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Eric Schultz @wwahammy.com · 2h

Pet peeve: no protest is peaceful. You protest because peace doesn't exist.

A protest can be violent or nonviolent but never peaceful.

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Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social · 3h

Listen, over 300+ people showed up for a No Kings protest in ANGOLA, INDIANA. There is a whole part of Indiana waiting to be activated. We have never been all red. So what are we going to do with that information? I wish I could say. But I have Hope.

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 4h

Incredible. If you grew up in Indiana, you know what a big deal this is.

Gabrielle Hecht has no more spoons @gabriellehecht.bsky.social · 5h

Purdue to the rescue of IU student newspaper, whose institution was attempting censorship. Details in alt!

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Eric Schultz @wwahammy.com · 2h

This is not how I'd recommend responding to a paying customer who expressed they actually really liked your service but asked for your NPM package to have a normal open source license.

A GitHub issue titled "A usable open source license?"

The reporter wrote: "First off, I really love Zapier for everything I've used it for so far. Unfortunately, I don't like the license of this repo. Having a non-OSI approved license is really out of the norm for NPM packages. If we're going to run the code on our machines and we can see the code, what gain is there in preventing us for building on the code or reusing bits of it elsewhere? Is there any chance this license can be corrected?

At the very least, can the license of the example apps be under an OSI license? If you read the license in a conservative manner, if I take an example app template, and make an app out of it, it's not clear I can copy any of the code that I created into anything else I write. It also means I can't release my app under an open source license for the open source donation platform I use. That just doesn't seem like a good result for anyone."

A responder says: "Hey @wwahammy 👋 Thank you for opening this issue. We’ve reviewed the details and determined that it’s not actionable in its current form.

If it remains relevant, please resubmit it via our Developer Support form so it can be tracked and prioritized correctly.

Thanks again!"

@wwahammy responds "Dude, that's pretty condescending to a customer."

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Alan Richardson @alanrichardson.bsky.social · 5h

The White House seems to be getting worse and worse at comms. They spent the last 2 weeks saying it was going to be violent terrorists and now they say “who cares”?

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 6h

totally not mad

The White House’s (brief) response: Reached by CNN for comment on today’s protests, White House spokesperson Abigail Jackson wrote back: “Who cares?”

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Silky @silkyweineck.bsky.social · 6h

this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 6h

On the one hand, it makes sense, because the Trump admin has no legal basis for detaining them, not least because the blew up the supposed evidence.

But on the other hand it just underscores how illegal the entire operation is, it's nothing more than murder on the high seas to generate content.

Philip Bump @pbump.com · 7h

So dangerous that they must be blown into small pieces rather than arrested … unless they are actually captured in which case they may go home with a warning. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/u...

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Ahh!!! Real George Wendt 🎃 @trumancapps.bsky.social · 7h

CHOTINER: So you're attending a No Kings protest today.

ME: That's right.

CHOTINER: But according to Steam, you've played over 450 hours of Crusader Kings 3.

ME: Okay, well- Now hold on. That's sort of unfair.

CHOTINER: Oh?

ME: Sometimes I play as a duke or a count.

CHOTINER: I see.

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Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 1d

"Many others in the political and philanthropic worlds declined to speak on the record about Benioff, fearful that he might end his financial donations."

Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 1d

Cool, is he also going to apologize for pitching his company as an ICE contractor? www.sfchronicle.com/politics/art...

Amid criticism, Benioff apologizes, reverses course on National Guard

After strong backlash to his embrace of Trump and a week of blistering criticism, the Salesforce CEO has changed course.

www.sfchronicle.com

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Erica Chenoweth @chenoweth.bsky.social · 2d

My team at the Crowd Counting Consortium (@djpressman.bsky.social, Hammam, & Chris Shay) has a new piece, whose title speaks for itself. A 🧵 with some key descriptive takeaways:

The resistance reaches into Trump country

As organizers for No Kings 2 seek historic turnout on Oct. 18, the broader pro-democracy movement has already broken new ground.

wagingnonviolence.org

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 10h

President Trump reduces trade surplus in profitable export industry that provides middle-class jobs all across America.

Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 11h

New federal data has revealed a 19% year-on-year decline in international students entering the US in August 2025, including a 45% drop from India, America’s largest sending country. thepienews.com/internationa...

International student arrivals to the US fall by 19%

The US recorded a 20% drop in student visa arrivals this August, though the full picture remains unclear amid contradictory datasets.

thepienews.com

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 1d

This guy's just-woke-up-from-a-coma act is so good I'm gonna have to steal it. Boss asking you about that missed deadline? Hearing about it for the first time. Wife mad you forgot your anniversary? Sorry I'm not familiar with that person. Weef? Is that how you say it?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Q: What's your message to the 170 US citizens who have been detained by ICE? About 20 of them are children

MIKE JOHNSON: I don't know what you're talking about with the children. I haven't seen that so I'm not going to comment on it.

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Oku ΘΔ @oku.mow.haus · 1d

Repost if you have more followers than the Official White House BlueSky Account

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evelyn maguire @evelyn.fyi · 20h

I am HOWLING he's gonna be a "full-stack AI engineer" but he's having trouble installing Git because he's on a CHROMEBOOK AND DOESN'T UNDERSTAND WHY OH MY GOD

evelyn maguire @evelyn.fyi · 20h

The coffee shop people watching tonight started with a Christian men's reading group talking right wing politics and now I'm listening to a freshman complaining about installing Git.

What did I do to deserve this!!!

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 1d

i’m so sick of this cowardly use of language.

Some legal experts have questioned the legality of the approach. The president’s use of overwhelming military force to combat the cartels, along with his authorization of covert action inside Venezuela, possibly to oust President Nicolás Maduro, stretches the bounds of international law, legal scholars said this week.

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 1d

Seriously. Do not interact with the govt accounts. Just don’t.

Violet The Glutton Nun @exiledviolet.bsky.social · 1d

So they're trying to farm a highlights reel of "libs/lefties are violent and evil terrorists" episode.

They're trying to piss people off so they can farm screenshots of anything that can even loosely be interpreted as a threat.

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ceej @ceej.online · 1d

this shit is so embarrassing. the government used to have guys who like, built bridges. now it’s just a gaggle of bleary-eyed cave children jacking themselves off to porno deepfakes of AOC while posting “based meme edits” of reaper drone strikes on venezuelan children. quit gooning and fix a pothole

ceej @ceej.online · Jun 19

vance has got to be the most cucked vp of all time. absolutely no power, completely subservient to a sundowning blowhard and an unelected nazi sleaze, so bored of waiting around for grandpa to give him something to do that he’s organizing forum raids like goons dropping in on habbo hotel

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ceej @ceej.online · 20h

your fucking tax dollars and mine paid for a bunch of professional government trolls to have at least(!) one actual fucking meeting about how epic it would be to all join bluesky at the same time. people wrote fucking emails about this. from dot gov addresses

ceej @ceej.online · 1d

this shit is so embarrassing. the government used to have guys who like, built bridges. now it’s just a gaggle of bleary-eyed cave children jacking themselves off to porno deepfakes of AOC while posting “based meme edits” of reaper drone strikes on venezuelan children. quit gooning and fix a pothole

ceej @ceej.online · Jun 19

vance has got to be the most cucked vp of all time. absolutely no power, completely subservient to a sundowning blowhard and an unelected nazi sleaze, so bored of waiting around for grandpa to give him something to do that he’s organizing forum raids like goons dropping in on habbo hotel

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evelyn maguire @evelyn.fyi · 20h

hey since this is gonna go viral:

SIGN THE LETTER TELLING MARC BENIOFF TO STOP BEING A COLLABORATOR, I AM RISKING MY CAREER TO SPEAK OUT AGAINST IT, HELP ME OUT

dearmarcbenioff.com

Dear Marc Benioff — An Open Letter

Salesforce was built on empowering communities—not deploying the National Guard into them. Stand up now.

dearmarcbenioff.com

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Eric Schultz @wwahammy.com · 19h

Weird, I thought Trump had fixed that.

Freeyore @mewefree.bsky.social · 1d

Turkey prices are projected to be up 40% this year. abcnews.go.com/GMA/Food/tha...

What to know about Thanksgiving essentials: Grocery promos, turkey prices and more

Retailers from ALDI, Costco, BJ's and more are boasting savings this Thanksgiving season.

abcnews.go.com

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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 19h

You do not have to engage. They are here in bad faith. No one needs to hear about Wayne Chrebet or Chad Pennington. Block New York Jets fans and move on.