Ryan Brazell
@ryanbrazell.bsky.social
Low country lover of cats, Trek, and Eurovision. Floridian by birth, Richmonder by choice. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🍉
Fuck you, Bluesky. I’m out.
Moderation decisions draw intense public scrutiny from many places. That’s why Bluesky's architecture is designed to enable communities to control their online spaces, independent of the company or its leadership. We will continue to work on empowering people with more control over their experience.
December 13, 2024 at 6:26 PM
Fuck you, Bluesky. I’m out.
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The only way to save ourselves is to save each other
The only way they stay in power is by keeping us at each other’s throats instead of theirs
The only way they stay in power is by keeping us at each other’s throats instead of theirs
December 11, 2024 at 8:26 AM
The only way to save ourselves is to save each other
The only way they stay in power is by keeping us at each other’s throats instead of theirs
The only way they stay in power is by keeping us at each other’s throats instead of theirs
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The most infuriating part of 68,000 people dying each year because our healthcare system denies them care is that no one is ever held accountable for those deaths.
We've not only normalized the predatory actions of the health insurance industry, we've passed laws to protect it.
We've not only normalized the predatory actions of the health insurance industry, we've passed laws to protect it.
December 10, 2024 at 9:17 PM
The most infuriating part of 68,000 people dying each year because our healthcare system denies them care is that no one is ever held accountable for those deaths.
We've not only normalized the predatory actions of the health insurance industry, we've passed laws to protect it.
We've not only normalized the predatory actions of the health insurance industry, we've passed laws to protect it.
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the childhood trauma thing is a large part of why i was denied hrt in the early ‘00s. it sent me back in the closet for well over a decade and i didn’t actually access hrt until 2022. cruelty upon cruelty
The FL Department of Corrections is attempting to "reverse" the gender identity of transgender people in its custody, referring to trans identities as "short-term delusions" and withholding hormone therapy. Reviving psychiatric theories of the 1950s, they blame trans identities on "childhood trauma"
December 10, 2024 at 5:23 PM
the childhood trauma thing is a large part of why i was denied hrt in the early ‘00s. it sent me back in the closet for well over a decade and i didn’t actually access hrt until 2022. cruelty upon cruelty
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Virginia Tech professor and poet, Nikki Giovanni, has died at the age of 81.
Well-known Virginia Tech professor dies at 81
Virginia Tech professor and poet, Nikki Giovanni, has died at the age of 81.
www.wdbj7.com
December 10, 2024 at 2:52 AM
Virginia Tech professor and poet, Nikki Giovanni, has died at the age of 81.
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Workers at the Strand are on strike
Union workers at Manhattan's Strand Bookstore on strike
After months of failed negotiations, union workers at the Strand Bookstore in Manhattan are off the job. It's the first strike at the iconic shop since the early 1990s.
www.yahoo.com
December 8, 2024 at 1:44 PM
Workers at the Strand are on strike
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Hey, I dunno, maybe we should focus more on increasing human intelligence and not making machines smarter. We generate our own electricity and only need about 3.7 liters of water a day to conjure galaxies, poems, songs, books, movies and great ideas like universal health care.
December 7, 2024 at 4:31 AM
Hey, I dunno, maybe we should focus more on increasing human intelligence and not making machines smarter. We generate our own electricity and only need about 3.7 liters of water a day to conjure galaxies, poems, songs, books, movies and great ideas like universal health care.
I will sit down and watch this movie anytime and anywhere
you know for many years people cracked jokes saying marisa tomei got the oscar for my cousin vinny by accident or something and you know what fuck that she totally deserved it she's INCREDIBLE in that movie
December 8, 2024 at 2:25 AM
I will sit down and watch this movie anytime and anywhere
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hallmark christmas movie:
a handsome young man goes to the big city during the holidays to kill a ceo and finds nation's love along the way
a handsome young man goes to the big city during the holidays to kill a ceo and finds nation's love along the way
December 7, 2024 at 7:07 PM
hallmark christmas movie:
a handsome young man goes to the big city during the holidays to kill a ceo and finds nation's love along the way
a handsome young man goes to the big city during the holidays to kill a ceo and finds nation's love along the way
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The CEO of the company that made the backpack contacted the FBI and identified the bag almost immediately.. Don't buy PeakDesign backpacks or bags..
December 7, 2024 at 7:17 PM
The CEO of the company that made the backpack contacted the FBI and identified the bag almost immediately.. Don't buy PeakDesign backpacks or bags..
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“The algorithm in question, known as nH Predict, allegedly had a 90 percent error rate — and according to the families of the two deceased men who filed the suit, UHC knew it.”
Murdered Insurance CEO Had Deployed an AI to Automatically Deny Benefits for Sick People
Before United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson was murdered, a lawsuit filed against the firm revealed just how bad its claims-denying was.
futurism.com
December 6, 2024 at 9:25 PM
“The algorithm in question, known as nH Predict, allegedly had a 90 percent error rate — and according to the families of the two deceased men who filed the suit, UHC knew it.”
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i’m gonna just watch this at least once a day and i recommend everyone do the same
November 6, 2024 at 11:00 AM
i’m gonna just watch this at least once a day and i recommend everyone do the same
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So like. Who is the Ticketmaster ceo?
December 5, 2024 at 8:33 PM
So like. Who is the Ticketmaster ceo?
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without qualification or exception, the mere act of having billions of dollars makes you a mass murderer by default. you have hoarded resources while others went without and died for it.
There’s a lot of discourse about CEOs and billionaires right now. It’s hard to have this convo on TikTok but I think Bluesky can handle it with nuance.
Are all billionaires bad?
Are all billionaires bad?
December 6, 2024 at 6:26 AM
without qualification or exception, the mere act of having billions of dollars makes you a mass murderer by default. you have hoarded resources while others went without and died for it.
FAFO
I think MAGAs and their oligarch supporters really haven’t fully reasoned through “we’re going to make Americans as poor and desperate as possible to turn them into peasant vassals, but we’re also going to make sure they can still get lots of guns.”
OK this is something I've thought about for a long time. They've adopted a policy position of taking away everything from everyone but weapons. Like they're actively mainstreaming suppressors now.
December 6, 2024 at 1:33 AM
FAFO
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This story is uh, insane www.cbsnews.com/news/police-...
December 5, 2024 at 12:52 PM
This story is uh, insane www.cbsnews.com/news/police-...
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This is a genuinely massive piece of good news. Well done Lina Khan, Alvaro Bedoya, and the rest of crew at the FTC.
New from 404 Media: this is huge. FTC to ban Venntel from selling sensitive location data. Sensitive locations include health facilities (think abortion); places of worship; schools; refugee shelters. Crucial because Venntel sold its data to ICE, CBP etc www.404media.co/ftc-bans-loc...
FTC Bans Location Data Company That Powers the Surveillance Ecosystem
Venntel is a primary provider of location data to the government or other companies that sell to U.S. agencies. The FTC is banning Venntel from selling data related to health clinics, refugee shelters...
www.404media.co
December 3, 2024 at 5:24 PM
This is a genuinely massive piece of good news. Well done Lina Khan, Alvaro Bedoya, and the rest of crew at the FTC.
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THEY TOLD US IN 2017 THAT THEY WERE COMING FOR OBERGEFELL AND THAT THEY WOULD USE TRANSGENDER PEOPLE AS A WEDGE ISSUE TO ACCOMPLISH IT
this is why we are furious at all politicians and pundits demanding we be sacrificed
this is why we are furious at all politicians and pundits demanding we be sacrificed
They told us in 2017 in the Nashville Statement that they were coming for Obergefell and that they would use transgender people as a wedge issue to accomplish it
December 3, 2024 at 1:45 AM
THEY TOLD US IN 2017 THAT THEY WERE COMING FOR OBERGEFELL AND THAT THEY WOULD USE TRANSGENDER PEOPLE AS A WEDGE ISSUE TO ACCOMPLISH IT
this is why we are furious at all politicians and pundits demanding we be sacrificed
this is why we are furious at all politicians and pundits demanding we be sacrificed
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I knew he was a cop but I didn't know until recently that Gene Roddenberry was a speechwriter, and essentially a nepo hire, for the "unambiguous racist" Los Angeles police chief Bill Parker, who popularized the phrase "the thin blue line" as a euphemism for the police
Tired: ACAB includes Odo
Wired: ACAB includes Gene Roddenberry
Wired: ACAB includes Gene Roddenberry
December 3, 2024 at 12:42 AM
I knew he was a cop but I didn't know until recently that Gene Roddenberry was a speechwriter, and essentially a nepo hire, for the "unambiguous racist" Los Angeles police chief Bill Parker, who popularized the phrase "the thin blue line" as a euphemism for the police
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Biden has done worse than delivered nothing on prison reform—he’s taken steps back by being so parsimonious with pardons and clemency, doing nothing on death penalty, and overseeing expansion of federal prison system
December 3, 2024 at 1:04 AM
Biden has done worse than delivered nothing on prison reform—he’s taken steps back by being so parsimonious with pardons and clemency, doing nothing on death penalty, and overseeing expansion of federal prison system
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if you're in line to eat a billionaire, stay in line to eat a billionaire
December 3, 2024 at 1:13 AM
if you're in line to eat a billionaire, stay in line to eat a billionaire