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onekade @onekade.bsky.social · 16m

Seems bad! Maybe the democrats could say something about it!

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 1h

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

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Jesse @misctakes.com · 20m

on one hand it's obvious, on the other hand I am not sure what it looks like to be more of what we already are

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Jesse @misctakes.com · 27m

Ok Boston what's our plan

Constant Scream @ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 2h

It's interesting seeing the different ways resistance has formed in different cities. Los Angeles Organized, Chicago Radicalized, and Portland Got Weird as Fuck. All 3 have had success unifying their respective cities.

I guess my point is there are multiple paths to ungovernability.

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Jesse @misctakes.com · 35m

I was noticing I see more and more people tagged as following accounts I'm pretty sure they don't agree with, yet the labels were being treated as more dispositive than they are. So I can see what the creator is getting at.

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Jesse @misctakes.com · 37m

I'll admit the screenshotting of the follow tracker could be a little overzealous but it was really useful to have and this sucks. Someone's gotta make individual/private versions of this

Follow Tracker @for.shame.wtf · 2h

Some of you are blaming @jay.bsky.team or @bsky.app in general, or claiming that this is being forced by @moderation.bsky.app. That could not be further from the truth. I'm shutting it down of my own volition because some of you can't be trusted to use this information reasonably and responsibly.

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Jerome @fjerome.bsky.social · 1h

Well said sir

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

Trump: "Just before the election an answer was changed by Kamala. She gave a horrible death defying--- election defying answer. And they took the answer out & replaced it with another answer that she gave 5 minutes later having to do with a different subject but at least it wasn't election defying"

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Jesse @misctakes.com · 7h

thank you!!

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Jesse @misctakes.com · 7h

I don't think it's either. But she is giving Trump a "disorder" pretext which is distinctly unhelpful at this time.

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Jesse @misctakes.com · 8h

I don't think this seems especially worth passing along, without actual credible corroboration. (Nor does it strike me as especially helpful to the end of fighting AIPAC.)

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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 11h

In case you, like me, saw your electric bill more than double.

Peter Butler @peter-butler.bsky.social · 20h

Bloomberg research found wholesale electricity up ~270% in areas near data centers

It doesn't seem like nearly enough people are taking it seriously

One A.I. image isn't too much energy, but 5 million videos? Per day/hour/minute whatever. It's not sustainable

www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

AI Data Centers Are Sending Power Bills Soaring

Wholesale electricity costs as much as 267% more than it did five years ago in areas near data centers. That’s being passed on to customers.

www.bloomberg.com

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Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 8h

😤

It's the Anakin Padme meme. Anakin is now a smoke detector saying I don't have enough energy to tell u if there's a fire. Padme happily asks So u don't have enough energy to make a shill loud beep every minute for years? Then she looks worried, and asks again: U don't have the energy to make a shill loud beep every minute for years, right? To which Anakin the smoke detector replies BEEP

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Jesse @misctakes.com · 8h

"I love 'pretext'… what a beautiful word. Anyway we are going to be watching this very strongly."

The Boston Globe @bostonglobe.com · 9h

Governor Healey said that the “street takeovers” reported in Boston and other communities over the weekend “are completely destructive, dangerous, and against the law.”

Healey ‘disgusted’ by chaotic ‘street takeovers,’ pledges law enforcement crackdown on such events - The Boston Globe

The governor plans to further discuss the chaos that unfolded in several Eastern Massachusetts communities over the weekend.

trib.al

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Hend Amry @libyaliberty.bsky.social · 11h

Don’t listen to anyone who minimizes the threat of a government that “only” wants to tighten the authoritarian surveillance noose for “some” people. THATS ALWAYS HOW IT BEGINS YOU FASCISM ENABLERS.

Full Fact @fullfact.org · 11h

On social media and their website, the Liberal Democrats have claimed “Keir Starmer says everyone in the UK will be required to have mandatory digital ID”.

But this isn’t the case, and we can’t find any evidence the Prime Minister said it was.

Digital ID won’t be mandatory for ‘everyone in the UK’ – Full Fact

The Liberal Democrats have claimed Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer said everyone in the UK will have to have digital ID, but that’s not the case.

fullfact.org

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Jesse @misctakes.com · 9h

Can anyone recommend someone who does windows in the Cambridge/Boston area? Our windows are a mess - missing panes, broken balances. We don't have a lot of money so ideally we can use what we have and not start over from scratch.

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Jesse @misctakes.com · 9h

thanks! I know my way around regex but still do it the baby way, with a gui (bbedit)

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Santa Goldstein @goldstein.bsky.social · 9h

Wait, is this what people are mad at? That they aren't Black and should feel uncomfortable at having a blacksky handle instead of a myatproto handle? That's absurd. Even before this became a policy I explicitly chose a myatproto handle instead of blacksky because I am not Black. Y'all, have respect.

Gail Drakes @gaildrakes.bsky.social · 17h

Are you a non-Black person pissed at Bluesky leadership and feeling a little jealous of all the good vibes coming from Blacksky?

There are Blacksky adjacent options for you! Here’s info from the Blacksky migration guide!

docs.blacksky.community/migrating-to...

Screengrab from Blacksky migration guide:

blacksky algorithms

A Warning: Anyone else using a blacksky.app handle will receive a warning at first and then a suspension.

Alternative PDSs for Everyone
Blacksky Algorithms also operates two other
PDSs that are open to anyone:
• myatproto.social - Open to all
• cryptoanarchy.network - Open to all

These servers run on the same infrastructure as blacksky.app and are maintained by the same team, but are available for anyone to use regardless of background.

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Jesse @misctakes.com · 9h

What would be the best (easiest/fastest) way to do a search and replace in multiple files, where I take a two column csv, and one by one, search for the string in the first column and replace it with the string in the second?

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Jesse @misctakes.com · 9h

Among Ayah's many great qualities, she is demonstrably ready to face down ICE. #cambma

Ayah Al-Zubi (she/her) @votealzubi.com · 10d

Turns out a lot of people don't even know there is an election coming up. Today we met Patrick, who literally lives under a rock. He was really excited about our plans to make dignified housing affordable for all!

Come join us on a canvass & help get the word out!

actionnetwork.org/campaigns/ay...

A crew of Cantabridgians posing by the Porter T station with their Ayah lit, excited to go canvassing. One of them is in a big costume of Patrick Star from Spongebob Squarepants. We can neither confirm nor deny that it is Ayah in the costume.

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Anuj Ahooja @quillmatiq.com · 23h

@blackskyweb.xyz is about to become a full-stack competitor to @bsky.app 👀

You'll be able to use your existing account without any dependency on Bluesky. That's been the dream of the Bluesky team and everyone who's been paying attention to ATProto.

And if there's any who can do it, it's Rudy.

Rudy wants revolution. @rude1.blacksky.team · 23h

I've been radio silent because I'm in the process of standing up an app.bsky.* API server (aka app-view aka Barnes & Nobles). This is an expensive and time intensive operation that I didn't want to do until it was necessary.
It's a fail-safe not a differentiator in experience, but important 7/11

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Ayah Al-Zubi (she/her) @votealzubi.com · 23h

Join us this Saturday at 10am for a transportation canvass! Our streets should be interconnected, safe, and vibrant — so all Cambridge residents can move around with dignity. 🚴

actionnetwork.org/events/1011-...

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siobhan @siobhan-m.bsky.social · 23h

“do you understand politics” yes i understand that when one ruling party throws all of its resources into demonizing a small, vulnerable minority and the other party decides to stop talking about the issue, public opinion isn’t going to look great!

Caught In A Bad Romance @whatdoyoumean89.bsky.social · 23h

Look at the polling among Dems, that’s what I am saying. He can’t alienate half of his base. Do you understand politics.

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Rudy wants revolution. @rude1.blacksky.team · 23h

TL; DR
In the next 5 business days you should be able to go to Link's page on blacksky.community and see his posts and he'll be able to post but people using the bsky mobile apps won't see it.
After that we'll get Blacksky-only posts up.
After that we can talk about purging bsky mod tools
fin/11

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Rudy wants revolution. @rude1.blacksky.team · 23h

I hear and see your concerns. Over the weekend, a couple users hosted on Blacksky's PDS were banned from the Bluesky app and thus the Bluesky API servers. This was a weakness of our system I've been aware of and hoped we had more time to address before any kind of public incident. 1/11

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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 23h

Still thinking about the delicious huitlacoche and mushroom tacos I had last week. 🍄‍🟫🌮

Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 1d

it's national taco day! stellar mexicanist ignacio sanchez prado has a new book right on time!

TACO, in the bloomsbury object lessons series.

chicago, go celebrate with a taco and support our neighbors in little village, pilsen, logan, everywhere

www.bloomsbury.com/us/taco-9798...

Taco

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.Taco is a deep dive into the most iconic Mexican food…

www.bloomsbury.com

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Jesse @misctakes.com · 1d

these are all just good

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