Reposted by Matt McGowanBookshop.org @bookshop.org · 06/10/2026Anti-Prime Day starts…NOW! 🥳 Today through midnight on 10/7, enjoy free shipping site-wide, all while supporting local, independent bookstores. 2854373351
Reposted by Matt McGowanTaniel @taniel.bsky.social · 06/10/2026*so important*: if you’re voting by mail, assume the USPS will delay because it’s its policy. You can: —put it in drop box —go to counter to watch them postmark in front of you —if you’re dropping it in a mailbox, do it VERY EARLY. 6222991691
Reposted by Matt McGowanceej @ceej.online · 04/10/2026“how do we win back trump voters in 2026” we don’t. we create an environment where admitting to voting for trump is so socially embarrassing as to render them completely inert. you don’t “win back” trump voters. you demoralize them into staying home. you make it a dunce cap 152108322342
Reposted by Matt McGowanTom the Dancing Bug, by Ruben Bolling @rubenbolling.bsky.social · 04/10/2026EVEN IF YOU THINK YOU’RE REGISTERED, check to make sure. Trumpists are purging the rolls. www.vote.org Deadline to register is TODAY in Alaska, Rhode Island, South Carolina. And MONDAY in Arizona, Arkansas Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Ohio, Tennessee, and TEXAS!vote.org 24929
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
Matt McGowan @msmcgowan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026“Burnt in his Bed by a Candle in St. Giles at Cripplegate” is quite something. 000
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. 5842256
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.” 0887290
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 4253902351
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. 7522131
Matt McGowan @msmcgowan.bsky.social · 15/09/2026What a great description/title is “The Magical Head of Zohar”! 020
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. 6520021027
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. 334095
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) 1312588503
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 223184
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 218527
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] 17672282
Reposted by Matt McGowanscwiba @scwiba.bsky.social · 11/09/2026This man won his primary by 30 points. 4590041880
Matt McGowan @msmcgowan.bsky.social · 10/09/2026For me, this wins Self Reflection of the Day. 🏆 🎉 110
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 312630
Reposted by Matt McGowanBlaise Boo-lysse 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. 3545811156
Matt McGowan @msmcgowan.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Comrade, you are working off so much bad karma in this lifetime…. Holy shit. 110
Reposted by Matt McGowanRobert "The Bobby Yaga" 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. 152030403
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. 583026943
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??? 621861451
Reposted by Matt McGowangamera obscura october edition @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. 414039
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 McGowanInnsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Well yeah she's an adult 5104561569
![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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