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Phildini @phildini.net · 1d

What _percent_ of US generals are contemplating coup right now, d’you think? 50? 80?

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Phildini @phildini.net · 2d

Oh no wait I’m dumb

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Phildini @phildini.net · 2d

Wait Rosy is buying this for you?

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Phildini @phildini.net · 2d

You’re doing the Lords Work. We’re just all side-eying 🌹 for not celebrating their consumption

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Phildini @phildini.net · 2d

I’m more upset she brought veggie tales porn and didn’t tell me ??

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Phildini @phildini.net · 3d

This is a huge problem and part of why @civic.band exists -- we're indexing minutes data from 809 (and growing) municipalities, backed up to searchable sqlite DBs, a CDN, and a git repo of the OCR'd text.

If you (or anyone) wants to explore 9 million pages of civic data: civic.band

CivicBand: Government and Municipality Meeting Data

Dive into City Meeting Data Across the U.S.

civic.band

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AJ in Hell @bunnyhuunq.bsky.social · 4d

Motherfucker you will never be President no matter how many homeless and trans people you throw under the bus and when you die your body will be rejected by the earth

LGBTQ Nation @lgbtqnation.com · 4d

Gavin Newsom vetoes gender education bill, declines to sign other trans protections - buff.ly/MTUAV85

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Phildini @phildini.net · 4d

The foundations of the world trembled at this skeet

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Tiff E. Sniffs @tiffysniffs.bsky.social · 4d

This was a good read.

Defector @defector.com · 5d

No good art comes from greed: defector.com/taylor-swift...

No Good Art Comes From Greed | Defector

The packages arrived square and thin and carefully wrapped on Saturday afternoon. There were three of them, but only one was mine. If I could have rejected my package, sent it back from whence it…

defector.com

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · May 6

Everyone in the past was neurotypical, which is how we got things like this single-author, eight-volume encyclopedia of ferns

eight leatherbound books all titled "FERNS" volumes 1 through 8

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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 8d

soon she's gonna be posting memes about Rhodesia and transvestigating celebrities, i can see it from a mile away

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phylan @phylan.website · 9d

the bors "I think we should improve society somewhat" cartoon except society is replaced with "bsky" and "and yet you participate in it!" is replaced with "WAFFLES"

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Dylan Wilbanks @dylanw.social · 8d

This whole Bsky waffles crash out feels like we unmasked Jay and found it was Elon and he would have gotten away with it if it weren’t for the meddling users and their dogs.

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Phildini @phildini.net · 9d

Go on

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[foreign Object] @jcoglan.com · 9d

you know what, ruby central's radio silence is on balance a preferable approach to posting "waffles" at anyone who's mad at them. congrats to bluesky on winning this week's prize for bad governance

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jenn schiffer 🕷️🕯️ @jennschiffer.com · 9d

so here we are on a platform that’s 24/7 vibrating on anger, a significant portion of which is from the staff here have made themselves known to be bad messengers for the messages their community wants to hear. i don’t have the answer but an idea is a clearer separation of the client and protocol

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puppy @duckinator.bsky.social · 23d

Hey, #ruby folks! I've been one of the #RubyGems maintainers for the last decade.

Ruby Central has forcefully taken control of the RubyGems organization on GitHub, the `rubygems-update` and `bundler` gems on rubygems[.]org, and more.

You can read the details here: pup-e.com/goodbye-ruby...

RubyGems.org | your community gem host

rubygems.org

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Phildini @phildini.net · 27d

The right time to lewd post is always

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jae @jkap.gay · 29d

as we watch bluesky have yet another full-scale moderation meltdown over whether or not you're allowed to say "rip in piss" about a dead nazi podcaster, i'd like to take a moment to remind everyone who sent us death threats over cohost's moderation that you don't know how fucking good you had it

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 28d

reposting with alt text because this feels incredibly significant. the right-wing disinfo machine means a lot of the people grieving Charlie Kirk never heard any of the things he said that would have tarnished his brand as Guy Who Just Wants to Have Dialogue Across the Aisle

One thing that has become really clear since yesterday is that we live in at least two different realities. Talking to a friend who only knew Charlie as a Christian motivational speaker because that's all that ever came across her feed. Showed me videos I've never seen before of him saying perfectly reasonable and empowering things.

I showed her videos she'd never seen before of his racism, misogyny, homophobia, advocating for violence against specific groups of people. She was horrified by his remarks about Pelosi's husband's attacker being bailed out and celebrated for his violent act. She was horrified by a number of things that he said, but she had never seen or heard them before, the same as I had never seen or heard the generalized clips of him sounding like a perfectly nice loving man and father.

Neither of us had a whole picture of this man. I mentioned he was a known white supremacist and she thought I was joking.

She talked about him giving a speech about finding your purpose and doing good in the world and I thought she was joking.

I saw why this friend was mourning the loss of a person she thought was a good person.
My friend, bless her, saw why I feel the way I do about him. We understood each other better. In spite of a multi-billion dollar internet machine specifically focused on keeping us apart. Because we talked to each other with the desire to listen and to learn rather than the desire to change someone else's mind or to be "right".

None of those motivational things he said change my opinion about him because they don't erase the negativity, the subtle calls for violence, the belittling and denigrating of other races religions genders etc. His negative and blaming comments about homeless people, the poor, and victims of domestic violence. His comments about rounding up people who didn't think like him and putting them in camps where their behavior could be corrected. That time he said empathy was a made-up word he didnt believe in. That other time he said the Civil Rights Act was a mistake. The time he said most people are afraid when they get on a plane and see that there's a black pilot. His anti-vaccination rhetoric and his active campaigning against people being allowed to wear masks for their own health. His open support of fascism and white supremacy. To me, all of those are fully unchristian sentiments. Those are undeniable and just one of them would be a deal-breaker for me. All of them together are a picture of a man who was polarizing,

enraged a lot of people and rightly so, but even with all of that I would never wish upon him or especially his children the end that he got.
Oh, and my friend had never heard, and God help me I don't know how she escaped the news, but she had never heard of the Minnesota legislators who were shot in June. The husband and wife and dog who were killed, one after throwing themselves over their child to protect the child. The other couple who somehow survived.

Politically motivated attacks specifically because they were democrats. She learned about those shootings that happened months ago because I showed her Charlie Kirk's comments about them. The kidnapping plot against a female Midwestern Democratic governor. The assassination attempt against Pennsylvania's democratic governor. All things Charlie had plenty to say about while supporting the Second Amendment and bashing the Democratic party. She didn't know about any of it because we're all living in two different worlds and none of us have the whole story.

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Dylan Wilbanks @dylanw.social · 28d

Just leaving this link here, no particular reason whatsoever

www.dailynk.com/english/hars...

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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 28d

had no idea about this until just now? upsetting!

Wootmaster @wootmaster.bsky.social · Sep 11

PS: this is not the first time bluesky has followed marching orders from nazis.

You'll remember that @rose.bsky.team was caught following an account on twitter created to target and harass users on bluesky, particularly trans women.

Also that time they protected S*ngal from their own TOS

Screenshot of rose.bsky.team following Libsofbluesky

screenshot of safety.bsky.app that reads "We do not currently take action on accounts that share Bluesky screenshots with commentary, unless that commentary violates our Guidelines yadda yadda"

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Phildini @phildini.net · Sep 9

In this post, does anyone know what “mini-iterative RPGs from Asia” means? Google didn’t return anything useful from search permutations

Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · Sep 9

I feel there can be no canon of games that doesn't *at the very least* include tiny Finnish demoscene games, Polystation and Gameboy hacks from the Middle East and LATAM, half-translated hacked ROMs from South Europe, mobile games from Africa, and the entire corpus of mini-iterative RPGs from Asia.

illbleed for sego dreancas @impemboganecue.bsky.social · Sep 8

Gen X American game critics set up this myth of the history of the medium that basically only considers upper middle class white kids from the US who got a Nintendo for Christmas. We can't seem to shake it from the English language gaming community

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · Sep 2

LET SHE WHO HAS NEVER NUKED TOSTITOS QUESO AND EATEN IT STRAIGHT FROM THE JARVWITH CHEAP ASS TORTILLA CHIPS DURING A DARK NIGHT OF THE SOUL CAST THE FIRST STONE

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