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RDS (formerly shawphd) @rds773.myatproto.social · 11s

The best part is when they’re self-sufficient enough that you can sleep in

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This sounds like an excellent idea to destroy productivity. Which needs to happen! (I have been trying to buy a kotatsu for YEARS because Spouse gets COLD and I … do not.) youtube.com/shorts/naKCN...

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Do NOT get a Japanese Kotatsu

YouTube video by Kyota Ko

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RDS (formerly shawphd) @rds773.myatproto.social · 8m

I don’t think there’s a fix *from us* bc the root problem is that oil shippers & their insurers need consistency & stability & we simply can’t provide either The best we can do is remove ourselves from the situation & quietly support countries better positioned to pull off the necessary diplomacy

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CZEdwards @czedwards.bsky.social · 1h

But Oh NOES, they might not fund my campaign — Let’s stop there, dude. They shouldn’t have been funding your campaign, so are you fucking admitting to campaign finance fraud right here? Think carefully before you answer. If he’s up on contempt of congress, he can’t fund your opponent, either!

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 1h

Damn. Tommy was taken to a school that more people in this country should attend.

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CZEdwards @czedwards.bsky.social · 4h

Sir, with all due respect, you are a member of Congress. You have power to do something about this. Hold hearings. Your job here is not reporting, it’s using your power to ensure this election interference stops and those who made this decision face appropriate consequences for their actions.

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 4h

god yes PLEASE MORE OF THIS, i want accountability!! i want these people to be punished for this shit behavior!!! i want there to be comeuppance!!

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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 4h

I loathe Meta platforms and their random-ass timeline. It’s designed that way to keep people on their apps longer, which, like, yeah I also spend more time on the road when I’m hopelessly lost and can’t find familiar landmarks.

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RDS (formerly shawphd) @rds773.myatproto.social · 4h

Or flips itself sideways into a tree

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Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 4h

why do these lynxes sound like theyre having their fiftieth argument about their mortgage youtu.be/2DKt4eek-Qc?...

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Lynx Screaming during mating season

YouTube video by Sahtu Adventures Inc.

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A Tea Walks Home Alone at Night @teaberryblue.net · 4h

Folks, get your organizing chats off WhatsApp and onto Signal or another non-meta alternative before they kick you off and make it harder to re-organize.

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RDS (formerly shawphd) @rds773.myatproto.social · 4h

Holy shit, yes And each of them needs wrangling at home with no IT support

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RDS (formerly shawphd) @rds773.myatproto.social · 4h

Yeah, kiddo’s homework is theirs to manage, especially since it stresses both of us out to have me involved

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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 17/10/2026

This is not beautiful to see. This is the most racist democracy on planet earth, and people just expect Black people to sing negro spirituals and "overcome." It's not working. This still happens for one reason and one reason only: white US folk don't hold each other accountable for this racism.

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Elizabeth Maddock Dillon @emdillon.bsky.social · 6h

Life is hard because there are so many things you have to do and so many things you shouldn’t do all available on the same device in your hand.

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Eve Seyfried @eveseyfried.bsky.social · 9h

“But we can’t change the 2nd amendment because it’s the only thing that protects the 1st” Babe, they’re banning books, imposing Christianity on schoolchildren, and killing protesters in the streets. So far the 2nd hasn’t protected us from any of that.

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LorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social · 5h

The statue is titled “DENIAL” and protests climate policy. As the statue began to melt when it reached 86 degrees, a skull begins to appear.

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Alex Winter @alexwinter.com · 7h

It’s an unpalatable truth, but Meta, TikTok, and hopefully it goes without saying, X, aren’t sustainable to rely on for political amplification, cultural promotion/marketing or community organizing. It’s long past time for new platforms/means and to move on.

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RDS (formerly shawphd) @rds773.myatproto.social · 5h

What a remarkably unpleasant person that is

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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 7h

I legitimately do not know how to start getting some sort of catastrophic gap insurance coverage for her in PA for the next two weeks, so if anyone has hot tips lmk

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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 16/10/2026

You'd be forgiven for thinking this is some sort of cry of existential agony but nah they're just like that and they're having the time of their lives

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Laurel Gale @laurelgale.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

An immature cooper's hawk. #birds #nature #wildlife 🐡

A photo of a hawk with yellow eyes, a striped tail and a streaked underside, perched in a tree.

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Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 7h

A bad update: we're getting reports of pro-No Kings creators who have been suspended today as well. And we still lack backend access to the official No Kings account. Stay tuned, will report news when I have it.

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Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 8h

Meta took down the No Kings instagram; TikTok banned the Musk documentary account for supposedly violating its political posting policies. A reminder that platforms are owned by the wealthiest of people, control the means of media distribution, & put their thumbs on the democracy scale as they wish

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❗❗❗Mark Zuckerberg's meta just suspended the No Kings Instagram account. I just rushed back from my local No Kings to jump on this.

Bottom line, would be helpful for all pro-No Kings folks to elevate the issue and help us get the word out about No Kings today. The Nerd Reich strikes again.
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TikTok has banned the entire Musk film account, citing political content that violates its policies. The move, which comes just as the Alex Gibney’s investigation into Elon Musk expands to more than 470 screens across North America, raises concerns about Big Tech suppression that the very film seeks to expose.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/politics-news/musk-movie-tiktok-banned-theaters-showtimes-1236734308/

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Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 7h

The expectation that any creative or intellectual pursuit should be able to be accomplished without friction (or tedium or expense) is frankly absurd. Putting work—energy, brainpower, hours of practice and study—into your chosen pursuit is what makes it worthwhile, makes it joyful

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 8h

I see we're having a debate about whether it's okay to go back to "X," the site owned by a trillionaire fascist who is currently bankrolling the GOP's midterm, throttled Ukraine's war effort, and still winkingly allows vast amounts of CSAM on his service Answer: No, what the fuck is wrong with you

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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 7h

🚨A pro-Trump oligarch is using his social media platform to shutdown the social media account of the powerful opposition group @indivisible.org. Calling bullsh*t on any excuses given that something similar just happened with Meta in Brazil. This is an outrage.

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RDS (formerly shawphd) @rds773.myatproto.social · 7h

Are you REALLY going to defend the sidewalk blocking robots using ableism? Dude

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 17h

This is my colleague and she is a wonderful, smart person who also happens to be a preeminent expert on freedom of expression.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

The striking thing here is that LLM's don't know that physical reality exists, they don't know *anything* but statistical frequencies of word pairs. The LLM doesn't know that in a scam there is the scammer, and the victim, that these are two different people. It doesn't know what people are.

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Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 8h

❗❗❗Mark Zuckerberg's meta just suspended the No Kings Instagram account. I just rushed back from my local No Kings to jump on this. Bottom line, would be helpful for all pro-No Kings folks to elevate the issue and help us get the word out about No Kings today. The Nerd Reich strikes again.

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RDS (formerly shawphd) @rds773.myatproto.social · 7h

Just because a problem exists doesn’t mean you can’t be enthusiastically supportive of the solution to the problem In fact, it should make you *more* supportive because that means that the problem *has a solution*

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RDS (formerly shawphd) @rds773.myatproto.social · 7h

Abortion is a medical answer to a number of unwanted or unpleasant situations But that doesn’t mean one can’t be enthusiastic about its existence as an option; in fact it should make you even more positive about it Like, I am pro vaccine *because* it’s an alternative to disability and death

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RDS (formerly shawphd) @rds773.myatproto.social · 8h

I think all of these people think about art in terms of the money and status they can get from it rather than the art itself One can make music just by clapping one’s hands, but that’s not the kind of music they want to claim ownership of

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 8h

We cannot depend on these social media platforms to organize. Use them when you can but we need to have many contingencies.

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Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 8h

Update: without explanation, and after being suspended for more than an hour during peak mobilization time, Zuckerberg's Instagram restored the No Kings account but we still lack admin access. More to come. Rest assured we will not stop organizing against this regime and its collaborators.

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pausa de hateration @thatguywasfly.bsky.social · 8h

Meta suspending the No Kings account goes hand-in-hand with voter suppression efforts and it poses a very similar challenge to leftists: that it seems clear it cannot be so simple as "these things don't threaten power" when power is acting to stop them happening. We need a more nuanced analysis.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 8h

Meta is a tool of fascism. (It has been for a long time, but no time like the present to figure it out).

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Micah @rincewind.run · 8h

this is the recipe for a blowout and basically exactly what you expect to see based on polling and the 2025 VA/NJ elections 1. Dem base is very motivated and showing up in a big way 2. Hispanic voters who feel betrayed showing up as well 3. Republicans staying home

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Robert Paulett @robertpaulett.bsky.social · 12h

Sometimes you just have to step back, look at the full sweep of human history, and admire how we’re so clearly descended from panicky shrews who fled deep underground at the first hint of asteroid vibes.

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RDS (formerly shawphd) @rds773.myatproto.social · 8h

They knew that they would be able to make an exception in their own case

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 12h

The reason the anti-abortion conservatives needed (and I mean NEEDED) to get rid of the "risk to life and health" exception to anti-abortion laws was that EVERY PREGNANCY risks life and health. Every. One.

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John @localcelebrity.bsky.social · 12h

I made over 100 of these posters in 2019 and I didn’t ever expect that: 1. I would ever run out 2. That it would continue to be my most relevant piece 7 years later But here we are

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Micah @rincewind.run · 12h

it makes my blood boil every time there’s a bullshit tech demo and everyone goes back to “oh that scamp elon has done it again” he’s a vicious monster out to ruin the lives of millions of people who don’t deserve any of it and he should be treated accordingly

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Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 17/10/2026

...I have absolutely skipped getting healthcare because of the potential for accruing debt in much smaller amounts, and as a result will likely have a lifespan reduced by years. Since we're talking medical debt.

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Tim Marchman @timmarchman.bsky.social · 17/10/2026

A thing I think even most people who have paid attention don’t realize about DOGE is that we still don’t actually know what they did. Just obtaining the records and putting people under oath is really important.

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