Reposted by LeighBrian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 22hIt's World Homeless Day, and I'll just say: Homelessness isn't some great unsolvable mystery. People are homeless because they don't have homes. This suffering persists not for lack of solutions, but because enormous wealth and power are invested in maintaining the very structures that produce it. 212125840
Reposted by LeighThe Needling @theneedling.com · 09/10/2026Ballot Measure I-638 to Require Gender Verification for Playing Magic: The Gathering: tinyurl.com/4usc92fu 1115739
Reposted by LeighOliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 08/10/2026these people would say it was "unclear" why more people in germany didnt openly identify as jewish in 1942 4142131207
Reposted by LeighJohn Moe @johnmoe.bsky.social · 08/10/2026As completely deranged and fucked up and wrong as he is, I gotta say it is stressful to have the damn president of the United States constantly attacking my state of Minnesota, sending violence, calling for violence, putting all lives at risk, killing our neighbors. Like it really takes a toll. 562172383
Reposted by LeighRaider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 06/10/2026The Trump administration’s actions resulted in the destruction of the largest ancient Cottonwood tree on Indigenous territory in Arizona. This tree, known as the “Grandmother Tree,” was 250 years old. 75634772222
Reposted by LeighWorking Families Party 🐺 @workingfamilies.org · 06/10/2026Michigan congressional candidate Will Lawrence's stark words on AI: "They're saying if this goes well, it's gonna put 20 million people out of work... But if it goes poorly, we might kill everybody by accident." 06321
Reposted by LeighHypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 06/10/2026Can we fast forward to the eagle and liver part.gizmodo.comSam Altman Thinks He's the Prometheus of Silicon ValleyIn a new interview, Altman compares AI to fire and OpenAI to the Greek god that gifted the power to humanity. 30744138
Reposted by LeighMike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Just saw someone say their AI runs their fantasy football team and I can’t stop laughing. Like, I’m sure everyone’s doing it or something but it’s very funny to me that pretending to be a team manager was so hard that you needed to pretend to pretend to be a team manager 214104491654
Reposted by LeighSaraAAAGHH A GHOST!!! Ford 🐍🎨👻 @angeloslh.bsky.social · 03/10/2026A NEW FIGHTER HAS ENTERED THE ARENAindependent.co.ukGang of eight sperm whales sink yacht after ramming boat in South PacificCrew described terrifying encounter as they were woken up by “loud thud” as the 52ft vessel was struck 381457404
Reposted by LeighKaren Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Today, 8 years ago, my friend, Saudi Journalist and Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered. 239102193245
Reposted by LeighBrad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 26/09/2026We’ve now reached the point of “black site” hearings – secret, illegal hearings as part of Trump & Stephen Miller’s wretched crusade to detain & deport our immigrant neighbors. Quite literally: hidden tribunals that disappear people.thecityreporter.nycDHS Opens ‘Black Site Docket’ for Immigrants Without Lawyers at 26 Federal PlazaA reporter from The City Reporter was threatened with arrest while attempting to observe comings and goings from the new courtrooms, which have left advocates mystified and fearing the worst. 14692380
Reposted by LeighPatrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I knew this would last only a couple days. Pathetic. 1456989
Reposted by Leighalexis simpson is confused by display name changes @amutepiggy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026do NOT take an iced coffee to a job interview!!! qualified candidates bring a cooler of gatorade to dump on the interviewer 18914114
Reposted by LeighMcSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 22/09/2026IT IS TIME. buff.ly/pykYN6fbuff.lyIt’s Decorative Gourd Season, MotherfuckersFor the seventeenth year: Welcome to autumn, fuckheads. 6453191
Reposted by LeighEliza Orlins @elizaorlins.bsky.social · 22/09/2026This is so fucking dark. Kalshi filed with the CFTC today asking for permission to let traders bet on margin, which means placing prediction market bets with borrowed money. 34374118
Reposted by LeighCourtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 15/09/2026really did not think that the GOP would be going so hard into pro-bestiality in 2026 as the next culture war front 1524833
Reposted by LeighThe Nerdskull @nerdskull.bsky.social · 15/09/2026I feel it’s crazy that nobody outside of trans people and REALLY invested allies seems to know that the internal trans refugee crisis is one of the biggest internal refugee migrations the United States has ever experienced. 201584692
Reposted by LeighMichael Clemens @mclem.org · 13/09/2026This will devastate our research+innovation capacity, bedrock of the 21st century economy. 35% of *all* employed people in the US with STEM PhD degrees are both foreign-born *and* graduated from a US university. —> nap.nationalacademies.org/resource/292... Shutting them out is extremist folly. 1830224
Reposted by LeighAsh (new non-binary flavor!) @seatopian.bsky.social · 04/09/2026They're finally gonna fuck, let's gooooooo 25946279
Reposted by LeighAlt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 05/09/2026The title really says it all. 506191766875
Reposted by Leigh🏳️⚧️ UNBAN LINK @biancamack.co · 30/08/2026Love a direct, to the point queen. Say it plainly and leave no space for bad-faith bullshit. 3699792813
Reposted by LeighGillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 29/08/2026If this were happening somewhere else, we would call them what they are: Internally Displaced People. 1241211181
Reposted by LeighGregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 29/08/2026"Democrats Need to Win Back Voters by Becoming Republicans." Oof. It's satire. Well, sort of. www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/dem...mcsweeneys.netDemocrats Need to Win Back Voters by Becoming Republicans“According to the principle of minimum differentiation, America wants two political parties that are virtually indistinguishable, and that’s exactly what we ... 44612
Reposted by LeighLinda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 25/08/2026It makes a lot of sense, given her history, that she was the one to write and record perhaps the iconic office labor song of the late 20th century, just as much a labor song as “Dark as a Dungeon” or “Sixteen Tons.” 224824
Reposted by LeighSarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 18/08/2026The ag lobby really, really, really, really, really, really, really wants you to think AI is the reason reservoirs are going empty. It's not. It's agriculture. 7236441228
Reposted by LeighDr. Black's Medieval Remedies @winstonblack.bsky.social · 14/08/2026My god, what an image. Dead kings in a plastic box, carried off as the world burns. 11287922730
Reposted by Leighmolly taft @mollytaft.com · 14/08/2026NEW: i dove deep into the plans for several massive power plants being built specifically to power data centers crucially, they're designed much less efficiently than gas-fired power plants that are connected to the electric grid: www.wired.com/story/real-r...wired.comThe Real Reason Data Center Gas Power Plants Are So DirtyA massive new gas plant in Texas will be built with much less efficient technology than regular gas plants. It’s far from the only data center power project to rely on dirty turbines. 13383206
Reposted by LeighKate Clancy @kateclancy.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Jesus fucking Christ covid vax REDUCED miscarriages and stillbirths. Also I'm one of the people who studied menstrual side fx of the covid vax to make sure we didn't invalidate peoples' real experiences, and to better set expectations for side fx. Ultimately the project made me even MORE provax! 713164989
Leigh @leighaf.bsky.social · 29/07/2026You ever get to tell your partner (before coffee) about something that will ignite their fury? I’m a delight. 020
Reposted by LeighBCMECR spooky/pumpkin spice mode @b1kes.bsky.social · 29/07/2026"But with much of the content available online now exhausted - and increasingly polluted with poor-quality, AI-generated writing - AI labs are turning to uncorrupted texts published pre-2022." It took 4 years to AI to render itself useless and now it's creators seek to erase all of human knowledge. 012
Reposted by LeighCourtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 29/07/2026Hey Coloradans: one simple thing you can do today is call the director of the Colorado Department of Public Health & Environment and ask them to issue a public health order for the Aurora GEO detention facility. To call: 303-692-2000 and press 8, then 7, to leave a message. 3222130
Reposted by Leighjeremy kaplowitz @jeremykaplowitz.com · 03/08/2025you don't understand. as someone who isn't inherently good at art, stealing paintings from the museum is the *only* way i'm able to express myself creatively. i wouldn't be able to paint beautiful portraits. but by breaking into a museum and stealing the paintings, now i am 75131863679
Reposted by LeighLeah Feiger @leahfeiger.bsky.social · 14/07/2026NEW: DOGE used AI for housing policy. The government won't say how. read @telliotter.bsky.social's latest:wired.comDOGE Used AI for Housing Policy. The Government Won’t Say HowIn response to a public records request, HUD has withheld documents about DOGE’s use of AI—in part by citing a privilege that doesn’t exist. 312656
Reposted by LeighCourtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 10/07/2026“Why do WE have to get rid of our rapists but the Republicans don’t?” Setting aside all moral implications, it’s because around 70% (if not more) of Democratic volunteers are women and if they get totally disgusted with the party nobody is winning any elections anymore. 121431262
Reposted by LeighKyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 09/07/2026NEW: The Associated Press has called the Colorado GOP Gov primary for ministry leader Victor Marx. Here is my interview with Marx in May about his unsubstantiated claims, the number of people he's killed as a civilian, and the exorcisms he performs. 2082181774
Reposted by LeighBrett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 08/07/2026WAIT FOR IT WAIT. FOR. IT! 🪶 🐣 18192292238
Reposted by LeighC. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 04/07/2026I don’t think we appreciate Zendaya & Tom Holland enough for slipping off quietly, getting married in front of close friends & family, and keeping it to themselves, keeping the media from turning it into an unavoidable circus of a media holiday. This post is unrelated to anything else. Swear. 292341208
Reposted by LeighElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 30/06/2026What the fuck are you talking about? If I'm going to have a problem with Dems when it comes to the Supreme Court, I'm going to start with the Democratic Leader in the Goddamn U.S. Senate and not some fucking mayor who bothers people because he's Muslim. 577455
Reposted by LeighCourtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 30/06/2026This is the message I want my Senators to be sending. Yes, we're glad that they didn't completely set every part of the Constitution on fire all at once, but it's still on fire and we need to take action to rein in the Court. 2426128
Reposted by LeighDavid Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 17/04/2026We are the human traffickers. Our government. 9322120
Leigh @leighaf.bsky.social · 14/04/2026On our morning walk, @ajdecon.org said he wanted to plant this weekend. Denver weather: the fuck you are 130