Reposted by Chad GeidelDavid Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 6hDavid Graeber wrote a piece about bullying. It was called "The Bully’s Pulpit." It is a good read if you are looking for something to read today. This is an extract from that piece. And here is the link to the full piece: davidgraeber.org/articles/the... 04715
Reposted by Chad GeidelOlivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 7hThis 33-year-old nurse told the FBI she knew she was “going to set him free” after border patrol agents brought in a man whose face was bloodied and seriously injured. She treated him and helped him escape, and she faces charges now. He got away, and they never relocated him. 14255961288
Reposted by Chad GeidelProPublica @propublica.org · 13hA policy expert described Education Secretary Linda McMahon’s push in favor of private schools as a “great American heist,” funneling money from public schools: “It’s a strategic theft of the future of our country, our kids and our democracy.” (Published Oct. 2025)propublica.orgThese Activists Want to Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department.Under Trump, the Department of Education has been bringing in activists hostile to public schools. It could mean a new era of private and religious schools boosted by tax dollars — and the end of publ... 45844360
Reposted by Chad Geidelrprobbins.bsky.social @rprobbins.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Facts, plain and straightforward 💯🎯 27159781685
Reposted by Chad GeidelToo Big to Fail @toobigtofail.bsky.social · 12hThe quote was: "I've missed the mark on some of my past statements. I will be the first to admit it," he said. "What I meant is that there are two sexes, and then there's a small percentage of people with genetic abnormalities."abcnews4.comTalarico backtracks controversial gender comments, pushes for Supreme Court overhaulTexas Senate nominee James Talarico (D) backtracked on several of his controversial gender comments in an interview, while pushing for a Supreme Court overhaul. 8293
Reposted by Chad GeidelDan Hon @danhon.com · 12hGuys I did it please repost and like and all that jazz. lnkd.in/p/gV-SNU7klnkd.in#voiceuserinterfaces #agenticdevelopment #enterprisesoftware | Dan HonPICARD: Tea. Earl Grey. Hot. COMPUTER: There are over two thousand known types of "tea" known as "Earl Grey". Which "Earl Grey" did you mean?" Throwback to that time I did a talk at IXDA 2020 about h... 261
Reposted by Chad GeidelBotticellibelle @botticellibelle.cryptoanarchy.network · 12hYes, streaming services, keep recommending copaganda and football to me, knowing I will never watch any of it. But don't ever recommend any ballet shows to me, even though I've watched ALL OF THEM. Boo! Hiss! 031
Reposted by Chad GeidelWIRED @wired.com · 14h“We’re furries at home, and we’re airline pilots at work, and these are two separate things,” says one member of the community in response to senator Tommy Tuberville's recent rant. www.wired.com/story/furry-...wired.comFurry Airline Pilots Are Just Minding Their Own Business“We’re furries at home, and we’re airline pilots at work, and these are two separate things,” says one member of the community in response to senator Tommy Tuberville's recent rant. 67015
Reposted by Chad Geidelbing bong @brianvan.bsky.social · 14hWhy are we printing this insane quote? Y’all fuckin hate people with beards like you hate fat people and LGBTQ? 221
Reposted by Chad GeidelMemento (artemis) Morty 🌙 @mementomorty.bsky.social · 14h"a little bit is ok" someone should hand his hard drive over to authorities immediately 717523
Reposted by Chad GeidelHypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 14hSee it’s cool because now every delivery driver can also be part of your neighborhood watch and cops will be able to jack in to live feeds from driver glasses. /sbloomberg.comAmazon Drivers’ Smart Glasses Are Going to Be an Image ProblemComing soon up a garden path near you: an Amazon.com Inc. driver wearing smart glasses, almost constantly taking pictures and sending them back to the company to be analyzed by humans and fed into an ... 21382162
Reposted by Chad GeidelAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14hHegseth: "The ideological clowns are out. The patriotic cowboys are in, with testosterone testing on top." 8951296216
Reposted by Chad Geideljon christian @jonchristian.net · 15hNEW: People who chug their own piss have emerged as MAJOR supporters of AI futurism.com/artificial-i...futurism.comPeople Who Drink Their Own Pee Are Obsessed With AI, Using It to Reassure Themselves That It's a Miraculous Cure-AllUrine therapy devotees are sharing ways to break past AI guardrails in order to brainstorm ways to use pee as medicine. 1352113529
Reposted by Chad GeidelThe Onion @theonion.com · 28/09/2026Animal Facing Extinction In 2003 Fucks Its Way Back theonion.com/animal-facing-extincti… 262013237
Reposted by Chad GeidelLuca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 28/09/2026“Eye of Anaklia," a 40-meter-tall, futuristic abandoned observation tower located on the Black Sea coast of Georgia. IG: @abandoned.berlin www.instagram.com/abandoned.be... 44775148
Reposted by Chad GeidelUBI Works @ubiworks.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Universal training data. Universal dividend. 1418155
Reposted by Chad GeidelFaine Greenwood @faineg.com · 26/09/2026As a former pretentious little shit who grew out of it, rationalists (et al) annoy the piss out of me because they are adults with the mentality of tweens - they are somehow still convinced they are the greatest geniuses who have ever walked the earth. It is the worldview of an arrogant baby. 372472292
Reposted by Chad GeidelK. Thor Jensen @kthorjensen.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I have never been a trading card guy. Never tempted. But today I learned about RAD DUDES, a 1990 110-card release from Pacific Cards, and lord restrain me 1311626
Reposted by Chad GeidelBrian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 26/09/2026This story brought me back to Kara, one of the mothers in my book, There Is No Place for Us. She was homeless with her four kids while driving for DoorDash. They had to pee in bottles so bathroom stops wouldn't make her late. After gas, she earned $6.50 an hour—75 cents less than the minimum wage. 5824313
Reposted by Chad GeidelBill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Reacher and Neagley is a fairy tale universe that speaks to our times because it features extremely competent, honorable heroes who defend the defenseless from powerful people preying on them and who fuckin' LOVE murdering the shit out of these elite bad guys. They have so much fun murdering! 😀 1351869
Reposted by Chad GeidelJ. L. Westover @mrlovenstein.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Secret Panel HERE 👏 patreon.com/mrlovenstein/posts/things-to-do-32419113 1671551437
Reposted by Chad GeidelDare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Reading this excerpt about working at Lovable and the celebration of people becoming Super ICs instead of managers, what’s left unspoken is that you don’t need as many managers if you stop hiring junior people and have senior people do the grunt work. No managers because no one needs managing. 7421
Reposted by Chad Geidel🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota. 121121715156
Reposted by Chad GeidelChris Ingraham @cingraham.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Incredible Facebook slop ad I just got 31798481557
Chad Geidel @lemadchef.bsky.social · 21/09/2026I am begging you. Please be more skeptical of posts and videos about the “exploits” of AI on the Internet. It’s shocking how uncritical folks are when responding to “smart people.” 1/3 100
Reposted by Chad GeidelBonFire @bonfire25.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Not to worry. The 2,000 young video gamers the FAA hired for Air Traffic Control will fix it 🙃 1684
Reposted by Chad GeidelCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 21/09/2026* U.S. FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION TEMPORARILY HALTS FLIGHTS INTO NEWARK AND PHILADELPHIA AIRPORTS DUE TO COMMUNICATIONS ISSUES WITH SOME FREQUENCIES AT AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL FACILITY -- AGENCY @reuters.com 84899302
Reposted by Chad GeidelDeanna Something @deannatheanalyst.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Another republican who has bashed the LGBTQIA+ community and then later ended up being outed is so cliché at this point. Oh, and I don't mean to gloss over her taking advantage of staffers, another Republican hallmark. She is exhausting. 001
Reposted by Chad GeidelDeanna Something @deannatheanalyst.bsky.social · 21/09/2026A *lot* of states offer ballot drop boxes so that you don't have to rely on the USPS, if that's what is making you nervous. In Colorado, you can drop them in those boxes as late as the day of the election (until 7pm). Please vote! 002
Reposted by Chad GeidelLupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 21/09/2026Doxing the wealthy is bad but building an extensive and all-encompassing surveillance network that tracks & creates dossiers on every individual who ever dares to feel the warmth of direct sunlight and is freely accessible by the most violent & unaccountable among us is just normal business. 113338
Reposted by Chad GeidelLady with an opinion @ladymitopinion.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Can we really call it a White House Press Corps anymore? It’s more like the White House Propaganda Corps at this point 761365351
Reposted by Chad GeidelFared Al Mahlool | فريد المحلول @faredalmahlool.bsky.social · 19/09/2026This video was filmed in Palestine. My heart struggles to comprehend such cruelty and the heartbreaking disregard for human life. No human being should have to endure this. 5629311395
Reposted by Chad Geidelweb_rant @webrant.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Previously... bsky.app/profile/webr... 0178
Reposted by Chad Geideldogemperor (PLAY NEO:TWEWY, ZEPTOGRAMS) @dogemperor.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Well, considering that the "artist" (and I use that term extremely loosely) who desecrated the Six Grandfathers (did I mention it was a defilement of a Lakota sacred site that is considered the literal heart of the world?) was also responsible for Stone Mountain... skywriter.blue/@dogemperor....skywriter.bluePage by dogemperor (PLAY NEO:TWEWY, ZEPTOGRAMS) | @dogemperor.bsky.socialA gentle reminder that "Mount Rushmore" was carved by a KKK-associated white supremacist as a deliberate defacement of a sacred Lakota site, much as the same chud defaced Stone Mountain in Georgia to ... 153
Reposted by Chad GeidelAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18/09/2026"Get going!" -- Trump urges the South Dakota governor to get him on Mount Rushmore 351954288
Reposted by Chad GeidelRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Remember: Telling lies that everyone knows are lies is a classic tactic of dictators to force their followers to side with them over the truth itself. But the public will not be gaslit. We will continue to spread the truth to our communities. Ignorance is the handmaiden of tyranny. 13059331767
Reposted by Chad GeidelDavid Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 17/09/2026This is a pretty funny story David Graeber explained from his book, the Democracy Project. We have all gone through 'late fees' and felt we did something wrong. Just be aware that if this happens to you again that the companies know exactly what they are doing. 05513
Reposted by Chad GeidelChanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 18/09/2026it's funny but also a reminder that the fundamental premise here is that a Black man can't be objective when talking about race while a white man can because Black people do identity politics and white people do facts and this my friends is what I have named "white empiricism" 193198737
Chad Geidel @lemadchef.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Strange how all those folks with their “pocket constitutions” and guns are silent these days. 000
Reposted by Chad GeidelDex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 18/09/2026there's a debate happening on tiktok about whether or not you should bring an iced coffee to a job interview and people are just wild. They're saying it's unprofessional?????? 12441
Chad Geidel @lemadchef.bsky.social · 17/09/2026It felt like the early 21st century we experienced a regression in our scientific reasoning and now AI is making it worse. 020
Reposted by Chad GeidelAmy Hoy @amyhoy.bsky.social · 17/09/2026funnily enough countering this specific fantasy got me blocked by not just 1 but 2 men (yes they were) today: 061
Reposted by Chad GeidelJennifer N. Victor @jenvictor.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Banger of a piece from @donmoyn.bsky.social on US-China, science, and higher ed. Trump isn’t just killing US dominance in science & technology, he’s handing it to China. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/china-than...donmoynihan.substack.comChina: “Thank Trump”The big winner of Trump’s assault on higher ed is America’s chief geopolitical rival 512754
Reposted by Chad GeidelPé 🍺🧿 @forevernever.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Before Russia invaded Ukraine, the Russian army loved to flood social media with images tall toned Russian soldiers. Turns out, looking good on camera has nothing to do with executing a war. 0124
Reposted by Chad GeidelAmy Hoy @amyhoy.bsky.social · 15/09/2026is this a good time to talk about how the actual stanford prison experiment was biased and fake, or 613534
Reposted by Chad GeidelImani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 15/09/2026someone is trying to pig butcher me right now. avoiding scams is becoming a full time job ffs i got a "this is my new number" text responded "wrong number" and now "Nathalie" is very concerned that she's bothering me. I should just ask her how much crypto she wants me to buy. 192639