A decade after the Paris Agreement, global greenhouse gas emissions are barely rising, up just 0.3% a year since 2015, compared with 1.7% before. buff.ly/JXM4dIv
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some more interesting interstate collaboration efforts in this thread!

bsky.app/profile/samh...

Take nudes, send nudes, share nudes in fun, flirty, above all *consensual* ways. Please do *not* include other bathroom patrons w/o asking us *or* the depicted party— especially while you seem to be loudly taking a shit on your work break— as it seems at least a Bit coercive, please & fcking thank u

Take nudes, send nudes, share nudes in fun, flirty, above all *consensual* ways. Please do *not* include other bathroom patrons w/o asking us *or* the depicted party— especially while you seem to be loudly taking a shit on your work break— as it seems at least a Bit coercive, please & fcking thank u

Dude in the stall at the sheetz, a) on the phone, b) on SPEAKER, c) w/ someone he's at least taking nudes of because the call was d) About Which Nudes He Kept & Was Reminding The Other Party That He Had By Describing Them Out Loud While Sending Them. I s2fg i damn near peeled out of that parking lot

looks like Aziz Huq and @jondmichaels.bsky.social wrote a piece a few months ago on what interstate collaboration can look like -- h/t @clarajeffery.bsky.social

archive link to beat the paywall lol
archive.ph/Iyr7y

[disclaimer: i'm just talkin, these are normative statements, idk and am not commenting on what infrastructure exists irl]

there has to be a way to absorb some of these people into state health departments..or set up an interstate body to keep tryna do this work..we just cant lose all this capacity

*Lil Jon Voice* States' Rights to What

The current paradigm of "AI"— all of its, e.g., embedded values, design, cultural deployment, & structural affordances— has been repeatedly demonstrated to harm both critical skills development & the structure & maintenance of the relational social fabric.

That sounds pretty anti-pedagogical, to me

Can you think of a single movie in which there is a video from the government denouncing its political opponents playing on a loop in public spaces in which that government was the good guy?

I've been radio silent because I'm in the process of standing up an app.bsky.* API server (aka app-view aka Barnes & Nobles). This is an expensive and time intensive operation that I didn't want to do until it was necessary.
It's a fail-safe not a differentiator in experience, but important 7/11

While I'm grateful tools like this exist, to me this is still an unacceptable experience. We can do better than the disconnected posts, profiles only visible on certain sites, inability to do global search, and inaccurate like/follow counts that are tolerated on other decentralized networks. 6/11

Suspension of accts from Bluesky has called into question the mission and very existence of Blacksky. "If bsky can still suspend you, what's the point?"

For one usually Bluesky doesn't just suspend you. They delete all of your data AND suspend you. Moving to Blacksky prevents that. 4/11

Using AJ Link as an example, his current situation is that Bluesky, the Barnes & Nobles of atproto have banned him from their stores and essentially blackballed him from the publishing industry.

Fortunately for AJ Link, we've kept all his manuscripts safe and sound right where he left them. 3/11

I hear and see your concerns. Over the weekend, a couple users hosted on Blacksky's PDS were banned from the Bluesky app and thus the Bluesky API servers. This was a weakness of our system I've been aware of and hoped we had more time to address before any kind of public incident. 1/11

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

I wrote about Chicago: "Is this city burning? There is a definite answer to the question. In all these cities, the answer is no. No American city is currently on fire, and if Chicago is a war zone, it’s because it’s being invaded by the president."

Someone please give me a grant to do an ethnography on folk beliefs about mass-scale platform moderation before next Halloween, I promise the results will be spookier than any ghost story you can come up with

Hey kids, stop all the accelerating

No joke at the work function with older conservatives I got to bring this up and even got one of them to chime in and he called it propaganda to say the whole city is ravaged and I was floored. It really does help to have completely non threatening evidence to the contrary of their claim

Trump forming an anti Christian crime investigation task force to distract from the fact that he is a pedophile

This video is everywhere because it's a hilarious visual refutation of Portland being on fire. You can't get a mass movement going without convincing the masses

so yes, this does do something actually

Authoritarians believe the only way to make anyone do something is by force, they completely overlook persuasion: it's one of their biggest weaknesses and it pains me to see people on "my side" making the same mistake

Who Link was here & how he formed site culture, insisting on alt text & accessibility & disability justice, insisting on standing with trans people, mutual aid, irreverent shitposting, shows exactly that this culture of early bluesky that forged the platform is the opposite of what the team wants.