joeliwashige.bsky.social @joeliwashige.bsky.social · 25/04/2026Years ago, a naive young man switched from Thunderbird to Outlook. The prodigal son is coming home. No more accidental Copilot invocations. No more "we know better than you do what your address book should be". No more infuriatingly mysterious searches. Local storage, in a readable format. 100
joeliwashige.bsky.social @joeliwashige.bsky.social · 25/04/2026Just learning about refettorios on the awesome show Somebody Feed Phil. And what an amazing concept. foodforsoul.it/refettorio-p...foodforsoul.itRefettorio Projects - Food for SoulGlobally Inspired, Locally Rooted Explore all Open Refettorio Coming Soon Discover the Refettorio Support Refettorio Projects Volunteer Join us as a volunteer and make a real impact in your community.... 000
joeliwashige.bsky.social @joeliwashige.bsky.social · 13/04/2026I have this idea for a play. Like A Christmas Carol, except featuring a guy from Italy, a guy from Romania, and a guy from Germany. All introduced by a guy who, for some reason, is named Richard. 000
Reposted by @joeliwashige.bsky.socialKen Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 17/03/2026They’re telling me a great empire will be destroyed if I attack Persia. Even the oracles who don’t like me very much, very nasty, they all said to me, “Sir, it’s one of the great empires, and it’ll be destroyed. And all because you attacked Persia.” That’s what they’re telling me. 329203383675
joeliwashige.bsky.social @joeliwashige.bsky.social · 24/02/2026(Hutch local.) I've thought for a long time we need to get a family membership at the Y. A tour of the under-construction new facility today, with Hutch Executives Association made that even more clear. 100
joeliwashige.bsky.social @joeliwashige.bsky.social · 20/02/2026We share mortality. We share finitude. It doesn't fit very well with building business empires. With building fortresses against the dangerous Other. But it's a key to the good life. We are dust. To dust we'll return. And empires of wealth, and empires of oppression, will crumble. 100
Reposted by @joeliwashige.bsky.socialBrian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 28/12/2025A Hampton Inn in Asheville just canceled my family's reservation because our address (incorrectly) showed Asheville—and the hotel bars locals within 50 miles. When I asked why, they said, "because of our homeless population," adding that most hotels here have similar policies. This is outrageous. 30659151458
joeliwashige.bsky.social @joeliwashige.bsky.social · 25/12/2025I'm reminded this evening that the Christian story of Jesus' birth is: a child of disposable ethnicity and status was born into a world that didn't value him. A world where his people lived only at the mercy of the people who then held power. 110
joeliwashige.bsky.social @joeliwashige.bsky.social · 09/12/2025Strongest evidence for a literal Satan? The negative correlation between knowledge and charismatic confidence, and the human affinity for the latter, is diabolical genius. 000
joeliwashige.bsky.social @joeliwashige.bsky.social · 05/11/2025I've long loved Hokusai's painting, and felt it catching my imagination. Power, beauty, and terror all rolled into one. Droplets of water, negligible in themselves, unstoppable in coherent motion. 020
joeliwashige.bsky.social @joeliwashige.bsky.social · 05/11/2025This is an absolute gem. It feels connected to Gibran's "On Crime"--and is a "dilemma" with which I strongly resonate. But I love how this framing makes it more a navigation of an integrated whole than a dilemma. 031
joeliwashige.bsky.social @joeliwashige.bsky.social · 25/10/2025"Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!" 000
joeliwashige.bsky.social @joeliwashige.bsky.social · 21/10/2025Thinking of writing a play, a tragedy about a demolition-derby king. It was prophesied at his birth that his enjoyment of his mother's cooking would eventually destroy him. 100
joeliwashige.bsky.social @joeliwashige.bsky.social · 20/10/2025Me: Asian stereotypes, even the positive ones, serve the purpose of "othering" and contribute to systematic injustice. Also me, looking in the mirror 4-5 weeks after my lasthaircut: oh hey, bruce lee 010
Reposted by @joeliwashige.bsky.socialDiana Butler Bass @dianabutlerbass.bsky.social · 19/09/2025I flew home from two weeks in Ireland to Dulles (DC) on Thursday. I fly into Dulles A LOT. For a few years, travelers were greeted by a massive display on the Freedom of Speech/1st Amendment on the way to the baggage claim. (left) Yesterday, it was gone. Not metaphorically. Actually. (right) 1017760
joeliwashige.bsky.social @joeliwashige.bsky.social · 12/08/2025Ignorance is bliss...but now the words "toilet plume" are uncomfortably present in your knowledge of the world. Even if you don't know their meaning yet. 000
Reposted by @joeliwashige.bsky.socialFreya Holmér @freya.bsky.social · 06/08/2025me (trying to sound normal): ah, i just help look for lost cats sometimes 🥰 also me (holding a $1000 thermal hunting scope irresponsibly bought specifically to find cats): 2808571797
joeliwashige.bsky.social @joeliwashige.bsky.social · 05/08/2025I'd like all the wisdom. Yesterday and painlessly, if you don't mind. 010
joeliwashige.bsky.social @joeliwashige.bsky.social · 05/08/2025Imagine a better world. What SHOULD the the acronym "AI" commonly mean in that world? (Farmers--sit this one out.) 000
joeliwashige.bsky.social @joeliwashige.bsky.social · 02/08/2025completely unrelated to current events of course 010
joeliwashige.bsky.social @joeliwashige.bsky.social · 30/07/2025Compliments to someone at State Farm for brilliant process. I got a text message saying they'll be calling me shortly about a claim and giving a callback number if I miss the call. Then, slightly later, my phone rang, with the guy from claims. They GET phone communication! 000
Reposted by @joeliwashige.bsky.socialDoug Lewin @douglewin.bsky.social · 21/07/2025One of the hottest days of the year so far in Texas: 53% of the power on peak is coming from solar & wind. Wholesale power is ~$20 per megawatt-hour or 2 cents per kilowatt-hour. No conservation calls, no energy emergencies. ~20 gigawatts of extra power just sitting around. 37623
Reposted by @joeliwashige.bsky.socialIan Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 19/07/2025Amazon Ring is introducing a new feature that would allow police to request live-stream access to people’s home security devices. Helllll no. If you have one of those things, get rid of it. Kill it with fireeff.orgAmazon Ring Cashes in on Techno-Authoritarianism and Mass SurveillanceRing founder Jamie Siminoff is back at the helm of the surveillance doorbell company, and with him is the surveillance-first-privacy-last approach that made Ring one of the most maligned tech devices.... 12541012269
joeliwashige.bsky.social @joeliwashige.bsky.social · 20/07/2025The Lord grant us a peaceful night, and a perfect end. Except for some. May their dreams be filled with terrors and their days with misery until they cease bringing evil into the world. 020
Reposted by @joeliwashige.bsky.socialDr. Elizabeth Sawin @bethsawin.bsky.social · 07/07/2025Of course the main task is to free ourselves from fossil fuels, but it is a wonderful planet where a trio from the plant, bacterial, and fungal worlds cooperate to bind up carbon while making delicious fruit. #FossilFree and #EatMoreFigs #Multisolving 1566
joeliwashige.bsky.social @joeliwashige.bsky.social · 19/06/2025no, of course I didn't wait to start my 20 hours of continuing ed until two weeks before it was due in a ridiculously busy time. just think how irrational that would be 010
joeliwashige.bsky.social @joeliwashige.bsky.social · 02/05/2025"Waiting" In this mixed-media answer to Godot the artist captures a paradox of modern life: endless quiet waiting, but with coiled urgency waiting for the One Moment when the time is right and action is critical. But will that moment come, or is the waiting fundamentally absurd? 020
Reposted by @joeliwashige.bsky.socialSharon @sharonc41.bsky.social · 26/04/2025"The true measure of our character is how we treat the poor, the disfavored, the accused, the incarcerated, and the condemned." -Bryan Stevenson Equal Justice Initiative 011
joeliwashige.bsky.social @joeliwashige.bsky.social · 30/04/2025As if it weren't unfair enough that they have huge teeth and claws 010
joeliwashige.bsky.social @joeliwashige.bsky.social · 23/04/2025Fascinating clouds. Unsure how to describe this structure. 110
Reposted by @joeliwashige.bsky.socialCenter for Prophetic Imagination @propheticimage.bsky.social · 20/04/2025Happy return-of-non-citizen-dispatched-by-an-opressive-government-without-a-fair-trial Day to all who celebrate! 022
joeliwashige.bsky.social @joeliwashige.bsky.social · 20/04/2025Whatever your faith or philosophy, may cruelty and injustice in your world be reduced to a scaffolding for beauty. 000
joeliwashige.bsky.social @joeliwashige.bsky.social · 10/04/2025Current weariness status: tried to put a sleep mask on over my glasses. Paused to post on social media about it. Good night. 000
joeliwashige.bsky.social @joeliwashige.bsky.social · 06/04/2025Beautiful poem, shared in today's service. 010
Reposted by @joeliwashige.bsky.socialVatnik Soup @vatniksoup.bsky.social · 24/02/2025In today’s Vatnik Soup, I’ll introduce Russia’s main narratives and explain how they are being spread online by Russian operatives and MAGA Republicans. After three years of war, Russia still relies on old narratives, now amplified by the Trump administration. 1/25 14909296
Reposted by @joeliwashige.bsky.socialThe Poor Proles Almanac. @poorprolesalmanac.bsky.social · 01/03/2025Okay so now what? The one day no-buy is over. The system loves symbolic victories. You celebrate & they keep collecting profits. If you want to scare them, become anti-consumerist. Buy nothing but what you need. Stack cash & invest that in systemic shifts. Build a new economy outside of the old 15422
joeliwashige.bsky.social @joeliwashige.bsky.social · 23/02/2025www.yahoo.com/news/airbnb-...yahoo.comAirbnb Hosts Ditch Platform as Billionaire Co-Founder Joins Elon Musk’s DOGEMany Airbnb hosts have ditched the platform since its billionaire co-founder Joe Gebbia went full MAGA after President Donald Trump’s inauguration. Gebbia—who left Airbnb three years ago, but still si... 000
Reposted by @joeliwashige.bsky.socialKatherine Long @klong.bsky.social · 06/02/2025I linked DOGE staffer Marko Elez to a deleted X account that advocated repealing the Civil Rights Act, backed a “eugenic immigration policy,” and wrote, “You could not pay me to marry outside of my ethnicity." He just resigned. www.wsj.com/tech/doge-st...wsj.comDOGE Staffer Resigns Over Racist PostsA staffer for Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency whose access to U.S. Treasury payment systems was approved by a federal judge on Thursday has links to a deleted social-media account that... 1485236396540
joeliwashige.bsky.social @joeliwashige.bsky.social · 05/02/2025Just saw a calendar entry: "How To Turn Your Range Into Revenue". At first glance, I missed the "n" in "range". Just think how wealthy I could be. 063
Reposted by @joeliwashige.bsky.socialAlejandro Alvarez @aletakesphotos.bsky.social · 04/02/2025The Treasury Department right now. People are turning out against Musk and DOGE staging a takeover of the Treasury’s payment system. This crowd is big. The whole block is packed. “Lock him up,” everyone yells. 8614325510997
joeliwashige.bsky.social @joeliwashige.bsky.social · 05/02/2025When I first read The Three-Body Problem, I didn't "get" why someone would want to broadcast that signal. 000
Reposted by @joeliwashige.bsky.socialBoilerkitten - DemCastUSA 🦅🇺🇲🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇺🇦🌊💙 @boilerkitten.bsky.social · 03/02/2025This Indiana Naturalist loves you guys! 71150143
Reposted by @joeliwashige.bsky.socialMarlena Graves MDiv, PhD @marlenagraves.bsky.social · 29/01/2025Countering Disinformation Effectively: An Evidence Based Policy Guide. If you scroll down you will see a summary. There is no silver bullet. One thing that helps: "slower-moving efforts to revive local journalism and improve media literacy." carnegieendowment.org/research/202...carnegieendowment.orgCountering Disinformation Effectively: An Evidence-Based Policy GuideA high-level, evidence-informed guide to some of the major proposals for how democratic governments, platforms, and others can counter disinformation. 0133
Reposted by @joeliwashige.bsky.socialDeborah Huegel @deborahkhuegel.bsky.social · 25/01/2025Our local resettlement agency posted on their FB page here in CT. A stop-work order in helping refugees. Cut off the typical 3 months of federal funds that provide housing, basics, and help finding jobs, getting kids into schools, etc. Heartless doesn’t begin to describe it. 062
Reposted by @joeliwashige.bsky.socialEvan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 25/01/2025more of this 5689134
Reposted by @joeliwashige.bsky.socialWindborne @windbornesingers.bsky.social · 16/11/2024Started singing this a few days before inauguration 2017. Gonna keep singing it. 24724
