Reposted by Risk Purveyorit's me 🫠 or is it?? @thayet.net · 21/08/2026people should be morally outraged about every dimension of what happened to Aaron Swartz, enough to want to utterly dismantle the system that did it to him, but instead more and more people have decided it should happen to more people instead 4466 46
Reposted by Risk PurveyorTom Steyer @tomsteyerhq.bsky.social · 02/06/2026Californians in walkable, diverse, livable neighborhoods with strong public transit options — that's our future. 549258 492
Reposted by Risk PurveyorBill Amend @billamend.bsky.social · 16/02/2026Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon… 212293885659 29.4K
Reposted by Risk PurveyorToussaint Egan @thesaintoftous.bsky.social · 09/01/2026I saw this video of a Vietnam vet in the fur coat yelling at ICE and thought to myself, "this is missing something," before I realized, "Ah, of course, the Ether instrumental. It's so obvious." 1190842734 9.1K
Risk Purveyor @snrisk.bsky.social · 23/09/2025Everyone who agrees to be interviewed by Chotiner is just this tweet personified 030 3
Reposted by Risk Purveyorlibrary of alexandria d'addario @edwardabbeysghost.bsky.social · 04/07/2025hey quick question: why did you grant anonymity to a source whose identity is already published and easily accessible? was it because he's an avowed eugenicist and white supremacist? or simply because you're a moron? 470813 708
Reposted by Risk PurveyorJupiter Hansen (Cheng) @jupforjupiter.bsky.social · 26/06/2025Check out our new paper in Science Advances! 🧪🔭🪐 We show that Vesta’s giant equatorial troughs—Divalia Fossae—likely formed from spin axis reorientation and despinning as a long-term consequence of the two massive impacts near the south poles. 🪨⚒️ www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...science.orgReorientation and despinning of 4 Vesta formed the Divalia FossaeThe Divalia Fossae are formed by tectonic stresses from reorientation and despinning of Vesta caused by large impacts. 35010 50
Reposted by Risk PurveyorMatthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 05/06/2025I strongly believe in a true abundance agenda: -Open borders (goods + people) -UBI funded by land value taxes -Zoning Reform -Gov't investment in renewable energy I think this agenda could make the country more prosperous with minimal market disruption/redistribution It polls at probably 12% 36639108 639
Reposted by Risk PurveyorAnil Dash @anildash.com · 01/06/2025Please don’t use my friend’s name to make this point in this way, especially inaccurately. He was *not* sentenced. And the JSTOR articles he wanted people to have unfettered access to, including for purposes of machine learning analysis, are also copyrighted material. You can just critique OpenAI. 249684 496
Reposted by Risk PurveyorSky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 26/04/2025Love getting the exact same baseless arguments I’ve heard a billion times regurgitated at me. Did you know ai will use 69% of all electricity and bajillion gallons of water? Unrelated here’s a vid of a guy running deepseek on a raspi/w7700 (under 200w power consumption!) youtu.be/o1sN1lB76EA?...youtu.beOpenAI's nightmare: Deepseek R1 on a Raspberry PiYouTube video by Jeff Geerling 2323615 236
Reposted by Risk Purveyorspeedy @ prepping for GATEway FATE! @luckymiqo.bsky.social · 08/04/2025Tuesday at last… Good luck with your prog this week raiders! #ffxiv #ffxivideos #ffxivmeme 1924501437 2.5K
Reposted by Risk PurveyorBeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 07/04/2025if only the Tsar knew that he was getting bad advice! 3083489 834
Risk Purveyor @snrisk.bsky.social · 05/04/2025When I lived in Beijing circa 2019, the only thing Beijingers wanted to talk about with a white guy who spoke mandarin was the trade war, which to me at the time felt like small potatoes. I wonder what they are thinking now. 020 2
Reposted by Risk PurveyorAnkit Panda @nktpnd.bsky.social · 04/04/2025The future of the Democratic Party should be trans rights and trans Pacific partnerships. 733965 339
Reposted by Risk PurveyorMatt @tiredgenerally.bsky.social · 04/04/2025the emperor’s favorite concubine fired one of his top internal security officers while rumors abound that the household eunuch has lost the emperors favor 14298592024 9.9K
Reposted by Risk Purveyor"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 13/03/2025So, first: I hope no one was hurt. That serious thing said... That's definitely warpfire and y'all need to get folks down there to check for a Skaven undercity, like, yesterday or you're going to be neck-deep in clanrats in like, a week, tops. 2550593 505
Reposted by Risk PurveyorPride Ott 🦦 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ @hikoukihikouki9.bsky.social · 04/03/2025Dems have been telling this noble lie forever that free trade hasn’t been beneficial to the vast majority of Americans and Trump has forced them to acknowledge how they’ve been lying through their teeth this whole time lol 2546 54
Reposted by Risk Purveyor28 Days Lehner 🪦 @danlehner.bsky.social · 16/02/2025pretty on board with the “billionaires shouldn’t exist if only because they clearly wield uncheckable power in all aspects of civil society, even if taxing them doesn’t pay for as much as people claim” position 533257 332
Reposted by Risk PurveyorMax Dubler 🏳️🌈 @maxdubler.com · 16/02/2025This is what blue state climate denial looks like. www.sfchronicle.com/california-w...sfchronicle.comState Farm’s bid for emergency California rate hike deniedThe California Insurance Commissioner said State Farm would need to provide ‘real answers’ about why they should pay more, in the wake of the L.A. fires. 923730 237
Reposted by Risk PurveyorGeorge Pearkes @peark.es · 12/02/2025It’s also a problem that large swaths of the left (esp online) advocated for full employment type policy, got it (from both electeds *and* the Federal freakin’ Reserve), and then spent two years screeching about how bad it was. Unforgivably bad political messaging. 949271 492
Reposted by Risk PurveyorMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 03/02/2025New — @indivisible.org is holding a protest at the Treasury Building 5pm this Tuesday to take action against Elon Musk's hostile takeover 231503588 1.5K
Reposted by Risk PurveyorBill McKay @mckay4senate.bsky.social · 24/01/2025We finally found out whether those “I would let Native Americans kill me if they wanted to” people were serious. Shockingly, no! 41197 119
Reposted by Risk PurveyorBill McKay @mckay4senate.bsky.social · 24/01/2025>“You can’t oppose another country if it means hurting their civilians, even if that country was a democracy and its actions theoretically reflect the will of the people” >red triangle in bio 833250 332
Reposted by Risk Purveyorryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 22/01/2025very good section in Tom Ricks' civil rights history on this. MLK et al saw that the media reacted 10000% more to white activists getting the exact same beatings as Black ones, and were like "man, that is incredibly racist. now, get those white folks up front, right next to the cops" 337074 370
Reposted by Risk Purveyorelonmusgraves.bsky.social @elonmusgraves.bsky.social · 22/01/2025US wealth inequality very meaningfully declined through the last 5 years but it was in no small part a direct consequence of the wage-cost differential shifts you're mad about. workers wage gains and deflation *categorically* cannot coexist. 38620 86
Reposted by Risk PurveyorMaia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 17/01/2025the tech chuds are so used to doing rails that they're gonna get their entire faces onto the third one 1202 20
Risk Purveyor @snrisk.bsky.social · 12/01/2025Classic NYT 1-2. Publish stories to get Trump elected for years, then have some mild criticism of him so they can try to shame libs into giving them money. 170 7
Reposted by Risk Purveyormtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 10/01/2025How destroying 10,000 homes at the top of the market causes rents to balloon all the way down the income ladder should feel intuitive and yet people resist the idea that building new homes at the top of the market can lower rents for middle class people even tho its the same process in reverse 251035202 1K
Risk Purveyor @snrisk.bsky.social · 08/01/2025[Sadly, having to say this well outside of an election season] Nate Bronze 010 1
Risk Purveyor @snrisk.bsky.social · 07/01/2025What's amazing about Trump is that he listened to a bunch of left wing criticisms of Bush II foreign policy that ended up not being true, but said to himself "It would be great if we did that". He thinks Iraq was bad because we didn't steal their oil. 010 1
Reposted by Risk Purveyormtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 06/01/2025leaving aside the transportation side, "there should be a free alternative to soda if there's a soda tax" like... i'm at a loss to how people's brains work. 1638228 382
Reposted by Risk PurveyorBoo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 06/01/2025This is not socialism, it’s just sparkling libertarianism 1742 74
Reposted by Risk PurveyorBoo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 06/01/2025This is also why I don’t think of making people more anti-establishment as a net good like some on the Left - a lot of times it just makes weird cranks with incomprehensible politics and those people may not actually be your allies. 410811 108
Reposted by Risk PurveyorBoo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 06/01/2025There are a lot of people who have vague anti-establishment views who hooked onto the Bernie surge in 2016 and still claim the left that would have been all-in for Ron Paul in 2012 if they had more exposure to him. 215113 151
Reposted by Risk PurveyorJean-Michel Connard @torriangray.bsky.social · 05/01/2025Stuff like this is just repackaged body shaming. People hate fat people when they’re fat and they hate them even more if they try to not be fat. Leave people alone. 2261769 617
Reposted by Risk PurveyorShagNasty @shagnasty.bsky.social · 05/01/2025It’s really unhinged how desperately people want Ozempic to cause some delayed public health catastrophe. I personally hope it works out for everyone! 31043 104
Reposted by Risk PurveyorStarfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 03/01/2025This country’s brain rot is too severe for a proper civil war or domestic insurgency. Less Years of Lead, more Years of Microplastics as a Wisconsin dairy farmer detonates a nuke under the White House because elves stole his peanut butter. 924233 242
Risk Purveyor @snrisk.bsky.social · 27/12/2024One of the key advantages of democracy is the ability to course correct. We have a fighting shot at getting onto a better path in the US, but China basically has to hope Xi dies and then they get lucky with whoever wins out next. Much harder to win a dice roll once per generation vs 4 years 020 2
Reposted by Risk PurveyorNicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 23/12/2024You don't need to imagine a Trump foreign policy. He was president already. Bombed a govt the US hadn't before (Syria), killed a foreign commander for the first time since WWII (Iran), broke treaties, launched drone strikes, more. Agree/disagree with any of that, anti-war or pro-restraint it is not. 517727 177
Reposted by Risk PurveyorMoira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 20/12/2024There is no speech that is more dangerous and more reliably punished than that of sexual misconduct accusers, who should be foregrounded in every discussion of the state of free expression in America. 126151 261
Reposted by Risk PurveyorDavid Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 19/12/2024This thing already doesn't have the votes if the Dem caucus stays united. And they should be united: no deal without eliminating the debt limit. 27992137 992
Reposted by Risk PurveyorMichael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 13/12/2024Pundits keep pretending that RFK Jr is "anti Big Pharma" but that is just what anti-vaxxers say to make their ideas seem palatable. He constantly promotes Ivermectin and Hydroxychloroquine, both of which are produced by pharma companies. 10762171481 6.2K
Risk Purveyor @snrisk.bsky.social · 11/12/2024The promise of having this guys still around is that they could win elections. They have failed to win this election, so what, exactly, are they still around for? 000 0
Risk Purveyor @snrisk.bsky.social · 11/12/2024I am somewhat skeptical we will know what the effects of this treatment will be on an adult person in less than 18 years. 010 1