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Jill Draper (Makes Stuff)

@jillmakesstuff.bsky.social
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Making things sheep to skein in the USA www.jilldraper.com

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
brain poisoned, gutter misogyny. 1) that there is (thankfully) no norm for releasing the play-by-play of personal messages in cases like this and 2) the detail about being explicitly told not to come over and coming over anyway does not in any way complicate this story
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Jill Draper (Makes Stuff) @jillmakesstuff.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Really depressing & yet not surprising response by many men on "the left". One party thinks women shouldn't be allowed to vote & the other thinks women should just shut the fuck up about SA if someone with "good" politics & a chance of winning does it.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
I once wrote Dante had Beatrice; Orwell had Stalin; for political writers their muses are not the good things. Wrote this in one sitting today.
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Pod Save Patriarchy (or Whatever That Sorry Platner Spectacle Was)
For at least a decade we have been told that this and that and the other thing must be tolerated in pursuit of the elusive vote of the working class or the white working class which often means the wh...
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
As the government raids “antifa groups” in Minneapolis with the SAME charges levied against myself and the rest of the Broadview Six, we need to be asking how they got this indictment. And as charges (hopefully) get dropped, we must remember the process is the punishment.
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pistachiowork.bsky.social @pistachiowork.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Today is the last day to comment on the National Park Service website about what you think of Donald Trump's proposed Arch. Please take the time to share your opinion with them, and maybe repost so other people will comment too. The more the better. parkplanning.nps.gov/document.cfm...
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ParkPlanning - Triumphal Arch - Section 106 Assessment of Effect and Draft Programmatic Agreement
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Good breakdown of the background and bottom line: "If you paid 2023 federal income taxes in the state of Connecticut, $3 out of every $100 you paid is now set aside for reimbursing people who a committee of people allied with the president decide were treated unfairly by government actions."
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Every day brings a new set of headlines that if you'd predicted them in October 2024, you'd have been diagnosed with a terminal case of Trump Derangement Syndrome.
NY Times front page: IRS Prohibited From Audits of Trump and Family
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Jill Draper (Makes Stuff) @jillmakesstuff.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
I know it's shouting into the wind at this point but like is no one in power going to do anything about any of this? Are they just going to let him loot & pillage this country, destroy the water, the air & the parks & then just wander away to his dotage??
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Jill Draper (Makes Stuff) @jillmakesstuff.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Can someone explain why every business is selling helium balloons now? Micheal's & Staples advertise them in every other email. Is there Big Balloon somewhere? Who is even buying balloons anymore???
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Materialist Gnostic @walmsley.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
oil may be destroying the environment, but it's important to remember that it's also driving conflicts and propping up some of the worst regimes in human history
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Jill Draper (Makes Stuff) @jillmakesstuff.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Can someone, anyone explain why of the zillion filters on Libby "exclude books I've already borrowed" is not one of them????
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Jill Draper (Makes Stuff) @jillmakesstuff.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
The kind of people that would do this to children are literally capable of anything. We should all be a lot more scared & resistant than we currently are.
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Jill Draper (Makes Stuff) @jillmakesstuff.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Someone on my local nextdoor is reporting on the UFO they saw over the cemetery last night & the responses are really something.
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Jill Draper (Makes Stuff) @jillmakesstuff.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
If you think AI is smarter than you it probably is. I've never had one instance of finding it useful or helpful. It can't get basic CS agent scripts right so if you think it's going to take over the world, best of luck.
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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
sounds like they should quit.
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Jill Draper (Makes Stuff) @jillmakesstuff.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Disgusting & horrifying but unsurprising. (The answer to how many BTW is 20 - that we know of)
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
We need to talk about the rise of "smol bean fascism" where you have all the guns and the immunity but the really scary people are the ones with whistles and phone cameras and they're giving you generational trauma and ptsd by filming you killing people for no reason
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
218 people voted to fund the child kidnapping ring and masked death squads.
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
if you cant instruct your local police to surround schools to protect them from ice because youre scared the cops will turn around and instead help kidnap children then you should state that plainly and clearly
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Raphael Satter @raphae.li · 20/01/2026
Here's a plain-spoken and accessible editorial - based in part on @reuters.com reporting - that outlines how much Donald Trump has enriched himself since taking power, and why that's so dangerous for democracy. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Opinion | How Trump Has Used the Presidency to Make at Least $1.4 Billion
The president took an oath to serve the American people. Instead, he’s focused his second term on enriching himself and his family.
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Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Mike Johnson compellingly making the case for abolishing ICE ...
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Authoritarians use performative lying to mark who is for, and more importantly, against their regimes. The point isn’t determining truth. The point is creating an ingroup whose loyalty is assured through ritually denying reality and an easily recognizable outgroup that refuses the delusion.
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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
It doesn't have to be the ideal thing, it doesn't have to be huge and splashy, it doesn't have to help millions of people, just pick ONE THING that will use your skills to help people and do it regularly. You will feel SO MUCH FUCKING BETTER.
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
What they do to nameless civilians abroad they want to do to you here as much as they think they can get away with
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Jill Draper (Makes Stuff) @jillmakesstuff.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Just so fucking grim.
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
In case it isn’t clear yet, the fascists are carrying out a project where they drain all programs focused on the public good and well-being and dividing the money between themselves, their friends, and new programs designed to oppress and control.
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Tim Maughan @timmaughan.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
fuck then fuck again every single “alternatives to spotify” list that doesn’t include buying music so that you own it and musicians get paid www.theguardian.com/music/2025/j...
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Four alternatives to Spotify: swapping is easier than you think
Artists and listeners are leaving the platform after its CEO invested in defence technology. Here are your options – along with how to keep your playlists
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Aaron Bady @zunguzungu.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
You just can't say it enough times: lots of Americans are going to suffer and die so that people they don't want to be Americans will also suffer and die.
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Jill Draper (Makes Stuff) @jillmakesstuff.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
This is how they treat a state senator who was asking a question at a press conference when they know they are being filmed, what do you think this means for civilians?
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Jill Draper (Makes Stuff) @jillmakesstuff.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
In theory this is the most simple case for AI to get right. A list of actual books that exist to read. That’s it. But it can’t even do that. So are we going to let it make insurance decisions? Really?
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Jill Draper (Makes Stuff) @jillmakesstuff.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Just got a notice that the scour is charging a credit card processing fee going forward so here's the first increased input to my 100% US made yarn. B to B services charging a CC fee is one of my bugbears.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
90 percent. They sent innocent people to a gulag so Trump could look like a tough guy. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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About 90% of Migrants Deported to El Salvador Had No US Criminal Record
Trump administration officials have described the men deported to El Salvador prisons last month as “the worst of the worst,” suggesting they were gang members involved in murder, rape and kidnapping.
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Carly Goodman @carlygoodman.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Is now a good time to say that people convicted of crimes deserve rights, due process, and not to be deported, let alone to a third country slave prison
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jab lung @mobute.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
I don't give a shit what he chooses or declines to rule out. It's not his fucking choice. Stop writing about it as if his opinion matters. Write about it like it is: unquestionably illegal, not a debate, not his call, not going to fucking happen.
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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
AI art is the aesthetic of fascism
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Jill Draper (Makes Stuff) @jillmakesstuff.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Though not the most wild part of this, I do find it interesting the "people only wear masks to do bad things crowd" makes sure to mask up while kidnapping students off the streets. And we cannot be resigned to this as normal or acceptable.
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Jill Draper (Makes Stuff) @jillmakesstuff.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
If you just need a stroll through low stakes drama & we are in a season of TRULY perplexing posts on r/gardening. I suspect some of the posters have never encountered a plant before.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
‘No Way to Please Everyone’ Says Only University Where Students Are Regularly Kidnapped
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‘No Way’ to Please Everyone: Columbia’s President Confronts Trump’s Ultimatum
With Trump intent on making an example of Columbia, Armstrong is at the center of a fight over the future of higher education.
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Jill Draper (Makes Stuff) @jillmakesstuff.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
"I have always believed that my duty is not only to liberate myself from the oppressor, but also to liberate my oppressors from their hatred and fear" www.documentcloud.org/documents/25... Read this letter from Mahmoud Khalil.
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Letter from a Palestinian Political Prisoner in Louisiana March 18, 2025
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
mass media had led me to believe that the government kidnapping and torturing a citizen of another country would be an international incident but i guess not?
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Jill Draper (Makes Stuff) @jillmakesstuff.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
The government is disappearing people with no due process & filming facist propaganda about it while people cheer. Grim.
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David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
If we can "avoid a government shutdown" by voting for this CR, then why is the entire Department of Education closed today? Why is USAID closed? Why are hundreds of billions in grant contracts frozen? We are already in the shutdown. And your votes DON'T stop it. In fact, they allow it to expand.
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Jill Draper (Makes Stuff) @jillmakesstuff.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
I have both called & emailed Schumer, if you live in NY I suggest you do the same if this sounds bad to you, tell him NO on the CR & NO on Cloture. Phone: (518) 431-4070 Albany, (202) 224-6542 DC
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Don't know if it's true, but it's consistent with Schumer's decision to still have no public stance on it. Presumably his idea is to get enough Dems to vote for cloture and then vote against the CR; such should be interpreted as intentionally enabling the Trump/Musk agenda, because it is.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
🚨 Everyone needs to call their Dem Senator right now. They are starting to cave. Tell them: 1. Vote NO on Cloture AND 2. Vote NO on the Republican spending bill. Don’t let them pivot to reconciliation. GOP doesn’t need Dem votes on that and they know it. TODAY is the showdown. 🤳🏽: (202) 224-3121
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
The detention of Mahmoud Khalil puts all Americans fundamental rights at risk. And if you can’t see that because you oppose his politics, well that’s exactly the reaction Trump and his cronies are counting on. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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Mahmoud Khalil’s Detention Is a Trial Run
The pro-Palestine student was arrested without due process for exercising his right to free speech. He will not be the last.
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
How could you possibly vote for a funding bill that the Vice President is telling you will be overruled by the executive? www.politico.com/live-updates...
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