Reposted by Lisa ⚰️🪦Hannah Bowman @hannahnpbowman.com · 3hEnd the death penalty. End it now. There is no reason for it, never. 61099223
Reposted by Lisa ⚰️🪦Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 4hThe death penalty is a moral abomination. State-sanctioned barbarism pushed by incompetent morons and sanctioned by the Supreme Court. Absolute ghoul shit. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news... 803006811
Reposted by Lisa ⚰️🪦Tremendous Kielbasa @rsaltasaurus.bsky.social · 12hThis is incomplete reprint designed to provoke. The bill had voter ID attached to it in order to get it killed, making it so Republicans could run this exact headline. 9858269
Reposted by Lisa ⚰️🪦Ben K. @benjaminkabak.com · 13hI feel dumb even just having to say this but the reason passports are mailed out in plain regular envelopes is that so that people do not attempt to steal easily recognizable passports in the mail. bsky.app/profile/carn... 291102244
Reposted by Lisa ⚰️🪦Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I hate that I miss when ads were for actual things and not just AI and gambling and *wink* not gambling. 2554734
Reposted by Lisa ⚰️🪦Kath Barbadoro @kathbarbadoro.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Tbf it also exists to subject men to ritualized abuse in order to irreparably bond them to each other so that they won’t blow the whistle on all the raping 172001320
Reposted by Lisa ⚰️🪦Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I wouldn't mind a second and longer and more thorough MeToo tbqh 551915330
Reposted by Lisa ⚰️🪦Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 17hIf a productivity task is easily automated, chances are good that some invisible labor is managing the work that makes the task easy to automate. bsky.app/profile/tres... 425342
Reposted by Lisa ⚰️🪦ali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · 30/09/2026shutting down frat houses won't end rape culture, but it will disorganize a lot of rapists, and i think that's probably worth doing if only to destabilize what is apparently an ecology of organizations that functionally exist to rape women per the whole "purpose of a system is what it does" insight. 83904746
Reposted by Lisa ⚰️🪦Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 18hIt’s also really clear to me this week that the people telling us that AI will transform work…haven’t seen a lot of jobs where people work. 211184191
Reposted by Lisa ⚰️🪦Dan of the Year @downwithdan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026When you have no concept of how people engage with music 5607755839
Reposted by Lisa ⚰️🪦Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Optimizing one’s time on Capitol Hill for internet content rather than for lawmaking has been a net negative for the country 531748
Reposted by Lisa ⚰️🪦Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Yet another reason to run on oversight and accountability. Those are promises they can actually keep. 371088221
Reposted by Lisa ⚰️🪦Nigella Lawson @nigella.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Thank YOU. I believe profoundly that the only correct response to pleasure is gratitude rather than guilt 262590398
Reposted by Lisa ⚰️🪦Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026A judge has ordered the release of Douglas Stewart Carter, a 71-year-old Black man who has spent decades on death row for a 1985 killing he did not commit. He spent 41 years in prison. 441258444
Reposted by Lisa ⚰️🪦Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 29/09/2026yes when i think of the people in my life I've watched weep in despair for lack of affordable childcare options i think "urban, affluent voters" 311291138
Reposted by Lisa ⚰️🪦Ryan Nanni @celebrityhottub.bsky.social · 29/09/2026listen i'm not gonna link to it but "stay at home parents would simply have no use for universal daycare" is some of the most "oh you've never actually talked to anyone" shit i've ever heard 443234409
Reposted by Lisa ⚰️🪦Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026like the german nazis, american conservatives have oriented themselves around a "return" to america that never existed. a whites-only wonderland where women were happily subservient and there was widespread prosperity with zero crime and straight white men at the center of the universe. 217638
Reposted by Lisa ⚰️🪦Abilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 28/09/2026We have enough food, technology, and money to save the planet. We just have a system where destroying it is more profitable. That's not a climate problem. That's a greed problem. #ClimateJustice 7835451281
Reposted by Lisa ⚰️🪦George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026We can spend our lives debating the justifications (I more or less have); but we are wasting our time. What we need is a massive clampdown on the influence of money over politics, including lobbying transparency, campaign finance reform, an end to the revolving door between politics and lobbying. 11576122
Reposted by Lisa ⚰️🪦Olga Lautman 🇺🇦 @olgalautman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026More terrorist attacks from terrorist Russia as they bomb a hospital in Kyiv and the Science Academy Every single day Russia carries out mass terrorist attacks across Ukraine 8162107
Reposted by Lisa ⚰️🪦Dr. Cara Berg Powers @clbergpowers.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I feel like famed UCLA coach John Wooden told us everything we need to know about AI- "If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?" 03912
Reposted by Lisa ⚰️🪦Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026For example, do I need the tires today or do I need the good enough but not most expensive tires for just the front two because the back two can make it a few more weeks to payday and I can turn off that check engine light so you don’t have to pay a dealer premium. That’s SOCIAL and cultural. 1225713
Reposted by Lisa ⚰️🪦Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026This is a good example. It assumes that the person can afford the price of whatever shop is available, for one thing. It also misunderstands that finding someone to work on your car is, for a lot of people, a social relation as much an economic one. 1035753
Reposted by Lisa ⚰️🪦Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Thesis: www.offmessage.net/p/donald-tru... 48931
Reposted by Lisa ⚰️🪦Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 27/09/2026People don’t understand how fragile our water infrastructure is. I’ve had contaminated water in the last six years. I’ve had my water co. hijacked for digital ransom. We are in perpetual near drought conditions... in NC, not AZ. AI boosters use pedantry about water use as an accountability shield. 9962264
Reposted by Lisa ⚰️🪦David Roberts @volts.wtf · 26/09/2026The fraud is that they are paying for insurance ... but not using it? Who exactly is the defrauded party here? 69954127
Reposted by Lisa ⚰️🪦The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 27/09/2026TN-9: @justinjpearson.bsky.social calls out Brent Taylor for being too “scared” to debate him 431174326
Reposted by Lisa ⚰️🪦Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 27/09/2026These people make Marie Antoinette look connected to the people and empathetic by comparison. They laugh at what their own voters are going through as they continue to mock them as they enrich themselves and have a great time. 1107131234669
Reposted by Lisa ⚰️🪦Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026context. sentiment. inferences. People seriously cannot do these things anymore. That’s why they angrily demand you spell out every joke, every reference, super duper promise you mean something only this one prescribed way. They cannot do it for themselves or tolerate the any ambiguity. 213363825
Reposted by Lisa ⚰️🪦Matthew R Francis @bowlerhatscience.org · 26/09/2026reading fiction isn't escape, it's a genuine necessity. Feeding the imagination is essential for staying free. 014143
Reposted by Lisa ⚰️🪦Rowdy Rebel @rowdyrebel.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I also have White Coat Syndrome & need my bp taken 3 times for accuracy. 😱🫨🫤🩸 2254819753
Reposted by Lisa ⚰️🪦Andy “voice of Brak” Merrill. 🎅🏻🤡🐒💩 @amerrill2.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Happy Dolly Day, everybody! youtu.be/UbxUSsFXYo4?...youtu.beDolly Parton - 9 To 5 (Official Video)YouTube video by DollyPartonVEVO 5238110
Reposted by Lisa ⚰️🪦Kirkdale Bookshop @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social · 24/09/2026James Jamerson! www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqtE...youtube.comWhat's Going On - Isolated Bass Track (James Jamerson)YouTube video by scottiscool 0121
Reposted by Lisa ⚰️🪦Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026“The customer is always wrong, now” is a great way to capture how specialize finance has ruined everything from our favorite store to your political process. Margins are now the only customer. The only voter. We have but one real way to exert power over any of it anymore. 4582147
Reposted by Lisa ⚰️🪦Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Over the past months, I've seen a lot of headlines/news coverage written like this: "WH does [fill in the blank] *despite* court order." No! It is *in violation* of the court order. "Despite" makes it seem like their choice. It is not! 630891
Reposted by Lisa ⚰️🪦Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 03/01/2026If we’re honest with ourselves about who we are as a country, the reality is this goes back far further than Iran-Contra, or Watergate & Cambodia, all the way to U.S. Grant’s original sin of exonerating the racist traitors, Robert Edward Lee & co., at Appomattox in 1865 From Ron Chernow’s “Grant”: 20880193
Reposted by Lisa ⚰️🪦Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 24/09/2026Yes. I think the consensus among US elite pundits and senior politicians that the way to protect liberal democracy is *not* to punish elite figures who violate its rules is wrong. A norm starting at least with the Watergate pardon. The opposite is true. You need to enforce the law and Constitution. 562272532
Reposted by Lisa ⚰️🪦weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 24/09/2026God, grant me the courage to change the things I can and incredible new powers to change the things I can't. 63106602519
Reposted by Lisa ⚰️🪦Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Good morning, it’s the 21st day of Septemberyoutu.beEarth, Wind & Fire - September (Official HD Video)YouTube video by EarthWindandFireVEVO 17805367
Reposted by Lisa ⚰️🪦Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 21/09/2026like all great cities New York is vibrant and alive and made important precisely because people come to it from everywhere! cities without an ever-flowing wave of new people become moribund and stale 9799108
Reposted by Lisa ⚰️🪦Emily Nussbaum @emilynussbaum.bsky.social · 16/09/2026The primary symptom that I’ve noticed about getting older is a paralyzing (but realistic!) terror of falling down the stairs 322406
Reposted by Lisa ⚰️🪦Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew @amandasmith.bsky.social · 20/09/2026I just think it’s strange that all the gambling companies have ads with athletes and celebrities instead of featuring all their users who have become millionaires betting, very strange indeed 754524775
Reposted by Lisa ⚰️🪦Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 20/09/2026All these athletes getting paid to be the faces of gambling sites should be ashamed of themselves. This will be a terrible look in a year or two, as Americans, especially young people, waste what little money they have on these sites that make the rich richer and everyone poorer. 30568161378
Reposted by Lisa ⚰️🪦Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026Americans: oh, look, a systemic issue. I will solve it individually 11996981916
Reposted by Lisa ⚰️🪦Urban Truth Collective @urbantruth.bsky.social · 19/09/2026The WAR ON WALKING has taken many forms around the world. It’s often as simple as how we signal who space is and isn’t for. Once our eyes are opened to all the ways we’ve prioritized cars over people, we can’t unsee it. Frustrating photo contributed by @stadsplanering.bsky.social. #WarOnWalking 23860360
Reposted by Lisa ⚰️🪦Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Ask yourselves why people want panic for you and power for themselves. Who does that serve? 127976
Reposted by Lisa ⚰️🪦Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 19/09/2026wow its amazing how much lighter i feel after completing an extremely daunting task that's been weighing on me for months. i guess procrastination really does lead to more stress. good thing i'll definitely remember this for all future daunting tasks 1492994
