Joey Schafer
@schafer.bsky.social
UW-Seattle PhD candidate, studying online attention dynamics & creators/influencers @ HCDE/CIP, advised by @katestarbird.bsky.social . SETS Fellow @ Cornell Tech, working w/ @informor.bsky.social . UAW 4121 Steward. He/Him
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I uplifted that targeted campaign against Avelo Airlines #onhere a few times. Each time, someone would get into my mentions to say that the organizing "would not do anything." Those people were once again wrong. Those activists won.
January 7, 2026 at 11:14 PM
I uplifted that targeted campaign against Avelo Airlines #onhere a few times. Each time, someone would get into my mentions to say that the organizing "would not do anything." Those people were once again wrong. Those activists won.
A real trip to have just finished reading DeBord’s Society of the Spectacle in the midst of… *gestures at all of the horrors*
Trump understands he has the power to construct reality. There's no truth. There's evidence (mutliple videos). There are frames (that he has the power to set or promote from his cadre of influencers). And there are interpretations that his audiences will make by looking thru frames at evidence.
January 7, 2026 at 9:22 PM
A real trip to have just finished reading DeBord’s Society of the Spectacle in the midst of… *gestures at all of the horrors*
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Trump understands he has the power to construct reality. There's no truth. There's evidence (mutliple videos). There are frames (that he has the power to set or promote from his cadre of influencers). And there are interpretations that his audiences will make by looking thru frames at evidence.
January 7, 2026 at 9:09 PM
Trump understands he has the power to construct reality. There's no truth. There's evidence (mutliple videos). There are frames (that he has the power to set or promote from his cadre of influencers). And there are interpretations that his audiences will make by looking thru frames at evidence.
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This is the clarity we need.
A sitting Congresswoman using plain language to call murder murder.
More of this
A sitting Congresswoman using plain language to call murder murder.
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ICE just murdered a legal observer in Minnesota.
She was driving away from the scene, not towards law enforcement, so any "self-defense" claims are bogus.
This is what a police state looks like – and Secretary Noem and President Trump are responsible.
She was driving away from the scene, not towards law enforcement, so any "self-defense" claims are bogus.
This is what a police state looks like – and Secretary Noem and President Trump are responsible.
January 7, 2026 at 8:08 PM
This is the clarity we need.
A sitting Congresswoman using plain language to call murder murder.
More of this
A sitting Congresswoman using plain language to call murder murder.
More of this
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Absolutely horrific details about an ICE shooting in Minneapolis.
A witness says a woman was trying to drive away from an ICE operation and the ICE agent "reached across the hood of the car and shot her in the face like three, four times."
Bovino was there.
www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
A witness says a woman was trying to drive away from an ICE operation and the ICE agent "reached across the hood of the car and shot her in the face like three, four times."
Bovino was there.
www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
January 7, 2026 at 5:21 PM
Absolutely horrific details about an ICE shooting in Minneapolis.
A witness says a woman was trying to drive away from an ICE operation and the ICE agent "reached across the hood of the car and shot her in the face like three, four times."
Bovino was there.
www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
A witness says a woman was trying to drive away from an ICE operation and the ICE agent "reached across the hood of the car and shot her in the face like three, four times."
Bovino was there.
www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
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Non-consensual image creation / "deep-fake porn" has been a problem for a while that the legal system has only just begun to grapple with but part of what makes the Grok thing much worse is that it's delivered instantly & directly into replies to punish women for publicly speaking or even existing.
X basically industrialized the creation of fake porn of women who don't consent. Others did it first, but Grok made it normalized and centralized: publicly visible, instantly creatable by anyone, regardless of who's being targeted and dehumanized. Only question now is will X suffer any consequences
January 7, 2026 at 4:46 PM
Non-consensual image creation / "deep-fake porn" has been a problem for a while that the legal system has only just begun to grapple with but part of what makes the Grok thing much worse is that it's delivered instantly & directly into replies to punish women for publicly speaking or even existing.
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And that's even aside from the CSAM side of things, which in a sane world would have shut the entire website down immediately and sent a whole lot of people to jail
January 7, 2026 at 4:48 PM
And that's even aside from the CSAM side of things, which in a sane world would have shut the entire website down immediately and sent a whole lot of people to jail
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This could actually be a golden age of radical public history. So many people are looking to better understand the antecedents to our current moment. We have good scholarship that can be shared with the public in myriad ways. Revive freedom schooling across the land.
January 7, 2026 at 12:06 AM
This could actually be a golden age of radical public history. So many people are looking to better understand the antecedents to our current moment. We have good scholarship that can be shared with the public in myriad ways. Revive freedom schooling across the land.
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Samuel Alito flew two flags used by insurrectionists.
Clarence Thomas' wife plotted to overturn the 2020 election.
Both justices refused to recuse themselves from SCOTUS cases related to the January 6th plot.
It's a stain on our nation that this has effectively been forgotten.
Clarence Thomas' wife plotted to overturn the 2020 election.
Both justices refused to recuse themselves from SCOTUS cases related to the January 6th plot.
It's a stain on our nation that this has effectively been forgotten.
January 6, 2026 at 9:01 PM
Samuel Alito flew two flags used by insurrectionists.
Clarence Thomas' wife plotted to overturn the 2020 election.
Both justices refused to recuse themselves from SCOTUS cases related to the January 6th plot.
It's a stain on our nation that this has effectively been forgotten.
Clarence Thomas' wife plotted to overturn the 2020 election.
Both justices refused to recuse themselves from SCOTUS cases related to the January 6th plot.
It's a stain on our nation that this has effectively been forgotten.
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This is the kind of thing that the Founders explicitly designed our constitution to prevent; a president who has seized wealth for his own benefit without any intervention from Congress, which in our system is supposed to be the holder of the power of the purse.
January 7, 2026 at 12:21 AM
This is the kind of thing that the Founders explicitly designed our constitution to prevent; a president who has seized wealth for his own benefit without any intervention from Congress, which in our system is supposed to be the holder of the power of the purse.
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Whether this was "well, actually" about imperialism, fragile egos, social media content, resources, or all of the above, the continued statements make it clear it is also about oil, whether in reality or marketing/justification. So any and all transportation people should be talking about that.
January 5, 2026 at 4:19 AM
Whether this was "well, actually" about imperialism, fragile egos, social media content, resources, or all of the above, the continued statements make it clear it is also about oil, whether in reality or marketing/justification. So any and all transportation people should be talking about that.
Five years ago today, I was a junior in college, starting a new class for my Ethics minor called "The Philosophy of Conspiracy Theories" taught by Prof. Ian Schnee. I paid less attention to the syllabus than normal, because as class started, insurrectionists were in the US Capitol building. 1/
January 7, 2026 at 12:56 AM
Five years ago today, I was a junior in college, starting a new class for my Ethics minor called "The Philosophy of Conspiracy Theories" taught by Prof. Ian Schnee. I paid less attention to the syllabus than normal, because as class started, insurrectionists were in the US Capitol building. 1/
This essay is really good, you should read it
I wrote a bit about this terrible anniversary, and what happens when we fail to hold power to account.
open.substack.com/pub/davekarp...
open.substack.com/pub/davekarp...
The Long Shadow of January 6th
On the failure to hold power to account.
open.substack.com
January 6, 2026 at 8:06 PM
This essay is really good, you should read it
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trump did january 6th. republicans did january 6th. violent traitors did january 6th. they stormed the capitol, destroyed the building and threatened to kill members of congress. ashli babbitt was a violent insurrectionist. the capitol police protected people. these are truths we need to repeat.
January 6, 2026 at 7:30 PM
trump did january 6th. republicans did january 6th. violent traitors did january 6th. they stormed the capitol, destroyed the building and threatened to kill members of congress. ashli babbitt was a violent insurrectionist. the capitol police protected people. these are truths we need to repeat.
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i know this is all very basic and obvious, but it's maddening to watch the white house tell us we didn't see what happened right before our eyes—literally livestreamed for all to see. don't let them introduce doubt into what you know to be true. fuck them.
January 6, 2026 at 7:39 PM
i know this is all very basic and obvious, but it's maddening to watch the white house tell us we didn't see what happened right before our eyes—literally livestreamed for all to see. don't let them introduce doubt into what you know to be true. fuck them.
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A concise encapsulation of how Trump and his supporters and enablers have rewritten the history of their insurrection attempt.
According to the White House, this is the "true" timeline of January 6th.
January 6, 2026 at 6:58 PM
A concise encapsulation of how Trump and his supporters and enablers have rewritten the history of their insurrection attempt.
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anyways i think it's kind of wild how quickly we went from "be careful, that shark in the flooded city is from a different hurricane" to "nearly every piece of media about this world event is fake and also we took the fake media and made it nude also we added more explosions"
January 5, 2026 at 9:19 PM
anyways i think it's kind of wild how quickly we went from "be careful, that shark in the flooded city is from a different hurricane" to "nearly every piece of media about this world event is fake and also we took the fake media and made it nude also we added more explosions"
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The worst world events filtered through the worst AI imaginable by the worst people on earth overseen by the worst man on earth
www.404media.co/groks-ai-csa...
www.404media.co/groks-ai-csa...
Grok's AI CSAM Shitshow
We are experiencing world events like the kidnapping of Maduro through the lens of the most depraved AI you can imagine.
www.404media.co
January 5, 2026 at 9:06 PM
The worst world events filtered through the worst AI imaginable by the worst people on earth overseen by the worst man on earth
www.404media.co/groks-ai-csa...
www.404media.co/groks-ai-csa...
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It is an on-demand revenge porn and CSAM bot. How is it still functioning and how are people not in jail.
January 4, 2026 at 11:03 PM
It is an on-demand revenge porn and CSAM bot. How is it still functioning and how are people not in jail.
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A functional country would shut Grok down permanently. Like, immediately. Right now. Last week. Whatever. Just flip the switch. Obviously.
January 4, 2026 at 10:52 PM
A functional country would shut Grok down permanently. Like, immediately. Right now. Last week. Whatever. Just flip the switch. Obviously.
Just finished it, and it was SO good! Highly recommend @older.bsky.social’s “Infomocracy” if you have not read it :) 📚 #booksky
Have been in a bit of a fiction reading slump but just started Infomocracy by @older.bsky.social and it is SO GOOD
January 4, 2026 at 1:24 AM
Just finished it, and it was SO good! Highly recommend @older.bsky.social’s “Infomocracy” if you have not read it :) 📚 #booksky
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As you start a new year with new goals & new plans, remember: growth is an organic thing made of twists, knots, scabs & die-off. You can't grow a healthy plant without some funny-lookin leaves!
Tbh, my fave plants at the tea house are the ones with the odd growth patterns.
Tbh, my fave plants at the tea house are the ones with the odd growth patterns.
January 4, 2026 at 1:05 AM
As you start a new year with new goals & new plans, remember: growth is an organic thing made of twists, knots, scabs & die-off. You can't grow a healthy plant without some funny-lookin leaves!
Tbh, my fave plants at the tea house are the ones with the odd growth patterns.
Tbh, my fave plants at the tea house are the ones with the odd growth patterns.
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So @cantwell.senate.gov has a post out on the Trump actions and let’s just say it’s a disappointment. (See below.)
No condemnation. No statement of action that she wants Congress to take.
Do better.
bsky.app/profile/cant...
No condemnation. No statement of action that she wants Congress to take.
Do better.
bsky.app/profile/cant...
President Trump’s actions today with Venezuela raise more questions than answers. Is America going to be involved in running and stabilizing Venezuela? Today's actions raise many questions about the stability of the region and our policy towards South America.
January 4, 2026 at 1:05 AM
So @cantwell.senate.gov has a post out on the Trump actions and let’s just say it’s a disappointment. (See below.)
No condemnation. No statement of action that she wants Congress to take.
Do better.
bsky.app/profile/cant...
No condemnation. No statement of action that she wants Congress to take.
Do better.
bsky.app/profile/cant...
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Already Congress is coming up with excuses not to do anything.
For shame.
For shame.
January 4, 2026 at 12:19 AM
Already Congress is coming up with excuses not to do anything.
For shame.
For shame.
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Hey Siri, what is selection bias?
@wlrnnews.bsky.social
Venezuelans interviewed in Weston and Doral — cities with the largest concentration of Venezuelan-Americans in the U.S. — said they are ecstatic over Maduro’s ouster, and are hopeful of a promising future.
Venezuelans interviewed in Weston and Doral — cities with the largest concentration of Venezuelan-Americans in the U.S. — said they are ecstatic over Maduro’s ouster, and are hopeful of a promising future.
Jubilation. Joy. Hope. Venezuelans in South Florida celebrate Maduro's ouster with guarded optimism
Venezuelans interviewed in Weston and Doral — cities with the largest concentration of Venezuelan-Americans in the nation — said they are ecstatic over Maduro’s ouster from their beloved homeland, and...
www.wlrn.org
January 3, 2026 at 8:44 PM
Hey Siri, what is selection bias?