Marco Rogers
@polotek.bsky.social
Web developer, movie buff, and pretty much the best guy you know.
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Marco Rogers
@polotek.bsky.social
· Oct 17
We spend a lot of time talking about what we disagree with. We spend a lot of time articulating what we don't want to happen. But we don't spend nearly as much time becoming intentional about what we DO want. Our opposition should be moving the world towards OUR vision of the future.
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Went on @msnbc.com to talk crypto grift. Plus, a sneak peak of the film I directed, EVERYONE IS LYING TO YOU FOR MONEY playing @docnycfest.bsky.social this weekend!
November 13, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Went on @msnbc.com to talk crypto grift. Plus, a sneak peak of the film I directed, EVERYONE IS LYING TO YOU FOR MONEY playing @docnycfest.bsky.social this weekend!
Like what is the point of going out of your way to sacrifice people like Sarah and Link if it doesn’t even enable you to get at people like Singal? Don’t can’t pretend you care about inciting violence and then utterly fail to actually protect against the worst perpetrators.
It doesn’t really change anything about my view. We need to stop whining about hard it is and look at the outcomes. If these outcomes are the best we can do, then we haven’t actually solved a problem. We’re just pissing people off for no reason.
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The reality is that your judgment has to be rooted in your values. That's what's going to determine what you reward and what you punish. And if you're not clear on your values, then they will emerge clearly through your actual actions. In short, Link is banned, Jesse Singal is not. So now we know.
November 13, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Like what is the point of going out of your way to sacrifice people like Sarah and Link if it doesn’t even enable you to get at people like Singal? Don’t can’t pretend you care about inciting violence and then utterly fail to actually protect against the worst perpetrators.
Whew. Listen. You talk to a lot of young people today and the whole conversation is basically them asking “where is the fix?” It’s not that they don’t work hard. They’re actually working very hard to find ways to exploit the system.
Gen Z has learned alot from growing up in the Trump era of CRONYISM.
They believe they qualified for roles they arent & who can tell them different when they see an entire government being run by people w/ no expertise? When experts are having to debate sycophants as if they are on the same level
They believe they qualified for roles they arent & who can tell them different when they see an entire government being run by people w/ no expertise? When experts are having to debate sycophants as if they are on the same level
November 13, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Whew. Listen. You talk to a lot of young people today and the whole conversation is basically them asking “where is the fix?” It’s not that they don’t work hard. They’re actually working very hard to find ways to exploit the system.
"A legislative commission in Richmond has spent the past year surveying nearly every public institution of higher education, finding that at least 11 cited using eminent domain or other means to acquire land in majority-Black neighborhoods."
A new state commission and a local task force are digging into how institutions like Christopher Newport University and others used eminent domain or land acquisitions to displace Black neighborhoods — and they’re making the findings public for the first time.
Virginia’s probe into public universities’ displacement of Black neighborhoods no longer theoretical • Virginia Mercury
A Newport News task force revealed its preliminary findings in a recent meeting, the most public update yet in a process many residents have urged be more transparent
virginiamercury.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:14 PM
"A legislative commission in Richmond has spent the past year surveying nearly every public institution of higher education, finding that at least 11 cited using eminent domain or other means to acquire land in majority-Black neighborhoods."
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NEW: @propublica.org investigated the Chicago apartment raid where kids were zip-tied and citizens detained for hours. They find:
- NONE of the arrested were criminally charged
- NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists."
- ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.
- NONE of the arrested were criminally charged
- NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists."
- ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.
November 13, 2025 at 2:08 PM
NEW: @propublica.org investigated the Chicago apartment raid where kids were zip-tied and citizens detained for hours. They find:
- NONE of the arrested were criminally charged
- NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists."
- ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.
- NONE of the arrested were criminally charged
- NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists."
- ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.
@cydharrell.bsky.social Cyd! It's good to see you here.
November 13, 2025 at 3:28 AM
@cydharrell.bsky.social Cyd! It's good to see you here.
For the record, many many people are not actually clear on their values. It's more difficult than it sounds.
The reality is that your judgment has to be rooted in your values. That's what's going to determine what you reward and what you punish. And if you're not clear on your values, then they will emerge clearly through your actual actions. In short, Link is banned, Jesse Singal is not. So now we know.
November 13, 2025 at 3:21 AM
For the record, many many people are not actually clear on their values. It's more difficult than it sounds.
I'm gonna push back on this. I feel like people fall victim to this all the time. The flaw in this reasoning is that if the platform has decided to engage in moderation, they don't need to take the word of the person that it's a joke. They need to use their own judgment and make a determination.
An additional element is that it's hard to enforce a policy on threats when an acceptable defense is "It was just a joke / cultural reference"—a defense that a bad actor could weaponize. So I can understand how you might end up with a policy that says, We simply have to apply a blanket rule.
November 13, 2025 at 2:56 AM
I'm gonna push back on this. I feel like people fall victim to this all the time. The flaw in this reasoning is that if the platform has decided to engage in moderation, they don't need to take the word of the person that it's a joke. They need to use their own judgment and make a determination.
How does this incident compare to Link, who has been banned indefinitely?
The account owner of @sarahkendzior.bsky.social was suspended for 72 hours for expressing a desire to shoot the author of an article. The post, made 11/10, stated: "I want to shoot the author of this article just to watch him die." 1/2
November 12, 2025 at 8:10 PM
How does this incident compare to Link, who has been banned indefinitely?
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"Democrats will never fully support disabled people because disability is the antithesis of capitalism. It requires we take a step back from always making a profit when it comes to the lives of people who can produce no profit outside of extraction from our for-profit healthcare system."
100% this.
100% this.
When you actually think about how many issues are tied to disability you never think about, it’s intentional.
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Capitalists Were Never Going To Protect Your Healthcare When Your Disablement Is For Profit
When I first began my career in disability advocacy as a professional, I was bright-eyed, believing that I would be working with the most vocal supporters of DEI and who rallied behind diversity as…
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November 11, 2025 at 7:28 PM
"Democrats will never fully support disabled people because disability is the antithesis of capitalism. It requires we take a step back from always making a profit when it comes to the lives of people who can produce no profit outside of extraction from our for-profit healthcare system."
100% this.
100% this.
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Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.
October 27, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.
I remember everybody patting themselves on the back for getting Fetterman elected. I admit I wasn't paying attention and don't know anything about it. Is there any writing on how he so thoroughly duped everybody?
November 10, 2025 at 3:46 PM
I remember everybody patting themselves on the back for getting Fetterman elected. I admit I wasn't paying attention and don't know anything about it. Is there any writing on how he so thoroughly duped everybody?
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A reminder that this anti-trans panic is 100% bullshit and exactly none of our country’s problems are related to someone expressing their gender identity and everyone who isn’t a hate-filled weirdo knows it.
November 10, 2025 at 1:16 PM
A reminder that this anti-trans panic is 100% bullshit and exactly none of our country’s problems are related to someone expressing their gender identity and everyone who isn’t a hate-filled weirdo knows it.
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They’re wearing masks so they can’t be prosecuted later. As long as they think they can’t be prosecuted, their crimes will intensify. They will torture, starve and kill, as they have already, on greater and greater scale.
Signed, someone who’s covered the unaccountable War on Terror for 23 years.
Signed, someone who’s covered the unaccountable War on Terror for 23 years.
I’ve come to believe that we need to gather considerable forces and a campaign to demand the removal of face masks by ICE, Border Patrol, FBI and police.
It is a practice in conflict with the principles of transparency & accountability that are central to the concept of democracy.
It is a practice in conflict with the principles of transparency & accountability that are central to the concept of democracy.
Video on social media shows an immigration agent pulling a gun in Little Village and holding it to the side — which is not an appropriate or safe way to hold a gun. (Among other issues.)
November 9, 2025 at 2:36 PM
They’re wearing masks so they can’t be prosecuted later. As long as they think they can’t be prosecuted, their crimes will intensify. They will torture, starve and kill, as they have already, on greater and greater scale.
Signed, someone who’s covered the unaccountable War on Terror for 23 years.
Signed, someone who’s covered the unaccountable War on Terror for 23 years.
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Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
Fedora man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo
Fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux has become an internet sensation after an Associated Press photo captured him outside the Louvre on the day of a crown jewels heist.
apnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
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Oil is the most Lovecraftian thing that actually exists.
You're telling me that there's a black ichor under the earth made from the ancient dead, whose burning can realize all the dreams of man, but only at the price of slowly returning the earth to its primordial state?
You're telling me that there's a black ichor under the earth made from the ancient dead, whose burning can realize all the dreams of man, but only at the price of slowly returning the earth to its primordial state?
November 6, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Oil is the most Lovecraftian thing that actually exists.
You're telling me that there's a black ichor under the earth made from the ancient dead, whose burning can realize all the dreams of man, but only at the price of slowly returning the earth to its primordial state?
You're telling me that there's a black ichor under the earth made from the ancient dead, whose burning can realize all the dreams of man, but only at the price of slowly returning the earth to its primordial state?
I Want You to Understand Chicago
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November 9, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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It seems to me that past right-wing moved to eliminate government programs would be couched in some sort of “taxpayer savings” rhetoric. I haven’t seen anything of the sort with the SNAP cuts. Just cruelty and no justification as to why, thinly veiled or otherwise.
November 8, 2025 at 12:49 PM
It seems to me that past right-wing moved to eliminate government programs would be couched in some sort of “taxpayer savings” rhetoric. I haven’t seen anything of the sort with the SNAP cuts. Just cruelty and no justification as to why, thinly veiled or otherwise.
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One thing they will always do is tell you how to beat them.
They are admitting the only way to stop this is incarceration
They are admitting the only way to stop this is incarceration
Steve Bannon: If we lose the midterms and we lose 2028, some in this room are going to prison, myself included.
November 7, 2025 at 2:02 AM
One thing they will always do is tell you how to beat them.
They are admitting the only way to stop this is incarceration
They are admitting the only way to stop this is incarceration
Is Link still banned? I still don't see the profile, but wanna make sure I didn't miss something.
November 6, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Is Link still banned? I still don't see the profile, but wanna make sure I didn't miss something.
So one of my weird habits is that anytime I start using a new app, I go through all of the settings. I like to see what kind of things are configurable and turn off anything I find annoying. The bluesky moderation stuff seemed weird from the jump.
The "service" includes settings for hiding certain types of content, warning you that the skeet contains such content before you see it, or simply turning off the filter. If you've never been here before, you'll find things like "rude" or "threats" are set to "Hide".
November 6, 2025 at 8:44 PM
So one of my weird habits is that anytime I start using a new app, I go through all of the settings. I like to see what kind of things are configurable and turn off anything I find annoying. The bluesky moderation stuff seemed weird from the jump.
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The "service" includes settings for hiding certain types of content, warning you that the skeet contains such content before you see it, or simply turning off the filter. If you've never been here before, you'll find things like "rude" or "threats" are set to "Hide".
November 6, 2025 at 6:34 PM
The "service" includes settings for hiding certain types of content, warning you that the skeet contains such content before you see it, or simply turning off the filter. If you've never been here before, you'll find things like "rude" or "threats" are set to "Hide".
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You can “do everything right” and *still* need safety net programs.
November 6, 2025 at 8:41 PM
You can “do everything right” and *still* need safety net programs.
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Contrast this with the response of a president who was an actual decent human being.
November 6, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Contrast this with the response of a president who was an actual decent human being.
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holy shit -- one of Trump's toadies just passed out and the White House event is brought to an abrupt end
November 6, 2025 at 5:38 PM
holy shit -- one of Trump's toadies just passed out and the White House event is brought to an abrupt end