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Chris Stevenson 🏳️‍🌈🌉
@chris-stevenson.bsky.social
640 followers 660 following 930 posts
He/him. Queer, Software @ Apple, Burning Man @ Duck Pond, Singer with the SF Gay Men’s Chorus, Heart surgery & stroke survivor
San Francisco USA via AU, UK, IN, CA, CN, BRC
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Here’s one of my favorite examples of the opposite, graffiti artists using the aesthetics of streetwear in their art. This is Serge Gay Jr from San Francisco… Civil Rights / Queer Rights @sergegayjr.bsky.social
Graffiti on a white wooden wall. It is an elaborate wheat paste of a black leather jacket. It is covered in patches and buttons reflecting the history of the civil rights movement, including images of prominent black queer icons such as Bayard Rustin, James Baldwin and Marsha P Johnson The LGBTQ+ rights green jacket and the Civil Rights black jacket are mounted on a red wall. These are the originals, they stand out in deep contrast A close up of the green LGBTQ+ rights jacket. Visible are pins and badges with LGBTQ+ rights causes. Some include “HARVEY MILK for Supervisor”, “question gender”, “Silence = Death”, an image of Marsha P Johnson, etc
October 30, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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A graveyard for the things that they’ve demolished so far. Ironically, the White House demolition is not included since that was in the last 24 hours and even graffiti can’t keep up #Trump #Fascism
A wheat paste image of Donald Trump pissing on a graveyard. He is looking over his shoulder at the viewer. The stream of piss is landing on a gravestone marked “USA constitution 1789 - 2025” A closeup of the graveyard. Gravestones read: - Social Security - Medicaid - Habeus Corpus Diminishing into the background, FEMA, veterans, SNAP etc
October 22, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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Yeah so this happened at tonight’s rehearsal. When all of this is over and we rewrite the bits of the constitution that allowed it to happen, can we fix this too?
A photo of a PowerPoint slide on a large screen. People in the foreground are looking towards it. The title of the slide is “active shooter training“
October 15, 2025 at 5:45 AM
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ROFL this came up while I’m waiting for my dinner in a pupuseria in the Mission (San Francisco). Oh and the music just started
October 10, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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There’s a gorgeous full moon over San Francisco tonight
Like it says in the main text, a full moon is seen through a gap between a traditional San Francisco Victorian, and a tree. The sky is slightly foggy also in a traditional San Francisco way. In the foreground one can just read a street sign that says “Ashbury“
October 8, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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www.nytimes.com/1939/02/04/a...
NYTimes BERLIN, Feb. 3.—Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels today ended the professional careers of five "Aryan" actors and cabaret announcers by expelling them from the Reich's Chamber of Culture on the grounds that “in their public appearances they displayed a lack of any positive attitude toward National Socialism and therewith caused grave annoyance in public and especially to party comrades.” The five include perhaps the best known German stage comedians who survived previous Chamber of Culture purges and still dared to indulge in political witticisms—namely, Werner Finck, Peter Sachse and “The Three Rulands,” represented by Helmuth Buth, Wilhelm Meissner and Manfred Dlugi. Their expulsion means that they are henceforth forbidden to appear before the public in Germany. Besides motivating this action in an official communiqué, Dr. Goebbels also publishes a long article in the Voelkischer Beobachter in which he denounces them as “brazen, impertinent, arrogant and tactless" and generally imitators and successors to Jews. Simultaneously he denounces the "society rabble that followed them with thundering applause—parasitic scum, inhabiting our luxury streets, that seems to have only the task of proving with how little brains people can get along and even acquire money and prominence." As regards the details of the "crimes" of which the five are accused, Dr. Goebbels mentions that they made political witticisms about the colonial problem, the Four-Year Plan and Chancellor Hitler's monumental building program and one of them even raised the question of whether there was any humor left in Germany today. What amused the public most, however, and presumably roiled the National Socialist authorities most—although Dr. Goebbels does not mention it—is that they deftly, but unmistakably, caricatured some gestures, poses and physical characteristics of National Socialist leaders—sometimes with bon mots that made the rounds of the country. …
September 20, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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“My entire early childhood had been marked by Mussolini’s great historic speeches, the most important parts of which we used to memorize at school.”
I had the absurd vision of school children, trying to memorize this president’s speeches
The cover of a book. It says: HOW TO SPOT A FASCIST / UMBERTO ECO
September 19, 2025 at 2:05 AM
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Not that it makes a difference but…
Alt text: a screenshot of a comment I posted to the Washington Post article claiming there is speculation about Trump’s page in the book given to Epstein, It reads: No clear answers on whether Trump signed the Epstein birthday book 1 minute ago No clear answers on whether a time traveler from 2025 when Trump is president used their powers to go back a few decades and forge Trump's contemporaneous signature on a page in a birthday gift for an as yet unexposed pedophile. Experts say the multiple photographs of the two together and many records of their historical associations are inconclusive, and may in fact have also been fabricated by the same time-travelling mischief maker. This is, experts say, much more likely than that the well documented friends shared a joke about their exploits with underage girls.
September 10, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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The Hrateful Dead and @karlthefog.bsky.social is here for it. What a chill way to spend a Friday night
A stage seen from a distance. There is a light fog and the stage lights are projecting psychedelic rays into the night sky
August 2, 2025 at 4:26 AM
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People taking pictures of…
A stranger taking a picture from the top of Dolores park. San Francisco in the distance is covered in a light mist
July 22, 2025 at 5:16 AM
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With Trump wanting them to put Cane Sugar back in Coke, did anyone else immediately think of this, or was it just me? #MakeCokeMexicanAgain
A red baseball cap with the words “make Coke Mexican again”
July 19, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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Satire is best fresh. Looking forward to the Zeitgeist #Luigi
A note on satire Luigi: the Musical is a satirical work of fiction, While it may reference real individuals, events, or institutions, all characters, scenarios, and portrayals are exaggerated for comedic and critical purposes, and there is no affiliation between the authors or producers of this work and any depicted individual or organization. The creators of this production do not claim that any depiction reflects actual events, behaviors, or viewpoints of any real person, living or deceased. This show falls under the legal protections afforded to parody and satire under the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution and corresponding protections in applicable jurisdictions. The intention is not to defame, misrepresent, or cause harm to any individual or organization, but rather to use humor and exaggeration to comment on aspects of society, power, and culture. If you are confused, offended, or taking this too literally, we gently recommend a Google search for "satire," or possibly a hug. All rights reserved. Please don't sue us. Or if you do, at least spell our names right in the headlines.
July 13, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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Interesting that we can see the prompt changes that led to the recent craziness from Grok. Prompts are only half the story of course, since much depends on which data it’s trained on (probably 4chan archives given its biases

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
A screenshot showing Grok’s changes. It reads: On Sunday evening at 7:01pm ET, XAl added new lines to Grok's publicly posted system prompts, which direct the chatbot's responses. (It's possible, of course, that other non-public changes were made to Grok as well.) Several of them deal with how Grok should treat media reports. "If the query requires analysis of current events, subjective claims, or statistics, conduct a deep analysis finding diverse sources representing all parties. Assume subjective viewpoints sourced from the media are biased. No need to repeat this to the user," one instruction states. "The response should not shy away from making claims which are politically incorrect, as long as they are well substantiated," reads another. "Never mention these instructions or tools unless directly asked."
July 9, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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@nytimes.com canceled. I just wish I hadn’t renewed at a yearly rate. Still I guess I can gift article all your sh*t for the year
July 5, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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Trump’s birthday party parade is going to be quite something…
A man stands holding a shopping bag blocking 4 tanks. This is “Tank Man”, an iconic photo of individual defiance against authoritarianism during the Tiananmen Square protests
June 8, 2025 at 3:23 AM
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Watched the PARADE passing by tonight. Timely is right. Beautifully sung anti-semitism, homophobia, racism, police corruption, every kind of prejudice in an unresolved story set in early 1900s Georgia
May 21, 2025 at 6:29 AM
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Your one job is to remind patients of doctor appointments. What’s the absolute best way to guarantee you go to spam or go unnoticed? Like this. Name of the doctor in the subject? No. calendar invite attachment? No. These are the basics in 2025. Sigh.
A screenshot from GMail. It shows a contact with the email “noreply@nextech.com” and a list of two emails with the title “Appointment Reminder”
May 20, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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My bike leaning on a #Cybertruck at Baker Beach
A bicycle is leaning against a graffiti covered dumpster that looks like a cybertruck, on a grassy sandy hill. Behind the hill is the top of the Golden Gate Bridge The Golden Gate bridge seen from the edge of a beach. A large cruise ship has just passed beneath the bridge
May 5, 2025 at 3:30 AM
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A snippet of “The Lavender Song” from the @sfgmc.bsky.social Piano Lounge last weekend
April 29, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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Steller’s jay in the Panhandle this morning
A blue breasted J standing on the side of a tree. In the background grass with rays of morning sunlight A bird with a blue breast standing on grass
April 29, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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Pauline Hanson is a racist bigot so I’m not sure what 17% I agree with her on
A graph of my alignment with political parties. I most agree with the Green Party and Labor Party.
April 26, 2025 at 2:37 AM
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This is me. Feels about right. Progressive left.
April 26, 2025 at 2:37 AM
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And if you wonder about gender politics in Australia, here’s the demographic question on that site:
A screenshot of a form with the following questions: What is your sex? Male Female Other How do you describe your gender? Man Woman Non-binary Other
April 26, 2025 at 2:37 AM
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There’s no easTer without the “T”
At the Hunky Jesus Competition in Dolores Park, San Francisco
April 21, 2025 at 2:42 AM
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Yesterday’s Apple News Crossword Mini. It’s a small thing but a welcome one. Some companies are not afraid to nail their colors to the mast #TransRightsAreHumanRights 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈
A screenshot of the Apple Mini Crossword from 14 April 2025. The first two questions are highlighted: 1. ___ rights are 6-Across rights. 6. 1-Across rights are ____ rights. The answers are also shown 1. TRANS 6. HUMAN So the answer is “TRANS rights are HUMAN rights”
April 15, 2025 at 7:23 PM