Reposted by matteAlice Averlong 🏳️⚧️ @alice.averlong.com · 08/10/2026the AI industry is full of people who would automate away playing with a kitten 191419320
Reposted by matteBookshop.org @bookshop.org · 06/10/2026Anti-Prime Day starts…NOW! 🥳 Today through midnight on 10/7, enjoy free shipping site-wide, all while supporting local, independent bookstores. 2854623342
Reposted by matteThomas Spooks 🎃👻💀 @thomasfuchs.at · 02/10/2026I do not understand people who think Ruby is a bad programming language. They must have never seen other programming languages. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 6123
Reposted by matteStannardLibrary @kwostan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026It is disappointing that @matz.bsky.social and @tenderlove.dev would sit next to DHH after his race baiting. You are supposed to be nice and welcoming, but you cannot be welcoming while sitting next to a fascist. 282
Reposted by matteAngry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026The same Brendan Carr who wanted to investigate NBC because Kamala was on SNL? The same Brendan Carr who wanted to dismantle independent fact checking and accused them of being a “censorship cartel?” Periodic reminder that the corruption is a feature, not a bug. 36656652248
Reposted by matteTimothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 01/10/2026#NoKings October 17th! Make a plan for October 17th. Make a plan to vote. www.nokings.orgnokings.orgNo KingsFor more than a year, millions of people have come together to send a clear message: in America, we have no kings. Power doesn't belong to billionaires, strongmen, or politicians who think they're abo... 10782303
Reposted by matteTimothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Anne Applebaum has been right about a lot of things and this is one. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...theatlantic.comMAGA Is Making the World Safe for CorruptionFar-right ideologues have transformed American foreign policy into a tool of private gain and antidemocratic reaction. 171052439
Reposted by matteBen Winters @benwinters.bsky.social · 29/09/2026that chatbot doing that unsafe/violative thing is not it 'going rogue' or an 'unfortunate incident of unintended consequences,' it’s the logical and devastating consequences of an unsafe product put out by irresponsible companies that have been conditioned to believe consequences dont exist for them 7790253
Reposted by matteAmyville Hoyrror @amyhoy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026it should simply not be legal for “ai” to generate photo-realistic images of people. or with people. they could limit the prompts to doing minor edits like fixing hair or or smoothing skin texture. they could do all these things. they actively choose not to. 113230
Reposted by matteAngry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Hurting the president’s feelings isn’t a national security threat Thank you for your attention to this matter. 516219994565
Reposted by matteDavid Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 12/09/2026I wrote this quickly at a bus stop and didn't realize it would go viral, or else I would have worded it better. But the point is that the media is too credulous about AI killing everyone in 10 years (how?) when climate change is killing people now and will only get worse (we know exactly how). 4156761559
Reposted by matteA.J. Wilden🏳️⚧️ @wcwit.bsky.social · 11/09/2026"They're not misunderstanding the film; they're co-opting a message" 52144975760
Reposted by matteKarl Bode @karlbode.com · 10/09/2026I maintain that gutting our regulators poses a much more disastrous threat than AI becoming self-aware and solylent greening the eastern seaboard yet curiously the press coverage of the former is muted at best, wonder why that is 713932
Reposted by matteLow Quality Facts @lowqualityfacts.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Death is heading toward Trump, but to everyone's dismay he is riding upon a snail. 6483
Reposted by mattederek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 06/09/2026this is the kind of design costume designers make to tell you who are the bad guys in a space movie 1272207223992
Reposted by matteAngry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 03/09/2026That is an incidence rate of… 0.00547% The voter fraud allegations you’ve been sold are blatantly and provably false. 835205167199
Reposted by matteAngry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 03/09/2026There’s no legitimate purpose for ICE to have this information. There are a ton of nefarious ones, though. 69283363716
Reposted by matteKatie Mack @astrokatie.com · 02/09/2026There are endless studies showing this and also the financial and societal benefits of universal basic income and or housing-first policies but the U.S. never goes for any of it because it would require allowing the poor to receive benefits that the rich consider “undeserved” 20591013162
Reposted by matteThe Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Trump did not rename Lake Ontario. Please do not accept his lies as if they were true. 619141
Reposted by matteMaggie Astor @maggieastor.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Updated Covid vaccines for the 2026-27 season have been approved by the FDA. Article to come. 171576327
Reposted by matteKendra, spooky version @kendrawcandraw.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Tim Curry and Dolly Parton have taught us not only that you should be bigger, weirder, gayer, and freakier, but also that those qualities are what people will love about you. The things that make you strange and amazing are the things that will resonate with other strange and amazing people 59220547589
Reposted by mattederek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 26/08/2026I appreciate that Dolly Parton refused to participate in "dress respectability" and, by her own account, modeled her aesthetic after a town "tramp," who she thought was beautiful. She separated aesthetics from character and understood "classiness" to be about how you treat people, not how you dress. 193354125285
Reposted by matteJohn Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Imagine if Republicans attacked hunger, pedophiles, racism, disease, genocide, poverty, and climate change the way they attack American voters. 32949306
Reposted by matteLow Quality Facts @lowqualityfacts.bsky.social · 24/08/2026I know that Elon Musk gets a lot of hate on here, but hear me out. I think we could hate him more. We have the capacity, we all just need to put in a little more effort. 1536071
Reposted by matteKatie Mack @astrokatie.com · 16/08/2026[redacted person who does not know whose mentions they wandered into]: In my city, the cyclists are so entitled, they act like they own the roads. Me: LET THE BIKES OWN THE ROADS. THE BIKES ARE FAR LESS DANGEROUS AND POLLUTING BY ABSOLUTELY EVERY MEASURE. MAKE THE CARS PAY TOLLS TO THE CYCLISTS. 331542204
Reposted by matteLow Quality Facts @lowqualityfacts.bsky.social · 15/08/2026That explains a lot. 1322622
Reposted by matteTimothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 14/08/2026🚨 Yet ANOTHER study finds "NO evidence that rising numbers of undocumented immigrants are linked with violent crime." There has NEVER been evidence to support this racist BS❗ Undocumented migration does not raise crime rates, huge study finds www.nature.com/articles/d41... via @nature.comnature.comUndocumented migration does not raise crime rates, huge study findsAnalysis of neighbourhoods in more than 100 US cities finds no evidence that rising numbers of undocumented immigrants are linked with violent crime. 7684268
Reposted by matteKevin M. Gill @kevinmgill.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Another thing about these data centers... Like all computing, AI will get more efficient and compact, requiring less and less physical space. These huge data centers will be filled for a few years, sure, then sit empty and decaying for a whole lot longer. 1286
Reposted by matteThomas Spooks 🎃👻💀 @thomasfuchs.at · 12/08/2026Even if you don’t care that Substack is sponsoring literal Nazis, as an author you should give a fuck about that it misleads and tries to trick and extract money from your readers. 0196
Reposted by matteMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Literally, the single most important, extreme, & completely disqualifying thing about any of the candidates in the Wisconsin gubernatorial race has been totally absent from the National & State Conversations™️ except for a few fact-checking orgs & passing mentions in paragraph 12-15 of some articles. 415251
Reposted by matte🔵Blue Dot Buckeye🔵#Blues 🦋💙🌊🗽🌪️ @buckivotesblue.bsky.social · 10/08/2026This cartoon by Matt Wuerker with Politico sums it up nicely! #Blues 188106453864
Reposted by matteThomas Spooks 🎃👻💀 @thomasfuchs.at · 08/08/2026Periodic reminder that Chrome is bad software. It's a personal data collector cosplaying as a web browser. Use other browsers, my personal recommendations are Safari (if you're on a Mac) and Vivaldi (works anywhere). Orion is worth a look too (no Windows version yet). 871613373
Reposted by matteTimothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 04/08/2026This is grotesque and fascist. 601062420
Reposted by matteErika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 03/08/2026It continues to fuck me up that we stay thinking about 9/11 but want to memory hole Covid so bad we're destroying the entire concept of public health in the US. 251801421
Reposted by matteJ @jkmiami89.bsky.social · 30/07/2026there literally are no good-faith concerns about trans girls participating in high school sports. it is children playing games with their friends, its about confidence and relationship-building. let kids play with their friends. 282399458
Reposted by matteAngry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 30/07/2026The GOP is desperately trying to rewrite history, but just a reminder that Donald Trump was president during the lockdowns, and he awarded Fauci a presidential commendation for his work on COVID. Thank you for your attention to this matter. 241114223867
Reposted by matteJay Willis @jaywillis.net · 24/07/2026It is political malpractice for Democratic senators to be helping Trump fill judicial vacancies four months before the midterms. Completely unserious people.ballsandstrikes.substack.comI Am Begging Senate Democrats to Do Anything Other Than Help Confirm Trump JudgesFour months before the 2026 midterms, three Democratic lawmakers have decided to give a historically unpopular president a little boost. 10556421340
Reposted by matteThomas Spooks 🎃👻💀 @thomasfuchs.at · 24/07/2026You know Bluesky, it wouldn't be illegal if you'd cut off tracking code from URLs you post in from other websites, e.g. the tracking crap when you share YouTube links. Do it by default and make it opt-out for people who need for some nefarious reason. 2112
![In the United States, there have been 103,436,829[3] confirmed cases of COVID-19 with 1,238,563[3] confirmed deaths, the most of any country, and the 17th highest per capita worldwide.[43] The COVID-19 pandemic ranks as the deadliest disaster in the country's history.[44] It was the third-leading cause of death in the U.S. in 2020, behind heart disease and cancer.[45] From 2019 to 2020, U.S. life expectancy dropped by three years for Hispanic and Latino Americans, 2.9 years for African Americans, and 1.2 years for White Americans.[46] In 2021, U.S. deaths due to COVID-19 rose,[47] and life expectancy fell.[48]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ty2kxmxjmtealqi2kc7f4pww/bafkreiej6o22cdapxm6lj3rgrrznhhijzm5kpcjmvscemg2g7vg4tzm7na)
