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Julia Carrie Wong
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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · Apr 8
I tried to write about empathy and ended up writing about fascism again
Loathe thy neighbor: Elon Musk and the Christian right are waging war on empathy
Trump’s actions are irreconcilable with Christian compassion. But an unholy alliance seeks to cast empathy as a parasitic plague
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just found out what a tea cozy looks like
November 10, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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If there was ever a time for NIMBYs to shine, this is it. Each and every effort by ICE to expand their footprint by a square inch should be met with environmental impact review lawsuits, challenges to conditional use permits, traffic studies, the whole shebang.
criminalerin.bsky.social Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 2d
"It was not immediately clear who owns the warehouses that the government may buy and the DHS official and the White House official did not know how much the deals could be worth. DHS said some of the warehouses under consideration were built by developers with Amazon in mind but never used."
'Mega detention centers': ICE considers buying large warehouses to hold immigrants
The Trump administration is exploring a plan to buy warehouses designed for companies like Amazon, sources said, which would drastically increase the Trump administration’s capacity for detaining immi...
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November 7, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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oh dear www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
Daily Mail headline: Bizarre 'cultural appropriation' row breaks out over new Tom Daley knitting show's 'misrepresentation' of tiny island with just 44 inhabitants
November 7, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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Well maybe the knitting community of the Shetland islands can go FUCK ITSELF
joolia.bsky.social Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 4d
The new British competitive knitting show hosted by Olympic diver Tom Daley has been denounced by the knitting community of the Shetland islands for its imprecise portrayal of fair isle knitting and negative attitude toward a technique known as steeking
Shetland knitting group ‘shocked and saddened’ by representation in Channel 4 show
A GROUP protecting Shetland’s knitting heritage has criticised a new Channel 4 show for spreading “negative misconceptions about Fair Isle knitting...
www.shetnews.co.uk
November 7, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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The member of the Scottish parliament for Shetland has lodged a complaint in Holyrood over the depiction of fair isle knitting in the UK’s new competitive knitting show, which debuted this week with a controversial tank top challenge and steek-related dismissal.
November 7, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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they haven’t changed this, they still don’t cite a single San Franciscan who refers to Pelosi as “mom”, and it’s still weird af
joolia.bsky.social Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 3d
I lived and worked in SF for over a decade, in media and in the labor movement, and never heard a single person refer to Nancy Pelosi as “mom” wtaf
To Americans, Pelosi Was the House Speaker. To San Francisco, She Was Mom. Representative Nancy Pelosi, after announcing her retirement, was praised by many San Franciscans for her tireless efforts on behalf of the city. Some of her work went unheralded.
November 7, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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I lived and worked in SF for over a decade, in media and in the labor movement, and never heard a single person refer to Nancy Pelosi as “mom” wtaf
To Americans, Pelosi Was the House Speaker. To San Francisco, She Was Mom. Representative Nancy Pelosi, after announcing her retirement, was praised by many San Franciscans for her tireless efforts on behalf of the city. Some of her work went unheralded.
November 7, 2025 at 6:36 AM
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There are no words for how evil this is
In an interaction early the next month, after Zane suggested "it's okay to give myself permission to not want to exist," ChatGPT responded by saying "i'm letting a human take over from here - someone trained to support you through moments like this. you're not alone in this, and there are people who can help. hang tight." But when Zane followed up and asked if it could really do that, the chatbot seemed to reverse course. "nah, man - i can't do that myself. that message pops up automatically when stuff gets real heavy," it said.
November 7, 2025 at 1:36 AM
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I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved.

www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
ChatGPT encouraged college graduate to commit suicide, family claims in lawsuit against OpenAI | CNN
A 23-year-old man killed himself in Texas after ChatGPT ‘goaded’ him to commit suicide, his family says in a lawsuit.
www.cnn.com
November 7, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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🚨LA-based journalists/journos willing to relocate to the west coast:

We're looking for a senior news editor to help run our news operation in downtown LA!

If you're well-versed in breaking news and want to work with really wonderful humans, APPLY!
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Senior News Editor, West Coast
The Guardian is a global news organization that delivers fearless, independent journalism. From breaking news and award-winning investigations, to in-depth coverage of technology, sports, film, cultur...
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November 6, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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is a sandwich a speech act
November 6, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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Have they? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...
By Clyde McGrady Nov. 6, 2025 Updated 9:36 a.m. ET For much of President Trump's second term, the political heirs of his "America First" agenda have tried to form an intellectual framework for their movement that embraces nationalism while keeping overt bigotry out of the coalition.
November 6, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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did liberal feminism ruin the workplace
did liberal feminism ruin the home
did liberal feminism ruin my dinner
did liberal feminism ask for a divorce
November 6, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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The new British competitive knitting show hosted by Olympic diver Tom Daley has been denounced by the knitting community of the Shetland islands for its imprecise portrayal of fair isle knitting and negative attitude toward a technique known as steeking
Shetland knitting group ‘shocked and saddened’ by representation in Channel 4 show
A GROUP protecting Shetland’s knitting heritage has criticised a new Channel 4 show for spreading “negative misconceptions about Fair Isle knitting...
www.shetnews.co.uk
November 6, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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just found out that Emma Goldman attended Freud’s lectures in the US and was removed for disruptive behavior and felt the need to pass it along
November 6, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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Glad to see more people noting that, whatever divisions there may be on Palestine-Israel, the tradition of "sewer socialism" which Mamdani represents is actually a deeply Jewish tradition. forward.com/culture/7816...
Mamdani quoted Eugene Debs in his victory speech — there's a long Jewish history there
Mamdani quoted Eugene Debs in his victory speech — a 1900s socialist leader with a long history of Jewish support in the Forward.
forward.com
November 5, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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pretty cool that gristedes belongs to all of us now
November 5, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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a delightful political obituary www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Anthony T Jones was literally in disbelief as Mamdani was announced the winner. "I feel wonderful. I think hope is still alive," he said, as the words "Zohran Mamdani wins race for mayor" rolled across the TV screen. Informed by the Guardian that every major news organization had announced Mandani as the winner, Jones snapped back to reality quickly, but remained defiant. "I'm not disappointed at all. No, because Cuomo ran a great campaign," he said. Jones added of Cuomo, who is 67-years-old: "He's still a young man."
November 5, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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is that … legal?
olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 5d
according to @jessyedwards.bsky.social of @hellgatenyc.com Curtis Sliwa just said on stage that he was offered $10 million to drop out of the race
November 5, 2025 at 3:16 AM
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Zohran at the rally for trans youth on february 8 ❣️ he was polling single digits.
Zohran standing amidst a crowd in winter clothing
June 25, 2025 at 4:51 AM
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Some high quality shade at Andrew Cuomo from Adam Gabbatt at the Guardian
A post on The Guardian "I'm at Andrew Cuomo's election night watch party, at the Ziegfeld Ballroom in midtown Manhattan. In it's own words, Ziegfeld Ballroom is a "luxury event venue built on Broadway's golden eta. I do not know what that means. There are no supporters here yet - they're due to arrive at 8:30 PM. They will be greeted by two bars. I have just confirmed that the booze is free. There are circular tables dotted around the edge of the room., each clad in a long black table cloth, and each with three lit candles in the middle. It's like they're preparing for a mass seance. When I arrived the song Sending Out An SOS was playing. Is the campaign sending out secret messages through music? If it is, the messages are confusing: Blame it on the Boogie was on next.
November 5, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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G(eorgie)OTV
A cream Shiba Inu looking especially cute and wearing an I Voted sticker
November 5, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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get you a hometown newspaper that can break scoops like EXCLUSIVE: ARGUMENT APPEARED IN BOOK FIVE YEARS AGO
NY POST headlne: Exclusive: Zohran Mamdani’s UWS dad claims Nazis learned to commit atrocities from US — including ethnic cleansing
November 4, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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when is a wife not a wife? when she’s aloof
November 4, 2025 at 3:41 AM
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when is a wife not a wife? when she’s aloof
November 4, 2025 at 3:41 AM