Joseph Kohlmann But Spooky / Morose (wait)

There seems to be a concerted effort by bluesky's leadership to end moderation of transphobia and blocking of transphobes.

Bluesky seems to enabling abuse against the trans community by degenerates

i'm sure banning loadbearing shitposters and loadbearing blocklists is gonna go great for bluesky

meltdown maytober is running rampant. this new strain is getting into people's brains like none other

Man it’s funny that people still think [REDACTED] is one of the good ones

Listen, I really love being connected with everyone but it is starting to seem any social media out there just forgets that Nazis are bad and marginalized folks are culture as soon as they hit a dozen million users.

I'm not even 100% clear on why this should be the case - I thought blacksky had their own relay, and only used bluesky's labeler for selected things - but yeah. Oops. This will surely accelerate people moving to alternate app views.

Exemplifying how ineffectual the 'decentralization' has been so far, you actually can't see Link's account even if you are logged in through Blacksky.

if jesse singal “hasn’t violated the terms of use,” but the goofy autistic space law nerd with the bad food opinions has, maybe your terms of service are bad.

PMC COVlD Update, Week of Oct 6, 2025 (U.S.) 🧵1/9 An estimated 1 in 81 people are actively infectious during the ongoing 11th wave. The "shutdown" has created a blackout at the state level. Transmission is half that of the peak one month ago, and we anticipate a relative national "lull" in early-to-mid November, albeit still at dangerous levels. Our model uses a combination of CDC and Biobot data, so we are able to estimate national statistics despite the CDC data going offline. On the map, note that Puerto Rico continues to update; they use a CDC-style system but were dropped by the CDC long ago. For full methodology, review the technical appendix on the website.

Latest PMC #Covid #dashboard update from Prof @michael-hoerger.bsky.social on Twitter:

"Transmission is half that of the peak one month ago, and we anticipate a relative national 'lull' in early-to-mid November, albeit still at dangerous levels."

Full 🧵
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A cat tree that looks like a printing press.

A printing press that looks like a cat tree.

I’m sure this is just me, but cat trees look like printing presses?

if you didn’t want people to point out what you do, you probably shouldn’t have made all your data public

bluesky banning @spacelawshitpost.me for pointing out that jay followed jonathon chait isn’t the same as them banning @literallyjustadog.online for building the aaron tracker but it rhymes

MEMORANDUM OF LAW I. INTRODUCTION Yesterday, this Court recognized that the legal principles at stake in this case “go[] to the heart of what it means to live under the rule of law in the United States.” Opinion & Order Granting Mot. for Temporary Restraining Order (“Order”), ECF 56 at 2. Applying those principles, this Court concluded that Defendants likely lacked authority to federalize Oregon National Guard members and ordered Defendants to halt federalization for 14 days. Defendants filed a notice of appeal last night (Ntc. of Appeal, ECF 57), and they have now asked the Ninth Circuit to stay the effect of this Court’s decision. Not content with this Court’s or the Ninth Circuit’s judgment, Defendants are now in the process of circumventing this Court's Order. After this Court ruled that 10 U.S.C. § 12406 could not justify federalizing the Oregon National Guard to deploy them to Portland, Defendants have deployed members of the California National Guard to Portland—servicemembers who were federalized under that very same Title 10 authority for deployment in Los Angeles. That redeployment is illegal: Setting aside whether the underlying federalization order from August violated Section 12406, the federalization order clearly did not contemplate the use of California

NEW: California joins Oregon and Portland in asking Judge Immergut for a SECOND temporary restraining order blocking the Trump admin from "circumventing this Court's Order" by deploying the federalized California National Guard to Portland. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

This seems like a guy who bent a lot of rules, including immigration laws, while also being a successful leader. If he was in tech we would have several tomes written about his rise and grind/move fast ethos

Hell, if he were a white guy the VCs (also white guys) would’ve already formed up around him like some kind of gaudy, ritzy, North Face vested phalanx

Anyway I'm still doing free Know Your Rights trainings for anyone who wants them. If you're part of a protest group in Chicago or anywhere in Illinois and want a free know your rights training (or free legal support for your action), let me know! Sheryl@weikallaw.com.

Unmistakably

Huge “Torment Nexus” energy

This guy *definitely* has a Sephiroth profile pic

Okay, skip the therapy, straight to jail.

Quote by kurt vonnegut: "Go into the arts. I'm not kidding. The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heavens sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possibly can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something."

lrt THIS IS WHAT I KEEP SAYING TO PEOPLE, YOU DONT HAVE TO MAKE THE BEST THING THAT'S EVER EXISTED, YOU JUST HAVE TO MAKE. you will make it better than a computer. you will probably make it better than a large part of other humans, too, but even if you don't, you Have to Make It! quoth the Man Ever:

Hundreds of thousands protest in Amsterdam against Gaza war Protesters of all ages weathered the rain to join a 6-kilometre march through the Dutch capital.

Hundreds of thousands protest in Amsterdam against Gaza war reut.rs/4mMidyj

the reasoning is worse than I recalled lol

You mean to tell me a pseudo-intellectual self-important tech nerd who doesn't read didn't think through the consequences of what they were creating, color me shocked

Learning that the CEO of this website reads books from the middle to skip the "boring" parts really clarified the whole project for me tbh.

Wow (derogatorily towards the CEO)

If you're wondering what the occasion was, BlueSky permanently banned a black man on *another PDS* because he pointed out that the CEO of BlueSky follows a known racist account.

“I’m Mexican, I’ve tasted spicier”

protect him at all costs, Portland 🥹

Feels like the signal to noise ratio has never been higher, by dint of bigots running amok, and in some cases, calling the shots on the platforms themselves. But also, the Zone is completely Flooded. What good is Scrolling right now? What am I gotta find? “Oh, some Nazi pooped their pants again?”

day 10 💞🙌 #gaming #indiegames #videogames #gamedev