Greg Etling
@getling.bsky.social
Techie, former actor/singer...hopeful at the current state of this app :)
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Since Sarah Kendzior’s account has been restored for a “death threat”- I’m wondering why Link’s hasn’t… does Bluesky take alleged threats against their CEO more seriously than ones against other people? Will Patton Oswalt also have a full account ban?
November 14, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Since Sarah Kendzior’s account has been restored for a “death threat”- I’m wondering why Link’s hasn’t… does Bluesky take alleged threats against their CEO more seriously than ones against other people? Will Patton Oswalt also have a full account ban?
That half of it I totally agree with. It’s the murky abuse of the “wish ill on someone” half that I have objections about in both policy and in selective implementation.
Probably an unpopular opinion but “don’t type death threats even jokingly, yes that means you” seems to be one of the few real Bluesky rules and not something I personally struggle with.
November 14, 2025 at 6:10 PM
That half of it I totally agree with. It’s the murky abuse of the “wish ill on someone” half that I have objections about in both policy and in selective implementation.
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I saw someone call her
Megyn R. Kelly
And I swear to god I am fighting for my goddamn life in right now 😂😂💀💀💀
Megyn R. Kelly
And I swear to god I am fighting for my goddamn life in right now 😂😂💀💀💀
November 14, 2025 at 2:40 AM
I saw someone call her
Megyn R. Kelly
And I swear to god I am fighting for my goddamn life in right now 😂😂💀💀💀
Megyn R. Kelly
And I swear to god I am fighting for my goddamn life in right now 😂😂💀💀💀
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"taking jobs from Americans" really gives away the game. This guy just hates immigrants and thinks they don't belong here, and can be treated as sub-humans.
Bovino: "Whether they were criminals or individuals that were taking jobs from Americans -- you name it, that's what they were doing. And I'll tell you what's gonna happen. We're gonna go even harder on the streets. If he releases those 650, we're gonna apprehend 1,650 on the streets of Chicago."
November 13, 2025 at 8:52 PM
"taking jobs from Americans" really gives away the game. This guy just hates immigrants and thinks they don't belong here, and can be treated as sub-humans.
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Maybe to prove we're serious, maybe liberal academia could offer Larry Summers as a human sacrifice to start the atoning process.
You know, show 'em how it's done. Hope it catches on.
You know, show 'em how it's done. Hope it catches on.
November 13, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Maybe to prove we're serious, maybe liberal academia could offer Larry Summers as a human sacrifice to start the atoning process.
You know, show 'em how it's done. Hope it catches on.
You know, show 'em how it's done. Hope it catches on.
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One of the biggest problems with the "means testing of everything" is it pushes the UK into the same zone as American attitudes towards public transit funding "services for the poor tend to be poor services"
You may not like it, but people like to see they get something back from the state
You may not like it, but people like to see they get something back from the state
The UK just has incredible attention to detail when it comes to making sure the people who pay all the taxes can’t have nice things. Child benefit? No. Free Child car? No. Cut price bike to cycle to work? No.
Functionally we are telling people they pay too much tax to get anything from the state.
Functionally we are telling people they pay too much tax to get anything from the state.
Rachel Reeves is setting the Cycle to Work scheme on fire as part of the war on salary sacrifice policies! on.ft.com/4oKXNrC
November 13, 2025 at 9:47 AM
One of the biggest problems with the "means testing of everything" is it pushes the UK into the same zone as American attitudes towards public transit funding "services for the poor tend to be poor services"
You may not like it, but people like to see they get something back from the state
You may not like it, but people like to see they get something back from the state
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Good point. And elite impunity relies on a complicit mainstream press that’s ever more populated by elites or aspiring elites. Will eg the nyt’s Sulzberger, an ultrarich heir, or Kahn, another ultrarich heir, cover Epstein with the zeal they’ve reserved for pet right-wing projects like transphobia?
The Epstein story gets a something that is tearing at the heart of the electorate: elite impunity. The idea that wealthy and powerful people can do terrible things *at scale* and face no consequences for them. Whatever political party actually stops it could rule the country for a generation.
November 13, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Good point. And elite impunity relies on a complicit mainstream press that’s ever more populated by elites or aspiring elites. Will eg the nyt’s Sulzberger, an ultrarich heir, or Kahn, another ultrarich heir, cover Epstein with the zeal they’ve reserved for pet right-wing projects like transphobia?
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To recap: Jeffrey Epstein offered a NY Times reporter photos taken in Epstein's kitchen of Donald Trump and girls in bikinis *and* implored the NYT reporter to put this information in the public discourse in 2015
What did the NY Times editors know about this offer?
What did the NY Times editors know about this offer?
“would you like photos of donald and girls in bikinis in my kitchen?” -Jeffrey Epstein
November 12, 2025 at 8:05 PM
To recap: Jeffrey Epstein offered a NY Times reporter photos taken in Epstein's kitchen of Donald Trump and girls in bikinis *and* implored the NYT reporter to put this information in the public discourse in 2015
What did the NY Times editors know about this offer?
What did the NY Times editors know about this offer?
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Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.
November 12, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.
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“This could take down Democrats, too.”
You promise?
You promise?
"This could take down Democrats, too."
I know. And I frankly wouldn't give even an itty bitty damn if it implicated every Democratic man in Congress, every Democratic hopeful for 2028 and every Democrat who has even thought about running for office.
Down with the sex predators, wherever they are.
I know. And I frankly wouldn't give even an itty bitty damn if it implicated every Democratic man in Congress, every Democratic hopeful for 2028 and every Democrat who has even thought about running for office.
Down with the sex predators, wherever they are.
November 13, 2025 at 1:32 AM
“This could take down Democrats, too.”
You promise?
You promise?
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Yeah. Obvious jokes, even.
BlueSky: where hyperbole is taken as threat while racist & anti-trans hate speech get a pass
November 12, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Yeah. Obvious jokes, even.
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So people can get suspended for posting song lyrics?
(Just want to be sure I’m understanding this correctly.)
(Just want to be sure I’m understanding this correctly.)
November 12, 2025 at 7:40 PM
So people can get suspended for posting song lyrics?
(Just want to be sure I’m understanding this correctly.)
(Just want to be sure I’m understanding this correctly.)
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Every technology problem is three social problems in a trench coat
ok one last post -- oldheads are always going to "why is the web dying.... how can we get the kids invested in the free and open web"
bro the kids can't read. that's why the web is dying. first things first
bro the kids can't read. that's why the web is dying. first things first
November 11, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Every technology problem is three social problems in a trench coat
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I keep beating this drum: the kind of people one thinks of as Silicon Valley "techbro" are so often finance people with an engineering cosplay habit, not actual technologists
Elon Musk was famously *never* a good coder and I can't believe he ever scienced a rocket either. But he craves that respect
Elon Musk was famously *never* a good coder and I can't believe he ever scienced a rocket either. But he craves that respect
the worst part is that for the people at the top "good at math"/sciencey is essentially a vibe one socially codes their way into by being minimally competent at informally discussing things actual math/science people do, unless (e.g.) Elon Musk has proven a theorem I didn't hear about.
I think the belief by the powerful that "people will put up with many things if you are excellent at math" is incredibly revealing in terms of understanding How We Got Here
November 12, 2025 at 8:03 AM
I keep beating this drum: the kind of people one thinks of as Silicon Valley "techbro" are so often finance people with an engineering cosplay habit, not actual technologists
Elon Musk was famously *never* a good coder and I can't believe he ever scienced a rocket either. But he craves that respect
Elon Musk was famously *never* a good coder and I can't believe he ever scienced a rocket either. But he craves that respect
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An analysis of news pieces about Trump’s anti-trans decrees found that “70 percent did not include a quote from a single trans person. Instead, journalists turned to cisgender sources — mostly government officials — to speak about trans people, their lives, and how they would be affected.”
NEW: Firings of LGBTQ staff at NBC and Condé Nast have worsened an already dire picture for legacy news media when it comes to covering the trans community.
From @billiejsweeney.bsky.social, a close look at our increasingly degraded media environment.
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
From @billiejsweeney.bsky.social, a close look at our increasingly degraded media environment.
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
Corporate Media’s Queer Purge — Assigned
It’s no coincidence that historic assaults on trans and queer people’s rights have been accompanied by the mainstream media’s widespread dismissal of LGBTQ+ journalists and the elimination of beats de...
www.assignedmedia.org
November 11, 2025 at 10:00 PM
An analysis of news pieces about Trump’s anti-trans decrees found that “70 percent did not include a quote from a single trans person. Instead, journalists turned to cisgender sources — mostly government officials — to speak about trans people, their lives, and how they would be affected.”
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So much of what I research and write about is the confluence of flight safety & politics. When these two collide it causes ripple effects that derail policies & plans, delay funding, & destroy staffing goals & morale.
Politics fucks up flight safety & we are at a peak political moment for aviation.
Politics fucks up flight safety & we are at a peak political moment for aviation.
November 12, 2025 at 1:48 AM
So much of what I research and write about is the confluence of flight safety & politics. When these two collide it causes ripple effects that derail policies & plans, delay funding, & destroy staffing goals & morale.
Politics fucks up flight safety & we are at a peak political moment for aviation.
Politics fucks up flight safety & we are at a peak political moment for aviation.
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So Dems demanded an extension on subsidies or else. Then they caved. The GOP being smart is now adding abortion restrictions to a subsidies extension forcing Dems to either sell out on abortion or vote no on the subsidies they demanded in the first place.
They just keep getting clowned.
They just keep getting clowned.
November 12, 2025 at 1:58 AM
So Dems demanded an extension on subsidies or else. Then they caved. The GOP being smart is now adding abortion restrictions to a subsidies extension forcing Dems to either sell out on abortion or vote no on the subsidies they demanded in the first place.
They just keep getting clowned.
They just keep getting clowned.
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i feel like it has helped me navigate Internet knowing about 20% of everyone is not Real
November 12, 2025 at 2:03 AM
i feel like it has helped me navigate Internet knowing about 20% of everyone is not Real
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where's the lie
November 11, 2025 at 4:54 PM
where's the lie
LOL
“Be grateful to Prince Schumer because Democrats wanted to fold even earlier” is not the win you think it is.
It’s proof you all need to be primaried.
“Be grateful to Prince Schumer because Democrats wanted to fold even earlier” is not the win you think it is.
It’s proof you all need to be primaried.
SCOOP: Schumer privately fought to extend government shutdown
Scoop: Schumer privately fought to extend government shutdown
"We let him know what we were doing," said Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.).
www.axios.com
November 11, 2025 at 5:36 PM
LOL
“Be grateful to Prince Schumer because Democrats wanted to fold even earlier” is not the win you think it is.
It’s proof you all need to be primaried.
“Be grateful to Prince Schumer because Democrats wanted to fold even earlier” is not the win you think it is.
It’s proof you all need to be primaried.
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🚨 Tim Kaine is saying the quiet part out loud - underscoring why anyone shouldn't be satisfied with any of the "no" statements or posts from Dem Senators.
If Dem Senators are truly disgusted with this save they should be calling on #SurrenderSchumer to step aside as the Leader immediately.
If Dem Senators are truly disgusted with this save they should be calling on #SurrenderSchumer to step aside as the Leader immediately.
November 10, 2025 at 7:32 PM
🚨 Tim Kaine is saying the quiet part out loud - underscoring why anyone shouldn't be satisfied with any of the "no" statements or posts from Dem Senators.
If Dem Senators are truly disgusted with this save they should be calling on #SurrenderSchumer to step aside as the Leader immediately.
If Dem Senators are truly disgusted with this save they should be calling on #SurrenderSchumer to step aside as the Leader immediately.
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good thing the US and UK are doing this at the same time 😵💫
UK science and technology is suffering from a lack of investment, a hostile immigration system, and fragile university finances, reports @cathleenogrady.bsky.social 🧪 #scipolicy
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
U.K. science sector is ‘bleeding to death,’ lawmakers say in report
House of Lords committee urges government to stem exodus of science and technology companies
www.science.org
November 11, 2025 at 5:01 PM
good thing the US and UK are doing this at the same time 😵💫
Your definition of “bad actors” seems to be quite at odds with mine.
Our policy has been not to comment on individual accounts. You end up having to litigate every case in public, and we don’t have the capacity for infinite debates in public.
Then there’s also the consequences such as the increased litigation and bad actors gaming your systems.
Then there’s also the consequences such as the increased litigation and bad actors gaming your systems.
November 11, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Your definition of “bad actors” seems to be quite at odds with mine.
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No one will ever sum up Bari Weiss's career more succinctly than "what's the point of standards"
“Standards will be eliminated or severely cut back. Bari has told people that she wants to get rid of standards and is shocked that they have so much power. She asks ‘What’s the point of standards?’
November 11, 2025 at 3:46 PM
No one will ever sum up Bari Weiss's career more succinctly than "what's the point of standards"
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in 2025 this should be a career ending way to talk about people. he should be asked about this everyday until he is hounded back to whatever bear cave he crawled out of.
A reminder that according to Fetterman's own former staffers, Fetterman had a meeting with J-Street president Jeremy Ben Ami in which he told Ben Ami that he believes Arabs are like a "carton of sour milk" and that we should get back to killing.
"Kill them all" Fetterman is reported as having said.
"Kill them all" Fetterman is reported as having said.
November 11, 2025 at 11:12 AM
in 2025 this should be a career ending way to talk about people. he should be asked about this everyday until he is hounded back to whatever bear cave he crawled out of.