J.T. from Oakland @oaklandjt.myatproto.social · 10hGODDAMN, McSweeney's is meeting the moment here. 16212
J.T. from Oakland @oaklandjt.myatproto.social · 10h"Unsafe Men don't listen to women ... it has to be you." Whole thread is worth a read, but this is the bottom line. It has to be you because there's no one else. 000
Reposted by J.T. from OaklandHannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 22hyou will encounter more opportunities in life to change the batteries on a smoke alarm than you will to run into a burning building and no one gives a shit you changed those batteries but it is still very important and why are you waiting on a burning building, know what i’m saying, it’s a metaphor 03224675
Reposted by J.T. from OaklandNicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 29/09/2026You know, researchers since the 1980s have found that men can tell when they don’t have consent. They just choose to continue anyway because they prioritize consent as less important than power, domination, and sexual gratification. 223549
J.T. from Oakland @oaklandjt.myatproto.social · 13hReally enjoying Tupo (playtupo.com) in my daily game rotation. As the developer says, the best day to start is Monday. The second best day is today.playtupo.comBonus puzzle · TupoOne of this week’s extra puzzles, one per difficulty, to play just for fun. 021
Reposted by J.T. from OaklandKate Elliott @kateelliottsff.bsky.social · 12/09/2026I am not first and will be far from the last to say this: I have purchased so many books because I saw them recommended or publicized here on bsky. I cannot urge you all enough to KEEP TALKING ABOUT BOOKS. I know it's easier to talk up someone else's book, but this also means you, the shy author. 762162636
Reposted by J.T. from OaklandPhil Sturgeon 🌳🚵⚓️ @philsturgeon.com · 26/09/2026This is exactly how you should run a charity. 1286
Reposted by J.T. from OaklandCoach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 22/09/2026HOLY SHIT @mayor.lacity.gov is running ads now saying she stood up to ICE and as a parent who is on a phone chain at a school where ICE was terrorizing parents and showing up AT GRADUATION to snag people I say FUCK YOU FUUUUUCK YOUUUU 740886
Reposted by J.T. from OaklandFiyah 💜 Angelou 🪮 🏁 @fiyahangelou.blacksky.app · 22/09/2026Joshua Doss on the absurdity of the being Black in America IG @doss.discourse 216694
J.T. from Oakland @oaklandjt.myatproto.social · 22/09/2026Without looking, I'm guessing either Bret Stephens or David Brooks has a new column up. How'd I do? 100
Reposted by J.T. from OaklandTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 19/09/2026When the powerful playact powerlessness it is always a ploy to avoid accountability. 91318412
J.T. from Oakland @oaklandjt.myatproto.social · 21/09/2026As I get older and my brain gets mushier, I wonder how much of the dumbfuckery of Gen X and earlier generations is from growing up playing tackle football on concrete. Does everyone over 40 have CTE? 000
Reposted by J.T. from OaklandNome @nome.bsky.social · 18/09/2026You do not need to explain, to Queer or Black or Disabled people in America, that you can't always have a perfect thing. That is not news to us. You are not providing new information. It is the height of arrogance to assume that's not already part of our understanding of the world. 21121215
J.T. from Oakland @oaklandjt.myatproto.social · 15/09/2026If he starts comparing himself to Sirhan Sirhan, cabinet meetings could get really interesting. (This joke is in really bad taste if you're old enough to get it.) 000
Reposted by J.T. from OaklandWRMS Traffic & Weather Reporter on the 2’s @carnegro.blacksky.app · 13/09/2026I missed FAMU honoring Dolly Parton at Miami Friday night. 241919578
Reposted by J.T. from OaklandDr Paul Williams @drpwilliams.bsky.social · 13/09/2026He heard Republicans in Ireland want to have a unified Ireland. I don’t think he knows who the Irish Republicans are 121
J.T. from Oakland @oaklandjt.myatproto.social · 13/09/2026When you've been a Cal fan since the 1980s, it does something to you. 110
J.T. from Oakland @oaklandjt.myatproto.social · 12/09/2026I love my trans friends and support each of you however you decide to vote this year. 000
Reposted by J.T. from OaklandPearly Sweetcake @sugarblind.bsky.social · 12/09/2026(i read Daggerbound by @tkingfisher.com and once again my brain has changed irreparably) 427532
J.T. from Oakland @oaklandjt.myatproto.social · 11/09/2026Oakland PD is on year 23 of federal oversight and it's going great. oaklandside.org/2026/05/27/o...oaklandside.orgOakland police on track to exit federal oversight by SeptemberA federal judge told city leaders OPD has made significant progress in completing court-ordered reforms, but more work remains. 000
Reposted by J.T. from OaklandDr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 11/09/2026"When a bridge collapses, you don’t analyze whether the bridge was ethical or sentient or why it decided to collapse. You ask, who built this bridge to be so flimsy? There are permits you have to acquire [& supposed] tests. When you ask about the bridge collapsing itself, you’ve lost the thread" 6760329
J.T. from Oakland @oaklandjt.myatproto.social · 09/09/2026If you're in Oakland (or nearby) and think you smell smoke, you're right. Mask up if you have to be outside. 021
Reposted by J.T. from Oaklandvivi5cents @vivi5cents.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Grown men having fun in public. It’s so wholesome and I love it—for them and us. 🤣🤣🤣🤣 022
Reposted by J.T. from OaklandGoodnews @goodnews.computer · 04/09/2026Take a break from being depressed that everything you love is being destroyed by slop for a moment and let me tell you about the beautiful symbiotic relationship between graffiti writers, train yard workers, and model train enthusiasts. 895483547
Reposted by J.T. from OaklandEvan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe.techdirt.comHackers Had A Live Feed Of Every ID This Verification Company Scanned. For Over A Year.From the very beginning of this recent obsession with identifying everyone online (yes, they like to call it "age" verification, but it always ends up as identity verification), we've been pointing out that it was a huge privacy nightmare waiting to happen. Or maybe it wasn't waiting. Maybe it was already happening. This week a... 80148267731
J.T. from Oakland @oaklandjt.myatproto.social · 05/09/2026Had this stuck in my head today - sharing both because that sometimes makes the earworm go away and mostly because everyone needs to know it. 000
Reposted by J.T. from OaklandJaime Omar Yassin [TNH] @hyphyrepublic.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Secure Justice has been keeping track of Flock cancellations [& non renewals, suspensions] throughout the country. The numbers have skyrocketed in the past two months. The graph is vertical 096
Reposted by J.T. from OaklandCK DexterHaven 🍂🍁🍂 @ckshowalter.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Use extreme caution when asking women in your life about the case. At The core is a discussion regarding untreated post partum depression. For a lot of women there’s a “there but for the grace” vibe. 55511
Reposted by J.T. from OaklandKingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 04/09/2026Oh hey, what has two daggers, a giant pillbug, and is #9 on the NYT bestseller list? BECAUSE ALL YOU GLORIOUS HUMAN WEIRDOS BOUGHT IT?!? www.nytimes.com/books/best-s...nytimes.comHardcover Fiction Books - Best Sellers - Books - The New York TimesThe New York Times Best Sellers are up-to-date and authoritative lists of the most popular books in the United States, based on sales in the past week, including fiction, non-fiction, paperbacks, chil... 851499124
J.T. from Oakland @oaklandjt.myatproto.social · 04/09/2026I'm less impressed with the dialect quiz pinpointing my home town when one of the questions is effectively "Are you from the Bay Area?" 000
J.T. from Oakland @oaklandjt.myatproto.social · 04/09/2026THIS is the kind of vitriol that makes me a happy Golden Bear. "UCLA sold their soul, sold out Pac-12 football, and allied themselves with the craven greed monsters at USC just to finish 13th in an 18 team conference." writeforcalifornia.com/p/pregame-ha...writeforcalifornia.comPregame hate: Previewing Dollar Store USCUCLA destroyed west coast football to become a crappier version of everything their fans claim to hate 000
J.T. from Oakland @oaklandjt.myatproto.social · 03/09/2026Now that we're not playing Outlier anymore, what are we playing? Post your daily games: WordPeaks (wordpeaks.com) is a wordle type game with a fun twist 110
Reposted by J.T. from OaklandElizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 31/08/2026The shooting at a Tucson gay bar last night that left 3 men dead has been confirmed as a hate crime by Mayor Romero. The killer was found with addresses of “multiple LGBTQ+ friendly venues”. To the friends and families of the victims and to the LGBTQ+ community, I send my deepest sympathy. 15810275
Reposted by J.T. from OaklandBill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Republicans have made their election strategy very clear: 1) Islamophobia 2) transphobia 3) blatant lying 4) cheating / suppressing votes 5) throwing endless dark + corporate $$ at all the above When I see Democrats HELPING them on 1 & 2 - or barely mentioning the rest - I want to break bones. 233023620
Reposted by J.T. from OaklandMatt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 01/09/2026This is pretty fucking wild. I had assumed in a worst case scenario he would target blue zip codes and toss ballots based on technicalities but this is even worse than I imagined. 34995894679
Reposted by J.T. from OaklandMelissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 31/08/2026feels like it’s inevitable these days that every tool you rely on is one garbage founder or funder away from their app’s version of this postalilleybrinker.com1Password Supports the Ethnic Cleansing of Europe — Andrew Lilley Brinker1Password has committed $300,000 to Omarchy. This is unacceptable and must be rescinded. 10700284
Reposted by J.T. from OaklandAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 01/09/2026It's like a parody, but it's deadly serious; the Commerce Department (which includes Census, NOAA, and others) has outright deleted "don't alter or suppress scientific findings for political reasons" from its scientific integrity rules. Seriously. 4331331633
Reposted by J.T. from OaklandMyles Lewando @codemacabre.com · 30/08/2026"…when I hear a tech person say that something's 'just a tool', I can't help but read it as an unwillingness to take responsibility, as an industry, for what we put into the world and for what we do to ourselves." An excellent read by @iris-meredith.bsky.social. deadsimpletech.com/blog/no-such...deadsimpletech.comThere's no such thing as Just a Tool | deadSimpleTechHeidegger thinks about tools like so: a tool is something (a thing that has being in the Heideggerian sense, not necessarily an object) that represents an extension of human capabilities in some way. ... 042
Reposted by J.T. from Oaklandsmamuel @radiopeep.bsky.social · 30/08/2026to celebrate @tkingfisher.com’s Daggerbound releasing I finished a drawing of Halla I’ve been working on for a bit!! everyone needs to go read swordheart it’ll change your life. see i can make more than zale memes i swear 323024
Reposted by J.T. from OaklandK.C. Clyburn, Author @kccomplainsalot.blacksky.app · 30/08/2026the vagueness is purposeful. to acknowledge that "woke" has a meaning that was invented by Black people is to admit that "anti-Wokeness" is really just anti-Blackness, and doing that dismantles and exposes arguments about "wokeness run amuck" for what they are 1376
Reposted by J.T. from Oakland😸 Hugo the pink cat 😸 @hugothepinkcat.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Y'all know this is them laying ground for the next moral panic now that their work is done with trans women. DO NOW TALK WITH THEM. DO NOT ACCEPT INTERVIEWS. TELL THEM TO FUCK OFF. SMACK ANY FURRY YOU KNOW WHO PLANS TO AGREE TO BE INTERVIEWED. 49334
Reposted by J.T. from OaklandDrex @drex.dev · 28/08/2026I'm all for throwing your body on the gears to stop the machine but have you considered throwing the bodies of the people who built the machine on it? 19110
Reposted by J.T. from OaklandCourtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 28/08/2026Centrists cannot bring people on the left "back in line." They have to quit it with this rhetoric. If they treat people on the left as a greater enemy than Trump, the thing that is going to happen is that people on the left will fucking fight them tooth and nail. Include me in that number. 8745150
J.T. from Oakland @oaklandjt.myatproto.social · 28/08/2026I may have been In A Mood when I ordered t-shirts last week. 010
Reposted by J.T. from OaklandMisterJayEm @misterjayem.bsky.social · 27/08/2026"Founded and led by Andrea J. Ritchie and Mariame Kaba." 'nuff said. 1216