Bastlynn
@bastlynn.bsky.social
She/Her spoken with the awe and fear as with which the Depths Of the Sea are named.
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The real question is not "Why is Bluesky so left-coded," the real question is "Why can't the right exist in a social media environment without algorithmic assistance, where people can ignore them"
December 2, 2025 at 3:08 PM
The real question is not "Why is Bluesky so left-coded," the real question is "Why can't the right exist in a social media environment without algorithmic assistance, where people can ignore them"
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1725: Why the fuck did I lose my left hand for the same wages I earned while being 10x more productive than last year? Who the fuck is benefiting here?
2025: Why am I losing my job to a machine that encourages kids to kill themselves and can't actually do my job? Who the fuck is benefiting here?
2025: Why am I losing my job to a machine that encourages kids to kill themselves and can't actually do my job? Who the fuck is benefiting here?
December 2, 2025 at 7:57 PM
1725: Why the fuck did I lose my left hand for the same wages I earned while being 10x more productive than last year? Who the fuck is benefiting here?
2025: Why am I losing my job to a machine that encourages kids to kill themselves and can't actually do my job? Who the fuck is benefiting here?
2025: Why am I losing my job to a machine that encourages kids to kill themselves and can't actually do my job? Who the fuck is benefiting here?
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Statehood for D.C. is an ethical obligation at this point, required to protect the rights of our residents to govern ourselves against such out-of-state troops being sent to patrol our city.
NEW: Republican-led states, in a new filing at the D.C. Circuit, say D.C. residents are irrelevant, D.C. belongs to everyone else. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
The filing is led by the South Carolina and West Virginia attorneys general. Both states sent troops to DC.
The filing is led by the South Carolina and West Virginia attorneys general. Both states sent troops to DC.
December 2, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Statehood for D.C. is an ethical obligation at this point, required to protect the rights of our residents to govern ourselves against such out-of-state troops being sent to patrol our city.
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CALLOUT: I am looking to interview individuals who have sought health care at crisis pregnancy centers, whether intentionally or unintentionally, and want to talk about their experience. The center can be located anywhere. If you or someone you know might be interested, please email or send me a DM.
December 1, 2025 at 8:19 PM
CALLOUT: I am looking to interview individuals who have sought health care at crisis pregnancy centers, whether intentionally or unintentionally, and want to talk about their experience. The center can be located anywhere. If you or someone you know might be interested, please email or send me a DM.
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this applies nationwide in the country with the largest prison population in the world
December 2, 2025 at 6:36 PM
this applies nationwide in the country with the largest prison population in the world
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Who needs Sec of State or any US official actually confirmed by the United States Senate to do official state business on behalf of the United States?
Just let the President's cronies and family members with potential financial interests tied to foreign entities do it.
Just let the President's cronies and family members with potential financial interests tied to foreign entities do it.
Before meeting Putin, Witkoff and Kushner took in the sights of central Moscow, escorted by Kremlin adviser Kirill Dmitriev. (shopping at TsUM looks like)
December 2, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Who needs Sec of State or any US official actually confirmed by the United States Senate to do official state business on behalf of the United States?
Just let the President's cronies and family members with potential financial interests tied to foreign entities do it.
Just let the President's cronies and family members with potential financial interests tied to foreign entities do it.
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Excellent reporting by Phillip Vance Smith II. I wanted to pull out a few good quotes, but I couldn't choose. Instead, I invite you to read every word. This is the reality of people I love. It breaks me. @ncgovernor.bsky.social boltsmag.org/north-caroli...
North Carolina Prison Officials Raise Prices for Those Who Can Least Afford It - Bolts
It’s 4:30 pm on a Monday as Colell Steele stands in front of the closed canteen window at Neuse Correctional, a medium-custody prison in North Carolina. He’s lined up to... Read More
boltsmag.org
December 2, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Excellent reporting by Phillip Vance Smith II. I wanted to pull out a few good quotes, but I couldn't choose. Instead, I invite you to read every word. This is the reality of people I love. It breaks me. @ncgovernor.bsky.social boltsmag.org/north-caroli...
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AI pricing is here, and you’re paying for it. Corporations are raking in record profits by using AI to set prices based on personal data — and loyal customers end up paying the most. “It is a well-oiled extraction machine.” From @ddayen.bsky.social: trib.al/PKHo6he
Prices in the Machine - The American Prospect
AI’s real contribution to humanity could be maximizing corporate profit by preying on personal data to raise prices. In fact, it’s already happening.
trib.al
December 2, 2025 at 4:45 PM
AI pricing is here, and you’re paying for it. Corporations are raking in record profits by using AI to set prices based on personal data — and loyal customers end up paying the most. “It is a well-oiled extraction machine.” From @ddayen.bsky.social: trib.al/PKHo6he
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This Day in Labor History: December 2, 1984. A gas leak in a Union Carbide chemical plant in Bhopal, India killed somewhere between 3787 and 16,000 people. Let's talk about probably the worst industrial disaster in history and how U.S. companies can murder with impunity, then and now!
December 2, 2025 at 4:27 PM
This Day in Labor History: December 2, 1984. A gas leak in a Union Carbide chemical plant in Bhopal, India killed somewhere between 3787 and 16,000 people. Let's talk about probably the worst industrial disaster in history and how U.S. companies can murder with impunity, then and now!
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I think that I am most enraged by the fact that the architects of the coming collapse have successfully fucked around, and have left the finding out to subsequent generations.
December 2, 2025 at 2:05 PM
I think that I am most enraged by the fact that the architects of the coming collapse have successfully fucked around, and have left the finding out to subsequent generations.
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Retired three-star general:
It’s important to note from a military perspective that if a subordinate is about to give an unlawful order & his senior knows about it, it’s also a requirement for the senior official to stop him from executing it. And then counsel/discipline him.
So there’s that, too.
So there’s that, too.
December 2, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Retired three-star general:
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firefox AI and slop disablers from tumblr for the people from local hero mckitterick. Tried it on my end and the browser is significantly faster now
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December 2, 2025 at 3:47 AM
firefox AI and slop disablers from tumblr for the people from local hero mckitterick. Tried it on my end and the browser is significantly faster now
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"the issue isn’t that we need more 'boy-friendly' reforms. It’s that boys are socialized to compete only with boys and to read girls’ success as illegitimate or emasculating. The result is dissonance, resentment, and disengagement for boys—and hostile climates for girls."
time.com/7335723/auto...
time.com/7335723/auto...
The Real Way Schools are Failing Boys
“If we really want boys to succeed, we need to ensure that they know how to both beat—and lose— to girls."
time.com
December 2, 2025 at 11:21 AM
"the issue isn’t that we need more 'boy-friendly' reforms. It’s that boys are socialized to compete only with boys and to read girls’ success as illegitimate or emasculating. The result is dissonance, resentment, and disengagement for boys—and hostile climates for girls."
time.com/7335723/auto...
time.com/7335723/auto...
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So Zillow has decided to disinform homebuyers by omitting any climate risks involved with their purchases. How is this any different from an inspector who fails to tell would-be buyers the house they want is brimful of termites or black mold? www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Zillow deletes climate risk data from listings after complaints it harms sales
Site deletes feature after real estate agents and some homeowners say scores appear arbitrary and hurt sales
www.theguardian.com
December 2, 2025 at 11:14 AM
So Zillow has decided to disinform homebuyers by omitting any climate risks involved with their purchases. How is this any different from an inspector who fails to tell would-be buyers the house they want is brimful of termites or black mold? www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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"My mom has never stopped feeling awe at watching the polio wards disappear in the space of about 1 year." -- Greg Dougherty
Currently dorking out over this graph about child mortality with my brother. Just mind boggling to take in.
December 2, 2025 at 9:15 AM
"My mom has never stopped feeling awe at watching the polio wards disappear in the space of about 1 year." -- Greg Dougherty
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I have come to the idea that we have to collectively, brutally, ritualistically kill Target just to show capital that we truly aren’t fucking around.
December 1, 2025 at 7:39 PM
I have come to the idea that we have to collectively, brutally, ritualistically kill Target just to show capital that we truly aren’t fucking around.
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Imagine being a career officer in the chain of command on Trump's boat bombings. You have deep moral and legal concerns about them. Your faith in leadership is shaky. Then you see Pete Hegseth tweet out a sadistic cartoon about it. Must be awful.
Thoughts on this:
newrepublic.com/article/2037...
Thoughts on this:
newrepublic.com/article/2037...
December 2, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Imagine being a career officer in the chain of command on Trump's boat bombings. You have deep moral and legal concerns about them. Your faith in leadership is shaky. Then you see Pete Hegseth tweet out a sadistic cartoon about it. Must be awful.
Thoughts on this:
newrepublic.com/article/2037...
Thoughts on this:
newrepublic.com/article/2037...
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As everyone knows, the basis of capitalism is that if a product is great you'll need to cram it down everyone's throats (without consent) for years before finally being bailed out by the government
"All of this falls apart if humans don't adopt the tech. This is why you've seen Meta cram its lame chatbots into WhatsApp and Instagram. This is why Notepad and Paint now have useless Copilot buttons on Windows. This is why Google Gemini wants to "help you" read and reply to your emails."
Analysis: OpenAI is a loss-making machine, how can it survive?
Don't call it a bubble! Loss-making monster OpenAI is on the hook for $1.4 trillion (with a T) in compute commitments. How can this go on?
www.windowscentral.com
November 30, 2025 at 9:23 PM
As everyone knows, the basis of capitalism is that if a product is great you'll need to cram it down everyone's throats (without consent) for years before finally being bailed out by the government
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At this point it’ll be a mammoth task; I’m all open to be proving wrong but when was the last time we had a dem elected president with the task of giant reform or accountability involving “looking back” and then they did it?
One of the most important jobs of the next Democratic president will be, at a minimum, firing all of these people
December 2, 2025 at 1:36 PM
At this point it’ll be a mammoth task; I’m all open to be proving wrong but when was the last time we had a dem elected president with the task of giant reform or accountability involving “looking back” and then they did it?
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it's advent you know what that means
December 1, 2025 at 8:04 AM
it's advent you know what that means
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Griot Anthology is the book I always wanted to see. It's the book I am surprised didn't exist already, tbh (if I'm wrong, PLEASE inform me so I can buy that book and tell people about it, for real!). To be able to share a book of black TTRPG designers and artists with black TTRPG fans... amazing.
December 2, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Griot Anthology is the book I always wanted to see. It's the book I am surprised didn't exist already, tbh (if I'm wrong, PLEASE inform me so I can buy that book and tell people about it, for real!). To be able to share a book of black TTRPG designers and artists with black TTRPG fans... amazing.
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More Pax Unplugged memories...
one thing that gave me immense joy was when I got to speak with black people about the Griot Anthology. There were many times when someone would see @aaronradney.bsky.social's beautiful art on the cover, and drift magically over...
one thing that gave me immense joy was when I got to speak with black people about the Griot Anthology. There were many times when someone would see @aaronradney.bsky.social's beautiful art on the cover, and drift magically over...
December 2, 2025 at 1:30 PM
More Pax Unplugged memories...
one thing that gave me immense joy was when I got to speak with black people about the Griot Anthology. There were many times when someone would see @aaronradney.bsky.social's beautiful art on the cover, and drift magically over...
one thing that gave me immense joy was when I got to speak with black people about the Griot Anthology. There were many times when someone would see @aaronradney.bsky.social's beautiful art on the cover, and drift magically over...
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It is perhaps worth noting that the term "combatant" itself does not have a glorious history.
www.britannica.com/topic/enemy-...
www.britannica.com/topic/enemy-...
December 2, 2025 at 1:51 PM
It is perhaps worth noting that the term "combatant" itself does not have a glorious history.
www.britannica.com/topic/enemy-...
www.britannica.com/topic/enemy-...
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"You can't just put tinsel on Danny DeVito and call it a Christmas tree"
WELL...
WELL...
December 2, 2025 at 1:10 PM
"You can't just put tinsel on Danny DeVito and call it a Christmas tree"
WELL...
WELL...
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“This is exacerbated when Amazon then pulls this contaminated water, which is already over federal legal limits for nitrates, up to cool its data centers”
Areas in which centers are built are often high contamination drought areas. This process makes it much worse.
www.theverge.com/news/834151/...
Areas in which centers are built are often high contamination drought areas. This process makes it much worse.
www.theverge.com/news/834151/...
December 2, 2025 at 1:56 PM
“This is exacerbated when Amazon then pulls this contaminated water, which is already over federal legal limits for nitrates, up to cool its data centers”
Areas in which centers are built are often high contamination drought areas. This process makes it much worse.
www.theverge.com/news/834151/...
Areas in which centers are built are often high contamination drought areas. This process makes it much worse.
www.theverge.com/news/834151/...