Tonia Sutherland

#caribbeansky

good thing nobody looks at their phone otherwise i'd be concerned that this sounds like always on surveillance

PSA:

If reading wasn’t political, they wouldn’t be banning books.

Let’s talk about ‘whoa.’

First of all, ‘woah’ is not yet considered an established spelling variant of ‘whoa.’

While ‘woah’ has grown in prevalence since the late 20th century, ‘whoa’ is still about 5 times as common as ‘woah.’

The federal government under Stephen Miller is explicitly trying to start a civil war.

That is my statement.

This is a harsh, hard truth.

Risks of handcuffing someone facedown long known; people die when police training fails to keep up For decades, police across the United States have been warned that the common tactic of handcuffing someone facedown could turn deadly if officers pin them on the ground with too much pressure or for ...

2/ "Most comprehensive investigation to date was conducted by the @apnews.com in collaboration with @frontlinepbs.bsky.social and @howardcenterasu.bsky.social" [FSI]

Risks of Handcuffing Someone Facedown Long Known; People Die When Police Training Fails to Keep Up

By @marthabellisle.bsky.social

1/ This is so f'ing outrageous. You cannot safely restrain people on their stomachs. They're going to kill people.

This is very well known now.

if you mute "bari weiss" make sure you also mute "bari fucking weiss" and "bari are you fucking for real right now weiss" and "bari no fucking way weiss."

just to make sure you catch 'em all.

CHATGPT: I understand where you're coming from. You worked really hard to get here, and now it's time to enjoy the fruit of your labors.

ISILDUR: So I should keep it? Elrond says I shouldn't

CHATGPT: The ring is precious. Sometimes friends don't have your best interests at heart.

ISILDUR: true

anyway, looking forward to bari weiss restoring “trust in news” where “trust in news” means pumping out propaganda for your oligarch boss

Weird thing where people say “no one could have predicted it” when really what they mean is their political commitments and orientation were such that they ignored everyone who was predicting it

Sorry but “no one could have“ and you having your head stuck up your ass are two different situations

okay, that’s enough. let’s take the rest of the week off.

France's prime minister resigns after less than a month in office Facing criticism from all sides, France's new prime minister Sébastien Lecornu resigned less than 24 hours after naming his government and after less than a month in office, plunging the country into a deep political crisis.

Facing criticism from all sides, France's new prime minister Sébastien Lecornu resigned less than 24 hours after naming his government and after less than a month in office, plunging the country into a deep political crisis.

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my colleagues @bloomberg.com are currently hiring for 35 different positions globally, from interns in Brasil to Calgary Bureau Chief to a West Coast Editor to work weekends in LA: bloomberg.avature.net/careers/Sear...

There are also gigs for product managers who understand news and markets

Supreme Court Rejects Appeal From Ghislaine Maxwell The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from Ghislaine Maxwell, the imprisoned ex-girlfriend of Jeffrey Epstein.

The Supreme Court rejected an appeal from Ghislaine Maxwell to overturn her conviction for sex trafficking underage girls for Jeffrey Epstein

A digital poster with information and a link about the Information Integrity and Web Archiving Fellowship, a 2026 collaborative fellowship offered by Archiving the Black Web and Onyx Impact for journalists and media professionals. tinyurl.com/ATBW-IIWA

Calling journalists and media professionals interested in digital preservation and information integrity! We are excited to announce the ATBW/Onyx Impact @theonyximpact.bsky.social
Information Integrity & Web Archiving Fellowship. Sign up to know when applications open. tinyurl.com/atbw-iiwa

ICE ad blitz in Boston aims to lure local law enforcement officers to join Trump mass deportation efforts An Associated Press tally shows U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is spending millions of dollars on TV recruitment ads targeting officers frustrated by local restrictions on immigration enforc...

An AP tally shows ICE is spending millions of dollars on TV recruitment ads targeting officers frustrated by local restrictions on immigration enforcement. The ads are airing in more than a dozen cities, including Boston, Chicago, Seattle and Atlanta.

People keep talking about 1984 ….. but a big predictor of right now is … Animal Farm

Supreme Court to decide if states may ban attempts to ‘convert’ gay and transgender youth | CNN Politics Matt Salmon remembers getting into a circle with the other teenagers in his group therapy session and shouting obscenities at a gay boy forced to stand in the middle.

The Supreme Court is poised to overturn 32 state bans on conversion therapy and explicitly legalize the abusive and torturous process.

They don't care how many LGBTQ people this traumatizes and kills.

www.cnn.com/2025/10/06/p...

Esso @esitrot.bsky.social 2A ICE. Use your 2A rights to defend yourself and neighbors against the attack from masked terrorists. They are #MAGA #terrorists. Defend your community. Use your 2A rights. Let their moms come identify them. October 5, 2025 at 3:05 PM

Have you seen people say, "Don't fed post!"?

Here's an excellent example of that. This account is using "2A" as a euphemism to shoot someone. Account has many similar posts.

Liking or sharing these posts can be used against you in court.

Profile URL to Report and Block:
bsky.app/profile/esit...

Thank you to @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social for featuring Ways of Knowing, our oral history collection, on the pod! @abelantara.bsky.social and I loved talking language, community, and connection with Jen Hoyer!

newbooksnetwork.com/ways-of-know...

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

Go ahead and stop caring what people might think if you fail to perform an image of their own design. It doesn't matter. It never did and never will. Recognize the people who bring you down and understand they are miserable and to be avoided. Conditional support is actually unconditional harm.

TO A DEAR FRIEND MOTHERING MISERY Every time your grief cries, you pick it up, cradle it like a newborn. But your pain isn't precious, not your life-long responsibility. For each doting moment, your soul refuses to sing for days- & the world needs your music too much Please leave it be; no more milk. Let it cry for nights on end unattended. Let it forget how your heartbeat sounds, the warmth of your skin. Stop making it soup when it coughs setting a place for it at the table or buying it new clothes. Convert its old room into a sanctuary for things vou adore Let your ache become self-sufficient & grow apart from you, walk out the door & forget to call home.

kamilah aisha moon
TO A DEAR FRIEND MOTHERING MISERY

from her collection, Starshine & Clay

The Rise Against Big Tech Campaign invites you to a 90-minute workshop to learn how to conduct your own mini-workshop within your organization to begin thinking about a strategic move away from Big Tech. WHEN: Thursday, October 9 at 16:00 UTC / 12pm US Eastern Time - 90 minutes riseagainstbig.tech

Private health insurers use AI to approve or deny care. Soon Medicare will, too. A pilot program testing the use of artificial intelligence to expand prior authorization decisions in Medicare has providers, politicians and researchers asking questions.

AI Death Panels, designed to weed out wasteful, “low-value” services, a federal expansion of an unpopular process called prior authorization, which requires insurance approval before proceeding with certain procedures, tests, and prescriptions. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

"If it is inaccessible to the [marginalized/minoritized/oppressed], it is neither radical nor revolutionary."

Tweet from the VP: Joy Reid has had such a good life in this country. It's been overwhelmingly kind and gracious to her. She is far wealthier than most. Yet she oozes with contempt. My honest, non-trolling advice to Joy Reid is that you'd be a much happier person if you showed a little gratitude

Weaponized gratitude is a key tool in the abuser's toolkit. The goal is to convince the victim that they owe the abuser so much, they should feel guilty for wanting to complain.

this is also white nationalist framing straight from the Jim Crow era, as if Joy Reid citizenship is a gift from Vance, whose belonging is of course unquestioned

it’s what @profkori.bsky.social would call “know your place aggression”