kellyaf.bsky.social
@kellyaf.bsky.social
Reposted by kellyaf.bsky.social
i think the real, good faith criticism of FIRE is specifically that its college free speech rankings (and deplatforming database) are a complete mess with no real grounding in objective metrics, and yet they reflect a massive percentage of FIRE's contribution to the public discourse. 🧵
"Fake moral panic"
FIRE pointed problems out where it saw them. Your problem is with the people in office. "You shouldn't say anything that someone with bad intent should misuse even if it's right" is stupid position worth Erp consideration.
FIRE pointed problems out where it saw them. Your problem is with the people in office. "You shouldn't say anything that someone with bad intent should misuse even if it's right" is stupid position worth Erp consideration.
August 7, 2025 at 3:52 AM
i think the real, good faith criticism of FIRE is specifically that its college free speech rankings (and deplatforming database) are a complete mess with no real grounding in objective metrics, and yet they reflect a massive percentage of FIRE's contribution to the public discourse. 🧵
Reposted by kellyaf.bsky.social
Living, but as a bit
January 22, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Living, but as a bit
Reposted by kellyaf.bsky.social
Listen, it's ok if you already need an escape from all of it. Any night, you can go outside, look up at the stars, and remember that we are so small in the grand scheme of -- damnit is that one of his rockets blowing up
January 21, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Listen, it's ok if you already need an escape from all of it. Any night, you can go outside, look up at the stars, and remember that we are so small in the grand scheme of -- damnit is that one of his rockets blowing up
Reposted by kellyaf.bsky.social
2012: “join Twitter? just so I can learn what some moron had for lunch?”
2024: “I’ve joined Bluesky to follow the ‘Good Lunch’ Feed. People post their lunch and others reply good lunch when it’s a good lunch”
2024: “I’ve joined Bluesky to follow the ‘Good Lunch’ Feed. People post their lunch and others reply good lunch when it’s a good lunch”
November 12, 2024 at 5:29 AM
2012: “join Twitter? just so I can learn what some moron had for lunch?”
2024: “I’ve joined Bluesky to follow the ‘Good Lunch’ Feed. People post their lunch and others reply good lunch when it’s a good lunch”
2024: “I’ve joined Bluesky to follow the ‘Good Lunch’ Feed. People post their lunch and others reply good lunch when it’s a good lunch”
Reposted by kellyaf.bsky.social
Nothing makes me feel more pessimistic about the state of the country than the refusal of political pundits to understand the difference between Democrats' actual positions and bad-faith Republican lies about their positions.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
November 11, 2024 at 3:18 PM
Nothing makes me feel more pessimistic about the state of the country than the refusal of political pundits to understand the difference between Democrats' actual positions and bad-faith Republican lies about their positions.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...