Aerospace engineer & clean energy engineer. German-Jewish & Egyptian-Canadian. Anti-fascist & rugby referee. Lifetime ban from LinkedIn. Living on the unceded territory of the Musqeum, the Squamish, and the Tsleil-Waututh First Nations. She/they
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Blueskys core audience is liberal and leftist users and they are the ones driving much of the posting activity. If the platform shifts to accommodate right wing users that base is likely to migrate back to other sites leaving Bluesky without its main draw. This is the niche it fills.
What a gang of mindless amateurs in Washington accomplished in Beijing:
I was already pretty done with the news media but seeing clips yesterday from the Sunday shows where an anchor is like “but what if living in a Police State does reduce car jackings? Why would you be against that?” probably was the end
Eastern Parkway always feels like the heartbeat of New York during the West Indian Day Parade — the food, the flags, the dancehall and soca. Caribbean culture makes this city great 🇹🇹🇭🇹🇧🇧🇩🇲🇱🇨🇯🇲🇻🇨🇬🇩🇬🇾
When Nate Silver continues his obsessions with the website
“In the wake of new federal guidelines limiting the groups for whom new #COVID19 vaccines are approved, the New Mexico Department of Health is removing ‘barriers to the administration of the COVID-19 vaccine.’” www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_n...
Discworld QOTD, from Men at Arms
Listen, I love Babylon Berlin, but once again if you think that international directing peaked in the 2010s, you are seriously a child. You can watch films made in the 1920s in Berlin, not just shows about 1920s Berlin. And seriously, don't just watch white male directors...
WORKING CLASS UNITE!
Buddy, you're American, so you're already conflating foreign (i.e. not American) as not English-language. For instance, Doctor Who is a foreign series to you, but is still in made in English. Do you understand the difference?
Blue state Governors need to order the arrest homan, noem, miller, bovino, all of them if they step foot on blue state ground. Take the game from them, do not play.
As fascism is an outgrowth of white supremacy, it has always been a method of empowerment for white women.
My kid lost half a year when she was learning to read and write but she's doing amazing now and my godson was a freshman who lost half a year of HS and now he's loving life in college. Kids are risilient. Their whiny parents aren't.
tbh there's a subset of X/Twitter that basically view Bluesky as the last refuge of the woke/Warrenites which is just a very funny mindset to have
You can't have a best of anything in particular; you can have your favourite, and make the argument for why it's your favourite. But that's about it. Now please tell me you're not 15, or I'll block you for being a minor.
there's a sort of complicated dynamic going on where it's both true that progressive groups and activists are unfairly blamed by a lot of centrists for political developments since 2020, and where said groups use said unfair blame as an excuse to avoid any kind of introspection.
area man incapable of separating the Roma vs the Romanians
One way to measure the enormous increase in America's wealth over my lifetime is that both my parents knew how to darn socks, while I'm not sure exactly what that means
Pope Leo XIV met with one of the most prominent advocates for greater LGBTQ+ inclusion in the Catholic Church. The Rev. James Martin said Leo told him that he intended to continue Pope Francis’ policy of LGBTQ+ acceptance in the church and encouraged him to keep up his advocacy.
They should do it anyway for the environmental benefits.
People literally bled & died fighting against corporate interests, robber barons, corrupt local & state politicians, cops & hired killers, & the federal government & US military for better working conditions for the rest of us so reflect on that today for just a bit while you're doing whatever else.
The reason some people don't trust science has nothing to do with scientists. It has everything to do with listening to people like this worm-infested dysentery splat, who has no science background and makes money pushing anti-VAX misinformation.
Troops in the streets and he thinks he’s going to get a Nobel, peace begins at home
People are melting down at a Tribune article about CHSD 230 considering adding Arabic to its language learning electives. I wasted time in the comments, which I normally avoid doing since it's useless and awful, but it led to possibly the funniest thing anybody's ever said to me about France.
All of Giuliani’s life events that I know about hit like season ending cliffhangers where you’re like ‘How’s he gonna get outta this one?’ People forget that Four Seasons Landscaping debacle was All Him, which is understandable because he also committed actual sexual harassment in a Borat movie.
Somewhere in Iceland.
the correct answer to this question is “what kind of a question is this, what the fuck is wrong with you?”
“Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.” -Abraham Lincoln
Probably best to pick one and get really into them, individually, then the other!
My sincere answer to that is sometimes a leader has a moral responsibility to lead and while it is entirely possible and indeed quite likely voters will punish you electorally for trying, there are times when you still have an obligation to try.
A heroic and legal stand for the D.A. for the City of Philadelphia. A Blue city in a "Red" state.Basically saying that if ICEor any Federal Agents, or National Guard,try to illegally kidnap citizens, those agents or guardsmen will be arrested by local police. Nothing the First Felon can do. Love it!
Honestly, I think a lot of politicians on both sides of the Atlantic got psyoped into viewing salt of the earth bigots as more authentic and worthy than them and thinking therefore they must ritually cleanse their sin of education by rolling in the gutter.
You're telling me you "love film" but only watch English-language films???? Seriously, are you 15????
The flaw in everyone who makes a Bluesky bad post is that they come to the conclusion that making the site better involves importing people with centrist politics to talk politics when the actual truthful answer is that we need less politics and more goofs but that’s difficult when the world sucks
I honestly cannot believe we are still arguing about school closures during COVID, it’s as over as it’s ever going to be and we gain literally nothing by still talking about it
A tension in President Trump's deportation agenda; an aporia in his deportation agenda; a dispositif; an antimony; a fissure; a lacuna; a topos; a symptom; an alterity; a noème; an actually you know what, headlines about reckless deportations are no place for pretending you are in a Theory seminar.
reading this felt like discovering one of those tribes of people who have had no contact with the outside world
You guys see where this is going? Right?
Honored to march in Detroit’s Labor Day parade alongside the incredible nurses of the OPEIU—and proud to have my daughter Emmalee beside me. We thank the labor movement for all they’ve put on the line for 8 hour workdays, safe workplace standards, and weekends.
also when covid first started going through japan and information was readily available to the west, the covid19 subreddit (pre-fauci hero worship) had all sorts of scientific information i got called an alarmist for repeating. we did not take this seriously at all!
We dumped a president for being too old only to elect one who immediately died. You can't say that's not funny
If you're 60, 69.1% of all job growth since your birth occurred under Democratic administrations. If you're 45, that number is 74.7%. If you're under 28, the number is 100%. Happy Labor Day.
Revoking an entire nationality’s visas is collective punishment and never acceptable — especially in this moment when millions of Palestinians lack equal rights, basic healthcare, and so much more at home, forcing them out of the US is unfathomably cruel. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/w...
i wish brands would include more technical information in their product descriptions. i don't need to know this was inspired by timeless italian men summering in nantucket who could dress up or down. i want to know the fabric weight, leather tanning method, seam construction, etc.
No, I watch movies by non-white people who also happen to not be men. All your "great directors" are white men...
As seemingly the only person who watched Upload... Upload season 4 was just released. And I don't know billionaires who used AI to allow them to live forever who plot to murder a working class dude who creates a technology that disrupts their tech seems like an interesting allegory for our times.
CNN platforming Seb Gorka Martha Raddatz at ABC Interviewing Gov Wes Moore & being unhinged. Wes Moore needs to ask why she’s defending a rapist. Ask if her questions were written by Stephen Miller. Wes needs to pushback on a bought off press. I don’t get the constant defense mode. Offense only.
With a mini-reshuffle unwisely taking place on transfer deadline day, these are the Labour MPs who share a name with a footballer and who are therefore at risk of being loaned out to a struggling Conference side until the end of the season
This country lost its soul before it became a country
Happy Labor Day, comrades 🫡
Unions built this city and keep it running. They’ve fought against power and greed to make the impossible possible. Now, they need an ally in City Hall. On Labor Day, the presidents of the Hotel Trades Council, 32BJ and SEIU 1199 make the case at @cityandstateny.bsky.social.
Newsom appears to have hired a decent social media team...but, like, that's somewhat undermined when you're inviting charlie kirk on your podcast so you can crawl on your belly and lick his fascist boots. 1
why can't the democrat messaging on trans people be "no, we are not going to force children to undergo genital inspections in order to play sports"
considering republicans are trying to traffic children literally as we speak, “we will protect your children from republicans” is a broadly applicable goal that seems easy to sell but i guess we don’t talk about child safety at the kitchen table?
One of my more vain frustrations as a pundit is that the rise of an incredibly straightforward and psychologically transparent politics of hierarchy & domination is boring to write about week after week. There are not exactly *developments* of MAGA ideology so much as repeated *iterations.*
The Guild fees aren't nothing, but they look after us in tough times!
The Giuliani story is not a distraction from Trump's health, it is supplemental content for the Posters Guild
Jill Stein and Cornel West both disgust me — such goddamn, self-serving hypocrites.
Planet of the Apes?
My creationist myth is that Sasquatches (yetis, Bigfoot, etc.) made us through selective primate breeding and now their life is spent hiding in terror from their vile creations
Make no mistake, everything that’s happening in the United States is being significantly enabled by the right wing oligarch capture of media. Every other country needs to do everything possible to keep that from happening where they are. Including protecting the CBC from Poilievre here in Canada.
somehow American planners have talked themselves into the idea that we're going to fight a war with China without performing a single strike on the Chinese mainland i believe this is called "letting them get into your head"
Ursula von der Leyen’s plane was forced to land in Bulgaria and use paper maps after suspected Russian GPS jamming disabled its navigation, the FT reports.
Huntington putting all of sub-Saharan Africa in the same civilisational group while giving Japan its own, versus Rowling putting the Indians and Chinese in the same school
If you enjoy… Weekends Safe working conditions Retirement benefits Paid vacations Breaks at work Sick leave Paid holidays … then you’re part of the labor movement. Happy Labor Day.
I really appreciate the combination of these extremely pained, serious comments about the government trying to deport unaccompanied children in the wee hours of a holiday weekend…and the name Judge Sparkle Sooknanan
getting ads for the concept of a straight bathhouse
the judge is now basically checking every couple of hours to make sure her directions are being followed to the letter because she is dealing with lying liars who lie astounding how much credibility the government has burned with the courts
Musk now supporting the deportation of anyone who isn’t white. *Do not* use the term “remigration”. It’s an attempt to normalise Nazi hate.
If we don’t stand up for these victims, who will ?
Linsanity was kind of the culturally inverted version of Tim Tebow-in-the-NFL where part of the reason it was compelling to watch and talk about was precisely because he wasn't actually very good but was getting decent results anyway.
It took cops three hours to finally go into the Pulse nightclub the night of the shooting. If you wander near a crosswalk in Florida with a piece of chalk right now you'll have four cops on you in under five seconds.🤷♂️
Reminder: the apparent plan was to spirit these children away in the middle of the night without them ever seeing the inside of a courtroom to challenge their deportation. Children.
A woman is killed every 48 hours in Canada and whether she is Jewish or Muslim or Catholic or an Atheist etc. they are all important and we are not accepting national antisemitic panic from a government cutting supports for violence against women at 81%. Fuck off.
Go on. Take a wild guess who was president both times.
Happy Labor Day Weekend folks
What were they arguing about
So you only watch movies by white men, but deny the anti-Black harassment label, and deny idolizing a rapist????
Mike Johnson refuses to put up a plaque honoring Capitol Police’s sacrifice on Jan. 6. Yet, Ashley Babbit’s family gets a $5M settlement & a full military honors funeral for her being part of a riotous mob trying to break into the House chamber. This country’s so fuct thanks to GOP enablers.
Please Tell Me You've Watched Another Film In The Last 50 Years
all the best windows software in history is called something like "joe's thing doer". it does the thing and nothing else and is available on a html website in plain text and takes up under a megabyte of space and uses default windows ui elements and will work until the heat death of the universe
In a speech after the 2024 election, he said, "I’m not going to start wars. I’m going to stop wars.” ⇝He hasn’t stopped any wars ⇝He started wars in DC & blue areas ⇝ He’s warring after his perceived political enemies/media/law firms/Universities ⇝He’s renaming Dept. of Defense to Dept. of War
I turn on my TV and a TV presenter is asking a Govt minister why they are talking about rolling out free childcare when the big issue is asylum hotels. This is objectively insane.
tomorrow 🖤
That's where the knife should go, twice, right?
Look I have no idea when it's gonna happen. But I do know if it happens tomorrow and you're not at one of the big Labor Day protests when it does, you're gonna regret it for the rest of your life.
So you have no inspiration from the character you chose as your avi? Did someone else choose it for you?
I'm giving you the same prompt you gave me...
Tangential but it’s notable that when California does things it gets reported as “Newsom” and when Illinois does things it gets reported as “Illinois”
Who's the worst cartoon character? I vote Henry, the dad from Dennis the Menace. He's a mask deliberately invented to whitewash the identity of his creator, Hank Ketcham, one of the worst men to ever make comics. It's gonna take a thread.
AP: “Florida could be on the hook for $218 million… Alligator Alcatraz may soon be completely empty as a judge upheld her decision late Wednesday ordering operations to wind down indefinitely…” apnews.com/article/flor...
This is why I found it so funny the ivys and snob schools rolled over so fast and got double fucked for doing it. These are the same people getting duped putting 50 grand in a shoebox. Rich and priveleged Americans are the easiest people to scam and bully because they've never deal with it before.
Structures in this area are extremely vulnerable to earthquakes and over a million people were exposed to strong or very strong shaking. 💔 apple.news/AhMVfWvI9TS-...
“Blood is thicker than water” is the shortened version of “The blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb” The way we have been using it is the exact opposite of the actual meaning +
It’s a little weird to demand people vote for a candidate as a necessary lesser evil three years before you even know if they’re going to be the candidate
Obsessed with the absolute shade of referring to Giuliani as “Former Masked Singer contestant”
