@jspeights.bsky.social
Orphaned signifier. He/him.
Screenshot of the submission form on trumpaccounts.gov showing each form element is rendered in the title font. That’s not a real SSN, don’t worry
Apparently trumpaccounts.gov has a form that submits to the IRS.
Very important that if people are filling it out on their phone that their SSN should be a large as possible in case anybody is nearby
Seattle Gen Z folks, get thee to @scarecrowvideo.bsky.social .
25.02.2026 00:34 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0High tech salaries have often allowed partners and family members to work in non-profits, education, & lower-paying public service roles.
@anildash.com on why mass tech layoffs cause a second-order collapse in the labor market & impact society’s social safety net.
Full ep with @rabble.nz, out now.
Man, we’ve hit the point where even ICE agents are blowing whistles at ICE agents.
24.02.2026 06:05 — 👍 188 🔁 44 💬 3 📌 2Anthropic refused to let its models fire weapons indiscriminately, so the Pentagon hired CSAM Mecha Hitler instead.
24.02.2026 03:42 — 👍 117 🔁 9 💬 4 📌 0Expecting everyone to agree with you and seeing that as a good thing
Is bad for curiosity.
It’s bad for creativity
It’s bad consent
Because you can’t negotiate , build and problem solve if you’re brought up thinking that we can’t hold multiple ideas at once
A lot of people have made the analogy, but every day I feel like we're just watching the whole entire planet suffer from "drained-pool politics," in the words of Heather McGhee.
23.02.2026 23:28 — 👍 11 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0I appreciate the "trust but verify" approach here as well. Real mindset change when you accept that the computer can and will follow your instructions wrong.
20.02.2026 16:57 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
This video from @joeyabanks.me shows a pretty compelling use of an MCP in Figma. Legit time savings without outsourcing your problem solving/creativity to a robot. www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwUC...
20.02.2026 16:53 — 👍 11 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0
In memory of owner Craig Wilson, former Queen Anne/Fremont rental shop Video Isle facilitated the donation of their extensive collection to Scarecrow this past weekend. Our largest donation ever!
18.02.2026 17:07 — 👍 104 🔁 15 💬 2 📌 1We’ve gone from this to “move fast and break things” and call it progress.
18.02.2026 06:42 — 👍 71 🔁 21 💬 2 📌 0With alt text, so everyone can be able to read it
18.02.2026 05:16 — 👍 1148 🔁 548 💬 5 📌 14
Another evening when I am absolutely enveloped by this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4p5U...
18.02.2026 04:22 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Heres the interview Trump's FCC didnt want you to see on Colbert:
youtu.be/oiTJ7Pz_59A?...
Photo of 6 whistle kits on a grey background, arranged in two rows of 3. Each kit has two whistles and a zine (stay loud, form a crowd) in a small clear zip top bag. Top row, left to right: two orange whistles (one big, one skinny), a rainbow whistle & and a small purple whistle, a big gold whistle and a small black whistle. Bottom row, left to right: two red whistles, a pink heart whistle that says Defy Tyranny and a little pink and white whistle, a big pink whistle and a smaller pink and blue whistle.
Testing out a new concept: two whistles per kit. One to wear around your neck, one for your keychain (or a friend).
What do you think? Which of these would you grab?
Buy Mary some filament! In addition to printing whistles, Mary has been instrumental in translating our whistles zine to 20+ languages
www.amazon.com/registries/g...
We just hit THREE QUARTERS OF A MILLION WHISTLES since mid-December, more than half of that total was printed and shipped THIS MONTH. At this rate we will hit a million by the end of the month. Let us get whistles to you too: whistlegoblins.fun
17.02.2026 03:50 — 👍 341 🔁 62 💬 2 📌 4
Image of two bald eagles visible in the barren branches of a winter tree. Seen against the cloudy winter skies.
TWO bald eagles! I am a birder now.
16.02.2026 18:04 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0A complication of AI-assisted coding: developers (even if they’re being careful, checking everything, etc.) are moving too fast to develop mental maps of their projects and remember their design and architectural choices, making it harder to explain those choices or make changes in the future
15.02.2026 10:55 — 👍 48 🔁 8 💬 4 📌 4I helped mobilize a group of neighbors to provide direct aid to nearly 50 families who are in hiding from ICE.
These folks deserve fresh, familiar foods. So we're purchasing groceries direct from neighborhood Latino markets whenever we can.
Venmo @kristina-halvorson to help, and please repost.
ICE using the same ruse that Ted Bundy used to kidnap people should tell you something.
15.02.2026 01:51 — 👍 21057 🔁 8161 💬 371 📌 165ICE has completely broken our social contract.
They manipulate social trust and are creating lasting damage to our most basic social foundations
A screenshot showing: Shipped this month 391,365 Total Shipped 700,770
Also, for those who are following the adventures of the Little Whistle Federation That Could, we just passed 700,000 whistles shipped total.
Of those 700,000 whistles, more than half of them were shipped in these 14 days of February.
We’ve given away more than 115,000 free whistle kits, all powered by volunteers and community donations.
Each whistle kit is cheap to make, but those costs add up over time!
If you can, please consider helping us out:
venmo.com/u/Kate-Whist...
Jacob Frey on TV: “We just approved rental assistance that is targeted towards the people who hopefully need it most.”
Jacob Frey to Minneapolis City Council:
Trump didn’t really TACO. Homan didn’t change tactics. They just wanted the media to look away
12.02.2026 00:12 — 👍 749 🔁 245 💬 9 📌 1No one has seriously said LLMs aren’t important or that AI is categorically junk.
Some of us have said that there is something bigger than tech. It’s called power — governance, civic norms, etc — & refusal is absolutely part of how we think soberly about that power. Who has it & how they use it.
