hi y'all - if you left Meta platforms because of ethical principles, can you please kindly take my survey? all anonymous, no name or personal info required. If you know anyone (else) who left Meta for ethical reasons, please pass on to them too - thanks!
docs.google.com/forms/d/1eqH...

quick thread, may be of interest to y'all who quit Meta:
I broke my phone (fell on it while jogging) and hopefully, the new one is coming Monday night. in the meantime, i'm phone-less. this is a minor inconvenience, not uncommon among cell phone owners. i'll be fine. HOWEVER:

Hi does anyone read this? Tl;Dr I've never felt so sad or alone or like throwing myself in front of a train and I don't have health insurance because I missed the open enrollment period so therapy is out of reach and I'm not complaining, 😭 m just telling you the facts

everyone's getting their NEA grants rescinded/the "no-pants" look was popular at the met gala/is anyone else collapsing in despair i know it's not just me

I continue to think this story deserves wall-to-wall coverage. (It's front page on WaPo right now, but the NYT's long story on this is now buried at the bottom of its US News section, and the LAT is running the AP story below "More Headlines" in its politics section.)

Excuse me?

YOU WANT TO MODERNIZE THE MIDDLE PASSAGE

have people noticed much of a community yet here? i know it has to scale and it takes time to build, but i'm curious (doing some informal research, i guess--i'm writing about online activism)

You don’t have to love or even like people to work with them effectively. I don’t think there will be one effective strategy of resistance against Trump; I think there will be MANY. An overwhelming rainbow of pushback and outrage.

But again, I ain’t saying nothing. I’m minding my business.

The thing about ACT UP, as Sarah Schulman notes, is that there wasn’t time for protracted disagreements over strategy; people were dying of AIDS left and right.

SO, if some folks want to do X strategy for a protest but you wanted to do Y, ACT UP’s approach was to say “you do X and I’ll do Y.”

@nevadafast.bsky.social i'm sure you've considered alternative ways to fill the Meta vacuum in re: support groups of all kinds, would love to hear what you've found

who has recommendations for online mental health support groups that aren't Meta-based? thx in advance

not even a month into the second Grump administration and we're already marching into kakistocracy -- how is everyone holding up?

like i don't think rush meant that one of those choices was more moral or better than the other? still

the science writer elizabeth rush said in an interview that when you choose whether or not to have a child, you're choosing what kind of person you want to be in the world; i think about this quote a lot if you're wondering why i have "childless sociopath" in my bio

thanks for having me, bluesky. i had a dream last night that i wrote this clickbait headline: "I walked away from Omelas. It wasn't worth it."