Sign in

madanddisappointed.bsky.social

@madanddisappointed.bsky.social
408 followers 276 following 5 posts
PostsRepliesMedia
Reposted by @madanddisappointed.bsky.social
Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 14/09/2026
Cis people do not understand how much trans people's rights have regressed in just 5 years. 5 years ago, there were none of these restrictions. 19 states banned legal recognition 21 states have bathroom bans 8 states ban gender marker changes on DLs 25 ban gender affirming care for trans youth
11678713676
Reposted by @madanddisappointed.bsky.social
Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
New from 404 Media: humans are reading ChatGPT conversations. OpenAI has hired an army of contractors who read real ChatGPT users' chats. I've seen internal docs, the review system, and real user prompts. Sometimes they contain very personal and sensitive information www.404media.co/inside-proje...
404media.co
Inside ‘Project Lily’: The Humans Reading Your ChatGPT Chats
Humans are reading ChatGPT users’ prompts to improve OpenAI’s models, and those chats can include sensitive, personal information, according to leaked internal documents and real prompts seen by 404 M...
561994985
Reposted by @madanddisappointed.bsky.social
Christian Dawson @zeroand09.com · 14/09/2026
My mom is in serious danger of losing her home. I intend to keep that from happening. So, I'll draw custom art, she'll get the money, and everyone is happy. PLEASE SHARE ko-fi.com/c/e91f68d1ad
ko-fi.com
$50 Emergency Commissions
Commission available on Ko-fi.com
14443
Reposted by @madanddisappointed.bsky.social
Mx. Tiffany Leigh @tiffanyleigh.northsky.social · 08/09/2026
For NYC friends who were detained by Central Booking during the Black Lives Matter protests in 2020: There is a class action settlement moving forward for all eligible claimants that opt-in by October 19, 2026. Link is below: centralbookingsettlement.com
centralbookingsettlement.com
Home - Central Booking Settlement
Capobianco et al. v. The City of New York et al.; Brennan et al. v. The City of New York et al.; and Aboubakar et al. v. The City of New York et al.
15462
Reposted by @madanddisappointed.bsky.social
Joey Scott @joeyneverjoe.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
New from me: LAPD released video from an in-custody death that occurred in July. Jose Carlos Hoyos-Munoz appeared to be in crisis as 6 to 9 officers beat him three separate times. One officer is seen putting his knee into the back and neck of Munoz. He died 20 min later. lataco.com/lapd-beat-ha...
lataco.com
Police Video Shows LAPD Beat Handcuffed Man in Van Nuys Jail Before His Death ~ L.A. TACO
LAPD officers forcefully restrained a man, kneed him, and struck him with their elbows. He was later found dead in his cell.
45136882236
Reposted by @madanddisappointed.bsky.social
Avery Alder, Buried Without Ceremony @lackingceremony.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Do you love any of the games that I have created? Whether it's Monsterhearts, Dream Askew, The Quiet Year, Going For Broke, or a deeper cut, now would be a great time to hit quote-tweet and tell your friends about it! It's been a slow month. 💕✨ store.buriedwithoutceremony.com
store.buriedwithoutceremony.com
Buried Without Ceremony
My name is Avery Alder, and for the past eighteen years I’ve been designing tabletop roleplaying games. These are games about community, relationships, doubt, queerness, and the collapse of civilizati...
12594364
Reposted by @madanddisappointed.bsky.social
Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
These people had protected status. They lived here legally. They worked, they paid taxes. They made lives. Raised families. Now we’ve dehumanized them. Ripped away that protection and told them to get out. This is a stain on the soul of this Nation.
440107093483
Reposted by @madanddisappointed.bsky.social
Fabrice Riceputi @campvolant.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
La terrible photo du reporter palestinien Jehad Alshrafi censurée au festival d'images du sport à Deauville. Montrons la partout.
2317961551
Reposted by @madanddisappointed.bsky.social
Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 15/08/2026
TW: Suicide If you tell people you have SI, many are likely to suggest you call 988 or text the suicide lifeline. These are good resources *if you need to be kept physically safe;* they are not as helpful if your ideations are passive. Allow me to share some things that have helped me. /1
512291772
Reposted by @madanddisappointed.bsky.social
dave @gloomfather.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
yeah man "woke 1" sucked ass. I "woke 1" morning from uneasy dreams to find myself transformed into a giant insect
89160203695
Reposted by @madanddisappointed.bsky.social
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
This is a very worrying story. Ecuadorian fishermen are being attacked and killed, and the perpetrators seem to be either the U.S. military engaged in clandestine operations or an American mercenary company working for Bukele or another Central American country.
Far out in the Pacific Ocean, Ecuadorean fishermen have been attacked by unidentified “gringos” using drones, survivors say, spurring a mystery over whether the American military, the armed forces of another country or private military contractors were behind the strikes.

One fishing boat has been lost at sea since January, the U.N. says, with eight people still missing and presumed dead. The survivors of two other vessels said they came under attack in March by English-speaking assailants wearing matching uniforms with American flag patches, but without any clear insignia to link them to an official government force.

Some of the surviving fishermen said they had been hauled out of the water, questioned and then handed over to El Salvador’s navy before being released. The Pentagon has denied involvement, as has the U.S. Coast Guard.

Survivors have also said that a plane followed and seemingly surveilled them before the strikes.

The New York Times analyzed flight data and found that a maritime patrol plane — based out of a military base in El Salvador — flew in the direction of all three boats in the days before they were attacked. The pilots onboard spoke English with American accents, according to air traffic control communication recordings.
271289688
Reposted by @madanddisappointed.bsky.social
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
This is absolutely WILD. Here's the dashboard video posted by @fritschner.bsky.social. Fast forward to about 1 minute. An ICE officer jumps out of a van and pulls a gun on this woman immediately before lying and claiming she "almost ran us over." *profanity warning if watching in public.
35757592701
Reposted by @madanddisappointed.bsky.social
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
The U.S. has AGAIN sent people to a foreign country where they get imprisoned. This time, it’s to get around laws barring the deportation of people who face persecution/torture in their home countries. The U.S. gets paper-thin assurances that the below won't happen, which it knows will be ignored.
Three people deported from the U.S. to Equatorial Guinea - including a Phoenix man whose family fled Egypt when he was 4 - told the Arizona Daily Star their lives are in danger at the hotel. All agreed to have their full names published, despite the risks to their safety in speaking out.
In a recent late-night incident, all three say they were dragged from their rooms at gunpoint, handcuffed, assaulted and threatened by armed men guarding the decommissioned Hotel Bamy.
"They said if we leave the hotel grounds, they will shoot us and bury us across the street," said Peta-Gaye Chambers, 35, whose parents brought her to the U.S. from Jamaica when she was 5. A U.S. immigration judge granted Chambers "withholding of removal" to her home country of Jamaica in 2013, agreeing she'd face persecution there.
24986529
Reposted by @madanddisappointed.bsky.social
Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Thank you, NBC, for noting this is in fact an American city. Too many people here pretend it isn't.
7345381187
Reposted by @madanddisappointed.bsky.social
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
This cruelty has no need but cruelty. Haiti remains deeply dangerous; a country in the throes of anarchy. Hundreds of thousands of people are SAFE. They are safe. They are safe here and the nation has decided to make them unsafe. We are embarking on a tragedy and we cannot look away. We cannot.
15561342409
Reposted by @madanddisappointed.bsky.social
R.S.A. Garcia (BUY THE NIGHTWARD) @rsagarcia.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
New update. Thank you so much for the overwhelming response to my last post! June was the first time the private sector had a countrywide shortage of my cancer drugs. I'm trying to plan around this. Click for details. Kindly donate if you can & feel free to boost! www.gofundme.com/f/help-r-s-a...
gofundme.com
Donate to Help R. S. A. Garcia Pay for Cancer Expenses, organized by Arula Ratnakar
Hi everyone, I'm Rhonda, also known as R. S. A. Garcia, a speculative … Arula Ratnakar needs your support for Help R. S. A. Garcia Pay for Cancer Expenses
03133
Reposted by @madanddisappointed.bsky.social
Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 06/08/2026
Erin in the Morning Aug 2026 Two people who used a women's restroom in Bossier Parish LA's Cypress Black Bayou Park attacked by an angry group. One was taken to hospital and the other taken by police to a men’s jail. LA does not have a bathroom ban but the Parish voted to pass its own.
erininthemorning.com
Trans Couple Brutalized At Louisiana Park Bathroom, Then Charged By Police
An angry mob allegedly beat them. The police charged them. The municipality voted for one of the most severe anti-trans bathroom ordinances in the country.
1221396
Reposted by @madanddisappointed.bsky.social
R.S.A. Garcia (BUY THE NIGHTWARD) @rsagarcia.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
It's the last day of July! Tomorrow, my story, THIS IS AN EMERGENCY BROADCAST, goes to the @clarkesworldmagazine.com archives. But you can still read it on the front page today, now with an incredible audio performance by Kate Baker! Enjoy your weekend! clarkesworldmagazine.com/garcia_07_26/
clarkesworldmagazine.com
This Is an Emergency Broadcast by R.S.A. Garcia (audio)
Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast.
13217
Reposted by @madanddisappointed.bsky.social
Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Dystopia www.news.com.au/technology/o...
news.com.au
AI labs buy, scan, shred millions of rare books
If you have retreated to physical books because the internet is too full of AI slop, bad news — now they’re shredding the books to feed their AI slop machines.
591495519
Reposted by @madanddisappointed.bsky.social
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Upwards of 200,00 people may have lost their jobs today; or will in the upcoming days. There is a palpable sense of fear among the Haitian community right now. They need your support.
15657502501
Reposted by @madanddisappointed.bsky.social
Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Exclusive from me — Daniel Moraff, one of the political operatives behind Graham Platner's rise and fall, has been accused of sexual assault. Full story here:
thehandbasket.co
Exclusive: Political operative behind Graham Platner's rise accused of sexual assault
A spokesperson for Daniel Moraff said: “Any suggestion that he committed a criminal offence is false and without foundation."
26973492016
Reposted by @madanddisappointed.bsky.social
Bradford William Davis @bwd.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
I have awful news. Youman Wilder, the Harlem baseball coach who courageously protected his kids from an ICE raid and said he was "willing to die" for them, very tragically, passed away this week Wilder's sister started a fundraiser set up to help with his burial: www.gofundme.com/f/honoring-y...
Youth Baseall Coach Takes a Stand to Protect Kids From ICE Agents: 'I'm Willing to Die'screenshot of Youman Wilder's gofundme
131465769
Reposted by @madanddisappointed.bsky.social
Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
exCUSE me??????????? I take a week off and there’s a KIDNAPPING?!!?!????????
322504616
Reposted by @madanddisappointed.bsky.social
Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
"After boarding a handful of boats — stuffed to the brim with people and pets — community members drove across the lake as their entire First Nation burned to the ground behind them. " www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
cbc.ca
'It's a miracle': First Nation members escape northwestern Ontario wildfire as community burns to the ground | CBC News
Namaygoosisagagun First Nation, also known as Collins First Nation, has been destroyed by a wildfire that spans over 350,000 hectares in northwestern Ontario. Community leaders spoke to CBC News about...
1416821046
Reposted by @madanddisappointed.bsky.social
Kelly Lynne D’Angelo ✨ @kellylynnedang.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Please blow up the public comment (included below): BREAKING NEWS (7/15) — The administration wants to destroy Chaco Canyon without consulting Tribal Nations. It’s an irreplaceable historic & cultural site with 4,700 archeological sites that could be lost to the bulldozers of oil & gas development
240693921
Reposted by @madanddisappointed.bsky.social
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
He died at Irwin, the detention center made notorious by allegations of unwanted gynecological procedures, and that Biden had shut down. Trump reopened it. Now it’s the site of yet another death in ICE detention following claims of medical neglect.
272000925
Reposted by @madanddisappointed.bsky.social
ProPublica Guild @propublicaguild.org · 14/07/2026
“A flexible hybrid schedule allows us to retain and support employees long term as they grow professionally and personally, building and caring for their families,” says visual editor Alex Bandoni, who worries that a rigid RTO policy will especially impact parents.
1316
Reposted by @madanddisappointed.bsky.social
Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
I was always gonna boycott the Harry Potter TV series but I would urge anyone on the fence to stop engaging with the franchise as long as JKR is using her proceeds to fund her continued attacks on trans people and allies. Reheated nostalgia slop just isn’t worth it.
262072542
Reposted by @madanddisappointed.bsky.social
Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Lorenzo Salgado Araujo and Joan Sebastian Guerrero weren't murdered because of car pursuits. They were murdered because the men driving those cars felt comfortable recklessly killing. None of this ends until we shut down ICE completely.
5551021339
Reposted by @madanddisappointed.bsky.social
Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 14/07/2026
Don't fall for this. Rowling wants trans people to self censor and to stop sharing the report. If this report really was as defamatory as she claims, she wouldn't be cheering on its spread. What she really wants is a costly settlement from AI UK, humiliating apology, and permanent silence.
​A screenshot of a thread on X (formerly Twitter). The main post is a quote tweet by J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling), which reads:
​"Shout out to all trans activists sharing the blacklist of women's and gay rights organisations published by @AmnestyUK! You're demonstrating very effectively that in spite of their hasty backtrack it can be easily accessed forevermore, increasing legal liability. Thank you! ❤️"
​Rowling is quote-tweeting a user named Lesbian Lenin 🇵🇸 🔻 🇵🇸 (@xstaffsuck), whose post reads:
​"The report btw, documenting how TERF orgs work hand in hand w/ anti-abortionists, christian nationalists, & anti-LGBT+ (yes, you too, c*s queers!) orgs to push trans genocide
​To be anti-trans is to be anti-abortion, is to be a christian nazi, is to be anti-queer
​Report is below"
​The user @xstaffsuck is, in turn, quoting an earlier tweet from J.K. Rowling, which reads:
​"Should any of the women's organisations targeted by @AmnestyUK's recent 'anti-rights' blacklist wish to take legal action, applications can be made to the JK Rowling Women's Fund. jkrwf.org"
452204861
Reposted by @madanddisappointed.bsky.social
Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 14/07/2026
Holy shit. Buried in that DHS document about its desired “deportation airline” is a request for contractors to procure and maintain 1,000-bed “detention facilities” in foreign countries. Huge scoop from @charliearchy.bsky.social. www.theredoubt.net/ice-detentio...
theredoubt.net
Exclusive: ICE eyes 1,000-bed detention facilities in foreign countries
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is looking for private contractors that could help set up "international staging areas" abroad.
9355196
Reposted by @madanddisappointed.bsky.social
unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 14/07/2026
Decades of dehumanizing copaganda have primed people to see a Black man allegedly fleeing law enforcement as deserving of death, as expendable. ICE has the same script writers now trying the same tactics. The only way to challenge their narrative is to challenge all of it, every time:
actionnews5.com
Community organizer claims yet-to-be-released video contradicts MPD account of Tyrin Johnson shooting
A community organizer representing the family of Tyrin Johnson said Sunday that multiple videos exist showing the 20-year-old’s death at the hands of Tennessee National Guard soldiers — and that the f...
1668304
Reposted by @madanddisappointed.bsky.social
Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Between this and the national guard in Memphis it’s kind of disturbing me (yes I know I’m a member of the media) the degree to which these killings aren’t really breaking thru rn
10254671750
Reposted by @madanddisappointed.bsky.social
unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 13/07/2026
With two people dead in Memphis in four days and one the same week in Houston, that's four people federal agents have shot and killed over just nine days. July 5: Tyrin Johnson July 7: Lorenzo Salgado Araujo July 8: Alfonso Ivy July 13: name not released yet
1915241031
Reposted by @madanddisappointed.bsky.social
Abigail Thorn @theabigailthorn.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Many of the groups Amnesty wrote about are discussed in our episode and I’m grateful to the lawyers who helped make that possible youtu.be/_S5w18sjYLk?...
youtu.be
Britain Still Has Conversion Therapists. Here’s Why.
YouTube video by Philosophy Tube
61569378
Reposted by @madanddisappointed.bsky.social
Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 12/07/2026
It's also available here. Please share and spread this report. Trans folks in the UK can't for fear of lawsuits by gender critical groups. drive.google.com/file/d/1UggI...
drive.google.com
191537732
Reposted by @madanddisappointed.bsky.social
R.S.A. Garcia (BUY THE NIGHTWARD) @rsagarcia.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
It's Friday Reads, and I have new stories! If you'd like a cozy laugh with malicious compliance, bots, and a cantankerous goat in a future Trinidad and Tobago, LINCOLN & THE HARVESTER C-100 in @uncannymagazine.bsky.social is your best bet. But... www.uncannymagazine.com/article/linc... 1/3
uncannymagazine.com
Lincoln and the Harvester C-100 - Uncanny Magazine
Well, Officer, the trouble really start when Mr. Vincent dead. I shouldn’t have been surprise eh. My neighbour wasn’t studying he health at all. He was young still, in he sixties, so he spend a lot of...
42112
Reposted by @madanddisappointed.bsky.social
Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 09/07/2026
Guys I can’t keep doing this independently. I need a job. If you know of a place—advocacy, OSINT org, think tank, left media, etc—where I could take this work in-house, pls let me know. I admire the folks making independent work for them, but I am collapsing under the weight and the lack of impact.
3624931183
Reposted by @madanddisappointed.bsky.social
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
ICE is engaged in a very large escalation nationwide, with the agency claiming to be hitting record arrest numbers amid the return of quotas. This has gotten very little attention from the media because ICE learned lessons from the chaotic disasters of Kristi Noem’s tenure. Keep a watch.
11886895493
Reposted by @madanddisappointed.bsky.social
Joel Feder @joelfeder.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
"Thank God our kids weren’t with us. I’m not sure if I would’ve been able to react as calmly." Just published the absolute craziest story of my entire career. www.thedrive.com/news/how-flo...
thedrive.com
How Flock Cameras Wrongly Tracked Me For Days over ‘Stolen’ Plates and Sent Police After Me
A simple error got magnified by Flock's nationwide surveillance camera network and ended with four cop cars boxing me in.
20387187
Reposted by @madanddisappointed.bsky.social
ProPublica Guild @propublicaguild.org · 08/07/2026
Visuals editor Shoshana Gordon uses her paints, brushes, easel and other art supplies in her home office. Doing her job “really wouldn’t be possible” if she had to report to an office. We need a flexible RTO policy that ensures our colleagues can do their work wherever it makes the most sense.
04814
Reposted by @madanddisappointed.bsky.social
Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 30/06/2026
Kavanaugh, Thomas, Gorsuch, and Alito should be impeached www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
supremecourt.gov
402299611
Reposted by @madanddisappointed.bsky.social
Rachel Hope Cleves @rachelcleves.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
An open letter, to readers, about Charity and Sylvia. I am very pained to feel the need to write this. #queerhistory #pride
1112270718
Reposted by @madanddisappointed.bsky.social
Vincent ⚖️ @vtheesquire.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
This is insane. www.cbsnews.com/colorado/new...
cbsnews.com
Former Colorado DNA analyst pleads guilty to manipulating data in agreement with prosecutors
A former DNA analyst with the Colorado Bureau of Investigation changed her plea to guilty in court on Tuesday to four charges, as part of an agreement in which prosecutors dropped 100 other counts she...
815997
Reposted by @madanddisappointed.bsky.social
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
helpful coverage from @elpais.com english.elpais.com/usa/2025-08-...
english.elpais.com
In the heart of the Miccosukee, the Native American tribe that shut down Alligator Alcatraz
The community found refuge from white persecution deep in the Everglades swamps centuries ago. Together with environmental groups, they succeeded in forcing the closure of the immigration detention ce...
2888364110
Reposted by @madanddisappointed.bsky.social
R.S.A. Garcia (BUY THE NIGHTWARD) @rsagarcia.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Hi! It's Read Caribbean/Caribbean Heritage Month, and I'm an award winning West Indian speculative fiction author with works across genres. Here's a thread of some of my stuff if you're wondering where to start. (Note: Most of my shorts are free to read online!) 1/6
18457
Reposted by @madanddisappointed.bsky.social
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
A SECOND person died of exposure last winter after DHS dumped them in the middle of nowhere, miles from their home, without notifying their family.
10948742196
Reposted by @madanddisappointed.bsky.social
John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Each ICE operation generates roughly $196,000 in monthly losses for nearby businesses and communities. (That's 11x the government's administrative cost of a deportation.) Why? ICE activity decreases foot traffic in those public areas.
8519225
Reposted by @madanddisappointed.bsky.social
Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 10/06/2026
I've been a broken record on this for three years and I'll be a broken record for as long as that fucking website exists: X is a viciously racist far-right organising platform that ONLY WORKS because a huge number of centrists, lefties and progressivs cannot stop propping it up
yahoo.com
Elon Musk accused of fuelling unrest after Belfast knife attack
The use of social media in planning violent protests over the Belfast knife attack has drawn condemnation, with Britain's ruling Labour Party accusing Elon Musk of stoking divisions. The tech billiona...
16388203360