St. Chris
@stchris.bsky.social
Writer/editor who got stuck in computers. Technical writer, business analyst. Web application everything-person for a couple of decades. I fight for the users.
He/him/Chris. Autistic, ADHD, anti-kyriarchy. I have been, and always shall be, in New Jersey.
He/him/Chris. Autistic, ADHD, anti-kyriarchy. I have been, and always shall be, in New Jersey.
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At the moment, I’m focusing on the good we have.
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SCTV > Saturday Night Live, and Catherine O'Hara made that possible.
January 31, 2026 at 12:20 AM
SCTV > Saturday Night Live, and Catherine O'Hara made that possible.
Basic reminder of my politics:
January 30, 2026 at 3:09 AM
Basic reminder of my politics:
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Yes but also whomst amongst us does not want a treat treat
When your out of state friend checks on you and voice to text ignores your heartfelt gratitude and instead focuses on a conversation you are having with your dog when she’s dancing at you.
January 29, 2026 at 3:18 PM
Yes but also whomst amongst us does not want a treat treat
Getting a handful of random likes on a post nobody has shared. Must have surfaced in the Discover feed. That’s new.
Bass notes:
1𝄢 The Ibanez Bass Workshop SRH500F (fretless) and SR Mezzo SRMD200 (with frets) are made for distinctly different playing styles and make distinctly different sounds. They’re obviously related, but each has its own personality.
1𝄢 The Ibanez Bass Workshop SRH500F (fretless) and SR Mezzo SRMD200 (with frets) are made for distinctly different playing styles and make distinctly different sounds. They’re obviously related, but each has its own personality.
January 29, 2026 at 6:06 AM
Getting a handful of random likes on a post nobody has shared. Must have surfaced in the Discover feed. That’s new.
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The biggest signal an American human can ever receive that they are deeply and profoundly fucking up is finding themselves as the bad guy in a Bruce Springsteen song.
January 28, 2026 at 8:53 PM
The biggest signal an American human can ever receive that they are deeply and profoundly fucking up is finding themselves as the bad guy in a Bruce Springsteen song.
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I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
Stay free
Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
youtu.be
January 28, 2026 at 5:02 PM
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
Stay free
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Reminder
20:48 on Sunday January 25th, over the South Pacific Ocean
January 28, 2026 at 10:48 PM
Reminder
Bass notes:
1𝄢 The Ibanez Bass Workshop SRH500F (fretless) and SR Mezzo SRMD200 (with frets) are made for distinctly different playing styles and make distinctly different sounds. They’re obviously related, but each has its own personality.
1𝄢 The Ibanez Bass Workshop SRH500F (fretless) and SR Mezzo SRMD200 (with frets) are made for distinctly different playing styles and make distinctly different sounds. They’re obviously related, but each has its own personality.
January 28, 2026 at 6:43 PM
Bass notes:
1𝄢 The Ibanez Bass Workshop SRH500F (fretless) and SR Mezzo SRMD200 (with frets) are made for distinctly different playing styles and make distinctly different sounds. They’re obviously related, but each has its own personality.
1𝄢 The Ibanez Bass Workshop SRH500F (fretless) and SR Mezzo SRMD200 (with frets) are made for distinctly different playing styles and make distinctly different sounds. They’re obviously related, but each has its own personality.
The onslaught of cruelty is the psychological equivalent of chemical warfare. It’s tear gas that targets normal healthy emotions. The only way not to be harmed by it is to seal yourself off from other people’s suffering: refuse to recognize the abuse, shut down your empathy for the victims, or both.
January 28, 2026 at 6:22 PM
The onslaught of cruelty is the psychological equivalent of chemical warfare. It’s tear gas that targets normal healthy emotions. The only way not to be harmed by it is to seal yourself off from other people’s suffering: refuse to recognize the abuse, shut down your empathy for the victims, or both.
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Been thinking about how we’re not okay here in Minnesota and how events and the state of affaires are echoing in our day to day world. A thread.
cw: suicide
cw: suicide
January 28, 2026 at 5:16 PM
Been thinking about how we’re not okay here in Minnesota and how events and the state of affaires are echoing in our day to day world. A thread.
cw: suicide
cw: suicide
“Our first tool for self-defense absolutely must be human connection.”
Defeat Fascists with This One Weird Trick
For those of you that wonder what skills you already have to offer and can't come up with a plan of action, let me offer you this *one weird trick* that can defeat fascists.
www.revoluciana.net
January 28, 2026 at 5:01 PM
“Our first tool for self-defense absolutely must be human connection.”
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Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center
Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center
Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center
Philip Glass
Philip Glass
Philip Glass
Philip Glass
Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center
Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center
Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center
Philip Glass
Philip Glass
Philip Glass
Philip Glass
Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center
January 27, 2026 at 4:17 PM
Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center
Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center
Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center
Philip Glass
Philip Glass
Philip Glass
Philip Glass
Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center
Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center
Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center
Philip Glass
Philip Glass
Philip Glass
Philip Glass
Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center
“Here’s the thing. Dishonest people presume the whole world is dishonest. That you either cheat and steal, or you’re going to be cheated and robbed.”
— John Gruber (@gruber.foo)
— John Gruber (@gruber.foo)
App Store 2025 Top iPhone Apps in the U.S.
The only apps in the top 10 not from Google or Meta are ChatGPT (#1) and TikTok (#4).
daringfireball.net
January 27, 2026 at 1:34 AM
“Here’s the thing. Dishonest people presume the whole world is dishonest. That you either cheat and steal, or you’re going to be cheated and robbed.”
— John Gruber (@gruber.foo)
— John Gruber (@gruber.foo)
I keep marveling at the classical/modern design fusion. It’s like a theme park imagineer created a musical instrument. The attention to detail is wonderful. The INSIDE of the bass is stained black, just to make the f-hole look perfect. I love the way it looks, sounds, and feels. It’s functional art.
I wanted a fretless, but with fret *lines* and marker dots, but sounding like an upright, but shaped like an Ibanez Soundgear bass, but understated and refined…*but* also a visual statement? And lo, it is everything I was hoping for.
It’s a work of art.
Playing it feels like singing with my hands.
It’s a work of art.
Playing it feels like singing with my hands.
January 25, 2026 at 11:00 PM
I keep marveling at the classical/modern design fusion. It’s like a theme park imagineer created a musical instrument. The attention to detail is wonderful. The INSIDE of the bass is stained black, just to make the f-hole look perfect. I love the way it looks, sounds, and feels. It’s functional art.
I got myself something to do while it snows. 𝄢🧵
So, I got this thing.
It’s an Ibanez SRH500F semi-hollow fretless bass. It looks like an upright bass that wished on a star and woke up as an instrument you can wear. It sounds like that, too.
Photos don’t quite capture the subtlety of the colors. The Ibanez Bass Workshop knocked this out of park.
It’s an Ibanez SRH500F semi-hollow fretless bass. It looks like an upright bass that wished on a star and woke up as an instrument you can wear. It sounds like that, too.
Photos don’t quite capture the subtlety of the colors. The Ibanez Bass Workshop knocked this out of park.
January 25, 2026 at 6:47 PM
I got myself something to do while it snows. 𝄢🧵
So, I got this thing.
It’s an Ibanez SRH500F semi-hollow fretless bass. It looks like an upright bass that wished on a star and woke up as an instrument you can wear. It sounds like that, too.
Photos don’t quite capture the subtlety of the colors. The Ibanez Bass Workshop knocked this out of park.
It’s an Ibanez SRH500F semi-hollow fretless bass. It looks like an upright bass that wished on a star and woke up as an instrument you can wear. It sounds like that, too.
Photos don’t quite capture the subtlety of the colors. The Ibanez Bass Workshop knocked this out of park.
January 25, 2026 at 5:43 AM
So, I got this thing.
It’s an Ibanez SRH500F semi-hollow fretless bass. It looks like an upright bass that wished on a star and woke up as an instrument you can wear. It sounds like that, too.
Photos don’t quite capture the subtlety of the colors. The Ibanez Bass Workshop knocked this out of park.
It’s an Ibanez SRH500F semi-hollow fretless bass. It looks like an upright bass that wished on a star and woke up as an instrument you can wear. It sounds like that, too.
Photos don’t quite capture the subtlety of the colors. The Ibanez Bass Workshop knocked this out of park.
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“Get it all on record now — get the films — get the witnesses — because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.”
Dwight D. Eisenhower, after visiting liberated concentration camps in April 1945
Dwight D. Eisenhower, after visiting liberated concentration camps in April 1945
January 24, 2026 at 9:24 PM
“Get it all on record now — get the films — get the witnesses — because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.”
Dwight D. Eisenhower, after visiting liberated concentration camps in April 1945
Dwight D. Eisenhower, after visiting liberated concentration camps in April 1945
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I am for bulldozing it all when we’re on the other side of this. ICE facilities? Bulldoze. The concentration camps? Bulldoze. The ballroom? Bulldoze. Plant tomatoes there. Put in a skate park. Build a monument to immigrants. Whatever. Don’t give a shit. Just bulldoze it all first.
January 24, 2026 at 11:54 PM
I am for bulldozing it all when we’re on the other side of this. ICE facilities? Bulldoze. The concentration camps? Bulldoze. The ballroom? Bulldoze. Plant tomatoes there. Put in a skate park. Build a monument to immigrants. Whatever. Don’t give a shit. Just bulldoze it all first.
“All I can tell you is that the CFO, the CEO, and everyone else in upper management at Antifa have told me that since this is a legitimate centralized organization, we must follow the rules.”
(from @johnmoe.bsky.social, big damn hero)
(from @johnmoe.bsky.social, big damn hero)
"To clear up any confusion: YES, I’m real, YES, you’re getting paid, NO, this isn’t a hastily written humor bit. The president confirmed it, and there is no greater source of truth and reason than him."
I Am the Payroll Accountant for Professional Protestors in Minnesota, and I Am Swamped
“House Majority Whip Tom Emmer, R-Minn., slammed Minnesota state leaders after anti-Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agitators disrupted a...
buff.ly
January 23, 2026 at 9:48 PM
“All I can tell you is that the CFO, the CEO, and everyone else in upper management at Antifa have told me that since this is a legitimate centralized organization, we must follow the rules.”
(from @johnmoe.bsky.social, big damn hero)
(from @johnmoe.bsky.social, big damn hero)
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Some wonderful pedagogy here.
Last term I tried an experiment: I walked into my Tech and Design Ethics class, admitted that I had *no idea* what to do about ChatGPT - so I would let them figure it out.
As in: their first project was to decide and write the ChatGPT policy for the class.
Here's what happened:
As in: their first project was to decide and write the ChatGPT policy for the class.
Here's what happened:
January 23, 2026 at 3:25 PM
Some wonderful pedagogy here.
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direct action and mutual aid are constants, and are not at all new tactics—they are just rarely documented like this and at a scale people can’t ignore
January 23, 2026 at 2:58 PM
direct action and mutual aid are constants, and are not at all new tactics—they are just rarely documented like this and at a scale people can’t ignore
XBlock Screenshot Labeller is vital Bluesky mental health infrastructure. You get to choose whether you want to look at a social media screenshot or skip it.
I use @xblock.aendra.dev. Basically an automatic content warning for social media screenshots.
January 22, 2026 at 6:57 PM
XBlock Screenshot Labeller is vital Bluesky mental health infrastructure. You get to choose whether you want to look at a social media screenshot or skip it.
Is it insurrection if you resist people who are violating the Constitution? Seriously, is it?
Respectfully, look at this fucking bullshit that we’re dealing with, not a single person here has “taken the bait.” We have born witness as little kids are used as bait and neighbors are kidnapped on our streets. A mad dipshit is going to invoke the Insurrection Act regardless and you are blaming us
Violence only helps Trump & may provide him an excuse to further trample our rights by invoking the Insurrection Act.
January 22, 2026 at 6:10 PM
Is it insurrection if you resist people who are violating the Constitution? Seriously, is it?
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Good thread from someone who knows what they're talking about. A little bit of real journalism that's better than anything we're likely to see in a corporate media outlet.
I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.
January 22, 2026 at 3:15 PM
Good thread from someone who knows what they're talking about. A little bit of real journalism that's better than anything we're likely to see in a corporate media outlet.
They have built their persona on the principle that all behavior is performative and sincerity is purely a defensive camouflage. They are so white-knuckle attached to that persona that the acknowledgment of genuine goodness is an existential threat to their ego: It would prove that they’re not real.
They need all protestors to be paid operatives because they cannot abide the possibility that somewhere in the world, people sincerely believe in standing up for others. It isn’t enough that they’ve chased all moral virtue from their own hearts. They want a world where no virtue exists in anyone.
Trump on Renee Good: "When she was shot, there was another woman that was screaming 'Shame. Shame Shame Shame.' So loud. Like a professional opera singer. She was so loud. And so professional. She wasn't a woman that was hurt like, 'Oh my heart is injured.' She was a professional."
January 21, 2026 at 3:09 AM
They have built their persona on the principle that all behavior is performative and sincerity is purely a defensive camouflage. They are so white-knuckle attached to that persona that the acknowledgment of genuine goodness is an existential threat to their ego: It would prove that they’re not real.