aethyrflux.bsky.social
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1) Flip state level seats, especially Attys General & Governors
2) Flip Congress in the midterms
3) Flip the White House & get a DOJ that is under Democratic control
<thanks to @AmandasMildTakes for this concise 3-step list, as well as her continually good-natured reporting of DJT's weekly losses>
Although I'm grateful for the early Xmas prezzies of weaponized incompetence gifted to us through the recent drop of the poorly redacted Epstein files; what I really think we should be focused on is:
How do we get accountability & consequences for the criminal actions of this current administration?
December 24, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Mark Zuckerberg's shirt declared “Aut Zuck aut nihil,” which is a play on the phrase “Aut Caesar aut nihil”: “Either Caesar or nothing.”

Graber’s shirt says “Mundus sine caesaribus.” Or, “a world without Caesars.”

techcrunch.com/2025/03/10/a...
At SXSW, Bluesky CEO Jay Graber pokes fun at Mark Zuckerberg with Latin phrase T-shirt | TechCrunch
When Bluesky CEO Jay Graber walked onstage at SXSW 2025 for her keynote discussion, she wore a large black T-shirt with her hair pulled back into a bun.
techcrunch.com
April 10, 2025 at 1:20 AM
"move fast & break kings"
twitter.com/perryjon/sta...
April 10, 2025 at 1:14 AM
"The right of exit and the freedom of reach... are both key to technological self-determination. They are both imperfect and incomplete, but together, they are stronger, and form a powerful check on both greed and cruelty-based predation"

pluralistic.net/2022/12/19/b...
Pluralistic: Better failure for social media (19 Dec 2022) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.net
April 10, 2025 at 12:56 AM
"Mastodon has one feature...Bluesky...lacks: the federation that imposes anti-enshittificatory discipline on companies & offers an enshittification fire-exit for users if the discipline fails. It's long past time that someone copied that feature over to Bluesky."

doctorow.medium.com/https-plural...
Enshittification isn’t caused by venture capital
Sure, they want “profit at all costs” but ask yourself, ‘why is enshittification profitable?’
doctorow.medium.com
April 10, 2025 at 12:53 AM
"As Doctorow correctly noted... no venture backed or corporate-owned platforms can be reliably counted on to have your interests at heart... not because they aren't nice people or are plotting against you. The issue is structural, and rooted in investment realities."

america2.news/without-sky-...
Without Sky: Social Media and the End of Reality
People are flocking to Bluesky in droves, but creators and users should think critically about the risk of capture by potentially hostile investors.
america2.news
April 9, 2025 at 6:46 AM
Bridgy Fed currently supports the web, fediverse, and Bluesky. We're considering adding more networks, including Farcaster and Nostr ... All bridging is fully bidirectional.
fed.brid.gy/docs#bluesky...
Bridgy Fed
fed.brid.gy
April 7, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Bluesky uses content-addressed content, so that content can survive if a node goes down. Bluesky (claims that it) achieves its "credible exit" (Bluesky's own term, by the way) in that the main node or individual hosts could go down, posts can continue to be referenced
dustycloud.org/blog/how-dec...
How decentralized is Bluesky really? -- Dustycloud Brainstorms
dustycloud.org
April 7, 2025 at 9:40 PM