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Sharon Arnold

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Sharon Arnold @sharonarnold.bsky.social · Dec 6

them: "define your area of expertise."

me: "in the interest of transparency, I feel I should disclose that I'm really just a jackass with a lot of opinions and access to pdfs."

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tim d.o' @tee-dee-oh.bsky.social · 23h

in retrospect it seems like a fundamental flaw of the Internet that everything is centralized in a single company's data centers. it's a real shame nobody considered that when inventing the thing.

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Sharon Arnold @sharonarnold.bsky.social · 3h

my problem with what she says here is that after pointing out the Republicans don't have a spine, she proposes the only solution is to get T to tell them to negotiate. our government is 3 branches for a reason, and Congress should collectively do their job, all parties, without T telling them to.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

Elizabeth Warren: "Genuinely, I don't know what's happened to the Republicans in the Senate. It's as if they have all had their spines surgically removed. They only do what Donald Trump tells them to do. So if Donald Trump tells them to sit down and negotiate, then they will sit down and negotiate."

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 18h

Amazon controls over a third of the global cloud computing market.

Its customers include Capital One, United Airlines, and the US Army.

Today's outage should be a wakeup call: Dependence on a handful of powerful corporations is a threat to economic and national security.

Morning Brew ☕️ @morningbrew.extwitter.link · 1d

BREAKING: Amazon Web Services

A massive AWS outage early this morning sent major websites and apps down for several hours

Tracking site Downdetector has received over 8 million reports around the globe

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Sharon Arnold @sharonarnold.bsky.social · 1d

this also makes me imagine team ladders chainsaws and scooters stopped to have a leisurely morning coffee and cigarette at the Bar Tabac before heading in

Leslie Gaar @thelesliegaar.bsky.social · 1d

The fact that the Louvre heist didn’t take place at dawn, but at the very reasonable hour of 9:30 a.m. shows that even French jewel thieves have a better work-life balance than us.

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 1d

The lil french Netflix movie about the louvre heist is going to be excellent.

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 1d

Shoutout to whoever was like the news sucks, let’s spice it up by doing a jewel heist at the Louvre

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🕷️Gory Thing🕷️ @korybing.bsky.social · 1d

Heard about the Louvre jewel heist and my first thought was “finally, some good old fashioned normal crime”

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ashley scarebanks 💀🕯️ @ziibiing.com · 1d

the louvre heist simply using a ladder truck really proves my #1 rule of mischief:

you can basically do anything if you just confidently act like you’re supposed to be doing it

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Sharon Arnold @sharonarnold.bsky.social · 1d

to everyone looking for an alternative to Spotify for podcasts, I'm here to cosign Pocket Casts. it's a really great app and I've been able to find all my special interests and niche interviews there. Tidal is still #1 for music!

Wren @chasingfireflies05.bsky.social · Jul 10

Pocket Casts! I started using it before Spotify started hosting podcasts and never switched over. I've found it to be reliable and easy to use.

Sharon Arnold @sharonarnold.bsky.social · 1d

I wanted to come back here and express my gratitude for this suggestion because I've been really enjoying this app in the months since this conversation. much appreciated, thank you!

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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @leximcmenamin.com · 2d

the massive scale of the No Kings protests, from the organizers’ perspectives, was ALWAYS about making it easy for people to people to go and meet organizers and organizations and mutual aid:

“Let this be a springboard, not the end of your journey.”

if you went, how are you doing so?

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Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness @tangledwilderness.bsky.social · 2d

In Seattle at the Vera Project, today and tomorrow, 11am-5pm. Bookfairs are the only place you can get all our publications 50% off!

A table covered with Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness books, zines, and banners

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 2d

If you were out in the streets today, thanks. If you left feeling inspired, please seek out local ways that you can keep organizing with others.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Jun 5

DEAN: What's the tariff on bananas?

LUTNICK: Generally 10%

DEAN: Walmart has already increased the cost of bananas by 8%

LUTNICK: If you build in America, there is no tariff

DEAN: We cannot build bananas in America

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David Forbes @davidforbes.bsky.social · 3d

By request, I wrote out my thoughts on staying and fighting.

The vast majority of trans people aren't going to leave the country. If we care about our survival and liberation, that's the reality.

(And no, this is not primarily about individuals leaving or not).
www.patreon.com/posts/on-sta...

On staying and fighting | David Forbes

Get more from David Forbes on Patreon

www.patreon.com

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Sharon Arnold @sharonarnold.bsky.social · 3d

I think the scale of things here would be like driving from Lisbon to Moscow or Oslo to Athens. no high-speed rail, only driving or expensive multi-stop flights. limited paid time off, if any, so that factors in. I get that it's hard for Europeans to understand, but I wish they would consider it

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Sharon Arnold @sharonarnold.bsky.social · 3d

I've been using/sharing this list! it's very helpful, pass it on

Conejo Valley Antifascists @cvantifascists.bsky.social · 3d

Who this checklist is for: Anyone attending protests, direct actions, demonstrations, or events where police presence is expected.
activistchecklist.org/protest

Prepare for a Protest | Digital Security Checklists for Activists

Protect yourself and your community from while protesting or attending any kind of action where arrest risk and surveillance is higher. Here's what you need to ...

activistchecklist.org

Sharon Arnold @sharonarnold.bsky.social · 3d

if you're at a rally today, consider wearing a KN95 or an N95 mask for a few reasons: in solidarity with covid-cautious groups; to normalize health and security in an increasingly hostile environment; to prevent transmission of covid and flu; and for privacy/security reasons too. safety all around!

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Erica Chenoweth @chenoweth.bsky.social · 4d

9. The increase is greater in counties Trump won by at least 5%, where protests tend to be small but mighty. In those counties, the average protest participation has gone from 2 to 7 people per month—a 250% increase.

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Erica Chenoweth @chenoweth.bsky.social · 4d

8. Protest participation has also grown. We have logged a 62.5% increase in nationwide protest participation (total crowd counts per county population, averaged), between Trump’s 1st and 2nd terms (from an average of 40 to 65 people per 10k in each county).

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Erica Chenoweth @chenoweth.bsky.social · 4d

2. Our new analysis suggests that protest events in 2025 have occurred across a wider range of US counties than we observed during Trump's first term. And the current protest movement has already reached deeper into Trump country than at almost any point during the first Trump administration.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 3d

This impacts 1000 different things re: organizing.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 3d

I find it strange how rarely people in the U.S. and outside of it truly contend with how VAST the country is geographically.

Folks LOVE to mention France but Paris has a population of 2 million people and is 40 square miles.

NYC has a population of 8.5 million and is over 460 square miles

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Pride Was A Riot, Sacramento @pridewasariot.bsky.social · 3d

You can’t bring Abolition to the Settler Colony.

You must abolish the Settler Colony.

Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 4d

It does basically suck that you can't be an actual abolitionist and be mayor in any place in the US really, because you will be brutally and probably openly murdered by your own cops

Transtifa @syyyyyyyyy.bsky.social · 4d

We are so fucked when Mamdani inevitably does something a typical Major Blue City mayor would do, like sic cops on protesters or cut the ribbon on Goldman Sachs' new building or whatever.

We're all going to need to get real cool with how much weird parochialism comes with this particular job.

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naylandblake @naylandblake.bsky.social · 4d

I like looking at art by humans because I can be totally wrong about it and totally right about it simultaneously. Art brings me to new thought, to cognition. AI stuff just reminds me of something else, to recognition.

Chica Marx @mckenziewark.bsky.social · 4d

I like to read writing by humans because humans die. A writer used part of her life to write and I’m using part of mine to read it. The finitude is key to it being an art.

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