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Monteiro

@monteiro.bsky.social
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I paint. I used to do other things. I might do them again. He/him. Protect trans kids! “One of our generation's most moving writers.” —some Bsky rando

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 4h
Maybe time for those who don't experience this directly to return to this thread (which I posted when PTSD was being weaponized to relieve Graham Platner of responsibility for his actions).
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Monteiro @monteiro.bsky.social · 21h
Using a chatbot ironically is still using a chatbot.
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Monteiro @monteiro.bsky.social · 22h
Important life update:
Me, at Costco, holding the Frankenstein candy head.
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Not a scam. A real thing. Definitely works.
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Monteiro @monteiro.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I was at an event where @deanpreston.bsky.social spoke this weekend.He said something worth repeating. The oligarchs at the fed and local level like to talk about “efficiency” when they cut programs. That’s horseshit. Programs aren’t cut because they’re inefficient, they’re cut because they WORK.
thefrisc.com
Tough Love vs. Drop-In: A SoMa Center Must Close As SF’s Sober Version Opens Nearby
Rough conditions on Sixth Street spur complaints and the end of a drop-in center. The city wants ‘amenities that energize the whole community.’
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Monteiro @monteiro.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Also, libraries have copiers!
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Jim Ray @jimray.net · 29/09/2026
We, being decent people, hate self-promotion because we are enlightened beings whose work speaks for itself and will surely be recognized in our lifetimes. Right? NO! And the assholes who are naturals at it are ruining the world, so learn how to get good at that part.
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Monteiro @monteiro.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A reminder that you could be using the office copier to make these amazing zines that help people overcome barriers to voting. They’ll never know. howtovote.tips
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How to Vote / Cómo Votar
A free field guide to what stops people from voting, and what to do about it. English and Spanish, ready to print.
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Monteiro @monteiro.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
🚨 THIS FRIDAY! 🚨 You started a newsletter. You are interviewing for a job. You opened a store. Etc etc etc. Now you need to tell people about it, but it’s hard. You’ve been told self-promotion is creepy. Humility is expensive. Bring us your problems. We’ll turn smol beans into beanstalks.
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Self-Promotion Clinic
We will help you get out of your own way and put your best self out there.
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Monteiro @monteiro.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
And your criminal record should follow you to The Hague.
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Monteiro @monteiro.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Please join us this Friday for our last Summer School session of the season! We are hosting a SELF-PROMOTION CLINIC. Bring us your problems. Bring us your hesitation. Bring us the little voice inside your head telling you that you aren’t worthy. WE’LL CRUSH THEM WITH MALLETS!
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Self-Promotion Clinic
We will help you get out of your own way and put your best self out there.
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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Friday! If you or anyone you know needs help in these times when promoting your stuff is all on you and it can be such a grind. www.eventbrite.com/e/self-promo...
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Self-Promotion Clinic
We will help you get out of your own way and put your best self out there.
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
You wouldn't know it from reading the headlines, but the president's downward mental health spiral is the biggest story in America right now We won't salvage democracy unless the media and pols start speaking the truth about Trump's damaged mind My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...
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We need to find the words for Trump’s madness before things blow up | Will Bunch
The media and politicians haven’t pinned down anything resembling a suitable description for a president’s downward spiral or the looming battle for U.S. democracy.
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mélanie daigle @asteur.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
“Joy is an act of resistance. Keep dancing, keep looking out for each other, they fucking hate it.” 💛
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Monteiro @monteiro.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Good morning. Your Saturday read is about dancing and fascism. “When I was a kid we’d come up with stupid games like ‘what would you do if you had a million dollars?’ Our answers were, of course, as stupid as you’d think they’d be.”
buttondown.com
How to dance through the apocalypse
Is it possible to be happy while desiring nothing?
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Monteiro @monteiro.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
In this week’s newsletter we talk about dancing _and_ fascism: “It’s really hard to feel the total emptiness of all human direction that engulfs our lives right now when Grace Jones is telling you to pull up to the bumper.”
buttondown.com
How to dance through the apocalypse
Is it possible to be happy while desiring nothing?
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
how i walk out of a job interview after leaving my empty iced coffee on your desk
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Perfection.
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Ed Sheeran's Gillette Stadium concerts canceled due to nor'easter, tour promoter says
Ed Sheeran's​ Gillette Stadium concerts in Foxboro, Massachusetts, have been canceled as Boston braces for a nor'easter.
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Monteiro @monteiro.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
🚨 HAPPENING IN 2 HOURS 🚨 This is for you as a person, and you as a worker who needs to exchange labor for money. Yes, there will be a little space for venting. But mostly we will get practical. We’ll answer any of your questions that we can. And we will not gaslight you with toxic positivity.
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How to Get Laid Off
It's not you. It's everything. Now what? Practical advice and support for recuperating, resetting, and moving forward.
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Jason Cosper @jason.cosper.me · 25/09/2026
Last call on this one! Mike and Erika are who I'd want helping me figure out my next move. They also won't blow smoke up your ass. Already laid off? Money tight? There's a code hiding in the event description.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"should we accept the republicans now distancing themselves from trump as allies in the fight for democracy, or should we condemn them to political purgatory for enabling the worst of fascism?"
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Joaquin Phoenix as Commodus giving thumbs down
ALT: Joaquin Phoenix as Commodus giving thumbs down
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026
over the past few weeks several AI evaluation/cybersecurity experts have explained how what's happening is a result of human incompetence rather than "AI going rogue". I'm begging the media to show a shred of journalistic integrity and stop parroting what altman or amodei say
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Monteiro @monteiro.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Me, when the printer dialogue box says “looking for printer.”
Leonardo DiCaprio pointing.
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Monteiro @monteiro.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
🚨 TOMORROW 🚨 It's not you. It's everything. Now what? Practical advice and support for recuperating, resetting, and moving forward. Come hang with good people, share your stories, build solidarity. (Discount code on the page for folks who need it.) This will be useful, and a good hang.
eventbrite.com
How to Get Laid Off
It's not you. It's everything. Now what? Practical advice and support for recuperating, resetting, and moving forward.
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Monteiro @monteiro.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I expected fascists to behave like fascists. But watching organizations and people you previously respected bending the knee and toadying to fascism is particularly gutting. And ultimately irredeemable.
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Monteiro @monteiro.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
A reminder that you could be making zines this weekend!
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Monteiro @monteiro.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
“If you don’t stop me I will murder your families.”
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Pam Mandel @nerdseyeview.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
your friend that hosts CANNED, that podcast about getting fired, totally thinks you should go to this event.
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Monteiro @monteiro.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I was the one who needed to hear this.
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Monteiro @monteiro.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
You know who loves it when you refer to all this as “the age of AI”? Fascists. It’s the age of fascism. AI is their little slop sideshow to keep you distracted.
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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 23/09/2026
I had not seen this clip where Tammy Duckworth advises Democrats to "not impeach anybody," "get back to work" and "allow" Donald Trump to "save face" and I would just like to remind the senator from IL that the federal government took 4,000 Chicagoans and murdered a 38-year-old father last fall.
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Austin L. Ray @austinlouisray.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Y'all ready to do some good this week? How I'd Fix Atlanta has once again partnered with Undue Medical Debt to help out a bunch of our neighbors. As always, we need your help. Please give what you can and tell everyone you know. unduemedicaldebt.org/campaign/whe...
unduemedicaldebt.org
When Good Georgians Get Together, Great Things Happen
How I’d Fix Atlanta was a free monthly essay series for four years. It’s been a couple of print zines and a performance on a stage a few times. Quite often, it’s stickers. HIFA is large, it contains multitudes. Every September, we do a big fundraiser to abolish medical debt. From 2023-2025, we raised more than […]
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Monteiro @monteiro.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Mark my words, he’s planning on running as a Republican.
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Monteiro @monteiro.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
My man Jason is out there doing the work, so any coin he gets from this is helping with the work. Plus it’s excellent.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 22/09/2026
this is the best effective altruism meme ever (also applies equally to rationalists in general)
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Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I got so many more posts about weird fucking gross shit Gavin Newsom has done but like why do we need to see them he fucking sucks he cannot run for president he is friends with Steve Fucking Bannon we cannot have ANOTHER president who is FRIENDS with STEVE FUCKING BANNON
politico.com
Poll: California Democrats see Newsom as stronger 2028 contender than Harris
But enthusiasm for a presidential bid by either California Democrat has fallen among voters overall since March.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
it is definitely a factor but someone has to be the first why not her?
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Jason Cosper @jason.cosper.me · 22/09/2026
Laid off? Not laid off but you can feel it coming? Mike and Erika are running a session on what to do next. Practical help with zero toxic positivity. I've been taking Mike's advice for years and it's always served me well.
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Monteiro @monteiro.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I am not anti-AI as much as I am anti tools being foisted on us by fascists built on stolen labor with the intent of stealing not just more labor, but workers' confidence and livelihoods, with a side-effect of telling teens to kill themselves.
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Monteiro @monteiro.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
It's not you. It's everything. Now what? Practical advice and support for recuperating, resetting, and moving forward. Join us this Friday for How to Get Laid Off, the next Mule Summer School session! No gaslighting. No toxic positivity.
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How to Get Laid Off
It's not you. It's everything. Now what? Practical advice and support for recuperating, resetting, and moving forward.
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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
We need to reintroduce the distinction between software company and tech company. a software company makes and sells software and may enjoy some economies of scale a tech company creates a software front-end to labor exploitation, is extraordinarily costly to run and requires regulatory capture
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jj skolnik @supremenothing.myatproto.social · 22/09/2026
just want to say that when a politician campaigns on/publicly states transphobic positions it will actually be reflected in policy and is not some sort of 4d chess electoral rhetoric move
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June Martin @theworldsgreatestwriter.com · 22/09/2026
my smart glasses told me "hey, it looks like you're beating your wife. that's not the best approach to being a good husband" and it really turned my life around
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Democrats are well positioned to inherit power thanks to disgust with Trump, but ultimately none of this is about what Dems did in response to Trump. They mostly capitulated and are benefiting from being the other party in a two party system, I don’t have any positive expectations for them.
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Monteiro @monteiro.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
We’re now at the “finding out” portion of the equation, and I’d be almost excited, except that a lot of good people lost their jobs over this bullshit, more than a few people died using this shit, and there won't be any consequences for the assholes who crammed it down everyone’s throats.
futurism.com
"Slop Grenades": Shopify CEO Who Pushed Staff to Use AI Is Now Horrified by What He's Wrought
Shopify CEO Tobias Lütke is getting a first-hand look at the AI-workplace revolution, and it isn't a pretty sight.
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Monteiro @monteiro.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
What if… and hear me out here… Gavin Newsom IS preparing a presidential run—as a Republican.
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Monteiro @monteiro.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
In case any of my fellow Gen-Xers are feeling spry today, we just missed the 49th birthday of this album, which means we are less than a year away from celebrating its’ 50th. Enjoy your Monday.
Cover of Talking Heads: 77 album. Tomato soup red, with brat green type.
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 21/09/2026
The GOP platform is simple: They want to sexually abuse children, and they want you to pay for it.
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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 20/09/2026
Not really sure where a bunch of liberals got the idea that they can’t win without throwing trans people in the garbage, but they’re stupid and cruel and wrong. If you want a human sacrifice so damned bad put gavin newsom in the wicker man
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Ani King (they/them) @aniking.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
“The greatest trick that capitalism and religion ever played on us was convincing us that there were “me” problems, and “someone else” problems, and then pointing to our neighbors and telling us that those were the “someone else.”
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