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mathematics, computation, history of science, climate action, systems, compositionality, urbanism in Chicago, bike lanes, type theory, tea, julia-lang, atproto dev
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hey @safety.bsky.app whats the policy for saying "WE WILL KILL YOU" and including a video of you actually killing people? asking for a state department
November 14, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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might seem trivial / overly tech nerdy but I'm genuinely annoyed that these takedowns happen at the PDS level and not the AppView level. the whole point is supposed to be that different appviews can make different calls on who's suspended
November 14, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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Just curious if the Bluesky Safety team is going to evenly apply their guidelines?
November 14, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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Chicago, let’s preemptively make this illegal, okay?
November 14, 2025 at 7:05 AM
This seem to be a move to grant powers for domestic surveillance using tools usually intended for foreign targets.
November 14, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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The administration appears to be laying the groundwork for designating "antifa" as a Foreign Terrorist Organization.

www.state.gov/releases/202...
Designations of Antifa Ost and Three Other Violent Antifa Groups - United States Department of State
Today, the Department of State announces the designation of Antifa Ost, Informal Anarchist Federation/International Revolutionary Front, Armed Proletarian Justice, and Revolutionary Class Self-Defense...
www.state.gov
November 13, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.
November 13, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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Lmao
November 13, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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Do emails that notify the account owner of suspension currently mention which specific post triggered the suspension? (Because if not, they really should…)
November 12, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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Sarah’s THEY KNEW is literally about how the pervasive lack of transparency and accountability in governance makes conspiracy theories thrive and destroys civic trust. Feels a little on the nose.
November 11, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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Sarah Kendzior has never violated a TOS in her life. She doesn't even engage in back and forth arguments with other users. I don't know what she could possibly have done to be suspended. What the hell, @safety.bsky.app?
November 11, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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@pfrazee.com why was Sarah Kendzior suspended?
November 11, 2025 at 5:22 AM
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durbin sucks ass, of course, but it's telling of the rest of the senate dems that he has been allowed to be the senate whip for the party the entire time. this is the guy who's supposed to get *other* people in line
Whoa -- Sen. Durbin went to up Leader Thune during the vote last night to tell him that on the shutdown vote and ACA promise that "8 of us are sticking our neck out that you're going to keep your word. I hope you will. He said 'I assure you I will,'" Durbin says just now
November 10, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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Abolish the Senate. I am absolutely dead serious.
Shaheen: "We've heard from a number of our colleagues on the other side of the aisle that they're willing to come to the table, they're willing to work with us once the govt is open to get this done. We've heard the same thing from the White House. So now we'll see if they're really gonna work w/us"
November 10, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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Smoke Signal is an event & RSVP platform built on ATProto.

@ngerakines.me just dropped a massive upgrade for organizers & attendees - a new design, profiles, rich text, integrated email notifications, private content for attendees, verified RSVPs, and even MCP support.
November 10, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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ICE agents in Chicago violently detain a non verbal autistic man for being “non compliant”

He couldn’t “comply” because of his disability…they don’t care

This is not the first time they’ve gone after a disabled person

They target the most vulnerable because it’s an easy way to meet their quota
November 8, 2025 at 8:15 AM
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SCOOP: YouTube deleted accounts of 3 major Palestinian human rights organizations— Al-Haq, Al Mezan, and the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights — as a part of the Trump admin's campaign to stifle accountability for alleged Israeli war crimes. ✍🏽w/ Nikita Mazurov
theintercept.com/2025/11/04/y...
YouTube Quietly Erased More Than 700 Videos Documenting Israeli Human Rights Violations
The tech giant deleted the accounts of three prominent Palestinian human rights groups — a capitulation to Trump sanctions.
theintercept.com
November 4, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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It's insane that this even needs to be said.

“A free country does not dispatch police in the dead of night to pull people from their homes because a sheriff objects to their social media posts,” @adamsteinbaugh.bsky.social speaking to @willoremus.com.

www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...
A retired policeman posted a Charlie Kirk meme. He spent a month in jail.
The 61-year-old Tennessee man plans to sue after authorities dropped charges over a political Facebook post. Free-speech advocates say it’s a symptom of a wider crackdown.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 31, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.

Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.

They are not the same.
October 30, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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Smash your Ring doorbell to pieces first thing today if you haven’t already.
Oakland PD wants to join Flock’s sprawling surveillance network, which means connecting public & private systems including Ring doorbells, businesses and drones that will fuel 🧊dirty work.

Go to bit.ly/noflock-oakland to support the fight ✊🏽
October 30, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Daylight Savings Time is strange to me. We would rather change their clocks rather than change the conventional work day to start later in the winter. It seems our modern idea of work is more immutable than clocks, our relation to the sun, and time itself.
DST is why most Americans wake by alarm in darkness. Permanent Standard Time would let us sleep longer and awaken naturally to sunlight, for health!
October 28, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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In areas with increased SNAP take-up rates, grocery prices increased *less*
October 26, 2025 at 2:07 AM
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this is something that individual members of Congress could do tomorrow. The government is shut down so they could use their district offices. I suggested in January that they turn those offices into full on community centers where people could find each other re: mutual aid etc...
If I were running the DNC, there would be Democratic Party sponsored food relief banks across the country right now that specifically welcomed anyone regardless of party affiliation.

Along with the food, there could be voter registration and links to runforsomething.net
October 27, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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Grocery stores run on razor-thin margins. The overnight disappearance of the demand stimulated by food stamps will be very bad for their business. Bad enough to exacerbate food deserts. Bad enough to put downward pressure on the overall food supply.
October 25, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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Damn. It’s now become cystal clear that, like Pritzker, Johnson’s gonna use his uniformed muscle to run interference for ICE.
We’re on our own.
different sides of the same system

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
October 24, 2025 at 11:25 AM