SB @stephestellar.bsky.social · 2hThis is the only thing I know, and that I want/need to know, about Mike Tomlin 000
Reposted by SBRaven Song Farm @ravensongfarm.bsky.social · 3hThere is something deeply wrong with trying to kill a person twice, then sending her to a hospital for life saving measures so that they can try to kill her again. 41598179
Reposted by SBDamian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 3hthat's about £28m a day renewables have saved the UK sending to petrostates since the start of the US-Israel war in Iran 15026
Reposted by SBTove Danovich @tkdano.bsky.social · 23hI’ve become obsessed with the disappearing night sky. I miss going outside wherever I was and seeing the stars! Glad to be able to write about this for @us.theguardian.com. Thanks to the kind readers who have already sent me emails about their own night skies. www.theguardian.com/environment/...theguardian.comThe night sky is getting 10% brighter every year. We’re forgetting what darkness feels likeIf more cities start regulating outdoor lighting, we humans could make the environment better for all living creatures 721465
Reposted by SBHypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 19hSome people are saying. bsky.app/profile/hype... 413122
Reposted by SBKD Casey — Read Breakout Year Today! @kdcaseywrites.bsky.social · 20hI’ve been thinking about writing like this in light of JCO declaring romance books “formulaic” and thus fine to write with AI (no). 281
Reposted by SBAlex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 20hCourt packing is only okay if Republicans do it to end direct democracy 0283
Reposted by SBElizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 20hI’ve been asked to weigh in on the debate over whether to bring an iced coffee to an interview. It doesn't matter. Iced coffee is NOT why it's hard to land a job right now, and it's NOT why Gen Z can't get ahead. Our economy is rigged. We need to change that. 18763171212
Reposted by SBBecky Spratford @raforall.bsky.social · 20hpssst.....my interview with @scalzi.com is up a day early at @ala-booklist.bsky.social. Also coming in the print Booklist Reader to a library near you. www.booklistonline.com/products/983...booklistonline.comBooklist Online: Leading Book Discovery 0467
Reposted by SBDr. Samantha Montano @samlmontano.bsky.social · 22hOur research on emergency management agency mission statements across the country contradict what Hamilton claims is the purpose of this new definition. In fact, mission statements of EM agencies across the country do have consensus. bsky.app/profile/saml... 171
Reposted by SBTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Following the Pope’s encyclical about AI, you’re going to see a lot more religious intervention in shaping public opinion about tech companies. There are only two social institutions resilient enough to counter AI politically — states and religion. They bought the first. Standby on the second. 39123
SB @stephestellar.bsky.social · 30/09/2026A parent friend told me years ago that for them every day was a 24-hr fire drill. I think about it all the time and give parents space and flexibility, just in case. Do parents like this have a to-do list? Maybe. Could a computer make meaning of it? Absolutely not. Could I?? Also prob not. 110
Reposted by SBTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026So you know previous waves of technological fabulism the tech companies threw a little loose change at social behavioral research and user interface experience. whats interesting about AI interesting is that they aren’t even pretending to care about how people use the technology. 1059483
Reposted by SBOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026swearing aside, the strategy of just making the right stand by the things they say to each other seems pretty good. that was the secret sauce behind the "weird" messaging way back when (that they abandoned for whatever reason) 311057155
SB @stephestellar.bsky.social · 29/09/2026My Missourian ancestors are rolling over in their graves watching their current senator fumble a "show me" situation so badly 010
Reposted by SBTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I absolutely believe you will see more stories about the kookie left and radical socialists in the coming weeks. And a lot of attention on various kinds of unruly women. 115422
Reposted by SBTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026 I just said in my discussion at the IWPR event on women’s economic policy: asking “why am I hearing this and why I am hearing this now” is good praxis for the moment. 230554
Reposted by SBÉireann @eireannmor.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Let a million imagined universities bloom 0115
Reposted by SBTyler King @tyleraking.com · 29/09/2026A key component of the Cambridge Analytica outrage was your friends subjecting you to data theft without your consent or knowledge. Facebook is running the same playbook on your text messages. Even if you’re not on Meta properties, they’re ingesting your interactions. 141207613
Reposted by SBKendra, PhD @dnakendra.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Hospital ai vs insurance ai is a beautiful computer centipede for siphoning money out of healthcare and into hospital and insurance profits. Centralized costing via universal healthcare would fix that. 051
Reposted by SBTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026“Friction” is humans. There is nothing else to build systems for but humans. They mean a system built for human flourishing won’t survive and they might be right. But not because the agents are so good but because AI is politics. 510427
Reposted by SBKaren K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Ideas for my midlife crisis: -Become swift like a coursing river -Develop force like a great typhoon -Build all the strength like a raging fire -Mysterious like the dark side of the moon 25728109
Reposted by SBViolet Fox 🦊 @violetbfox.bsky.social · 27/09/2026If you've got some time in the next few days, the September #Wikipedia editathon to show solidarity with the new Wikimedia union is behind its goal of editing 10,000 articles. You can help by registering, finding a relevant article, & making it a little better! 📚 meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Event:W...meta.wikimedia.orgEvent:WikiProject Organized Labour Month Online Campaign - Meta-Wiki 44638
Reposted by SBPrisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 28/09/2026"But now Billy was dead, and the state of Connecticut said he owed $232,733 for room and board during his earlier prison stay. Selling the house where DeSenti now lived alone would help satisfy that debt." ctmirror.org/2026/09/27/t...ctmirror.orgThey served their time in prison. Then the bills arrived.Hundreds of CT residents have had money seized through a law that allows the state to charge a fee for every day a person spends in prison. 22493292
SB @stephestellar.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Okay but has everyone heard this Shaboozey feat Leon Bridges song?? m.youtube.com/watch?v=lFlH...m.youtube.comShaboozey - Burn It Down (Official Video) ft. Leon BridgesYouTube video by ShaboozeyVEVO 010
Reposted by SBKEW @kidadaewilliams.com · 27/09/202610 years of ‘unvarnished truth’: DC’s National Museum of African American History and Culture marks anniversary wtop.com/dc/2026/09/1...wtop.com10 years of ‘unvarnished truth’: DC’s National Museum of African American History and Culture marks anniversary – WTOP NewsOn Sept. 24, 2016, the new National Museum of African American History and Culture opened on the National Mall. A curator describes the crowd's mood that day as "supernatural." 0126
SB @stephestellar.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Gosh the last 2 years have felt like 1 million, even not living in WNC 🩵 000
SB @stephestellar.bsky.social · 27/09/2026'After his testimony, “all hell broke loose,” his wife recalled, and the county supervisor in Bladen County told him he wouldn’t get another loan “unless Jesse Helms himself,” the powerful senior senator from North Carolina, requested it.' from the NYT obit www.nytimes.com/2026/09/21/u...nytimes.comTimothy Pigford, Who Fought Bias Against Black Farmers, Dies at 74 (Gift Article)He was the lead plaintiff in the landmark 1997 lawsuit Pigford v. Glickman, an attempt to redress the Agriculture Department’s historic racism. 042
SB @stephestellar.bsky.social · 27/09/2026All three of these things should be common knowledge tbh 040
Reposted by SBAmy Westervelt @amywestervelt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026We gotta start referring to data centers by both their mother and father's last names, Spain style. The Microsoft-Chevron data center, the Meta-ExxonMobil data center, and so forth. Absolutely no reason just the tech bros should be taking the heat on this shit 352122787
Reposted by SBAnna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 26/09/2026A very loud reminder that we absolutely need policy guardrails on AI, and Black women are once again EARLY. Word to @rajiinio.bsky.social.technologyreview.comAn inside look at Congress’s first AI regulation forumResearcher Inioluwa Deborah Raji says tech CEOs focused on big claims of what AI could do, but she was there to offer a reality check. 0426
SB @stephestellar.bsky.social · 26/09/2026A state-run intercity bus service that works 😭 (bring back megabus btw) 040
Reposted by SBAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026There are too many people in congress who would be happier doing this, and that's part of why our politics is so stupid bsky.app/profile/avit... 1493895546
Reposted by SBAmy Qin @amyqin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026this excellent roundup is just the latest example of consistently stellar public service journalism @boltsmag.org has been doing - be informed and read Bolts Mag 29327
SB @stephestellar.bsky.social · 25/09/2026"The Initiative to Beautify the AI-capable Surveillance Benevolently Installed by our Administrator Overseers and the MIT Corporation In Collaboration with Big Brother Tech Companies. For a handy acronym, you can refer to our project as the IBAISBIAOMITCORPICBBTC initiative." 131
Reposted by SBMichele Feltman Strider @michelestrider.bsky.social · 24/09/2026This is the best argument for taking public transit that I can possibly imagine 043
Reposted by SB🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota. 121121765163
Reposted by SBTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026“The customer is always wrong, now” is a great way to capture how specialize finance has ruined everything from our favorite store to your political process. Margins are now the only customer. The only voter. We have but one real way to exert power over any of it anymore. 4582147
Reposted by SBTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026“The rent is too damn high” was funny at be time but name a single political slogan with more stickiness from winning candidates since then. 628016
SB @stephestellar.bsky.social · 24/09/2026This is a silly story but also wow bring shame back: 'He had submitted other names to the Jockey Club for Austrian Painter, including "My Struggle" and "Braunau Star."' 010
Reposted by SBAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Incredible. First Secretary Mullin claimed that DHS had identified 15,903 noncitizens on Nevada’s voter roll. Then DHS officials told a skeptical Nevada, no no no, that’s just people we flagged. Here are the names of 185 people we KNOW aren’t citizens. All 185 were citizens. DHS got 100% wrong. 21188083853
Reposted by SBMoira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026After you send a high-stakes email they should send someone to give you chocolate and a hug. 939223