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Nova Schulz 🐸🏳️‍⚧️

@novaschulz.bsky.social

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they/them 🏳️‍🌈 Nonbinary Disaster Queer ♾️ AuDHD 🦓 hEDS, POTS & co. ♿ Disabled is not a bad word 😷 Still COVIDing ✂️ Artist and Maker Co-Creator of @fabledstudios.bsky.social ⚛️ Partner to @thatodstguy.bsky.social ❤️ ✊ Opposing fascism is our patriotic duty! 🐸

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Nova Schulz 🐸🏳️‍⚧️ @novaschulz.bsky.social · Nov 17

I'm a creative-type cryptid—sometimes I vanish mysteriously, but I'll reappear with newfound knowledge or art to share. Talk to me about making stuff, 3D printing, Disability Justice, Linux, FOSS, D&D, video games, my cat, or whatever shit I'm hyperfocusing on this week.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 4h

If you’re donating to a food bank, consider donating some respirators too!

Food banks will be overwhelmed and crowded.

Covid is still with us, still disabling and still killing.

Many folks are losing food assistance & healthcare.

A well fitted respirator can keep you healthy!

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Tal B. Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 4h

after a week on T i feel a little more like myself

or whatever myself should have been or could be

i feel braver

and HRT is a god damn miracle and anyone who wants to thieve it from our hands is a sadistic depraved bastard who deserves necrotizing fasciitis

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 2h

Two countries in the UN voted against making food a human right… the US & Israel

The US is about to let 42 million people starve at a time when half of all Americans can’t afford a basic standard of living

Abolish the billionaire class

They’re enriching themselves at the expense of everyone else

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S. Kramer @libraryephemera.bsky.social · 6h

It chaps my ass on how there's a legion of library, school, and healthcare workers who consistently and quietly deal with substance use disorder, mental illness, domestic violence, and a wide array of other issues with little to no acknowledgement while law enforcement needs constant affirmation.

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 8h

One of the right wing's top cultural initiatives was trying to destroy the idea that assholery deserves shame and we'll have to reverse that. "I'm just expressing an opinion I'm entitled to." Ok but you're an asshole. "I'm simply doing a business practice that technically isn't illegal." Ok. Asshole

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 7h

i can't claim to know Kat as well as I'd like but there's never been a shred of doubt in my mind that she believes what she says and is willing to put her body on the line for that belief. I admire her.

William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 9h

Kat Abugazeh’s campaign has crossed a threshold where the risk she’s taking is significant enough and the actions admirable enough I sorta am past caring if it’s a publicity stunt/brand building exercise or not, it’s still brave and worthy of respect.

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alpha @omarsbigsister.bsky.social · 1d

there is a $6 billion reserve for SNAP and the GOP is refusing to give it to states

there is a $6 billion reserve for SNAP and the GOP is refusing to give it to states

there is a $6 billion reserve for SNAP and the GOP is refusing to give it to states

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 9h

Maaaaan, this. So much this. Every time there's any kind of actual in-depth survey we find that the American people are *abysmally* ignorant about even the most basic political facts, but the pundit class just immediately forgets & proceeds with political analysis based on subtle policy differences.

Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 14h

Feels like so many of our convos are revolving about how voters respond to what politicians are doing, or what parties’ positions on issues are, without much actual empirical sense of what they actually know about those topics.

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Nova Schulz 🐸🏳️‍⚧️ @novaschulz.bsky.social · 8h

The majority of the people in my neighborhood speak languages other than English, and the only effect it's had is making me want to learn more languages. Diverse neighborhoods are beautiful places to live, and I wouldn't have it any other way!

Tiger Elephant Giraffe Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 15h

I would rather live next door to someone who speaks another language than live next door to someone who doesn’t want to live near people who speak other languages. I know nothing about Person A but I know person B is a shitbird.

FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 17h

Vance says it is "totally reasonable and acceptable" for people to not want to live next door to people who speak a different language than they do

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Gremliny Nussboo @emilynussbaum.bsky.social · 10h

My ideal political candidate has an upper-boob Chinese tattoo that they were told meant “beautiful mystery” but actually means “idiot tourist”

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 12h

Amazon just announced 14,000 layoffs. Its CEO made over $40M last year.

UPS announced 48,000 layoffs. Its CEO made over $24M last year.

Intel announced 20,000 layoffs. Its new CEO's pay package is valued at nearly $69M.

This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.

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jenn m. jackson @jennmjacksonphd.bsky.social · 14h

You should care about Jamaica and Sudan even if you don't know anyone there and the news isn't covering it. The anti-Blackness embedded in folks' lack of empathy is gross.

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 12h

I hear rich guys are saying they’d move away from New York City if Zohran Mamdani becomes the new mayor. Funny, I was thinking that if he wins, it’d make New York City the only U.S. city I’d consider moving to. #Mamdani

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Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · 1d

*carries lollipop bowl with me everywhere I go

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woke stifler @yelix.bsky.social · 13h

i think one of the big lessons i’ve learned as an adult is that being or feeling correct is not actually worth much in most situations

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S knows that LINK SHOULD BE FREE @sknowsthatp.bsky.social · 1d

I’m giving out Tylenol for Halloween

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Nova Schulz 🐸🏳️‍⚧️ @novaschulz.bsky.social · 11h

Your dad restored a little of my faith in humanity today. 💕 I'm so glad you have family who cares for you so deeply!

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 13h

The most insanely frustrating thing about the #ClimateCrisis is how the breakthrough we so clearly need isn’t technological. It’s just a collective willingness, a determination even, to change in ways that would clearly be SO MUCH BETTER than the clear and obvious consequences of NOT changing.

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Melo @letitmelo.bsky.social · 1d

I legitimately didn't know they were competing with Steam and it's crazy to me that they burnt so much money on what sounds like something with very little (or wildly misguided) market research.

Ethan Evans, former Amazon VP

As VP of Prime Gaming at Amazon, we failed multiple times to disrupt the game platform Steam. We were at least 250x bigger, and we tried everything. But ultimately, Goliath lost. Here's why:

The 15+ year long attempt to challenge Steam started before I was VP of Prime Gaming, but we never cracked the code. Not under my leadership or anyone else's.

The first way we tried to enter the online-game-store market was through acquisition. We acquired Reflexive Entertainment (a small PC game store) and tried to scale it. It went nowhere.

Then, after buying Twitch, we created our own PC games store. Our assumption was that gamers would naturally buy from us because they were already using Twitch. Wrong.

Finally, we built "Luna," a game streaming service that let people play without a high-end PC. Around the same time, Google tried the same thing with their
product "Stadia." Neither gained significant traction. The whole time, Steam dominated despite being a relatively small company (compared to Amazon and Google).

The mistake was that we underestimated what made consumers use Steam

It was a store, a social network, a library, and a trophy case all in one. And it worked well.

At Amazon, we assumed that size and visibility would be enough to attract customers, but we underestimated the power of existing user habits We never validated our core assumptions before investing heavily in solutions. The truth is that gamers already had the solution to their problems and they weren't going to switch platforms just because a new one was available

We needed to build something dramatically better, but we failed to do so. And we needed to validate our assumptions about our customers before starting to build. But we never really did that either.

Just because you are big enough to build something doesn't mean people will use it

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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 1d

Does anyone stop and think about how idiotic and embarrassing it is that we’re the United States of America, and we have an entire government that spends the whole day trolling, posting, and documenting evidence that will definitely be used at a future trial?

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 18h

The anti trans hysteria is killing male veterans with cancer.

www.propublica.org/article/vete...

Citing Trump Order on “Biological Truth,” VA Makes It Harder for Male Veterans With Breast Cancer to Get Coverage

A Department of Veterans Affairs memo obtained by ProPublica erects new roadblocks to care for veterans with the rare but deadly cancer. The agency cites no new science but relies on an executive orde...

www.propublica.org

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Nate's Myth @natesmith.dev · 16h

the headline: No One Could Have Predicted Fascism Here

the comments: references to 47 authors and experts who have predicted exactly this for decades

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Keezy Young🌼 @keezyyoung.bsky.social · 1d

"what did people do before--" death. mostly pretty bad painful tragic unnecessary death

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 13h

This is how our government has been corrupted:

1) Donors give huge sums to elect politicians to office
2) Elected officials rewrite rules in the donors' favor
3) Donors make huge profit
4) Repeat

We must get big money out of politics.

It is the root of our dysfunction.

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Angelle of Death @cityofangelle.bsky.social · 1d

I'm going to start a new political party. It's called Shut The Fuck Up and Feed People.

"But what if they're on drugs?"

Shut The Fuck Up And Feed People

"Or not really THAT poor?"

Shut The Fuck Up And Feed People

"What if they have a phone and nice nails?"

SHUT THE FUCK UP AND FEED PEOPLE

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