Jonathan Stegall
@jonathanstegall.bsky.social
User experience designer. Faith-rooted organizer and abolitionist. Love design, theology, justice, grace. Enjoy coffee, beer, goth, metal. He/him. Live in Minneapolis.
https://jonathanstegall.com is my oft-ignored website.
https://jonathanstegall.com is my oft-ignored website.
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They gave out about 2,000 whistles today. It was incredible but it costs money.
Please support this work! You can Venmo them @mspwhistles
Please support this work! You can Venmo them @mspwhistles
More than 200 neighbors attended the Phillips community training today!
It was inspiring to see so many people come together, committed to keeping their neighbors safe.
Community members left empowered to organize their building, block, and community.
It was inspiring to see so many people come together, committed to keeping their neighbors safe.
Community members left empowered to organize their building, block, and community.
November 24, 2025 at 1:03 AM
They gave out about 2,000 whistles today. It was incredible but it costs money.
Please support this work! You can Venmo them @mspwhistles
Please support this work! You can Venmo them @mspwhistles
If you never saw the finale of the 90s Henson company show “Dinosaurs,” it’s a surprisingly brilliant imagination of what it’d be like if the dinosaurs were destroyed by capitalism and attempts to fix the weather that it broke. It’s on Disney+.
November 23, 2025 at 9:29 PM
If you never saw the finale of the 90s Henson company show “Dinosaurs,” it’s a surprisingly brilliant imagination of what it’d be like if the dinosaurs were destroyed by capitalism and attempts to fix the weather that it broke. It’s on Disney+.
One thing I think is funny about Twitter showing locations is that when it was a brand new website, a large percentage of its users had the Location field entered as a latitude/longitude point, and you’d have to have a maps app to follow it. It was a wildly silly era in some ways.
November 23, 2025 at 7:31 PM
One thing I think is funny about Twitter showing locations is that when it was a brand new website, a large percentage of its users had the Location field entered as a latitude/longitude point, and you’d have to have a maps app to follow it. It was a wildly silly era in some ways.
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thank you for supporting striking Starbucks workers, Comrade Hilary Duff
November 23, 2025 at 6:27 PM
thank you for supporting striking Starbucks workers, Comrade Hilary Duff
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Happy Holidays! ALL Haymarket Books are 40% off through January 2nd!
November 21, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Happy Holidays! ALL Haymarket Books are 40% off through January 2nd!
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Rev. Dr. Gary F. Green III’s new book Playing the Game looks at how Black athletes are misjudged and stereotyped. His launch event at United Theological Seminary sparked an honest look at race and sports.
buff.ly/pPRpBbe
#PlayingTheGame #BlackAthletes #MSRSports
buff.ly/pPRpBbe
#PlayingTheGame #BlackAthletes #MSRSports
November 23, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Rev. Dr. Gary F. Green III’s new book Playing the Game looks at how Black athletes are misjudged and stereotyped. His launch event at United Theological Seminary sparked an honest look at race and sports.
buff.ly/pPRpBbe
#PlayingTheGame #BlackAthletes #MSRSports
buff.ly/pPRpBbe
#PlayingTheGame #BlackAthletes #MSRSports
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I can’t figure out if this child is a preteen girl, a queer boy in theater camp, or a middle-aged lit professor with 200k in student loans. 😂
November 23, 2025 at 3:17 PM
I can’t figure out if this child is a preteen girl, a queer boy in theater camp, or a middle-aged lit professor with 200k in student loans. 😂
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Feels like this must be a known, named, & studied phenomenon. But I don’t know what it is.
Based only on the sample size of my school, I think the organizing around the SNAP shut down alerted a lot of struggling families to food assistance programs they hadn’t realized existed but *already* needed. That’s why demand is gonna stay high for foreseeable future. Until we abolish capitalism.
Even with SNAP benefits restored, this Oregon pantry says hunger persists
Packed with Pride, in Tigard, leases its pantry space from a back room at a church.
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November 23, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Feels like this must be a known, named, & studied phenomenon. But I don’t know what it is.
I think DOGE as a failure depends on what you think they were actually trying to achieve and whether they did it, and for people that think it was actually about saving money or increasing efficiency I really think it’s time to go back to whatever the drawing board is.
November 23, 2025 at 2:23 PM
I think DOGE as a failure depends on what you think they were actually trying to achieve and whether they did it, and for people that think it was actually about saving money or increasing efficiency I really think it’s time to go back to whatever the drawing board is.
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No, DOGE did not *fail.*
November 23, 2025 at 2:19 PM
No, DOGE did not *fail.*
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This week Inquest covered the growing real estate trend of prison flipping, and the inner workings of extractive capitalism's merger with mass incarceration. Get the full recap: mailchi.mp/inquest.o...
November 22, 2025 at 4:00 PM
This week Inquest covered the growing real estate trend of prison flipping, and the inner workings of extractive capitalism's merger with mass incarceration. Get the full recap: mailchi.mp/inquest.o...
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y'know, if tech companies weren't so fired up to call every single thing "AI" it would be a lot easier to distinguish "ML spam filter that is well-sandboxed and tuned on your emails" from "giant context and IP-eroding foundation model that makes people paranoid and unhappy"
since the "google is now training gemini on your email contents" thing keeps bumping around here: it's _not happening_. I say this not to defend google but because I know a lot of people that have broken their filtering and made their lives much more annoying from sheer misinformation.
The malwarebytes Google opting-your-emails-into-ai-training thing is not true. The post is based on one bad tweet.
I know anti-tech lamenting is a Bluesky core principle, but please use the same judgement you would for any other clickbait.
www.theverge.com/news/826902/...
I know anti-tech lamenting is a Bluesky core principle, but please use the same judgement you would for any other clickbait.
www.theverge.com/news/826902/...
November 23, 2025 at 12:58 PM
y'know, if tech companies weren't so fired up to call every single thing "AI" it would be a lot easier to distinguish "ML spam filter that is well-sandboxed and tuned on your emails" from "giant context and IP-eroding foundation model that makes people paranoid and unhappy"
I tend to read two books at a time most often, and just finished two so now I get to start “Read This When Things Fall Apart,” which was an instant preorder months ago and I’m happy to get to it.
November 23, 2025 at 12:47 AM
I tend to read two books at a time most often, and just finished two so now I get to start “Read This When Things Fall Apart,” which was an instant preorder months ago and I’m happy to get to it.
One thing that’s worth noting is that there are smart settings that use LLMs to help you write emails or whatever, but you can turn those off individually. It’s not the same as this big smart feature toggle.
since the "google is now training gemini on your email contents" thing keeps bumping around here: it's _not happening_. I say this not to defend google but because I know a lot of people that have broken their filtering and made their lives much more annoying from sheer misinformation.
The malwarebytes Google opting-your-emails-into-ai-training thing is not true. The post is based on one bad tweet.
I know anti-tech lamenting is a Bluesky core principle, but please use the same judgement you would for any other clickbait.
www.theverge.com/news/826902/...
I know anti-tech lamenting is a Bluesky core principle, but please use the same judgement you would for any other clickbait.
www.theverge.com/news/826902/...
November 22, 2025 at 10:10 PM
One thing that’s worth noting is that there are smart settings that use LLMs to help you write emails or whatever, but you can turn those off individually. It’s not the same as this big smart feature toggle.
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since the "google is now training gemini on your email contents" thing keeps bumping around here: it's _not happening_. I say this not to defend google but because I know a lot of people that have broken their filtering and made their lives much more annoying from sheer misinformation.
The malwarebytes Google opting-your-emails-into-ai-training thing is not true. The post is based on one bad tweet.
I know anti-tech lamenting is a Bluesky core principle, but please use the same judgement you would for any other clickbait.
www.theverge.com/news/826902/...
I know anti-tech lamenting is a Bluesky core principle, but please use the same judgement you would for any other clickbait.
www.theverge.com/news/826902/...
Google denies ‘misleading’ reports of Gmail using your emails to train AI
Google says “we do not use your Gmail content for training our Gemini AI model.”
www.theverge.com
November 22, 2025 at 9:30 PM
since the "google is now training gemini on your email contents" thing keeps bumping around here: it's _not happening_. I say this not to defend google but because I know a lot of people that have broken their filtering and made their lives much more annoying from sheer misinformation.
I liked Wicked part 2. Spouse was annoyed by the songs that aren’t also part of the stage version, but I’ve only heard the stage music twice when seeing the play, so I couldn’t really have picked that out anyway.
November 22, 2025 at 8:29 PM
I liked Wicked part 2. Spouse was annoyed by the songs that aren’t also part of the stage version, but I’ve only heard the stage music twice when seeing the play, so I couldn’t really have picked that out anyway.
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In Hennepin County/Minneapolis
JOIN Library Patrons Union & get in touch with your county commissioner about how they're protecting libraries & full access in the face of conservative forces who have the will & the power of the federal admin at their backs.
Make sure you've got the library's back.
JOIN Library Patrons Union & get in touch with your county commissioner about how they're protecting libraries & full access in the face of conservative forces who have the will & the power of the federal admin at their backs.
Make sure you've got the library's back.
November 22, 2025 at 4:00 PM
In Hennepin County/Minneapolis
JOIN Library Patrons Union & get in touch with your county commissioner about how they're protecting libraries & full access in the face of conservative forces who have the will & the power of the federal admin at their backs.
Make sure you've got the library's back.
JOIN Library Patrons Union & get in touch with your county commissioner about how they're protecting libraries & full access in the face of conservative forces who have the will & the power of the federal admin at their backs.
Make sure you've got the library's back.
Really a wonderful list of ways to organize. Observing and potentially disrupting ICE’s activity is of course a visible and essential tactic right now, and there are a lot of other tactics as well! Many described here.
New resource⚡️ Block it! Don’t Build It. Don’t Fill It. Don’t Fuel It.
A mini-toolkit to take action to slow down and disrupt the government’s kidnapping, detention, and deportation machine.
Info on strategies/tactics, ways to take action, and more:
www.interruptingcriminalization.com/block-it
A mini-toolkit to take action to slow down and disrupt the government’s kidnapping, detention, and deportation machine.
Info on strategies/tactics, ways to take action, and more:
www.interruptingcriminalization.com/block-it
November 22, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Really a wonderful list of ways to organize. Observing and potentially disrupting ICE’s activity is of course a visible and essential tactic right now, and there are a lot of other tactics as well! Many described here.
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New resource⚡️ Block it! Don’t Build It. Don’t Fill It. Don’t Fuel It.
A mini-toolkit to take action to slow down and disrupt the government’s kidnapping, detention, and deportation machine.
Info on strategies/tactics, ways to take action, and more:
www.interruptingcriminalization.com/block-it
A mini-toolkit to take action to slow down and disrupt the government’s kidnapping, detention, and deportation machine.
Info on strategies/tactics, ways to take action, and more:
www.interruptingcriminalization.com/block-it
November 21, 2025 at 3:53 PM
New resource⚡️ Block it! Don’t Build It. Don’t Fill It. Don’t Fuel It.
A mini-toolkit to take action to slow down and disrupt the government’s kidnapping, detention, and deportation machine.
Info on strategies/tactics, ways to take action, and more:
www.interruptingcriminalization.com/block-it
A mini-toolkit to take action to slow down and disrupt the government’s kidnapping, detention, and deportation machine.
Info on strategies/tactics, ways to take action, and more:
www.interruptingcriminalization.com/block-it
One thing I keep learning is that Albuquerque seems to have a good metal scene. Props to those folks. 🤘🏻
November 22, 2025 at 3:49 PM
One thing I keep learning is that Albuquerque seems to have a good metal scene. Props to those folks. 🤘🏻
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We picked up an additional 3400 3D printed Minneapolis whistles tonight.
So grateful to Chicago for sharing their resources and lessons with all of us.
So grateful to Chicago for sharing their resources and lessons with all of us.
With ICE and border patrol goons spreading out across the country, I put together a resource guide for buying, printing, and distributing whistles, based on my own experience. Now is the time to whistle up, hope this helps. dansinker.com/posts/202…
November 22, 2025 at 3:45 AM
We picked up an additional 3400 3D printed Minneapolis whistles tonight.
So grateful to Chicago for sharing their resources and lessons with all of us.
So grateful to Chicago for sharing their resources and lessons with all of us.
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Mamdani's first skeet since the meeting.
Working people have been left behind in New York. In the wealthiest city in the world, one in five can't afford $2.90 for the train or bus. As I told Trump today— it’s time to put those people right back at the heart of our politics.
November 21, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Mamdani's first skeet since the meeting.
I didn’t care much about Mamdani going to the White House but wow I didn’t see any of this coming.
November 22, 2025 at 1:56 AM
I didn’t care much about Mamdani going to the White House but wow I didn’t see any of this coming.
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for days we got the "Showdown with Socialism" buildup only to get the payoff of Trump essentially saying "wow this socialist guy fuckin rules. I, on the other hand, am a fascist". what a country. what an era
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donald trump endorsed zohran mamdani before chuck schumer lmao
November 21, 2025 at 9:38 PM
for days we got the "Showdown with Socialism" buildup only to get the payoff of Trump essentially saying "wow this socialist guy fuckin rules. I, on the other hand, am a fascist". what a country. what an era
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