Recent posts by Digital Discourse Community on Bluesky

when you thought for sure you’d have to rework a draft but they’re actually publishing it

May will be a very busy month for me. Join me & others at these forthcoming public events. 5/3 - Black Zine Fair - blackzinefair.org [THIS Saturday]

I was gonna go to court — printout of Jeff Bezos I was gonna pay my child support — printout of Jeff Bezos They took my whole paycheck, and I know why: printout of Jeff Bezos printout of Jeff Bezos printout of Jeff Bezos

Officials just love their pre-crime fantasies.

I feel so bad for this woman and her family because she didn’t deserve this—no one deserves this. But you won’t catch me feeling bad for Florida Cubans as a group under any circumstances.

The main goals of most new tech products seem to be fraud, general surveillance, and “we need to invent a new product to do this so we can pretend it’s not just racial profiling”

Or they could hire human people to work in the booths! Just spitballing

who needs scientists anyway

well this is a cool thing imo

Dear God it is here.

Reinforced the police state even though he had the leverage from the Floyd demonstrations to move in a new direction. Normalized punishing people for speech. Abandoned his base voters (again) to reach out to racists that hate us. I could make a daily calendar of reasons to hate him

FTP is excited to share our forthcoming newsletter that includes a detailed report about our data collection project that hundreds of volunteers led by @dylanflesch.bsky.social have worked on for 2 years!!! We are sharing data that hasn't previously been available.

not for nothing: the snail evolved to do this. did you evolve to open email?

Proof again of the rule: Don’t debate Nazis. Arguments against birthright citizenship are poorly constructed motivated reasoning, and entertaining them in good faith is validating the premise that there’s something to debate. It’s like arguing heliocentrism.

Every day I wonder what I should buy before the tariffs really kick in; that I had previously delayed due to my tendency to be frugal. Things like a new harness for my dog, nice shoes for dates, new clothes, reusable glass or silicone meal containers, and better plates. Items manufactured in China.

I was going to say that this happens 100 times a day with *regular* police raids. And that most people don't mind that this is the case.

Tech bros: see, we invented this cool new thing nobody’s ever seen before called racial profiling

The one Pete Carroll has put Harbaugh in

wtf is a "foodie" everyone who isn't actively suffering through something likes food you need to stop

I bet the group chat for the heads of state of every country except for the U.S. has a really fun name.

The people are incens’d against him.

"Employees who received the selfie request were told to include the background of their duty station and send it to their supervisors. The request came from a division chief at the senior executive level with DHS, according to a copy of the email obtained by Government Executive."

Black Zine Fair is 4 days away. Join us. Please make sure to register if you plan to attend. It will make check in smoother for all. blackzinefair.org

they want your email and credit card number, primarily

new york times voter interviews are a powerful argument that not everybody should be allowed to vote

this is an excellent resource.

finally an American with the courage to point out that potato is to food what Sourav Ganguly is to cricket- literally everything it does can be done better by someone else. It is the definition of superfluous without being bad

pedocon theory explains the modern GOP better than 100% of other attempts

If you’re looking for a way to demonstrate your opposition to Trump’s agenda and you’re in Washington DC tomorrow Sojourners along with partners in WISC are holding a Faithful Witness Wednesday vigil marking Trump’s 100 days and calling for moral courage from Congress.

the rare virtue of a strong individual vitality, and the rare virtue of thick walls, and the rare virtue of interior spaciousness

feels like a really self defeating point like it is literally impossible to do mass deportation in a humane and competent way, this is like saying they would have loved trump to split the atom without releasing energy, the amount of time spent on stupid shit dumb people want is why we are here

If student loan forgiveness is your main issue, then you cannot affirmatively vote for the GOP. If you don't trust Democrats on the issue, then you either vote 3rd party or don't vote. But you can't vote for the GOP and say it's because you mainly care about student loan forgiveness.

I was happy as a fucking clam at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books this weekend. Several friends came out to see me moderate a panel on alternatives to apocalypse, and it was such a joy to see them esp in this moment 😍 The largest book fest in the country attended by over 100K ppl! #BookSky

the single greatest own goal since trade began

a benefit to simply finding this stuff funny rather than rooting for the corporation is that when they walk it back or clarify or whatever, it’s still funny, just in a more pathetic way

Corollary: people who whine about echo chambers would have been significantly improved as people if in fact they had spent more time in life being whacked in the face

thinking about a double feature of sinners and the revenge of the sith re-release like a madman

ohemgeee makeup artist just posted a great video she got of The Husband's (!!!) and my First Look 🥹🥲 Yes I was out here traipsing around the Brooklyn waterfront in a ballgown lolol www.instagram.com/reel/DJCAjBP...

This is true AND we rationalize our choices to save face [every human being does this].

That genius Leavitt just Streisand Effected a fringe idea by a tiny part of Amazon into national discourse about tariff impacts, sometimes rule by the dumbest people has real benefits

I don't think you learn much from interviewing voters about their voting choices.

I feel like this would be interesting to late elementary school age children. www.amnh.org/explore/olog... - It was also interesting to me and I'm not in elementary school. LOL

for years I have said that Bill Ackman is the literal stupidest person to ever live and not once has there ever been a single piece of evidence to contradict that belief

Here's Duke in a rehearsal shot with Lilo and Theodore Bikel for Pousse-Café, a stage musical version of The Blue Angel. It didn't go well.

Happy Celeste Holm's birthday too! (Be nice.)

savoring the gentle thrill of correctly guessing my word count, like an amuse bouche of word processing

The new Chris Farren song is very good NO SURPRISE!!!

Juilliard going tuition free!

Jesus Christ I had missed that professional groyper Andy Ngo’s lawyer had been made head of the DOJ’s civil rights division

Happy Duke Ellington's birthday! [sketch by William Auerbach-Levy]

Unlike the Roc Nation scam, this is real

today's semi-random theater photo: birthday girl Zizi Jeanmaire (center) in The Girl in Pink Tights (1954) perhaps you can, without looking it up, identify those two young fellows

In Jaz Brisack's book "Get on the Job and Organize", the author observes firsthand how baristas desperately needed a union to improve their standard of living, raise pay, and have protections and a voice at work.

“While people are happy that Khartoum has been freed from the RSF (Rapid Support Forces), the Sudanese army (SAF) is also committing crimes. It's like picking a lesser evil—at the end of the day, people are still dying for no reason.”

Many more people take the subway or buses or ride their bikes every day than drive cars and parking is already heavily subsidized. People who want to drive cars still can, they just need to pay slightly more for it.

Request for help: If you are traveling from Canada to NYC in the next two weeks, I need an OTC allergy medication called Aerius. It is sold at drugstores like Shoppers Drug Mart and Costco. I have tried Zyrtec and other US brands, but would prefer to pay someone for a seasonal supply of this one.

The U.S. Senate and House voted for budgets that steal $880 billion from Medicaid—to give billionaires tax cuts. A friend is part of a group organizing against this. They are asking for calls to Congress. This link makes that easy: win.newmode.net/peoplesactio...

Your post wasn’t found but I kept trying 🫶

it’s like they’re posting through it IRL

Bluesky is glitching because we could not collectively handle the intensity of Karoline Leavitt I'ma-let-you-finishing the press conference by holding up a printout of Jeff Bezos. the Bezos printout is a white dwarf re-igniting

“We estimate that if half of federal civilian jobs in the DC metro area were eliminated, unemployment in the area would more than double, at least in the short run, rising from 2.8 percent to 7.3 percent.” www.urban.org/urban-wire/d...

People will be out in the streets again everywhere on Thursday: maydaystrong.org

Three months in, and everyone and everything is the enemy. Immigrants and trans people and DEI and woke and the media and the Democrats and the "radical left" and judges and other countries and sanctuary cities and government employees and science and...capitalists?

please help if you can 🙏🏾❤️

If you saw Sinners, you'll want to hear Delroy Lindo talking about THAT scene in the car: www.instagram.com/reel/DIxU9rn...

Interrupting the flow of cheap consumer goods is genuinely the only real red line that, by my guess, probably a double-digit percentage of Americans have for a Republican administration. The admin is scared of this and they should be, because Amazon gives everyone else permission to do it.

I haven’t spoken with this family yet but you can ❤️

A reminder that many gently used home goods, furniture, small appliances, monitors, school supplies, and other items are currently being sold (or even given away) by college students and grad students, if you are looking to save money due to the new tariffs.

THE OLIGARCH BOYS ARE FIGHTING

they just signaled at the presser what their strategy will be -- just say "the Biden ______" about the things they break. the Biden price hikes. the Biden air traffic disasters. Trump didn't shit himself; Joe Biden shat in Trump's pants.

When I click on your responses this is what comes up even though I can see your responses in my mentions. cc @support.bsky.team

Okay can someone explain to me what a Bill Bellechick is and why he has an age inappropriate dominatrix?

Walid delayed his surgery that he needed to walk for over a year and now it’s crucial that he continues physical therapy ❤️

it's giving chairs

“For me, this is a work of fiction, but it’s a historically accurate film. It centers Black religious experience, challenges how we think about what America is and what it does.” religiondispatches.org/i-dont-do-ho...

I'm sorry but WUT?????? ONLY "66% oppose sending U.S. citizens to foreign prisons." This tells you how messed up some people are in this country and how much folks LOVE prisons.

I'm sorry I'm so focused on the pic of Ferenc Léhar at the piano that I have to repost it with the caption Paul Celan might have written for it, had he lived & become a poster. stand by

This is hilarious. Also Bezos will back down.

My youngest nibling called me this morning [very early because she lives overseas] to tell me that she just wanted to hear my voice because she misses me [I cried real tears because so sweet and I miss her too.]

yes good correction -- Sheriff's dept, not PD

Rabbit hole alert: Subway Stories explores New York’s Subway ridership patterns. subwaystories.nyc

you know, if you look long enough at this picture of Ferenc Léhar in his apartment in Vienna in 1918, you will eventually be drawn to the inescapable conclusion that people had a whole fuck-ton of chairs in those days

this is already happening on eBay, AliExpress and other websites so I expect other retailers like Chewy to implement it soon

god I do not miss newsroom executives

oooh they added some polygons in the expansion pack

I’d missed that he gave himself badge number 69420. A seventh-grade boy has a more sophisticated sense of humor

lol this is popcorn.gif stuff. he sent in the one who yells better to say “Joe Biden did this”

the LAPD, for generations, has been a truly criminal enterprise whose most sociopathic members rise through the ranks & hire more people like them

Really don’t care for this sort of thing. Lego scaffolding doesn’t work like that

Until there is a deal, there is no deal.

Everyone is capable of writing a good essay. I firmly believe this is a skill that can be taught to anyone, and we should be teaching it. And I don’t mean a stupid 500 word AP exam essay. I mean a real one that people might want to read.

this feels like the billionaire telling the millionaire to quit fucking with his money

athirst in the great American desert

Here are some nice mushrooms

So I have this credit for a Bolt ride because they messed something up when I was traveling- but I always take public transport everywhere but now I’m like trying to strategically plan how much stuff I need from IKEA that will fit in a normal car 😂

I asked Ahmed and he said the ointment for this was probably at most $50 which seems doable ❤️

very funny to watch retailer after retailer do the “i did that!” thing that republicans did with joe biden and gas prices

This man cannot stop himself from caping for racists and rapists

It’s clear from the social media discourse about #Sinners that A LOT of people need to read this book because a ridiculous number of people think that “passing” means “looks white” and “could be perceived as white” and that is in fact not it lol www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...

forget disapprovals. when will someone have the balls to poll assassinations