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Andrew Blum @ablum.bsky.social · 10h

I was in a meeting in DC once where NGOs were getting lectured by a colonel on how they could be doing better in Afghanistan. One of the NGO leaders said yes we could be doing many things better if we had a budget of $300 million per day.

Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 10h

is the secret "have millions of dollars in soft money from gullible far right billionaires" because the secret to his organizing might have been a Scrooge McDuck pile of $

flux.community @flux.community · 10h

Charlie Kirk was a religious extremist and an advocate for mass censorship of academics he hated.

But as a political organizer and creator of opportunities for his comrades, there's much that can be learned from what he did. @matthewboedy.bsky.social discusses on the latest Theory of Change

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Andrew Blum @ablum.bsky.social · 3h

Or more poetically,

When the bible is a bottle
And the hardwood floor is home
When morning comes twice a day or not at all…

Andrew Blum @ablum.bsky.social · 3h

“I got drunk and I fell down” - Uncle Tupelo.

Top-tier rock-and-roll lyric.

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Andrew Blum @ablum.bsky.social · 4h

I don’t understand the Argentina thing.

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Andrew Blum @ablum.bsky.social · 5h

In a different political environment the decreases in violent crime would be being celebrated as the biggest public policy success in a generation or more.

Jeff Asher @jeffasher.bsky.social · 5h

San Francisco had the fewest murders in a year since before 1960 last year and murder is down 20% this year. It's almost impressive how divorced from reality these deployment suggestions are. YTD change in SF crime as of Oct 5:

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Jeff Asher @jeffasher.bsky.social · 5h

San Francisco had the fewest murders in a year since before 1960 last year and murder is down 20% this year. It's almost impressive how divorced from reality these deployment suggestions are. YTD change in SF crime as of Oct 5:

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 7h

The Virginia Senate just told UVA it’s not getting state funding if it accepts the compact since UVA exists to serve Virginia, its residents, & their interests—not be a tool of the federal govt. Scoop from our student newspaper, who’ve been doing vital reporting www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...

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Andrew Blum @ablum.bsky.social · 7h

Harsh but fair

Andrew Blum @ablum.bsky.social · 8h

*calendar synching

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Andrew Blum @ablum.bsky.social · 10h

I was in a meeting in DC once where NGOs were getting lectured by a colonel on how they could be doing better in Afghanistan. One of the NGO leaders said yes we could be doing many things better if we had a budget of $300 million per day.

Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 10h

is the secret "have millions of dollars in soft money from gullible far right billionaires" because the secret to his organizing might have been a Scrooge McDuck pile of $

flux.community @flux.community · 10h

Charlie Kirk was a religious extremist and an advocate for mass censorship of academics he hated.

But as a political organizer and creator of opportunities for his comrades, there's much that can be learned from what he did. @matthewboedy.bsky.social discusses on the latest Theory of Change

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Andrew Blum @ablum.bsky.social · 10h

This is just peak “everything is performative” more savy than thou-ism.

The entire history of fighting authoritarianism tells us this is *absolutely* doing something.

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Andrew Blum @ablum.bsky.social · 11h

Le Creuset discourse. Did not expect.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

apnews.com

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Andrew Blum @ablum.bsky.social · 11h

This kind of piece alternates with the “California is Over” pieces.

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Scott Frerichs @kaiserneko.bsky.social · 11h

THIS IS SO HUGE WE NEED THIS SO BADLY

MORE HOUSING, MORE PUBLIC TRANSIT, MORE MIXED ZONING

Senator Scott Wiener @scottwiener.bsky.social · 12h

MAJOR NEWS: @GavinNewsom signed SB 79, my bill allowing more housing near public transit — rail, subway, rapid bus.

It’s a huge step for housing in California. It’ll create more homes, strengthen our transit systems & reduce traffic & carbon emissions.

Thank you, Governor!

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Andrew Blum @ablum.bsky.social · 1d

Sitting and listening to advice on how to manage teams from an "author and keynote speaker" who doesn't manage teams is always an experience.

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Andrew Blum @ablum.bsky.social · 15h

Awkward Sarcasm category. My dad would three-peat out of the gate.

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Andrew Blum @ablum.bsky.social · 15h

They’re still building the metaverse?

Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 16h

New from 404 Media: an internal Meta message we obtained tells employees on its metaverse team that they should be using AI to “go 5x faster”. That's 5 times faster, not 5 percent more.

www.404media.co/meta-tells-w...

Meta Tells Workers Building Metaverse to Use AI to ‘Go 5x Faster’

Meta says that its coders should be working five times faster and that it expects "a 5x leap in productivity."

www.404media.co

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Andrew Blum @ablum.bsky.social · 1d

Sitting and listening to advice on how to manage teams from an "author and keynote speaker" who doesn't manage teams is always an experience.

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Andrew Blum @ablum.bsky.social · 1d

So you got to go to work. Ya that’s a shame.

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Andrew Blum @ablum.bsky.social · 2d

Six years later when they were smoking pot down in the ravine a 800lb pig came crashing out of the underbrush and chased them up into their house. 2/2

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Andrew Blum @ablum.bsky.social · 2d

Chance to tell one of my fav storiesI knew two sisters from Maine that won a piglet in the greased pig scramble at the county fair when they were ten. They let it loose in the ravine behind their house. 1/2

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Andrew Blum @ablum.bsky.social · 2d

Placer County

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 2d

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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Andrew Blum @ablum.bsky.social · 1d

Just this morning I read about a local bike shop that is struggling because of tariffs and a foreign funder of programs for children who will cease giving in the US because of policy uncertainty.

A thousand points of anxiety, stress, and needless suffering.

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