Leigh, as in free 🍉 🏳️‍⚧️

Weekend plans sorted. 🙏🏻

I hear and see your concerns. Over the weekend, a couple users hosted on Blacksky's PDS were banned from the Bluesky app and thus the Bluesky API servers. This was a weakness of our system I've been aware of and hoped we had more time to address before any kind of public incident. 1/11

I keep thinking about that famous Ilya Kaminsky poem, "We Lived Happily During the War," today. 💔

I am so busy this month, I'm basically flying. But I'm thinking about the conditional nature of our privilege & comfort. (And who suffers to make it possible.)

www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/91413/...

Time to convert our cotton fields to solar fields.

Because I know people have lots of time to react but not enough to click through

blacksky.community/profile/did:...

YouTube video by More Perfect Union I Tracked Down The Company Ruining Restaurants

www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXXQ...

He was always going to do this. Chicagoans have not rioted, so the administration just lied and said we have. We have not attacked ICE agents, so they just lied and said we did. There was no chaos here, so they created chaotic scenes by attacking people and filmed that shit.

Y'all who keep lecturing protesters to "not give them an excuse" need to pause for a minute. Imagine yourself telling a DV victim, "Be sure not to mouth off or make any mistakes so he won't hit you. Don't give him an excuse! It's what he wants!" That's what you fools sound like.

accusing a Black man — any Black man — of being violent is definitely one very sharp blade in the racist Swiss army knife

You could just talk about Jim Crow. I promise you, there's no need to leave America's shores to talk about life in a fascist state

This photo's so fucking old it's got $1.19/gal gas.

Do all those liberals and "don't pester Bluesky CEO/engineers" people still think nothing is wrong, and this place is doing fine or

also just feels important to point out that after a whole wave of trans users were suspended for pointing out JK Rowling’s transphobia, now apparently we are suspending Jewish users for pointing out Christian Zionists’ antisemitism

the pattern is, uh

not subtle

Allies, support the elders

Her whole schtick was that voices like hers were being silenced but being a right-wing propagandist is one of the best ways to be well paid while calling yourself a journalist.

Thank you this important service 5 🌟

Incorrect. There's no such thing as a good ICE arrest.

Not long ago -- in my lifetime -- all trans people faced unspeakable violence, including state-sponsored violence, for simply existing

And self-appointed gatekeepers made it as tough as possible for a person to transition.

Anyone who wants to bring back the gatekeeping also wants the violence back

People just want a place to chill online while being able to avoid being the targets of bigotry

Suspending Link after he pointed out the how following Jonathan Chait after being accused of transphobia does not allow you to beat the transphobia allegations. In fact, it does the opposite.

To be clear: suspending Link was certainly a choice. And we know what KIND of choice it is.

In light of today's news about Zohran's plans to end the Gifted & Talented program for children 5 years and younger:

I highly recommend checking out the recently released Policy Roadmap of New Yorkers for Racially Just Public Schools (RJPS.org).

It really sets the standards for educational equity.

I did not know that Bret Stephens was also on the flotilla

Glad to see increasing attention to what folks otg have said for awhile: "recovery for the rich" is how the Helene aftermath is playing out. Decisions by federal, state and local governments are behind that.

Work really hard and one day this can be you (followed by graffiti of a headstone that says “RIP worked really hard” on it

happy sunday, remember that you are completely expendable to your employer and that when you die they will forget you ever existed within weeks and easily replace you

the people who've been in charge leading up to this moment will not be the ones to get us out of it.

Watch to the end 😭

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Illinois State Police are protecting ICE as they move their vehicles out of the Broadview Detention Center. Call Governor Pritzker now to demand that he remove the ISP from Broadview. No state resources to protect kidnappers. Pritzker: Call off the IL state police 312-814-2121

CALL PRITZKER TO DEMAND HE REMOVE ILLINOIS STATE POLICE FROM BROADVIEW:
(Chicago) 312-814-2121 or 312-814-2122
(Springfield) 217-782-6830 or 217-782-6831
Hearing impaired (TTY): 888-261-3336

I called and talked about how the state cops joined ICE in brutalizing protesters today.

As a theoretical cosmologist, I'm frequently asked "what is the benefit of the work you're doing for people's lives?" Nothing I work on makes money or cures disease.

There are a few different answers one can give, at various levels of "convincing" / "actually relevant to why the work is done."

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