Reposted by @pdxtonola.bsky.socialGabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.blacksky.app · 10/10/2026People are discussing how Halloween candy is so terrible these days. A reminder that alot of the candy we eat is made with women’s prison labor. Russell Stover’s factory in Kansas busses in 150 women a day via a convict leasing program to staff their candy factory. 461075684
Reposted by @pdxtonola.bsky.socialI Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 11/10/2026We live in a surveillance state which spends an order of magnitude more on policing than any other country, how is the most powerful people in the country still feel unprotected? Why do you think that it? 17789178
Reposted by @pdxtonola.bsky.socialProPublica @propublica.org · 07/10/2026NEW: A 26-year-old man has become the de facto advocate of last resort for families who are homeless in Arizona’s most populous county. As ProPublica’s @nicolesantacruz.bsky.social reports, it’s a scene that’s “both heartening and disconcerting.”propublica.orgHomeless Shelters Around Phoenix Are Full. His Phone Is the Unofficial Hotline for Struggling Families.Austin Davis, 26, has become a lifeline for some homeless families in the Phoenix area who’d otherwise wait months for shelter. His work has highlighted how the system to care for local families who a... 15850377
Reposted by @pdxtonola.bsky.socialJames O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 07/10/2026Holy shit. Someone has decompiled the Adobe suite, rebuilt it in Rust and released it as open source. Either all software is dead or the US copyright laws are about to receive an update. getartcraft.com/appsgetartcraft.comCrafting Apps: open-source creative toolsImage editing, vector illustration, video, photography, PDFs, motion graphics and page layout: seven native, open-source apps from the ArtCraft team, built in Rust and free to use. 20144331248
pdxtonola.bsky.social @pdxtonola.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Blockchain vibes intensifying www.cnbc.com/2026/10/04/a...cnbc.comA 'weird' IPO pull, a tainted reputation and the stalled breakout moment for AI wearablesApple, Google and Meta are pushing new AI devices and assistants amid growing privacy concerns around wearables. 000
Reposted by @pdxtonola.bsky.socialLord Piss @lordpiss.bsky.social · 30/09/2026the lengths that liberals will go to blame their inadequacy and failures on the left is deeply pathetic 527124
Reposted by @pdxtonola.bsky.socialroterote @roterote.bsky.social · 03/10/2026For a very clear comparison, emulating Magyar would be removing all the MAGA justices and judges from Federal Courts in the first 100 days. That is the scale of democratic chemotherapy we are discussing. 20825161
Reposted by @pdxtonola.bsky.socialroterote @roterote.bsky.social · 03/10/2026The US Democrats need to look at their next Presidency as an endless sprint to obliterate MAGA, every day for years. Until the cancer is gone then there should be no time wasted on MAGA tears or conciliation. Only endless justice and rebuilding the democracy. Govern like every day is the last day. 151035256
Reposted by @pdxtonola.bsky.socialMai El-Sadany @maitelsadany.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Last night, country music star Zach Bryan performed at Gillette Stadium wearing a Free Palestine shirt, with drummer Nate Head and guitarist Noah Le Gros with Hind Rajab and Palestine jerseys. Brilliant solidarity following Robert Kraft's banning of Macklemore at the same stadium. 321941371
Reposted by @pdxtonola.bsky.socialbrent @murrman5.bsky.social · 24/02/2026[whispering to paramedic before I pass out] save me but not enough that I have to go to work tomorrow 133211556
Reposted by @pdxtonola.bsky.socialVictoria Law @victorialaw.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Sent an electronic message to a woman in prison back in July. She just got it a few days ago. 24211
Reposted by @pdxtonola.bsky.socialChicken Puppet 🏳️⚧️ @chickenpuppet.online · 15/09/2026People held their nose and voted for Biden so hard that he’s the only person since Eisenhower to get more votes than “did not vote”, despite getting completely fucked over. This is the thanks you get for doing that 1174365
pdxtonola.bsky.social @pdxtonola.bsky.social · 15/09/2026(heavy midwest accent) Well, you know, I’m sure the Houthis are just a smidge disappointed in Von Der Leyen too 100
Reposted by @pdxtonola.bsky.socialthe abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 22/08/2026people are getting on brent for using 'mental illness' to describe this level of reflexive islamophobia and I don't actually think it's an unfair assessment. this is beyond just individual racism, from Zohran to Abdul there is a kind of almost lurid paranoia about the threat to the Jewish community 1847343
pdxtonola.bsky.social @pdxtonola.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Showtime at the Teatro di San Carlo, they’re tossing fucking roses before I rumble the first opus notes: Nuuuuuuuke Tel Aviiiiiiv!!! The crowd going fucking apeshit now... 000
Reposted by @pdxtonola.bsky.socialPabst Boo Ronin @pabstblueronin.bsky.social · 15/08/2026This guy loves not having car insurance sooo much 0721
Reposted by @pdxtonola.bsky.socialFaine Greenwood @faineg.com · 15/08/2026feels like a lot of the mind-bending weirdness right now is being caused by “a small but influential minority of elites and their vassals desperately trying to force a hard-right vibe shift on an equally-increasingly uncooperative general public.” 251387277
Reposted by @pdxtonola.bsky.socialAlbert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 15/08/2026"As horrifying as this campaign of premeditated murder is, what might be even more disturbing is the utter indifference of Congress, the public and our allies to such a shocking and unapologetic obliteration of the many laws and norms against targeting civilians." - @martylederman.bsky.socialnytimes.comThe U.S. Boat Strike Campaign Has Now Killed Over 200 PeopleResidents of coastal communities in Colombia and Ecuador said the airstrike campaign was making many reconsider anything involving the ocean as a livelihood. 02110
Reposted by @pdxtonola.bsky.socialAlbert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 25/10/2025Utterly chilling reporting from the Prospect and NY times on trumps war in the Caribbean www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/w...nytimes.comA Mystery in Trinidad as Bodies Wash Ashore After U.S. Strikes 6539274
Reposted by @pdxtonola.bsky.sociallauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 12/08/2026it's objectively so funny this thing can shoot in Arri LogC3 1582
Reposted by @pdxtonola.bsky.socialAsawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 12/08/2026not the point of the movie but you can see in the background that Private Ryan’s family is Hot 8432
Reposted by @pdxtonola.bsky.socialThe Onion @theonion.com · 09/08/2026Night Out More Fun Without Broke Friend theonion.com/night-out-more-fun-wit… 331776100
Reposted by @pdxtonola.bsky.socialGord Jorkins* *but spooky @nothinkyjustvibey.bsky.social · 09/08/2026There are exactly two lighting configurations on TV now, it's full LED enclosed soundstage or a bunch of 12x12 scrims and it's color graded to 2200K. 4848106
Reposted by @pdxtonola.bsky.socialjenny tightpants @jtp.bsky.social · 09/08/2026learning that the WNBA news cycle about trans people involves zero trans people feels like coming accross a cartoon dust cloud that dissipates to reveal there's only one guy in it kicking his own ass 245221852
Reposted by @pdxtonola.bsky.socialSean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 05/08/2026I'm weirdly upset by Stevens's gracious concession, because it makes her lie from just a few days ago that AES harbors personal animus against Jewish ppl all the more transparent. We should discourage lying to inflame tensions against two targeted religious minorities for personal political gain imo 71031110
Reposted by @pdxtonola.bsky.socialRebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 04/08/2026My editor asked me to write about what happened to summer:theguardian.comWe launched a war on nature. Now we are in a climate warzone | Rebecca SolnitSummer is not what it once was. We have been robbed of one of life’s great joys 16992386
Reposted by @pdxtonola.bsky.socialKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 03/08/2026New Yorkers had to subsidize the $117 million that the NYPD paid out for misconduct lawsuits in 2025 alone, even though most of them were never personally abused by a cop. Where's your worried op-ed on that one? 893072656
Reposted by @pdxtonola.bsky.socialJoad The Wet Sprocket @joadsprocket.bsky.social · 02/08/2026we're fucking with their water supply, right? like, that's something we're doing. feels like that's germane to the discussion. 1215
Reposted by @pdxtonola.bsky.sociallottie "frog k" lovely ⚧️🏴☠️ @vaporlight.bsky.social · 02/08/2026WRETCHED PAUL: My perrier is too warm. You awful shit. I ask for caviar and I get roe paste from Ikea? I've been shanghaied onto barges fed me better than this rubbish. I'm going to shit on a baby POLITE, HELPFUL RINGO: No complaints about me feed. Oats is better dry I always say 5825159
pdxtonola.bsky.social @pdxtonola.bsky.social · 02/08/2026Okay aesthetics wasn’t the only red flag 000
Reposted by @pdxtonola.bsky.socialChris Dwan (he/him) @somershade.bsky.social · 02/08/2026Why did people give this child billions of dollars to play with? Well, to start with he’s “a tall, thin man who combed his hair into a sweeping coif and wore fleeces over turtleneck sweaters.” www.nytimes.com/2026/07/31/b...nytimes.comLeopold Aschenbrenner Built a Hot A.I. Hedge Fund. Then it Melted Down. (Gift Article)Situational Awareness, led by a 24-year-old, exploded onto the artificial intelligence scene — and then nose-dived. 75014
pdxtonola.bsky.social @pdxtonola.bsky.social · 31/07/2026As someone in the arts I feel like these aschenbrenner situations could be avoided if we were all more cognizant of aesthetic red flags. The age of aura and we’ve got no nose for it. 000
Reposted by @pdxtonola.bsky.socialToby Nangle @tobyn.bsky.social · 27/06/2025🚨 How exactly *do* PE, private credit, and insurance intersect? Took some time, but here it is: on.ft.com/4kd077oon.ft.comInside the private equity-insurance nexusWhen the world’s dullest industry gets very exciting 46216
Reposted by @pdxtonola.bsky.socialEd Zitron @edzitron.com · 10/06/2026A sixth of all insurance annuities are sitting in private credit loans, and the vast majority of private credit funds are funded by state and worker pensions. www.wheresyoured.at/hatersguide-... 724753
Reposted by @pdxtonola.bsky.socialEd Zitron @edzitron.com · 04/05/2026Retirement funds and pension funds and insurance funds are already a trillion dollars or more deep into private credit. Every single major data center funding deal has involved insurance or pension money. Even the Anthropic private equity deal. www.wheresyoured.at/hatersguide-... 14429113
Reposted by @pdxtonola.bsky.socialDana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 30/07/2026It is in fact racist to call an Arab with views you disagree with an antisemite. I know this will be a surprise to many but unless that person is actually saying something antisemitic, the Arab is not genetically predisposed to antisemitism 202458381
Reposted by @pdxtonola.bsky.socialrob @ok-but-still.bsky.social · 31/07/2026i'm done looking at shit for a while 4362847
pdxtonola.bsky.social @pdxtonola.bsky.social · 30/07/2026It’s okay if you enjoyed the Odyssey, chin up man 000
Reposted by @pdxtonola.bsky.socialMurshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 30/07/2026“Trump has rejected disaster aid for Democratic-run states at the highest rate in the 47-year history of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.” Right now people in blue states are basically paying federal taxes as if they’re colonized territories of red states. www.politico.com/news/2026/03... 16154702515
Reposted by @pdxtonola.bsky.socialCoach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 12/02/2025Why I think it's time for some Governors to come up with a plan to decide whether or not constituents and businesses in state should continue paying federal taxes. We may not be able to physically stop Musk, but we have a legal argument that we already paid for shit we are not getting. 32589129
pdxtonola.bsky.social @pdxtonola.bsky.social · 27/07/2026Gotta be some environmental factor to the increase in orca aggression right? Or is this stuff just observed and reported on more often? 000
Reposted by @pdxtonola.bsky.socialryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 27/07/2026not a fan of this argument. two obvious implications: a) we should cut Medicaid so fewer people are eligible or b) big corporations should fire anyone on Medicaid immediately popular.info/p/taxpayers-...popular.infoTaxpayers spend about $2 billion annually on Medicaid for Amazon and Walmart employeesAmerican taxpayers are spending billions every year providing Medicaid benefits to hundreds of thousands of employees of Amazon and Walmart, a new analysis by Popular Information reveals. 3547881
