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Joshua Walker @jshwlkr.bsky.social · 5h

Pity the nation whose people are sheep
And whose shepherds mislead them
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Pity the Nation/ Whose Shepherds Mislead Them | Common Dreams

Amidst plunging polls and righteous rage at his Epstein Memorial Ballroom, the inept manchild faces growing resistance, sublime to ridiculous, to his nascent kingship. Cue anti-ICE whistle kits -…

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Joshua Walker @jshwlkr.bsky.social · 22h

OMG "Bugs’ nonchalant, carrot-eating manner was inspired by a scene in It Happened One Night, when the fast-talking Clark Gable snacks on carrots while leaning on a fence." www.mentalfloss.com/article/6670...

11 Mischievous Facts About Bugs Bunny

Bugs Bunny, one of the most iconic cartoon characters of all time, has been around for three quarters of a century.

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Joshua Walker @jshwlkr.bsky.social · 1d

"Spotify's purpose is to transport hundreds of millions of dollars created by musicians into the bank accounts of the owners of humanity's most advanced autonomous weapons platforms" terminal.ahumanfuture.co/posts/2025-1...

The world is something that we make // Terminal

“...and could just as easily make differently.”

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Joshua Walker @jshwlkr.bsky.social · 2d

I wish I made that much.

Your College President Makes Six Times as Much as You

Meanwhile, faculty pay hasn’t kept pace with inflation.

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Joshua Walker @jshwlkr.bsky.social · 3d

Does anyone know if the University Of Michigan Government Relations voter study data is publicly available? It must not be, right? #umich #thesegraphsaresouseless #dataviz

Joshua Walker @jshwlkr.bsky.social · 4d

#dreamjournal For some reason I decided to bring some kind of amalgamation of tomato soup and stew to work in a big pot. I have no real idea how to make a stew.

Joshua Walker @jshwlkr.bsky.social · 7d

Me looking at what appears to be a bag of aglets as I clean off the top of my dresser: "I don't know what these go to but they might be incredibly important. I must keep them."

Joshua Walker @jshwlkr.bsky.social · 8d

A kick in my gut. Should I choose friction? Can I choose friction? phirephoenix.com/blog/2025-10... #AI

choosing friction

In 2018, legal scholar Tim Wu wrote in the New York Times that: Today’s cult of convenience fails to acknowledge that difficulty is a constitutive feature of human experience. Convenience is all…

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Joshua Walker @jshwlkr.bsky.social · 9d

"I find that the most overlooked aspect of violence is its entitlement, the idea that the perpetrator has the right to harm and even take a life. Such arrogance is at odds with many left-wing ideas about human rights, equality, and justice." www.meditationsinanemergency.com/no-kings-no-...

No Kings, No Violence: On the Ongoing Misrepresentation of the Left

Portlanders deploying inflatable animal costumes, a brass band, mass ukulele renditions of “This Land Is Your Land,” naked bike rides, and other tactics in their ICE protests are undermining the…

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Joshua Walker @jshwlkr.bsky.social · 9d

“Michigan voters are smart enough to rank their preferences. What county clerks are calling ‘confusing’ is really just more democratic.” michiganadvance.com/2025/10/16/o...

Opposition to ranked choice voting brings election deniers, Michigan county clerks into same sphere • Michigan Advance

Politics can at times make for strange bedfellows, and the resistance to ranked choice voting taking root in Michigan is just the latest example, bringing so-called far-right election deniers and the…

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Joshua Walker @jshwlkr.bsky.social · 9d

"When Peter Thiel writes that democracy and freedom are incompatible, he’s not making a philosophical observation. He’s stating a preference. When Elon Musk guts federal agencies while posting American flags, he’s not reforming government. He’s replacing citizenship with administration."

Against The New Feudalism Of Algorithms And Oligarchs

Americans are not peasants. We are citizens of a republic founded on the revolutionary proposition that ordinary people can govern themselves. This isn’t poetry or aspiration—it’s the foundational …

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Joshua Walker @jshwlkr.bsky.social · 10d

Do honey badgers thrive in the Michigan weather? pridesource.com/article/elyo...

Michigan Furry Brings Honey Badger Energy — and Medicare for All — to His Fight for a Seat in the U.S. Congress

Elyon Badger doesn't look anything like how one expects a candidate for office to look. Often clad in marijuana-themed attire or a honey badger fursuit,

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Joshua Walker @jshwlkr.bsky.social · 12d

For my part I'm trying to encourage my organization to generate more meaningful and substantial artifacts either automatically from the work itself or in parallel as part of some more holistic documentation process. I do not want this kind of work to just be bolted on after the fact.

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Joshua Walker @jshwlkr.bsky.social · 12d

Well, ultimately my front-end dev and my UX teammates want to show off and/or discuss our work in the way they see other organizations do the same. Especially without having to navigate a full website experience.

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Joshua Walker @jshwlkr.bsky.social · 13d

"Everybody is being fucked with constantly in tiny little ways by most apps and services, and I believe that billions of people being fucked with at once in all of these ways has profound psychological and social consequences" www.wheresyoured.at/never-forgiv...

Never Forgive Them

In the last year, I’ve spent about 200,000 words on a kind of personal journey where I’ve tried again and again to work out why everything digital feels so broken, and why it seems to keep getting…

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Joshua Walker @jshwlkr.bsky.social · 13d

"The pattern is clear: mainstream media has become so terrified of appearing biased that they’ve abandoned their basic responsibility to clearly communicate truth to the public." www.techdirt.com/2025/09/30/t...

The Mainstream Media Is Catastrophically Failing To Meet The Moment

Earlier today we wrote about Trump’s extraordinary admission that he was basing military deployment decisions on old Fox News footage and lies from his advisors. But there’s an even mor…

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Joshua Walker @jshwlkr.bsky.social · 14d

Just going to stare into the middle distance. #music #savememavisstaples www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAZG...

Mavis Staples - "Sad and Beautiful World"

"Sad and Beautiful World" by @mavisstaples from the upcoming album 'Sad And Beautiful World', out on November 7, 2025 Pre-order, stream & download at…

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Joshua Walker @jshwlkr.bsky.social · 14d

More cowards for the coward parade. "Apple justified this by treating federal immigration agents as a protected class equivalent to groups protected from discrimination based on 'religion, race, sexual orientation, gender, national/ethnic origin." www.techdirt.com/2025/10/10/a...

Apple Decides ICE Agents Are A Protected Class, Because Apparently Government Accountability Is Now “Hate Speech”

Just when you think corporate content moderation can’t get any more absurd, Apple has managed to redefine “protected class” in a way that would make Orwell proud. According to int…

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Joshua Walker @jshwlkr.bsky.social · 15d

"The GOP’s extreme hypocrisy during both Trump administrations makes the usual hypocrisy expected of politicians look like a mostly-benign side effect of existing in a democratic republic." www.techdirt.com/2025/10/10/d...

DHS Sends A Journalist Back To His Home Country To Be Tortured Because ‘Live Streaming’ ICE Activities Is ‘Threatening’

America isn’t the land of the free. We abandoned that title when we returned Donald Trump to office — the same person who refused to engage in the peaceful transfer of power in 2020 and…

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Joshua Walker @jshwlkr.bsky.social · 16d

Again, #DEI for me but not for thee. www.chronicle.com/article/the-...

The White House Sent Its Compact to 9 Universities. Here’s What Their Administrators and Faculty Are Saying.

Presidents have been guarded in their remarks on the Trump administration’s offer. But professors have expressed grave concerns.

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Joshua Walker @jshwlkr.bsky.social · 16d

"We are the country that makes people who aren’t white leave the country because they’re not white." www.techdirt.com/2025/10/09/a...

America Is Now The World’s Sundown Town

This is who we are now. We are the country that makes people who aren’t white leave the country because they’re not white. And this is according to this administration’s own press…

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Joshua Walker @jshwlkr.bsky.social · 16d

"We must invest our energy in building parallel, popular institutions to protect ourselves and to pit power against power. These parallel institutions, including unions, community development organizations... will have to be constructed town by town." www.truthdig.com/articles/the...

The Coming Collapse - Truthdig

Every day the foundations of our institutions decay more, but American society is emotionally unable to grasp the mortal danger that approaches.

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Joshua Walker @jshwlkr.bsky.social · 18d

I bought the Betty White stamp pin from the #USPS. I'm trying to convince myself to wear it and not hoard it like The One Ring.

Joshua Walker @jshwlkr.bsky.social · 20d

Isn't the whole CBS situation just DEI?

Joshua Walker @jshwlkr.bsky.social · 22d

Can I just have an #AI based app that actually intelligently routes me around construction?