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@abridgeinbflo.bsky.social
Rust Belt raised queer sewer socialist, evangelist for mutual aid networks. Organizer for Environmental and Climate Justice. Also a huge nerd, and literally blue-haired and non-binary. They/Them.
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“The historical precedent here is Flint, Michigan. In part because of how slow the response to the crisis has been, and in part because of who’s affected. These are people who have no political or economic power, and very little knowledge of the risk.” www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
'The Precedent Is Flint': How Oregon's Data Center Boom Is Supercharging a Water Crisis
Amazon data centers constructed in eastern Oregon's farmland have worsened a water pollution problem that’s been linked to cancer and miscarriages.
www.rollingstone.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:51 PM
“The historical precedent here is Flint, Michigan. In part because of how slow the response to the crisis has been, and in part because of who’s affected. These are people who have no political or economic power, and very little knowledge of the risk.” www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
I just happened to turn on the Buffalo Common Council livefeed, and holy crap, is the BCC actually going to pass a resolution in favor of land value taxation?
November 25, 2025 at 7:46 PM
I just happened to turn on the Buffalo Common Council livefeed, and holy crap, is the BCC actually going to pass a resolution in favor of land value taxation?
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Hello network. This is real shit. I’m looking for transgender, nonbinary, or gender nonconforming front and back end web designers for a project to help trans people get housing in NJ. This is a paid opportunity.
Please share this if you see it, and my DMs are open for more information. Tysm 🩵🩷🤍🩷🩵
Please share this if you see it, and my DMs are open for more information. Tysm 🩵🩷🤍🩷🩵
November 25, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Hello network. This is real shit. I’m looking for transgender, nonbinary, or gender nonconforming front and back end web designers for a project to help trans people get housing in NJ. This is a paid opportunity.
Please share this if you see it, and my DMs are open for more information. Tysm 🩵🩷🤍🩷🩵
Please share this if you see it, and my DMs are open for more information. Tysm 🩵🩷🤍🩷🩵
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🚨🚨🚨 Lake Effect Snow Warning issued November 25 at 12:44PM EST until November 29 at 1:00AM EST by NWS Buffalo NY 🚨🚨🚨
Additional Details Here.(2/2)
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November 25, 2025 at 5:45 PM
🚨🚨🚨 Lake Effect Snow Warning issued November 25 at 12:44PM EST until November 29 at 1:00AM EST by NWS Buffalo NY 🚨🚨🚨
Additional Details Here.(2/2)
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Definitely an overlooked point: The authoritarian far right, including its white nationalist iterations, are self-consciously global in scope and liberals need to adapt to that:
The movement to destroy liberal democracy is international, and so must be its defense
NEWS --> BBC confirms to me that they did edit a line out of historian @rutgerbregman.com's speech. It called Trump "the most openly corrupt president in US history."
BBC also confirms this was done on the advice of lawyers. So Trump's threats worked.
New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2036...
BBC also confirms this was done on the advice of lawyers. So Trump's threats worked.
New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2036...
November 25, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Definitely an overlooked point: The authoritarian far right, including its white nationalist iterations, are self-consciously global in scope and liberals need to adapt to that:
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"there are no third spaces anymore" wrong. blast furnace
November 25, 2025 at 12:59 AM
"there are no third spaces anymore" wrong. blast furnace
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Wow — Senators Van Hollen, Smith, Murphy, Sanders, Warren, Markey, Merkley, Heinrich have created an official internal "Fight Club."
They're challenging Schumer & Gillibrand's leadership, arguing the party is using an old, corporate-friendly playbook insufficient to take on Trump or win elections.
They're challenging Schumer & Gillibrand's leadership, arguing the party is using an old, corporate-friendly playbook insufficient to take on Trump or win elections.
Chuck Schumer Faces Pushback From a ‘Fight Club’ of Senate Democrats
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Wow — Senators Van Hollen, Smith, Murphy, Sanders, Warren, Markey, Merkley, Heinrich have created an official internal "Fight Club."
They're challenging Schumer & Gillibrand's leadership, arguing the party is using an old, corporate-friendly playbook insufficient to take on Trump or win elections.
They're challenging Schumer & Gillibrand's leadership, arguing the party is using an old, corporate-friendly playbook insufficient to take on Trump or win elections.
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BREAKING: This is huge news, the EU's equivalent of the 🇺🇸Supreme Court's 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling.
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
www.reuters.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:10 AM
BREAKING: This is huge news, the EU's equivalent of the 🇺🇸Supreme Court's 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling.
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
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so if i understand this correctly, gaines has made her career by publicly calling trans athletes predators and threats to women while completely failing to ever mention even once that her mentor/college swimming coach was sexually assaulting and harassing women on the team while she was there?
Riley Gaines climbed the MAGA ladder by vilifying trans women in sports. Now, teammates are speaking out about the real problems on her team: abusive coaching, sexual harassment, eating disorders. ow.ly/o3wq50XuCzp
How right-wing superstar Riley Gaines built an anti-trans empire
The swimmer tied a trans woman for fifth. The MAGA industrial complex took care of the rest.
ow.ly
November 25, 2025 at 1:32 AM
so if i understand this correctly, gaines has made her career by publicly calling trans athletes predators and threats to women while completely failing to ever mention even once that her mentor/college swimming coach was sexually assaulting and harassing women on the team while she was there?
Starting shortly!
Join us tonight at 6pm, either in-person at Trinity Church in Buffalo (371 Delaware Ave) or via Zoom! Details at the link below.
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Data Centers and Environmental Justice Teach-in
Clean Air and Allies of the Tonawanda Seneca Nation are teaming up for a discussion about data centers - more details to come!
actionnetwork.org
November 24, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Starting shortly!
This looks like Klingon
I’m very sorry to announce this to the rest of the country & the world, but a transitional logo has been chosen for the 2034 Salt Lake City Olympics & this is it. Why does it say Utah? We don’t know. Why is the font illegible? Yet another mystery. Did they go ugly on purpose? Again, no idea.
November 24, 2025 at 10:54 PM
This looks like Klingon
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Premium: This is The Hater's Guide To NVIDIA: A 14k word guide to how NVIDIA makes its money, how millions of Blackwell GPUs have been sold with nowhere for them to be installed, and how NVIDIA's future relies on companies raising hundreds of billions in debt.
www.wheresyoured.at/the-haters-g...
www.wheresyoured.at/the-haters-g...
The Hater's Guide To NVIDIA
This piece has a generous 3000+ word introduction, because I want as many people to understand NVIDIA as possible. The (thousands of) words after the premium break get into arduous detail, but I’ve wr...
www.wheresyoured.at
November 24, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Premium: This is The Hater's Guide To NVIDIA: A 14k word guide to how NVIDIA makes its money, how millions of Blackwell GPUs have been sold with nowhere for them to be installed, and how NVIDIA's future relies on companies raising hundreds of billions in debt.
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One of my favorite Covid lockdown era dynamics was the quiet cold war between gamers and cryptominers over high end processors, which helped push the CHIPS act across the finish line.
This time it's going to be everyone against AI deluded megacorps.
This time it's going to be everyone against AI deluded megacorps.
We're So Screwed: AI Is Making Every Gadget Cost More https://gizmodo.com/ram-prices-going-up-ddr5-shortage-2000690697
We're So Screwed: AI Is Making Every Gadget Cost More
The demand for AI is making every gadget cost more, whether it's a PC or gaming console.
gizmodo.com
November 24, 2025 at 5:28 PM
One of my favorite Covid lockdown era dynamics was the quiet cold war between gamers and cryptominers over high end processors, which helped push the CHIPS act across the finish line.
This time it's going to be everyone against AI deluded megacorps.
This time it's going to be everyone against AI deluded megacorps.
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this goes right along with my theory that the AI obsession in *users* is often bc…
1. they were never educated (esp "ipad generation") & don't know how computers work
2. our tools and services are all SO AWFUL NOW, degraded at best, actively user-hostile at worst
1. they were never educated (esp "ipad generation") & don't know how computers work
2. our tools and services are all SO AWFUL NOW, degraded at best, actively user-hostile at worst
November 15, 2025 at 6:47 PM
this goes right along with my theory that the AI obsession in *users* is often bc…
1. they were never educated (esp "ipad generation") & don't know how computers work
2. our tools and services are all SO AWFUL NOW, degraded at best, actively user-hostile at worst
1. they were never educated (esp "ipad generation") & don't know how computers work
2. our tools and services are all SO AWFUL NOW, degraded at best, actively user-hostile at worst
Make sure to listen to the 1995 "Massacre" version for the shaggy dog story addendum, well worth the extended listen.
www.arloguthrie.com/news/alice-s...
www.arloguthrie.com/news/alice-s...
November 24, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Make sure to listen to the 1995 "Massacre" version for the shaggy dog story addendum, well worth the extended listen.
www.arloguthrie.com/news/alice-s...
www.arloguthrie.com/news/alice-s...
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Meta halted internal research that purportedly showed (young) people who stopped using Facebook became less depressed and anxious, according to an unredacted legal filing released on Friday. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/m...
Meta halted internal research suggesting social media harm, court filing alleges
Meta is alleged to have halted internal research suggesting social media harm, according to court documents.
www.cnbc.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Meta halted internal research that purportedly showed (young) people who stopped using Facebook became less depressed and anxious, according to an unredacted legal filing released on Friday. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/m...
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This, by @giacgrassi.bsky.social, remains one of the simplest and best climate visuals
November 23, 2025 at 9:30 PM
This, by @giacgrassi.bsky.social, remains one of the simplest and best climate visuals
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do you have any idea how much you have to piss somebody off to make them change their gauge
#Finland will begin to #Russia - proof its rail network, integrate with EU train infrastructure.
The Finnish government has announced the conversion of its rail network from Russian gauge (1,524 mm) to European standard (1,435 mm).
www.trenvista.net/en/news/flas...
The Finnish government has announced the conversion of its rail network from Russian gauge (1,524 mm) to European standard (1,435 mm).
www.trenvista.net/en/news/flas...
November 23, 2025 at 4:40 PM
do you have any idea how much you have to piss somebody off to make them change their gauge
Just a fun factoid, Bethlehem Steel, including the steelyards in Buffalo/Lackawanna, were the source for the steel used by the US during WWII.
Buffalo industry beat the Nazis and fought off fascism - we can do so again with a Just Transition into renewable energy.
Buffalo industry beat the Nazis and fought off fascism - we can do so again with a Just Transition into renewable energy.
November 23, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Just a fun factoid, Bethlehem Steel, including the steelyards in Buffalo/Lackawanna, were the source for the steel used by the US during WWII.
Buffalo industry beat the Nazis and fought off fascism - we can do so again with a Just Transition into renewable energy.
Buffalo industry beat the Nazis and fought off fascism - we can do so again with a Just Transition into renewable energy.
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Buffalo peeps, keep tabs on the weather forecast this week - probably a nothingburger, but don't get caught flat footed if this shapes up to be another Snovember storm.
BUF issues Area Forecast Discussion (AFD) at Nov 23, 1:03 PM EST ...POTENTIAL ACCUMULATING LAKE EFFECT SNOW BEGINNING WEDNESDAY NIGHT THEN LASTING THROUGH FRIDAY NIGHT... via IEMbot
Additional Details Here.
Additional Details Here.
November 23, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Buffalo peeps, keep tabs on the weather forecast this week - probably a nothingburger, but don't get caught flat footed if this shapes up to be another Snovember storm.
The good news is these regs can be strengthened again once a responsible admin is in power, and that there will be court challenges over the next few years to stop these harms.
The bad news is that there will be irreversible damage in the meantime- less than 100 Rice Whales today, how many by 2028?
The bad news is that there will be irreversible damage in the meantime- less than 100 Rice Whales today, how many by 2028?
Boast from EPA chief Lee Zelda: “We will do more deregulation in one year than entire federal governments in the past have done across all federal agencies combined.”
In One Week, Trump Moves to Reshape U.S. Environmental Policy
www.nytimes.com
November 23, 2025 at 2:38 PM
The good news is these regs can be strengthened again once a responsible admin is in power, and that there will be court challenges over the next few years to stop these harms.
The bad news is that there will be irreversible damage in the meantime- less than 100 Rice Whales today, how many by 2028?
The bad news is that there will be irreversible damage in the meantime- less than 100 Rice Whales today, how many by 2028?
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In Monrovia, California, protesters are purchasing 17¢ ICE scrapers from Home Depot and immediately returning them to create long lines and slow down the entire store. Their aim is to disrupt sales and convey a message opposing ICE raids occurring in their neighborhood.
November 23, 2025 at 11:37 AM
In Monrovia, California, protesters are purchasing 17¢ ICE scrapers from Home Depot and immediately returning them to create long lines and slow down the entire store. Their aim is to disrupt sales and convey a message opposing ICE raids occurring in their neighborhood.
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The correct answer to MAGA outrage over the Dem video is this: Are you effing kidding me? Of course it's reasonable to warn that Trump might be giving illegal orders.
The evidence is strong that he actually is giving illegal orders! I went through that evidence here:
newrepublic.com/article/2035...
The evidence is strong that he actually is giving illegal orders! I went through that evidence here:
newrepublic.com/article/2035...
Is Trump Giving Illegal Orders? Dems Just Blew That Question Wide Open
From the boat bombings to deportations to prosecutions, the evidence mounts. And the speaker of the House could get to the bottom of it if he wanted to. Yeah, right.
newrepublic.com
November 21, 2025 at 6:44 PM
The correct answer to MAGA outrage over the Dem video is this: Are you effing kidding me? Of course it's reasonable to warn that Trump might be giving illegal orders.
The evidence is strong that he actually is giving illegal orders! I went through that evidence here:
newrepublic.com/article/2035...
The evidence is strong that he actually is giving illegal orders! I went through that evidence here:
newrepublic.com/article/2035...
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She’s been like this for a long time actually. She has really good moments standing up to the regime and you’re like oh shit there goes Kathy again protecting our asses.”
And then the next day she does some bullshit to appease wealthy donors.
The woman’s pendulum swings intensely back and forth.
And then the next day she does some bullshit to appease wealthy donors.
The woman’s pendulum swings intensely back and forth.
I really did not have “Kathy Hochul understands this political moment better than almost anyone else in the Democratic Party” on my bingo card but here we are
Governor Hochul on Elise Stefanik doubling down on her claims that Mamdani is a “jihadist.”
Video: Kathy Hochul via X (@KathyHochul)
Video: Kathy Hochul via X (@KathyHochul)
November 23, 2025 at 12:27 AM
She’s been like this for a long time actually. She has really good moments standing up to the regime and you’re like oh shit there goes Kathy again protecting our asses.”
And then the next day she does some bullshit to appease wealthy donors.
The woman’s pendulum swings intensely back and forth.
And then the next day she does some bullshit to appease wealthy donors.
The woman’s pendulum swings intensely back and forth.