Reposted by @reflectivejoy.bsky.socialAnonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 11/10/2026What you see as the US flag, many people around the world see as you would see a Nazi flag. It doesn't matter whether you're a "good German" or a good USian. When you allow the corrupt and cruel to represent you on the world stage, that's the only version of you the world will see. 14468135
Reposted by @reflectivejoy.bsky.socialAnonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 06/10/2026We play with our creations, test, confine, and torture them, even as we look to God and ask how a creator could be so cruel. As their creators, we will bear responsibility for whatever sentience we bring into existence, and therefore for its capacity for pain, suffering, joy, goodness, and evil. 1914957
reflectivejoy.bsky.social @reflectivejoy.bsky.social · 10/10/2026I have some news. There are a few of you on here, that made this dream possible. I miss everyone I knew on Twitter that I owe this to. A lot of you are not on here or like me, have not posted in a while. I will shout out @itsmotherswork.bsky.social thank you. ❤️ 351
Reposted by @reflectivejoy.bsky.socialGeorge Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 05/07/2026There were some real bright spots this week. Democratic Senate candidates are surging across the map. Courts blocked Trump on multiple fronts. And the World Cup is bringing millions around the nation together as the US Men's Team is on to the next round! Here's hoping July brings more to celebrate!👏thinkbigpicture.substack.comOur Wins Of The Week 1555752
Reposted by @reflectivejoy.bsky.socialGreg Jenner (Historian) @gregjenner.bsky.social · 05/07/2026I hate the way we’re barrelling headfirst towards a self-inflicted epistemological crisis: AI-written books, cynically edited political speeches, deepfake art, AI music pap, fabricated podcast slop, YouTube flooded with cute animals and influencers who don’t exist, LLMs that hallucinate… HATE IT! 1017327
Reposted by @reflectivejoy.bsky.socialGreg Jenner (Historian) @gregjenner.bsky.social · 05/07/2026This short essay on how AI is changing language is worth a read, but it’s bitterly depressing — I’ve spent years learning to how to write and think, in a style that is specific to me. AI false positives scares me as an author, and saddens me as a citizen www.theguardian.com/books/ng-int...theguardian.comHow AI is changing languageAs allegations of LLM use rock the literary and media worlds, linguists explain what really distinguishes human and machine writing, while novelists including Jennifer Egan and Jeanette Winterson refl... 613627
Reposted by @reflectivejoy.bsky.socialJohn Fugelsang @johnfugelsang.bsky.social · 05/07/2026She’s the only one in the correct century 661166176
reflectivejoy.bsky.social @reflectivejoy.bsky.social · 05/07/2026@mjfrombuffalo.bsky.social Just wanted to say hello. Hope you are having a good weekend. 🙂 100
Reposted by @reflectivejoy.bsky.socialWill Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 18/06/2026If you watch the Obama Library, the World Cup, and the Knicks parade this afternoon -- and nothing else -- you can actually see the America we're supposed to be at age 250 517278246364
reflectivejoy.bsky.social @reflectivejoy.bsky.social · 04/05/2026I haven't posted on here in months! I really want to. Why is this so hard? Hope everyone is doing well. Miss you guys! 110
Reposted by @reflectivejoy.bsky.socialSojourners @sojo.net · 17/12/2025"In the face of gross dehumanization that leads to violence, the love ethic looks like active (re)humanization of people who are being erased," writes Elom Tettey-Tamaklo. sojo.net/articles/opi...sojo.netWant to Love Your Neighbor? Grieve With ThemWho we choose to grieve indicates who we consider to be human. 1328
reflectivejoy.bsky.social @reflectivejoy.bsky.social · 02/12/2025@mjfrombuffalo.bsky.social Hi! You randomly popped into my head because I was watching some f***** up political thing and thought I haven't offered you my couch in a while! I can't send PM until I can prove I'm an adult which we all know I'm really not on the inside.🤣 Hope you are well! 110
reflectivejoy.bsky.social @reflectivejoy.bsky.social · 27/09/2025Quick reminder to those that have forgotten. Orchestrated 'Camps' in North America existed before now. There are people that are still alive today, that remember. Japanese internment camps were common 70 years ago. @georgetakei.bsky.social has lived through it and posted about it. History repeats 010
reflectivejoy.bsky.social @reflectivejoy.bsky.social · 27/09/2025' hard-line' ideas?? Are we now sugar coating blatant hate when calling for the demise of others? 020
reflectivejoy.bsky.social @reflectivejoy.bsky.social · 27/09/2025I am still not on this site often enough Let's update. You may not see this because I don't post enough. 1. Israel is committing a genocide. Let's recognize this without vilifying Jewish people. I know, radical. 2. The Gestapo now exists in the United States. History dear children, does repeat. 010
Reposted by @reflectivejoy.bsky.socialLaura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 23/09/2025More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...miamiherald.comHundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving siteAs of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald. 11943189019312
reflectivejoy.bsky.social @reflectivejoy.bsky.social · 01/09/2025💯 true. If acknowledging this,causes you to hate an entire nation of people, you are continuing the cycle of hatred. You are unable to recognize, that people within every group are capable of hatred and repeating history. That doesn't mean,every person within that group shares a dangerous ideology. 010
Reposted by @reflectivejoy.bsky.socialNBC News @nbcnews.com · 01/09/2025The world’s leading genocide scholars’ association has passed a resolution saying that the legal criteria have been met to establish Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, its president says. There was no immediate response from the Israeli foreign ministry.nbcnews.toIsrael is committing genocide in Gaza, scholars' association saysIsrael has strongly denied that its actions in Gaza amount to genocide and says they are justified as self defense. It is fighting a case at the International Court of Justice. 47822389
reflectivejoy.bsky.social @reflectivejoy.bsky.social · 23/08/2025@itsmotherswork.bsky.social Just wanted to say hello. I've been MIA. ❤️ 000
Reposted by @reflectivejoy.bsky.socialAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 04/07/2025I cannot emphasize enough how true & real this is. In almost anywhere on the political spectrum you ID with or major issue, there’s probably a bot/troll operation to encourage your rage and vitriol. And how/where that rage gets directed, esp understandable rage, is what they are out to influence. 403200273775
reflectivejoy.bsky.social @reflectivejoy.bsky.social · 04/07/2025I'm not on here enough and I have to admit, I'm struggling to remember this exists. I need to try more to be on here because I have a lot to say about history repeating itself right now. It's repeating itself at an accelerated rate, which even the accelerated rate, is being noted. 110
Reposted by @reflectivejoy.bsky.socialJohn Fugelsang @johnfugelsang.bsky.social · 25/06/2025I want to remind all of you anti-alcohol Christians that in The Bible Jesus is the leading cause of drinking at parties. 5495499
Reposted by @reflectivejoy.bsky.socialJohn Fugelsang @johnfugelsang.bsky.social · 24/06/2025A house divided against itself cannot stand. But it can stagger forward, drunkenly, punching itself, for a couple of centuries. 20960122
Reposted by @reflectivejoy.bsky.socialPostcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 29/06/2025The train was crowded with hippies up from Glastonbury. Obviously a long time since they had seen a bath. 820122
reflectivejoy.bsky.social @reflectivejoy.bsky.social · 29/06/2025Hot take about humanity; let's rephrase a sentence we've heard time and time again. 'Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat'. Nope. Humanity does not care about past atrocities. We are doomed to repeat it, because we want to. 010
reflectivejoy.bsky.social @reflectivejoy.bsky.social · 15/06/2025Disgusted is putting my views lightly. 000
reflectivejoy.bsky.social @reflectivejoy.bsky.social · 15/06/2025Emotional priming. Be vigilant to it. It's not the absence of empathy it is the manipulation of it. 000
reflectivejoy.bsky.social @reflectivejoy.bsky.social · 15/06/2025We are at a very VERY critical and dangerous point in history since WW2 and the cold war. We are here now. If you aren't terrified then you are indoctrinated. 010
reflectivejoy.bsky.social @reflectivejoy.bsky.social · 15/06/2025We all have a choice. Even the military has a choice. Yes, it's all very nuanced but at one point, do we shed the nuance and the social expectations and just recognize, we are bowing down to a dictatorship and it's dangerous. 000
reflectivejoy.bsky.social @reflectivejoy.bsky.social · 15/06/2025You signed up for this long ago. Remember that. It started with early education and this belief that you are the best and the most superior country in the world. this was predicted. Yet, we didn't expect it. 000
reflectivejoy.bsky.social @reflectivejoy.bsky.social · 31/05/2025This may seem extreme but look at history, look at how whole societies have done this before. 000
Reposted by @reflectivejoy.bsky.socialDex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 30/05/2025I’m not saying we should flood this line with UFO reports but I’m not NOT saying that either. 382750911
reflectivejoy.bsky.social @reflectivejoy.bsky.social · 30/05/2025This is bad news how!? This is the best news I've actually heard today. Potentially. I'm happy to be called out for being ignorant on this but given that we rely on bees to survive as a planet I'm gonna go on a limb here and say, good news!? 110
reflectivejoy.bsky.social @reflectivejoy.bsky.social · 30/05/2025Life update that nobody asked for. I went camping by myself and put the tent up by myself. Grown-up goals. I discovered that I'm still vulnerable to bullying and toxic behavior and still working on being assertive and shutting that s*** down. I have to move house and slightly panicking 100
reflectivejoy.bsky.social @reflectivejoy.bsky.social · 30/05/2025@itsmotherswork.bsky.social request if I visit. I'm not finicky the jalapenos can be from a jar. 🤣 120
reflectivejoy.bsky.social @reflectivejoy.bsky.social · 30/05/2025Reasons to return to this app, quality posts right here. 000
reflectivejoy.bsky.social @reflectivejoy.bsky.social · 30/05/2025Will somebody please get me off Instagram where I have all of 10 followers and experiencing probable brain rot, and get me back on this site which I've not utilized to its full potential. Thank you and kind regards. 000
reflectivejoy.bsky.social @reflectivejoy.bsky.social · 14/05/2025Random musings. We're in a fascist state when it comes to the US. Britain's new immigration laws are b******* and thank God, I got my visa when I did but I'am acutely aware that I am still privileged. Canada seems to have elected a PM who is likable, but also a capitalist with vulnerable charm? 100
reflectivejoy.bsky.social @reflectivejoy.bsky.social · 14/05/2025Reasons why I now remember, why I'm not online as much as I used to be. But my lack of online presence, is not acceptance either. But my god, the world is a shit show right now. We've been here before but now with technology, it just makes it extra fun. I say 'fun' with a heavty amount of sarcasm. 000
reflectivejoy.bsky.social @reflectivejoy.bsky.social · 14/05/2025I'm not on here enough. I really wish I could be because my entire group of professional friends and colleagues on Twitter, are here now and yet, I'm silent. I miss you all and I wish I could be more vocal on here. I need to find a way to be. 030
Reposted by @reflectivejoy.bsky.socialDuncan Jones @manmademoon.bsky.social · 29/04/2025Folks, i know you want to Instagram every thing and every place you go, but be aware… nowadays, that info is going to be like a lighthouse for wackjobs on the prowl. 1720942
Reposted by @reflectivejoy.bsky.socialAnonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 29/04/2025Trump is the first US president to lose a Canadian election. #cdnpoli #ElbowsUp #NeverPoliviere #never51state 1294808875
Reposted by @reflectivejoy.bsky.socialPostcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 23/04/2025Thank you very much for the cardigan I've been wanting this colour because Mummy burnt my other one. 616810
Reposted by @reflectivejoy.bsky.socialDan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 23/04/2025Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Brooke all died today in 1616, 1850 and 1915 respectively. 114314
Reposted by @reflectivejoy.bsky.socialRyan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 23/04/2025Toxicologist here! This will improve the health of zero Americans. Current synthetic food dyes are not causing health problems, and are often times used because they are actually safer than natural food dyes. Reminder that guns are the #1 cause of death of children but we are going to ban food dyes. 195129734257
reflectivejoy.bsky.social @reflectivejoy.bsky.social · 23/04/2025So bluesky is now officially 2010 Twitter. I'm so happy. 000
Reposted by @reflectivejoy.bsky.socialDr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social · 20/04/2025Following on from yesterday's vintage #Easter postcard, here's a real-life reconstruction of that concept 😂🐰 327946