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Green Owl

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Green Owl @greenowl.bsky.social · 1m

I'm so tired of tech company hype for things that are either reinventing the wheel or borrowing ideas & acting like they thought of them themselves. These people get millions for simply being parasites or selling broken chatbots & calling it the future.

Green Owl @greenowl.bsky.social · 4m

1) Asian countries have been doing online & in person rent a friend services for years. 2) My kid had friends in Sweden & the Philippines a decade ago thru things like Tumblr. It's why we called it social media - you could & can meet folk all over the world & be part of online communities.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 21m

Getting rid of all the artifice and just saying “yeah we are commodifying human relationships.”

Rent a Cyber Friend will pay you to talk to strangers online and will show off its platform at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 | TechCrunch

"Loneliness is the biggest disease in the world right now," founder Francesco Vitali said. "So we built a platform where human time has value again, and a place where being human is important."

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Orcspiration @orcspiration.bsky.social · 15m

YOU CANNOT GRIND THE BONES OF YOUR ENEMIES INTO DUST TOMORROW IF YOU DO NOT DO YOUR STRETCHES.

Green Owl @greenowl.bsky.social · 2h

No need to thank, I should know better than to post like that, I messed up.

Green Owl @greenowl.bsky.social · 2h

I'm so sorry, I wasn't thinking, I will delete.

Green Owl @greenowl.bsky.social · 2h

Ok, I'll stop ranting in your mentions, sorry. Just overly frustrated, especially w/ my fellow white folk who keep acting like things suddenly changed in the society instead of this being the next stage in the battle for progress.

Green Owl @greenowl.bsky.social · 2h

Trump & co were & are the sturdy ground. It never fully collapsed & their whole politics is shaming the marginalized w/ threats & violence as "radicals." Civil rights movements against autocracy try to collapse the repressive social order we've always endured, which requires calling it bad (shame).

Green Owl @greenowl.bsky.social · 2h

We know "shame" does work currently in US politics, not bc they feel deep inner shame in themselves, but bc they don't like folk they aren't used to talking back to them defying them & making them look bad. If uppity becomes the cultural norm, then hierarchy shrinks - not fully gone, but lessens.

Green Owl @greenowl.bsky.social · 2h

"Shaming" them in protest isn't about exerting authority over them (the 1 up, 1 down of bigot hierarchies). It's defying their authority over the marginalized, saying not just no kings, but no peasants & not only to open autocrats but to "moderates" who worry about losing privilege & being scolded.

Green Owl @greenowl.bsky.social · 2h

It's a fundamental discomfort w/ the word "shame". Bc you're not supposed to shame (criticize as an equal, defy, demand change of, take power from) white folk, men, cishet folk - anyone dominant on that dominance they enjoy. You can't call them/us bad bc your dominant rep is you're good at heart.

Green Owl @greenowl.bsky.social · 2h

The problem is the idea that we stopped being a white supremacy patriarchy that discriminates against LGBTQ folk & the disabled (i.e. shame "worked") & now Trump & co. has made us a society that is that again. We never stopped being that society. They are acting the same as they did 40 yrs ago.

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 5h

All the business emails I write this days are like “I hope you’re doing well despite [the apocalypse] I’m enjoying working with you despite the [national guard occupation, kidnappings, ICE violence]. I hope you get the chance to [enjoy a blueberry muffin, put up a fresh “Chinga la migra” sign]

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Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 5h

Extraordinary NEW story: We Found That More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days. @nicolefoy.bsky.social w/ photos by @sbmaneyphoto.bsky.social

More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.

The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...

www.propublica.org

Green Owl @greenowl.bsky.social · 5h

On that point, anyone know a good course in learning how to use Linux for future reference?

Green Owl @greenowl.bsky.social · 5h

Due to combo of asthmatic lungs & esophageal reflux, I now get increasingly hoarse if I'm talking a lot in a day. Things get inflamed. I'm not the only one, millions have similar problems (1 reason remote work is popular.) Forcing folk to constantly talk to a computer to use it is ableism, as usual.

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BlindCoyote 🔜 BLFC @blindcoyote.com · 20d

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Green Owl @greenowl.bsky.social · 5h

They don't want to be seen as autocratic, violent white lordlings; they want to be seen as benign & beneficent white lordlings, the good worthy folk & when that cultural rep is criticized & pointed out as a myth, they get very cross (white fragility) & threaten to be a violent white lordling.

Green Owl @greenowl.bsky.social · 5h

www.youtube.com/watch?v=b58J...

English Speakers Cant speak English

YouTube video by Foil Arms and Hog

www.youtube.com

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 7h

A terrific AFP fact check uses reverse image searches to expose how a White House video took scenes from Florida, Texas, South Carolina and Nebraska and lied that they showed "Chicago is in chaos."
factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....

Post from WH about Chicago "in chaos," showing scene from another state.

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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 20h

"Who’s assaulting who is the real question?” said Oriana Korol's dad. “She was on the sidewalk playing music when the federal officers just bumrushed the band.”

Band member accused of interfering with federal arrest of another, feds allege

"Who’s assaulting who is the real question?” said Oriana Korol's dad. “She was on the sidewalk playing music when the federal officers just bumrushed the band.”

www.oregonlive.com

Green Owl @greenowl.bsky.social · 7h

Ok, but did you interview them in the local diner? That's the important part.

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Carmine 🖤✨❤️ @carminedeville.bsky.social · 7h

OC-tober #12, "Secrets"

An experimental redraw of an old piece from 7 or 8 years ago

#OC-tober #scribbles #Inamorata

OC, Carmen Romero
Digital art in black and warm greyscale. The stark silhouette of a woman in a wide brimmed hat and billowing trenchcoat stands below a city streetlight, smoke drifting from her cigarette holder up into the oppressive darkness. A sphinx cat in a golden collar sits nearby. They cast no shadows. Instead, inky tendrils creep across the ground, crawling into the night and towards the viewer. The edges of both figures seem to dissolve insubstantially into the blackness.

Green Owl @greenowl.bsky.social · 9h

He wouldn't get into the boat if it was piloted by a Black man bc he's a vile right wing racist who always saw himself as William F Buckley's heir. He should have been ignored for publication 20 yrs ago & no one will miss him when he finally dies. He helped build Trump world, he's worthless.

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Alex V. Hernandez @avhndz.bsky.social · 1d

“I want to be absolutely clear, the only people at risk in this moment are the residents of the city of Chicago. The only people walking around with military weapons, tear gas, rubber bullets are ICE agents.” | blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/15/a... via @blockclubchi.bsky.social

Ald. Jessie Fuentes Gears Up To Sue After Being Handcuffed By ICE Agent

The Humboldt Park alderperson was handcuffed and threatened with arrest by federal agents this month while asking agents if they had a warrant for a man they detained in her neighborhood.

blockclubchicago.org

Green Owl @greenowl.bsky.social · 22h

The only change we've had in the culture is when we defy the norm & erode the values so that parts of the hierarchy collapse. If we do not defy & shame them, we won't even have that. Civil rights is basically a constant struggle to shame defy equal rights into existence one inch at a time.