Alden Conner
@aldenc.bsky.social
Don’t post a lot but I’m here for politics, photography, books, etc
Oakland, CA
she/her
Oakland, CA
she/her
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"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future."
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
December 19, 2025 at 12:24 PM
"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future."
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
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The President of the United States just called for Democratic members of Congress to be executed. "HANG THEM", he posted.
If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.
If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.
November 20, 2025 at 4:15 PM
The President of the United States just called for Democratic members of Congress to be executed. "HANG THEM", he posted.
If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.
If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.
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I love how Rep. Joe Neguse reframed this question.
October 31, 2025 at 8:19 AM
I love how Rep. Joe Neguse reframed this question.
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someday surely I will have unsubscribed from literally every fundraising text in the country
there has to be a limit
there has to be a limit
October 29, 2025 at 2:32 AM
someday surely I will have unsubscribed from literally every fundraising text in the country
there has to be a limit
there has to be a limit
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I regret to inform everyone that my pedantic brain couldn’t let me live until I knew whether or not dodger blue and blue jays blue are the same blue. They are ONE PANTONE NUMBER APART.
October 29, 2025 at 2:18 AM
I regret to inform everyone that my pedantic brain couldn’t let me live until I knew whether or not dodger blue and blue jays blue are the same blue. They are ONE PANTONE NUMBER APART.
For anyone who needs a good laugh this morning
this is hands down the most confusing graphic I have ever seen, I’ve been staring at it for like five full minutes
October 23, 2025 at 3:11 PM
For anyone who needs a good laugh this morning
@agrobbonta.oag.ca.gov why aren’t you a signatory? California should stand up for trans youth!
On Friday 18 blue state attorneys general BLASTED the Federal Trade Commission, telling it to back off trans youth healthcare and warning of an insidious attempt to reshape the regulation of medicine in the US.
And nobody covered it.
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
And nobody covered it.
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
State AGs Defend Trans Americans in Stunning Rebuke to Trump’s FTC — Assigned
Eighteen state Attorneys General unite to stand up in defense of trans Americans, in opposition to a Federal Trade Commission investigation into trans healthcare.
www.assignedmedia.org
October 2, 2025 at 5:16 AM
@agrobbonta.oag.ca.gov why aren’t you a signatory? California should stand up for trans youth!
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"Our power isn’t in making one of the choices that are presented to us. Our power is in shaping the choices available to us." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/o...
Opinion | Mourn, or Else
www.nytimes.com
October 2, 2025 at 3:12 AM
"Our power isn’t in making one of the choices that are presented to us. Our power is in shaping the choices available to us." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/o...
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If you live in California, call the governor's office and tell him to sign SB 79 into law.
916-445-2841
916-445-2841
A bunch of toxic LA NIMBYs are whining about SB 79, the amazing housing bill the CA legislature passed recently.
It's on the governor's desk, and reportedly he's getting cold feet. Hey @gavinnewsom.bsky.social, please have some spine on the most important issue in your state. Just sign it.
It's on the governor's desk, and reportedly he's getting cold feet. Hey @gavinnewsom.bsky.social, please have some spine on the most important issue in your state. Just sign it.
Homeowners denounce SB 79 vote - Beverly Press & Park Labrea News
Legislation awaits governor’s signature
beverlypress.com
September 30, 2025 at 11:04 PM
If you live in California, call the governor's office and tell him to sign SB 79 into law.
916-445-2841
916-445-2841
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Come out to the Emergency Rally To Save Bay Area Transit Monday at 9am to help Governor Newsom get the message and fulfill his promise to save our communities' transit service! actionnetwork.org/events/emerg...
September 6, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Come out to the Emergency Rally To Save Bay Area Transit Monday at 9am to help Governor Newsom get the message and fulfill his promise to save our communities' transit service! actionnetwork.org/events/emerg...
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The federal government’s $1B demand is designed for one purpose and one purpose only: to devastate UCLA and its critical mission. #StandUpForUC to defend University of California —America’s greatest public university system—and support its life-saving work.
Stand Up for UC
We must stand together to protect our students, staff, faculty and our mission.
bit.ly
August 19, 2025 at 9:43 PM
The federal government’s $1B demand is designed for one purpose and one purpose only: to devastate UCLA and its critical mission. #StandUpForUC to defend University of California —America’s greatest public university system—and support its life-saving work.
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This Prime Day (& every day):
➡️ Support the small businesses making a positive difference
➡️ Get book recs from people who actually read—not algorithms
➡️ Visit your indie, immerse yourself in books, maybe chat with real people, & leave feeling happy
➡️ Support your indie with audiobook purchases
➡️ Support the small businesses making a positive difference
➡️ Get book recs from people who actually read—not algorithms
➡️ Visit your indie, immerse yourself in books, maybe chat with real people, & leave feeling happy
➡️ Support your indie with audiobook purchases
July 8, 2025 at 4:12 PM
This Prime Day (& every day):
➡️ Support the small businesses making a positive difference
➡️ Get book recs from people who actually read—not algorithms
➡️ Visit your indie, immerse yourself in books, maybe chat with real people, & leave feeling happy
➡️ Support your indie with audiobook purchases
➡️ Support the small businesses making a positive difference
➡️ Get book recs from people who actually read—not algorithms
➡️ Visit your indie, immerse yourself in books, maybe chat with real people, & leave feeling happy
➡️ Support your indie with audiobook purchases
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Tomorrow, a certain online mega-retailer launches a book sale, just days before Indie Bookstore Day on 4/26. This is no coincidence; Bookstore Day is one of the largest revenue drivers for indies.
Indies need our support to thrive & build community spaces for all...mega-retailers do not.
Indies need our support to thrive & build community spaces for all...mega-retailers do not.
April 22, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Tomorrow, a certain online mega-retailer launches a book sale, just days before Indie Bookstore Day on 4/26. This is no coincidence; Bookstore Day is one of the largest revenue drivers for indies.
Indies need our support to thrive & build community spaces for all...mega-retailers do not.
Indies need our support to thrive & build community spaces for all...mega-retailers do not.
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In a few hours the comments are due on the proposed harmful CMS ruling.
Comment.
Repost.
Spread the word.
Together let’s protect trans healthcare. action.transequality.org/a/protecttra...
Comment.
Repost.
Spread the word.
Together let’s protect trans healthcare. action.transequality.org/a/protecttra...
April 11, 2025 at 10:32 PM
In a few hours the comments are due on the proposed harmful CMS ruling.
Comment.
Repost.
Spread the word.
Together let’s protect trans healthcare. action.transequality.org/a/protecttra...
Comment.
Repost.
Spread the word.
Together let’s protect trans healthcare. action.transequality.org/a/protecttra...
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Just so everybody understands, Booker has been speaking cogently about the issues the entire time and Strom Thurmond famously spent hours reading from the encyclopedia, because segregationists were and are dumbshits
If Sen. Cory Booker makes it to 7:19 p.m. EST, he will break segregationist Dixiecrat Strom Thurmond's record for his 24 hour 18 minute Senate floor speech against the Civil Rights Act of 1957.
April 1, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Just so everybody understands, Booker has been speaking cogently about the issues the entire time and Strom Thurmond famously spent hours reading from the encyclopedia, because segregationists were and are dumbshits
MORE OF THIS
April 1, 2025 at 6:20 PM
MORE OF THIS
Yes to all this, from a fellow Williams College alum 🐮
March 12, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Yes to all this, from a fellow Williams College alum 🐮
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tired of people treating trump like he is anything other than an ego-driven simpleton (i wrote this, this is a piece about why he is nothing more than an ego driven simpleton.)
Opinion | Trump’s Revenge Tour Finds Its True Target (Gift Article)
It is hard to describe the president’s first month and a half in office as something other than a retribution campaign against the American people.
www.nytimes.com
March 5, 2025 at 1:57 PM
tired of people treating trump like he is anything other than an ego-driven simpleton (i wrote this, this is a piece about why he is nothing more than an ego driven simpleton.)
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Bluesky,
Today is my 2nd day on here as an escapee from The Bad Place. I am BEGGING y’all to repost this
I have $80,000 in scholarship money to give away to women and girls NATIONWIDE. I worked so hard to raise this money. Applications open THIS week. I’m scared the mass migration will impact this
Today is my 2nd day on here as an escapee from The Bad Place. I am BEGGING y’all to repost this
I have $80,000 in scholarship money to give away to women and girls NATIONWIDE. I worked so hard to raise this money. Applications open THIS week. I’m scared the mass migration will impact this
November 11, 2024 at 2:49 PM
Bluesky,
Today is my 2nd day on here as an escapee from The Bad Place. I am BEGGING y’all to repost this
I have $80,000 in scholarship money to give away to women and girls NATIONWIDE. I worked so hard to raise this money. Applications open THIS week. I’m scared the mass migration will impact this
Today is my 2nd day on here as an escapee from The Bad Place. I am BEGGING y’all to repost this
I have $80,000 in scholarship money to give away to women and girls NATIONWIDE. I worked so hard to raise this money. Applications open THIS week. I’m scared the mass migration will impact this
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This is a long read but you just HAVE to hear about the tiny little town of Springfield, Maine drove a Nazi out of town.
I have a theory that bullying is not a problem, it’s just that most of the time the wrong people get bullied.
magazine.atavist.com/the-crash-of...
I have a theory that bullying is not a problem, it’s just that most of the time the wrong people get bullied.
magazine.atavist.com/the-crash-of...
November 1, 2024 at 1:46 AM
This is a long read but you just HAVE to hear about the tiny little town of Springfield, Maine drove a Nazi out of town.
I have a theory that bullying is not a problem, it’s just that most of the time the wrong people get bullied.
magazine.atavist.com/the-crash-of...
I have a theory that bullying is not a problem, it’s just that most of the time the wrong people get bullied.
magazine.atavist.com/the-crash-of...
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The "blue shift" is not getting nearly the attention it needs to from news media. I cannot stress enough importance of explaining when a race is "too early to call" rather than mistakenly saying one candidate is "in the lead" as ballots are tabulated. slate.com/news-and-pol...
Why the “Blue Shift” Everyone Seems to Have Forgotten Might Be More Dangerous This Time
People are exhausted by politics. I don’t blame them.
slate.com
October 31, 2024 at 5:33 PM
The "blue shift" is not getting nearly the attention it needs to from news media. I cannot stress enough importance of explaining when a race is "too early to call" rather than mistakenly saying one candidate is "in the lead" as ballots are tabulated. slate.com/news-and-pol...
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Dear mail-in voters,
If your state's return deadline is Election Day (Nov. 5), the U.S. Postal Service recommends that you mail your ballot by Tuesday (Oct. 29).
Sincerely,
The reporter who wrote this:
www.npr.org/2024/09/20/n...
If your state's return deadline is Election Day (Nov. 5), the U.S. Postal Service recommends that you mail your ballot by Tuesday (Oct. 29).
Sincerely,
The reporter who wrote this:
www.npr.org/2024/09/20/n...
Voters are advised to return their ballots early because of mail delay concerns
Election officials are raising concerns about the U.S. Postal Service's ability to handle this fall’s expected influx of election mail. But USPS say it’s ready to deliver the country’s ballots.
www.npr.org
October 28, 2024 at 12:40 PM
Dear mail-in voters,
If your state's return deadline is Election Day (Nov. 5), the U.S. Postal Service recommends that you mail your ballot by Tuesday (Oct. 29).
Sincerely,
The reporter who wrote this:
www.npr.org/2024/09/20/n...
If your state's return deadline is Election Day (Nov. 5), the U.S. Postal Service recommends that you mail your ballot by Tuesday (Oct. 29).
Sincerely,
The reporter who wrote this:
www.npr.org/2024/09/20/n...
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Tressie McMillan Cottom with the #SpeculativeResistance:
"In many ways, only a Black woman could have done that. Because we never imagined her, she can reimagine what the future of power will look like for all of us."
"In many ways, only a Black woman could have done that. Because we never imagined her, she can reimagine what the future of power will look like for all of us."
Opinion | How Kamala Harris Is Already Changing the Face of Presidential Power
She has a unique challenge about what her race and gender mean together, which could reshape how Americans think about presidential power.
www.nytimes.com
August 11, 2024 at 3:30 PM
Tressie McMillan Cottom with the #SpeculativeResistance:
"In many ways, only a Black woman could have done that. Because we never imagined her, she can reimagine what the future of power will look like for all of us."
"In many ways, only a Black woman could have done that. Because we never imagined her, she can reimagine what the future of power will look like for all of us."
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More of this, please.
July 23, 2024 at 10:24 PM
More of this, please.