There is unfortunately no end to doomscrolling, but you still need time to rest and recover.

in the legal field we call this
'vibe breach of privilege'

For your #FollowFriday consideration, a random list of folks whose posts my dev @davidcolarusso.com has found interesting:

@profsteed.bsky.social

@tiffanycli.bsky.social

@elienyc.bsky.social

@mikewhelanjr.bsky.social

@lifewinning.com

@neorsd.org

@profmmurray.bsky.social

@bunkum.us

The audacity of this comparison tho

The world may be chaotic and unpredictable, but a sweet treat, a walk outside, a good book, and a nap will never let you down

The title of this post from @riana.bsky.social says it all. This is a blazing big deal for the 4th Amendment.

Then again, it's a blazing big deal for like ten other reasons.

Mostly because lets the FTC decide if platforms enforced their speech rules correctly.

www.techdirt.com/2025/09/18/t...

A Cyberattack on Jaguar Land Rover Is Causing a Supply Chain Disaster www.wired.com/story/jlr-ja...

Hey, I know books are expensive and money is tight right now.

But if there's a brand new book you really wanna read — including my own Lessons in Magic and Disaster — you can help get the book into way more hands by requesting it from your local library!

It's easy! Check your library's website.

I was chatting about this op-ed w/ a friend; what is the best way to communicate to a general audience about police surveillance? etc.

& one of my conclusions was that people fixate on the power of the tools when they are new to the subject, but eventually they evolve past the tools

not just climate, either

they've destroyed the entirety of federal consumer protection, corporate oversight and regulatory autonomy across every industry that touches every aspect of your lives

the impacts will be concussive, unprecedented, incalculable, and extremely fatal

This thread is a calming read 🧵

Citing concerns about DEI, the Department of Education has halted funding for programs that support students with combined hearing and vision loss in eight states.

“How low can you go?” one advocate asked. “How can you do this to children?”

By @jodiscohen.bsky.social @jsmithrichards.bsky.social

After the standards underpinning the World Wide Web were created in the early 90s, we decided the best way to fund the web’s development was through ads and not as a public resource like roads or libraries.

Every day I think about how different things would be if we’d gone the other way.

Political violence disproportionately hurts people with less power, not people with more power. Political violence will disproportionately hurt people of color and women and LGBTQ people. It’s not fair, but that’s the way it works. Celebrating political violence means at best indifference to that.

😔

Sad to find out the things I love the most about America are the things some people hate the most: free speech, democracy, cultural diversity, innovation in arts and sciences, national parks…

😱

Becoming a parent is realizing you’ve gone from main character to backstory

“A new volunteer-led organization called Grandparents for Vaccines launched Sunday on National Grandparents Day with a mission to share firsthand experiences of life before vaccines were widely available.” [kgw.com]

Read this investigation on US tech companies played a major role in designing and building China's surveillance state, by @dakekang.bsky.social and @yaelwrites.com apnews.com/article/chin...

In the future everyone will be AI for 15 minutes

Marvel Studios leaving Georgia and taking all its productions to the UK because they don’t have to pay for employees’ health insurance there due to universal healthcare is a valuable lesson for America.

We’ll ignore it but the lesson still stands. Universal healthcare creates jobs.