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Monica Riese

@monicariese.bsky.social
201 followers 90 following 20 posts

Copy editor, dog rater, plant killer, stress baker

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 11/10/2026
Hi, I’m a sighted alt text user! Here are some reasons I use it: - Slow Internet on an airplane - I’m over 40, I have no idea who that celebrity is - Bluesky broke images again - My vision sucks and that text is too small to read otherwise - Conveys further context and authorial intent
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
statler and waldorf but it’s al-sayed and ossoff heckling republicans
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 18/09/2026
This guy who assaulted a sitting member of Congress got 28 years and 10 months less jail time than a Texas resident who transported a box of zines that contained constitutionally protected content opposing ICE reason.com/2026/06/25/t...
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Texas man gets 30 years in prison for transporting 'anti-government' pamphlets
The case stems from a violent anti-ICE protest, but critics say the government's prosecution threatens First Amendment rights.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 09/09/2026
AI companies: This technology we’re developing is dangerous and might destroy humanity and we don’t know how to stop it Other people: So we should strictly regulate it, create legislative guard rails, and monitor its development? AI companies: lol no the opposite of all that & give us more money
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Monica Riese @monicariese.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
ok but the fact that the Great Lakes acronym would change from HOMES to SHAME is pretty on the nose
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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
the only thing to be said about covid lockdowns is that it revealed the startling number of people who feel entitled to the benefits of a social contract that they also do not feel bound by
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Gregg Levine @greggjlevine.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Yes, absolutely. But please, can we STOP CALLING THEM DATA CENTERS ? They are not filled with data. They are filled with machines. Servers. These are server farms. Energy eating, resource guzzling, ratepayer robbing, environment polluting server farms. Help family farms; not server farms.
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Maggie Hendricks @maggiehendricks.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Trans rights continue to be human rights, and anyone who has an issue with that is welcome to fight me.
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Leah @leah.myatproto.social · 06/06/2026
Always a good day to get in the alt text habit. Have fun in the alt text, be creative, think of it as an opportunity to add Easter eggs to your posts.
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
it is in absolutely everybody’s best interests to develop some hobbies aside from Phone
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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
You know the rule.
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Chris Kluwe, adjudicated poaster @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Ahh, yes, the unpopular decisions like “black people don’t deserve political representation,” or “rich people should be able to control everything,” or “women shouldn’t be in charge of their bodies.” Truly a man committed to justice.
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Jaya Saxena @jayasaxena.com · 08/04/2026
We are in the middle of a subscription drive for our new food and culture site. We are worker-owned, have no investors or VC money, and will never use gen AI to make any written, visual or audio work. If that sounds good to you, sign up for a paid subscription or donate today! www.weareravenous.com
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Ravenous Is a New Worker-Owned Food Culture Media Company
For too long, food media has felt toothless. Help us take a bite out of it.
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
The fact that the US Secretary of Health denies that pathogens cause disease should always be a much bigger story
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Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
from the annals of getting high on your own supply (gift link) www.theverge.com/tldr/915176/...
theverge.com
Silicon Valley has forgotten what normal people want
Did the tech industry get high on its own supply?
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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
I'm moonscrolling
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ProPublica Guild @propublicaguild.org · 08/04/2026
We’re on strike today! Support our fight for a fair contract by NOT visiting the @propublica.org website or engaging with ProPublica stories today. Tell ProPublica’s management you won’t cross the picket line: actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...
We're on strike! Don't visit propublica.org on April 8
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Emily Gardner @emfurd.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
"The process is the purpose. You don’t have to always like or enjoy the process, but if you don’t respect it enough to do it yourself, there is no purpose. ... If you really, truly hate writing, if the only way you can do it is by using a plagiarism machine, maybe it’s just not for you." 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
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The Verge @theverge.com · 29/03/2026
There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter series
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There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter series
You can’t without supporting Rowling’s transphobic bigotry.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 28/03/2026
while the country is at war, Trump is golfing
From: Ceballos, Ana
Sent: Saturday, March 28, 2026, 9:04 AM
To: DL WHO Wranglers
Subject: Out of town pool report #3 - Trump golf
 
POTUS’ motorcade left Mar-A-Lago at 8:55a.m. and arrived at Trump International Golf Course at 9:02 a.m. 
 
Your pooler did not see the president.
 
The pool is now holding.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/03/2026
just a breathtaking self-own here from Ted Cruz
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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
For people who are concerned about having their devices seized at US airports starting Monday when ICE "assists" the TSA, EFF has this guide: www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
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A Journalist Security Checklist: Preparing Devices for Travel Through a US Border
We wrote this checklist to help journalists prepare for transit through a U.S. port of entry while preserving the confidentiality of your most sensitive information, such as unpublished reporting mate...
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Ruth Delgado @heylookitsruth.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Dolores Huerta's statement on Cesar Chavez: “I am nearly 96 years old, and for the last 60 years have kept a secret because I believed that exposing the truth would hurt the farmworker movement I have spent my entire life fighting for... I can no longer stay silent and must share my own experiences"
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March 18, 2026
Today, civil rights leader Dolores Huerta issued the following statement:
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The Mask of the Red Jeph @ass.golf · 12/03/2026
if you're at all online and haven't figured out by now that AI is a fucking scam, you're either deluded or stupid or both.
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Comfortably Boo @numb.comfortab.ly · 12/03/2026
'No Way to Prevent This,' Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens
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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
"Horrifically, it appears AI might have been behind the unintentional bombing of a girls' school in Iran by the United States."
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Monica Riese @monicariese.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Being married to me is fun because you get wildly off-key covers of “Just a Friend” with the lyrics rewritten as an ode to a cozy blanket at 11:30pm (sorry not sorry, @mattoztalay.bsky.social)
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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
"the vibes are bad and keep getting worse" explains why so many people are clinging to Heated Rivalry like a life raft
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Matt Lanza @mattlanza.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Give Connor Hellebuyck two gold medals.
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Monica Riese @monicariese.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
an incomplete list of people who I am not convinced are allowed to sleep: - Steve Kornacki during election season - Mike Tirico during the olympics - curlers in a round robin tournament
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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
OK "god bless america" and then naming every country in the americas from south to north is absolute king shit
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jenna ruddock @ruddock.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Don Lemon is not the only reporter who was arrested by federal agents overnight — local independent journalist Georgia Fort just went live on FB to say federal agents were also at her door to take her into custody over her protest coverage in Minneapolis.
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regular meghan 나영지 🇵🇸 @ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
just like we have to actively work on unlearning sexism and and racism and ableism and all sorts of shit it feels like americans also have to unlearn being bad at thinking communally
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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
I don’t want to hear anything from an elected official unless it’s a plan to defund the DHS and impeach Noem, Bovino, etc. No texts. No emails. No talk about the economy. Step up or step off.
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Dan Hon @danhon.com · 18/01/2026
If you see it you have to stop and watch it.
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Monica Riese @monicariese.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
imagine what Jacob Tierney can do with a budget of THREE friendship bracelets for season 2
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
I don't know about all of you, but I am finding it difficult to process Venezuela, Greenland, Minneapolis, and the Fed all at once.
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Monica Riese @monicariese.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
will one person just ONE time ask the president what he thinks the phrase “seeking asylum” means in his own words
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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Hi! It would probably be helpful to plan something offline today. It could be a walk outside, a museum, cooking a meal, a workout, or even a nap. Remember to breathe, eat food you enjoy, take your meds, and give yourself grace. Maybe lower your shoulders. And try not to doomscroll too much today.
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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
every time I check the news, I regret it and go back to clips of the gay hockey show
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
There’s an urgent need for blood in the aftermath of the Brown University shooting If you can give, please do If you can’t, please spread the word Its terrifying to think how bad this shooting might be if they need an urgent call for blood, but the more people donating the more lives we can save
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cuteosphere @cuteosphere.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
“AI is clearly sticking around so you have to get used to it” wrong. I don’t have to get used to shit. I am a practiced hater and I can keep this going for decades if I am required to
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David Noll @david.noll.org · 17/11/2025
"There are about a thousand of us" is devastating.
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Ursula Dorada @sulamoon.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
graphic of a gold star written "has never even opened ChatGPT"
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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
today's a great day to make sure "require alt text before posting" is enabled in your settings and to continue to make bluesky more accessible and inclusive bsky.app/settings/acc...
a screenshot of the Accessibility settings in bluesky.

The options shown are:

Alt text:
- Require alt text before posting
- Display larger alt text badges
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 19/06/2025
Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
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💥 @dynamoe.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
Stop Forcing A.I. Into Every Fucking Thing!
Stop Forcing A.I. Into Every Fucking Thing!
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