fluidbae
@fluidbae.bsky.social
radical dreamer, designer, technologist, researcher. Designing for the world on her way
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Much of SF lost power last night. Waymos blocked intersections across the city, even though they are Wayless than 1% of cars on the roads. They accumulated at their failure points--intersections with no green lights, in busy areas, and shut down traffic there.
December 21, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Much of SF lost power last night. Waymos blocked intersections across the city, even though they are Wayless than 1% of cars on the roads. They accumulated at their failure points--intersections with no green lights, in busy areas, and shut down traffic there.
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This is WILD.
Power goes out in San Francisco and the robot cars, needing the lights to "self" drive, all stop at once, blocking streets and emergency vehicles - which are needed more than ever in a black out!
We knew AI causes power outages. Turns out it also makes them worse by being stupid.
Power goes out in San Francisco and the robot cars, needing the lights to "self" drive, all stop at once, blocking streets and emergency vehicles - which are needed more than ever in a black out!
We knew AI causes power outages. Turns out it also makes them worse by being stupid.
Waymo has halted service in San Francisco after numerous videos & images showed its autonomous cars snarling traffic during the blackout.
With traffic lights down, Waymos across the city stopped dead in their tracks at intersections.
missionlocal.org/2025/12/sf-w...
With traffic lights down, Waymos across the city stopped dead in their tracks at intersections.
missionlocal.org/2025/12/sf-w...
Waymo halts service during massive S.F. blackout after causing traffic jams
Waymo stopped its service across San Francisco on Saturday after numerous autonomous vehicles caused traffic jams in the city.
missionlocal.org
December 21, 2025 at 7:56 PM
This is WILD.
Power goes out in San Francisco and the robot cars, needing the lights to "self" drive, all stop at once, blocking streets and emergency vehicles - which are needed more than ever in a black out!
We knew AI causes power outages. Turns out it also makes them worse by being stupid.
Power goes out in San Francisco and the robot cars, needing the lights to "self" drive, all stop at once, blocking streets and emergency vehicles - which are needed more than ever in a black out!
We knew AI causes power outages. Turns out it also makes them worse by being stupid.
I wonder if humans will kill each other first, every last one of us, before the earth swallows us whole?
December 16, 2025 at 6:54 PM
I wonder if humans will kill each other first, every last one of us, before the earth swallows us whole?
In all honesty social media is waaaaay too overwhelming for my lil system and i need another space to share my work and my thoughts
December 5, 2025 at 1:34 AM
In all honesty social media is waaaaay too overwhelming for my lil system and i need another space to share my work and my thoughts
With so much damaging nonsense happening in this country right now, it’s hard to keep up, it’s hard to know who to get our information from, it’s hard to know what’s important to focus on.
I’ve been feeling like I want to get back to writing but get so stuck on believing my voice doesn’t matter.
I’ve been feeling like I want to get back to writing but get so stuck on believing my voice doesn’t matter.
December 4, 2025 at 5:21 PM
With so much damaging nonsense happening in this country right now, it’s hard to keep up, it’s hard to know who to get our information from, it’s hard to know what’s important to focus on.
I’ve been feeling like I want to get back to writing but get so stuck on believing my voice doesn’t matter.
I’ve been feeling like I want to get back to writing but get so stuck on believing my voice doesn’t matter.
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A lot of what people imagine politically for this country can't actually happen under the current Democratic party. That's something that I don't see lots of people actually reckoning with. There is no way to do most of the things that some people want to do through the Democratic party.
December 1, 2025 at 4:17 PM
A lot of what people imagine politically for this country can't actually happen under the current Democratic party. That's something that I don't see lots of people actually reckoning with. There is no way to do most of the things that some people want to do through the Democratic party.
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We’ve had people from the U.S. and abroad asking whether the information on the White House website is even accurate anymore. The site has become unreliable, filled with blatantly false and deliberately misleading content.
November 30, 2025 at 3:10 PM
We’ve had people from the U.S. and abroad asking whether the information on the White House website is even accurate anymore. The site has become unreliable, filled with blatantly false and deliberately misleading content.
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The news has entirely failed to grasp the unprecedented scope of the ICE and DHS budgets. Nothing like it in modern history. A galaxy of public/private surveillance and caging institutions for $100,000,000,000s unleashed on a public that will be forever changed. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
ICE Wants to Go After Dissenters as well as Immigrants
The Trump administration is being open about its plans to violate Americans’ First and Fourth Amendment rights.
www.brennancenter.org
December 1, 2025 at 12:33 PM
The news has entirely failed to grasp the unprecedented scope of the ICE and DHS budgets. Nothing like it in modern history. A galaxy of public/private surveillance and caging institutions for $100,000,000,000s unleashed on a public that will be forever changed. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
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This one helps people access fresh produce: farmtopeople.com/product/box-...
Farm to PeopleBuy Community SNAP Box For Delivery Near You
Looking to buy Community SNAP Box near you? Farm to People delivers the best and freshest local food to your table. Place your order today!
farmtopeople.com
December 1, 2025 at 3:28 PM
This one helps people access fresh produce: farmtopeople.com/product/box-...
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I learned about two projects that are supporting people to get food.
This one allows you to cover someone's groceries: findagrocerybuddy.com/become-a-don...
This one allows you to cover someone's groceries: findagrocerybuddy.com/become-a-don...
Become a Donor | Find a Grocery Buddy
Fund a verified grocery order through Find a Grocery Buddy. Pay securely via PayPal — we’ll place the Instacart order and send you proof of delivery.
findagrocerybuddy.com
December 1, 2025 at 3:28 PM
I learned about two projects that are supporting people to get food.
This one allows you to cover someone's groceries: findagrocerybuddy.com/become-a-don...
This one allows you to cover someone's groceries: findagrocerybuddy.com/become-a-don...
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Today is the 70th anniversary of Rosa Parks' arrest. Six myths: 1) She wasn't old or tired. 42 years old that day, she had a "life history of being rebellious" & had spent two decades helping to turn the Montgomery NAACP into a more activist branch alongside ED Nixon and Johnnie Carr.
December 1, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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Someone give me $500,000 so I can offer 1 year fellowships to young people in 2026.
November 25, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Someone give me $500,000 so I can offer 1 year fellowships to young people in 2026.
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Everything matters and yes this does too.
A lot of folks may think that just yelling at ICE agents is ineffective, but consider the cumulative psychological toll of being yelled at EVERY DAY when trying to do shit. Even the biggest asshole in the world who doesn't give a shit about other people will feel the pressure.
More from the scene
October 25, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Everything matters and yes this does too.
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Poli-Scientists Erica Chenoweth and Maria Stephan authored a study that posits that no dictatorial regime survived having 3.5% of its population in active, sustained, non-violent resistance.
8,100,000 is 3.1% of the adult US population.
We're right there. KEEP IT UP.
8,100,000 is 3.1% of the adult US population.
We're right there. KEEP IT UP.
October 19, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Poli-Scientists Erica Chenoweth and Maria Stephan authored a study that posits that no dictatorial regime survived having 3.5% of its population in active, sustained, non-violent resistance.
8,100,000 is 3.1% of the adult US population.
We're right there. KEEP IT UP.
8,100,000 is 3.1% of the adult US population.
We're right there. KEEP IT UP.
Protests like No Kings are for optics and the community. We want to show the world, and each other, that we don’t fuck with this. And being in gathered in person feels good. Any opportunity to get off your phone and be in community is 100% great right now.
Not a shitpost: #NoKings is feel-good performative activism for comfortable mostly upper and upper middle class white folks and that’s good, actually. Millions of people in the streets protesting a fascist regime is good. It is good for the normie baseline to be massive displays of public dissent.
October 20, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Protests like No Kings are for optics and the community. We want to show the world, and each other, that we don’t fuck with this. And being in gathered in person feels good. Any opportunity to get off your phone and be in community is 100% great right now.
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Our confirmed count stands at 8.1 million participants worldwide for yesterday’s No Kings protest. Thank you to everyone who helped verify the numbers through our submission website. While some MAGAs attempted to submit false or misleading data (such as reporting “one person” for major cities)
October 19, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Our confirmed count stands at 8.1 million participants worldwide for yesterday’s No Kings protest. Thank you to everyone who helped verify the numbers through our submission website. While some MAGAs attempted to submit false or misleading data (such as reporting “one person” for major cities)
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They're talking about killing leftist activists. They're talking about murdering people organizing in defense of immigrant communities, doing mutual aid work, and protesting their violence. They are talking about murdering people like me and my friends. We must do more than acknowledge it's fascism.
My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."
October 11, 2025 at 2:04 PM
They're talking about killing leftist activists. They're talking about murdering people organizing in defense of immigrant communities, doing mutual aid work, and protesting their violence. They are talking about murdering people like me and my friends. We must do more than acknowledge it's fascism.
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I know not everyone is who they thought they would be under a fascist, authoritarian regime. That's okay. But it's time to do more than react and post about it. It's time to get organized—including mapping or creating lines of support and defense in your community.
Mapping Community Defense and Care in Our Neighborhoods
This worksheet can help us prepare for Trump's military interventions at the neighborhood level.
organizingmythoughts.org
October 11, 2025 at 2:06 PM
I know not everyone is who they thought they would be under a fascist, authoritarian regime. That's okay. But it's time to do more than react and post about it. It's time to get organized—including mapping or creating lines of support and defense in your community.
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“How to Report ICE” zines now available for these areas:
NYC
Philly
Durham, NC
All of Massachusetts
I will add more as I get them done.
Download them to print here: drive.google.com/drive/folder...
NYC
Philly
Durham, NC
All of Massachusetts
I will add more as I get them done.
Download them to print here: drive.google.com/drive/folder...
August 16, 2025 at 8:07 PM
“How to Report ICE” zines now available for these areas:
NYC
Philly
Durham, NC
All of Massachusetts
I will add more as I get them done.
Download them to print here: drive.google.com/drive/folder...
NYC
Philly
Durham, NC
All of Massachusetts
I will add more as I get them done.
Download them to print here: drive.google.com/drive/folder...
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Why could the world not listen when the first person suffered? The first flotilla left? When you saw the first image? Of starvation, bombs? Elders wailing, trees bulldozed, rubble and dust, small bodies in pieces, endless fleeing, families ended, tears, and death?
July 26, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Why could the world not listen when the first person suffered? The first flotilla left? When you saw the first image? Of starvation, bombs? Elders wailing, trees bulldozed, rubble and dust, small bodies in pieces, endless fleeing, families ended, tears, and death?
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The first planned migration of an entire country due to climate change is happening! Tuvalu, a Pacific island nation, is at risk of being submerged under rising sea level, so it has signed an agreement with Australia to allow 280 Tuvaluans to settle in Australia as permanent residents each year.
The First Planned Migration of an Entire Country Is Underway
The Pacific island nation of Tuvalu could be submerged in 25 years due to rising sea levels, so a plan is being implemented to relocate its population to Australia.
www.wired.com
July 26, 2025 at 10:20 AM
The first planned migration of an entire country due to climate change is happening! Tuvalu, a Pacific island nation, is at risk of being submerged under rising sea level, so it has signed an agreement with Australia to allow 280 Tuvaluans to settle in Australia as permanent residents each year.
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🚨Now that the men imprisoned by the Trump admin in El Salvador are free, their stories are coming out; and they are horrific.
One man describes how Salvadoran officials at the prison beat them regularly, stole money from them, and denied them medical care — even painkillers.
One man describes how Salvadoran officials at the prison beat them regularly, stole money from them, and denied them medical care — even painkillers.
July 23, 2025 at 4:45 PM
🚨Now that the men imprisoned by the Trump admin in El Salvador are free, their stories are coming out; and they are horrific.
One man describes how Salvadoran officials at the prison beat them regularly, stole money from them, and denied them medical care — even painkillers.
One man describes how Salvadoran officials at the prison beat them regularly, stole money from them, and denied them medical care — even painkillers.
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Yiddish songs of grief, fury and love - for Gaza
Show them support
lidermitpalestine.bandcamp.com/album/lider-...
Show them support
lidermitpalestine.bandcamp.com/album/lider-...
July 23, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Yiddish songs of grief, fury and love - for Gaza
Show them support
lidermitpalestine.bandcamp.com/album/lider-...
Show them support
lidermitpalestine.bandcamp.com/album/lider-...
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Some students also had their degrees revoked for participating in antiwar protests, including the 2024 Gaza encampments.
Columbia University suspends, expels nearly 80 students over Gaza protests
Some students also had their degrees revoked for participating in antiwar protests, including the 2024 Gaza encampments.
bit.ly
July 23, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Some students also had their degrees revoked for participating in antiwar protests, including the 2024 Gaza encampments.