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Kathy Tafel

@kathytafel.bsky.social

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iOS dev | conference speaker | Mac addict https://www.therecipeboxapp.com Leave the world better than you found it, and have fun SF—>Bkln—>Berlin Retweets ≠ 👍🏻 She/her 🇺🇦🍉🤎🌮 We all breathe the same air.

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Kathy Tafel @kathytafel.bsky.social · 26d

Excited that we managed to ship The Recipe Box for iPad and iPhone with Liquid Glass support and recipe timers ready for download on new iPhone day. Get it here for iPad: apps.apple.com/us/app/the-r...

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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 2d

Spotify is now running recruitment ads for ICE.

It’s time to cancel your account.

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paris martineau @paris.nyc · 1d

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements

we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)

www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports

CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.

www.consumerreports.org

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Audie Klotz @audieklotz.bsky.social · 14h

Tell me again about ‘woke’ universities?

Tim Longman 🏳️‍🌈 @timlongman.bsky.social · 17h

Anyone want to wager on how much coverage this scandal will get? I'm guessing it gets press coverage for about a day and then disappears.

If this were the Young Democrats doing something similarly awful, we'd be in for weeks and weeks of non-stop reporting.

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Kathy Tafel @kathytafel.bsky.social · 1d

Leaders lead.

Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 1d

California, this November 4th, the whole country is counting on you.

Prop 50 puts our elections back on a level playing field, preserves independent redistricting over the long term, and lets the people decide.

So return your ballot today. Vote yes on 50.

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Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 1d

WE HAVE FRIENDS EVERYWHERE! nokings.org

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Kathy Tafel @kathytafel.bsky.social · 1d

80 year olds don't need new jobs, no matter how much public service they've already given.

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Will BOO-rows 🖖🍞🥀 @reforest-kelley.bsky.social · 1d

A photo of three people in inflatable frog suits outside an ICE detention center in Portland, overlaid with an excerpt from Exodus 8:2-6

"But if you refuse to let them go, I will
plague your whole country with frogs...
The frogs shall come up on you and on
your people and on all your officials."

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Kathy Tafel @kathytafel.bsky.social · 1d

That should be live not I‘ve in first sentence. wtf autocorrect

Kathy Tafel @kathytafel.bsky.social · 1d

their own military (and ffs they shouldn’t have to). The inflatable suits are just perfect. What are they going to do, outlaw Halloween? How, they’ve sent congress home and the government is shut down. So happy people figured this out.

Kathy Tafel @kathytafel.bsky.social · 1d

One of the reasons I wanted to I’ve to Berlin was running into der Zug der Liebe during our stay. It’s a mobile party of dozens maybe hundreds of trucks each with DJs and no small part of them with fuck Nazis spread joy signage. That is fight hate with love. There’s no way citizens can fight…

50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 1d

The Portland Frog army has now infiltrated Tulsa, OK and they’ve made an unlikely alliance with the T-Rex infantry and Sharks on Hoverboards mercenary forces.

This is truly terrifying.

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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 2d

We should be asking this
c o n s t a n t l y.

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Kathy Tafel @kathytafel.bsky.social · 2d

This smells more like they are getting ready to kill it/de-emphasize original programming.

Ahnaf Mahmud @ahnafmahmud.com · 2d

Surely this won’t be confusing at all

MacRumors.com @macrumors.bsky.social · 2d

Apple TV+ Being Rebranded as Apple TV

Kathy Tafel @kathytafel.bsky.social · 2d

Wut?

Pol Piella Abadia @polpielladev.bsky.social · 2d

Here's another reason to stop using print statements in your code and start using OSLog instead!

💪 You can access os_log events from instruments to give you a better chance at fixing those pesky performance issues.

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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 2d

"A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.”

~ Thomas Paine

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 3d

WIC, which helps feed babies and new moms, is facing critical funding issues.

But ICE’s mass deportation operation—which has attacked faith leaders in Chicago—is raging on uninterrupted during the GOP shutdown. “We could hear them laughing as they were shooting us,” said Rev. Black.

Priorities.

America's Voice @americasvoice.bsky.social · 7d

"While new moms worry about formula for their infants and furloughed federal workers stress about next month’s rent or mortgage, the administration’s mass deportation obsession will continue uninterrupted," writes @tusk81.bsky.social

This says everything about this administration’s priorities.

ICE Rages On During Shutdown As Federal Workers Go Without Paychecks and American Kids Face Potential Hunger

Priorities.

americasvoicecnn.substack.com

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greenmamalama.bsky.social @greenmamalama.bsky.social · 2d

Anyone who thinks they’ll be done with brown people are fools

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Mike Davis • Feed After Midnight @mjdavis1988.bsky.social · 2d

Some of these stories are difficult to read, but it’s important that as many people as possible know what is happening. We are 100% living in a police state. SHARE widely.

mdavis19881.substack.com/p/reddit-thr...

Reddit Thread Details Horrific ICE Encounters

These stories are happening all over the country. We CAN'T look away and we must share them.

mdavis19881.substack.com

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Michael J. Kramer @michaeljkramer.bsky.social · 2d

Why are there so few (none?) news stories about individual ICE agents themselves? Who they are, what motivates them, any moral dilemmas they face? Why aren’t protesters trying to get some to speak out?

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 3d

Listen to the response to this and look how easy it is to say it.

Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 3d

We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.

When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.

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Kathy Tafel @kathytafel.bsky.social · 2d

Why? For what possible reason do you do this to CHILDREN? Monsters!

WakeMeWhenItsOver🗳 @zelbel.bsky.social · 2d

ICE kidnapping children here LEGALLY now.😢

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 2d

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

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Madame Brie-ota 🔮 @briesmith.xyz · 2d

If you are stupid enough to do this, the ACLU is not riding to your defense, you are an embarrassment to your friends and family and you will be very sorry you ever had this idea

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 2d

someone on the Internet who really wants to convince you to shine lasers at manned aircraft as a protest tactic “because they did it in Chile in 2019” is either:

1. a fascist fed, or,

2. so terminally stupid that they have become functionally indistinguishable from one

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 2d

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 3d

Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt:

“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist."

www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

Pope Leo calls for news agencies to stand as bulwark against "post-truths," lies and manipulation

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the "ancient art of lying" and manipulation.

www.cbsnews.com

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Let the Right Hon In @danhon.com · 3d

Like, there's communicating a falsehood. There's lying (hard to prove intent/mental state!). There's persistent falsehoods, a pattern over time.

And then there's persistent lying, over time, connected to a policy objective.

Isn't that last one propaganda?

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 3d

3D printers: WE NEED YOU! If you have a printer, start making whistles for your community. Volunteers of ours have been printing and passing them out across communities, over 200 have been handed out so far!

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