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Modern Day Bartleby @moderndaybartleby.bsky.social · 5h
I wrote a little essay about how essays are better than star-ratings -
#Coffee #CoffeeSky #Tokyo #Japan #UrbanStudies
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The Coffee Shop That Shall Remain Nameless
A new coffee shop recently opened in my neighborhood. And being that one of my hobbies is coffee and the shops that provide said beverage, I had to go. This coffee shop shall remain nameless becaus…
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Thread of some services/software I'm using instead of various billionaire-owned surveillance/fascist/"A.i." trash products:

For my newsletters, @buttondown.com. Does the job! Great customer service - usually get personalized responses within 24 hours. (Never gonna join Substack.)
February 15, 2026 at 12:13 AM
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berniethewordsmith.bsky.social
Absolute delight of thread by @gregpak.net
gregpak.net Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 6h
Thread of some services/software I'm using instead of various billionaire-owned surveillance/fascist/"A.i." trash products:

For my newsletters, @buttondown.com. Does the job! Great customer service - usually get personalized responses within 24 hours. (Never gonna join Substack.)
February 15, 2026 at 3:07 AM
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This is just an absolutely ridiculous piece of text. This writer ignores known evidence while bending over backwards to excuse Nazi symbols and racism.
If one can get a Nazi tattoo innocently, then Platner almost certainly did. He says he didn't know its true meaning at the time, and there's little reason to doubt him. There is nothing in any of the statements that Platner has given in town halls, interviews, or other campaign events to suggest that he's a bigot either, though he did write some bad stuff about Black people and women on the internet a few years ago. (For what it's worth, he also said white rural voters were stupid and racist.) When those posts were unearthed, Platner apologized, citing his PTSD and political and cultural ignorance. Still, it's hard to think of any recent Democratic campaign that could survive having to make so many disclosures.
February 15, 2026 at 5:58 AM
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schooley.bsky.social
Did employers think the first amendment would be struck down to honor his memory?
npr.org NPR @npr.org · 9h
Months after the killing of Charlie Kirk, a growing number of lawsuits by people claim they were illegally punished, fired and even arrested for making negative comments about Kirk.
Free speech lawsuits mount after Charlie Kirk assassination
Months after the killing of Charlie Kirk, a growing number of lawsuits by people claim they were illegally punished, fired and even arrested for making negative comments about Kirk.
n.pr
February 15, 2026 at 6:52 AM
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Silicon Valley’s alliance with Donald Trump was a mask off moment and showed the world we can’t depend on US tech companies.

For the past few months, I’ve been trying to get off US tech and I put together a guide so you find alternatives too. I hope you find it helpful!
Getting off US tech: a guide
I’m in the process of dropping US tech services. Here’s how I did it, and options you should consider.
www.disconnect.blog
July 18, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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New update, including my reasoning that getting off US tech means deleting Uber and going back to taxis instead of jumping to another labor-violating ride-hailing service.
I find it unbelievable when I talk to people who are adamant about getting off US tech, only to find out they continue to use Uber and/or Lyft. These are not only US-based companies when local transportation options are available, but they have (especially Uber) actively worked for nearly two decades to undermine not just the rights of drivers, but labor rights more widely by fighting to ensure workers can be reclassified as contractors. If you’re serious about getting off US tech, Uber must go. What’s the alternative? Listen, you can look for a non-US ride-hailing company, but many of them have adopted the same model that sought to side step the regulatory structure created over decades to balance the needs of drivers, riders, and the community as a whole. When I’m at home, I call the taxi company whose office is just a few minutes away or use their app. When I’m in a new city and need to take a taxi, I enjoy figuring out which one is the most reliable. Many taxi apps are surprisingly capable.
February 15, 2026 at 1:31 AM
moderndaybartleby.bsky.social
Turns out the Profa Republican Party international crime syndicate were the snowflakes cancelling culture for safe spaces all along
npr.org NPR @npr.org · 9h
Months after the killing of Charlie Kirk, a growing number of lawsuits by people claim they were illegally punished, fired and even arrested for making negative comments about Kirk.
Free speech lawsuits mount after Charlie Kirk assassination
Months after the killing of Charlie Kirk, a growing number of lawsuits by people claim they were illegally punished, fired and even arrested for making negative comments about Kirk.
n.pr
February 15, 2026 at 6:56 AM
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Months after the killing of Charlie Kirk, a growing number of lawsuits by people claim they were illegally punished, fired and even arrested for making negative comments about Kirk.
Free speech lawsuits mount after Charlie Kirk assassination
Months after the killing of Charlie Kirk, a growing number of lawsuits by people claim they were illegally punished, fired and even arrested for making negative comments about Kirk.
n.pr
February 14, 2026 at 9:55 PM
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This is your regular reminder that the idea that Christianity is a thing uniform beliefs that everyone within “Western Civilization” believed and agreed on is a fiction that just ignores centuries of Christians killing each other and fighting literal wars over their different beliefs.
evanbernick.bsky.social Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 6h
The Rubio speech really is appalling, and if you haven’t read it yet, you should.

www.state.gov/releases/off...
this continent long before. The man who settled and built the nation of my birth arrived on our shores carrying the memories and the traditions and the Christian faith of their ancestors as a sacred inheritance, an unbreakable link between the old world and the new. We are part of one civilization - Western civilization. We are bound to one another by the deepest bonds that nations could share, forged by centuries of shared history, Christian faith, culture, heritage, language, ancestry, and the sacrifices our forefathers made together for the common civilization to which we have fallen heir.
February 15, 2026 at 1:53 AM
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cursedpingu.bsky.social
lol this is gonna burst so fucking hard
r/analytics • IOh We just found out our AI has been making up analytics data for 3 months and I'm gonna throw up. Support So we've been using an Al agent since November to answer leadership questions about metrics. It seemed amazing at first fast answers, detailed explanations, everyone loved it. I just found out it's been hallucinating numbers this entire time. Our VP of sales made territory decisions based on data that didn't exist. Our CFO showed the board a deck with fake insights. The Al was just inventing plausible sounding percentages. I only caught it by accident when someone asked me to double check something. I started digging, and holy shit, it's bad.
February 14, 2026 at 11:47 PM
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thetnholler.bsky.social
“I’ve never protested before - but I just watched 4th & 5th grade kids run away from our own government.” 😕🇺🇸💔

(From @crindivisible.bsky.social )
February 15, 2026 at 12:45 AM
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davidcorn.bsky.social
This is what an authoritarian police state does
chrisgeidner.bsky.social Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 2h
SCOTUS effectively OK’ed third-country removals as the Trump admin is using them on the shadow docket, staying lower court orders reining them in. Further, the specific questions raised here — about refoulement — have come up before, like in this case: www.lawdork.com/p/ghana-refo...
frankfigliuzzi.bsky.social Frank Figliuzzi @frankfigliuzzi.bsky.social · 4h
NYT: Trump secretly deported 9 migrants despite court orders to not remove them to their home nations. So, he sent them to prison in Cameroon: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/14/w...
February 15, 2026 at 5:15 AM
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tj-stiles.bsky.social
Closed societies are destined to decline.
February 14, 2026 at 10:55 PM
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Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was poisoned by the Kremlin with a rare and lethal toxin found in the skin of poison dart frogs, five European countries have said. It's not the first time the country has been accused of poisoning its enemies.
Frog toxins the latest poison identified in long line of Russian chemical attacks
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was poisoned by the Kremlin with a rare and lethal toxin found in the skin of poison dart frogs, five European countries have said. It's not the first time the country has been accused of poisoning its enemies.
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February 15, 2026 at 6:18 AM
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I'll also say that Platner's past posts about political violence are the kinds of things that would make me distrust any fellow activist I might be considering working with today. It's not serious and it's dangerous. That's fedposting, not shitposting, friends.
February 15, 2026 at 6:20 AM
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gregpak.net
I'm Asian American. Nazi shit and racist shit and misogynist shit freaks me out because I stand in solidarity with everyone else who's a target of bigotry in this country. So yes, Platner alarms the hell out of me. I wish he alarmed the hell out of the New Republic.
February 15, 2026 at 6:18 AM
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In 2013, Platner wrote "Why don’t black people tip?" and wrote in a thread about sexual assault that people should "take some responsibility for themselves and not get so f—-ked up they wind up having sex with someone they don’t mean to?"

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Graham Platner asked why Black people ‘don’t tip’ in Reddit posts
The Democratic U.S. Senate candidate posted to the online social media site Reddit more than 1,800 times between 2009 and 2021.
themainemonitor.org
February 15, 2026 at 6:09 AM
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gregpak.net
That New Republic article also minimizes Platner's past by saying "he did write some bad stuff about Black people and women on the internet a few years ago."

Platner's specific words are pretty terrible and the NR should have included them, imo.

themainemonitor.org/platner-redd...
Graham Platner asked why Black people ‘don’t tip’ in Reddit posts
The Democratic U.S. Senate candidate posted to the online social media site Reddit more than 1,800 times between 2009 and 2021.
themainemonitor.org
February 15, 2026 at 6:08 AM
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gregpak.net
Just gonna say there are plenty of insurgent, anti-establishment candidates WITHOUT Nazi tattoos that the New Republic could have featured instead of Platner.

You could ABSOLUTELY make the point that Ds are mad at the centrist leaders of the party WITHOUT helping rehabilitate this particular guy.
February 15, 2026 at 6:00 AM
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"Love isn't just something you feel. It's something you do everyday...Love isn't about what we did yesterday; it's about what we do today and tomorrow and the day after."

-Grace Lee Boggs (1915-2015), The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the 21st Century
#everynightapoem #ofsorts
As Jimmy Boggs used to remind us, revolutions are made out of love for people and for place. He often talked about loving America enough to change it. 'I love this country,' he used to say, 'not only because my ancestors' blood is in the soil but because of what I believe it can become.' Love isn't just something you feel. It's something you do everyday when you go out and pick the paper and bottles scattered the night before on the corner, when you stop and talk to a neighbor, when you argue passionately for what you believe in with whoever will listen, when you call a friend to see how they're doing, when you write a letter to the newspaper, when you give a speech and give 'em hell, when you never stop believing that we can all be more than what we are. In other words, Love isn't about what we did yesterday; it's about what we do today and tomorrow and the day after. -Grace Lee Boggs, The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century (2011) Black and white photo portrait of Grace Lee Boggs, by Robin Holland
February 15, 2026 at 6:04 AM
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Our story @chicagotribune.com: Chicago teen Ofelia Torres, whose father was detained by ICE while she fought cancer, dies. www.chicagotribune.com/2026/02/14/c...
February 15, 2026 at 2:19 AM
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evanbernick.bsky.social
“Columbus was good, actually, and we should emulate his values“ is just a wild thing to say
February 15, 2026 at 1:23 AM
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evanbernick.bsky.social
It’s just an unapologetic defense of colonialism and ethnoreligious supremacy and a rejection of liberal democracy
February 15, 2026 at 12:53 AM
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evanbernick.bsky.social
The Rubio speech really is appalling, and if you haven’t read it yet, you should.

www.state.gov/releases/off...
this continent long before. The man who settled and built the nation of my birth arrived on our shores carrying the memories and the traditions and the Christian faith of their ancestors as a sacred inheritance, an unbreakable link between the old world and the new. We are part of one civilization - Western civilization. We are bound to one another by the deepest bonds that nations could share, forged by centuries of shared history, Christian faith, culture, heritage, language, ancestry, and the sacrifices our forefathers made together for the common civilization to which we have fallen heir.
February 15, 2026 at 12:47 AM
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theradr.bsky.social
You deserve access to abortion care if you are pregnant and do not want to be. Full stop.

Your reasons are your reasons and they are good enough.

Abortion is healthcare and everyone deserves healthcare access.
anxiousrage.blacksky.app Anxious Rage @anxiousrage.blacksky.app · Oct 10
You don’t need a traumatic or tragic story to deserve abortion care.
February 11, 2026 at 2:04 PM