Reposted by @saybrennana.bsky.socialAsher HELLbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I don't mean what I'm about to say in a sappy way, but a fairly hard-nosed one: natural ecosystems are often remarkably good at recovering from serious local natural disasters *if they are given the chance.* 21422405
Reposted by @saybrennana.bsky.socialAaron Cynic @aaroncynic.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Incredible headline here (among other things)theguardian.comTexas police department ordered closed for failing to provide any benefit to communityDisbanding of department in Trinidad comes after arrest of a resident for posting about issues with local water supply 13060461423
Reposted by @saybrennana.bsky.socialMegan Wachspress @meganwachspress.bsky.social · 11/09/2026A few months ago I wrote about how the experience of imperial backlash on September 11 continues to define how leftists of my generation relate to the U.S.'s uneven and partial exit from empire (by choice and not) in the Biden & Trump administrations and seems appropriate to re-share today:liberalcurrents.comWe Are the BaddiesThere is a term for our current political condition, in which our own day-to-day lives are indefensible but there are no obvious means by which we can produce a different outcome in Iran: Moral injury... 0182
Reposted by @saybrennana.bsky.socialBill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Again it is insane that we have accepted masked secret police. 13142181101
Reposted by @saybrennana.bsky.socialGareth Watkins @garethwatkins.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Person who used to work in a robotics company here: humanoid robots are easily the worst idea in all of industrial automation. See that robot pulling a trolley? The trolley could just have a motor and guidance system not dissimilar from a Roomba. This is marketing, nothing more. 1631470
Reposted by @saybrennana.bsky.socialSanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 11/08/2026I couldn’t make this up if I tried.🤬 “An anti-sex-trafficking nonprofit in Utah whose founder resigned after multiple women accused him of trafficking and sexual abuse has won a federal contract to provide legal services to unaccompanied immigrant children in government custody.“prospect.orgDisgraced Anti-Sex-Trafficking NGO Gets $244 Million to Rep Migrant Kids - The American ProspectThe founder and CEO of Our Rescue resigned in 2023 amid allegations that he had sexually abused and trafficked women himself. 42984603
Reposted by @saybrennana.bsky.socialJames Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 08/08/2026This by CNN is genuinely reprehensible. Everyone involved should be embarrassed. -The 'new pain' case vs Mamdani is *solely* his religion. -He was in NYC on 9/11, at grade school -Soon after attack GWB himself gave famous speech warning against blaming all Muslims for terrorism -25 yrs later, this. 21169491518
Reposted by @saybrennana.bsky.socialanniempeterson.bsky.social @anniempeterson.bsky.social · 08/08/2026A note on Royce White, the former NBA player who says he's entering the WNBA draft, a judge ruled he abused his wife and teenage son in an April court order and determined he could not have contact with either of them for 50 years. Great way to "protect women's sports" transphobes. 12476261774
saybrennana.bsky.social @saybrennana.bsky.social · 09/08/2026When I lived in Japan Gmail kept showing me ads like "dO YoU wAnT tO tRaVeL to jApaN????" Yep, you geniuses, you got me. 010
Reposted by @saybrennana.bsky.socialmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 08/08/2026It's a choice the media repeatedly makes to platform and legitimize - even cheerlead - anti Muslim bigotry in a way they would never platform or legitimize similarly open anti black or anti Jewish bigotry 23987192
Reposted by @saybrennana.bsky.socialbellsvelma.bsky.social @bellsvelma.bsky.social · 07/08/2026“It’s especially strange given that Mr. McConnell continues to make votes. Oh, yes! You read that right. As reported this afternoon by Tyler Spence of NOTUS, Senator McConnell was able to cast tie-breaking votes today in the Senate Agriculture Committee.” 2330094
Reposted by @saybrennana.bsky.socialJustin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 07/08/2026As Adam Johnson points out today, one of Bari Weiss's early investors in The Free Press—Andreessen Horowitz—is Flock's biggest funder. x.com/adamjohnsonC... 11788207
Reposted by @saybrennana.bsky.socialTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 06/08/2026I could probably write a small book of all the women I know suddenly being asked to lead struggling institutions right now... 19thnews.org/2026/08/eric...19thnews.orgThe first Black woman to lead the CDC will face an uphill battle in restoring trustExperts say women and people of color are often tapped to lead during crises. Erica Schwartz inherits a CDC reshaped by political battles over science and vaccines. 301158196
Reposted by @saybrennana.bsky.socialdaryl seitchik @darylseitchik.bsky.social · 06/08/2026you can buy my book for a steep discount rn and support solrad 023
Reposted by @saybrennana.bsky.socialJared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Think about it this way: what if your tax dollars were used to buy sophisticated surveillance equipment and guns, and then the cops never killed your dog? Wouldn’t you feel ripped off? 773085
Reposted by @saybrennana.bsky.socialDrew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 02/08/2026New: We found 50 cops who misused Flock cameras and other license-plate readers for personal purposes, often to spy on their girlfriends or ex-wives. He "watched every single move I made. ... Who do you turn the chief of police in to?" wapo.st/3S6rTuowapo.stShe left her ex. He secretly tracked her through a network of policing cameras.Flock’s array of license-plate cameras was built to fight crime. But at least 50 law enforcement officers were charged with or accused of misusing it and other systems. 11042391780
Reposted by @saybrennana.bsky.socialMatt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 28/07/2026NEW: A glimpse at how AI image generators are used. Researchers set up a fake image editor on Hugging Face and within a week received 1,000 prompts. 73% of them were sexual and 83% of those were asking for people (women) to be “undressed”. Around 6% of the sexual requests also targeted minorswired.comHugging Face Has a Deepfake Nudes ProblemResearchers tested top image editing models on Hugging Face and found they could easily create explicit deepfakes—and 1,000 image editing prompts show how people use the software. 16555293
Reposted by @saybrennana.bsky.socialAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 25/07/2026It is genuinely bizarre that we’ve become acclimatized to right wingers throwing a tantrum every time a black person (particularly a black woman) is cast in something, but are also supposed to pretend that this is not racism but related to some other substantive concern. 485241795050
Reposted by @saybrennana.bsky.socialnami big haunted house @namioshiro.bsky.social · 27/07/2026im teaching a character design workshop in partnership with small press expo in early september! if you're in the area and want to do some fun character design stuff please sign up. :D 0104
Reposted by @saybrennana.bsky.social Comfortably Boo @numb.comfortab.ly · 21/11/2025This bs is now top search result in Google 1422041
Reposted by @saybrennana.bsky.socialSam “The Great Pumpkin” Thielman @samthielman.com · 23/07/2026 1664481926
Reposted by @saybrennana.bsky.socialOliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 22/07/2026this is how dumb you sound, democrats, when you accept the absurd premise that this is an issue that you need to campaign on 7857431155
Reposted by @saybrennana.bsky.socialMegan Piontkowski Illustration @meganpiont.bsky.social · 23/07/2026Oooh, I love it! 13815
Reposted by @saybrennana.bsky.socialCurtis *Spooky Sociologist* 🏳️🌈 @soccurt.bsky.social · 21/07/2026You must acknowledge that this person exists, but not write for them: 71655174
Reposted by @saybrennana.bsky.socialRima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 20/07/2026ICE executes the nonwhite while the White House and State Department look to declare the U.S. left a Foreign Terrorist Organization. We've been heading here since 9/11 @attackerman.bsky.social 013743
Reposted by @saybrennana.bsky.socialFinal Friztination @frizfrizzle.bsky.social · 19/07/2026Meta are sending Fucko the Knife Robot to stab you in the knee. To disable go to Accounts> Settings> Robots> Knife Robots> Fucko> Opt Out 4643041438
Reposted by @saybrennana.bsky.socialErin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 19/07/20261. In major news, the Ohio Dem Party has banned the Progressive Caucus from criticizing candidate for Gov. Amy Acton's transphobia. It has now applied more pressure to quiet criticism of anti-trans politics than it has on its own nominee to stop embracing them. Subscribe to support our journalism.erininthemorning.comOhio Dem Party Has Banned Criticism Of Gov. Candidate Amy Acton Calling Trans Girls “Boys”The Progressive Caucus says it was forced to take down its post. 1202630948
Reposted by @saybrennana.bsky.socialAsawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Let’s say for sake of argument this turns out to be true: why does it mean they had to kill him 391355185
Reposted by @saybrennana.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 16/07/2026someone tell serkis that middle-earth isn’t real and there aren’t actually white people in Arda 1685758721
Reposted by @saybrennana.bsky.socials. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 13/07/2026The fact that J.K. Rowling successfully bullied Amnesty International into taking down a report that accurately called out her attack on trans people, especially trans women, is so repulsive and such a display of the power of her money, and her choice to put her vast fortune behind persecution.thepinknews.comAmnesty removes report that called JK Rowling's centre 'anti-rights'Amnesty International UK has removed a report which labelled JK Rowling's sexual abuse crisis centre Beira's Place as "anti-rights". 1291893652
Reposted by @saybrennana.bsky.socialWalter Chaw @mangiotto.bsky.social · 12/07/2026Thinking how at the end of the Star Wars trilogy an entire galaxy celebrates the death of the emperor without a finger wagging coda where a sad-eyed long haired scold in bespoke clothing warns that this reduces everyone to the same level as the genocidal tyrant who got tossed into a laser shaft. 62505654
Reposted by @saybrennana.bsky.socialmore mr. spice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · 11/07/2026i wonder if there might be a more direct workaround for this than writing an email to the FTC.... 420541
Reposted by @saybrennana.bsky.socialRuss The Tedious Ghost @russ41.bsky.social · 11/07/2026Chat, is it good when your ethnostate is drawing comparisons to Jonestown? 325064
Reposted by @saybrennana.bsky.socialprime time crackervision @lewmo.bsky.social · 11/07/2026 2296733342
Reposted by @saybrennana.bsky.socialUndead in Chicago (municipal boundary) @mosermostly.bsky.social · 09/07/2026We should invent a kind of canceling where the guy goes away 8394391866
Reposted by @saybrennana.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/07/2026Yep. I said this last year and I think it still holds. 572867331
Reposted by @saybrennana.bsky.socialOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 08/07/2026little to add to Platner discourse that others haven't said better. so i'll just say once again that the era of consequence free politics is no good and it is important to bring back shame 423149469
Reposted by @saybrennana.bsky.socialceej @ceej.online · 05/07/2025got the gang sitting in silence around an unlit fire pit as elliott smith’s independence day plays on repeat 850138
Reposted by @saybrennana.bsky.socialKashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 05/07/2026You know they’re asking if there’s a nearby white history museum they can shelter under instead 291548180
Reposted by @saybrennana.bsky.socialMatt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 05/07/2026this guy is the co-founder of Airbnb 876144213851
Reposted by @saybrennana.bsky.socialKim Bender @kimpbender.bsky.social · 01/07/2026Absolutely 100% agree 0375
![Aodán Hill
@Aodanism
One of the greatest owns in history
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![Steven (with a PH)
@sjksalisbury.bsky.social
[finally standing up to a bully] hey asshole...
[but remembering that first and foremost I am a poet] I will engulf you like a fog
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