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Quibble While Rome Burns @nimi0us.blacksky.app · 1h

You could also put it in a new container but like...come on

Quibble While Rome Burns @nimi0us.blacksky.app · 1h

We are REALLY at "Fage changed the tops to their yogurt containers to a cheaper one that doesn't seal" levels of recession, huh 😭 [Keep your old tops, btw! They still fit and seal just fine. The new ones are too weak to keep on with any movement.]

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imp >:D 🛹 @impswrld.xyz · 3h

"Trans and gender-diverse people are routinely told that what they are is new — a sudden emergence, a recent contagion. In South Africa, this claim circulates with increasing force: In the surge of Christian fundamentalist organizing against trans rights..."

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Quibble While Rome Burns @nimi0us.blacksky.app · 3h

And I'm here to tell your dizzy ass that words change when people use them in different contexts consistently enough. If your mad the French origin of picnic was bastardized into slang referring to lynching Black folk for a lunch outing, take that shit up with white people.

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grimm 🎃 @mugrimm.bsky.social · 19h

Reminder this investigation was started under Biden to indulge the exceptional islamophobia his administration had and was absolutely about her advocacy for Palestinian rights. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/u...

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Under Biden Administration, Justice Dept. Began Examining Ilhan Omar’s Finances

The inquiry, initiated by the U.S. attorney’s office in Washington, appears to have stalled for lack of evidence.

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Quibble While Rome Burns @nimi0us.blacksky.app · 6h

I remember watching that movie for the first time forever ago and just ❓❓❓❓❓ at that part lol

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Quibble While Rome Burns @nimi0us.blacksky.app · 6h

I stopped being shocked when I realized that we've already been livestreaming executions this whole time through every act of police brutality caught on camera - we just didn't realize that they were modern day picnics for some. White folk even kept the justifications for murder after part...

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Quibble While Rome Burns @nimi0us.blacksky.app · 7h

I wish I could agree but, truth be told, the word picnic exists as it is for a reason. If white folk can have outings whose whole purpose is to watch Black folk get lynched up until a few decades ago, they can would support a livestreamed execution and already have with our murders by police.

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 7h

ai is a rhetorical technology. don't ask what it's supposed to do, ask what it's supposed to justify

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Dean Spade @deanspade.bsky.social · 16h

October 20, 7pm at Estelitas Library in Beacon Hill, Ashanti Alston in conversation with @dnbrgr.bsky.social about Ashanti’s new book from @akpress.org, Anarchist Panther. 2901 17th Ave S, Seattle. Wear a mask! Grateful to Masc Block Seattle for providing masks.

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Writer of “Rape Apologists Must Die!” @alexpagliuca.bsky.social · 7h

Surpised the Letterboxd score for this isn’t higher. I thought it was captivating, and striking in its visual beauty. Reminds me a bit of Brahm Stoker’s Dracula, in that I don’t care that it’s over the top in some ways, because that’s part of why it works. Lowery’s something else. boxd.it/FILw

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Mother Mary (2026)

Long-buried wounds rise to the surface when iconic pop star Mother Mary reunites with her estranged best friend and former costume designer Sam Anselm on the eve of her comeback performance.

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Frost || 3D Models & Reviews @3dfrost.bsky.social · 12h

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Quibble While Rome Burns @nimi0us.blacksky.app · 20h

If I called any other country fascist for its mass kyriarchal shootings, authoritarianism, forced assimilation, colonialism, segregation, abuse, rigid control, propaganda over facts, concentration camps, enslaved prisoners, and eugenicism, no one would blink. America though? Folks STILL reject this.

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Quibble While Rome Burns @nimi0us.blacksky.app · 20h

Essentially, my point is that fascism didn't really need a clearer definition, we needed people - primarily white people in America - to accept that America is fascist, has been fascist since it's creation, and that fascism is a baked in default to whiteness that it cannot survive without.

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Quibble While Rome Burns @nimi0us.blacksky.app · 20h

Project 2020's release was more than enough clarity on what fascist violence is and how it'll arrive, yet folks still struggled with defining fascism with clarity. That failure would be strange, but America's fascism has never been defined as fascist despite aligning with even defanged definitions.

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Quibble While Rome Burns @nimi0us.blacksky.app · 20h

Sure! What I mean is that the violent exclusion of white supremacy & cisheteropatriarchy as part of fascism, regardless of politic, is not a universally shared responsibility but one that must be placed at the feet of those in/with power, given they benefit from it's debated public definition.

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Quibble While Rome Burns @nimi0us.blacksky.app · 11/10/2026

Something I keep thinking about is how white supremacists use the reality that whiteness is a fascist identity by insisting that BIPOC took away their culture, when the reality is that the creation of whiteness itself did that. And the only way out is ending whiteness as a concept.

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Caroline Litman @alicemydaughter.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Your regular reminder that my daughter Alice’s death wasn’t counted in Appleby’s report, despite her meeting all the criteria. And when I emailed the Tavistock adult GIC to inform them they could take Alice off the waitlist, because she’d died by suicide, they never replied. It’s a disgrace.

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Quibble While Rome Burns @nimi0us.blacksky.app · 11/10/2026

After being forcibly institutionalized ONCE for having a rational reaction to abuse that just went wrong? Yea I honestly just tell them I'm fine, most of my struggles are physical symptoms, and won't go into detail unless meds aren't working The ward is too ass to risk again, esp right now

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Quibble While Rome Burns @nimi0us.blacksky.app · 11/10/2026

I'm still not sure now to convey that, as a survivor of suicide, I'm TECHNICALLY in the best mental health I have been ever. I'm also stressed, anxious, and depressed as a radial background noise to life. Just...a lot less than before, given that I have meds, coping tools, and more autonomy now.

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Quibble While Rome Burns @nimi0us.blacksky.app · 11/10/2026

I genuinely don't know how to answer that or any questions on depression and anxiety anymore Like...are we going by my standard metrics, adjusted metrics for the horrors going on, or metrics based in delusion about reality that will blame me for my emotional reactions to it? WHO KNOWS

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Quibble While Rome Burns @nimi0us.blacksky.app · 11/10/2026

What's even the point of paying so much, just to not even be able to use entire programs everybody else can? Apple is so notorious for that alone that there's emulators android has had for forever that their just getting. The supposed tech benefits seem silly if they can't be fully used.

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Quibble While Rome Burns @nimi0us.blacksky.app · 11/10/2026

Probably ironic, but kinda from the same source, but I HATE the over simplification of Apple products - a thing that's bleeding over into all tech as a way of removing folks ownership, autonomy, and personal privacy they should have with their devices

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Quibble While Rome Burns @nimi0us.blacksky.app · 11/10/2026

I've walked away from potentially perfectly good programs that, on the surface, seem exceptionally simple But the folks who developed it decided it MUST be an ecosystem requiring multiple novels to explain That just makes me think it's either badly built or a potential security risk

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Quibble While Rome Burns @nimi0us.blacksky.app · 11/10/2026

The Tech/Business tendency to make everything overly complicated for the sake of selling you tutorials on things they created, all while those tutorials are increasingly made with AI, just makes me immediately not want to use whatever it is

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Quibble While Rome Burns @nimi0us.blacksky.app · 11/10/2026

It has some of the worst pay to win shit I've heard of, idk why CoD fans still bother atp. Like it just feels openly disrespectful.

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Quibble While Rome Burns @nimi0us.blacksky.app · 11/10/2026

FUCKING THANK YOU!!! I remember having a whole ass marathon of all the movies before the latest remake and the shit made me SO MAD. Tf we do?! Take that up with them! The remake really corrected all that shit frfr, it's a classic and I kinda love how he feels like a protective ancestor there

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Post Punk-y Brewster @krismeana.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

This is why Musk doesn't mind that that Twitter revenue is down 59% (or Ellison w/ CBS). He's more than making up for that loss via Twitter's political effects--ingratiating to Trump, fomenting racist panics, etc--which help SpaceX and xAI get favorable public contracts and regulatory treatment

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

These different incentives from standalone media owners vs. "common owners" like Benioff is the subject of one of my working papers www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/07aux...

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Piece came out at USAToday Why? Because USAToday owners (Gannett) only own media companies, so they have an incentive to attract an audience & advertisers Tech elites like Bezos, Ellisons, Musk, & Benioff use their media firm to cozy to Trump, not to make profit www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

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DEI initiatives didn't cost companies. Just the opposite. | Opinion

Firms that kept DEI, whether due to executive decisions or shareholder pressure, performed as well in the stock market as those that rolled it back.

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Quick story. My op-ed on how corporations that kept their DEI programs performed just as well financially was accepted & factchecked at TIME Magazine. Just needed "pro forma review by the legal department." Suddenly the piece is spiked Why? Benioff owns TIME and wants to ingratiate himself to Trump

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 11/10/2026

Sometimes people push back when I say that staying on Twitter/X breaks your brain & makes you lose touch with reality. Here's a post from the guy who led product at X when they shipped their "create CSAM" feature, with a reply from a psychotic dude who's been posting about me for 14 years straight.

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Quibble While Rome Burns @nimi0us.blacksky.app · 11/10/2026

They know we don't have the hours or labor to match a nonexistent force they created that we're ingrained to still see as valid So why are we trying to burn ourselves out to match that? AUTOMATE THAT SHIT

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Quibble While Rome Burns @nimi0us.blacksky.app · 11/10/2026

You can't REALLY automate it But we sure as FUCK can automate a central branch of our efforts, keeping folk safe to do other shit, when we're losing our ability to be heard and help our communities cause they genuinely believe fascists are that plentiful in comparison to us due to bots/AI

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Quibble While Rome Burns @nimi0us.blacksky.app · 11/10/2026

When fascists are falsely bolstering their numbers and spreading their words through bots to manipulate our biological ingrained response to follow the crowd All while suppressing, killing, and ruining the lives of leftists to maintain power Why not automate the revolution?

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Quibble While Rome Burns @nimi0us.blacksky.app · 11/10/2026

Yal will demand moral perfection from us while genuinely not even demanding the barest minimum from those with the power to actually harm you and yours at scale If we can't get a few leftists running bots to act right, how are we supposed to take on governments??? Be fucking for real

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Quibble While Rome Burns @nimi0us.blacksky.app · 11/10/2026

Only in a warped moral core keen for compliance could the idea of mass spread of information and facts to combat consistent misinformation, abuse, and propaganda be positioned as morally bankrupt unfair tactics. And, my god, I do NOT want to hear shit about "what if the person running it does-"

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Quibble While Rome Burns @nimi0us.blacksky.app · 11/10/2026

Like fascists, we don't have the numbers. Unlike fascists, we have a concept of morality. Unfortunately, that concept of morality has ALSO been influenced by fascists in ways that make us pick up less effective tactics - sacrificing actual people where we don't need to - on the basis of ethics.

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Quibble While Rome Burns @nimi0us.blacksky.app · 11/10/2026

As shady as it could've been? I still stand by the idea that leftists - if they wanted to actually fucking win this shit for once - would've BEEN used bots to automate spread of the knowledge we need at a scale to combat the depravity of the ruling class and governments in our countries.

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Quibble While Rome Burns @nimi0us.blacksky.app · 11/10/2026

There's just not nearly enough of a strong response to the ways Social Media has amplified the violent goals of fascists in society. Not when they've murdered, harmed, and disabled billions through social engineering on politics, diseases, climate change, and even reality itself.

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Quibble While Rome Burns @nimi0us.blacksky.app · 11/10/2026

When not following the crowd is biologically ingrained in us to be deadly, with society reinforcing that ingrained belief through social exclusion from opportunities weld need for survival, social connections, and even basic respect for our humanity, it's that much easier to force compliance.

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Quibble While Rome Burns @nimi0us.blacksky.app · 11/10/2026

Sure the experts are saying otherwise, but all it takes is removing respect for their knowledge, refusing to give them positions of authority, suppression of speech, and enough people lying to us for our brain to go "the crowd says otherwise and, for survival, I must follow the crowd."

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Quibble While Rome Burns @nimi0us.blacksky.app · 11/10/2026

The primary difference now, from back then, is that they know the facts are available so it's that much harder to gaslight people through just making sure the truth isn't available. So what do they do? They created digital homunculi spreading nonsense on such a scale that we'd believe it's true.

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Quibble While Rome Burns @nimi0us.blacksky.app · 11/10/2026

This isn't the first time white supremacist colonialists, the ruling class, and capitalists have used pandemics to influence people towards fascism and take away people's rights: the same happened with the Spanish Flu of the 20s, followed by multiple World Wars & Fascist Authoritarian leadership.

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Quibble While Rome Burns @nimi0us.blacksky.app · 11/10/2026

The only folk less susceptible to social pressure backed by unreasonable beliefs/demands are largely neurodivergent folk, specifically autistic folk for sure. With covid caution being a necessity for many disabled folk, the propaganda against precaution is eugenicist by default.

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Quibble While Rome Burns @nimi0us.blacksky.app · 11/10/2026

This whole thread is why I genuinely think social media companies, primarily their owners, deserve to go through Nuremberg Trial type shit: they know humanity is biologically wired to follow the crowd yet still allowed bots/AI to spread misinformation and propaganda on covid & politics without stop.

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Dr Noor Bari @njbbari3.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I am still annoyed. The vast majority of information people get about disease prevention is from SoMe which is infested and crawling with misinformation accounts… and so people form their opinions based on mush… and

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