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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 9h

if you say things like this w/r/t a public figure like Sarah, part of building trust in the platform is *providing evidence that this is the case*

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Paul Frazee @pfrazee.com · 10h

I unfortunately can’t comment on moderation decisions, but I can echo something Aaron said: it was due to a post that violated community guidelines

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ICE must be destroyed 🏳️‍⚧️🏴 @miawong.bsky.social · 1d

It's so cool that sitting US senators can talk about how they want all Palestinians to be murdered and vote to do it and if you post about throwing a tomato at them the Feds show up at your door because that's apparently a threat but trying to do a genocide isn't

Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 20d

A reminder that according to Fetterman's own former staffers, Fetterman had a meeting with J-Street president Jeremy Ben Ami in which he told Ben Ami that he believes Arabs are like a "carton of sour milk" and that we should get back to killing.

"Kill them all" Fetterman is reported as having said.

“You can’t reform a carton of sour milk,” Fetterman told Ben-Ami, according to notes from the meeting, referring to the Palestinians. Fetterman said he did not believe in a two-state solution and claimed he had never met an Arab person who would condemn Hamas. “Correction,” the notes from the meeting stated. “Only a single Arab he has met with that staff was present for wouldn’t outright condemn Hamas.”

Fetterman went on to make statements that shocked people. In opposing a cease-fire, he said, “Let’s get back to killing.” A person who heard the conversation told me, “He said, ‘Kill them all.’” In a statement, Fetterman denied the account, adding, “Any reference to killing was solely about Hamas, and I do support the destruction of that organization, down to its last member.”

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Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social · 8h

Reinstate Sarah Kendzior

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Luke Steuber @lukesteuber.com · Jan 18

Hey if there are any Uber or Lyft product people around here, I would pay $1 more each time for a “not a Tesla” option. That company isn’t feeling nearly enough pain

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not spooky, just disappointed @ericgerhardt.com · 15h

Monthly premium going from $500 to $1800 here. Luckily a tax credit can bring it down to "only" $1100 per month.

Instead it looks like I'm going to be paying about $700/mo for a significantly worse plan.

Everyone in Congress knows this is happening and none of them, Rs or Ds, care in the least.

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 19h

Hello @support.bsky.team

I heard from Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social that her account was suspended.

Can you please look into this and reinstate her account? She’s a published author and scholar on authoritarianism. Her presence here is valuable.

cc:
@jay.bsky.team
@aaron.bsky.team

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not spooky, just disappointed @ericgerhardt.com · 1d

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Ian Potter @ianzpotter.bsky.social · 1d

Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.

It's an artistic representation of a circulatory system walking through a kitchen, as drawn by Dave Gibbons and written about by Alan Moore.
It happens a lot 'round here.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 3d

if people’s kids are going hungry and it turns out the money for it went to the gold ballroom and they’re refusing to pay up because they can’t, I think one very particular category of French antiques will be coming back in fashion right quick if you know what I mean

Clarkisha Kent @clarkishakent.blacksky.app · 3d

Ain’t no way they would be fighting THIS hard to *not* pay out everyone’s SNAP if they truly had it on hand.

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demon core vidal 🔜 PAX Unplugged @regretagarbo.rip · 4d

@aaron.bsky.team i know you’re more interested in talking about camera specs or whatever, but can someone please address the SAFETY CONCERNS with the automod.

what happened to composable moderation? what happened to users being in control?

demon core vidal 🔜 PAX Unplugged @regretagarbo.rip · 6d

@pfrazee.com can we please address the safety concerns with this automod? this is putting people like me in danger.

(i am tagging you because your team refuses to use official channels to announce rollouts and policy changes. this is a change that was announced by you.)

demon core vidal 🔜 PAX Unplugged @regretagarbo.rip · 10d

twitter hiding replies from me is how my stalker was able to reply to me for months talking about raping me and cutting me into pieces without my knowledge. he was violating my protection order and i didn’t even know it.

it kept him out of jail.

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demon core vidal 🔜 PAX Unplugged @regretagarbo.rip · 6d

@pfrazee.com can we please address the safety concerns with this automod? this is putting people like me in danger.

(i am tagging you because your team refuses to use official channels to announce rollouts and policy changes. this is a change that was announced by you.)

demon core vidal 🔜 PAX Unplugged @regretagarbo.rip · 10d

twitter hiding replies from me is how my stalker was able to reply to me for months talking about raping me and cutting me into pieces without my knowledge. he was violating my protection order and i didn’t even know it.

it kept him out of jail.

Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 10d

THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT

Hiding replies without my consent is *dangerous to me*

I use the mute function extremely carefully for a reason

I need to know if people are being violent at me so I can take action to protect myself

I need to be able to choose for myself who hidden

@pfrazee.com

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 3d

graphic in the Mamdani campaign colors and fonts that amusingly* quotes the popular Patricia Lockwood "Miette" tweet thusly:

JAIL FOR MOTHER
for ONE THOUSAND YEARS

* YMMV

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not spooky, just disappointed @ericgerhardt.com · 4d

ugh

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Humanity For All 🐸 🇺🇸 @humanity-for-all.bsky.social · 5d

Local authorities need to shut that place down. Storm in there and video it. Arrest all the Feds in there and take care of the people who were taken hostage. I get we’re trying to avoid the state vs Feds shoot out, but this can not be allowed to stand by state and local authorities.

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Mike Bithell @mikebithell.bsky.social · 4d

It’s funny catching wind that my posts against generative ai have raised a few eyebrows and pissed a few people off. I’d love to be able to give a fuck, but first I’d need to steal a million fucks from other people, and have a machine randomly assemble small parts of those fucks together for me

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not spooky, just disappointed @ericgerhardt.com · 6d

I'm a cold ankle guy and I usually go with booties from Glerups. Pricy but super warm and comfy.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 6d

I don’t know how many times I’ve watched this video.

I don’t know how we’ve gotten to the point where men in full balaclavas can abduct daycare teachers while they’re watching children.

But I do know that this isn’t sustainable. Abolish ICE. There is no way to reform this.

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 6d

Federal agents pulling a woman out of Rayito Del Sol, a daycare by Lane Tech high school

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ez “dyke ghoulfriend” @ezrez.bsky.social · 6d

Zohran says you’re trans now

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andy™ @andylevy.net · 6d

we can chalk it up to youth and inexperience but the biggest mistake the mamdani campaign made was winning by 8.8% and not 1.5%, which is the margin needed for the media to say it’s a total mandate

INTERESTING TIMES
WITH ROSS DOUTHAT
Mamdani's Victory Is Less Significant Than
You Think

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 6d

As the mother of a 20-year-old daughter, I think it is hard to overstate how much what happened last night meant to many young people.

They came of political age under the shadow of Trumpism and the hardships of the pandemic.

They needed this glimmer of hope. Let’s build it into an enduring flame.

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Tal B. Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 7d

mamdani is human. he'll fuck up and fail, especially with a hostile press and the giant mess that is nyc's politics. but today is a great day for the brave women who told what cuomo did, and for those of us who care that it should matter. that power shouldn't go to those who hurt the poweless.

Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 7d

I'm happy that Mamdani won. But I won't let that get in the way of my celebrating Cuomo losing.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 7d

stay tuned

Subjecy: Barstool leaving NYC?

Hi Dave-

Now than Zohran Mamdani is the mayor-elect, will Barstool be leaving New York? And if so, when?

Thank you,

--
Marisa Kabas
Independent journalist
The Handbasket

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 7d

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Daniel Kibblesmith @kibblesmith.com · 7d

Democratic party leadership has been on autopilot for ten years, they weren't losing to fascism, fascism isn't popular enough for them to lose to fascism, they were allowing it to fill the void where their leadership should have been. Tonight we're seeing that we have other options. They should too.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 7d

Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.

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