Reposted by Don’t Post About CrimesJay Willis @jaywillis.net · 01/10/2026The 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... 11946641158
Reposted by Don’t Post About CrimesKashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 01/10/2026I read a couple hundred death penalty cases for a case once and I think you’d all be shocked at how often this happens. The death penalty is one of the cruelest things in our system, an obvious violation of the 8th amendment cruel and unusual punishment clause, but we just love to kill. 542992738
Reposted by Don’t Post About CrimesBrian Actors Guild @spocksbrian.worstpossible.world · 30/09/2026 151772
Reposted by Don’t Post About CrimesSaeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 29/09/2026“Senior editor Cereese Qusba spent months reporting on the case before breaking the news of the lawsuit on September 18.”thecut.comHow Student Journalists Broke the ‘Cornell Seven’ Case“Our coverage was absolutely completely raw from the lawsuit and nothing was concealed. At a minimum, that’s what we can do as the student newspaper.” 231549544
Don’t Post About Crimes @katerosebee.bsky.social · 30/09/2026If you’re sad Widow’s Bay is over, watch Deadloch on Prime! Also a spooky comedy, but Tasmanian small town lesbian crime procedural instead of New England small town horror! 040
Don’t Post About Crimes @katerosebee.bsky.social · 30/09/2026This moment has me thinking back to almost 20 years ago when I saw this talk from Isabel Allende, when I felt my brain chemistry start changing, my start of growing beyond Feminism 101. "Tales of Passion," on the importance of women's storytelling to justice. www.youtube.com/watch?v=E11c...youtube.comIsabel Allende: Tales of passion | TEDYouTube video by TED 181
Reposted by Don’t Post About Crimesgamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026this poor model looks so bummed out by this stupid level 1 rpg dress 1001888209
Don’t Post About Crimes @katerosebee.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Going to be petty for a min: I’m using the money from few (very appreciated) newsletter subscribers to buy my friends pizza for helping me investigate a potentially leaking oil well in our community. Meanwhile an “environmental news” outlet paid a guy to investigate me for my local housing activism. 1120
Don’t Post About Crimes @katerosebee.bsky.social · 29/09/2026My latest Skamania Dispatch special investigation: using old USGS aerial photos to hone in on DNR listed locations of orphaned (and probably still leaking) oil wells on public land. We’re gonna hike in, and if we find it we can get help/money to cap it! 150
Don’t Post About Crimes @katerosebee.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Were that I could demand a Great Chili Challenge, where I compete with a Democratic consultant for results in competitive rural counties, only I get to spend the money on hosting chili cook-offs instead of... whatever it is they do. 030
Don’t Post About Crimes @katerosebee.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I had a dream I crocheted a long tube-like crocheted hooded capelet with (also crocheted) spikes all over it that I now I want to make. But unsure IRL how to make it so the hood part doesn't look like a foreskin. Maybe I should just lean into that and not fight it, power foreskin. 020
Don’t Post About Crimes @katerosebee.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I want everyone to try to tread carefully on the Slutcon thing. 10 years in SF taught me yes, women speak up when things are wrong in such events. They are also the ones punished for attending when coverage of it is careless. Do not be indifferent to the privacy of the random unsuspecting attendee. 160
Reposted by Don’t Post About CrimesEmily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 28/09/2026Here’s the most incredible story you’ll read today. A small plane with four people aboard crashes in a field. Another pilot witnesses it. That pilot happens to be flying a bunch of skydivers. They offer to jump to assist, are given permission. The skydivers happen to be EMTs. Everyone survives.wisn.comSkydivers alert emergency crews, assist after plane crashes near East Troy airportFour people were aboard the single-engine plane when it went down in a cornfield near Carvers School Road in East Troy at about 1:30 p.m. 122102942669
Reposted by Don’t Post About CrimesJorts (and Jean) @jortsthecat.bsky.social · 27/09/2026If you adopted a feral cat to the inside and he keeps meowing maybe he just really wants to smoke real cigarettes. You don’t know what he was up to before 633255403
Don’t Post About Crimes @katerosebee.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Our local cocktail bar has a goose lamp, and I just finished knitting & crocheting her fall outfit. 🍁🧶🍂 0161
Don’t Post About Crimes @katerosebee.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I feel like a lot of people when they stop drinking, just stop socializing entirely instead of learning other ways to hang out and host. Especially if you do not drink, thrift a tea set. Learn how to just do a very basic tea service. It has the same “bottle of wine” social pacing people enjoy. 270
Don’t Post About Crimes @katerosebee.bsky.social · 27/09/2026It’s maybe a little more common? But mostly it’s that people now have too many ways to reach you, so you have to specifically set that boundary. I haven’t talked to my dad for almost 20 years and he’ll still ex: message my work’s general inbox because I don’t answer his calls, emails, texts. 😑 040
Don’t Post About Crimes @katerosebee.bsky.social · 27/09/2026You would not believe how long I spent trying to find someone to paint my ‘95 Previa and came up dry. Near Portland no less!! 051
Reposted by Don’t Post About CrimesChris Conaton @conatonc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026A familiar story for anyone who follows @volts.wtf. “The Chronicle spoke to more than half a dozen grid experts…to try to understand why Texas’s notoriously unreliable grid had a remarkably reliable summer. The answer was unanimous: solar panels and batteries.”houstonchronicle.comTexas shattered energy demand records this summer. Here's why the grid held up.Texas repeatedly broke electricity demand records this summer, but ERCOT avoided emergencies as booming solar and battery capacity helped keep the grid stable. 352250766
Don’t Post About Crimes @katerosebee.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Today is National Public Lands Day. So please call your reps to ask for Secure Rural Schools, a critical lifeline for Public Lands Counties, to be renewed! Our communities care for the land every day, and need stability and strength to protect it. skamania-dispatch.ghost.io/on-national-...skamania-dispatch.ghost.io🌲 On National Public Lands Day, Stand Up for Public Lands Counties - Letter From the EditorToday, September 26th, is National Public Lands Day. Four days from now the law behind Secure Rural Schools, a lifeline for our Public Lands Counties, was written to run out. Here's why that deadline ... 120
Don’t Post About Crimes @katerosebee.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Finally renovating my own home for the first time, and I'm over the moon to find out the dramatic matched countertop and backsplash stone looks I have been obsessing over are mostly pics of porcelain slab! Porcelain is extremely durable, harder than granite, way easier to maintain than ex: marble. 190
Reposted by Don’t Post About CrimesMistress Matisse @mistressmatisse.bsky.social · 26/09/2026A thread about the serial killer targeting sex workers in Philadelphia - please consider RTing the OP because major media isn’t covering this  39848
Reposted by Don’t Post About CrimesBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 25/09/2026What's hard about public policy is weighing the trade offs. For example, something sucks really bad and everyone hates it, but on the other hand several evil trillionaires think it's good. What are you supposed to do in that situation 201833289
Reposted by Don’t Post About CrimesRachel Wells @rachelwells1.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Jules, the Executive Director of Abortion Care Tennessee, tells TN Repro News that abortion funds across the country have yet to see a state AG put forward something this aggressive and comprehensive. @abortionfunds.bsky.socialwellsrachelm.substack.comBREAKING: Tennessee AG Launches Investigation into State's Abortion FundAbortion Care Tennessee's attorney says the investigation is retaliation for a free speech case the state lost. 01211
Don’t Post About Crimes @katerosebee.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Out today: a local domestic violence murder trial I had to report from results being posted in a Facebook group, because I live in one of America's many rural news deserts. This is what we lose when we have no local newsroom. skamania-dispatch.ghost.io/a-verdict-a-...skamania-dispatch.ghost.io⚖️ A Verdict, a Tighter Timber Check, and a Rate Choice - Skamania BOCC & PUD September '26A community member who sat through the trial says a jury convicted Levi Delena in Candice Malave's killing. DNR trims its timber forecast. The PUD seats Dev Bell and argues over a 2% rate increase. Pl... 020
Don’t Post About Crimes @katerosebee.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Starting to lose my temper now that the local boomers are relying on science fiction to justify opposing ex: solar projects, claiming in 10 years we'll have fusion or orbital power stations in space so it won't matter. Come on young people, invent more tech that promises me absolution! Chop chop. 170
Don’t Post About Crimes @katerosebee.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Today in living in a rural news desert: a verdict was just reached in a local domestic violence murder trial, a case that has rocked our county of 12,000 people. Because we have no locally-reported news outlet, members of the public had to share that verdict on a Facebook group. No records yet. 1125
Reposted by Don’t Post About CrimesPrisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 24/09/2026"In 2020, there were only six programs in the U.S. that sent unarmed responders, such as mental health clinicians, to certain 911 calls instead of police officers. Now, these programs — sometimes called alternative or community response — are in nearly 100 cities." www.npr.org/2026/09/22/n...npr.orgHow unarmed 911 teams are reshaping public safety in nearly 100 citiesAlternative response programs, where mental health clinicians respond to 911 calls instead of police, have proliferated since George Floyd's murder. What does it take to do this work well? 5758272
Don’t Post About Crimes @katerosebee.bsky.social · 24/09/2026We decided we're going to dial back our rural abortion org's activities and keep the driving support, SEO work. People need a ride very infrequently, but when they do they REALLY need it (no clinics here, no cabs, no viable transit options). Low frequency but critical is actually pretty doable. 071
Reposted by Don’t Post About CrimesAFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 21/09/2026US has deported more than 25,000 people under secretive agreements with 35 countries to take migrants with no ties to those nations, according to an investigation published Monday u.afp.com/Sj9Z 32350232
Don’t Post About Crimes @katerosebee.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Once again reminding you that you can be your town's own Mayor Mamdani. Don't wait for permission. 07122
Reposted by Don’t Post About CrimesMelissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 22/09/2026“…when The City Reporter tried to enter one of the new immigration courtrooms on the third floor Monday, security guards barred the reporter from entering. A DHS police inspector later threatened The City Reporter with arrest for trying to wait in an elevator bank outside the new courtrooms.” 012479
Don’t Post About Crimes @katerosebee.bsky.social · 23/09/2026It was this article and its opening on a too-quiet election night, that made me start my county newsletter. It now has me considering something even crazier: hosting a Skamania Dispatch official community election night party this November! www.seattletimes.com/opinion/a-ve...seattletimes.comA verdant news desert in Skamania CountyIs Skamania County a news desert or not? The question is more complicated than it seems, after a visit and interview with the rural county's last publisher. 270
Reposted by Don’t Post About CrimesMayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 22/09/2026DoorDash has ripped off more than 260,000 NYC delivery workers. We’re making them pay $131.5 million — the largest worker settlement in City history. This is New York, where hard work pays and greed will cost you. 341250384781
Reposted by Don’t Post About CrimesKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Semi driver stops filling up his tank when it hits $1,000 "Almost thirty years of driving trucks and that's a first" 1021678538
Reposted by Don’t Post About Crimesgwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 21/09/2026My friend Sam Karas was detained for almost three hours while reporting on the border wall construction in the Big Bend region. She was detained by a "bearded man" who claimed he worked for one of the wall contractors. bigbendsentinel.com/2026/09/20/b...bigbendsentinel.com‘Bearded Man’ detains journalists for hours near the first segment of border wall erected in the Big BendMan tells deputies he works for the wall contractor A Big Bend Sentinel reporter, a photojournalist and a Sierra Blanca activist were blocked from leaving a remote Hudspeth County private road for mor... 8299119
Reposted by Don’t Post About Crimesflanthippe @flanthippe.bsky.social · 13/09/2024Barry Lyndon × 21 Savage "a lot" 101422508
Reposted by Don’t Post About CrimesPrisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 21/09/2026I cannot say this enough. If you are currently doing life-affirming work and organizing in your communities, keep doing that work. People who are working their asses off keep reaching out to me asking what more they should do. YOU ARE DOING IT. 5406104
Don’t Post About Crimes @katerosebee.bsky.social · 21/09/2026The most tiring part of all of this is trying to get our community space open on top of abortion org stuff. I know that the best thing I could possibly do for abortion access where I live is focus on this closing and renovation, so we can have it as a base of ops, supply storage and pickup. 200
Don’t Post About Crimes @katerosebee.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Consistently having issues getting people to step up and want to do more organizing work for our local abortion access org. People readily show up to organized activities and events, but won't do it themselves, no matter how easy we try to make it or how many ideas we give people. I can't do it all. 331
Reposted by Don’t Post About CrimesMat Honan ✅ @mathonan.com · 21/09/2026Our reporters spent the past year and some months investigating deaths along the "virtual wall" of the southern border. Their investigation reveals that a humanitarian crisis at the border has unfolded in view of the government’s own cameras: www.technologyreview.com/2026/09/21/1...technologyreview.comThe US spent billions on border surveillance. Why can’t it catch people before they die?Surveillance towers, increasingly powered by AI, promised faster responses to crossings. Our investigation of deaths near the towers found they are failing to deliver. 714789
Don’t Post About Crimes @katerosebee.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Another reason to pay more attention to the still very new science of consciousness; the direct impact it has on people’s social behaviors. See: surveys that show people are more likely to believe their dog has phenomenal consciousness than they are to believe the same for babies or strangers. 😵💫 130
Reposted by Don’t Post About CrimesDon’t Post About Crimes @katerosebee.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Friends, no matter what you think about AI, the hard problem of consciousness is not solved. You cannot prove or disprove currently that anything is conscious, that is actually the fun of it. It’s a wonderful mystery and you could accidentally rob yourself of it by being mad at something else. 1101
Don’t Post About Crimes @katerosebee.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Especially because the fun stuff is in the margins! You might feel like a mouse is having an obvious conscious experience, but is not as intelligent as you or I. There are big debates on whether many animals are sentient, or can express preferences between kinds of experience, like bees. 120
Don’t Post About Crimes @katerosebee.bsky.social · 21/09/2026It’s so delightful to now show up at various tech spaces as the eccentrics who descend from our remote mountain compound to cheerfully espouse wacky theories, and make everyone scoff when we say no we haven’t yet heard of whatever billion dollar companies there are now. 130
Reposted by Don’t Post About CrimesBeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026lots of people seem very confident that they can define easy concepts like 'consciousness,' 'sentience,' and 'intelligence.' 2334431
Don’t Post About Crimes @katerosebee.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Every year our Hebrew school brought a goat in for Yom Kippur. We were told to write what we wanted to atone for this year on a tortilla chip and feed it to the goat. It enjoyed pets and crunched down piles of Jewish children’s anxieties like a champ. Thank you, literal scapegoat. 2214