Reposted by Siderea, Sibylla BostoniensisBenn Jordan @bennjordan.bsky.social · 18hJesus. I guess we can assume it isn't trained on siloed data. 😬 719927
Siderea, Sibylla Bostoniensis @siderea.bsky.social · 28/09/2026So I told my spouse about the Choosing Texas controversy, and he'd never heard of it either. So we fired up YT and listened to it. So then to make it up to him, I played him Bryan Andrew's "Yeehaw". I can now hear faint occasional YEEHAWs lofting up from the kitchen. youtu.be/yTZahJfAMdsyoutu.beBryan Andrews - YeehawYouTube video by BryanAndrewsVEVO 110
Reposted by Siderea, Sibylla BostoniensisPatton Oswalt @pattonoswalt.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Apparently people are sharing this far and wide on social media, which I think is horrible. This could cripple ICE operations. PLEASE do not share this. 15223965216058
Reposted by Siderea, Sibylla BostoniensisLeah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 03/09/2026When Gloria Steinem co-founded Ms. Magazine in 1972, the honorific “Ms.” was virtually unheard of. Unmarried women were referred to as “Miss [father’s last name]” and married women as “Mrs. [husband’s last name].” “Ms.” was an assertion of individual identity. Women who used it were widely mocked. 201528323
Reposted by Siderea, Sibylla BostoniensisActivistChecklist.org @activistchecklist.org · 02/09/2026This is what working on digital security guides for ActivistChecklist.org feels like every day... 017663
Siderea, Sibylla Bostoniensis @siderea.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Moulton: This is madness! Woke 2.0!! Voters: *turns and look at a trans woman* Trans woman: *stern eyed, crooks corner of her mouth in a wintry half smile, lifts her chin, and gives the barest of nods* Voters: Madness? This!! Is!! MASSACHUSETTS!!! *kicks Moulton into a pit* 020
Reposted by Siderea, Sibylla BostoniensisTyler, from the Internet @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 29/08/2026what a time to be alive (derogatory) 501573403
Reposted by Siderea, Sibylla BostoniensisMike Hoerger, PhD, MSCR, MBA @michael-hoerger.bsky.social · 16/08/2026🚨BREAKING 🦠 On Friday, the US CDC arbitrarily shifted higher COVlD levels into lower categories depicted with cooler colors. Much of what was Very High is now "High." What was High is now "Moderate" or "Low." Low is "Very Low." 1/ 22916607
Reposted by Siderea, Sibylla BostoniensisWaldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 24/07/2026The claim “RFK Jr. does not fuck chickens” is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that RFK Jr. fucks chickens. 648173654129
Reposted by Siderea, Sibylla BostoniensisKori Schake @kschake.bsky.social · 24/07/2026"The violation of xenia and its consequences is one of the central preoccupations of Homer’s Odyssey, but whereas Homer treats this violation of xenia largely as an individual sin, Nolan transforms it into a civilizational one.” @bretdevereaux.bsky.social with the review I’ve been waiting for.foreignpolicy.comOdysseus at the End of CivilizationNolan’s film confronts the betrayal of the West’s own values. 111429
Reposted by Siderea, Sibylla BostoniensisDr. Wildlife @drwildlife.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Over 800 wildfires are burning across Canada right now. Canada also holds more than a quarter of the world's boreal forest and is warming at twice the global average rate. The smoke is the part getting attention. Here is everything else. 🧵 9482365
Reposted by Siderea, Sibylla Bostoniensishux | vtuber @1ocentz.bsky.social · 16/07/2026This is getting much more serious. Please limit your time outdoors please stay informed about the wildfire smoke and where it is headed. SHARE THIS MAP. I have such a bad headache and we live in one of the black spots. It's BARELY begun, here. I don't know what we are gonna do on Friday. 🥲 10812805
Reposted by Siderea, Sibylla BostoniensisMax Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 04/07/2026Today we celebrate the PDFing of "Declaration FINAL v3 USE THIS ONE - SIGNED.docx" (Jefferson's draft was heavily edited by the Committee, then again by Congress, and he was big mad about it.) 291825452
Siderea, Sibylla Bostoniensis @siderea.bsky.social · 04/07/2026I don't know who needs to know this, but having just learned there's places ACs are illegal for bs reasons: if you have a working fireplace, you theoretically could vent the waste heat of a portable AC out the chimney. That's what it's for, after all. Make sure the flue is open. 021
Reposted by Siderea, Sibylla BostoniensisAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25/06/2026JD Vance: "I think Nixon's historical legacy is enjoying a bit of a renaissance, and deservedly so. I joked that if Watergate happened tomorrow, it would be like a 12 hours news story. The idea that it took down a presidency is crazy." 211943501173
Reposted by Siderea, Sibylla BostoniensisChristophe Veltsos @drinfosec.bsky.social · 29/05/2026🚨🚨resource shared by Biff on XTwitter for both respiratory & gastro pathogen trends in the USA: "The BIOFIRE syndromic trends page is a good resource, for now: syndromictrends.com These are current U.S. positivity rates:" src: x.com/Biff234523/s... 132
Reposted by Siderea, Sibylla BostoniensisSasha Gusev @sashagusevposts.bsky.social · 23/05/2026I assigned random gender/ethnicity labels to scientific abstracts from the literature and then asked Claude to do a thematic analysis. Claude identified a clinical versus computational split for female/male authors and a DEI focus for Black/URM authors. All in completely random data. 26865340
Reposted by Siderea, Sibylla BostoniensisKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 18/05/2026The odds are better than normal that whoever's on the ballot as the Democrat in your district this November will win. So it's important this primary season to make sure that whoever that person is, they're committed to an aggressive agenda of reform and accountability once they take office. 261328331
Reposted by Siderea, Sibylla Bostoniensisanil oza @aniloza.bsky.social · 14/05/2026wow — the preprint host, arxiv, is banning authors for a year if they submit papers with hallucinated citations 🤖 9458121915
Reposted by Siderea, Sibylla BostoniensisEric Ravenscraft @lordravenscraft.bsky.social · 14/05/2026still not quite over the fact that i watched 15 year olds get sued for millions of dollars for downloading twelve songs and now we all have to accept AI slop because every tech company in the known universe decided that IP laws don't exist now that they're inconvenient for them 87175206744
Reposted by Siderea, Sibylla BostoniensisKim Lyons @kimly.bsky.social · 04/05/2026A detail I didn’t know: “The Herald entered the Epstein series for a Pulitzer Prize that year, but it was not a finalist. Alan Dershowitz … who helped broker Epstein’s original deal, wrote a letter to the Pulitzer committee that year, urging them not to honor Brown’s work.” share.inquirer.com/THMiUZshare.inquirer.comJulie K. Brown receives Pulitzer Prize special citation for her work on Jeffrey Epstein caseBrown's 2017 and 2018 reporting was cited at the awards ceremony. “Her work, and the government’s release of the Epstein files, continue to reverberate around the world.” 467022614
Reposted by Siderea, Sibylla BostoniensisBill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 04/05/2026I’ll be damned. The Pulitzer board did it. Good on them 76109272372
Reposted by Siderea, Sibylla BostoniensisChad Loder @chadloder.dev · 02/05/2026What is the common thread between purging the entire Federal civil service, war on DEI, war on the Southern Poverty Law Center, financial destabilization of HBCU's, curtailing of NEH cultural grants, rewriting of National Park Service sites, rollback of protections against predatory payday loans? 4610111
Reposted by Siderea, Sibylla BostoniensisErin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 16/04/20261. In a landmark ruling, the Montana Supreme Court has declared that the constitution, one of the most progressive in the nation, entirely protects transgender people. The ruling is even insulated from SCOTUS decisions, due to how state constitutions work. Subscribe to support our journalism.erininthemorning.comMontana Supreme Court Rules Its Constitution Entirely Protects Trans Citizens In Landmark RulingThe ruling will have enormous impacts for transgender residents in the state. 5979412390
Reposted by Siderea, Sibylla BostoniensisRyan Wiley @rdubwiley.bsky.social · 03/04/2026"People said X to you but it's really a euphemism for Y" will print money for you your entire career (no matter what you do) 1102
Reposted by Siderea, Sibylla Bostoniensisa hybrid signal @unknown.garden · 31/03/2026so i don't live there now but i am From Philly, it's meaningfully part of me even 20+ years out and i'm not into hockey but this guy has transcended mere hockey mascot, imo. i've been thinking about this kind of treatment for him basically since go & especially since they doubled down on the flag- 3756270
Reposted by Siderea, Sibylla Bostoniensisdeedotkurses @deedotk.bsky.social · 01/04/2026US women who changed their married name will have a difficult time registering to vote if the SAVE act passes. However, this site does the calculation for you, and shows in most cases, it will be cheaper/easier for you to change your name back to your maiden name. donimath.orgdonimath.orgThe Most Pro-Feminist Legislation in a Generation (We Checked the Math)The SAVE Act has given 69 million American women a financially compelling reason to reclaim their birth names. The Department of Nominal Independence did the math. Congress did not. 22218
Reposted by Siderea, Sibylla BostoniensisMr. Spock 🖖 @spockresists.bsky.social · 30/03/2026So apparently white Americans in Minneapolis are putting Mexican flags on their cars so ICE agents waste time pulling them over. They call it ICE fishing. 🧊 🎣 424116662961
Reposted by Siderea, Sibylla BostoniensisSphagnum Moss @mosssphagnum.bsky.social · 29/03/2026Pathogens are aerosol or airborne until they start spreading in workpkaces & might trigger occupational health protocols...then they are droplet 14715
Reposted by Siderea, Sibylla Bostoniensissam³⁰⁰⁰ @samgavin.com · 29/03/2026A remarkable photo from #NoKings in DTLA from Connor Sheets of @latimes.com www.latimes.com/california/l... 163135355008
Reposted by Siderea, Sibylla BostoniensisMike (beep boop era) @latimeriidae.bsky.social · 28/03/2026Walking thru the “Ultra Normie” No Kings rally in my extremely rural, white town and there are Patagonia wearing moms carrying signs that say “DEAD PEDOPHILES DONT REOFFEND” and “ICE GETS THE WALL” and I hi fived an old guy with a sign that said MY DADDY FOUGHT NAZIS AND SO WILL I” this is wild 100139852620
Reposted by Siderea, Sibylla BostoniensisKaram Bales @karambales.bsky.social · 25/03/2026CV Families' wins at the UK Covid Inquiry How the covid inquiry was educated about preventing airborne transmission is an example for other clean air campaigners @cv_cev open.substack.com/pub/counterd...open.substack.comCV Families' wins at the UK Covid InquiryHow the covid inquiry was educated about preventing airborne transmission is an example for other clean air campaigners 15527
Reposted by Siderea, Sibylla BostoniensisGoku Missile Crisis @babadooknukem.bsky.social · 22/03/2026every time some tech psycho giddily says unemployment could hit 30% soon I'm like ok man and then what. what happens after that usually. how about I give you fifteen minutes to skim wikipedia and then you can get back to me. its fine i'll wait 432510414
Reposted by Siderea, Sibylla BostoniensisLupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 19/03/2026Ppl will denigrate speaking out online saying ‘posting isn’t doing anything’ & also be like ‘4chan started our current Hitlerworld’ & ‘gamer gate farmed Nazis’ & I’m just asking for consistency Any playground where thoughts are exchanged matters that’s why the fascists heavily monitor them all now 161320339
Siderea, Sibylla Bostoniensis @siderea.bsky.social · 18/03/2026I'm seeing a lot of liberals stewing over how in his resignation letter, Kent framed Trump as having been deceived. Yall, that's the party norm. See Hawley's NYT OpEd re the OBBB last year. That's just how they do it over there. Cause it's a monarchy. 100
Reposted by Siderea, Sibylla BostoniensisDaniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 17/03/2026An EXTREMELY helpful thing folks can do, if they live near a federal courthouse, is volunteer for Habeas Dockets. Docs in habeas cases aren't viewable online by default. But they are at courthouses. This site makes them available/searchable for free. Helps lawyers a lot habeasdockets.org/volunteer/habeasdockets.orgVolunteer - Habeas Dockets 13278178
Siderea, Sibylla Bostoniensis @siderea.bsky.social · 18/03/2026Why the culture of BSky is terrible: Person 1: "Huh, this horrible person doing horrible things is doing them in the a way similar to this other historical horrible person, which is interesting & possibly informative." Persons 2-n: "Oh my god how dare you demand I empathize with a monster?!?!" 000
Reposted by Siderea, Sibylla BostoniensisJesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 17/03/2026“No deporting US citizens” is a CONCESSION??? 512891723
Reposted by Siderea, Sibylla BostoniensisKen Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 17/03/2026They’re telling me a great empire will be destroyed if I attack Persia. Even the oracles who don’t like me very much, very nasty, they all said to me, “Sir, it’s one of the great empires, and it’ll be destroyed. And all because you attacked Persia.” That’s what they’re telling me. 329203433675
Reposted by Siderea, Sibylla Bostoniensisgenna @genna.bsky.social · 14/03/2026JAILED FOR SIX MONTHS BY THE WAY. that has to be millions for her, no? What do you get for that. it better be SO MUCH 0132
Reposted by Siderea, Sibylla BostoniensisMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 15/03/2026Actually, Americans are just like you. ~20-30% of them genuinely support fascism, as in ~every 🇪🇺 country. You are just more fortunate to have political institutions & a multiparty system that prevent that 20-30% from fully capturing the center-right party, becoming 51%, & controlling the government. 18843241011
Reposted by Siderea, Sibylla BostoniensisLiz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 07/03/2026this should scare anyone who works for a hyperscaler, because your data centres, nay, your offices, could be viewed as legitimate targets of war. 49223
Reposted by Siderea, Sibylla BostoniensisJodi Jacobson @jljacobson.bsky.social · 06/03/2026Markwayne Mullin is awful and corrupt for many reasons. Not having a college degree is not one of them. I know plenty of people W/O degrees who have more moral backbone, smarts, common sense, and compassion than at least half of Congress. Mullin isn't one, but not bc he did not graduate college. 2448489
Reposted by Siderea, Sibylla BostoniensisJonathan Larsen @jonathanlarsen.bsky.social · 03/03/2026EXCLUSIVE: At more than 30 installations, U.S. commanders told troops the war on Iran is a Christian war. The Military Religious Freedom Foundation has been “inundated” with more than 110 complaints. One NCO said they were told the U.S. war is to bring about Armageddon and the return of Jesus…jonathanlarsen.substack.comU.S. Troops Were Told Iran War Is for “Armageddon,” Return of JesusAdvocacy group reports commanders giving similar messages at more than 30 installations in every branch of the military 1284127536323
Reposted by Siderea, Sibylla BostoniensisSiderea, Sibylla Bostoniensis @siderea.bsky.social · 25/02/2026I super appreciate your posting this, it sent me down a very rewarding rabbit hole. Updates since: • yesterday Canada announced it was going to try to break the blockade. • 6 hours ago, Trump announced US companies would start selling Venezuelan oil to Cubans, but not the govt. Thanks again! 111
Reposted by Siderea, Sibylla BostoniensisGillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 25/02/2026They won't start with banning birth control. First they'll lie about it. Then dictate who can prescribe it, use it, fund it, in what forms, and for how long. Suddenly, your doctor won't call you back. I know this is what they'll do because it's what they're doing to transgender healthcare right now. 187182126127
Reposted by Siderea, Sibylla BostoniensisDaniel Radosh @radosh.bsky.social · 23/02/2026If you threaten to kill one person that’s a TOS violation. If you threaten to kill a million people that’s discourse. 5818151
Reposted by Siderea, Sibylla BostoniensisMaryn McKenna @marynmck.bsky.social · 11/02/2026Babe, wake up, new sarcastic but entirely worthwhile internet abbreviation just dropped 112699880
