@ecantr3ll.bsky.social
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I think a lot about what Carl Sagan said in one of his final interviews.
May 4, 2025 at 6:21 AM
I think a lot about what Carl Sagan said in one of his final interviews.
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I hope everyone knows that it's very easy for any social content platform, including Bluesky, to be a misery machine and that if you aren't intentional about it, they will absolutely decrease the positive impact you have on the world while making you less happy.
May 2, 2025 at 3:05 PM
I hope everyone knows that it's very easy for any social content platform, including Bluesky, to be a misery machine and that if you aren't intentional about it, they will absolutely decrease the positive impact you have on the world while making you less happy.
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Happy May Day, don’t be a scab.
May 1, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Happy May Day, don’t be a scab.
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Happy May 1st. The value of your labor belongs to you and the actions of the state are best understood as as a coordinated effort to distract you from this. The state fears an organized and unified proletariat like it fears death and rightly so. Power to the workers and power to the people
May 1, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Happy May 1st. The value of your labor belongs to you and the actions of the state are best understood as as a coordinated effort to distract you from this. The state fears an organized and unified proletariat like it fears death and rightly so. Power to the workers and power to the people
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April 26, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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This is a shocking abuse of power by ICE that has inflicted harm and jeopardized the lives of vulnerable children and a pregnant woman.
We are demanding the return of these families.
We are demanding the return of these families.
Trump Has Now Deported Multiple U.S. Citizen Children With Cancer
Two families who had lived in the United States for years, including a child with cancer and a pregnant mother, were deported by ICE on Friday.
www.rollingstone.com
April 26, 2025 at 5:41 PM
This is a shocking abuse of power by ICE that has inflicted harm and jeopardized the lives of vulnerable children and a pregnant woman.
We are demanding the return of these families.
We are demanding the return of these families.
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My brain right now: “This is not normal 🎶Steve le🎶 The crisis is here 🎶le poisson Steve le🎶 the constitution itself is under threat 🎶poisoooon steeEeEEeve🎶 we will resist together or apart but we will resist.
April 19, 2025 at 6:57 PM
My brain right now: “This is not normal 🎶Steve le🎶 The crisis is here 🎶le poisson Steve le🎶 the constitution itself is under threat 🎶poisoooon steeEeEEeve🎶 we will resist together or apart but we will resist.
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There were plenty of witty signs… 9/
April 19, 2025 at 10:40 PM
There were plenty of witty signs… 9/
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the thing I hate most about that rfk quote is that autistic lives have value and worth and beauty and dignity whether they are able to do the things other people do or not. no one is defined by ability or lack thereof and to frame divergence as lack is monster stuff, utterly godless
April 19, 2025 at 12:05 AM
the thing I hate most about that rfk quote is that autistic lives have value and worth and beauty and dignity whether they are able to do the things other people do or not. no one is defined by ability or lack thereof and to frame divergence as lack is monster stuff, utterly godless
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Amid Trump’s call for more prisons in El Salvador to jail Americans, am reminded of this 2016 South Carolina GOP primary poll where Trump was the top pick for supporters of Confederate Flag, banning Muslim & gay immigrants, wishing the South had won, and *Japanese internment*.
April 14, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Amid Trump’s call for more prisons in El Salvador to jail Americans, am reminded of this 2016 South Carolina GOP primary poll where Trump was the top pick for supporters of Confederate Flag, banning Muslim & gay immigrants, wishing the South had won, and *Japanese internment*.
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important context about the concentration camps in el salvador:
April 14, 2025 at 9:12 PM
important context about the concentration camps in el salvador:
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Very informative chart from Washington Post
April 11, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Very informative chart from Washington Post
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Building a mass movement (instead of a subculture) will require a lot of cringe, so get comfortable with it
April 5, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Building a mass movement (instead of a subculture) will require a lot of cringe, so get comfortable with it
April 6, 2025 at 5:22 AM
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When you look at the list of institutions they want to defund: libraries, museums, the Smithsonian, public schools, PBS, NPR, archives, you can clearly see that the real threat to an authoritarian regime is an informed and educated public
March 29, 2025 at 4:44 PM
When you look at the list of institutions they want to defund: libraries, museums, the Smithsonian, public schools, PBS, NPR, archives, you can clearly see that the real threat to an authoritarian regime is an informed and educated public
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There’s no such thing as A.I “art.” It’s a soulless amalgamation of plagiarised data. That is the antithesis of art.
March 29, 2025 at 12:48 PM
There’s no such thing as A.I “art.” It’s a soulless amalgamation of plagiarised data. That is the antithesis of art.
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We spend tens of billions on defense of America.
But if we spend nothing on education, the arts, science, museums, and libraries, what are we even defending?
What is the American way of life without those things?
But if we spend nothing on education, the arts, science, museums, and libraries, what are we even defending?
What is the American way of life without those things?
March 16, 2025 at 1:45 PM
We spend tens of billions on defense of America.
But if we spend nothing on education, the arts, science, museums, and libraries, what are we even defending?
What is the American way of life without those things?
But if we spend nothing on education, the arts, science, museums, and libraries, what are we even defending?
What is the American way of life without those things?
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Years ago, after the Cambridge Analytica scandal, I interviewed a former fb employee, and I remember her continually emphasizing that these tech bros weren't evil geniuses, but were, in fact, dangerous because they were utterly clueless, totally reckless, and had too much power.
February 19, 2025 at 4:48 AM
Years ago, after the Cambridge Analytica scandal, I interviewed a former fb employee, and I remember her continually emphasizing that these tech bros weren't evil geniuses, but were, in fact, dangerous because they were utterly clueless, totally reckless, and had too much power.
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It’s not a “savings” if you’re getting fewer services in exchange. I’m still paying the same taxes!
DOGE says it has saved $55 billion in federal spending so far, but its website only accounts for $16.6 billion of that
DOGE Says It’s Saved $55 Billion, Itemized Data Show Far Less
The federal cost-cutting effort dubbed the Department of Government Efficiency says it has saved $55 billion in federal spending so far, but its website only accounts for $16.6 billion of that.
www.bloomberg.com
February 19, 2025 at 3:37 PM
It’s not a “savings” if you’re getting fewer services in exchange. I’m still paying the same taxes!
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Another word for "regulation" is...
"consumer protection"
"environmental protection"
"Regulation" means your milk is safe. "Regulation" means toys that harm your babies are removed from the shelves. "Regulation" means chemical companies can't dump waste in your river.
"consumer protection"
"environmental protection"
"Regulation" means your milk is safe. "Regulation" means toys that harm your babies are removed from the shelves. "Regulation" means chemical companies can't dump waste in your river.
my kingdom for an elected official who will stand up and defend the fact that the government employs people to test wastewater and send old people money and keep an eye on the bears in the park and make sue the people that scammed you
February 18, 2025 at 4:28 AM
Another word for "regulation" is...
"consumer protection"
"environmental protection"
"Regulation" means your milk is safe. "Regulation" means toys that harm your babies are removed from the shelves. "Regulation" means chemical companies can't dump waste in your river.
"consumer protection"
"environmental protection"
"Regulation" means your milk is safe. "Regulation" means toys that harm your babies are removed from the shelves. "Regulation" means chemical companies can't dump waste in your river.
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If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general.
If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.
If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.
February 17, 2025 at 2:17 PM
If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general.
If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.
If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.
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1/ I am seeing a lot of comments on the slashing of NIH support along the lines of “universities should just spend their huge endowments.”
I’m the last person to cheer on the institutional stratification rising endowments have contributed to. But let me explain why this is not a solution.
I’m the last person to cheer on the institutional stratification rising endowments have contributed to. But let me explain why this is not a solution.
February 18, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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“Until we are all free, we are none of us free.” Lazarus, 1883
“Nobody’s Free Until Everybody’s Free,” Hamer, 1971
Just two lights— a Sephardi woman descended from Portuguese Jews who fled the Inquisition & a Black woman born to sharecroppers, descended from enslaved people—who knew the same fact.
“Nobody’s Free Until Everybody’s Free,” Hamer, 1971
Just two lights— a Sephardi woman descended from Portuguese Jews who fled the Inquisition & a Black woman born to sharecroppers, descended from enslaved people—who knew the same fact.
February 11, 2025 at 6:23 PM
“Until we are all free, we are none of us free.” Lazarus, 1883
“Nobody’s Free Until Everybody’s Free,” Hamer, 1971
Just two lights— a Sephardi woman descended from Portuguese Jews who fled the Inquisition & a Black woman born to sharecroppers, descended from enslaved people—who knew the same fact.
“Nobody’s Free Until Everybody’s Free,” Hamer, 1971
Just two lights— a Sephardi woman descended from Portuguese Jews who fled the Inquisition & a Black woman born to sharecroppers, descended from enslaved people—who knew the same fact.