@colleenky.bsky.social
Musician, accidental accountant, intentional public servant. Voted Most Likely to Listen to JoCo. She/they. Opinions are my own.
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Welcome to Bluesky, where we block early and often. We are free speech relativists here. No one is entitled to our time and attention. We try our best to protect our own sanity and protect others from harassment and abuse.
Be weird. Be kind. Be vigilant.
Be weird. Be kind. Be vigilant.
Huh. Makes me think about natural resources. Maybe they shouldn’t be owned. Maybe, since they’re shared, we should all benefit from their responsible extraction and use, instead of having them sold back to us as products.
Crazy, I know.
Crazy, I know.
Tom Emmer on tariff checks to Americans: "You gotta love this president. He looks at this like a business, and when the business is doing well, the shareholders, which are the American people, should be rewarded."
November 24, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Huh. Makes me think about natural resources. Maybe they shouldn’t be owned. Maybe, since they’re shared, we should all benefit from their responsible extraction and use, instead of having them sold back to us as products.
Crazy, I know.
Crazy, I know.
Yeah, this is genuinely disappointing 😕
While Josh Shapiro is ditching the Northeast climate agreement, Abigail Spanberger (no radical liberal) is preparing to join it. @gurleygg.bsky.social explains why.
prospect.org/2025/11/24/j...
prospect.org/2025/11/24/j...
Josh Shapiro Ditched the Same Climate Pact That Abigail Spanberger Is Joining - The American Prospect
To seal a state budget deal, Pennsylvania is departing the RGGI emissions control program, but Virginia is jumping back in.
prospect.org
November 24, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Yeah, this is genuinely disappointing 😕
Hyperlocal government is a hoot.
Why marbles, playing cards, and ping pong balls decide so many local Pa. races https://www.spotlightpa.org/news/2025/11/pennsylvania-tied-elections-casting-lots-marbles-elections/
Pennsylvania tied elections decided by marbles, drawing lots
Tie elections happen frequently in low-profile races in PA. Some say reform is needed.
www.spotlightpa.org
November 24, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Hyperlocal government is a hoot.
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Anyone calling for a return to normalcy without consequence needs to have their career ended immediately so we can get people in office willing to do what is needed, which is to build a new and better normal, having disarmed and defunded the corporatist fascist occupation of our government.
November 24, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Anyone calling for a return to normalcy without consequence needs to have their career ended immediately so we can get people in office willing to do what is needed, which is to build a new and better normal, having disarmed and defunded the corporatist fascist occupation of our government.
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DOGE was created for data theft and infrastructure dismantling and it wildly succeeded on both counts within the first few weeks of its existence. It will take a generation to rebuild what it destroyed and the breach of data is unprecedented.
Bye bye, “DOGE”.
It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
November 23, 2025 at 3:01 PM
DOGE was created for data theft and infrastructure dismantling and it wildly succeeded on both counts within the first few weeks of its existence. It will take a generation to rebuild what it destroyed and the breach of data is unprecedented.
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Crockett on MTG resigning: "Honestly, I was like, you got to be kidding. You're on the other side of the president for one week and you can't take the heat? Imagine what it is to sit in my shoes."
November 23, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Crockett on MTG resigning: "Honestly, I was like, you got to be kidding. You're on the other side of the president for one week and you can't take the heat? Imagine what it is to sit in my shoes."
Yeah, that’s pretty much what I’ve been thinking.
Crockett: "Marjorie has been an instigator of a lot of this hate that we see as it relates to MAGA. I don't know if she really fully understood how bad she was making it for other people, and now that they're doing it to her, why is it that everyone else is able to stand and you can't?"
November 23, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Yeah, that’s pretty much what I’ve been thinking.
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November 22, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Absolute purrrfection
Sometimes I put in an absurdly low bid on an eBay auction with the certainty that I definitely won't get it but also a vanishingly slim hope that MAYBE by some miracle nobody else will bid. Anyway that is how I ended up adding this magnificent glass plate negative to my collection! No date/info.
November 22, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Absolute purrrfection
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Really nice write-up of my book VERY FINE PEOPLE.
No regular newsletter this week, only a special on systemic critique starring David Graeber and @juliusgoat.bsky.social
www.felienne.nl/special-grae...
www.felienne.nl/special-grae...
Special: Graeber & Moxon
De net-niet elite blikt uit in het vermijden van systeemkritiek, schreef ik in het voorjaar in de Volkskrant, maar in all fairness, eigenlijk is niemand goed in systeemkritiek, met de uitzondering van...
www.felienne.nl
November 22, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Really nice write-up of my book VERY FINE PEOPLE.
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L.A.'s alt-right extremists are doubling down on their “WHITE MAN FIGHT BACK!" fliers, neo-Nazi tattoos, and white power band tees.
The full story: lataco.com/highland-par...
By Nik Venet
The full story: lataco.com/highland-par...
By Nik Venet
November 22, 2025 at 12:47 AM
L.A.'s alt-right extremists are doubling down on their “WHITE MAN FIGHT BACK!" fliers, neo-Nazi tattoos, and white power band tees.
The full story: lataco.com/highland-par...
By Nik Venet
The full story: lataco.com/highland-par...
By Nik Venet
Same, kitty. Same.
November 21, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Same, kitty. Same.
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apropos of nothing - the rebar that Mussolini was hung from in Milan is now a McDonalds.
November 20, 2025 at 8:22 PM
apropos of nothing - the rebar that Mussolini was hung from in Milan is now a McDonalds.
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Found a hack to turn off AI on your phone. You go to settings, advanced settings, then temporal rift settings and click “throw device into the sea.” You will be teleported to a windy cliff in Norway where a mischievous voice will whisper “do it, do it” until you hurl your phone into the raging waves
November 20, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Found a hack to turn off AI on your phone. You go to settings, advanced settings, then temporal rift settings and click “throw device into the sea.” You will be teleported to a windy cliff in Norway where a mischievous voice will whisper “do it, do it” until you hurl your phone into the raging waves
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Donald Trump is calling for my death and others, and every political leader should condemn the President's violent threats.
November 20, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Donald Trump is calling for my death and others, and every political leader should condemn the President's violent threats.
Oh, my lord! 🤑
November 20, 2025 at 4:37 AM
Oh, my lord! 🤑
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You have until Sunday at 11:59pm to bid in our auction to benefit public media at JohnOliversJunk.com! And it’s not all Bob Ross paintings. There’s also this absolutely gorgeous custom Minor League Baseball jersey, featuring John Oliver's face. Their idea, not ours.
November 19, 2025 at 11:31 PM
You have until Sunday at 11:59pm to bid in our auction to benefit public media at JohnOliversJunk.com! And it’s not all Bob Ross paintings. There’s also this absolutely gorgeous custom Minor League Baseball jersey, featuring John Oliver's face. Their idea, not ours.
This is a re-post, but Moira’s worth it. #WhiskersWednesday
November 20, 2025 at 4:33 AM
This is a re-post, but Moira’s worth it. #WhiskersWednesday
Here’s a thread of good doggos
Feeling like posting pictures today, what’s up. Look at this extremely autumnal boy.
November 20, 2025 at 4:29 AM
Here’s a thread of good doggos
In our county
"A Chinese immigrant was found dead in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention, with his hands and feet tied behind him, an attorney has alleged."
www.newsweek.com/ice-detainee...
www.newsweek.com/ice-detainee...
Man detained by ICE found dead, hanging with hands and feet tied—attorney
The Chinese national died in Pennsylvania in August, but his family's requests for answers from DHS have gone unmet.
www.newsweek.com
November 20, 2025 at 4:20 AM
In our county
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You know, it's very strange. I have been in the business of promoting my new stand-up special “Rini” so long, now that it's over, I don't know what to do with the rest of my life.
Maybe make a wonderful Dread Pirate Roberts?
PS Spreading the word never ends! Watch!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0uf...
Maybe make a wonderful Dread Pirate Roberts?
PS Spreading the word never ends! Watch!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0uf...
Myq Kaplan - Rini [2025] | FULL SPECIAL
YouTube video by Blonde Medicine
www.youtube.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:27 AM
You know, it's very strange. I have been in the business of promoting my new stand-up special “Rini” so long, now that it's over, I don't know what to do with the rest of my life.
Maybe make a wonderful Dread Pirate Roberts?
PS Spreading the word never ends! Watch!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0uf...
Maybe make a wonderful Dread Pirate Roberts?
PS Spreading the word never ends! Watch!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0uf...
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If I were writing a fantasy novel, I would base all the characters' names off of sounds I make when I stand up. Hurrghh. Mwoor. Unng-Rugg the Burdened
November 20, 2025 at 2:57 AM
If I were writing a fantasy novel, I would base all the characters' names off of sounds I make when I stand up. Hurrghh. Mwoor. Unng-Rugg the Burdened
My annual subscription was coming up for renewal next month, and I finally opted not to.
If you subscribe to The Washington Post, here is what you are paying for.
November 20, 2025 at 4:17 AM
My annual subscription was coming up for renewal next month, and I finally opted not to.
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A 1984 article about the right wing trying to take over the schools of Sarasota, Florida in 1966 that reads like it was written yesterday, complete with bathroom weirdness, Northern ideological transplants enamored of Dixie, an imaginary Unitarian conspiracy, and more.
digitalcommons.usf.edu
November 19, 2025 at 4:30 PM
A 1984 article about the right wing trying to take over the schools of Sarasota, Florida in 1966 that reads like it was written yesterday, complete with bathroom weirdness, Northern ideological transplants enamored of Dixie, an imaginary Unitarian conspiracy, and more.
And at today’s pension seminar, the presenter is talking about AI growth. 😕
Scientists are increasingly concerned that the planet is headed for massive, irreversible changes due to global warming. In some cases, those changes have already begun. n.pr/48nQMqI
3 massive changes you'll see as the climate careens toward tipping points
Scientists are increasingly concerned that the planet is headed for massive, irreversible changes due to global warming. In some cases, those changes have already begun.
n.pr
November 19, 2025 at 3:39 PM
And at today’s pension seminar, the presenter is talking about AI growth. 😕