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Jam-Covered Corgi 🚫👑 Has No King

@ellenb.bsky.social

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I work with startups. How do we understand what people want, how they think, & how they decide? CMU, INSEAD; GOOG/ LNKD/SFIX/etc. #innovation, #behavioraleconomics, #servicedesign, #HCI, #strategy. Occasional #UXRants & #productivity. [email protected]

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Jam-Covered Corgi 🚫👑 Has No King @ellenb.bsky.social · Nov 13

“fascists want you to think things are hopeless precisely because things can get better. This is why they need us to feel hopeless. Because there is hope… Because, at every moment, we are close to transforming all this if we can open our eyes and hearts. And, most importantly, our imaginations.”

Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social · Nov 12

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Jam-Covered Corgi 🚫👑 Has No King @ellenb.bsky.social · 28m

Ok this time the mods were right

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IndivisibleLasVegas ❌👑 @indivisiblelasvegas.org · 34m

Thanks to @mjlyle.bsky.social and @nevadacurrent.com for spotlighting our #NoKings event and the city's many barriers to exercising our 1st Amendment rights. We'll see you on the...sidewalks. ;)

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Demonstrators will once again take to the streets ... well, sidewalks ... at LV's 'No Kings' rally • Nevada Current

With the “No Kings” rally returning this weekend bringing thousands out to protest President Donald Trump’s administration, Beth Osborne, an organizer with the grassroots movement Indivisible, expects...

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Jam-Covered Corgi 🚫👑 Has No King @ellenb.bsky.social · 3h

And lest we not forget, “when a stranger resides with you in your land, you shall not wrong him. The stranger who resides with you shall be to you as one of your citizens; you shall love him as yourself, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt.” Leviticus 19.33-34 (& others)

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Bill Waxman @billwaxman.bsky.social · 17h

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Jam-Covered Corgi 🚫👑 Has No King @ellenb.bsky.social · 6h

I’m gonna need some more coffee I think

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Jam-Covered Corgi 🚫👑 Has No King @ellenb.bsky.social · 6h

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The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 14h

Exclusive: A planned IRS overhaul would enable its criminal unit to more easily target left-leaning groups.

Exclusive | Trump Team Plans IRS Overhaul to Enable Pursuit of Left-Leaning Groups

The effort would install a Trump ally at the IRS’s criminal unit who has drawn up a list of investigative targets.

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Jam-Covered Corgi 🚫👑 Has No King @ellenb.bsky.social · 10h

Same. Hegseth punched himself in the nose.

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IndivisibleLasVegas ❌👑 @indivisiblelasvegas.org · 12h

What's next after No Kings? Tune in for the call to learn how we're continuing our fight to save democracy.
@indivisible.org
#nokings #indivisible
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Mass Call: What's Next After No Kings | Indivisible Las Vegas

Join Indivisible and partners for a mass call What's Next After No Kings. Find out what's next in our fight for democracy.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 18h

“.. Journalists from the undersigned defense trade publications will not sign this new policy.”

Military Times
Defense News
Aviation Week
Breaking Defense
Defense Daily
Defense One
Inside Defense
USNI News.

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Jam-Covered Corgi 🚫👑 Has No King @ellenb.bsky.social · 11h

Hah, I was just learning about decimal time & am building a small art project site that is a decimal clock — revolutiontime.now

Revolution Time

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 11h

What's crazy about this is that the US military owns a large, uninhabited island directly off the coast from Camp Pendleton specifically for the purpose of targetting in naval live fire exercises en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Cle...

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I-5 may be shut down due to concerns over live-fire military event at Camp Pendleton

Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office is weighing whether to close parts of Interstate 5 beginning Friday amid concerns over what it says is a White House-directed plan to use live ordnance during a military ann...

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Jam-Covered Corgi 🚫👑 Has No King @ellenb.bsky.social · 11h

He’s got narcissistic personality disorder.

Jam-Covered Corgi 🚫👑 Has No King @ellenb.bsky.social · 18h

It’s also Obama’s fault for not figuring out how to rip McConnell a new one and seat Merrick Garland.

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Jam-Covered Corgi 🚫👑 Has No King @ellenb.bsky.social · 18h

Data point: my husband consistently leaves 1oz. I always finish mine.

Jam-Covered Corgi 🚫👑 Has No King @ellenb.bsky.social · 18h

“And that difference enrages me.”

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How I Became a Populist

My time at the Federal Trade Commission—before Donald Trump fired me—totally changed the way I see our political divide.

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Jam-Covered Corgi 🚫👑 Has No King @ellenb.bsky.social · 19h

Thinking about elon musk dying in space

laura "laura” cavegift @cavegift.bsky.social · 20h

thinking about dying in space

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Dan Lamothe @danlamothe.bsky.social · 1d

Turned in the badge today.

My colleagues and I will stay on the beat, but in a new way. The work continues.

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Jam-Covered Corgi 🚫👑 Has No King @ellenb.bsky.social · 20h

Yes. Fundamentally we have biological orientations around hierarchy vs egalitarianism. They’re not deterministic and we exist on a spectrum but this inclination is deep in our brains.

Jam-Covered Corgi 🚫👑 Has No King @ellenb.bsky.social · 21h

I worked on an early micropayments system that explored this issue. A big problem is that credit card transaction fees are high relative to willingness to pay for a single article. There was also a lot of UX friction. Easier now w wallets; a stored value system would make it a better deal.