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pocket-universes.bsky.social @pocket-universes.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Fall storms, my beloved <3
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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The accounting is in: In Oregon there are 111 data centers. The TOTAL number of people employed at data centers is just 2,630, or 0.1% of the labor force. Those 100 data centers consumer 23% of all electricity used in Oregon. Meanwhile, electricity rates skyrocket as more centers are built.
opb.org
Oregon data centers by the numbers: 111 facilities consume nearly one-quarter of state’s power, according to new report
A first-of-its-kind report details the footprint of the controversial facilities.
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Sue Burke @sueburke.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Opens January 1. Theme: Non-Human Resources. No fee, up to 3500 words. Open to non-professional writers.
parsec-sff.org
Short Story Contest – Parsec Inc.
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Sen, but Spooky @dresdencodak.com · 16/09/2026
Portland! They're trying to sneak in building a data center downtown and ending public transparency re: data centers. Come join me and so many others as we tell PDX City Council what for! tinyurl.com/datacenterout
Data centers out of PDX

PACK CITY HALL
6PM WEDS 9/16

REGISTER TO SPEAK AT: tinyurl.com/datacenterout
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 24/08/2026
This is worth reading with how people speak to and about one another on social media in mind "Hopeless people are easy to divide, easy to isolate, and easy to pick off. Hope is the glue that keeps us from cracking when the machine leans on us hardest."
antiauthoritarianplaybook.substack.com
Hope Is a Weapon
Holding onto hope is one of the most defiant things you can do right now.
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
BREAKING: The FDA is planning to end most of its routine food safety inspections, according to CBS News. www.cbsnews.com/news/fda-foo...
cbsnews.com
FDA making plans to end its routine food safety inspections, sources say
Food safety inspections would be left to state and local authorities under the plan being developed by the FDA.
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The Assisi Project @assisiproject.com · 30/06/2026
"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world." #AnneFrank
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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
I finally figured out why AI causes such a visceral reaction in thinking humans: I am writing my book chapter on PLAY, and AI is the opposite of play. We play for the joy of the process, not for the outcome. Yes it is nice to win, to have the art/ poem, but the point of life is to play.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 03/06/2026
news.chanda.science/archive/its-...
news.chanda.science
It's the End of American Science As We Know It
We have 45 days to express our opposition to catastrophic changes.
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
happy Pride Eve to all the people who are about to paraphrase this tweet from 2022 or repost it with my name removed as if it’s a thought they just had themselves
a screencap of a 2023 Instagram post from Jamila Jameel with over 1500 likes (including Billy Porter!!) it has a progress Pride flag striped background behind a screencap of my old tweet which reads 

Claire Willett
@clairewillett
for pride month this year can straight people focus less on "love is love" and more on "queer and trans people are in danger"
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Zachary Berger @zacharyberger.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Open AI doesn't want to be transparent about what's in their AI training datasets - this bill would force them. If that sounds good, we REALLY NEED YOUR HELP! Please sign this petition in support of the bill, it'll take you 2 minutes: tinyurl.com/4uxbp963 1/
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Emily Lakdawalla 🏳️‍⚧️ Uranus Expert @elakdawalla.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
I keep saying it’s time we go back to Web 1.0. Everybody do their own website and link rings to other actual humans who know things.
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 16/01/2026
When countries get hooked on US tech, their governments are constrained in reining in tech’s harms while most of the economic benefits accrue to the United States. It’s time to break out of that trap — but that means challenging the Silicon Valley model, not creating our own digital colonizers.
disconnect.blog
Escaping the trap of US tech dependence
Canada needs real digital sovereignty, not our own digital colonizers
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Amazon controls over a third of the global cloud computing market. Its customers include Capital One, United Airlines, and the US Army. Today's outage should be a wakeup call: Dependence on a handful of powerful corporations is a threat to economic and national security.
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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
Brian Kilmeade recommended that the unhoused and mentally ill populations should be mass murdered via involuntary lethal injection. Email foxfeedback@foxnews.com and demand that they fire Kilmeade immediately. And find or start a protest at a Fox “News” station near you at foxtakedown.com.
foxtakedown.com
#FoxTakedown: Fox Lies, Democracy Dies
Fox Takedown is a grassroots non-violent protest movement against Rupert Murdoch's right-wing propaganda machine. We are dedicated to activism to defeat Fox News—an extremist right-wing disinformation...
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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 11/06/2025
These fliers are for distributing at the "No Kings" demonstrations on June 14, 2025, in response to Trump's attempt to seize power via military occupation. crimethinc.com/zines/it-is-... "The decisive moment has arrived. Disruptive, courageous action is our only chance. If we fight, we will win."
The front of a flier, reading

It Is Fascism. Start Actng Like It.
Yes, Trump probably has a Master Plan to use riots to justify military occupation. And just like his Master Plan to use tariffs to bring back jobs, it is completely idiotic.

They believe they can beat and intimidate us into submission. But this will backfire.

If every city in America fought like the angels on the first nights of the LA uprising, the regime wouldn’t stand a chance.

The Decisive Moment Has Arrived
Trump has deployed active duty Marines to Los Angeles and threatened to use “equal or greater force” across the country if people dare to resist his agenda.

The Democratic Party, the courts, and all the existing institutions of government have failed. The law is now Trump’s weapon and the police, ICE, DHS, FBI, the National Guard, the Marines, whatever – all of them are now his footsoldiers.

This is fascism. You know it. Now is the time to start acting like it.

The regime will not be swayed by empathy with peaceful protestors or opinion polls or the threat of a blue wave in the midterms. That is no longer the country we are in.

When the law becomes the weapon of tyrants, we are all above the law. That is what it means to say the people are sovereign.

Disruptive, Courageous Action Is Our Only Chance
The first days of the Los Angeles uprising showed us what effective action looks like: not an army with guns, but everyday people collectively dismantling police equipment, preventing ICE and the cops from enforcing Trump’s commands.

In a democracy, you vote a president out. In fascism, you prevent the Dictator’s functionaries from carrying out his will. A king is only a king when his wish is your command. When the people refuse to let his wishes come true, he becomes a clown.

Now is the best chance we have to topple this regime. If we wait, they will consolidate control of education and the media. They will rewrite history and churn out a generation of loyalists. In the months and years …
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