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Amanda Litman @amandalitman.bsky.social · 7d

You might be able to vote this year — so I wrote a guide on how to look up if you’ve got an election, how to research candidates, why it matters to cast your ballot, & why I’m excited to vote for Zohran Mamdani + yes on all the ballot proposals here in NYC. amandalitman.substack.com/p/your-2025-...

Your 2025 voting guide

How to look up if you've got an election, tips for researching candidates, & my thoughts on the NYC election

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Scott Polhemus @polhem.us · Sep 13

Was going to joke that this made me feel old, but Plastic Beach was literally 15 years ago and in my head that’s still a recent album so joke’s on me

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · May 16

Open call to sign, and link to donate.

Please spread the word.

Jews for Food Aid for Gaza

Jewish people support food aid for families in Gaza and an immediate end to the Israeli government’s food aid blockade. #JewsForFoodAidForPeopleInGaza

www.foodaidforgaza.org

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Scott Galloway @profgalloway.com · Apr 24

He’s so good at this.

Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · Apr 24

I want politics to be about a better everyday life.

Here's what that can look like:

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Scott Polhemus @polhem.us · Mar 4

Just finished reading Timothy Zahn's novel "Thrawn". My first Star Wars book ever, and I really enjoyed it! Felt like a nice companion to some of the better Star Wars shows of late, particularly Andor (with lots of thematic parallels) and Ahsoka (given the title character is actually in that one).

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John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · Mar 4

Imagine DOGE opens your mail and finds your household electric bill. To eliminate this cost, they burn your house down without warning. Then they total up the bills that, as a homeless person, you will never again pay. On its website, DOGE boasts about the money it has saved you.

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Amanda Litman @amandalitman.bsky.social · Mar 1

18F did things like making online government forms (like filing your taxes or submitting VA claims) easier to fill out, create text message notification systems for govt agencies, and streamlining internal data sharing. They were literally making govt more efficient & user-friendly. This sucks.

Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · Mar 1

18F, a digital services unit inside the General Services Administration, has been completely laid off, according to an email I’ve seen. The email says that 18F was deemed “non-critical” and the decision was made with the “explicit” direction of the administration and GSA leadership.

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · Feb 21

Your regular reminder that the more often you own your mistakes, the easier it gets.

It is like any muscle-- work it more and it gets stronger.

All people mess up, and sometimes we do so publicly.

It's not the end of the world to acknowledge that we missed the mark; it's how we clean up.

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Scott Polhemus @polhem.us · Feb 20

@nickperon.bsky.social This whole thread is legendary 👏

Scott Polhemus @polhem.us · Feb 20

If you see this, post a Spider-Man.

A hand-painted Spider-Man figure keychain from Thailand

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Scott Polhemus @polhem.us · Feb 19

Thanks so much for sharing. While not at all the same situation, emotionally it resonates with my own experience coming out from working on the 2016 Dem campaign. I don’t know if I’ll ever find another team so deeply committed to a shared mission and supporting each other. Always admired 18F a ton.

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Scott Polhemus @polhem.us · Feb 16

Shout-out to @danslott.bsky.social and @panelsyndicate.bsky.social for the beautiful issue of Amazing Spider-Man that inspired this post! (ASM 801)

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Scott Polhemus @polhem.us · Feb 15

In my latest blog post, I unpack the Jewish value at the heart of Spider-Man and what it can teach us about activism and justice in the present moment: “Whoever saves a single life is considered to have saved the whole world.”

I Believe There’s a Hero in All of Us

There’s a scene in Spider-Man 2 (2004) where Peter Parker has, for the time being, given up the superhero gig. He’s been walking on air from that weight being lifted off his shoulders, but he soon lea...

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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · Feb 15

"I called it ethnic cleansing. But when I saw the images of starving babies in Gaza I had to upgrade my language."

By Art Spiegelman (Maus) and Joe Sacco

www.theguardian.com/world/pictur...

Comic strip-style dialogue between Spiegelman and Sacco; one panel:
I called it ethnic cleansing. But when I saw the images of starving babies in Gaza I had to upgrade my language.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · Feb 15

TRUMP AND MUSK TO AMERICA: DROP DEAD.

Trump and Musk to America: Drop Dead.

In 1975, President Gerald Ford rejected New York City’s request for a bailout, prompting the New York Daily News to publish its now-famous “FORD TO CITY: DROP DEAD” headline.

www.lawdork.com

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Scott Polhemus @polhem.us · Feb 8

How cool would it have been if it was, like, Spider-Byte or literally anyone else who was actually in the movie? 😭 (I’m sure no one is more disappointed about it than the folks at Insomniac, though.)

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Scott Polhemus @polhem.us · Feb 8

Untold Tales of Spider-Man #7 by @kurtbusiek.bsky.social has a fun callback to this when Peter uses “Palmer” as a fake name at the eye doctor 😁

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27 Days Until "Hamnet" @rochardscott.bsky.social · Feb 5

33% of registered voters in the country voted for this clown.

The rest of us need to do something.

It's all hands on deck.

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Scott Polhemus @polhem.us · Feb 4

🚀 Want to try building on AT Protocol but not sure where to start? I've got you covered with this lil' @glitch.com app.

✅ Log in using OAuth
✅ Read & write data using official API client
✅ Custom lexicons

Check out the source code, play around with the live demo, or remix it to make it your own! 🙂

Atproto Starter

Get started with AT Protocol on Glitch! This app demonstrates logging in using OAuth, accessing AT Protocol APIs, and defining custom lexicons for reading and writing custom data types to your Persona...

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · Feb 3

No one voted for Elon Musk.

An unelected billionaire is trying to raid the Treasury Department and take money from the American people.

This is a constitutional crisis and we choose to fight. We’re taking action to stop the Trump-Musk power grab this week. Join us: www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...

Elon Musk's DOGE commission gains access to sensitive Treasury payment systems: AP sources

The move by DOGE means it could have wide leeway to access important taxpayer data, among other things.

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Scott Polhemus @polhem.us · Jan 30

@atproto.com’s PDS repo is so underrated. A generic, authenticated, fully CRUD-capable API for whatever data I want to throw at it? Hosted on my behalf for free with zero setup required? It’s the stuff of dreams for folks who just want to build fun little web apps that actually do things.

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Scott Polhemus @polhem.us · Jan 29

Just posted a new article to my blog, basically gushing over Bluesky's AT Protocol as an antidote to the social media walled gardens we've all been stuck in for the past decade-plus and how exciting the project is as both a software engineer and a proponent of the open web.

Bluesky’s AT Protocol is the real “everything app”

The blatantly fascist owners of certain established-but-declining social networks like to wax poetic about a world where everything you do online might take place within their own restrictive ecosyste...

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Scott Polhemus @polhem.us · Jan 14

Good point! Now that you mention it, the Stark "nano-tech" does behave a lot like the symbiote suit. It's even got some "intelligence" of its own with the AI personality and all.

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Scott Polhemus @polhem.us · Jan 13

This feels ideologically pure and correct for well-known entities, but I worry it does very little for normies (complimentary) who don’t own their own website and wouldn’t want their online identity tied to their employer.

Scott Polhemus @polhem.us · Jan 7

Damn, now I feel old 😅

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