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Nico Mara-McKay 🦇 (they/iel) @nicomaramckay.com · 5d

tl;dr: Bluesky began with genuine promise: a new social media platform where users could feel safer, but inconsistent moderation quickly eroded trust.

When systemically marginalized users pushed back, Bluesky’s leadership minimized concerns and began to target them for bans.

Bluesky’s CEO meltdown: How leadership continues to fail its most marginalized users

tl;dr: Bluesky began with genuine promise: a new social media platform where systemically marginalized users could feel safer, but…

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 22h

Mamdani talking lucidly and passionately about trans rights and history in a video that should frankly shame every politician who has hemmed and hawed and triangulated and said, "Well, but sports..." It's not that hard to tell the truth and stand for what's right. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEvV...

Until It's Done: Sylvia Rivera

YouTube video by Zohran Mamdani for NYC

www.youtube.com

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 21h

On National Coming Out Day, know that I will always be an ally to you — no matter where you are on your journey.

I know that times may be scary, but you are seen, safe, supported, and loved here in Illinois.

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•Anti-capitalist meme pebbler• @seizethememez.bsky.social · 1d

The image is a humorous meme titled "Every Graph About the US." It depicts a simplistic graph with two intersecting lines.

- The horizontal axis is labeled "Some" on the left and "metric" on the right.
- The vertical dotted line in the middle is labeled "Ronald Reagan."
- The green line, labeled "Good thing," starts high on the left and trends downward as it moves right.
- The red line, labeled "Bad thing," starts low on the left and trends upward as it moves right.
- The lines intersect at the "Ronald Reagan" point

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dacha des pattes vertes @graphitediaries.ca · 1d

Holy crap that’s amazing!

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dacha des pattes vertes @graphitediaries.ca · 1d

This is a real time-consuming task but that shows us that very few people will do it, so it *will* be read if you do. Please tell them: fund research and universities, prevent firms from using consumer electricity for their data centres, and protect creators from theft.

Nico Mara-McKay 🦇 (they/iel) @nicomaramckay.com · 3d

Canadians: The federal government is seeking public input on how AI should be developed and used in business, research, and the military.

If this scares the shit out of you, please let them know:

Help define the next chapter of Canada's AI leadership

Current status: Open from October 1 to October 31, 2025 Canada helped invent modern AI. To stay a leader—and protect our digital sovereignty—we're running a 30-day national sprint to shape a renewed...

ised-isde.canada.ca

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Tim Ellis 🍁 @djdynamic.ca · 8d

New polling confirms exactly what you'd expect: Canadians want the federal government to maintain or even expand support for women and 2SLGBTQIA+ people - not slash it.

Let's make sure the Prime Minister knows where Canadians stand: www.momentumcanada.net/budget

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Dissident Love @dissidentlove.bsky.social · 1d

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dacha des pattes vertes @graphitediaries.ca · 1d

As a fat gay man I find this whole thread problematic.

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ECP @ecppdx.bsky.social · 1d

This is why fat-shaming people isn't ok, even if you hate them.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Greg Abbott tells Pritzker to "stop complaining and do some pushups"

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dacha des pattes vertes @graphitediaries.ca · 1d

As someone living in Quebec but following lots of international anglos, I sometimes get so confused by reposted or quote-posted acronyms. SPD… is it the Drummondville police? Germany’s socialist party? Scotland’s party for democracy? Or some new sexually transmitted disorder..?

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Edward Russell @byerussell.com · 2d

The head of Vancouver’s transit agency can sum its ridership recovery in one word: Frequency.

“Running the bus every 30 minutes isn’t going to cut it if you want to grow ridership.“

Many Vancouver 🚌 run every 5min or less, and the SkyTrain runs every 3-4min, via @davidzipper.bsky.social

The Secret to Vancouver’s Public Transit Ridership Recovery

The Canadian city’s transit agency, TransLink, bounced back from Covid even as other North American systems have struggled. Its leader explains why riders returned.

www.bloomberg.com

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dacha des pattes vertes @graphitediaries.ca · 1d

Sees the word « powerfist » out of context and my ears perk up like a labrador… the context changes nothing ofc

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Montréal Antifasciste @montrealantifa.bsky.social · 2d

"One thing to make clear at the outset, when describing antifascist activity, is that the vast majority of it is nonviolent. In fact, antifascism is a defensive posture—it rises as fascism rises, and falls as fascism falls, in a well-documented pattern that has lasted for decades."

Talia Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 2d

in case you want some non bullshit about antifa here is something i wrote

buttondown.com/theswordandt...

We Keep Us Safe: On Antifa

This past Saturday, Donald Trump announced that his administration would be deploying federal troops to Portland, OR, authorizing the military to use “full...

buttondown.com

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dacha des pattes vertes @graphitediaries.ca · 1d

Gras à Dye.

Montréal Antifasciste @montrealantifa.bsky.social · 2d

Mise à jour: Mark et sa famille ont réussi à s'envoler ce soir pour l'Espagne.

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❀°。Der Siebenschläfer *.ﾟ✿ ⋆ @sababausa.bsky.social · 2d

The history books having to explain cartoon frog = fascist, inflatable frog = anti-fascist…

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dacha des pattes vertes @graphitediaries.ca · 2d

Great idea. We need a well-financed public postal service to actually move the books from one place to another though!

dacha des pattes vertes @graphitediaries.ca · 3d

This also translates to the context of modern (neo)liberalism’s failures. We should be primarily protesting how immoral her staggering wealth is. Her politics were the method for obtaining that wealth. But liberals in general have a hard time objecting to wealth (« success » here) itself.

dacha des pattes vertes @graphitediaries.ca · 3d

My primary identity is as a worker. Therefore I oppose rich people and elites, even if they’re « diverse » elites.

Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 4d

A useful illustration of the limits of liberal identity politics.

It's astounding to see self-described progressives lose their minds over the successes of a Jewish female entrepreneur and intellect in @bariweiss, and a wildly successful Black man in @VanJones68. I guess equity, diversity, and inclusion don't mean as much as they've told us.

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dacha des pattes vertes @graphitediaries.ca · 3d

This should be a Kings of Convenience album cover.

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Tzfardea Tzedek 🐸 @jsx.bsky.social · 3d

The White House:
"For years, an Antifa-led hellfire has turned Portland into a wasteland of firebombs, beatings, and brazen attacks on federal officers and property — yet the Fake News remains in shameful denial about the Radical Left’s reign of terror."

The reign of terror:

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✧𓂃𓈒*｡ﾟ Ne ｡ﾟ*𓂃𓈒 ✧ @artofne.bsky.social · 4d

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dacha des pattes vertes @graphitediaries.ca · 4d

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dacha des pattes vertes @graphitediaries.ca · 4d

Listening to lots of Pet Shop Boys lately. They’re amazing and amazingly gay. I was an OG huge fan from age 10 until around ~1997, when I turned away from them basically because I realized how gay they were and my internalized homophobia won. And I lost 25 years of their work because of it.

Betrayed (2018 Remaster)

YouTube video by Pet Shop Boys - Topic

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Ethan Landes @ethanlandes.bsky.social · 5d

The UK is within spitting distance of having more murders portrayed annually on TV shows and movies set in the country than occur in real life

Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 5d

It's so incredible how low homicide rates are in Europe. The UK, with a population of 70 million people, had fewer than 600 murders in 2023.
www.connexionfrance.com/news/double-...

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