Reposted by SamUpstateAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/09/2026I for one think it’s bad that the president can just say crazy stuff all day every day and 99% of it doesn’t make the news because we’ve normalized having an insane president 895254846030
Reposted by SamUpstateLil_Lost @lillost.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Ummmm for those who have no perspective my Boomer parents weren’t in elementary school yet, and I have adult children. These people need to step the fuck down and get over themselves 283
Reposted by SamUpstateKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 26/09/2026This is like accusing someone of robbing a bank because they deposited money and never withdrew it 58982761860
Reposted by SamUpstateEvan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Good luck banning kids from social media lmaooo 88120
Reposted by SamUpstateCitizens' Impeachment @citizensimpeachment.com · 24/09/2026He got away with hundreds of impeachable offenses with Nancy Pelosi's blessing. That's what emboldened him. Jeffries refusing to even discuss impeachment emboldens him further. 53510
Reposted by SamUpstateMekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 21/09/2026Sorry my data was a bit old. I said that there have only been 13 days when US cops didn't kill someone in 2026. That was incorrect. The right number is 11. There have only been 11 days this year when US cops didn't kill someone. That's even worse. 1478
Reposted by SamUpstateAdam Kucharski @adamjkucharski.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Rather than being a great democratiser, AI is currently forcing organisations to put up more gates and barriers to keep out the low quality avalanche. 0349
Reposted by SamUpstateKarl Bode @karlbode.com · 16/09/2026remember the "race to 5G"? That involved giving telecom giants literally everything they wanted (merger approvals, the death of net neutrality, lower taxes, huge subsidies) to "beat China" when it resulted in US 5G that's shittier and more expensive than most developed nations, they all went quiet 48821
Reposted by SamUpstateDamian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 15/09/2026“To be soft on climate action is to be soft on inflation, and the cost of living, soft on sovereignty and security, and soft on economic growth and jobs" says UN climate chief Simon Stiell #climatecrisis www.theguardian.com/environment/...theguardian.comWorld must reject climate culture wars or face economic ruin, says UN’s StiellWarning by United Nations climate chief comes as EU data shows August 2026 was joint hottest month ever 13611
Reposted by SamUpstateDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 14/09/2026Pretty wild that the US president openly and explicitly offered US citizens bribes in exchange for voting for his political party in an upcoming election and the best the establishment US media can muster is that it "invites legal questions."nbcnews.comA $5,000 dividend proposal if Republicans win this fall invites legal questionsPresident Trump promised a monetary benefit for Americans if the midterm elections go his way. He hasn’t said exactly how such an initiative would work. 1436675
Reposted by SamUpstatejamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14/09/2026crypto, car dealerships and MLMs. ripe targets for political and policy reasons. 1025974950
Reposted by SamUpstateJake Williams @malwarejake.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Any interest I've ever had in Harry Potter was killed by her anti-trans crusading. Even though I intellectually know Daniel Radcliffe strongly supports transgender rights, my brain so strongly equates the character he portrays with her bigotry, I struggle to watch him in anything he acts in. 7232
Reposted by SamUpstate-𝚖𝚘𝚡 ❄︎ ☃︎ @moxiest.art · 15/07/2026created an infographic to explain why arguing the hypocrisy of fascist talking points only helps erode your point. don't fight bad faith with good faith. don't engage with their point. don't meet them where they are. they're killing people. eat their frame. 61091395
Reposted by SamUpstateKatie Hinde @mammalssuck.bsky.social · 12/09/2026"The whole “Oh no, our models went rogue” thing … When a bridge collapses, you don’t analyze whether the bridge was ethical or sentient or why it decided to collapse. You ask, who is the person who built this bridge to be so flimsy?" www.wired.com/story/one-of...wired.comOne of AI’s Fiercest Critics Says All the Doom Talk Is ‘Meant to Distract Us’Timnit Gebru argues that AI companies are stoking fears of extinction to avoid discussing actual harms, like autonomous weapons. 302667907
Reposted by SamUpstateMarlow Stern @marlownyc.bsky.social · 11/09/2026‘The Matrix’ creator Lilly Wachowski on J.K. Rowling and the new ‘Harry Potter’ series: “She is funding trans genocide. J.K. Rowling funds trans genocide, full stop. So, if you support ‘Harry Potter,’ you’re supporting trans genocide.” variety.com/2026/tv/feat...variety.comLilly Wachowski on Her New Studio Anarchists United, the Black Power Origins of ‘The Matrix’ and How ‘Harry Potter’ Fans Are ‘Supporting Trans Genocide’‘The Matrix’ filmmaker Lilly Wachowski opens up about her new studio for marginalized voices Anarchists United, J.K. Rowling and Elon Musk. 101115184260
Reposted by SamUpstateChristopher Whitaker @civicwhitaker.com · 11/09/2026The optimism in tech during the Obama years was directly tied to *SOLVING PEOPLE’S PROBLEMS* You can not expect progressives to cheer when tech is being used to harm others. You can and should expect them to try and stop the harm. The civic part of civic tech goes first for a reason.static.klipy.comNarnia's Deep Magic Lion QuoteAlt: Narnia's Lion shouting “Do not recite the Deep Magic to me, I was there when it was written!” 1103
Reposted by SamUpstateKatelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 12/09/2026I would have gone out and found like an 8th generation Texan family who had an adult trans kid who fled Texas and cut an ad with them going "i voted the way i did to keep this texas family together, but Ken Paxton drove them apart. When the government reaches into the home, I begin to question it." 111067159
Reposted by SamUpstateBill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 12/09/2026In my opinion Democrats get nothing nothing NOTHING by betraying trans people. They hurt themselves with a good deal of their committed voter base, and still don’t get the Republican votes they are so fucking obsessed with winning over. Lose-lose! People hate voting for squishy moral cowards!! 6447271008
Reposted by SamUpstateDavid Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 10/09/2026New study finds the social cost of driving a car 1 km—including pollution, crashes, infrastructure, and noise—is more than *triple* the private cost paid by the car owner. doi.org/10.1016/j.tr... 18795332
Reposted by SamUpstateEvan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 10/09/2026We've lost so much, so fast, it's absolutely breathtaking. And people act like us expecting Democrats to clearly say that nothing was wrong with the rights trans people had 5 years ago is an unreasonable activist demand. 114629
Reposted by SamUpstateMax Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 09/09/2026<whispers> The most straightforward way to do this is to shut down the largest data centers. There's only a handful of places in the whole world where you can train an LLM with over 10 trillion parameters, but they're rapidly building more. 817230
Reposted by SamUpstateChris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 08/09/2026If you have a problem with Mayor Mamdani attending the 9/11 ceremony you’re simply a racist piece of shit, I’m sorry, that’s on you, you’re gonna have to live with that until you figure out how to be a better human being 543393653
Reposted by SamUpstateTaryn @thayden.bsky.social · 08/09/2026SNAP kids are just as deserving of a birthday cake, a soda, & a little childhood joy as any other kid. Kids shouldn’t have to understand their family’s financial situation before being allowed to be excited about cake. Somehow we’ve reached where that apparently requires a congressional hearing. 1304164738
Reposted by SamUpstateGillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 08/09/2026They published this the same day they published the news that Mamdani's office is releasing to the public thousands of documents showing Giuliani's office knew how toxic the air was around Ground Zero and lied about it, leading to more deaths than on 9/11. 1334811134
Reposted by SamUpstateBill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 07/09/2026At the moment we have no real idea how to scale up carbon removal--it's a hair on the mole of the ugly backside of the global hydrocarbon industry But we do know how to scale up solar panels and wind turbines and batteries. So that's our job billmckibben.substack.com/p/facts-on-t...billmckibben.substack.comFacts on the groundTwo things matter now: votes, and solar panels. (And wind turbines. And batteries) 571804568
Reposted by SamUpstateMark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 07/09/2026In a story that's built on questions of Giuliiani's credibility vs. Mamdani's, the New York Times should have pointed out that Giuliani has been disbarred in both Washington, DC, and New York.nytimes.comGiuliani Says Mamdani Should Skip 9/11 Memorial (Gift Article)During an anti-Muslim diatribe, the former mayor called for Mr. Mamdani to skip the ceremonies. The mayor has said he is going. 2013138738
Reposted by SamUpstateKaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com · 07/09/2026You can tell this is true because when Michelle Obama made healthy eating and exercise her issue as First Lady, this same movement failed to coalesce around her and in fact she met a ton of resistance from the same people who made RFK Jr possible 203089717
Reposted by SamUpstatekrat @kwholesaler.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Maha is just another astroturfed front in the American Reactionary Movement. This movement is responsible for every public health crisis: climate, automobile deaths, gun violence, homelessness, poverty. Its the Don't Tell Me What To Do movement. They are few but they're mobilized for war. 201831308
Reposted by SamUpstateEvan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe.techdirt.comHackers Had A Live Feed Of Every ID This Verification Company Scanned. For Over A Year.From the very beginning of this recent obsession with identifying everyone online (yes, they like to call it "age" verification, but it always ends up as identity verification), we've been pointing out that it was a huge privacy nightmare waiting to happen. Or maybe it wasn't waiting. Maybe it was already happening. This week a... 81148287739
Reposted by SamUpstateSamUpstate (he/him) @samupstate.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026Do people have opinions on good map/navigation apps for iOS, other than Google and Apple? I'm currently trying OsmAnd, but I realize I don't know much about the entity backing it. Are there other good options? I would want support for finding local businesses, and some bike and car navigation. 101
Reposted by SamUpstateMichael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 30/08/2026The endless takes demanding "moderation" from Democrats never spell out precisely how this message is supposed to be delivered. "I am pro-trans but not too pro-trans" looks to the left like you are anti-trans and to the right like you are not anti-trans enough. 311246159
Reposted by SamUpstateBen Werdmuller @ben.werd.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/08/2026It seems to me that if legislators are genuinely worried about social media harming children through adverse algorithms, they could require that the algorithms are transparently auditable. Otherwise one might think they’re trying to add identity surveillance through the back door. 0013
Reposted by SamUpstateSteve Rattner @steverattner.bsky.social · 25/08/2026U.S. debt surpassed 100% of GDP this year and is on track to reach 188% over the next 30 years, according to new analysis by @bbkogan.bsky.social and @jaredb-econ.bsky.social. They find the debt would instead be trending down toward 48%, were it not for the Bush and Trump tax cuts. 14206123
Reposted by SamUpstateJLRay @jlray.bsky.social · 25/08/2026A great list I hope is still doing numbers. Winning local office is important in its own right -- but beating Republicans at lower levels of office is also an investment that pays off. The majority of Republicans in DC started in state government. Ending their careers early pays long dividends. 24511
Reposted by SamUpstateDan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 25/08/2026This is the NYT very daintily giving its readers a hint of the truth, which is that Trump's tariffs have all been illegal as fuck and so are these. I guess it's progress. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/25/b... (I've been writing about this for a while now.) 13342112
Reposted by SamUpstatebettybarcode (she/her) @bettybarcode.com · 25/08/2026Every outlet who deploys the "Car drives into X" headline should be asked: if a cyclist struck something or someone, would the headline be "Bike pedals into X?" #DriverNotCar 0239
Reposted by SamUpstateSamUpstate (he/him) @samupstate.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2026It's cold enough that I broke out the sweatpants this morning. But not so cold that I didn't still make cold brew coffee. We generally keep the windows open at night if the temperature is forecast to be between about 50°F and 75°F. It's actually in the sixties […] [Original post on hachyderm.io] 021
Reposted by SamUpstateGOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 23/08/2026rubio gets away with flying under the radar because he doesn’t go on tv as often, but he’s right up near the top of the worst bastards in this admin alongside miller, vought and hegseth 191051182
Reposted by SamUpstateAndy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 22/08/2026It matters that the White House is a house and not a palace. 142004222
Reposted by SamUpstateJulian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 24/08/2026It is unfortunately in the best long-term interests of the United States for the rest of the world to treat us as a rogue state and make concerted plans to rein us in. 82607395
Reposted by SamUpstateKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 22/08/2026There are going to be Democrats who say we shouldn’t rip it all out — it’s already built, we have other priorities — but removing the visible signs of Trumpism is absolutely necessary. 43998992092
Reposted by SamUpstateBillie Jean Sweeney @billiejsweeney.bsky.social · 21/08/2026MAGA’s new tactic is turning groups working on behalf of the public into enemies of the state. Witness its dishonest attacks on WPATH and the SPLC.🧵 111735
Reposted by SamUpstateA.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Public figures should absolutely be reported with their percentage truth of previous statements after their name giving a bullshit ratio: "Elon Musk (BR 0.0012% truthful) says he'll put a human colony on Mars by 2039. He first said he'd do it by 2017." finance.yahoo.com/markets/stoc...finance.yahoo.comElon Musk Says SPCX Could Reach 10,000 Starship Launches Annually by 2030: ‘Still Tiny’ Compared With Air TravelSpace Exploration Technologies Corp. (NASDAQ:SPCX) CEO Elon Musk says that the commercial spaceflight company has targeted conducting 30 launches of the Starship rocket per day by 2030. 10,000 Launche... 34724195
Reposted by SamUpstateMatthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 21/08/2026This race was a big deal here and elsewhere on the left when it was Platner vs. Mills, and when it was the establishment trying to push Platner out, and when it was Jackson fighting to replace him, but now that it’s a standard D vs R race I guess everyone has gotten bored. 922922
Reposted by SamUpstateJulian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 21/08/2026“We are terrified that given distance and a proper education, you will begin to see us for what we are and hold us in contempt.” 1125829
Reposted by SamUpstateBeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 20/08/2026basically the minute you start incorporating stuff like extra-curriculars, interviews, coursework etc the already considerable advantages of the rich and connected get multiplied 1166546
Reposted by SamUpstateBeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 20/08/2026this reminds me of the general consensus among educators in China that the gaokao (universal college entrance exam) is a highly problematic system that is also better than any other option 1586682
Reposted by SamUpstateJulian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 18/08/2026I mean, the past decade has been a steady parade of the most obviously, cartoonishly repulsive and deranged people imaginable ascending to power, and apparently half the country not being instinctively repelled. 417628
Reposted by SamUpstatePuff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 16/08/2026The idea of a Black academic being hounded to death for alleged acts of plagiarism in an era when universities are entering into contracts with AI companies and encouraging AI use among students, while Big Tech is stealing EVERYTHING humans write... 83147855