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Missino

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November 22, 2025 at 3:14 PM

Missino

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Amplifying this post from the discussion thread for the Bluesky Proposal 0008 "User Intents for Data Reuse"

github.com/bluesky-soci...

#atproto #atdev

Github Discussion Post: https://github.com/bluesky-social/atproto/discussions/3617#discussioncomment-14874972

Author: seongjaelee
Post: I really want this feature and I wonder if there is any way that shows people's interest to prioritize this feature. After the huggingface trolls scraped and archived all the dataset in huggingface, I totally lost my interest further contributing to Bluesky. Are there any way that I can do?

November 4, 2025 at 11:54 PM

Missino

@onedeuxtriseigo.nullpo.dev

You'll figure it out eventually. Also since you don't seem to be doing it, a lot of us here care about uploading images with alt text.

You can enable "require alt text" under > Settings > Accessibility.

If you consistently don't do alt text you risk getting put on an anti-alt-text block/shame list

Pointing Mannequin Meme w/ label ".bsky.social"

November 4, 2025 at 11:23 PM

Missino

@onedeuxtriseigo.nullpo.dev

And really the string diagram definition makes it make the most sense. They are truly just little forky bois.

November 1, 2025 at 2:40 PM

Missino

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BEAR WITNESS TO THE TERRORS

An extremely cursed git history graph that explodes out in many directions

October 27, 2025 at 9:25 AM

Missino

@onedeuxtriseigo.nullpo.dev

So the answers that can weight towards socialism are the following:

$\\------------------------------------------------------------------\\ Q: Healthcare A: Both Healthcare and treatment should be directly provided and guaranteed to all citizens by the nation \\------------------------------------------------------------------\\ Q: Minimum Wage A: The majority of working people should be paid the value of their labor (with a minimum, a comfortable living wage). There should also be a maximum wage, and managers and executives should be paid a lot less. \\------------------------------------------------------------------\\ Q: Internet Service Providers A: High Speed Internet Service Providers must be nationalized. They aren't able to have fair competition due to the cost of laying out cables, especially in rural areas \\------------------------------------------------------------------\\ Q: Universal Basic Income A: I support a universal wage a bit lower than the average wage more than a basic income. Those who cannot work due to medical conditions, temporary unemployment, or in retirement should receive it, and the employed should be guaranteed at least that much. \\------------------------------------------------------------------\\$ $\\------------------------------------------------------------------\\ Q: Utilities A: Utilities such as electricity and water should be nationalized. They are public goods that everyone needs. Public control allows the best quality since in many places, there is only one option \\------------------------------------------------------------------\\ Q: Private Schools A: The state should own all schools. This makes it easier to ensure all our students have an equal opportunity to succeed \\------------------------------------------------------------------\\ Q: Outsourcing A: The Government should nationalize all manufacturing in the nation, and should not outsource jobs \\------------------------------------------------------------------\\ Q: Bank Crashing that Will Damage the Economy A: We should create a single national government-owned bank, and buy all the current banks including the one that is failing. This ensures everyone can pay the same rates and that we can take on the debt the failing one owes A: The issue is that we have private megabanks. We should instead have local-government-owned community banks that work in the interests of the communities they represent and fund businesses in the area A: Banks should not exist in any form \\------------------------------------------------------------------\\$ $\\------------------------------------------------------------------\\ Q: Highways A: Highways should be operated by the national government. This ensures we can guarantee road quality nationwide that is free for everyone, and should employ a lot of people to work on ensuring top quality \\------------------------------------------------------------------\\ Q: National Debt A: The government controls the currency. We can print more money when we need more money, and legislate prices to stay level to keep inflation from becoming a problem \\------------------------------------------------------------------\\ Q: Consumer Goods Production A: Government-owned industry should manufacture all consumer goods for the population \\------------------------------------------------------------------\\$

October 24, 2025 at 9:54 PM

Missino

@onedeuxtriseigo.nullpo.dev

Oh hell yeah are we doing prism quizes as the new bluesky topic of the day now?

Prism Quiz Results:

Government:
100% Confederationism

Economy:
69.7% Market Socialism
21% Mixed Markets
9.3% Social Democracy

Society:
72.2% Freedom
19.2% Progressivism
8.6% Social Justice

Religion:
83.1% Secular
16.9% Hybrid

Security:
100% Humanist

Foreign Policy:
75.7% Internationalist
21.2% Open Borders
3.1% Assimilationist

Full Results: https://prismquiz.github.io/results.html?result=xmwd79ZC0Z8pmqZ2xu&lang=en

Value Descriptions: https://prismquiz.github.io/values.html?lang=en

October 24, 2025 at 5:32 PM

Missino

@onedeuxtriseigo.nullpo.dev

Hell yeah louisiana ftw. Our boudin is the better boudin hands down.

Cajun style boudin blanc absolutely fucks. And boudin rouge of course albeit it's a pain to get nowadays unless you make it yourself.

"<Insert state> mentioned" meme but specific for louisiana. Includes a fishing hat, a bottle of saz, and a saints hoodie. Set with a mardi gras background.

October 24, 2025 at 5:18 PM

Missino

@onedeuxtriseigo.nullpo.dev

Gotta put up those airport scanners but with VOC sensors in them instead. Stand in the center with arms raised for a few seconds and if you blow the VOC threshold (via BO, perfume, body spray, or whatever) then you can't enter.

Man with arms raised in body scanner in airport.

October 17, 2025 at 5:44 PM

Missino

@onedeuxtriseigo.nullpo.dev

This is clearly why you just need to loop the presentation. Statistically they'll get all of it if you loop for long enough right?

Screencap from Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange. Scene is of Alex DeLarge restrained with his eyes held open forced to watch "educational content" to condition him. A hand with a dropper is dropping teardrops in his left eye to keep them from drying out.

October 8, 2025 at 10:33 AM

Missino

@onedeuxtriseigo.nullpo.dev

Nah they've been desperately trying to hire a comms person for months now (I think since last year but not sure).

They've been trying but I guarantee nobody wants to be walking into this burning building which is why hiring has been so difficult.

jobs.gem.com/bluesky/am9i...

Head of Communications
Fully Remote - Overlap with PST working hours
Operations
Remote
Full-time
Head of Communications
Bluesky's vision is to make social more like the web itself. We're building a social media app, but beyond that, we've created a protocol that supports a broad ecosystem of applications and clients. Imagine a network of applications — from microblogging to photos to video to long-form writing — all interconnected and accessible with a shared identity.

About the Role:
We’re looking for an experienced, strategic communicator who can craft our narrative and help steer conversation about Bluesky and the future of social media. As Head of Communications, you’ll shape our messaging, pitch media, and lead comms across the company. You should be equally comfortable writing a punchy post, ghostwriting a blog

October 7, 2025 at 8:41 PM

Missino

@onedeuxtriseigo.nullpo.dev

Oh my god. And the b is already a hexagon as well. Its perfect.

Estradiol 2mg tablet. Light blue tablet with a b w/ a hexagon for bottom part.

October 7, 2025 at 5:18 PM

Missino

@onedeuxtriseigo.nullpo.dev

Oh also probably this is the most damning one from earlier in the article

Moyers: And they saw America doing that in regard to people of color, particularly black people.

Whitman: Boy, did they ever. In fact, they saw America doing it in a more radical fashion than any of the Nazis themselves ever advocated. I mentioned earlier the demands of the radicals during the early Nazi period in 1933, which were embodied in something called the Prussian Memorandum. Kind of a sinister name, but that’s what it was. The Prussian Memorandum specifically invoked Jim Crow as a model for the new Nazi program, and here’s the irony: The Prussian Memorandum also insisted that Jim Crow went further than the Nazis themselves would desire to go. They were planning to ban offensive socialization between the races if it took place in public but not in private. They went on to observe that the Americans went even further than that, banning interactions even in private. As Nazi debates continued, however, there was a great deal of disagreement over whether anything like Jim Crow segregation was appropriate for Nazi Germany. In fact, if you read the stenographic transcript of that meeting we’re talking about, you’ll come across a leading Nazi radical who denied that segregation would work in Germany. As he put it, “The Jews are just much too rich and powerful. Segregation of the Jim Crow kind could really only be effective against a population that was already oppressed and impoverished,” like the African-American population in America.

October 5, 2025 at 5:23 AM

Missino

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situation. One of the shocking things about my research was to come to terms with the fact that American definitions of who counted as black or members of other races were much more far-reaching and draconian than anything the Nazis themselves came up with.

Moyers: Bilbo said, “One drop of Negro blood placed in the veins of the purest Caucasian destroys the inventive genius of his mind and palsies his creative faculty.” Is it true that the Nazis thought the one-drop rule too extreme?

Whitman: They did indeed. They never proposed anything nearly as extreme as the one-drop rule. In fact the standard, the most far-reaching Nazi definitions of who counted as a Jew, matched the least far-reaching ones to be found in the American states. Virtually all American definitions of who counted as a black were far more draconian than anything found in any Nazi proposal. At the same time, the Nazi literature expressed real discomfort about the so-called one-drop rule, which, I have to say, was not found in every American state, as there were a variety of approaches in the US. But it was understandably notorious. The Nazis, difficult as it is to imagine, described the one-drop rule as inhuman, as “involving human hardness that’s going much, much too far, you couldn’t do that kind of thing,” they said. And their own definitions for who counted as a Jew, especially those that were ultimately attached to the Nuremberg Laws, were more restricted than anything to be found in American states at the time.

October 5, 2025 at 5:23 AM

Missino

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I'm reminded of an absolutely damning article on how America, in particular FDR's America inspired Nazi Germany and fascism abroad. (as FDR was president for essentially the entire rise of fascism, serving as president from 1933 to 1945)

Moyers: I watched the mayoral debate on Oct. 10 here in New York City. It was a noisy, raucous affair, and I remembered your writing that the Nazis didn’t like New York City. They saw it as a place where “the representatives of the races” gathered to create “a mishmash of ideas and people,” a place marked by a great influence of the Jews, which made institutions like Columbia University centers of radicalism, and they thought that the true America by contrast was Anglo-Saxon and Protestant.

Whitman: That’s what they said. I’m sure New York was a fun place to visit regardless. Even if you were a Nazi. But it’s true, they regarded the city of New York as just a hotbed of what Hitler called “Jewish elements” and were very, very suspicious of that same brash New York culture you’ve just described in the debate.

Those particular quotes, which were typical, I should say, of the far-right wing in Germany — far-right wingers have been saying things like that about New York for a long time — were from a Nazi book written in praise of Franklin Roosevelt as someone whom the Nazis at first thought exemplified some of the same virtues of their Führer in the early 1930s. That’s another uncomfortable piece of this story.

Moyers: How so?

Whitman: They often described him as a dictator. So did Mussolini, in fact. They thought that New Deal policies, intended of course to address the horrors, or the economic difficulties let’s call them, of the Great Depression, resembled Nazi efforts to do the same thing, which in fact they did. I mean, these were in some ways similar programs, as historians have shown. Some of the Nazi literature at the time said Roosevelt obviously aspired to do the same sorts of things Hitler was doing but who lacked the sort of paramilitary organization, a party army, that was used in Germany to support Hitler’s efforts. This was a pretty widespread impression. The Italian fascists thought similar things of the early New Deal.

So take the first programs of 1933 and 1934 — in particular what was called the National Recovery Administration, eventually struck down by the Supreme Court — when Mussolini was shown the plan for it, he said, “É un dittatore.” “That’s a dictator.” The perception that Roosevelt really was moving in the same direction as Central European dictators was pretty widespread in those countries in the early 1930s. Later on it became clear that it wasn’t the case. But, again — we don’t like to remember it, but especially in the early years of the New Deal, the Roosevelt administration depended very, very heavily on the support of the segregationist South. Roosevelt was very careful not to cross those Southern Democrats and that may also have contributed to the impression in Nazi Germany and elsewhere that there was something kindred in the New Deal regime to what they were doing.

Moyers: So that in the early ’30s, when these Nazi lawyers were engaged in creating a race law founded in part on anti-miscegenation law and race-based immigration, they came looking for foreign models and found some in the US.

Whitman: Yes, and studied them very, very carefully. That’s not only true of anti-miscegenation law. The passage that you just quoted earlier on about American immigration law was the product of a lot of very careful study of that law. They worked hard to learn what was going on in the US. And in particular, as you say, they worked very hard trying to understand or to master American anti-miscegenation law. Thirty American states had anti-miscegenation statutes. These were by no means limited to the American South. They were found all over the country. They didn’t target only blacks. They were also particularly devoted to banning and sometimes criminalizing marriages and sex between Caucasians and Asians, Caucasians and Native Americans — it goes on and on. Anti-miscegenation laws were a national phenomenon. At the meeting on June 5, 1934, the memorandum discussed by the minister of justice was accompanied by a list which detailed the anti-miscegenation provisions found in all 30 of the states that had them. And the law of those states was discussed in detail — I would almost say excruciating detail. They were really looking to see what they could learn from the US.

Moyers: You have a quote from that transcript of this meeting. One Nazi says to the state secretary, “I’m reminded of something an American said to us recently. He explained, ‘We do the same thing you Germans are doing, but why do you have to say it so explicitly in your German laws?’” And the state secretary answered, “But the Americans put it in their own laws even more explicitly.” Was he right?

Whitman: He was. It’s quite a memorable exchange, I have to say.

Moyers:You write that the US Supreme Court entertained briefs from southern states whose arguments were indistinguishable from those of the Nazis

Whitman:They were.The sorts of things the Nazis said, often using terms like mongrelization and bastardization of the population were also often said by Southern racists.It was exactly the same vocabulary

Moyers:Let me read to you.Heres a quote from a Maryland statute in 1957—1957!—that you include in the book:

All marriages between a white person & a Negro, or between a white person& a person of Negro descent, to the third generation, inclusive, or between a white person & a member of the Malay race or between a Negro & a member of the Malay race, or between a person of Negro descent, to the third generation, inclusive,& a member of the Malay race, or between a person of Negro descent,to the third generation,inclusive,& a member of the Malay race or between a Negro & member of the Malay race, or between a person of Negro descent, to the third generation, inclusive, are forever prohibited & shall be void;& any person violating the provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of an infamous crime& be punished by imprisonment in the penitentiary for not less than eighteen months or more than 10 years

That was Maryland law

Whitman: Yes, and it wasnt the only one. Laws of that kind werent ruled unconstitutional until 1967 by the Supreme Court in the famous case of Loving v Virginia.You could find them all over the United States & they were of great interest to the radical Nazis. The idea that racially mixed marriage was somehow objectionable was pretty widespread in the world in the early 20th century.Racism was something you found everywhere. But criminalization of the American kind was something that you just couldnt find elsewhere, particularly criminalization of such harshness as to threaten 10 years of imprisonment.That was was of tremendous interest to radical Nazis who wanted exactly the same thing for Germany

October 5, 2025 at 5:23 AM

Missino

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Everyone seems to be getting the wrong takeaway from that graph. It's basically "the right is a loose coalition of strongly held views on controversial topics".

Below is the actual study and the picture is the list of questions asked (Appendix S1)

bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...