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Sarah Kendzior (@sarahkendzior) I’ve been suspended from BlueSky. I don’t know why. I wasn’t online much today, and the last things I posted were excerpts from my substack newsletter articles. The suspension followed without explana...

What the fuck, bluesky
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Between this, the permaban of Link, and the silent rollout of the “rude” moderating, BlueSky’s leaders seem intent on speedrunning the enshittification of the site

The idea that serving in the US military doesn't automatically confer citizenship has always seemed bizarre to me. You offered to die for this country if necessary, and when you're done, it's "get out, you filthy illegal."

This video really sums it up nicely, with humor and existential horror. One of Jon Stewart’s best. Felt really validating and cathartic to watch…afterwards I could say to myself “no, you’re not going crazy, this really is just hoarked”😮‍💨☹️🤬

Bluesky suspended Sarah Kendzior today for no reason whatsoever. She just shared excerpts of her articles, which were as always incisive and not offensive at all. Hey @pfrazee.com this is super not OK. I know her- we've interacted a fair bit via chats and her work is essential.

BlueSky has become yet another institution that is close to destroying my trust in it. I feel naive, stupid. Can’t stop thinking about @garius.bsky.social ‘s Trust Thermocline and wondering if I’m just now noticing how cold it’s getting in here.

That was kindly stated. I was less generous in my post. I both envy and salute your grace🫡
Now I gotta go for a walk to try to tamp down my ever-simmering rage at the machines. I’m just so tired.

Hello @support.bsky.team

I heard from Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social that her account was suspended.

Can you please look into this and reinstate her account? She’s a published author and scholar on authoritarianism. Her presence here is valuable.

cc:
@jay.bsky.team
@aaron.bsky.team

WTF @pfrazee.com @jay.bsky.team ?? Why would you suspend Sarah Kendzior? I used to think her complaints about her posts being suppressed was just her not knowing how the feeds work here, but this makes me think she was right and y’all have a political agenda.
Goddamn. We can’t have anything nice.

Flesh by David Szalay most correct and brilliant Booker-winner in years

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I wrote this, about Flesh by David Szalay. It is a brilliant book, one of the most worthy Booker-winners in years. It’s also really, really important. This post contains stuff about childhood sexual abuse and how we let down boys and young men.

Schopenhauer vs A Child with Candy A philosophy webcomic about the inevitable anguish of living a brief life in an absurd world. Also Jokes

Schopenhauer vs A Child with Candy -
existentialcomics.com/comic/628

Do you know what's NOT going to make an awful job market better? A fuckton of freelancers suddenly looking for employment with affordable health insurance benefits.

The cheapest plan available to me (a Georgian) is over $1,000 a month. Healthcare is no longer an option for me. I will ration the medication I take for as long as I can and then I will wait to die.

Did you know that in Canada, if a budget doesn’t pass the government doesn’t shut down?

Federal workers aren’t furloughed.

Funding for social services doesn’t dry up.

Failure to pass a budget triggers an election.

It puts the politicians jobs on the line.

They get the budget passed.

Let's be clear here, too: American contractors can no longer price themselves competitively on the global market.

When $10/hr of my earnings go to healthcare plus our self-employment tax? We're at a HUGE disadvantage when compared to our international counterparts, even in European countries.

A black and white cat in a surgical collar stands on its hind legs. An electrical cord runs behind them, ending in an outlet on the wall.

That lamp looks PISSED.

Wow. There’s a shot. But when you’re right, you’re right.

Close up of cat paw resting ony arm with claws extended

Tried to get up and got a warning.

Do No Harm* Modern medicine continues to fail women. It isn’t just sexism — it’s a failure of the Hippocratic Oath’s first principle.

“So what happens when some of the treatments to help us also hurt us? And what does that mean for #women, trapped in a system disinclined to listen to them concerning their own bodies — and more invested in the numbers game of statistics than individual quality of life?”
New from me: DO NO HARM

I LEARNED THE ANSWER TO THIS

Chris's Steakhouse was a New Orleans landmark

Chris Matulich periodically got bored, sold it, waited for the new owner to fail, and bought it back cheap

The sale conditions: Can't move it, can't change the name

He did this six times

Then he sold it to Ruth Fertel

Awesome thread. Learn why it’s called Ruth’s Chris. 🤣

Starving people is violence. Intentionally starving civilians is a war crime.

Trump is committing war crimes against Americans.

Yes. This. Say it louder.

Guillotines

Do No Harm* Modern medicine continues to fail women. It isn’t just sexism — it’s a failure of the Hippocratic Oath’s first principle.

As promised, DO NO HARM #medicine #cancer #health #women
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Oh this is so good. 10min read. Looking forward to the whole series. Feels VALIDATING knowing I’m not the only one who’s had to ignore the ignorant docs and the paternal arrogance, find workarounds, and get answers via online research when docs make themselves unavailable to answer my questions.

It’s chicken gardening time

Hello friends. In the early days of Bsky, it was trans and other LGBTQ+ folk, along with s*xworkers, n s f w art folk, and Alf aficionados that built the platform—early refugees from X. Now @bsky.app made a change that auto blocks such posts. You must manually opt out.

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It's legit "if i sell a million robots you should give me a trillion dollars" playground shit. But im a shareholder meeting.

Remember when having dignity was a thing?