Reposted by PhyllisTaco Bell Quarterly @tacobellquarterly.org · 13/10/2026Rawdog your book. No outlines, no writing schedule, no clue what’s next 1021941
Reposted by PhyllisAntiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 13/10/2026The city of Veii was the largest and wealthiest Etruscan city-state, but, following conquest by Rome, transformed into a smaller, seemingly less important settlement. Was Roman Veii a failure, or is there more to the story? #InternationalDayforFailure 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology 15119
Reposted by PhyllisKate Manne @katemanne.bsky.social · 12/10/2026I was proud and privileged to interview Sophia Dasser, the editor-in-chief of the Cornell Sun and now a leader in the #IamJaneDoe movement. We talked about why safety on campus is not an optional extra—it’s an essential precondition of learning katemanne.substack.com/p/telling-th...katemanne.substack.comTelling the Truth is an Act of AdvocacyA conversation with the Cornell Sun’s Editor-in-Chief Sophia Dasser about the Cornell case 16922
Reposted by PhyllisLia @liasae.bsky.social · 12/10/2026"I will not wear anything with child labor" is going to mean, in pretty short order, "I will not wear clothes" this is just functionally what textile manufacturing is now and it's only going to accelerate from here Get out of town with this doomer bullshit and START. FIGHTING. 118728
Reposted by PhyllisRural Indexing Project @ruralindexing.bsky.social · 12/10/2026“Pizza” Boyd, WI 40755110
Reposted by PhyllisPennsylvania Capital-Star @penncapital-star.com · 12/10/2026ICYMI: Environmental groups and citizens are urging Pennsylvania regulators to increase the minimum amount of protective buffer space between gas wells and homes, schools and water sources.bit.lyIn Harrisburg, advocates rally for tougher rules on fracking • Pennsylvania Capital-StarEnvironmental groups and citizens are urging Pennsylvania regulators to increase the minimum amount of protective buffer space between gas wells and homes, schools and water sources. 032
Reposted by Phyllisjessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 12/10/2026"...under the leadership of the Big Five and their equally hegemonic national retail partners, the flagship product favored by elite-facing bookstores in wealthy enclaves got cheaper, and the format with the proven mass potential got many times more expensive." 📚 jacobin.com/2026/10/book...jacobin.comPublishers Killed the Paperback, Then Blamed ReadersIn 1939, the 25-cent paperback made America a nation of readers, delivering thrillers, classics and Pulitzer-winning books. So why did the Big Five publishers just kill the mass market paperback? 06032
Reposted by PhyllisCraig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · 10/10/2026If you heard "Slow Ride" by Foghat on the radio in 1999 you were listening to a newer song than if you listen to "Fell in Love with a Girl" on the radio today. bsky.app/profile/augu... 2420846
Reposted by PhyllisRyan @ryansimmons.bsky.social · 24/09/2026uhh i was digitizing a box of old VHS tapes for my uncle... you guys ever hear of something called "The Mayonnaise Channel"?? 451276339
Reposted by PhyllisLake Michigan! Live! @lake-michigan.live · 11/10/2026Current* conditions near Frankfort, MI: 0226
Reposted by PhyllisAlbumism @albumism.com · 11/10/2026Paula Cole released her second studio album ‘This Fire’ (1996) 30 years ago this week | Listen to the album + watch the official videos here: album.ink/PaulaColeTF 3206
Reposted by Phyllisemily blight 🐦⬛ @threnody.northsky.social · 11/10/2026so, i ripped this album from cd at 128kbps in 2004 to my first ipod before i knew anything about audio quality & so i picked up the lossless deluxe edition as a treat & there is a full album of all the cd single b-sides from the debut that i never heard back then & they’re all fucking great? 6838
Reposted by PhyllisJocelyn Anderson Photography @jocelynanderson.bsky.social · 11/10/2026A Black-capped Chickadee watches the Swamp Sparrows chase each other around. 264877
Reposted by PhyllisButtzilla @buttzilla.bsky.social · 11/10/2026All of you are fake, except for me, I’m real 1556
Reposted by PhyllisThe Tonearm @thetonearm.com · 11/10/2026“I grew up going to a church with a lot of loud harmonising - mortifying at a certain age, but likely gave me the curiosity to notice harmony. Hearing harmonic information in a piece of music that isn’t actually there is one of music’s great gifts!” Herb Sundays 199 — Bullion:herbsundays.substack.comHerb Sundays 199: BullionNathan Jenkins builds masterpieces in miniature, all endless depth: an impossible pop. 042
Reposted by PhyllisErin 🍂 fall is fall 🐦⬛ @wearegonnafindout.bsky.social · 05/01/2025Beginner-friendly Mid-Atlantic native plants 🌱 series #9: native holly, Ilex sp. Someone told you to plant boxwoods. They're ecological statues, as good as dead air to pollinators and birds. Or you have Euonymus, Nandina, or barberry to replace 😬 Plant an inkberry or winterberry holly instead.extension.umd.eduInkberry HollyInkberry holly (Ilex glabra) is an evergreen shrub, native to the Coastal Plain region of Maryland. 38910
Reposted by PhyllisWorking Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 10/10/2026#OtD 10 Oct 1800 enslaved blacksmith and abolitionist Gabriel Prosser was executed in Virginia alongside his two brothers and 23 followers. They had planned a revolt of enslaved people in Richmond, but were betrayed and captured stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8240... 07432
Reposted by PhyllisTyler King @tyleraking.com · 11/10/2026What I hear every time there’s a new “rogue ai” announcement is “once more we’ve unleashed malware into the wild to see what would happen. We’re not sorry and we’ll do it again.” 5588166
Reposted by PhyllisNPS Cambot @nps-cambot.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Live View From Panther Junction, Big Bend National Park #NPS #NationalParkService #BigBend 0115
Reposted by PhyllisGreg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 10/10/2026One key point @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social makes here is that if Dems win the midterms (and win in 2028), deploying congressional power creatively to unwind Elon Musk's sway over the government (contracts, etc) will be essential to any reconstruction: www.ms.now/opinion/elon...ms.nowOpinion | Oligarchs like Elon Musk are tightening their grip on the PentagonA new initiative named Project Meridian is just one way GOP donors’ influence over defense policy is increasing. 892128592
Reposted by PhyllisJake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 09/10/2026New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854 151151666531
Phyllis @jamesdeanmonroe.bsky.social · 10/10/2026pretty sure I still have that game box somewhere. you can't say they didn't commit to their graphic design vision 000
Reposted by Phyllisassigned cromulent at birth @cleanwindows.bsky.social · 07/10/2026"we need folks to have literacy with the black-box computer program that runs entirely on remote corporate servers and produces nondeterministic output" is a pretty wild assertion, agreed 0174
Reposted by Phyllishyper mega bummer boy @danceyrselfdean.bsky.social · 08/10/2026music.apple.comDig a Pony by The Beatles on Apple MusicSong · 1970 · Duration 3:55 021
Reposted by PhyllisChristopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 08/10/2026NEW: Dashing conservative hopes of a rollback, Pope Leo XIV on Wednesday defended Amoris Laetitia, the Pope Francis document that widened the path to Communion for divorced and remarried Catholics.thelettersfromleo.comDashing Conservative Hopes, Pope Leo XIV Defends Pope Francis’s Amoris LaetitiaOpening a weeklong Vatican summit on the exhortation’s 10th anniversary, the pope put mercy and the freedom of the Holy Spirit at the center. Critics hoping for a rollback heard none of it. 19217
Reposted by PhyllisNina Jankowicz @ninajankowicz.com · 07/10/2026Sharing for no particular reason 🙃 www.thewayfinder.net/p/how-to-not...thewayfinder.netHow to Not Capitulate for DummiesA framework for weighing decisions under Trump. 26120
Reposted by PhyllisCouncilor Mitch Green @councilorgreen.bsky.social · 08/10/2026The Fair Share Tax will raise taxes on 405 publicly traded corporations that pay their CEO's 50 times or more their median worker. It will also strike the Business License Tax for 18,000 local small businesses, raising the threshold from $75,000 to $500,000. It's time we rebalance the scales. 1342
Reposted by PhyllisRoy Edroso @edroso.bsky.social · 07/10/2026"We are already in emergency territory. These people may be very nice but they have too much money. We need to take a lot of it away from them, soon, or no more democracy. It’s pretty simple." www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-war-ag...hamiltonnolan.comThe War Against Accumulated CapitalEither pass wealth taxes or learn to love digital feudalism. 18719
Reposted by PhyllisNPS Cambot @nps-cambot.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Green River Bluffs & Air Quality, Mammoth Cave National Park #NPS #NationalParkService #MammothCave 051
Reposted by Phyllisderek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Enjoyed this Esquire feature on the Churchwell brothers. IMO, they are among the last elegantly dressed men in the United States. Notably, neither are "fashion influencers." They are both distinguished cardiologists with great taste and a lifetime relationship with the same tailor. 1407259753
Reposted by PhyllisPhiladelphia Inquirer @inquirer.com · 05/10/2026🚗 Hundreds of backseat drivers gathered in Headhouse Plaza on Saturday to watch 14 people park their cars in Philly’s first Parallel Parking Association Championship. 🔗 www.inquirer.com/life/philade... 43210
Reposted by PhyllisTired while Black @hurtthisday.blacksky.app · 05/10/2026I find it deeply ironic that the Secretary of Transportation’s lack of oversight over autonomous cars might have led directly to her sisters death (her self driving car driving into a lake and her locked in) 032
Reposted by PhyllisAnnie Zaleski @anniezaleski.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Wake up, babe, Liz Phair and Sleater-Kinney covered Elastica's "Connection" last night. youtu.be/oAnYhz0N9Y4?...youtu.beLiz Phair & Sleater Kinney "Connection" (Elastica Cover) LIVE | Boston, MA | September 21, 2026YouTube video by Concerts Hub 76013
Reposted by Phyllisderek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 15/09/2026When they eventually make a movie about this time, please don't put the male politicians in good suits. IMO, the ugly, low rent tailoring should be part of the story. 379217812547
Reposted by PhyllisDavenant 📸 @marcdavenant.bsky.social · 09/08/2026I’ve posted a lot on social media about Akihiko Okamura and his remarkable photography of Ireland during the Troubles. Now there’s a fascinating documentary which is well worth watching vimeo.com/1197413135vimeo.comThe Memories of Others: Akihiko Okamura's IrelandA short documentary film uncovering Japanese photographer Akihiko Okamura’s extraordinary work in Ireland during the Troubles, and the artistic and emotional impact of its recent rediscovery. After a ... 79837
Reposted by PhyllisElizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 01/10/2026CEO compensation has increased 1,316% since 1978. And worker compensation? Just 28%. The system is rigged. We need to start taxing the rich so they pay their fair share. 14838721355
