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Nico Mara-McKay 🦇 (they/iel) @nicomaramckay.com · 6d

Want to understand why users have lost faith in Bluesky's leadership?

Or what the deal with waffles was about?

Or why users are up in arms about a beloved activist and community builder was banned for criticizing Bluesky's CEO?

Nico Mara-McKay 🦇 (they/iel) @nicomaramckay.com · 6d

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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Maja Öberg @majaoeberg.bsky.social · 6d

I do find it hilarious how they immediately backtracked after this and deleted the comment

a member of bluesky saying "Yeh" in response to the above post, with a journalist responding asking to get their exact quote over the thread in which the bluesky member responds with "what" and the journalist then rephrasing the question only for the bluesky member to delete the entire thread

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Brett Hamil @bretthamil.bsky.social · 7d

i'm sorry to do a "here, smell this" with today's cartoon, but Kettle actually did say that
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Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 12d

Bob Kettle says his district (downtown, Queen Anne, Magnolia( is starting to become a "Starbucks desert," and wonders if that's the "canary in the coal mine" for local businesses.

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Brett Hamil @bretthamil.bsky.social · 7d

Today's DOOM LOOP for @soseaemerald.bsky.social: "Council-Induced Rage Seizure"
See the whole thing here: southseattleemerald.org/voices/2025/...

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South Seattle Emerald @soseaemerald.bsky.social · 9d

"I want to talk about money in Seattle politics. But, you might be thinking, we got rid of it with the democracy voucher program, didn't we? Kind of."

Everything Is Political: What Voters Should Know About Big Money in Seattle's Mayoral Race

I want to talk about money in Seattle politics. But, you might be thinking, we got rid of it with the democracy voucher program, didn't we? Kind of. ... Enter the independent expenditure (IE).

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Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 7d

I’m the mortician in Richard Scarry’s Busytown. I’m a dog who wears a baseball hat that says “who let ME out”. I drive a dried up footlong meatball sub that’s also a hearse every day.

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Brett Hamil @bretthamil.bsky.social · 10d

you can have all the eXpErIeNcE in the world but if all your eXpeRiEnCe is directly in service of wealthy donors and the disastrous status quo, that eXpErIenCe doesn't do the rest of us any good now does it. it's much easier to learn a job than it is to not have shit priorities for the past 20 years

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Brett Hamil @bretthamil.bsky.social · 11d

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Marc Fischer @marc-fischer.bsky.social · 15d

Reprinting past publications isn't fun but I have a soft spot for this one so I just printed 100 more copies of the Public Collectors single sheet publication CHEST WOUND TO THE CHEST. It draws on 75 days of listening to the police scanner in Chicago. halfletterpress.com/chest-wound-...

Chest Wound To The Chest

This text was drawn from more extensive daily notes made while listening to the police scanner in Chicago for 75 days straight between September 10, 2020 and November 23, 2020.

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🕷️Gory Thing🕷️ @korybing.bsky.social · 15d

I’m all set up at Mississippi Pizza for the Spoopy Pop-Up shop! 12-6pm come by and enjoy the beautiful sunshine on this wonderful Portland Saturday!

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 15d

today is a great day to watch or listen to the latest episode of cancel me daddy. some are saying it's a "banger," others are calling it one of our best episodes ever. either way, you should listen as we talk about the fallout from Charlie Kirk's death and how we move forward. youtu.be/qE3ERIoEQwE

Can Free Speech Survive the Charlie Kirk Backlash? (ft. Kat Tenbarge)

YouTube video by Cancel Me, Daddy - Media & Politics Podcast

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Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 18d

I'm watching the Converge and Fox 13 debate right now. Alas, the actual TV station is glitching out, so I'm watching the feed which is a few seconds behind. Will post about anything noteworthy here!

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L.M. (they/them) @illmakeitmyself.bsky.social · 16d

God, I wish there were an actual protected bike lane on Rainier 🙃

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The Needling @theneedling.com · 16d

Starbucks Cancels Pumpkin Spice Season After Cinnamon Unionizes: tinyurl.com/436ewmrb

Cinnamon sticks demonstrating outside Starbucks headquarters with protest signs reading "Who's Got the Cinnamon? We Got the Cinnamon" and "Pumpkin Does Nothing"

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Frankie de la Cretaz @thefrankiedlc.news · 18d

It's here! My first post on @beehiiv.com. My URL should transfer over later today. Thank you to @tlpavlich.gay for their help with all the back-end logistics, which Substack's export data makes very difficult. Please consider a paid subscription to support my work, now more than ever:

in the field: studbudz in vogue

an interview with writer leah faye cooper & stylist devin hershey

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Seattle Neighborhood Greenways @sngreenways.bsky.social · 19d

Last Friday, we hosted a celebration ride in the new Beacon Hill bike lanes.

10 years of grassroots organizing = real urban transformation.

Big thanks to @seattledot.bsky.social and every neighbor who refused to give up.

Together, we can build safer, more accessible streets for everyone.

Group of community members and advocates outside of El Centro Del Raza, celebrating the new Beacon Hill bike lanes.

Group of people rolling through the new Beacon Hill bike lanes near the Beacon Hill Link station.

Person riding a bike outside of Beacon Hill station in a new protected bike lane.

Group of people riding bikes in a protected bike lane outside of Beacon Hill Station.

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Dr Alex Cruikshanks @alexsaysstuff.bsky.social · 21d

Going to add this here so more can see it: please see the quoted better table showing the same conclusion here:

emma𐂂 @xicad.bsky.social · 21d

This table isn't showing shifts in identity, it's showing when youth reports and parent reports of current identity differ. I'm agreeing with you overall (i was also in this study) but this table shows the correct data.

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Jake Bailey @jakebailey.dev · 21d

Of course, their cited source is literally P.A.R.O.D.Y.

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P.A.R.O.D.Y.

A parody of anti-Goth hysteria, inspired by The Blair Witch Mix.

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Alex Steed @alexsteed.bsky.social · 22d

“The Gothic Web Ring consists of over 640 sites.” [2005]

Nothing harmless in the Goth subculture
The Goth subculture today has enticed many teenagers with its
ing music. Goths often wear Christian crosses or Christian
symbols of death. Much in the
crucifixes. Some wear New Age
Goth subculture is associated
or ancient Egyptian Ankh sym-
with death and dying. The very
bols. Some do this as an expres
image of a Goth is one of a
sion of their religious beliefs,
ghoul.
some for satire and others
Some believe that it's in the
because they like their appear
nature of man to be attracted to
ance. Some kids join because
the morbid or symbols of death.
they like the feeling of belonging
Teens may become Goths
with other outcasts who are mis
because they like the attention that the adoption of the symbols gives them. "Spooky" is the operative word in the Goth society Although it is fun to be spooky;
Goth members may have to cross the line and learn what it is to be really frightening, according to one source.
"The Goth culture is not isolated and it is certainly not harm-less," according to Benjamin
- Marlene Gantt
broadcasting station. The movement first became established in the Batcave, a nightclub in London in the early 1980s. The movement that emerged during the 1980s was inspired by doom-laden bands such as "Sister of Mercy"
Music holds the Goth culture together: The music is not neces-
fits in the mainstream. Goth cul ture gives a sense of power to kids who feel alienated. Goths are often bright and intellectually inclined youth.
Although music is important to the Goth subculture, the common thread, according to various sources, is a morbid fascination with the macabre. Goth teenagers often cut themselves.
Bandages on their wrists would
Covelo, on the Web site of the Parent's American Religious
be a sign they have cut them-selves.
Organizations Defending Youth.
"In fact it is fast becoming the
Goths think a lot about death
dominant youth culture in America," he said. "It is led by such so-called 'artists' as Marilyn Manson, E…

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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 21d

Doing the Hoboken intersection daylighting tour today. It's actually embarrassing that Seattle isn't doing this at the same scale.

Intersection bulb out on a one lane street with two parking lanes

Family with kid in stroller crossing street

Someone on a bike approaching a daylighted intersection

Wide daylighted intersection near a park

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Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 22d

Wrote a little newsletter about the time i told someone i was trans in an Arby’s drive-thru

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Damn it Johnny, you know I love my Big Beef N Cheddar

The second time I ever came out as trans, it was in an Arby’s drive-through in Alberta on a flip-phone in the height of the oil boom. A decision made with impassioned haste that left lingering memorie...

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Crip Dyke @cripdyke.bsky.social · 21d

One of the most pernicious cissexual myths is that **trans ppl** are obsessed w gender when the average cis woman would never think of wearing a bow tie and the average cis man gets angry if he has to drink out of a coffee cup w too many dainty flowers glazed on it.

Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 21d

trans people just want to be able to live their lives and cis people are like "due to this we need to do mandatory genital inspections to children playing sports". im sorry but the problem is cis people

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 25d

You can still buy all their work. Being a rude, abrasive loudmouth while trans is the only unforgivable sin to these people.

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The Boulet Brothers @bouletbrothers.bsky.social · 26d

Watch the full MEET OUR MONSTERS CAST REVEAL on the Boulet Brothers’ Channel and join us for The Boulet Brothers’ Dragula: Titans S2 Premiere 10/7 only on Shudder and AMC+. #BouletBrothers #Dragula #drag #horror @shudder @amcplus youtu.be/6WuMQaAlhCk

The Boulet Brothers' Dragula: Titans S2 - Meet Our Monsters Cast Reveal

The Boulet Brothers' Dragula: Titans S2 - Meet Our Monsters Cast Reveal Season Premieres 10/7 on Shudder (and AMC+). Get more info, merch, and behind the scenes coverage at…

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