blake deadly

In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.

Not a shitpost: #NoKings is feel-good performative activism for comfortable mostly upper and upper middle class white folks and that’s good, actually. Millions of people in the streets protesting a fascist regime is good. It is good for the normie baseline to be massive displays of public dissent.

everyone who is a living person in a nation should be entitled to a free government apartment and unlimited food stamps with zero qualifiers, feeding and housing people is the absolute bare minimum a government should do to maintain legitimacy

Songs: Ohia- the Magnolia Electric Co.

The shadows are long and there’s a chill in the air.

It’s time.

fuck that. we’ll search out the name of anyone or any company that leases office space to ICE in Pittsburgh and absolutely decimate their reputation loudly & publicly for _years_.

local media peeps, you’re going to be key, here

computer, enhance

Presently in Pennsylvania ~25% of the population receives $641 million of free policing annually, funded by other regions.

This scheme uses state police for local police work, which may actually be against state law.

A new law seeks to make that approach for fiscally responsible:

We have a bit of a natural experiment here. Compare the tone, quantity and duration of Charlie Kirk coverage with that of the two Dem lawmakers gunned down in their homes in Minnesota 6 months ago. May be revealing.

My body is tired, but my spirit is willing! Still walking because transit can’t wait. Still walking for our families. Still walking for a government that works for the US!
#walkfortransit #day3

become ungovernable

A Teen Was Suicidal. ChatGPT Was the Friend He Confided In.

Adam Raine, 16, died from suicide in April after months on ChatGPT discussing plans to end his life. His parents have filed the first known case against OpenAI for wrongful death.

Overwhelming at times to work on this story, but here it is. My latest on AI chatbots: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/t...

Ooooof. And this is coming from a gas consultancy executive!

As always, Ted Chiang is great in this interview.
cdh.princeton.edu/blog/2025/08...

UPMC should take some fucking notes

you people are using a guessing machine to write your parent’s obituaries??? I am walking into the monongahela river with stones in my pockets

I feel the way the amish do about photographs about using AI to write anything meant for another human to read

thank you, governor. It’s very important to anticipate bad-faith actors twisting everything you say and do and remain eternally reactive. That’s called ‘courage’

Dearest Pittsburgh, please consider stepping up with me to be there for WQED. This isn’t an ad. I have no relationship with them. They didn’t ask me to ask you. I simply refuse to let Mister Rogers’ TV home fade away, especially not due to a funding cut ❤️

catch covid at anthrocon and call it kennel cough

the mayor of Philadelphia makes MORE MONEY than the mayor of NYC (s city of 12+ million) and yet she’s sitting on Twitter negging our city workers instead of hammering out a fair contract

Imagine being part of a floundering political establishment at historic lows in favorability, seeing this guy's absolutely infectuous energy, and deciding to try to stop it through an array of embarrassing media appearances and editorial blunders.

my husband said he “can tell when a man has family money from the way his ears are pierced” and it was the most haunting and accurate forecasting I’ve ever heard

people: mamdani is going to turn NYC into a theocracy!!!!

SCOTUS: it's ok if ur religion thinks being gay is evil and don't want ur kids to read about it in school

Screenshot of another nytimes article I am not gonna dignify with my time

i have enough going on right now

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Hundreds of patients across the region will have their life saving healthcare stopped by UPMC. Why? All so UPMC can protect its profits.

The community has launched a campaign to help these families please spread the word.

www.gofundme.com/f/support-tr...

screenshot of nytimes article that I’m not going to read about whether you shouldn’t pee “just in case”

i have enough going on right now

This is a bad advice column. People get locked into volatile contracts and end up paying more for power than if they stuck with their default service.

Scams are rampant. It’s irresponsible to not acknowledge the downside of switching suppliers, especially when scammers target older adults.