Jonathan Stegall
@jonathanstegall.bsky.social
User experience designer. Faith-rooted organizer and abolitionist. Love design, theology, justice, grace. Enjoy coffee, beer, goth, metal. He/him. Live in Minneapolis.
https://jonathanstegall.com is my oft-ignored website.
https://jonathanstegall.com is my oft-ignored website.
“I believe that going an inch wide and a mile deep in our actions (i.e., our practice) is actually a good thing to do right now. We need to be in a consistent mode of practicing.“
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We Don’t Know Where We Will End Up…
A Year Since the 2024 Election
prisonculture.substack.com
November 26, 2025 at 4:42 AM
“I believe that going an inch wide and a mile deep in our actions (i.e., our practice) is actually a good thing to do right now. We need to be in a consistent mode of practicing.“
prisonculture.substack.com/p/we-dont-kn...
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We have got to collectively help people understand that of course the local* cops are acting as an arm of the machine. That is their purpose.
People need to grow their minds & grieve what they've been conditioned to believe about cops being there to help/serve/protect.
(*wherever you are)
People need to grow their minds & grieve what they've been conditioned to believe about cops being there to help/serve/protect.
(*wherever you are)
November 25, 2025 at 6:35 PM
We have got to collectively help people understand that of course the local* cops are acting as an arm of the machine. That is their purpose.
People need to grow their minds & grieve what they've been conditioned to believe about cops being there to help/serve/protect.
(*wherever you are)
People need to grow their minds & grieve what they've been conditioned to believe about cops being there to help/serve/protect.
(*wherever you are)
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I want to point out a new resource page on Monarca website.
Small (or large!) businesses can post signs saying ICE/CBP must have a warrant to enter premises.
Also Know Your Rights signs for targeted people.
PDFs of signs and KYR cards. Plaster these puppies everywhere.
monarcamn.org/resources
Small (or large!) businesses can post signs saying ICE/CBP must have a warrant to enter premises.
Also Know Your Rights signs for targeted people.
PDFs of signs and KYR cards. Plaster these puppies everywhere.
monarcamn.org/resources
Resources — Monarca
monarcamn.org
November 25, 2025 at 6:27 PM
I want to point out a new resource page on Monarca website.
Small (or large!) businesses can post signs saying ICE/CBP must have a warrant to enter premises.
Also Know Your Rights signs for targeted people.
PDFs of signs and KYR cards. Plaster these puppies everywhere.
monarcamn.org/resources
Small (or large!) businesses can post signs saying ICE/CBP must have a warrant to enter premises.
Also Know Your Rights signs for targeted people.
PDFs of signs and KYR cards. Plaster these puppies everywhere.
monarcamn.org/resources
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Monarca Update!
Federal agents have shifted their operation to 608 Maryland Ave E, Saint Paul MN 55117
11/25/25 11:00am
Upstander Legal Observers needed
Federal agents have shifted their operation to 608 Maryland Ave E, Saint Paul MN 55117
11/25/25 11:00am
Upstander Legal Observers needed
November 25, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Monarca Update!
Federal agents have shifted their operation to 608 Maryland Ave E, Saint Paul MN 55117
11/25/25 11:00am
Upstander Legal Observers needed
Federal agents have shifted their operation to 608 Maryland Ave E, Saint Paul MN 55117
11/25/25 11:00am
Upstander Legal Observers needed
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Why shouldn't police abolitionists be included if pro-police people are?
November 25, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Why shouldn't police abolitionists be included if pro-police people are?
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I'm excited to announce that I have been asked to join the Mamdani Transition Team to work on community safety issues. A New Era for NYC.
November 24, 2025 at 8:23 PM
I'm excited to announce that I have been asked to join the Mamdani Transition Team to work on community safety issues. A New Era for NYC.
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🚀 ALL IN FOR ABOLITION SCHOOL! 🚀 We’re gonna be honest with you: Abolition School urgently needs your help.
Please contribute at bit.ly/abolitionsch.... Make a tax-free donation at: abolitionschool.org/donate/ 🙏 🚀
Please contribute at bit.ly/abolitionsch.... Make a tax-free donation at: abolitionschool.org/donate/ 🙏 🚀
November 24, 2025 at 2:41 PM
🚀 ALL IN FOR ABOLITION SCHOOL! 🚀 We’re gonna be honest with you: Abolition School urgently needs your help.
Please contribute at bit.ly/abolitionsch.... Make a tax-free donation at: abolitionschool.org/donate/ 🙏 🚀
Please contribute at bit.ly/abolitionsch.... Make a tax-free donation at: abolitionschool.org/donate/ 🙏 🚀
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They gave out about 2,000 whistles today. It was incredible but it costs money.
Please support this work! You can Venmo them @mspwhistles
Please support this work! You can Venmo them @mspwhistles
More than 200 neighbors attended the Phillips community training today!
It was inspiring to see so many people come together, committed to keeping their neighbors safe.
Community members left empowered to organize their building, block, and community.
It was inspiring to see so many people come together, committed to keeping their neighbors safe.
Community members left empowered to organize their building, block, and community.
November 24, 2025 at 1:03 AM
They gave out about 2,000 whistles today. It was incredible but it costs money.
Please support this work! You can Venmo them @mspwhistles
Please support this work! You can Venmo them @mspwhistles
If you never saw the finale of the 90s Henson company show “Dinosaurs,” it’s a surprisingly brilliant imagination of what it’d be like if the dinosaurs were destroyed by capitalism and attempts to fix the weather that it broke. It’s on Disney+.
November 23, 2025 at 9:29 PM
If you never saw the finale of the 90s Henson company show “Dinosaurs,” it’s a surprisingly brilliant imagination of what it’d be like if the dinosaurs were destroyed by capitalism and attempts to fix the weather that it broke. It’s on Disney+.
One thing I think is funny about Twitter showing locations is that when it was a brand new website, a large percentage of its users had the Location field entered as a latitude/longitude point, and you’d have to have a maps app to follow it. It was a wildly silly era in some ways.
November 23, 2025 at 7:31 PM
One thing I think is funny about Twitter showing locations is that when it was a brand new website, a large percentage of its users had the Location field entered as a latitude/longitude point, and you’d have to have a maps app to follow it. It was a wildly silly era in some ways.
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thank you for supporting striking Starbucks workers, Comrade Hilary Duff
November 23, 2025 at 6:27 PM
thank you for supporting striking Starbucks workers, Comrade Hilary Duff
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Happy Holidays! ALL Haymarket Books are 40% off through January 2nd!
November 21, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Happy Holidays! ALL Haymarket Books are 40% off through January 2nd!
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Rev. Dr. Gary F. Green III’s new book Playing the Game looks at how Black athletes are misjudged and stereotyped. His launch event at United Theological Seminary sparked an honest look at race and sports.
buff.ly/pPRpBbe
#PlayingTheGame #BlackAthletes #MSRSports
buff.ly/pPRpBbe
#PlayingTheGame #BlackAthletes #MSRSports
November 23, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Rev. Dr. Gary F. Green III’s new book Playing the Game looks at how Black athletes are misjudged and stereotyped. His launch event at United Theological Seminary sparked an honest look at race and sports.
buff.ly/pPRpBbe
#PlayingTheGame #BlackAthletes #MSRSports
buff.ly/pPRpBbe
#PlayingTheGame #BlackAthletes #MSRSports
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I can’t figure out if this child is a preteen girl, a queer boy in theater camp, or a middle-aged lit professor with 200k in student loans. 😂
November 23, 2025 at 3:17 PM
I can’t figure out if this child is a preteen girl, a queer boy in theater camp, or a middle-aged lit professor with 200k in student loans. 😂
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Feels like this must be a known, named, & studied phenomenon. But I don’t know what it is.
Based only on the sample size of my school, I think the organizing around the SNAP shut down alerted a lot of struggling families to food assistance programs they hadn’t realized existed but *already* needed. That’s why demand is gonna stay high for foreseeable future. Until we abolish capitalism.
Even with SNAP benefits restored, this Oregon pantry says hunger persists
Packed with Pride, in Tigard, leases its pantry space from a back room at a church.
opb.org
November 23, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Feels like this must be a known, named, & studied phenomenon. But I don’t know what it is.
I think DOGE as a failure depends on what you think they were actually trying to achieve and whether they did it, and for people that think it was actually about saving money or increasing efficiency I really think it’s time to go back to whatever the drawing board is.
November 23, 2025 at 2:23 PM
I think DOGE as a failure depends on what you think they were actually trying to achieve and whether they did it, and for people that think it was actually about saving money or increasing efficiency I really think it’s time to go back to whatever the drawing board is.
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No, DOGE did not *fail.*
November 23, 2025 at 2:19 PM
No, DOGE did not *fail.*
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This week Inquest covered the growing real estate trend of prison flipping, and the inner workings of extractive capitalism's merger with mass incarceration. Get the full recap: mailchi.mp/inquest.o...
November 22, 2025 at 4:00 PM
This week Inquest covered the growing real estate trend of prison flipping, and the inner workings of extractive capitalism's merger with mass incarceration. Get the full recap: mailchi.mp/inquest.o...
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y'know, if tech companies weren't so fired up to call every single thing "AI" it would be a lot easier to distinguish "ML spam filter that is well-sandboxed and tuned on your emails" from "giant context and IP-eroding foundation model that makes people paranoid and unhappy"
since the "google is now training gemini on your email contents" thing keeps bumping around here: it's _not happening_. I say this not to defend google but because I know a lot of people that have broken their filtering and made their lives much more annoying from sheer misinformation.
The malwarebytes Google opting-your-emails-into-ai-training thing is not true. The post is based on one bad tweet.
I know anti-tech lamenting is a Bluesky core principle, but please use the same judgement you would for any other clickbait.
www.theverge.com/news/826902/...
I know anti-tech lamenting is a Bluesky core principle, but please use the same judgement you would for any other clickbait.
www.theverge.com/news/826902/...
November 23, 2025 at 12:58 PM
y'know, if tech companies weren't so fired up to call every single thing "AI" it would be a lot easier to distinguish "ML spam filter that is well-sandboxed and tuned on your emails" from "giant context and IP-eroding foundation model that makes people paranoid and unhappy"
I tend to read two books at a time most often, and just finished two so now I get to start “Read This When Things Fall Apart,” which was an instant preorder months ago and I’m happy to get to it.
November 23, 2025 at 12:47 AM
I tend to read two books at a time most often, and just finished two so now I get to start “Read This When Things Fall Apart,” which was an instant preorder months ago and I’m happy to get to it.
One thing that’s worth noting is that there are smart settings that use LLMs to help you write emails or whatever, but you can turn those off individually. It’s not the same as this big smart feature toggle.
since the "google is now training gemini on your email contents" thing keeps bumping around here: it's _not happening_. I say this not to defend google but because I know a lot of people that have broken their filtering and made their lives much more annoying from sheer misinformation.
The malwarebytes Google opting-your-emails-into-ai-training thing is not true. The post is based on one bad tweet.
I know anti-tech lamenting is a Bluesky core principle, but please use the same judgement you would for any other clickbait.
www.theverge.com/news/826902/...
I know anti-tech lamenting is a Bluesky core principle, but please use the same judgement you would for any other clickbait.
www.theverge.com/news/826902/...
November 22, 2025 at 10:10 PM
One thing that’s worth noting is that there are smart settings that use LLMs to help you write emails or whatever, but you can turn those off individually. It’s not the same as this big smart feature toggle.
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since the "google is now training gemini on your email contents" thing keeps bumping around here: it's _not happening_. I say this not to defend google but because I know a lot of people that have broken their filtering and made their lives much more annoying from sheer misinformation.
The malwarebytes Google opting-your-emails-into-ai-training thing is not true. The post is based on one bad tweet.
I know anti-tech lamenting is a Bluesky core principle, but please use the same judgement you would for any other clickbait.
www.theverge.com/news/826902/...
I know anti-tech lamenting is a Bluesky core principle, but please use the same judgement you would for any other clickbait.
www.theverge.com/news/826902/...
Google denies ‘misleading’ reports of Gmail using your emails to train AI
Google says “we do not use your Gmail content for training our Gemini AI model.”
www.theverge.com
November 22, 2025 at 9:30 PM
since the "google is now training gemini on your email contents" thing keeps bumping around here: it's _not happening_. I say this not to defend google but because I know a lot of people that have broken their filtering and made their lives much more annoying from sheer misinformation.
I liked Wicked part 2. Spouse was annoyed by the songs that aren’t also part of the stage version, but I’ve only heard the stage music twice when seeing the play, so I couldn’t really have picked that out anyway.
November 22, 2025 at 8:29 PM
I liked Wicked part 2. Spouse was annoyed by the songs that aren’t also part of the stage version, but I’ve only heard the stage music twice when seeing the play, so I couldn’t really have picked that out anyway.
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In Hennepin County/Minneapolis
JOIN Library Patrons Union & get in touch with your county commissioner about how they're protecting libraries & full access in the face of conservative forces who have the will & the power of the federal admin at their backs.
Make sure you've got the library's back.
JOIN Library Patrons Union & get in touch with your county commissioner about how they're protecting libraries & full access in the face of conservative forces who have the will & the power of the federal admin at their backs.
Make sure you've got the library's back.
November 22, 2025 at 4:00 PM
In Hennepin County/Minneapolis
JOIN Library Patrons Union & get in touch with your county commissioner about how they're protecting libraries & full access in the face of conservative forces who have the will & the power of the federal admin at their backs.
Make sure you've got the library's back.
JOIN Library Patrons Union & get in touch with your county commissioner about how they're protecting libraries & full access in the face of conservative forces who have the will & the power of the federal admin at their backs.
Make sure you've got the library's back.
Really a wonderful list of ways to organize. Observing and potentially disrupting ICE’s activity is of course a visible and essential tactic right now, and there are a lot of other tactics as well! Many described here.
New resource⚡️ Block it! Don’t Build It. Don’t Fill It. Don’t Fuel It.
A mini-toolkit to take action to slow down and disrupt the government’s kidnapping, detention, and deportation machine.
Info on strategies/tactics, ways to take action, and more:
www.interruptingcriminalization.com/block-it
A mini-toolkit to take action to slow down and disrupt the government’s kidnapping, detention, and deportation machine.
Info on strategies/tactics, ways to take action, and more:
www.interruptingcriminalization.com/block-it
November 22, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Really a wonderful list of ways to organize. Observing and potentially disrupting ICE’s activity is of course a visible and essential tactic right now, and there are a lot of other tactics as well! Many described here.