Lyre Calliope
@captaincalliope.blue
Social Justice Cyborg 🐙 and lover of the Web 🕷
Serving the world from Massachusetts 🍵
🇵🇷 Pride is Protest 🏳️🌈
DEI means Veterans
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Serving the world from Massachusetts 🍵
🇵🇷 Pride is Protest 🏳️🌈
DEI means Veterans
Newly committed to the Hopescroll. Hold me to it.
DM me on Signal: CaptainCalliope.11
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Lyre Calliope
@captaincalliope.blue
· Aug 8
The Movement is the Medium
Right-wing media sets the terms of US politics. Drawing on earlier reading, here’s a draft playbook for how we can organize distributed progressive media networks.
spacecadets.love
New post up! Teaser: "Right-wing media sets the terms of US politics. Drawing on earlier reading here’s a draft playbook for how we can organize distributed progressive media networks."
Thanks to @werd.io for inspiring some of the inquiries informing a number of my recent posts. Check out his blog!
Thanks to @werd.io for inspiring some of the inquiries informing a number of my recent posts. Check out his blog!
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Next year it’ll be 10 years since @christophera.bsky.social wrote The Path to Self-Sovereign Identity along with a definition and 10 principles of SSI.
A group is now being convened to refine these principles. Hope to see some atproto folks get involved here, including @bnewbold.net & co.
A group is now being convened to refine these principles. Hope to see some atproto folks get involved here, including @bnewbold.net & co.
Announcing the 10-Year SSI Revision Project
In 2016, I published The Path to Self-Sovereign Identity and with it proposed ten foundational principles for digital identity systems. These principles...
www.lifewithalacrity.com
November 17, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Next year it’ll be 10 years since @christophera.bsky.social wrote The Path to Self-Sovereign Identity along with a definition and 10 principles of SSI.
A group is now being convened to refine these principles. Hope to see some atproto folks get involved here, including @bnewbold.net & co.
A group is now being convened to refine these principles. Hope to see some atproto folks get involved here, including @bnewbold.net & co.
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Uh
this is
enormous
this is
enormous
British and Australian chemists have discovered a powerful new antibiotic called pre-methylenomycin C lactone, hiding in a well-known soil bacterium. This molecule kills drug-resistant bacteria without triggering resistance. buff.ly/YlXaONo
#ShareGoodNewsToo
#ShareGoodNewsToo
Scientists find hidden antibiotic 100x stronger against deadly superbugs
A team of scientists discovered a hidden antibiotic 100 times stronger than existing drugs against deadly superbugs like MRSA. The molecule had been overlooked for decades in a familiar bacterium. It…
buff.ly
November 16, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Uh
this is
enormous
this is
enormous
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Yeah it feels wrong to say it was memory holed. It was actively repressed by the institutions it was protesting.
November 16, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Yeah it feels wrong to say it was memory holed. It was actively repressed by the institutions it was protesting.
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Without Occupy Wall Street I probably wouldn’t be a working journalist. It made change in ways some take for granted (building lasting networks that now appear organic and invisible) and some would prefer to ignore (hence people persistently forgetting Occupy didn’t “end,” cops ended it).
It's still wild to me how much we've memory holed Occupy Wallstreet.
November 16, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Without Occupy Wall Street I probably wouldn’t be a working journalist. It made change in ways some take for granted (building lasting networks that now appear organic and invisible) and some would prefer to ignore (hence people persistently forgetting Occupy didn’t “end,” cops ended it).
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Alice Wong, rest in peace. I learned so much from what you shared online and through your books. My analysis of disability justice and my connection to it is deeper thanks to you.
I don’t want to formulate words yet, but my friend Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social of the Disability Visibility Project, has passed.
Here are the words she left behind:
www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...
Here are the words she left behind:
www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...
Alice Wong on Instagram: "ID: Yellow background with black text "This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the time of her passing. Hi everyone, it ...
423 likes, 73 comments - alicatsamurai on November 14, 2025: "ID: Yellow background with black text "This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the t...
www.instagram.com
November 15, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Alice Wong, rest in peace. I learned so much from what you shared online and through your books. My analysis of disability justice and my connection to it is deeper thanks to you.
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Here’s a helpful resource about encryption & privacy for chat apps. www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
How Signal, WhatsApp, Apple, and Google Handle Encrypted Chat Backups
Encrypted chat apps like Signal and WhatsApp are one of the best ways to keep your digital conversations as private as possible. But if you’re not careful with how those conversations are backed up, y...
www.eff.org
November 15, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Here’s a helpful resource about encryption & privacy for chat apps. www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
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that the left wing talks "only about identity" (he means trans people) is a right wing propaganda and demonization effort he and Newsom are actively choosing to validate and elevate because a six-figure consultant told them to
it would be so easy to instead go on offense and focus on corruption
it would be so easy to instead go on offense and focus on corruption
Speaking at a Texas Tribune Festival on Friday, former U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg criticized the Democratic Party for failing to reach everyday Americans, arguing that it “got sucked in” to a conversation about identity. #TribFest25
Pete Buttigieg critiques Democrats for focus on identity
The former U.S. transportation secretary said the Democratic Party should focus more on issues gripping the country, such as health care and housing affordability.
www.texastribune.org
November 14, 2025 at 5:25 PM
that the left wing talks "only about identity" (he means trans people) is a right wing propaganda and demonization effort he and Newsom are actively choosing to validate and elevate because a six-figure consultant told them to
it would be so easy to instead go on offense and focus on corruption
it would be so easy to instead go on offense and focus on corruption
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Much thanks and heartfelt support to @erlend.sh for writing up the kind of article that I, too, have been dreading to have to write: that absolutist OSS is bad and we protect the commons with fair licensing, non-commercial and otherwise
Anti-fascistic software is made possible by pro-labor licensing.
I've been trying to write this piece for years. Every time I get started I'm just overwhelmed with paralyzing visions of the FOSS commentariat accusing me of WrongThink.
But I'm tired and we urgently need to get our shit together.
I've been trying to write this piece for years. Every time I get started I'm just overwhelmed with paralyzing visions of the FOSS commentariat accusing me of WrongThink.
But I'm tired and we urgently need to get our shit together.
Open Source Power
We have to talk about open source licensing.
blog.muni.town
November 14, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Much thanks and heartfelt support to @erlend.sh for writing up the kind of article that I, too, have been dreading to have to write: that absolutist OSS is bad and we protect the commons with fair licensing, non-commercial and otherwise
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I’m back.
substack.com/@sarahkendzi...
substack.com/@sarahkendzi...
November 14, 2025 at 1:48 PM
I’m back.
substack.com/@sarahkendzi...
substack.com/@sarahkendzi...
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Here's an actual picture with her parents. In color so it doesn't look like ancient history.
November 14, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Here's an actual picture with her parents. In color so it doesn't look like ancient history.
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It's ONLY been 65 years since six year old Ruby Bridges walked through the halls of William Frantz Elementary as the first Black child to attend an all white school. Met with mobs and hate, her bravery and courage helped change the course of history for this nation.
(1/3)
(1/3)
November 14, 2025 at 1:49 PM
It's ONLY been 65 years since six year old Ruby Bridges walked through the halls of William Frantz Elementary as the first Black child to attend an all white school. Met with mobs and hate, her bravery and courage helped change the course of history for this nation.
(1/3)
(1/3)
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I thought the @sarahkendzior.bsky.social suspension was an interestingly nontrivial moderation scenario. I wrote up a little case study/explainer on how it might have been handled on Mastodon. Probably only for people who care about moderation nitty-gritty.
www.tbray.org/ongoing/When...
www.tbray.org/ongoing/When...
November 14, 2025 at 5:44 PM
I thought the @sarahkendzior.bsky.social suspension was an interestingly nontrivial moderation scenario. I wrote up a little case study/explainer on how it might have been handled on Mastodon. Probably only for people who care about moderation nitty-gritty.
www.tbray.org/ongoing/When...
www.tbray.org/ongoing/When...
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Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.
November 12, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.
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something I've been thinking about if/when we retake power is we're really going to need to shock & awe the elites with accountability. hit em hard and fast. gotta break the entire system and don't give it time to regroup.
Important to understand the Epstein stuff and the fascism and the corruption are, in a lot of ways, really all the same story from different angles: powerful men who can and do abuse vulnerable people around them because they can, and because systems of elite accountability catastrophically failed
November 13, 2025 at 4:39 AM
something I've been thinking about if/when we retake power is we're really going to need to shock & awe the elites with accountability. hit em hard and fast. gotta break the entire system and don't give it time to regroup.
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November 13, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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@andreshouldwrite.bsky.social hi hi! I just found blogcat and didn’t realize that I wasn’t following you on here!
I love blogcat. Testing it out first on @kagi.com’s Orion Browser on iOS. So far so good except no sidebar or menu options.
I love blogcat. Testing it out first on @kagi.com’s Orion Browser on iOS. So far so good except no sidebar or menu options.
November 13, 2025 at 4:20 AM
@andreshouldwrite.bsky.social hi hi! I just found blogcat and didn’t realize that I wasn’t following you on here!
I love blogcat. Testing it out first on @kagi.com’s Orion Browser on iOS. So far so good except no sidebar or menu options.
I love blogcat. Testing it out first on @kagi.com’s Orion Browser on iOS. So far so good except no sidebar or menu options.
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PSA: tips to protect yourself from scams on Signal.
Every major comms platform has to contend w phishing, impersonation, & scams. Sadly.
Signal is major, and as we've grown we've heard about more of these attacks--scammy people pretending to be something or someone to trick and abuse others. 1/
Every major comms platform has to contend w phishing, impersonation, & scams. Sadly.
Signal is major, and as we've grown we've heard about more of these attacks--scammy people pretending to be something or someone to trick and abuse others. 1/
November 11, 2025 at 6:13 PM
PSA: tips to protect yourself from scams on Signal.
Every major comms platform has to contend w phishing, impersonation, & scams. Sadly.
Signal is major, and as we've grown we've heard about more of these attacks--scammy people pretending to be something or someone to trick and abuse others. 1/
Every major comms platform has to contend w phishing, impersonation, & scams. Sadly.
Signal is major, and as we've grown we've heard about more of these attacks--scammy people pretending to be something or someone to trick and abuse others. 1/
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ok one last post -- oldheads are always going to "why is the web dying.... how can we get the kids invested in the free and open web"
bro the kids can't read. that's why the web is dying. first things first
bro the kids can't read. that's why the web is dying. first things first
November 11, 2025 at 6:49 PM
ok one last post -- oldheads are always going to "why is the web dying.... how can we get the kids invested in the free and open web"
bro the kids can't read. that's why the web is dying. first things first
bro the kids can't read. that's why the web is dying. first things first
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how did i go so long not knowing we were literally teaching people to read wrong. i knew something wasn't right but jesus christ www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...
How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers
For decades, schools have taught children the strategies of struggling readers, using a theory about reading that cognitive scientists have repeatedly debunked. And many teachers and parents don't kno...
www.apmreports.org
November 11, 2025 at 6:18 PM
how did i go so long not knowing we were literally teaching people to read wrong. i knew something wasn't right but jesus christ www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...
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ever since I learned about three-cueing I've developed infinitely more patience for replies on social media. mfers literally do not know how to read. people are walking around conjuring random meanings into words they don't know, and they don't know a lot of words. it's crazy
November 11, 2025 at 6:15 PM
ever since I learned about three-cueing I've developed infinitely more patience for replies on social media. mfers literally do not know how to read. people are walking around conjuring random meanings into words they don't know, and they don't know a lot of words. it's crazy
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This is DoorDash’s “Breakfast Basics Index,” which tracks only 4 items: three eggs, a glass of milk, a bagel & an avocado & excludes coffee, bacon, bread & OJ, all of which have gone up in price this year. They cherry-picked a quirky DoorDash metric and spun it as proof of an economic turnaround.
November 12, 2025 at 1:46 AM
This is DoorDash’s “Breakfast Basics Index,” which tracks only 4 items: three eggs, a glass of milk, a bagel & an avocado & excludes coffee, bacon, bread & OJ, all of which have gone up in price this year. They cherry-picked a quirky DoorDash metric and spun it as proof of an economic turnaround.
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They’ve laid off so many people that the government is now getting its economic data from DoorDash.
November 12, 2025 at 1:09 AM
They’ve laid off so many people that the government is now getting its economic data from DoorDash.
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Spotify is running ads to help ICE recruit more agents to infringe our rights and terrorize our communities. We’re calling on users to stop paying for or using the app until Spotify stops streaming fascism: indivisible.org/cancel-spoti...
November 11, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Spotify is running ads to help ICE recruit more agents to infringe our rights and terrorize our communities. We’re calling on users to stop paying for or using the app until Spotify stops streaming fascism: indivisible.org/cancel-spoti...