Kelly Stonelake (she/her)
@kellystonelake.bsky.social
Former Meta executive turned whistleblower and advocate for kids' online safety, common sense tech regulations, suicide prevention, healthcare equity, and safer workplaces for those on the margins. AuDHD, MCAS, POTS, EDS
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trans people exist.
billionaires shouldn't.
billionaires shouldn't.
November 16, 2025 at 6:23 PM
trans people exist.
billionaires shouldn't.
billionaires shouldn't.
Yes, women do “ruin” the (patriarchal) workplace, and that’s a very good thing.
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From Epstein to Zuckerberg: Exploited Kids is the Ultimate Price of Unchecked Patriarchy
What if power were treated as a responsibility, not a prize?
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November 16, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Yes, women do “ruin” the (patriarchal) workplace, and that’s a very good thing.
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The exploitation of children is the ultimate price of unchecked patriarchy. It's the cost of our entire society's tolerance and participation in this system, and it's borne by our most vulnerable. #kosa #meta #kidsonlinesafety #socialmediaharms #epstein
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From Epstein to Zuckerberg: Exploited Kids is the Ultimate Price of Unchecked Patriarchy
What if power were treated as a responsibility, not a prize?
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November 16, 2025 at 6:03 PM
The exploitation of children is the ultimate price of unchecked patriarchy. It's the cost of our entire society's tolerance and participation in this system, and it's borne by our most vulnerable. #kosa #meta #kidsonlinesafety #socialmediaharms #epstein
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Someone really needed to say, Ross Don’t Douthat
November 9, 2025 at 4:34 AM
Someone really needed to say, Ross Don’t Douthat
BREAKING: OpenAI now seeking a TRILLION dollar loan from the federal government. The AI race is not a moon race, positioned as a matter of national interest to beat China and other global players. The path to true super intelligence is more like nuclear weapons; mutually assured destruction.
OpenAI Seeks Government Backing To Boost AI Investments
ChatGPT creator OpenAI, the world's largest private company, is asking the US government to provide loan guarantees for its massive infrastructure expansion that will eventually cost more than $1 tril...
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November 8, 2025 at 12:41 AM
BREAKING: OpenAI now seeking a TRILLION dollar loan from the federal government. The AI race is not a moon race, positioned as a matter of national interest to beat China and other global players. The path to true super intelligence is more like nuclear weapons; mutually assured destruction.
On my Meta lawsuit and kids online safety advocacy, “I don’t have f-you-money…it’s f-you-self-worth.” On It Gets Late Early Pod with Maureen Wiley Clough. Full ep: open.spotify.com/episode/6Piy...
November 5, 2025 at 5:09 AM
On my Meta lawsuit and kids online safety advocacy, “I don’t have f-you-money…it’s f-you-self-worth.” On It Gets Late Early Pod with Maureen Wiley Clough. Full ep: open.spotify.com/episode/6Piy...
I just finished and reviewed @sanders.senate.gov new book. The more we turn on each other—or demand perfect resistance—the more they win. Find the lowest-friction way to pull your dollars out of the systems fueling authoritarian power. #fightoligarchy #resist #bigtech
United, Not Divided: My Lessons from Bernie Sanders’ "Fight Oligarchy"
Zuck and Musk are counting on our paralysis, our guilt, our division. Let’s disappoint them.
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November 4, 2025 at 9:35 PM
I just finished and reviewed @sanders.senate.gov new book. The more we turn on each other—or demand perfect resistance—the more they win. Find the lowest-friction way to pull your dollars out of the systems fueling authoritarian power. #fightoligarchy #resist #bigtech
Next time you see Big Tech celebrate their latest innovation in child safety while kids keep dying, remember this list. #meta #kidsonlinesafety #kosa #passkosa #parenting #tech
November 2, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Next time you see Big Tech celebrate their latest innovation in child safety while kids keep dying, remember this list. #meta #kidsonlinesafety #kosa #passkosa #parenting #tech
Attention is the new oil, and we’re the unregulated well.
October 28, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Attention is the new oil, and we’re the unregulated well.
@brianboland.bsky.social on AI as an accelerant for capitalist extraction: www.delta-fund.org/ai-as-accele...
AI as Accelerant: Amplifying Extraction, Not Escaping It
Forget utopia or Skynet. AI isn't a revolution. It's a powerful accelerant for the extractive capitalism already breaking our world.
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October 28, 2025 at 9:53 PM
@brianboland.bsky.social on AI as an accelerant for capitalist extraction: www.delta-fund.org/ai-as-accele...
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If you’re cheering for SNAP cuts because you think it’ll save you money… it won’t.
SNAP gives more to the economy than it takes.
When people are starving, things fall apart.
You’re inflicting suffering on others to make the rich richer and you can’t even see it.
SNAP gives more to the economy than it takes.
When people are starving, things fall apart.
You’re inflicting suffering on others to make the rich richer and you can’t even see it.
October 28, 2025 at 8:18 PM
If you’re cheering for SNAP cuts because you think it’ll save you money… it won’t.
SNAP gives more to the economy than it takes.
When people are starving, things fall apart.
You’re inflicting suffering on others to make the rich richer and you can’t even see it.
SNAP gives more to the economy than it takes.
When people are starving, things fall apart.
You’re inflicting suffering on others to make the rich richer and you can’t even see it.
Attorney-client privilege protects counsel, not concealment. Some companies “forgot” the difference—Judge Williams just reminded them. #meta #legal #kosa #socialmediaharms
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Legal Cover, Illegal Acts: How Meta Hides Knowledge of Harm
How do we make informed decisions and sustain a democratic society when our most powerful institutions have made transparency asymmetric?
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October 28, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Attorney-client privilege protects counsel, not concealment. Some companies “forgot” the difference—Judge Williams just reminded them. #meta #legal #kosa #socialmediaharms
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Here’s what makes my blood boil most violently: Meta admitted that filtering out viral challenges was a matter of “spending several months.” Several months. Judy Rogg lost her son Erik over 15 yrs ago. How many kids have been lost since? Not enough to threaten the stock price, apparently. #meta
Meta Just Admitted They Could Have Saved Your Kids All Along
After over a decade of dead children due to viral social media challenges, why the latest announcements don't spell innovation
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October 22, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Here’s what makes my blood boil most violently: Meta admitted that filtering out viral challenges was a matter of “spending several months.” Several months. Judy Rogg lost her son Erik over 15 yrs ago. How many kids have been lost since? Not enough to threaten the stock price, apparently. #meta
For those of us despairing and caring together. Please let me know if you know where credit is due for this—
October 19, 2025 at 2:08 AM
For those of us despairing and caring together. Please let me know if you know where credit is due for this—
I was cleaning out the garage yesterday and found this photo of my dad from—I’m guessing—the late 70’s. I miss my dad for so many reasons, not least of all was his brilliance, the lack of fucks he gave about decorum, and the amount of fun he had even, maybe especially, when existing under a boot.
October 18, 2025 at 11:32 PM
I was cleaning out the garage yesterday and found this photo of my dad from—I’m guessing—the late 70’s. I miss my dad for so many reasons, not least of all was his brilliance, the lack of fucks he gave about decorum, and the amount of fun he had even, maybe especially, when existing under a boot.
The same impulse that drives us into the streets to declare ‘No Kings’ could also drive us to withdraw our labor—in this case, our digital labor of content and attention—from those who would crown themselves emperors of our online lives. #nokings #nocaesars @jay.bsky.team #kidsonlinesafety
No Kings, No Caesars, and The Photos I Didn’t Put on Instagram
When will we stop seeing social platforms as a “necessary evil” and instead as they are, unnecessary evils?
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October 18, 2025 at 10:00 PM
The same impulse that drives us into the streets to declare ‘No Kings’ could also drive us to withdraw our labor—in this case, our digital labor of content and attention—from those who would crown themselves emperors of our online lives. #nokings #nocaesars @jay.bsky.team #kidsonlinesafety
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(solemnly) You've had mail.
September 30, 2025 at 7:43 PM
(solemnly) You've had mail.
After parading transphobia, misogyny, and fascism, Sec of War Hegseth told 4k Generals and Admirals today that it’s “unacceptable to see fat Generals and Admirals.” Meanwhile, 68% of service members are overweight. I hope his audience was was furious. Shame on our domestic enemy, Pete Hegseth.
September 30, 2025 at 9:26 PM
After parading transphobia, misogyny, and fascism, Sec of War Hegseth told 4k Generals and Admirals today that it’s “unacceptable to see fat Generals and Admirals.” Meanwhile, 68% of service members are overweight. I hope his audience was was furious. Shame on our domestic enemy, Pete Hegseth.
Teen Accounts seem less about protecting teens and more about protecting Meta. Less cure and more sugar pill, meant to make parents and lawmakers feel better without adequately addressing the issue. #meta #kidsonlinesafety #kosa #instagram open.substack.com/pub/overturn...
Meta’s Teen Accounts are Sugar Pills for Parents, not Safety for Kids
“We want parents to feel good about their teens using social media," says Instagram, as they fail to actually keep kids safe.
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September 30, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Teen Accounts seem less about protecting teens and more about protecting Meta. Less cure and more sugar pill, meant to make parents and lawmakers feel better without adequately addressing the issue. #meta #kidsonlinesafety #kosa #instagram open.substack.com/pub/overturn...
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open.substack.com/pub/overturn... "Things I’d rationalized away as individual bad actors—from the crotch grabs to the threats over promotions—were part of a system that disregarded women, the same one that ended my career and was making the product more harmful for children."
Why Did You Stay So Long?
Coercive control and the common playbook across intimate partners, mega-churches, and big tech
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September 24, 2025 at 3:22 PM
open.substack.com/pub/overturn... "Things I’d rationalized away as individual bad actors—from the crotch grabs to the threats over promotions—were part of a system that disregarded women, the same one that ended my career and was making the product more harmful for children."
When someone finally leaves a toxic workplace, abusive partner, or hate-mongering religious community, we could respond the way those girlfriends do.
We might say “congrats on ripping that god damn bag off your head” if we understand how these patterns work.
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We might say “congrats on ripping that god damn bag off your head” if we understand how these patterns work.
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Why Did You Stay So Long?
Coercive control and the common playbook across intimate partners, mega-churches, and big tech
open.substack.com
September 23, 2025 at 11:47 PM
When someone finally leaves a toxic workplace, abusive partner, or hate-mongering religious community, we could respond the way those girlfriends do.
We might say “congrats on ripping that god damn bag off your head” if we understand how these patterns work.
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We might say “congrats on ripping that god damn bag off your head” if we understand how these patterns work.
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September 18, 2025 at 5:07 AM
Silencing Dissent is Also Politicizing Charlie Kirk’s Death #freespeech @karenattiah.bsky.social @jimmykimmel.com open.substack.com/pub/overturn...
Silencing Dissent is Also Politicizing Charlie Kirk’s Death
Canceled: Kimmel, Attiah, and fundamental principles of free speech
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September 18, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Silencing Dissent is Also Politicizing Charlie Kirk’s Death #freespeech @karenattiah.bsky.social @jimmykimmel.com open.substack.com/pub/overturn...
I wrote a piece today for a rather narrow audience: those struggling with suicidal ideation. I hope you’ll share it because even if you aren’t, someone you know probably is. #worldsuicidepreventionday
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Because Invalidation Kills: Normalizing the Experience of Wanting to Die By Suicide
And practical steps to saving yourself and building a life worth living
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September 11, 2025 at 3:09 AM
I wrote a piece today for a rather narrow audience: those struggling with suicidal ideation. I hope you’ll share it because even if you aren’t, someone you know probably is. #worldsuicidepreventionday
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When I was in a crisis, I didn't need platitudes; I needed to understand what was happening in order to feel less like a confounding burden, I needed to accept and accommodate my reduced capacity, and I needed practical steps that could help me. #suicideprevention
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Because Invalidation Kills: Normalizing the Experience of Wanting to Die By Suicide
And practical steps to saving yourself and building a life worth living
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September 11, 2025 at 1:34 AM
When I was in a crisis, I didn't need platitudes; I needed to understand what was happening in order to feel less like a confounding burden, I needed to accept and accommodate my reduced capacity, and I needed practical steps that could help me. #suicideprevention
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