Kathy Tafel
@kathytafel.bsky.social
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iOS dev | conference speaker | Mac addict https://www.therecipeboxapp.com Leave the world better than you found it, and have fun SF—>Bkln—>Berlin Retweets ≠ 👍🏻 She/her 🇺🇦🍉🤎🌮 We all breathe the same air.
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kathytafel.bsky.social
Excited that we managed to ship The Recipe Box for iPad and iPhone with Liquid Glass support and recipe timers ready for download on new iPhone day. Get it here for iPad: apps.apple.com/us/app/the-r...
kathytafel.bsky.social
Wut?
polpielladev.bsky.social
Here's another reason to stop using print statements in your code and start using OSLog instead!

💪 You can access os_log events from instruments to give you a better chance at fixing those pesky performance issues.
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strictlychristo.bsky.social
"A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.”

~ Thomas Paine
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tusk81.bsky.social
WIC, which helps feed babies and new moms, is facing critical funding issues.

But ICE’s mass deportation operation—which has attacked faith leaders in Chicago—is raging on uninterrupted during the GOP shutdown. “We could hear them laughing as they were shooting us,” said Rev. Black.

Priorities.
americasvoice.bsky.social
"While new moms worry about formula for their infants and furloughed federal workers stress about next month’s rent or mortgage, the administration’s mass deportation obsession will continue uninterrupted," writes @tusk81.bsky.social

This says everything about this administration’s priorities.
ICE Rages On During Shutdown As Federal Workers Go Without Paychecks and American Kids Face Potential Hunger
Priorities.
americasvoicecnn.substack.com
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greenmamalama.bsky.social
Anyone who thinks they’ll be done with brown people are fools
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michaeljkramer.bsky.social
Why are there so few (none?) news stories about individual ICE agents themselves? Who they are, what motivates them, any moral dilemmas they face? Why aren’t protesters trying to get some to speak out?
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bencollins.bsky.social
Listen to the response to this and look how easy it is to say it.
grahamformaine.bsky.social
We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.

When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.
kathytafel.bsky.social
Why? For what possible reason do you do this to CHILDREN? Monsters!
zelbel.bsky.social
ICE kidnapping children here LEGALLY now.😢
caitlindeangelis.bsky.social
ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...
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briesmith.xyz
If you are stupid enough to do this, the ACLU is not riding to your defense, you are an embarrassment to your friends and family and you will be very sorry you ever had this idea
faineg.bsky.social
someone on the Internet who really wants to convince you to shine lasers at manned aircraft as a protest tactic “because they did it in Chile in 2019” is either:

1. a fascist fed, or,

2. so terminally stupid that they have become functionally indistinguishable from one
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billkristolbulwark.bsky.social
Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt:

“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist."

www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...
Pope Leo calls for news agencies to stand as bulwark against "post-truths," lies and manipulation
Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the "ancient art of lying" and manipulation.
www.cbsnews.com
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danhon.com
Like, there's communicating a falsehood. There's lying (hard to prove intent/mental state!). There's persistent falsehoods, a pattern over time.

And then there's persistent lying, over time, connected to a policy objective.

Isn't that last one propaganda?
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katmabu.bsky.social
3D printers: WE NEED YOU! If you have a printer, start making whistles for your community. Volunteers of ours have been printing and passing them out across communities, over 200 have been handed out so far!
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antonhur.com
You guys basically have martial law in almost everything but name.
joshuaeakle.com
In Chicago, four vehicles descended and eight ICE agents moved in to kidnap a child.

She screams, “I’m 15,” as ICE yanks her from the car and kneels on her neck.

This is not about immigration enforcement.

It's about terrorizing Americans.
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mrsbettybowers.bsky.social
This sadly demented man doesn't realize *he* was president on Jan 6, 2021. Get him in an assisted living facility ASAP.
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karlykingsley.bsky.social
The RIFs that began Friday will reportedly cut 65% of CISA’s 2,540 employees, one of the dumbest and most dangerous moves imaginable. CISA defends the nation’s cyber and critical infrastructure. Destroying it now only makes sense if you’re afraid of election integrity.
kathytafel.bsky.social
Seriously. I am not required to consume abuse in my off hours. You do you if you find that fun. I prefer this place where I can block jerks, follow technical conversations ( although I miss all the peeps on twitter a lot of them are here), and have conversations with folks outside my bubble.
alexvont.bsky.social
This is it. I didn’t find it at all difficult to leave Twitter in the end: it stopped being fun and became boring and depressing. Whenever I opened it I’d see things that were obnoxious or upsetting. It was a relief not to do that.
explaintrade.com
This is an exact encapsulation of why I moved to Bluesky.

No amount of handwringing in the Atlantic about how I owe some eternal Promethean suffering to the discourse is going to make me stay on a site I hate, that stopped doing anything for me professionally years ago.
kathytafel.bsky.social
What amazing spirit. What amazing inhumanity required it. No ‘society’ which does this to children should be called a society.
antongerashchenko.bsky.social
9-yr-old Ukrainian Sasha Paskal has won gold&bronze medals at the All-Ukrainian Rhythmic Gymnastics Competition "Black Sea Cup"

In the summer of 2022she was seriously injured by a Russian strike and underwent a leg amputation

Sasha didn’t give up.She went through rehabilitation
📹bokareva.solovey.m
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kenwhite.bsky.social
If someone merely acknowledging the humanity of your enemies enrages you, you’re the baddies.
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kjephd.bsky.social
Unconstitutionally taking money that the law says must be spent on one purpose & using it for something else—when it's to establish personalist control over the FUCKING MILITARY—is about as dangerous a constitutional crisis/failure as you can imagine

Via: www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...
The Office of Management and Budget sent a notification to Congress about their intent to use research and development funds to pay members of the military, two sources with direct knowledge tell NBC News.

A spokesperson for the OMB confirmed to NBC News that it plans to use the research and development funds and that there are two years' worth of funds available within the Department of Defense.
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chadloder.bsky.social
There is one fundamental truth about mutual aid, and it always shocks people:

YOU MUST BREAK THE LAW IN ORDER TO ACTUALLY HELP PEOPLE.

This truth alone should radicalize you.

The more you work on scale, branding, recognition, institutional funding, the harder it becomes to actually
help people.