Reposted by River Talesien🏳️🌈🖖🦉📖✒️amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 5hThis was a pretty small protest, but it honestly seemed incredibly effective. I don’t think that they’ve done this before, the only time I’ve been to a protest at this building was on a weekend. I really don’t think these workers liked being shamed! 327278
River Talesien🏳️🌈🖖🦉📖✒️ @rivertalesien.northsky.social · 6hThis is now available on YT and I hope folks watch, listen and sit with it: the anger, the heartbreak, all of it. I can't help but think, all the time, we could have a better world but for patriarchy and capitalism. www.youtube.com/watch?v=05gd...youtube.comJacob Geller, Cornell & the Future We Save for MenYouTube video by Jessie Gender 052
Reposted by River Talesien🏳️🌈🖖🦉📖✒️Robert "The Bobby Yaga" McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 10hVery sad to hear that Margaret Hamilton has passed away. Here's a short thread about her role in the Apollo mission, and her lesser-known work on the simulations that led to the discovery of Chaos Theory. 🧪 👩🔬 ⚛️news.mit.eduMargaret Hamilton, computing pioneer who led software development for the Apollo program, dies at 90Margaret H. Hamilton, a profoundly influential computer scientist best known for leading the software engineering team at MIT’s Instrumentation Lab during NASA’s Apollo program, died at age 90. 7595316
Reposted by River Talesien🏳️🌈🖖🦉📖✒️Balaeniceps tex 𓅣🌏🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️☭ @socialistpuffin.bsky.social · 8hPeople tell me that socialism/communism doesn't work and yet we are seeing in real time the devastating consequences of a capitalist system. #Landback #CapitalismKills 23211
River Talesien🏳️🌈🖖🦉📖✒️ @rivertalesien.northsky.social · 8h"Trump Account" Sponsored by billionaire donors. Hmm. 000
River Talesien🏳️🌈🖖🦉📖✒️ @rivertalesien.northsky.social · 8h Vancouver, if you're unaware, has a history with the so-called Tea Party and neo-Nazis and Proud Boys. I'd like to think this signals a change in a town that really doesn't like to. 000
Reposted by River Talesien🏳️🌈🖖🦉📖✒️It's Going Down @igd.bsky.social · 11hCity chambers shut down as #Memphis residents fight back against tech-fascist Elon Musk's data center. "...protesters chanted inside City Hall, police cleared the chamber and a fight broke out in the lobby." www.foxnews.com/politics/mem...foxnews.comMemphis City Council devolves into chaos after data center moratorium vote postponedMemphis City Council delayed a vote on a data center moratorium as protesters chanted, police cleared the chamber and a fight broke out in the lobby. 217060
Reposted by River Talesien🏳️🌈🖖🦉📖✒️Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 9hAt Monday's hearing, City Councilmember Eric Dinowitz repeatedly asked an OpenAI rep if this tech would write entire essays for students and she repeatedly avoided answering. The entire company is predatory trash run by obfuscators and liars. 211527
Reposted by River Talesien🏳️🌈🖖🦉📖✒️Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 13hTo put this in perspective chestnut trees used to be dominant species in the United States. Billions of trees were killed by fungal blight and now fully grown America chestnuts are functionally extinct. There is no getting them back. Ever. All for a data center. www.gadgetreview.com/one-of-ameri...gadgetreview.comOne of America’s Last Chestnut Groves Is About to Be Destroyed for a Data CenterA rare 200-tree American chestnut grove in West Virginia may be cleared for data-center development, but the project denies the site is on its land. 5224601523
Reposted by River Talesien🏳️🌈🖖🦉📖✒️Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 10h"Dance is revolution. As dance sociologist Katrina Hazzard-Donald points out, every major uprising of the enslaved took place after a dance." - Alexis Pauline Gumbs Dance is also used as a way to rehearse tactics and maneuvers—and to harmonize spirits and courage— in preparation for battle. ✊🏾🎶🪘 019156
Reposted by River Talesien🏳️🌈🖖🦉📖✒️The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 9hHundreds of infuriated parents and staff members descended on Portland Public Schools’ headquarters Tuesday night to protest far-reaching proposals to close up to 14 schools, shift grade configurations and programs and redraw attendance boundaries. www.oregonlive.com/education/20... 28327
Reposted by River Talesien🏳️🌈🖖🦉📖✒️Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 9hThis picture will always be iconic. RIP Margaret Hamilton who wrote the software that successfully guided NASA’s Apollo missions through the moon. 393558953
Reposted by River Talesien🏳️🌈🖖🦉📖✒️Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 06/10/2026People forget that J6 was successful. Everyone who participated was let out of jail and the guy who perpetrated it is President again. There were no consequences. They have plenty of incentive to do a much bigger and worse version. 6542021004
River Talesien🏳️🌈🖖🦉📖✒️ @rivertalesien.northsky.social · 07/10/2026Union power is where it is at. When the workers do not show up, the boats cannot sail. That's a good lesson right now, America. It's not just "pay your people," it's "respect the people because we make it all happen and we can take it all away." 011
Reposted by River Talesien🏳️🌈🖖🦉📖✒️AK Faulkner 🔜 NYCC @ravenswordpress.com · 07/10/2026Seems like a good time to remind you that I maintain a moderation list for scammers who pester authors like this bsky.app/profile/did:... 33220
Reposted by River Talesien🏳️🌈🖖🦉📖✒️Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Whatever terrible impulses americans have, triple that for residents of Idaho. 3808
Reposted by River Talesien🏳️🌈🖖🦉📖✒️Trita Parsi @tparsi.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Wow! Senator @ChrisMurphyCT is denied entry to U.S. military facilities in the Persian Gulf. He wasn't even allowed to meet with military leaders! He believes this is on the order of Pete Hegseth, who is trying to hide the damage and the cost of this war of choice with Iran. 26625
Reposted by River Talesien🏳️🌈🖖🦉📖✒️Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Why isn't this on every TV screen and not the fairy tale of killer robots 362061571
Reposted by River Talesien🏳️🌈🖖🦉📖✒️Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Whenever someone says 'agents make me more productive' I quickly realize that I'm talking to someone who aspires to be middle management, in charge of a bunch of Digital Jenny McCarthys, and I feel like their soul must have left their body years ago and left behind an empty, joyless void. 1262581
River Talesien🏳️🌈🖖🦉📖✒️ @rivertalesien.northsky.social · 06/10/2026But Michael Bay gets a job. With Spielberg. 😒 000
Reposted by River Talesien🏳️🌈🖖🦉📖✒️Edmonds Scanner @edmondsscanner.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Your daily affirmation: The story of your life is not yet written. There's still time to add sword skills and accidental ownership of a dilapidated castle on the coast to your narrative. 56816
Reposted by River Talesien🏳️🌈🖖🦉📖✒️Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 06/10/2026I’m ready to be a CEO. I promise to take on debt, fire anyone who seems better than me at anything, and insist you’re going to love my product that kills you 311441269
River Talesien🏳️🌈🖖🦉📖✒️ @rivertalesien.northsky.social · 06/10/2026Voting isn't going to be enough. 110
Reposted by River Talesien🏳️🌈🖖🦉📖✒️Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 06/10/2026More politicians could use the public library (with its limitations) to make an affirmative case of the kind of society people could live in. 213117
Reposted by River Talesien🏳️🌈🖖🦉📖✒️Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 05/10/2026None of the "A.i." companies sent anyone to testify in person. They're all on video. Disrespectful and unserious. 216218
Reposted by River Talesien🏳️🌈🖖🦉📖✒️Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 05/10/2026The Meta rep is doing a little ad for Muse while saying "super intelligence" instead of "artificial intelligence." Deeply unserious. 114718
Reposted by River Talesien🏳️🌈🖖🦉📖✒️Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 05/10/2026At this "A.i." hearing at the NYC City Hall and so far it's all goofy talk about Skynet/Terminator "A.i." superintelligence scenarios and nothing about actual massive current harms of regular schmegular trash "A.i." 1448484
River Talesien🏳️🌈🖖🦉📖✒️ @rivertalesien.northsky.social · 05/10/2026This might be one the best things you'll watch: a deep historic and political insight into how we got here and what it takes to get to the next level. It's two hours, but it holds you for every single minute. 010
Reposted by River Talesien🏳️🌈🖖🦉📖✒️Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 05/10/2026buncha weirdo fascist cultists 011421
Reposted by River Talesien🏳️🌈🖖🦉📖✒️Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 05/10/2026In other Bolsonaro family news: Carlos (Jair's son) was elected senator, Michelle (Jair's wife) was elected senator, and Jair Renan (Jair's son) was elected as federal deputy. 17493163
Reposted by River Talesien🏳️🌈🖖🦉📖✒️Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 05/10/2026The US (federal govt and corporations) has been meddling in Brazil's democracy and economy for a long time now, trying to tip the scales in favor of the far-right. bsky.app/profile/ians... 5422150
Reposted by River Talesien🏳️🌈🖖🦉📖✒️Old British Telly @oldbritishtelly.co.uk · 04/10/2026[1969] Clangers - Stop-motion children's series, created by Oliver Postgate, made of short films about a family of mouse-like creatures who live on, and inside, a small moon-like planet. In this episode the Soup Dragon gets broody, and gains a son. 37424
Reposted by River Talesien🏳️🌈🖖🦉📖✒️Ralph 🔞 @ralphgreymuzzle.bsky.social · 04/10/2026There is an event horizon where admitting error means a complete rejection of one's self identity, an incomprehensible self-destruction. The injured narcissist is the most dangerous animal alive. Centrism for the left is less about recovery than mitigating damages; many Trumpers in government. 1798
Reposted by River Talesien🏳️🌈🖖🦉📖✒️burgen wrope @lokimes.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I have 30 something Trump neighbors. They're lost. Utterly. For them to even admit any kind of mess up would be astronomically unprecedented. You can't sway their diseased ideas. You can't coerce a cancer. 3519101
Reposted by River Talesien🏳️🌈🖖🦉📖✒️jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Something AI is responsible for that doesn't get enough talk: How, when it scrapes a website to illegally steal everything on it, it uses up a ton of its bandwidth allotment, crashing it or racking up massive fees for site owners. 1087273990
Reposted by River Talesien🏳️🌈🖖🦉📖✒️Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I'm not naive enough to actually believe this will happen, but Democrats could be preparing, right now, lists of impeachment charges against (at a bare minimum) Hegseth, Kennedy, Mullin, Patel, Blanche, & Trump, as well as Bondi, Bovino, & Noem (still worth doing!) that rely purely on public facts, 1013149641
River Talesien🏳️🌈🖖🦉📖✒️ @rivertalesien.northsky.social · 04/10/2026Remind me, what was Trump given felony charges for? Why does he owe millions to E. Jean Carroll? What's he been associated with most of his adult life? I mean, this is His Time. And it deserves to be remembered as such. 001
River Talesien🏳️🌈🖖🦉📖✒️ @rivertalesien.northsky.social · 03/10/2026Armed and masked men with no uniform or insignia, who answer to no one, can pick up anyone, at any time, throw them in a van and we may never know what happens to their victims. There's a lot that has to stop and change, and I'd love to start right here. 110
River Talesien🏳️🌈🖖🦉📖✒️ @rivertalesien.northsky.social · 02/10/2026Maybe they could start with trans folks and help safeguard their humanity, first. 040
Reposted by River Talesien🏳️🌈🖖🦉📖✒️Zoe TunnHELL ➡️ NYCC @zoewithasword.bsky.social · 01/10/2026The idea that Newsom is even remotely a serious candidate for president is so goddamn clown shoes at this point In the past month he's vetoed LGBTQ+ rights measures, pushed the Paramount merger through, further cozied up to AI barons and now this. Dude couldn't even win a Governor reelection now 421670564
Reposted by River Talesien🏳️🌈🖖🦉📖✒️Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 01/10/2026"An ambulance was seen arriving at the prison where Pike was to be executed and then leaving. Medical aid was being administered, according to online federal court records." The utter absurdity of the state trying twice to kill someone and then calling an ambulance. We must end the death penalty.nbcnews.comTennessee inmate still alive after being administered two lethal injections, her lawyer saysChrista Pike, 50, was 18 when she murdered a classmate. She would be the first woman the state has executed in more than 200 years. 25646158
Reposted by River Talesien🏳️🌈🖖🦉📖✒️Jessie Gender @jessiegender.bsky.social · 30/09/2026How the joy of helping Princess a little bit on this video go check it out. It’s great. 323231
River Talesien🏳️🌈🖖🦉📖✒️ @rivertalesien.northsky.social · 01/10/2026Do not pull this shit, Oregon. 000
Reposted by River Talesien🏳️🌈🖖🦉📖✒️The Trandalorian @charliejaneanders.com · 30/09/2026I really do think tech crossed a line at some point between "helping you do the things you want to do" on the one hand, and "helping you do the things tech wants you to do" on the other. At this point, we're all contorting ourselves to live how the tech industry thinks we should be living. 411326348
Reposted by River Talesien🏳️🌈🖖🦉📖✒️Human Rights Watch @hrw.org · 30/09/2026From 2023 to 2026, Google Earth's updated satellite imagery shows what's left of Gaza. The images reflect what Human Rights Watch has already found: Israel has caused deliberate, widespread destruction throughout Gaza ⤵️ 11239190
Reposted by River Talesien🏳️🌈🖖🦉📖✒️Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 30/09/2026NASA's MESSENGER Satellite Captures Spectacular Color Mosaic of Mercury - From Goddard Space Flight Center - flic.kr/p/9uD599 6466111
Reposted by River Talesien🏳️🌈🖖🦉📖✒️Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 30/09/2026It feels genuinely ridiculous having to say this, but the point of art is to connect with another human. Someone thought of that painting or melodic line or scene or paragraph that is suddenly making you weep, and that means that they saw you and understood you without even meeting you. 91142271
River Talesien🏳️🌈🖖🦉📖✒️ @rivertalesien.northsky.social · 30/09/2026Take some heart: systems degrade over time. Entropy will have it. When Clod has gone the way of the dodo, vinyl will probably remain. 000
Reposted by River Talesien🏳️🌈🖖🦉📖✒️Scholars for a New Deal for Higher Ed @sfndhe.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Same in CT. It's cuts cuts cuts ideology at extreme. Society way past 1980s tax/welfare revolt, past peak neolib austerity of early 2000s. Now completely culturally+socially submerged and political-economically engaged in race of cuts. No space for other creative thinking. Only cuts. @aaup.org 0169
Reposted by River Talesien🏳️🌈🖖🦉📖✒️THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 30/09/2026“That, to me, was an implicit threat. It feels very Palantir. Very Big Brother”: MP @labourlewis.bsky.social reveals Tom Watson has warned him over criticising Palantir By @carolecadwalla.bsky.social www.thenerve.news/p/clive-lewi... 21295180