Reposted by kNiko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 03/10/2026i think if you’re having complicated feelings about a man you looked up to being outed as a sexual abuser the thing to do is work through those feelings before/without writing an essay about it. the take economy has cooked your brain. 21397179
Reposted by kICE must be destroyed 🏳️⚧️🏴 @miawong.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Do people actually understand even the tiniest bit what actually happens in a prison? Like even at all? If you're going to compare something to the fucking prison system I think you should at the BARE minimum have SOME fucking idea of what it's like in there Moreover, ICE must be destroyed 221422
Reposted by kChad Loder @chadloder.dev · 28/09/2026Isaac Asimov's Laws of Robotics but the robots forget the laws when they're deep into their context window 614314
Reposted by kMeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 28/09/2026NEW: Food banks across America are being overwhelmed by surging demand. Scott MacFarlane went inside to see the crisis firsthand. Here’s what he found:meidasnews.com“They don’t understand the scale of the hunger!”- An unfolding crisis at the nation’s food banksWeeks before the midterm elections, the cost crisis is hammering food pantries in red and blue states 44295004520
Reposted by kJessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I really wish that Covid hadn’t happened, but it did, and either we adapt to the reality that it makes some people permanently sick and at risk, and they still deserve humanity, or we keep scapegoating and ostracizing anyone who points that fact out, anyone who has to survive it, anyone broken by it 333364
Reposted by kk @xeroxerox.bsky.social · 27/04/2025If updates about yr org or project are only posted on Instagram, you are actively choosing to exclude people not on that platform. Make a simple static website. Even if you decide to feed insta posts onto the homepage in lieu of an updated blog, it's still better than JUST using one walled app. 131
Reposted by kNiko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 26/09/2026You guys should try having an iced coffee and no job in real life 19511
k @xeroxerox.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Semi-monthly reminder to please send your mask-required events (and relevant virtual ones) taking place in New England to fan-listings.neocities.org so we can help you promote!!! also fuck the Boston Globe forever fix your hearts and mask up :blobcatZapatista: #CovidIsntOver / #CovidSaferEvents 021
Reposted by kCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/09/2026Does my Speak-n-Spell feel pain when I type O-U-C-H? The jury is out. Philosophers and neuroscientists say that's fucking stupid, but I called a guy from the Center for Pretending that Household Electronics Are Sentient and he said there's no way to know for sure. 5843431193
Reposted by kT.J. Mitchell @workingstiff.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Melissa's classmates didn't give up on her, she didn't give up on improving state law, and you shouldn't give up on Charles from Quincy till you watch this clip to the end. 062
Reposted by kCatherine D'Ignazio (she/her/ella) @kanarinka.bsky.social · 25/09/2026MIT spent $3 million on 500 AI-capable surveillance cameras while laying people off, shutting down libraries, and canceling journal subscriptions. In this article, 4 faculty & I discuss our new arts initiative to celebrate surveillance and repression on college campuses: fnl.mit.edu/how-we-learn...fnl.mit.eduHow We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Campus Surveillance – MIT Faculty Newsletter 8432200
Reposted by klizardbreath 🦎🪦🎃 @spindlypete.bsky.social · 25/09/2026you shouldn't take an iced coffee to a job interview because you shouldn't be trying to get a job. you should be digging an enormous pit or a complex system of tunnels 222693448
Reposted by kJessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Personally if I was living under a fascist right wing party one thing I wouldn’t do would be to ally with it on ridiculing a minority group that’s a historic genocidal target of fascism, but hey, that’s me. 434574
Reposted by kErin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Hey so uhhhhh that Boston Globe story about the lesbian bar relaxing its covid rules is an *absolute fucking hit piece* targeting the disabled, chronically ill, and covid-conscious and it would be great if folks sharing and joking about it could recognize that framing. 332937909
Reposted by kIphigenia V @iphigenia.bsky.social · 23/09/2026As a former western mass lesbian, it is true that place is filled with 20-something idiots who have too many gender studies degrees and too little real world sense AND it is also true that the Boston Globe article is a psyop against queer people and people of color. 3817
k @xeroxerox.bsky.social · 23/09/2026a space that literally opened and operated and fundraised on the promise that it would always be mask-required, anti-profit, and center marginalized people up and throwing that out the window without community feedback actually *is* a breach of trust and something worth discussing, actually. 210
k @xeroxerox.bsky.social · 23/09/2026really sucks seeing someone I really admired boosting this LD discourse/article about how annoying and entitled and ridiculous us disabled queers are like damn everyone just loves to pile on and take the word of some boston FUCKING globe fluff piece just to have a little laugh and engagement 010
Reposted by kKelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 22/09/2026This is a regime who used unproven accusations of “fraud” to slash USAID and kill over 600,000… many of them children. Stripping people of their medical care will also end lives. They don’t care. It will end the lives of those they deem “undesirable”. It was always a cull.washingtonpost.comTrump officials cut 760,000 enrollees from ACA, claiming fraudVice President JD Vance’s anti-fraud task force concluded that the people were wrongly signed up for the government health care program. 38629
Reposted by kAndrew Quemere @andrewqmr.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Law-enforcement agencies from around the country queried #Flock data from the #Holyoke PD for immigration-related purposes more than 1,500 times, and the police chief said he didn't even know they were sharing the data. Astounding incompetence that should get him fired immediately. #Massachusettsmasslive.com'I was surprised': Holyoke police chief didn't know ICE-related queries were tapping city's plate reader dataFrom January through August of this year, more than 1,500 searches of Holyoke’s data from outside police departments, ranging from Texas to Indiana, had justification that included the word “immigrati... 114061
Reposted by kDavid @montytornado.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Behind the sheer volume of the ethnic cleansing, there are individuals and individual stories, most will never be told. 1326
Reposted by kRich Tate 🎃 @richtate.com · 05/09/2026I love how they keep reframing this with language like RETRO TECH BOOM. We've all simply realized it's the only way we own anything. We're not buying out of nostalgia. We're buying so companies can't take it away after we've purchased.techcrunch.comCD sales are making an unexpected comeback amid a retro tech boom | TechCrunchU.S. CD revenue jumped 58.6% in the first half of 2026, reversing last year’s decline as interest in retro tech and physical media continues to grow. 17553202
Reposted by kLisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 05/09/2026My dad, Richard Diedrich, has done a series of watercolor paintings based on ICHABOD's train graffiti work. He calls the series "after ICHABOD." My dad has met Ichabod & I gather he likes my dad's riff on his work. 316536
Reposted by kJesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 05/09/2026If Goebbels had vibe-coding: hosted on White House dot gov on an “arcade” page built to recruit young kids into fascism. The score is kept in number of deportations. Another faux 8-bit styled game tells players to “build the wall” to “repel zombie hordes.” 26724
Reposted by kbabs ✨ @itsbabs.bsky.social · 03/09/2026one of those days where i'm the kind of productive that's like ack, i see why god had to nerf me with chronic illness. couldn't be up to things like this all the time, would be too powerful. 1263
Reposted by kAndrew Quemere @andrewqmr.bsky.social · 03/09/2026If police are the kind of people who call members of the public “retarded” when speaking privately, would telling them that you're autistic make you more or less safe?boston.comMore of Michael Proctor’s slur-filled messages revealed in bid to dismiss 2021 murder caseA newly unsealed batch of messages from Michael Proctor’s cellphone reveals dozens more slur-filled texts from the former trooper. 16115
Reposted by kAndrew Quemere @andrewqmr.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Giving special blue envelopes to autistic people to prevent “misunderstandings” with police during traffic stops seems like a tacit admission that police are a danger to the public. Maybe addressing the elephant in the room would be better than a pointless feel-good program like this.masslive.comNew statewide program gives Mass. drivers with autism a tool for police stopsThe free statewide initiative gives residents a way to share important information during traffic stops while helping officers avoid misunderstandings. 825584
Reposted by kAndrew Quemere @andrewqmr.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Five cops lose their law-enforcement certification, departments continue to ditch Flock, and more—here are the media reports of alleged law enforcement misconduct in #Massachusetts that I’ve tracked during the last week.massdump.ghost.ioMass law enforcement misconduct news, Aug. 24-30Five cops lose their law-enforcement certification, departments continue to ditch Flock, and more 0219
Reposted by kKevin Koppes @kevinkoppes.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Love seeing the "kinda bein' pricks" town majority support the Rep. Kinda Bein' a Prick (D). 071
Reposted by koctober "pre-order The Struggle Is Always Worth It now!" krausch @octoberk.bsky.social · 02/09/2026I'm getting ready to head to Socialism this weekend, and I just wanna thank the folks at @haymarketbooks.org because I have learned so much about how to hold safer events successfully as a result of how they hold down the masking + testing policies. This conference really gave me new hope. 0113
Reposted by kJesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Happy Ed Markey beating Seth Moulton day to all who celebrate. 211716
Reposted by k𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 31/08/2026"Eggs expensive under Biden" was a story for six months. "Trump made everything expensive on purpose" is apparently just a Trump personality quirk we're all supposed to get used to. 522314525
Reposted by kAdia Benton @ethnography911.bsky.social · 31/08/2026means testing isn't (just) bad because it is inefficient but it is a practice of sorting, judging, and distribution in a way that effectively criminalizes those who don't by some measure *deserve* safety in relation to food, money, health supposedly guaranteed + conferred by the state 122263
Reposted by kAdia Benton @ethnography911.bsky.social · 31/08/2026as I've been writing a chapter on the problem of 'security' --yes, this includes social security, health security, human security, etc--is that it too often involves a kind of policing that is not immediately recognized as policing 228281
Reposted by kEvan MacKay @evanforcambridge.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Massachusetts is the last blue state with a voluntary 287(g) agreement with ICE. The PROTECT Act was an important victory, won by immigrants and advocates who spent years pressuring Beacon Hill. But the work isn’t finished. The law leaves a massive loophole that allows this agreement to continue. 15327
Reposted by kJake @ HUBhistory @hubhistory.com · 29/08/2026I'm watching Dolly in 9 to 5 and remembering that it's based on the true story of a women's labor movement in Boston and the title of their newsletter, "9to5: Newsletter for Boston Area Office Workers." www.mawomenshistory.org/exhibits/ros...mawomenshistory.orgFrom Roses to Raises: Women’s Fight for Just and Equal Pay in Massachusetts | Massachusetts Women's History CenterWomen in the Commonwealth have often led the way in the fight for just compensation and equal pay in the United States. From the 1830s Lowell mill girls "turn outs" to 140 years later with the 9to5 mo... 111743
Reposted by kNick Davis @ntd.bsky.social · 25/08/2026The loss of dolly feels so significant because she was a fundamentally decent person publicly. We live in such an era of proudly public assholery that her example was especially profound. 224048
Reposted by kRobert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 24/08/2026This is what the growth of surveillance is going to bring. Not safety from crime, but new, non-criminal acts redefined as criminal so as to give the police an excuse to exercise power. local12.com/news/offbeat...local12.comPolice request public's help to find suspect who picked up $30 off ground in WalmartA police department took to social media and asked the public to help them identify a suspect who found $30 on the ground in Walmart. 346108933654
Reposted by kpublic health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 21/08/2026i’m so tired of watching every good person i know suffer for doing the right thing and every bad person i know get rewarded for being bad. it just wears you down. i know life isn’t fair, but goddamn 17852144
Reposted by kRuth Zakarin @ruthz.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Flock cameras are a domestic violence issue. Of the four police officers noted in this article, at least two were stalking partners. The other two were disciplined for “concerning behavior”. In my years safety planning with victims of domestic violence… 1/ www.bostonglobe.com/2026/08/21/b...bostonglobe.comFlock license plate cameras under fire as Mass. police misconduct cases mount - The Boston GlobeAt least four police officers in the state are under investigation for misusing the technology, and a wave of towns continue to opt out. 10335921684
Reposted by kMegan Piontkowski Illustration @meganpiont.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Amy Torres, writing for @lataco.bsky.social, has written a really great in-depth article about zine makers working on anti-ICE topics. I am proud to be one of the zine makers interviewed for her article! lataco.com/immigration-...lataco.comThree DIY Zine Makers to Support In a Time When Their Craft Is Criminalized ~ L.A. TACOFollowed by federal immigration agents and asked to take down their zines, these artists are fully aware of the danger that comes with speaking out. 12912
Reposted by ktim d (he/him) @doormouse12.bsky.social · 19/08/2026this weekend is the 99th anniversary of the railroading & execution of Sacco and Vanzetti, 2 local Italian-American immigrant anarchists if you're looking for a group activity that day, the Sacco & Vanzetti Commemoration Society is hosting an online prison-letter-writing partysaccoandvanzetti.orgSacco and Vanzetti 23414
k @xeroxerox.bsky.social · 19/08/2026If cities won't host their official content, like public meeting streams, on their own website/servers, they should at least ensure that you do not need to be logged in to a particular website to view them (I.e. YouTube for Lawrence's City Council Meetings) #Mapoli 000
Reposted by kGareth Watkins @garethwatkins.bsky.social · 18/08/2026One thing that MAHA in the US and the anti-disability crusade in the UK highlight is that it's not just that authoritarians love cruelty (and boy do they love cruelty), but they're actively opposed to care. It hurts them to see people being looked after or their lives made easier or safer. 35216
k @xeroxerox.bsky.social · 17/08/2026this feels like such a stupid question, but is there some official place I can go to view statements from my electeds? reliably, as they are sent out? #mapoli help me out here, it all feels so opaque sometimes, especially not being on Facebook/Instagram... 100
k @xeroxerox.bsky.social · 17/08/2026It is bizarre to see all these right wing news aggregators referring to Depeña as a democrat, and even a communist, lmao. His campaign website never referred to him as a democrat, and there's been nothing about his policies that were particularly leftist. He is just a grifter and a scam artist, who 100