Some of you are clearly too young to remember en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamergate
Artist * Nature Lover * Biophilic Design Land of Enchantment https://bio.link/roxannedarling
2,716 followers 757 following 6,082 posts
view profile on Bluesky
Some of you are clearly too young to remember en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamergate
👏
Thanks for letting us know.
Asking my senators to take this advice: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/12/o...
Many of mine, increasingly, are not real humans AFAIK. Does bluesky have a tool like old TW that could analyze followers and determine the % that are fakes? cc @mackuba.eu
👏👏👏
When I am an old woman I shall wear purple With a red hat which doesn’t go, and doesn’t suit me. And I shall spend my pension on brandy and summer gloves And satin sandals, and say we’ve no money for butter. I shall sit down on the pavement when I’m tired Jenny Joseph
For no reason at all, except that I was talking about purplse with a client, I offer you this: www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/warning/ Poem in the next skeet. It was voted Britain's favourite; written in 1961!
And also Patriots’ owner’s son!
If you’re tired of depressing news, join us over on the #BookSky feed. These are the Charlies we talk about: Charlie Dickens Charlie Bronte Charlie Brown Charlie Bukowski Charlie Bucket Charlie Schultz Charlie’s Web Charlie Kelmeckis Charlie Lastra Travels with Charley Charlie Chesnutt 📚💙
This is true and yes, social media and unrestricted guns toss humanity out the window day after day.
As of this moment, it appears: -Chicago has stopped Trump. -Harvard has stopped Trump. Bullies stop only when they meet resistance. And they keep moving until they do. Who knows what tomorrow brings. But for today....
Too much tolerance for intolerance kills tolerance and paves the way for the extremes. It’s a well-known paradox from Karl Popper. Once the media started with the principle of “all opinions are equal and must be given enough interest”, it was inevitable we’d arrive where we are.
Sharing again to make sure @ezraklein.bsky.social sees this. Oh, how far you have become pilled in the right wing ecosystem. What is the lure? Inquiring minds want to know.
Many generally kind & compassionate people like me are furious today. Furious w MSM, w the lionizing of a white man who preached nazi ideology, w the massive amount of disinformation we’re subject to on a daily basis, etc. If it bothers you, I do understand. This other stuff greatly bothers me, too.
The Supreme Court is forging an America where weighing race can be used to harm minorities, but not to protect them.
Then don't share it???
Honestly people who believed the initial @wsj.com lies about the bullets just failed a basic media literacy test. The WSJ is just printing white wing press releases and if you don’t know that by now I don’t know what to tell you.
😂😂😂
Ezra Klein is trying in this column to argue that Kirk was doing politics correctly if you just ignore the content of what he was advocating. That he was contributing to American democracy by arguing civilly for the subjugation of women, gay people, trans people. It simply doesn’t work.
bsky.app/profile/roxa...
You don’t need a grant or a gala dinner to feel seen. Just someone who believes in the work. Thank you for believing in it with us. #IndieLitMagGala2025 📍 Nominations close Sept 15 📎
🧵
I mean, it is both, and it’s a diversion to over-simplify in my opinion. Too much pain, as well.
I just hate it when so-called clever analysis over-rules basic human decency. Analysis has an unlimited supply. The availabilty of human decency is rapidly shrinking.
🫶
Sadly, if you believe in Satan, anything can be a door. Intention is the operative concept.
Thank you! Shows how deeply considered things are on Wikipedia.
Fascinating!
Plaster the earth with the words of Charlie Kirk. He deserves no less.
“You cannot reasonably experience this president and deny his role in this coarsening of American politics. But it’s bigger than that; it’s part of the way politics is mediating through distortion fields and lies.” prospect.org/politics/202...
So done with @msnbc.com I read what Dowd said. It was plain old country common sense.
Plaster the earth with the words of Charlie Kirk. He deserves no less.
Plaster the earth with the words of Charlie Kirk. He deserves no less.
Plaster the earth with the words of Charlie Kirk. He deserves no less.
Plaster the earth with the words of Charlie Kirk. He deserves no less.
Plaster the earth with the words of Charlie Kirk. He deserves no less.
Plaster the earth with the words of Charlie Kirk. He deserves no less.
Plaster the earth with the words of Charlie Kirk. He deserves no less.
Plaster the earth with the words of Charlie Kirk. He deserves no less.
I do think we should flood the spaces with his actual words so that there is no doubt who he was.
I’m gonna remember this when people inevitably wax distraught about the trauma the crowd in Utah suffered today
For everyone saying political violence has no place in this country… Remember two Democratic legislators were shot in Minnesota just this year. And America shrugged and moved on.
Gun control is the least "both sides" issue ever. The GOP has been unanimously against it. It is on them to make a change.
there was never going to be a world in which the right didn’t claim the left was celebrating the death of charlie kirk, no matter how respectable anyone tried to be.
Know your facts.
It’s long been clear that blue folks can experience empathy from a far but red folks only when they are personally affected. May this being change for the better of all of us though I suspect we may get some martial law instead.
I think nuance is called for here, like JB Pritzker is saying, not the standard pablum. Kirk has said it’s worth it to have gun deaths every year to protect the 2nd amendment. I don’t agree; but that’s been *his position. bsky.app/profile/waja...
Hi Roxanne, Fedica let's you save drafts and schedule up to 10 posts at a time for free, for free! If you have questions, send them my way. bsky.app/profile/fedi...
Excellent! Thank you, and, my desire is more spontaneous when I have a post in process but can't complete it immediately for various reasons. Having to hop out to another place doesn't solve my little challenge.
This study is one of the most important developments in extreme weather attribution science over the last two decades: deaths from Swiss heat waves traced back to specific firms like Exxon and Saudi Aramco. Don't miss Table S7 - it's going to change the way we fight fossil fuel companies.
A beautiful morning to be sure!
PS. I am following you and have notifications ON for people I follow. Yet I did not get a notice of your reply. Another glitch in the blumatrix.
It’s all capitalism, all the way. The fundamentals of journalism are hanging on by a few brave souls who have to keep jumping ship to keep from going down with it.
Thank you! Otherwise this request has gone virtually nowhere. I guess it’s just gonna be U&me, Jerry. Imagine the thrill of drafting on a Sat night w nothing else to do? The creativity could be explosive! (But I just want them for when I have to hop out & check some fact w/o losing the skeet.)
Looking for rainbows on today’s morning walk. 🌈
For #Booksky 💙📚
Age verification? I watched The Jetsons on Saturday morning tv. (Where are the flying cars we were promised?)
I keep sending the same message to @msnbc!
Is ICE about to go buck wild using cell site simulators? Good thing EFF has a project to help you detect them: www.eff.org/deeplinks/20... www.forbes.com/sites/the-wi...
This is within all our capabilities.
I'm not big in the edit button crowd because typos are just part of being human, and it helps me to slow down when I'm posting. Having drafts though, gets us halfway there!
Next up, I would love to be able to save drafts here. Anybody else have this on their wish list? Can you make it happen, @jcsalterego.bsky.social ??? 🙏✍️🙏
Hey, it is popular with me. Seeing myself offline now.
TEACHERS! After Dinner Conversation received a grant that allows us to offer a free sample philosophy ethics short story fiction books to educators for to use in their classes. No strings attached. And yes, we pay for shipping too. buff.ly/xreh14w
I’ll email later.
I teach yoga 2x/week and that serves a similar purpose for me. Thankfully so! Off to walk and give it another shot. xorox
Doing ok. trying to keep my little cattle dog from chasing the coyotes. So far, she wins. Hard time focusing with the state of the nation. Appreciating the late summer — such a beautiful time of year. And you?
Same same.
Oh dear. I just chatted with him on LI last week. Going to read the article now. We knew each other in HI, 20+ years ago.
🚨 The Supreme Court just put all Latinos in the United States at risk—including citizens.
My first official Bluesky bookmark! Thank you for your endless clever joy, Mr. @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social . 🙇🏼♀️
Watch this. Then be sure to watch The Gilded Age. Then watch this again and fully appreciate the brilliance!
What a portrait! Must be framed. The shadows, the smile, the sea!! All so wonderful.
Are there any lawyers here who are knowledgeable about US gambling law who'd be willing to speak with me for a story? Or lmk if you know of someone who might fit the bill. DMs are open, or email/Signal/etc: www.mollywhite.net/contact
I find it translates even more powerfully with the sound off. Body language for the win. And yes, actions can speak louder than words.
Do check the latest updates though as I've read you no longer will be able to export your subscribers...
This is your last week to apply for Poynter's Power of Diverse Voices, a writing workshop for journalists of color that I have helped teach since its inception, with powerhouse faculty Tom Huang, Fernanda Santos and Aisha Sultan! DETAILS: https://loom.ly/5rDTIi4
Fine, but don't you think Trump should've given it to himself?
It helps to use your voice to not feel helpless as fascism takes over industry after industry. ⬇️
And my god, how has that worked for the past several decades? Starting at least w Reagan.
Leave it th The Guardian to point out so much of what is wrong with the USTA censorship plan. I hope the crowd blows up. And the media must then cover it. www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/s...
I don’t have kids, but I have the problem myself and I appreciated this AND the Readers Picks comments very much. The device & app makers are terrible overlords. We can & and should go back 🎁 link: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/06/w...
Are you someone who has been or could be affected by imminent ICE raids in Chicago? Do you have friends, family members or neighbors who have been or could be? If you have information you can share, please reach out to @melissa-sanchez.bsky.social on Signal or WhatsApp at 872-444-0011.
if anyone has any extra ticket to the us open tomorrow lmk lol
Let them know how you feel: bsky.app/profile/ship...
Thank you!
I would take any time at the sea... Bonus with dogs!
Brilliant.
Looks wonderful.
I guess folks there should make it so loud it can’t be censored? This is atrocious, US Open.
An ICE watch zine (Chicago edition) being handed out today.
There should be an ad hoc emergency conference of the states and Illinois should convene it. Not because it'd have any legal power, of course, but because there should be a united front in the form of a body able to speak with their combined voice, a coordinating committee if you prefer.
😘🫶👏
Love it. Why do I have such a hard time remembering erasure poems? I love them.
I just love this one! Brevity clever-ity for the win.
Thank you. I appreciate your words to all the poets!
Alan is on the Hero’s Journey, too! Thank you for all your support.
This is an even better example than my Epstein one. If a topic makes a person uncomfortable, they/we tend to cower under the covers of ignorance rather than do the work to seek out information, and ideally, direct experience with those who are the subjects of discussion.