Reposted by Matt McGowanMarielza @marielza.bsky.social · 27/09/2026New assignment dropped: spread this info to every Brazilian. Nova tarefa, gente: espalhar essa noticia para a brasileirada toda!!! 11710
Reposted by Matt McGowanMarielza @marielza.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Since BIG Tech social media companies are refusing to air this trailer as a paid ad, it needs to be disseminated for free. This is the assignment. 0104
Reposted by Matt McGowanDeva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Meanwhile the real miraculous future tech is solar & mRNA vaccines: preserving the planet and curing cancer. But we’re supposed to hand everything over to malevolent peeping toms and resource oubliettes for an ill defined ‘pay no attention to the man behind the curtain’ progress. It isn’t rational. 5843256
Reposted by Matt McGowantamara nopper @tamaranopper.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Like Octavia E. Butler said, “We don’t have to wait for anything at all. What we have to do is start.” “Do the thing and you will have the power.” 0886290
Reposted by Matt McGowanJason Kint @kint.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Eye popping. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft. Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1 4253422317
Reposted by Matt McGowanAndy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 16/09/2026One side of this war has an elected legislature but it doesn't really have any power compared to the supreme leader and the council of guardian jurists, and the other is Iran. 7519130
Reposted by Matt McGowanTaniel @taniel.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Important: the USPS rule that SCOTUS blocked tonight was Trump’s big plan to control and restrict mail voting. But a separate policy remains in place: USPS is no longer postmarking mail as soon it gets it, which is hugely important for deadlines. So people must mail back with plenty of time.boltsmag.orgIn an Intense Election Year, New Post Office Rules Could Trip Up Voter Registration - BoltsA change in how mail is postmarked could lead some voters to miss key deadlines, including voter registration. Advocates worry the people most affected will be those already facing voting barriers. 6520041027
Reposted by Matt McGowanVox ☕🍂📖🎃 @pickupthevoxophone.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Cheers to everyone that makes video games, writes books, and creates art right now. You're doing everyone around you a great service, offering a small reprieve from the noise of the world today. You're making things worth experiencing. 334195
Reposted by Matt McGowanCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 13/09/2026“.. NYT asked a bunch of ten year olds what life will be like in 2050.” (via @shashj.bsky.social) 1322587504
Reposted by Matt McGowanLeah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 14/09/2026PSA: No Kings is a coalition, not an org, and it does not do fundraising appeals for itself. Partner orgs raise money for costs we're incurring to put it on. But if you get a text from "NO KINGS" or a PAC you've never heard of before asking for $ that is a scam and you should block/shame away. 41006422
Reposted by Matt McGowanGreg Pak @gregpak.net · 13/09/2026Hey, @mayor.nyc.gov @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social, thank you for the PARTIAL ban on "A.i." in the public schools! But let's please CLOSE these big LOOPHOLES in the policy that still allow "A.i." to be inflicted on kids! cc @aimoratoriumnyc.bsky.social 223185
Reposted by Matt McGowanUna Mullally @unamullally.bsky.social · 12/09/2026“Trump is a bully and a braggart, a self-confessed sexual predator and a purveyor of racial slurs... Most people would not welcome such a man into their home, and the majority of Irish people will not welcome this visit.” Irish Times editorial on Trump in Ireland.irishtimes.comThe Irish Times view on Trump’s visit: a less than welcome guestMost people would not welcome such a man into their home but political leaders must make a different calculation 22942337
Reposted by Matt McGowanRiker Googling @rikergoogling.bsky.social · 11/09/2026ferengi spam unsubscribe laws 218327
Reposted by Matt McGowanJane @localnotail.bsky.social · 10/09/2026"All the while he loved the People just as much as he feared and detested Persons, and he planned to do something historic. Certainly! He would give each family that five thousand dollars a year just as soon now as he could arrange it". [Sinclair Lewis - It Can't Happen Here] 17672281
Reposted by Matt McGowanscwiba @scwiba.bsky.social · 11/09/2026This man won his primary by 30 points. 4590011878
Reposted by Matt McGowanWilliam Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 09/09/2026[Enter Quince the carpenter and Snug the joiner and Bottom the weaver and Flute the bellows-mender and Snout the tinker and Starveling the tailor.] 441451
Reposted by Matt McGowanTim Maughan @timmaughan.bsky.social · 09/09/2026AI company: *points gun at your head* AI company: you should be really worried about this gun im pointing at your head. it’s bigger than the last one i pointed at your head. you’re lucky it’s me pointing it and not china. now give me money so i can make an even bigger gun to point at your head 312731
Reposted by Matt McGowanBlaise Ulysse Bernard Collins @wittywebhandle.bsky.social · 08/09/202625 Years Ago Today: Perfection was achieved. 616733
Reposted by Matt McGowanMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 07/09/2026pay living wages for all workers. tax the shit out of billionaires. happy labor day. 3645851157
Reposted by Matt McGowanRobert McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 07/09/2026This scraper account posts other people’s stuff without credit. They grudgingly post a separate attribution after the fact, if enough people call them out. Any time an account says “dm me if you own the original,” just put them on the block list. Don’t let these accounts get a foothold here. 32795284
Reposted by Matt McGowanA.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 06/09/2026"Why should my tax dollars go to giving houses to people who can't afford them?" Why should MY tax dollars should go to satisfying your desire to see desperate people living desperate lives? I'd rather save money and solve the problem, rather than spend money to exacerbate it. 152032403
Reposted by Matt McGowanBrian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Occasional reminder that there is an ICC arrest warrant against Putin for war crimes in connection with the mass abduction of Ukrainian children. 593023941
Reposted by Matt McGowanTristan Grayford @tristangrayford.scot · 05/09/2026The fascists arrived at Dover before 7am. It has been four hours. In that time the Met would have swarmed and dragged off at least three nuns and a man in a wheelchair for holding up signs peacefully on the side of the road. Or broken in a Quaker House to arrest people planning a stop oil protest. 111626
Reposted by Matt McGowanPrisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 03/09/2026I can't believe that the response being offered to the fascists trying to steal an election is that people have to turn out in historic numbers to prevent this. Do people not hear how bonkers this sounds??? 621863451
Reposted by Matt McGowangamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 04/09/2026found this in the top posts and it succeeds in being very funny while also inducing a borderline homicidal rage 14059931621
Reposted by Matt McGowanBeth Cato @bethcato.bsky.social · 03/09/2026This is it. The best AI spammer name of all time. I present to you… Treasure Dicknatty. 414140
Reposted by Matt McGowanLila Byock @lbyock.bsky.social · 03/09/2026This comes on the same day that @mayor.nyc.gov announced a 1-yr moratorium on AI use in NYC elementary & middle schools, following a tireless campaign by the heroes in @aimoratoriumnyc.bsky.social. It’s not perfect, but it’s a good start. 213824
Reposted by Matt McGowanLila Byock @lbyock.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Today, America’s two largest school districts sent a message to the rest of the country that AI in schools is far from inevitable. When we organize and fight back, we win. 337291
Reposted by Matt McGowanKylie Eleison @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Well yeah she's an adult 5104601570
Reposted by Matt McGowanAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 28/08/2026We are a broken nation. Hundreds of thousands of Haitians were living and working legally, paying taxes, and contributing. Haiti remains wholly unsafe. But Trump hates Haitians, and the White House wanted videos of Black people in chains, so they stripped them of status and turned on the cameras. 36099453826
Reposted by Matt McGowanKaren K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 27/08/2026This gallery of ICE crop/seed art at this year's Minnesota State Fair is incredible, especially the one based on Pablo Picasso's Guernica by Jennifer Nelson, which features the last words of Alex Pretti and Renee Good in Morse code: www.cropart.com/Resist.pdf 222204686
Reposted by Matt McGowanDr. Hilary Agro, PhD 🍄 @hilaryagro.com · 27/08/2026Joke's on them it's not actually Lake Ontario either it's Niigani-gichigami 05716
Reposted by Matt McGowanRichard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Good morning from Frank McCourt and his thoughts on literature. 2490113
Reposted by Matt McGowanGreg Pak @gregpak.net · 26/08/2026Hey, @mayor.nyc.gov, did you see the study of 26,000 kids that showed "A.i." use causing a DECREASE in exam scores of up to 24 POINTS? Don't leave our kids behind by pushing "A.i." on them! Please declare a 2 year moratorium on "A.i." in the public schools NOW! cc @aimoratoriumnyc.bsky.social 101768390
Reposted by Matt McGowanBill Amend @billamend.bsky.social · 25/08/2026I feel like the kids who did poorly in science and history class are trying to get revenge on the kids who did well at science and history class and now we’re all going to die 20492131761
Reposted by Matt McGowanmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 24/08/2026if you're looking for the cause of declining good union manufacturing jobs over the last 50 years, domestic competition from right-to-work sunbelt states is a much bigger deal than foreign competition from free trade. 382282377
Reposted by Matt McGowanKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Instead of spending money on the tech that steals our work, makes our students dumber and serves no purpose at all, they could instead use it to hire more actual instructors. 211010248
Reposted by Matt McGowanI Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 23/08/2026Rolling out “academic freedom” as a rallying cry now, after the CRT panic led to a bunch of Black scholars and theory to be literally banned from classrooms, shit is too rich lol 313268679
Reposted by Matt McGowanGreg Pak @gregpak.net · 22/08/2026No, I'm not giving money to JK Rowling. No, I'm not going to Mel Gibson movies. No, I'm not posting on X. No, I'm not subscribing to Substacks. No, I'm not donating to the Republican Party. And no, I'm not using Chat Fucking GPT. 134159
Reposted by Matt McGowanC. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Tom Savini is a fucking legend. And he lost everything. His home. His beloved pets. His life's work - work that served as the foundation of the horror we hold most dear. There isn't the character count to list his legacy here. If you can, please consider donating. www.gofundme.com/f/support-to...gofundme.comDonate to Support Tom Savini After House Fire, organized by Jason BakerTom Savini, special makeup effects legend, is facing a heartbreaking loss after Tom’s … Jason Baker needs your support for Support Tom Savini After House Fire 5744513577
Reposted by Matt McGowangamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 18/08/2026In the time it took me to download and post this video, Jeff Bezos "made" $300,000. 31404181
![Screenshot from IT CAN'T HAPPEN HERE by Sinclair Lewis, a novel set in a fictionalized version of the 1930s United States, it follows an American politician, Berzelius "Buzz" Windrip, who quickly rises to power to become the country's first outright dictator (in allusion to Adolf Hitler's rise to power in Nazi Germany)]
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the duties of despotism along with his shoes and his fine new coat. He no longer went out racketing. His cabinet begged him not to clown in barrooms and lodge entertain-ments; it was not dignified, and it was dangerous to be too near to strangers.
So he played poker with his bodyguard, late at night, and at such times drank too much, and he cursed them and glared with bulging eyes whenever he lost, which, for all the good-will of his guards about letting him win, had to be often, because he pinched their salaries badly and locked up the spoons. He had become as unbouncing and unbuzz-ing a Buzz as might be, and he did not know it.
All the while he loved the People just as much as he feared and detested Persons, and he planned to do some-thing historic. Certainly! He would give each family that five thousand dollars a year just as soon now as he could arrange it.
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