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⚫️βšͺ️ Nate Gillespie πŸ”΄βš«οΈ

@nategillespie.bsky.social

Lapsed historian turned web product person turned #ALS warrior. Aspiring novelist. Dad. Long-suffering #NUFC & #RipCity fan. Suffering builds character. Columbia City, Seattle via Portland & SF. ↙️↙️↙️

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Trash people using trash technology to make trash content, trashing the planet and the culture. Trash.

08.10.2025 02:15 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

THIS.

07.10.2025 17:35 β€” πŸ‘ 63    πŸ” 13    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

Somehow we need to re-establish the social norm that just shamelessly lying about everything is disgraceful and people who do so should be shunned and ignored.

07.10.2025 03:36 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

"hand-to-hand combat with antifa every night"

06.10.2025 19:45 β€” πŸ‘ 11553    πŸ” 3471    πŸ’¬ 494    πŸ“Œ 182

Abolish ICE.

06.10.2025 23:14 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Or, to put it another way, as long as white Americans take refuge in their whitenessβ€” for so long as they are unable to walk out of this most monstrous of traps-they will allow millions of people to be slaughtered in their name, and will be manipulated into and surrender themselves to what they will think of-and justifyβ€”as a racial war. They will never, so long as their whiteness puts so sinister a distance between themselves and their own experience and the experience of others, feel themselves sufficiently human, sufficiently worthwhile, to become responsible for themselves, their leaders, their country, their children, or their fate. They will perish (as we once put it in our black church) in their sinsβ€”that is, in their delusions. And this is happening, needless to say, already, all around us.

Or, to put it another way, as long as white Americans take refuge in their whitenessβ€” for so long as they are unable to walk out of this most monstrous of traps-they will allow millions of people to be slaughtered in their name, and will be manipulated into and surrender themselves to what they will think of-and justifyβ€”as a racial war. They will never, so long as their whiteness puts so sinister a distance between themselves and their own experience and the experience of others, feel themselves sufficiently human, sufficiently worthwhile, to become responsible for themselves, their leaders, their country, their children, or their fate. They will perish (as we once put it in our black church) in their sinsβ€”that is, in their delusions. And this is happening, needless to say, already, all around us.

James Baldwin to Angela Davis in 1970, discussing white Americans:

05.10.2025 17:19 β€” πŸ‘ 2438    πŸ” 931    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 52
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wizard frog is insane

04.10.2025 22:24 β€” πŸ‘ 12636    πŸ” 3523    πŸ’¬ 228    πŸ“Œ 1142

I’m no Newsom fanboy, but figuring out how to change the incentives of institutions considering capitulation is one of the big tasks of our moment.

02.10.2025 22:40 β€” πŸ‘ 2635    πŸ” 489    πŸ’¬ 36    πŸ“Œ 9

Unambiguous Nazi behavior. Abolish ICE.

02.10.2025 17:12 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
A fundraising text 

NEW MESSAGE
FROM:
Chuck Schumer
Meredith, is there anything I can say to convince you to donate $20 (becomes $80!) to help take back the Senate majority

A fundraising text NEW MESSAGE FROM: Chuck Schumer Meredith, is there anything I can say to convince you to donate $20 (becomes $80!) to help take back the Senate majority

β€œI’m resigning from my position as Democratic leader and retiring from the Senate.”

30.09.2025 23:43 β€” πŸ‘ 6439    πŸ” 966    πŸ’¬ 143    πŸ“Œ 73

Things Portland is currently ravaged by:

Pizza
Temperate, sunny weather
Coffee
Middling soccer
Sunsets
Farmer’s markets
Apples
Hiking trails
Thai food
Fresh hops
Harvest-ready vineyards

Things Portland is not ravaged by:

War

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

27.09.2025 15:48 β€” πŸ‘ 242    πŸ” 75    πŸ’¬ 12    πŸ“Œ 2

Democrats should never vote to fund a government that's waging war on its own citizens and firing officials *because* they insist on following court orders instead of breaking the law. Let Senate Republicans nuke the filibuster. None of this is normal and it shouldn't be treated as such.

27.09.2025 16:46 β€” πŸ‘ 16197    πŸ” 4470    πŸ’¬ 342    πŸ“Œ 210
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War-ravaged Portland

27.09.2025 14:46 β€” πŸ‘ 18744    πŸ” 4418    πŸ’¬ 562    πŸ“Œ 252

Abolish ICE

26.09.2025 20:45 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

🫑

25.09.2025 16:36 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

To a great degree we’re dealing with the fallout from a generation of men who got lucky once during a specific moment in tech evolution, made to feel as gods, but are all now suffering their mid-life crises having accomplished nothing else of note.

These men have made nothing other than money.

24.09.2025 14:06 β€” πŸ‘ 1454    πŸ” 431    πŸ’¬ 22    πŸ“Œ 16

I know antifa isn't a real organization because I don't get 40 texts a week from them asking for donations.

22.09.2025 23:21 β€” πŸ‘ 31909    πŸ” 6307    πŸ’¬ 391    πŸ“Œ 244

If you, like me, are the parent of a neuro-atypical child dreading this autism press conference, please remember: These are the people hurting our kids. Not us. They are the ones stigmatizing and pathologizing them. They are the ones peddling untested science. And we should be very, very angry.

22.09.2025 21:03 β€” πŸ‘ 19935    πŸ” 4661    πŸ’¬ 419    πŸ“Œ 143

The people who took my headphone jack need to be arrested today

20.09.2025 00:27 β€” πŸ‘ 963    πŸ” 135    πŸ’¬ 24    πŸ“Œ 1

Guys, I think I picked the wrong week to start reading They Thought They Were Free

18.09.2025 02:23 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Calling all US #NUFC fans, Wor Flags do such an amazing job every week but now more than ever we need to support them.

Buy a raffle ticket, a flag, make a donation or even a monthly one (don’t forget the Women’s team too).

Anything you can give to help these guys out!

15.09.2025 14:35 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

No liverbird on the badge, no foul. Obviously.

14.09.2025 01:24 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Bruno played the full 90 last night at altitude, followed by a very long flight home. Should definitely be rested for BarΓ§a imo

10.09.2025 15:16 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

bsky.app/profile/nate...

10.09.2025 13:31 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

WaPo: No clear answers on whether Shaggy was creepin’ with the girl next door

They were both butt naked banging on the bathroom floor but the deejay insists β€œIt wasn’t me” and experts say they can’t be sure. Shaggy welcomed a forensic analysis of the marks on his shoulder and the stains on the sofa

10.09.2025 04:07 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

Your president is a disgusting pedophile.

08.09.2025 20:37 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Wow, I think this is the first time I’ve ever read an ALS research paper and thought, β€œholy shit, they might have actually found the cure.” If there are any actual trained neuroscientists on the timeline… is this research as exciting as it seems? www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... πŸ™πŸ™πŸ™

07.09.2025 23:42 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

β€œPoop milk,” even.

07.09.2025 16:26 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

wtf ewwww

05.09.2025 20:00 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

We simply do not have to live this way.

27.08.2025 20:13 β€” πŸ‘ 1222    πŸ” 295    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 0

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