Hillary Hartley
@hillaryh.bsky.social
Nerding out and helping governments deliver better.
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New thing! The @carefultrouble.bsky.social Careful Consequence Check is now live and free to use. Based on research with the Bristol Digital Futures Institute, this practical tool will help you answer the question "is my AI product creepy and weird" www.careful.industries/consequences
November 13, 2025 at 4:23 PM
New thing! The @carefultrouble.bsky.social Careful Consequence Check is now live and free to use. Based on research with the Bristol Digital Futures Institute, this practical tool will help you answer the question "is my AI product creepy and weird" www.careful.industries/consequences
Why isn’t the video of our current president saying that a shutdown is the President’s fault ALL OVER THE NEWS AND INTERNET ALL THE EFFING TIME?
November 4, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Why isn’t the video of our current president saying that a shutdown is the President’s fault ALL OVER THE NEWS AND INTERNET ALL THE EFFING TIME?
November 4, 2025 at 8:38 PM
#FWD50 number nine (!!) is underway in Ottawa! @acroll.bsky.social on stage convincing us to optimize for One Metric That Matters.
Excited to see so many #civictech folks here for the next couple of days. Hope we get to catch up, y’all.
Excited to see so many #civictech folks here for the next couple of days. Hope we get to catch up, y’all.
November 3, 2025 at 2:21 PM
#FWD50 number nine (!!) is underway in Ottawa! @acroll.bsky.social on stage convincing us to optimize for One Metric That Matters.
Excited to see so many #civictech folks here for the next couple of days. Hope we get to catch up, y’all.
Excited to see so many #civictech folks here for the next couple of days. Hope we get to catch up, y’all.
Kid better be getting one hell of a bonus! Truly wild year for Yesavage. 💪
Blake Snell, the Dodgers' game 5 starter, has a 2025 salary of $28,436,867. Trey Yesavage, with one of the greatest rookie pitching performances in World Series history, has a 2025 salary of $57,204.
www.spotrac.com/mlb/player/e...
www.spotrac.com/mlb/player/e...
October 30, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Kid better be getting one hell of a bonus! Truly wild year for Yesavage. 💪
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I regret to inform everyone that my pedantic brain couldn’t let me live until I knew whether or not dodger blue and blue jays blue are the same blue. They are ONE PANTONE NUMBER APART.
October 29, 2025 at 2:18 AM
I regret to inform everyone that my pedantic brain couldn’t let me live until I knew whether or not dodger blue and blue jays blue are the same blue. They are ONE PANTONE NUMBER APART.
The Jays are coming back to Toronto! 💙🩵❤️
(And general admission tickets - no assigned seats- are only $1800!) 🤣
(And general admission tickets - no assigned seats- are only $1800!) 🤣
October 29, 2025 at 3:09 AM
The Jays are coming back to Toronto! 💙🩵❤️
(And general admission tickets - no assigned seats- are only $1800!) 🤣
(And general admission tickets - no assigned seats- are only $1800!) 🤣
Bottom of the 11th inning! This is what you want from championship games. But come on Jays, let’s hold em and then wrap this up!! 🤣💙🩵❤️
October 28, 2025 at 4:17 AM
Bottom of the 11th inning! This is what you want from championship games. But come on Jays, let’s hold em and then wrap this up!! 🤣💙🩵❤️
This is crazy. And crazy-making.
www.usda.gov
www.usda.gov
October 27, 2025 at 2:02 AM
This is crazy. And crazy-making.
www.usda.gov
www.usda.gov
I suppose it’s time to download my archive and actually delete my account, or at least all of its content. I refuse to log in and use X, but I haven’t yet deleted my presence there…
Musk: X will delete all heuristics from its recommendation system within six weeks. ...the familiar logic of likes, replies, and reposts that shaped Twitter for years is about to disappear. In its place, Grok, the platform's in-house Al model, will read and watch more than one hundred million posts.
Brace for another wave of x refuges
October 27, 2025 at 1:59 AM
I suppose it’s time to download my archive and actually delete my account, or at least all of its content. I refuse to log in and use X, but I haven’t yet deleted my presence there…
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Gavin Newsom: “All this anti-woke stuff is just anti-Black, period, full stop.”
October 25, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Gavin Newsom: “All this anti-woke stuff is just anti-Black, period, full stop.”
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These are screenshots from the ACTUAL WHITE HOUSE PAGE on the timeline of the East Wing. You may not believe what you re seeing. Go and check for yourself. This...I don't even know what to say about this.
October 24, 2025 at 4:31 PM
These are screenshots from the ACTUAL WHITE HOUSE PAGE on the timeline of the East Wing. You may not believe what you re seeing. Go and check for yourself. This...I don't even know what to say about this.
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As a matter of law, there is no such thing as "federal immunity." Trump has broad immunity, but public employees enjoy only qualified immunity that does not extend if a "reasonable person" would understand their actions to be illegal. Stephen Miller is not a reasonable person.
Stephen Miller on Fox threatens to arrest JB Pritzker for "seditious conspiracy" and says, "to all ICE officers: you have federal immunity in the conduct of your duties. And anybody who lays a hand on you or tries to stop or obstruct you is committing a felony."
October 25, 2025 at 2:07 PM
As a matter of law, there is no such thing as "federal immunity." Trump has broad immunity, but public employees enjoy only qualified immunity that does not extend if a "reasonable person" would understand their actions to be illegal. Stephen Miller is not a reasonable person.
I'm still obsessing over the demolition of the East Wing. It just makes everything since Jan 20 plain as day.
www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
Column | Why the demolition of the East Wing is so shocking
By Thursday, the White House’s East Wing was gone. The speed of destruction, and the projection of power, are part of the strongman playbook.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 25, 2025 at 6:52 PM
I'm still obsessing over the demolition of the East Wing. It just makes everything since Jan 20 plain as day.
www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
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So they didn’t like the ad. Let’s just post Reagan’s 5 min speech against tariffs as it appears on YouTube.
Over and over. On all platforms (some of y’all are still on X).
*1981 Sherrilyn horrified by 2025 Sherrilyn saying “let’s post Reagan’s speech.”
youtu.be/5t5QK03KXPc
Over and over. On all platforms (some of y’all are still on X).
*1981 Sherrilyn horrified by 2025 Sherrilyn saying “let’s post Reagan’s speech.”
youtu.be/5t5QK03KXPc
President Reagan's Radio Address on Free and Fair Trade on April 25, 1987
YouTube video by Reagan Library
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October 24, 2025 at 5:14 PM
So they didn’t like the ad. Let’s just post Reagan’s 5 min speech against tariffs as it appears on YouTube.
Over and over. On all platforms (some of y’all are still on X).
*1981 Sherrilyn horrified by 2025 Sherrilyn saying “let’s post Reagan’s speech.”
youtu.be/5t5QK03KXPc
Over and over. On all platforms (some of y’all are still on X).
*1981 Sherrilyn horrified by 2025 Sherrilyn saying “let’s post Reagan’s speech.”
youtu.be/5t5QK03KXPc
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HAPPY 25 TO A PERFECT RECORD
October 23, 2025 at 3:33 PM
HAPPY 25 TO A PERFECT RECORD
This physical manifestation of all the crazy is really getting to me for some reason.
October 23, 2025 at 6:49 PM
This physical manifestation of all the crazy is really getting to me for some reason.
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Please follow @thenerve.news!
Were a new female-founded publication that launched yesterday…& it was a huge team effort to get a website up & this investigation over the line.
We’re all exhausted but we want to do journalism that matters & we need your support. Thank you!!🙏
www.thenerve.news
Were a new female-founded publication that launched yesterday…& it was a huge team effort to get a website up & this investigation over the line.
We’re all exhausted but we want to do journalism that matters & we need your support. Thank you!!🙏
www.thenerve.news
October 1, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Please follow @thenerve.news!
Were a new female-founded publication that launched yesterday…& it was a huge team effort to get a website up & this investigation over the line.
We’re all exhausted but we want to do journalism that matters & we need your support. Thank you!!🙏
www.thenerve.news
Were a new female-founded publication that launched yesterday…& it was a huge team effort to get a website up & this investigation over the line.
We’re all exhausted but we want to do journalism that matters & we need your support. Thank you!!🙏
www.thenerve.news
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What do you do when your media org is captured? You start your own.
Introducing....The Nerve!!! @thenerve-news.bsky.social
We're all-female, journalist-owned & launching next week.
Please help us build a truly independent, progressive new media!👊👊👊
Introducing....The Nerve!!! @thenerve-news.bsky.social
We're all-female, journalist-owned & launching next week.
Please help us build a truly independent, progressive new media!👊👊👊
Former Observer big-hitters inc @carolecadwalla.bsky.social launch new title The Nerve with redundancy payouts
After Observer sale: "We decided to launch a title that the journalists themselves would own, that would be truly independent"
pressgazette.co.uk/news/former-...
After Observer sale: "We decided to launch a title that the journalists themselves would own, that would be truly independent"
pressgazette.co.uk/news/former-...
Former Observer big-hitters launch new title with redundancy payouts
Five former Observer journalists including Carole Cadwalladr have launched their own culture publication using their redundancy money.
pressgazette.co.uk
September 26, 2025 at 11:03 AM
What do you do when your media org is captured? You start your own.
Introducing....The Nerve!!! @thenerve-news.bsky.social
We're all-female, journalist-owned & launching next week.
Please help us build a truly independent, progressive new media!👊👊👊
Introducing....The Nerve!!! @thenerve-news.bsky.social
We're all-female, journalist-owned & launching next week.
Please help us build a truly independent, progressive new media!👊👊👊
The Nerve
Fearless, independent journalism covering culture, politics and tech.
www.thenerve.news
September 28, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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Today’s Executive Order creating a *nationwide* military “quick reaction force” and setting up an online portal to permit random fascist vigilantes to join soldiers is one of the scariest things I’ve seen in U.S. politics in my adult life. Why is it not getting more attention?
August 25, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Today’s Executive Order creating a *nationwide* military “quick reaction force” and setting up an online portal to permit random fascist vigilantes to join soldiers is one of the scariest things I’ve seen in U.S. politics in my adult life. Why is it not getting more attention?
@cityplanto.bsky.social Biidaasige Park is amazing! And…it desperately needs shady spots. It’ll be lovely in a decade if the trees stay healthy, but in the meantime you need to put some covers over some of the park benches and picnic tables.
July 27, 2025 at 9:28 PM
@cityplanto.bsky.social Biidaasige Park is amazing! And…it desperately needs shady spots. It’ll be lovely in a decade if the trees stay healthy, but in the meantime you need to put some covers over some of the park benches and picnic tables.
Great interview with @emilytav.bsky.social and @kathypham.bsky.social on “civic tech.” Love the comment that civic tech = civic duty + technology.
July 17, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Great interview with @emilytav.bsky.social and @kathypham.bsky.social on “civic tech.” Love the comment that civic tech = civic duty + technology.
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Maurene Comey's goodbye note to SDNY colleagues:
July 17, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Maurene Comey's goodbye note to SDNY colleagues:
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SCOOP: DOGE moved to kill Direct File, the IRS's popular free tax filing tool, days after meeting with private tax filing software lobbyists.
www.wired.com/story/doge-d...
www.wired.com/story/doge-d...
DOGE Put Free Tax Filing Tool on Chopping Block After One Meeting With Lobbyists
A key operative from DOGE initiated plans to potentially kill Direct File, the free tax filing tool developed by the IRS, after offering assurances it would be spared from cuts.
www.wired.com
July 17, 2025 at 12:48 PM
SCOOP: DOGE moved to kill Direct File, the IRS's popular free tax filing tool, days after meeting with private tax filing software lobbyists.
www.wired.com/story/doge-d...
www.wired.com/story/doge-d...