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Shana | Solve For Better

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Climate futurism. Narrative strategy and storytelling to get us visualizing a climate-stabilized future that is abundant, lush, and joyful. #ClimateSky #Solarpunk #NPcomms

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Shana | Solve For Better @solveforbetter.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
In the end, it was the Sunday afternoons he couldn't cope with, and that terrible listlessness which starts to set in at about 2:55, when you know that you've had all the baths you can usefully have that day, that however hard you stare at any given paragraph in the papers you will never actually read it, or use the revolutionary new pruning technique it describes, and that as you stare at the clock the hands will move relentlessly on to four o'clock, and you will enter the long dark teatime of the soul.
Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #3)
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Shana | Solve For Better @solveforbetter.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Hey SF Bay Area: what are you doing August 6? You're going to this hearing to tell PG&E: no shutoffs for any reason, ever #ClimateJustice #SanFrancisco #BayArea #Energy 💡
Screenshot of an email to a customer from PG&E. Text reads: Notice of Public
Participation Hearing
Dear PG&E Customer:
You are invited to participate in a Public Participation Hearing regarding Order Instituting Rulemaking to consider new approaches to disconnections and
reconnections to improve energy access and contain costs (R. 18-07-005).
August 6 at 2 p.m. and 6 p.m.
(remote only)
Webcast: adminmonitor.com/ca/gov
Phone number: 1-800-857-1917
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Shana | Solve For Better @solveforbetter.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
May I suggest a self-care purchase from @idaolson.bsky.social www.etsy.com/listing/4299...
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Shana | Solve For Better @solveforbetter.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Should have said, "wrong answers only" For me it's giving "sworn enemy of the Rainbow Warrior" vibes
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Shana | Solve For Better @solveforbetter.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Seen on the San Francisco Bay. What would you say is the story here? #ClimateSky #GreenSky #EnergySky
A very large red boat, a cargo ship. The name of the boat, stenciled on the side, is ECO NEMESIS
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Shana | Solve For Better @solveforbetter.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Looking at these packages makes me feel like family legend The Man Who Couldn't Read
Photo of a rectangular grocery package. Package text reads, "Vim Skurpulver"
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Shana | Solve For Better @solveforbetter.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
This cat is dressed for Halloween 365 days a year:
Color photo of a orange, brown, black, and white calico cat sitting on a blue-gray blanket
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Shana | Solve For Better @solveforbetter.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
"I'm ready for my closeup" #caturday #cat
Photo of a calico cat shoving her face up toward the camera
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Shana | Solve For Better @solveforbetter.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
This elder cat has a message for you today: bask in any kindness the universe shows you #caturday #cat
Photo of a calico cat lying on her back on a blanket receiving belly rubs.
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Shana | Solve For Better @solveforbetter.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
This beloved cat is 22 years old. The secret to her longevity? She is flexible and resilient. (Not to mention the fact that she gets just about everything she wants.) #caturday #cat
Closeup photo of a calico cat reclining across the top of a sofa. Her eyes are half-closed and a beam of sunlight falls across her head and chest.
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Shana | Solve For Better @solveforbetter.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
If you image search "Night Out for Safety and Liberation" you will find amazing art, like this piece by Emulsify: emulsify.art/cpp-ella-bak...
Poster. Text reads "#SafetyIs Care Not Cages. Night Out for Safety and Liberation." Vibrant illustrations show community members sitting on a bench together and gardening together.
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Shana | Solve For Better @solveforbetter.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Initially sponsored by the Ella Baker Center, I'm not able to tell the status of the current campaign. But the seeds are taking root everywhere -- I see events planned for 2025
Poster. Text reads, "night out for safety and liberation. Tuesday, August 5, 2025. NOHO Park 4pm -7pm. Join us for a night of free food, family, fun, music and local speakers. Hosted byJillian Burgos." illustration shows a multiracial group of people with their back to us, arm in arm, facing a starry night sky with balloons.
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Shana | Solve For Better @solveforbetter.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Urgent action needed – Happening right now in California – Will was detained at SFO: Will is a beloved son, brother, student, and community member. Like everyone else, he deserves to receive due process and have access to legal counsel – not to be disappeared by federal agents. thread 1/
Vibrant wedding photo with the words "RELEASE WILL NOW" superimposed on top
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Shana | Solve For Better @solveforbetter.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
I was beyond delighted to get the PEOPLE DISPLEASER mug I ordered for my wife -- made by @idaolson.bsky.social Little Eden Pottery
An off-white handmade ceramic mug with blood-red trim. Stamped into the mug, near the bottom, are the words: PEOPLE DISPLEASER
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Shana | Solve For Better @solveforbetter.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Don't let anyone from San Francisco punk you, Saeed. This is what it looks like the other 364 days a year
Photo of the Golden Gate Bridge on the northern neighborhoods of San Francisco. The neighborhoods are draped in dense layers of fog.Photo of a pier, palm trees, and Bay water in San Francisco. The palm trees are fading away into dense fog.Photo of the San Francisco skyline. Only the front most buildings, including an ornate church are visible. The skyline appears into thick layers of fog.Photo taken in San Francisco's Alamo Square, with a row of Victorians known as the "painted ladies" in the foreground. Behind those houses is a dense sky-high wall of fog obscuring all of San Francisco's famous skyline, even obscuring the Transamerica pyramid, Salesforce tower, and the Bay Bridge
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Shana | Solve For Better @solveforbetter.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
This cat is 22 years old and wants you to know that A) sunshine is very important; and B) everything's gonna be ok
Color photo of a calico cat sitting on a bed. The cat is lounging in a partial patch of sun with one paw super-extended out as if to say, "everything's gonna be ok"
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Shana | Solve For Better @solveforbetter.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
I chortled at this note from @tedfickes.bsky.social #NPcomms #newsletter #DigitalStrategy
Screenshot of a newsletter. Text reads: 
Stop thinking about creating keyword rich content. Stop writing blog posts that reformat reports and press releases. And, in the name of all that is still good and joyful in the world, stop sending “newsletters” that are simply monthly recaps of links to stuff you posted last month.

Think about what your audience needs, uses, wants. Have a point of view. Bring stories, data, experiences and answers to their questions. Engage in conversation, learning, listening and not simply talking or press release-ing.
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Shana | Solve For Better @solveforbetter.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
"Every version of the future we desire will require some kind of repair. When we collectively create a culture of repair, we all get free." -- @intelligentmischief on Instagram
Graphic. Main text reads, "What if we repaired the harm, faced our fears, and emerged transformed?" Text at bottom reads: "The fever of revolution, upholding rights, sweet as fine honey. I promised I would try. Sorrow comes as a prelude to happiness." 
In the digital illustration, a cosmic background features innumerable purple moons and a large moon rock hill in the background. In the foreground, two Black people walk along a pier -- one is swinging his arms as if marching. Their eyes are covered. Below the pier is shimmery green-yellow water.
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Shana | Solve For Better @solveforbetter.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
THAT'S GREAT IT STARTS WITH AN EARTHQUAKE BIRDS AND SNAKES AND AEROPLANES LENNY BRUCE IS NOT AFRAID
Julie Andrews in The Sound of Music playing an acoustic guitar outside for some of the Von Trapp kids
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Shana | Solve For Better @solveforbetter.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Put on your seatbelt. We're getting to 40M by July 4
Screenshot of the stats page on bskycheck.com. Stats project that bluesky will add 1M users in 26 days, and that Bluesky will reach 40M users on August 24, 2025. The reasons that I'm confidently saying we'll beat that projection by over a month are that I'm terminally optimistic and I was an English major in college.
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Shana | Solve For Better @solveforbetter.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Screenshot of a web menu item. Text reads "I'm in this photo and I don't like it"
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Shana | Solve For Better @solveforbetter.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
This is pretty similar to the kind I used at my grandparents' house growing up, and it worked pretty well.
Photo of a nutcracker and two pointed stick tools. The nutcracker has two arms and looks like an inverted V.
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Shana | Solve For Better @solveforbetter.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Just reading an article from KQED, my local PBS affiliate, about how I can be better prepared for the next tsunami warning and... oh no
Screenshot of a KQED article. Text reads: Who sends tsunami alerts, and how serious are they? 
Monterey-based National Weather Service meteorologist Brian Garcia told KQED that local offices are “wholly and completely dependent” on the National Tsunami Warning Center, which is run by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration — a federal agency that faced major cuts by President Donald Trump. 
When the Center issues a tsunami warning, “it triggers the Wireless Emergency Alert that hits your phones immediately from their office,” Garcia said. “So it doesn’t even come to our local [NWS] office.
This part of the text is highlighted: "which is run by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration — a federal agency that faced major cuts by President Donald Trump."
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Shana | Solve For Better @solveforbetter.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Hey communicators - Need a fresh idea for Pi Day? (That's Friday 3/14) It's a great day for pie charts! There are a zillion charts out there, but if you have your own data, pie charts are super easy to make in Excel (with your brand colors!) #NPcomms #Communications #Marketing #PiDay #Budget
Screenshot of a graphic. Title reads: Graphic A: FY2024 Discretionary Funding (Enacted), By Appropriations Bill. Below that is a pie chart. The largest wedge of the pie is labeled Defense 49.5%. The other wedges are significantly smaller. The next largest wedge is Labor-HHS-Edu (13.5%). At bottom text reads: Source: Appropriations Committee Release 2024 Government Funding Legislation (House Appropriations Committee - Democrats)
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Shana | Solve For Better @solveforbetter.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
A few more photos from Berkeley's Tesla protest #TeslaTakedown All photos have alt text!
Photo from Tesla protest in Berkeley, CA on Saturday, Feb 15, 2025. Closeup of a person holding a sign that reads, "Down with King Musk. Tesla isa  Nazi wagon." Photo by Shana DeClercqPhoto from Tesla protest in Berkeley, CA on Saturday, Feb 15, 2025. Crowd shot. One sign reads: "Nazi Elon Must Go" and includes a photo of Elon Musk making a Nazi salute with a red "no" circle in front." Photo by Shana DeClercqPhoto from Tesla protest in Berkeley, CA on Saturday, Feb 15, 2025. Snapshot of a parent and child. The parent wears a shirt that reads "No quarter for fascists" and shows a person wrangling a snake in the shape of the fascist cross. Photo by Shana DeClercqPhoto from Tesla protest in Berkeley, CA on Saturday, Feb 15, 2025. A person wearing a red mask and brown jacket holds a cardboard sign with hand-lettering that reads, "Make America sane again. Deport Musk! Photo by Shana DeClercq
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Shana | Solve For Better @solveforbetter.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Check this out: over 200 energized people rallied at the Berkeley, California Tesla location. #TeslaTakedown Journalists - if you need high-res: my DMs are open
Photo from Tesla protest in Berkeley, CA on Saturday, Feb 15, 2025. Closeup of two protestors holding signs. One sign reads, "Fyre Elon." Photo by Shana DeClercqPhoto from Tesla protest in Berkeley, CA on Saturday, Feb 15, 2025. Wide shot of a crowd that was over 200 people. Photo by Shana DeClercqPhoto from Tesla protest in Berkeley, CA on Saturday, Feb 15, 2025. Closeup of a sign that reads, "Please do not feed the oligarchs." Photo by Shana DeClercqPhoto from Tesla protest in Berkeley, CA on Saturday, Feb 15, 2025. Crowd shot. One sign reads: "SCOTUS 6 = JUDGE OVERRULED." Another hand-drawn sign reads, "F-ELON." Photo by Shana DeClercq
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Shana | Solve For Better @solveforbetter.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Necessary reading:
Screenshot of linked essay. Text reads: Living Abolition Now: Strategies for Resistance and Reconstruction

Abolition is not a distant ideal; it is a daily practice. We can begin by:

Reinvesting in Mutual Aid: Food pantries, bail funds, housing assistance, and free health clinics are abolition in action, providing immediate relief while challenging systemic neglect.
Strengthening Intergenerational Ties: Our elders hold wisdom, and our youth hold vision. Strengthening these connections ensures that movements remain dynamic and adaptable.
Rejecting Carceral Logic: True safety does not come from policing and punishment but from community accountability and transformative justice.
Centering Black Queer and Trans People: If abolition is not for the most marginalized, it is not for any of us. Ensuring that Black queer and trans voices are prioritized is essential to a truly liberatory future.
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Shana | Solve For Better @solveforbetter.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
GLB without the T is like… PB without the J Cinnabon without the swirl Beyoncé without Formation Friends without Phoebe Girlfriends without Tracee Ellis Ross Barbie without Issa Rae or Rhea Perlman Doctor Who without their companion US without the A #LGBT #EO #Transgender #TransgenderRights #TDOR
Graphic. Text is: LGBT. Behind the T is a sun and behind that is a cosmic rainbow swirl.
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Shana | Solve For Better @solveforbetter.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
New Disney+/Hulu terms in my email today. As a result of #2, I'm gonna need to initiate #1 No ads means no ads means no ads. As more and more corporations steamroll over basic questions of consent, more and more of us need to get more spicy + more willing to walk/roll away. Especially in the U.S.
Screenshot of email text which reads: [BULLET] "We’re adding information regarding billing and payment processes, and reflecting that you may “pause” your subscription.

[BULLET] We are clarifying that, as we continue to increase the breadth and depth of the content we make available to you, circumstances may require that certain titles and types of content include ads, even in our 'no ads' or 'ad free' subscription tiers.
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Shana | Solve For Better @solveforbetter.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Without downloading any new pics, where are you mentally?
Twitter/X screenshot from Tim Walz. "Elon Musk is a terrible president"
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Shana | Solve For Better @solveforbetter.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
In an inbox crammed with end-of-year fundraising appeals, some of which are literally like GIVE MONEY NOW... ...the one that stands out to me reads: ▶️ Nature has no boss. Why should we? #Fundraising #NPcomms #EOY
Screenshot of an inbox full of fundraising appeals.Screenshot of an inbox full of fundraising appeals.
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Shana | Solve For Better @solveforbetter.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
The next time I do an alt text writing exercise, I'm using this image. How exactly would YOU describe what you see here? #TessaThompson #Thor #Valkyrie #AltText #Accessibility #DigitalAccessibility #VisuallyImpaired #Blind #DisabilityJustice
Photo of Tessa Thompson in her costume as Valkyrie, with hands on hips. Tessa Thompson whose roots are Afro-Panamanian, white, and Mexican, appears with her hair parted and gathered in a top knot on her head, and the rest of her hair flows down her back. Two white lines of fine geometric shapes run from her left eyebrow to her cheekbone. She is wearing a metallic-looking tunic and a metallic forearm-guard-gauntlet that includes fine chain mail over the wrist. A metallic and leather belt runs diagonally over her tunic. She looks like a badass warrior.
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Shana | Solve For Better @solveforbetter.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
What's HOT in nonprofit fundraising in 2025: say who you are, what you do, and why it's important, in a concise and relatable way What to DROP in nonprofit fundraising in 2025: false urgency, guilt, corporate tactics #NPcomms #Fundraising #Development #Communication #MarComms #EOY
Screenshot of an email inbox filled with end of year appeals. Subject lines read: "Last Chance to Support The Crucible in 2024!" and "As Sunrise’s CFO, I wanted to talk to you about our budget" and "Celebrate 30 Years of Progress with the Budget Center" and "[Match Ending] Don’t miss out!" and so on.
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Shana | Solve For Better @solveforbetter.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
You need Emoji Kitchen! You can combine any two emoji. Works better on desktop I think, but here is mobile
Screenshot of Emoji Kitchen. At left is the emoji of face with hand on brow. At center is the emoji for tongue sticking out. At right is the combined emoji with hand on forehead and tongue sticking out.
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Shana | Solve For Better @solveforbetter.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
Social media is like life... you never know when it's your last day or your last tweet: #Twitter #LastTweet
Screenshot of a tweet. Text reads: look "ketchup" makes a ton of sense
but "catsup" is waaaay easier to type
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Shana | Solve For Better @solveforbetter.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
Cat seated at table, awaiting her plate of human food, as well as fork and napkin
Photo of a calico cat seated on a chair, facing the table, as if waiting for a plate of food
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Shana | Solve For Better @solveforbetter.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
Middle aged cat photo from 2016. "I'm gonna sort out your nonsense."
Photo of a calico cat striding across furniture towards the camera.
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Shana | Solve For Better @solveforbetter.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
Elder cat reading The Economist
Photo of a calico cat, taken from behind. She is seated, looking down, and appears to be reading The Economist.
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Shana | Solve For Better @solveforbetter.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
My wife is looking at old photos of 23(!) year old cat, and let me tell you: this cat has always been hilarious
Photo of a calico cat peeking her head out of a moving box. Her eyes are catching the reflection and appear to be projecting white light.
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Shana | Solve For Better @solveforbetter.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
Hey Bluesky: I need your help. I want to give my dad a biography of Shirley Chisholm - as an audiobook. The challenge is: there are several biographies. I need your recommendations about either the best biography or the best audiobook. Thoughts? #history #historian #ShirleyChisholm #BlackLeadership
Black and white photo of Shirley Chisholm. She is facing the camera, wearing hornrimmed glasses, small hoop earrings, and a patterned dress.
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Shana | Solve For Better @solveforbetter.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Screenshot of Ars Technica article. "Perhaps most critically, key findings accuse Amazon of manipulating workplace injury data by 'cherry-picking' data instead of confronting the alleged fact that "an analysis of the company's data shows that Amazon warehouses recorded over 30 percent more injuries than the warehousing industry average in
2023. The report also alleged that Amazon lied to federal regulators about injury data, discouraged workers from receiving outside care to hide injuries, and terminated injured workers while on approved medical leave."
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Shana | Solve For Better @solveforbetter.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Can orange-calico cats support union power too? This one's been agitating for workers' rights since 2002
Photo of a calico cat, seated on a sofa, facing the camera. Her ears are at 3 and 10 o'clock
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Shana | Solve For Better @solveforbetter.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Alright nerds of Bluesky – please confirm that this is a) correct and b) funny. Feel free to nerdsplain to me
Screenshot of white code text on a black background. Text reads (punctuation omitted) while alive live laugh love
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Shana | Solve For Better @solveforbetter.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
This thread is a safe space where you share your favorite (or least favorite) Giving Tuesday subject line or pitch. #GivingTuesday #NPcomms #Fundraising #Nonprofits
Screenshot of my email inbox. Subject lines read, "Giving Tuesdayh for the Yuba," "3X your IMPACT for Giving Tuesday" "Shana, double your biking impact" and so forth.
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Shana | Solve For Better @solveforbetter.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Screenshot of NPR's Bluesky profile. 
Pop-up banner reads, "No longer following NPR"
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Shana | Solve For Better @solveforbetter.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
Also, user safety tools have vastly improved over the last year. Here's a non-comprehensive list:
A Probably Incomplete List of Bluesky User Safety Mechanisms

Protecting your posts
• disabling replies on your posts
• limiting replies on your posts to people you follow, mention, or include in specific lists
• disabling quote posting on your posts
• detaching your post from someone else's quote
• changing the above interaction settings even after a post is sent hiding replies to your posts for yourself or for everyone
• self-labeling your media for adult or graphic content to protect other users
• limiting account visibility only to logged in users
• note: this is not 100% enforceable but all major bluesky clients and apps support it

Limiting your interaction
• blocking users from seeing or interacting with your posts
• if you block after an interaction, they vaporize
• if they've replied already, the entire thread below their reply is cauterized for everyone, floating in space detached from your post
• note: your blocks are publicly visible via 3rd party apps
• muting users to remove them from your notis and feeds, and hide them in replies
• note: your mutes are private
• muting or blocking entire moderation lists of users
• note: inclusion in a list is public via third party apps. muting a list is private, blocks via a list are public
• subscribing to other people's mod lists
• note: your subscription is private, muting & blocking work the same
• subscribing to labelers (moderation services) from bluesky or third parties
o decide whether to show, warn, or hide posts that have been labeled in each category
• report content that should be labeled to bluesky and/or third parties labelers
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Shana | Solve For Better @solveforbetter.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
For the last several days, every time I log into Bluesky, or change profiles, the app displays this post. I'm not mad about it.
Screenshot of Bluesky post.
Text reads: 
Me voting for Hilary in 2016 vs me voting for Kamala in 2024.
Left-hand image shows a tidy picture of Sigourney Weaver in her astronaut uniform smiling at the camera Optimistically. 
Right-hand image shows Sigourney Weaver clinging to the male lead of the movie as he faces front holding a massive weapon. They both look terrified.

Post by Angelle of Death @cityofangelle.bsky.social
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Shana | Solve For Better @solveforbetter.bsky.social · 11/10/2024
Report on extreme weather from here:
Photo of an oil refinery. Smoke is billowing out from several smokestacks
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Shana | Solve For Better @solveforbetter.bsky.social · 11/10/2024
Organizing an event? Never do this: #Accessibility #Accomodations #ADA #DisabiliyJustice
Screenshot of a part of an event registration form. Text reads: 
Can we do anything to help you better access our event? *
i.e. do you require any of the below accommodations?
Developmental (i.e. autism, down syndrome)
Behavioral or Emotional (i.e. ADD, bipolar)
Sensory - Deaf or Limited Hearing
Sensory - Blind or Visually Impaired
I do not require any accommodations.
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Shana | Solve For Better @solveforbetter.bsky.social · 11/10/2024
Massive letters that spell out PUCK
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