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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 16h

What did I just watch

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Boris @bmann.ca · 15h

I actually would like to see a GIANT Japanese cooperative running an ATProto stack.

I think it would probably get funding from the government and fit well with the civic environment in Japan.

Maybe one co-op per prefectures!

But @moja.blue knows the local environment there better.

Nighthaven⛺︎ @moja.blue · 21h

Bluesky has rapidly grown to a $1.05 billion valuation while promising "no ads." But VCs expect returns within a few years. Rejecting surveillance capitalism and returning profits to investors—can these coexist?

Who Owns Bluesky?

plurality.leaflet.pub

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 15h

most of our current nightmare isn't about failing a better past so much as it's about reaping our failure to deal with our previous bullshit.

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 15h

Black people and poor people and women were all disenfrachised. Black disenfrancisement in particular is a major antecedent for gop gerrymandering.

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 15h

the thing is it was kind of reps selecting voters back then too. 1

paulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 16h

North Carolina

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 15h

wapo is in severe financial distress because Bezos has decided that producing a shit paper no one reads is the best way to keep in trump's good graces. 1

Jon Passantino @passantino.bsky.social · 18h

Some news: The Washington Post is preparing to cut newsroom staff even after several high profile exits. Bezos’ new opinion editor has privately told people The Post is in “severe financial distress.” Details in @status.news www.status.news/p/washington...

Pain at The Post

As morale sinks and top talent exits, staffers at The Washington Post are bracing for more pain ahead of the holidays—raising questions about Will Lewis’ leadership, nearly two years into his tenure a...

www.status.news

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JLRoberson @jlroberson.bsky.social · 15h

Seems to be a logical consequence of driving away any reader not interested in regime propaganda.

Jon Passantino @passantino.bsky.social · 18h

Some news: The Washington Post is preparing to cut newsroom staff even after several high profile exits. Bezos’ new opinion editor has privately told people The Post is in “severe financial distress.” Details in @status.news www.status.news/p/washington...

Pain at The Post

As morale sinks and top talent exits, staffers at The Washington Post are bracing for more pain ahead of the holidays—raising questions about Will Lewis’ leadership, nearly two years into his tenure a...

www.status.news

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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 1d

Reposting this, so that all of the "I don't think it's more than 50% of white people that still have a favorable view of him?"🤡

people can leave my mentions alone and go argue with survey creators instead.

Please go and cope somewhere else.

YouGov America @today.yougov.com · 2d

NEW Economist/YouGov
Net favorability of Donald Trump [at the start of his second term | now] among...
White Americans +13 | +2
Hispanic Americans -12 | -39
Black Americans -31 | -76
today.yougov.com/politics/art...

A multiple line chart of YouGov polling data with the headline: "Views of Donald Trump among U.S. adult citizens, and among white, Black, and Hispanic Americans."

The chart has the sub-headline: "Do you have a favorable or an unfavorable opinion of the following people? [Donald Trump] (% with a very or somewhat favorable opinion minus the % with a very or somewhat unfavorable opinion)."

The chart has the note: "Note: Responses of "don't know" are not shown."

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iamwil @interjectedfuture.com · 17h

"I was using local-first software in the 80's!" quips a greybeard on HN.

No you were not. A common misconception about local-first software is that it's just software that doesn't use the network. Local-first is inherently multi-device and collaborative with other users.

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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 1d

This is what I mean when I say Fetterman has lost his political ear calling this stuff no big deal.

People DO NOT respond well to political grift and theft. FFS they do not respond well to federal office workers having coffee machines at work.

If you cut them in, maybe. Otherwise, no.

Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 1d

One observation is I don't believe the GOP really is quite pricing in how damaging politically building a gigantic ballroom and Trump paying himself 250m in the open is when people are visibly hurting economically.

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 1d

There was already a *lot* going on with Bluesky, and now it's under even more pressure. I wrote about how I think about moderation, affordances, expectations, human needs, and powerful trolls for @techpolicypress.bsky.social

www.techpolicy.press/trump-admini...

Trump Administration's Arrival on Bluesky Highlights Growing Pains for Open Networks | TechPolicy.Press

The administration’s antagonistic entry to the platform is best understood as a game of chicken, writes Erin Kissane.

www.techpolicy.press

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Lucid00 @lucid00.com · 1d

It'd make sense if we were at the last line and had no other options, but we most certainly have options at this point in time

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 1d

“I’d rather have a guy with old nazi tattoos covered up with some new dodgy symbolism than someone who supports genocide.”

HOW ABOUT NEITHER.

none of the above.

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 1d

Like what are we even doing here people

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 1d

I shouldn’t have to have someone interpret tattoos on a half naked white man sitting for an interview before we all agree this is absolutely absurd and we all need to just move on from this guy.

You cannot expect Black or Jewish people to put with this fucking ridiculous nonsense. Come on now

'Gory the A'ight @gregoryaight.bsky.social · 1d

1. Celtic knot and ancient wolf don't make it any better.

2. Now everyone has seen the 1919 on his right arm.

Waffle 🧇 @wafflecut.bsky.social · 1d

Okey dokey

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Gregory Possum-Jumpscarer @possumacquainter.bsky.social · 1d

when i saw the DMV had issued me this random number plate i drove right back to the DMV and said "hey i'm so sorry but i need you to swap this for a different number" because - and this is just me - it was important to me that no one around me assume i might be nazi, even a little, even for a second

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 1d

I am somewhat disheartened by the amount of pushback here. I really don't understand it. He was a candidate who looked appealing, but turned out to have a bunch of downsides, including that we can't really trust him! there are other candidates! He's one guy, not the messiah.

Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 1d

I explained that Platner is not going to be a senator, we have other options, and he should get out of the race. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/graham-pla...

Graham Platner Is Not Going to Be Senator

Bad choices sometimes have consequences

www.everythingishorrible.net

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 1d

Gotta catch ‘em all

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 1d

THIS ISN'T WORKING. You need to TALK about the problem as as problem. Frankly, I think the whole "we will ignore it until it evaporates" thing is the height of liberal solipsism and foolishness. These evil forces grow when we let them and must be challenged directly.

John Q Public @conjurial.bsky.social · 1d

I think a more realistic avenue for change is gradually getting journalists to stop using it or switch to something else. Probably after getting other kinds of users to switch. Which undermines political support for it, etc

If Apple won't ban Truth Social they're not gonna ban a much bigger app

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 1d

By the way, identity politics are politics. Only some people seem not to understand this. They also misread Combahee because they don't take the intellectual work of Black women seriously. It's too bad for them because they'd be better for that engagement.

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Lalon Sander @lalonsander.bsky.social · 1d

An additional tax on millionaires in Massachusetts has generated $3 billion more than expected without forcing significant high-profile departures from the state. The money is being used to fund bridge repairs, literacy programs and public transport.

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts

A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without…

www.bloomberg.com

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Wario64 @wario64.bsky.social · 1d

No Man's Sky (Switch 2 / Switch) is $23.99 on US eShop buff.ly/husvq2L
US PSN buff.ly/fMLqNki
XBL buff.ly/KEF5Sie
(Steam) $19.97 Gamebillet buff.ly/6dAy19e

also on Game Pass Premium

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 1d

Paul Ingrassia says he has withdrawn from this week's confirmation hearing to lead the Office of Special Counsel following a report exposing his racist texts

I will be withdrawing myself from Thursday’s HSGAC hearing to lead the Office of Special Counsel because unfortunately I do not have enough Republican votes at this time.

I appreciate the overwhelming support that I have received throughout this process and will continue to serve President Trump and this administration to Make America Great Again!

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Mike Rothschild @rothschildmd.bsky.social · 1d

The dude who singlehandedly controls the government is demanding it pay him a quarter of a billion dollars of our tax money as restitution for having been caught committing crimes.

Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 2d

President Trump is demanding that the Justice Department pay him about $230 million in compensation for the federal investigations into him.

Whether he gets paid will ultimately be up to DOJ's second-in-command, who was recently his personal lawyer.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/u...

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 1d

I do appreciate the ones who don't do this shit (Van Hollen's been pretty consistent) but...it's just hard for me to understnad why any of them are casting these votes.

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