Reposted by @mmparker.bsky.socialShiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 30/09/2026a map company has the opportunity to perform the greatest bit in cartographic history 944988
mmparker.bsky.social @mmparker.bsky.social · 30/09/2026A pillar of my childhood summers; took my daughter for the first time last summer. Takes $1.4M to run. 000
Reposted by @mmparker.bsky.socialKathleen Jennings @tanaudel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Dragons and flowering trees! www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/1825...redbubble.comDragons in the roots of flowering fruit trees by tanaudel | RedbubbleA hand-drawn pen-and-ink design (digitally coloured) of two dragons coiled among the roots of a fruit tree in blossom, with an arts-and-crafts aesthetic. 1147
Reposted by @mmparker.bsky.socialNothings Monstered @nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social · 04/06/2024Louise Bourgeois on the difference between French and American aesthetics 201251374
Reposted by @mmparker.bsky.socialTyler, from the Internet (Haunted) @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 26/09/2026after they are finished with trans people, and disabled people, and autistic people, they'll come for adhd people, and go right on through the list. fascism is a fire that cannot be quenched. once everyone is a cishet white male, they'll start burning people for being short, or having webbed toes. 620355
Reposted by @mmparker.bsky.socialDr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 22/09/20261/ People keep saying AI is inevitable. History disagrees. Plenty of technologies were called unstoppable, and societies stopped them or shrank them down to a niche. A thread 🧵 3313153
Reposted by @mmparker.bsky.socialMoby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 22/09/2026There is no steady unretracing progress in this life; we do not advance through fixed gradations 110627
Reposted by @mmparker.bsky.socialRichard Wells @slipperyjack.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I thought you might be interested to see some before and after shots of one of my dad's carved ghosts, so I got him to provide some progress shots... 👻 wellswoodcarving.bigcartel.com 512027
Reposted by @mmparker.bsky.socialCen Galdre @cengaldre.com · 09/09/2026little inlay experiment I did with a single cherry block turned candleholder www.galdrecraft.com/product/turn... it can be yours for $35 that is like 3-4 lattes today 0188
Reposted by @mmparker.bsky.socialHarold Richer @haroldricher.bsky.social · 02/09/2026War and Braaam 431372
mmparker.bsky.social @mmparker.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Economic news of the day: www.cpr.org/2026/09/02/c...cpr.orgFed economists say lack of workers is holding Colorado, nearby states backThe shortage is expanding to different jobs and industries, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City. 100
mmparker.bsky.social @mmparker.bsky.social · 01/09/2026America's scarcity of public toilets: solved. 010
Reposted by @mmparker.bsky.socialCen Galdre @cengaldre.com · 30/08/2026Little curated selection of items I've made with pacific madrone and an example of what madrone trees look like in the wild. Beautiful tree, beautiful wood! www.galdrecraft.com/product/slid... www.galdrecraft.com/product/shal... www.galdrecraft.com/product/hard... 15021
mmparker.bsky.social @mmparker.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Feeling great about failing the Foreign Service oral exam in 2005. Just going through this as a citizen is sufficiently revolting, thanks. 000
mmparker.bsky.social @mmparker.bsky.social · 25/08/2026I don't think James C. Scott could have predicted a ruler this stupid, but the dynamics in "Seeing Like A State" still apply pretty well. He cares about DC because he sees it from his car. He cares about Greenland and Lake Ontario because they're big on maps. 010
Reposted by @mmparker.bsky.socialMayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 18/08/2026On Sunday, parents across the five boroughs got a night to themselves while NY's Cutest enjoyed free activities with NYC Parks staff at select recreation centers. Free & accessible child care doesn’t just make our city more affordable — it gives parents time to rest, recharge, or enjoy a night out. 176106122071
Reposted by @mmparker.bsky.socialScott Santens @scottsantens.com · 10/08/2026People are so sick of our 2-party system that half of Americans in this new poll support switching to a multi-party proportional representation system. Let's do it! As soon as we get rid of Trump, let's pass the Fair Representation Act for proportional ranked choice voting via multiwinner districts.npr.orgVoters are sick of the 2-party system. A new poll shows they're open to big changesA new poll shows support for moving the U.S. toward proportional representation, a system that elects multiple representatives in a single district in rough proportion to a party's vote share. 712132
Reposted by @mmparker.bsky.socialKasia Brz @avatarkasia.bsky.social · 05/08/2026a bunch of fresh mugs getting ready for a little photoshoot ❤️ 14940196
Reposted by @mmparker.bsky.socialJared Pechaček @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Medusa but her hair is an anaconda 9073882087
Reposted by @mmparker.bsky.socialCody 🍃 @cosmeffect.com · 22/07/2026Going to keep recommending the Bluesky Memories feed bsky.app/profile/did:... 132
Reposted by @mmparker.bsky.socialPrisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 17/07/2026"After enduring months of anti-ICE protests at its bank offices, Citizens Financial Group is parting ways with two for-profit prison operators that oversee detention facilities for the federal immigration enforcement agency." www.bostonglobe.com/2026/07/17/b...bostonglobe.comCitizens Bank parts ways with two prison operators amid ICE protests - The Boston GlobeCitizens said the end of its relationships with GEO Group and CoreCivic was driven by changing financial needs of the two clients, not by protests. 121535515
mmparker.bsky.social @mmparker.bsky.social · 14/07/2026"... a representative for the Department of Homeland Security said the Aurora facility had no confirmed, active cases of TB." The question then is: did they actually properly evaluate them? The fact that they're using the skin test on an immigrant population suggests they are not. 100
Reposted by @mmparker.bsky.socialDisco Elysium Quotes @discoelysiumbot.bsky.social · 14/07/2026That we continue to persist at all is a testament to our faith in one another. 021988
Reposted by @mmparker.bsky.socialThe NewsGuild-CWA @newsguild.org · 07/07/2026🚨BREAKING🚨 More than 600 workers at Hachette Book Group just voted overwhelmingly to unionize, creating the largest union in trade publishing history! newsguild.org/hachette-boo...newsguild.orgHachette Book Group employees win election for largest union in trade publisher history | The NewsGuild - TNG-CWA 153392904
Reposted by @mmparker.bsky.socialTequila Mockingbird @weeburdoodles.bsky.social · 01/07/2026How I look on the outside vs how I feel on the inside 22612
Reposted by @mmparker.bsky.socialDr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social · 25/06/2026I especially love this diagram. 5248542011
Reposted by @mmparker.bsky.socialKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 25/06/2026"Why should Pennsylvania, founded by the English, become a Colony of Aliens, who will shortly be so numerous as to Germanize us instead of our Anglifying them, and will never adopt our Language or Customs, any more than they can acquire our Complexion." - Ben Franklin on Emmers' German ancestors 1032510744
Reposted by @mmparker.bsky.socialCourtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 24/06/2026If you want to get swap of one of the most worthless Senators--one who isn't even bothering to show up to constituents to talk while running for office--for someone who wants to abolish ICE and pass universal healthcare, help out @senadorajulie.bsky.social! 116364
Reposted by @mmparker.bsky.socialPride Ott 🦦 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ @hikoukihikouki9.bsky.social · 22/06/2026tbh it's kinda funny how ER nurses are in the trenches, regularly under the threat of assault and working in lightning pace life-or-death situations, and this job is seen as significantly more feminine and frilly than a mechE who spends all day tinkering with autodesk in a climate controlled office 55513
Reposted by @mmparker.bsky.socialJordan Collver @jordancollver.bsky.social · 21/06/2026Made these in celebration of all the dedicated dads of the animal world, and in memory of my stepdad. 12859224
Reposted by @mmparker.bsky.socialNeedhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 20/06/2026"Right now, in some underfunded lab, a scientist is chasing a question that sounds pointless...a century of experience says that funding people to do this work is a good bet. If we stop making that bet, we will pay for it in cures no one will know to miss." 018279
Reposted by @mmparker.bsky.socialMr Natural @neilmatheson66.bsky.social · 14/06/2026Eyvind Earle (b.USA 1916-2000) Summer. (1966) #Serigraph 6864198
mmparker.bsky.social @mmparker.bsky.social · 19/06/2026Finally, a Father's Day activity I can get excited about 000
mmparker.bsky.social @mmparker.bsky.social · 18/06/2026Old white millionaire incumbent doesn't feel like he owes the woman who *won the party caucus* a debate. None of his rich white bros have experienced any consequences in 2026, so I see why he's making this bet, but a person who actually believed in democracy couldn't do this. 000
Reposted by @mmparker.bsky.socialLaura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 17/06/2026When Trump went to war with Iran, I watched every speech anyone in the administration gave and made a chart of every reason given for going to war "Eliminate ballistic capability" was the #1 reason given: more even than preventing Iran from getting a nuclear weapondocs.google.comIran War Reasons Chart.xlsx 642571884
Reposted by @mmparker.bsky.socialZach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 17/06/2026Full comic here: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/deal #smbc #comics 415122
Reposted by @mmparker.bsky.socialJohn Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 17/06/2026Given that we’re now desperately trying to undo the mistake of ceding our streets to cars because we realized 100 years too late the environmental and social damage of that choice, this is actually a great metaphor, just not the one he thinks. 5442160
Reposted by @mmparker.bsky.socialJulian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 17/06/2026The obsession with getting instantaneous election results is weird and unhealthy, serves no real purpose, and feeds conspiratorial nonsense. Increasingly thinking we might be better off just embargoing all results for like a week. 201516273
mmparker.bsky.social @mmparker.bsky.social · 17/06/2026Suburban Denver "town" wants to gate its roads for residents only. It is just incredible how much these car- and city-dependent people hate cars and cities. www.9news.com/article/news... 000
mmparker.bsky.social @mmparker.bsky.social · 17/06/2026The latest in the Swallows and Amazons series by Arthur Ransome: "We Didn't Mean To Start World War 3" www.bbc.com/news/article...bbc.comRussian warship fires warning shots near UK-registered yacht in ChannelThe retired couple told BBC Newsnight they tried to show the warship they had changed course before the shots were fired. 032
Reposted by @mmparker.bsky.socialAndrea Ritchie @dreanyc123.bsky.social · 16/06/2026Let’s be sure to show up for Minneapolis today and every day like they have been showing the way & showing up for us across the country. We’re with you Twin Cities!❤️🔥 0242102
Reposted by @mmparker.bsky.socialKira Leigh 🏳️⚧️ @kiraleigh.bsky.social · 14/06/2026someone on tumblr said it better than i could 3573723346
mmparker.bsky.social @mmparker.bsky.social · 15/06/2026Replica of @butserancientfarm.co.uk, fully staffed by re-enactors year-round, Beltaine wicker man burning in the background of every press conference 020
Reposted by @mmparker.bsky.socialdr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 14/06/2026seeing the posts about visitors discovering that you can walk around most of our cities and just be yourself in a multicultural setting, discovering tailgating, starting impromptu block parties, my muslim mayor, etc. etc. it's corny to say it but that's our secret sauce. and it means something 435327687
Reposted by @mmparker.bsky.socialDoug Mack @douglasmack.bsky.social · 14/06/2026This is so damn true and also makes me wish once again that more American politicians would embrace the multicultural joy of the USA, especially the cities. It's fucking great and it's every bit as "Real America" as any rural small town 415829
