Michael
@tropology.bsky.social
open stewardship, climate justice, strategic development: organizations, community, technology
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Something I Need to Say About AI
I don't usually write here. Twenty years of working with nonprofits and mission-driven organizations on technology projects, and I've kept my mouth shut about most of it for the last decade.
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August 24, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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How we lean and where we stand
We lean left because we’re better informed? Hogwash. We lean towards what you (some few, loudly and with well-funded megaphones and algorithms) speak of as left but it isn’t even left. If we leaned towards what one could reasonably construe as center we would be…
We lean left because we’re better informed? Hogwash. We lean towards what you (some few, loudly and with well-funded megaphones and algorithms) speak of as left but it isn’t even left. If we leaned towards what one could reasonably construe as center we would be…
How we lean and where we stand
We lean left because we’re better informed? Hogwash. We lean towards what you (some few, loudly and with well-funded megaphones and algorithms) speak of as left but it isn’t even left. If we leaned towards what one could reasonably construe as center we would be called extreme leftists. But as it stands most Americans have for some time been center right yet that’s still decried as leftwing extremism under recent ideological hallucinations. Don’t buy into their language, manipulations and delusions.
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July 22, 2025 at 8:43 PM
How we lean and where we stand
We lean left because we’re better informed? Hogwash. We lean towards what you (some few, loudly and with well-funded megaphones and algorithms) speak of as left but it isn’t even left. If we leaned towards what one could reasonably construe as center we would be…
We lean left because we’re better informed? Hogwash. We lean towards what you (some few, loudly and with well-funded megaphones and algorithms) speak of as left but it isn’t even left. If we leaned towards what one could reasonably construe as center we would be…
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hell yeah
LL Cool J said that he will not perform at Wawa Welcome America in Philadelphia on July 4th because of union strike
“There is absolutely no way I can perform across a picket line”
“There is absolutely no way I can perform across a picket line”
LL COOL J drops out of Wawa Welcome America concert because of union strike
LL COOL J said that he is not going to perform at Wawa Welcome America on July 4th in light of the AFSCME District Council 33 strike in Philadelphia.
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July 4, 2025 at 4:29 AM
hell yeah
No Kings.
No Kings. None. Zero. And so: No Kings, no Princes or Princelings No Duke, Count or Czar No Royals, Aristocracy or Caste No Hereditary Roles or Rule No Imperial Majesty, Empire or Emperor And no more ‘might makes right’
No Kings. None. Zero. And so: No Kings, no Princes or Princelings No Duke, Count or Czar No Royals, Aristocracy or Caste No Hereditary Roles or Rule No Imperial Majesty, Empire or Emperor And no more ‘might makes right’
No Kings.
No Kings. None. Zero. And so: No Kings, no Princes or Princelings No Duke, Count or Czar No Royals, Aristocracy or Caste No Hereditary Roles or Rule No Imperial Majesty, Empire or Emperor And no more ‘might makes right’
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June 17, 2025 at 3:41 PM
No Kings.
No Kings. None. Zero. And so: No Kings, no Princes or Princelings No Duke, Count or Czar No Royals, Aristocracy or Caste No Hereditary Roles or Rule No Imperial Majesty, Empire or Emperor And no more ‘might makes right’
No Kings. None. Zero. And so: No Kings, no Princes or Princelings No Duke, Count or Czar No Royals, Aristocracy or Caste No Hereditary Roles or Rule No Imperial Majesty, Empire or Emperor And no more ‘might makes right’
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The “big, beautiful” bill ain’t beautiful—it’s bullshit.
House Republicans just voted for the largest cut to SNAP & Medicaid in U.S. history—turning their backs on their own damn constituents: the working people they were sent here to represent.
They don’t serve the people. They serve the rich.
House Republicans just voted for the largest cut to SNAP & Medicaid in U.S. history—turning their backs on their own damn constituents: the working people they were sent here to represent.
They don’t serve the people. They serve the rich.
May 22, 2025 at 11:32 AM
The “big, beautiful” bill ain’t beautiful—it’s bullshit.
House Republicans just voted for the largest cut to SNAP & Medicaid in U.S. history—turning their backs on their own damn constituents: the working people they were sent here to represent.
They don’t serve the people. They serve the rich.
House Republicans just voted for the largest cut to SNAP & Medicaid in U.S. history—turning their backs on their own damn constituents: the working people they were sent here to represent.
They don’t serve the people. They serve the rich.
This should anger every American. via HCR: “Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country,” Noem said.
May 21, 2025 at 3:14 PM
This should anger every American. via HCR: “Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country,” Noem said.
An Open Letter to Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Who Thinks My Daughter Is a Tragedy www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/an-...
An Open Letter to Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Who Thinks My Daughter Is a Tragedy
Dear Mr. RFK Jr.,
(The “dear” is tradition. Don’t mistake it for affection.)
You said autistic children are a burden. That they ruin families. That...
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May 17, 2025 at 12:45 AM
An Open Letter to Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Who Thinks My Daughter Is a Tragedy www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/an-...
It’s hard to believe we’re talking about Kings, Kingship and the rights of a sovereign in the USA not as backdrop to how and why we have the rights we do but with reckless abandon as power consolidates and our rights are abrogated.
May 16, 2025 at 5:47 PM
It’s hard to believe we’re talking about Kings, Kingship and the rights of a sovereign in the USA not as backdrop to how and why we have the rights we do but with reckless abandon as power consolidates and our rights are abrogated.
Thinking about that special breed that carry around pocket-sized copies of the Constitution ... maybe they should go talk to 'ol yeller, the veep and his dogepals, bring some extra copies.
May 8, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Thinking about that special breed that carry around pocket-sized copies of the Constitution ... maybe they should go talk to 'ol yeller, the veep and his dogepals, bring some extra copies.
"I don't know if I have to do what I said I'd do when I took that Oath a second time"
I'm paraphrasing and explicating a bit ... but that's the substance of it.
I'm paraphrasing and explicating a bit ... but that's the substance of it.
May 6, 2025 at 2:17 PM
"I don't know if I have to do what I said I'd do when I took that Oath a second time"
I'm paraphrasing and explicating a bit ... but that's the substance of it.
I'm paraphrasing and explicating a bit ... but that's the substance of it.
The one word I strongly associate with Alcatraz is Escape.
May 6, 2025 at 1:29 PM
The one word I strongly associate with Alcatraz is Escape.
via HCR:
“It’s good to feel a victory like this. I stood in the White House and when confronted by the president of the United States, I told him I’d see him in court. Well, we did see him in court, and we won.”
-- Governor Mills
“It’s good to feel a victory like this. I stood in the White House and when confronted by the president of the United States, I told him I’d see him in court. Well, we did see him in court, and we won.”
-- Governor Mills
May 3, 2025 at 6:33 PM
via HCR:
“It’s good to feel a victory like this. I stood in the White House and when confronted by the president of the United States, I told him I’d see him in court. Well, we did see him in court, and we won.”
-- Governor Mills
“It’s good to feel a victory like this. I stood in the White House and when confronted by the president of the United States, I told him I’d see him in court. Well, we did see him in court, and we won.”
-- Governor Mills
Re the EO “Unleashing”
EOs aren’t law. They may think they are law and they want us to think they are but they aren’t unless the Supremes let them be. Ofc they will abuse our rights until they are stopped so I don’t take it lightly either.
EOs aren’t law. They may think they are law and they want us to think they are but they aren’t unless the Supremes let them be. Ofc they will abuse our rights until they are stopped so I don’t take it lightly either.
April 30, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Re the EO “Unleashing”
EOs aren’t law. They may think they are law and they want us to think they are but they aren’t unless the Supremes let them be. Ofc they will abuse our rights until they are stopped so I don’t take it lightly either.
EOs aren’t law. They may think they are law and they want us to think they are but they aren’t unless the Supremes let them be. Ofc they will abuse our rights until they are stopped so I don’t take it lightly either.
Found on threads:
‘It’s quite the thing seeing the “shall not be infringed” crowd try to argue that birthright citizenship doesn’t exist.’
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‘It’s quite the thing seeing the “shall not be infringed” crowd try to argue that birthright citizenship doesn’t exist.’
www.threads.com/@andrewjwein....
Andrew Weinstein (@andrewjweinstein) on Threads
It’s quite the thing seeing the “shall not be infringed” crowd try to argue that birthright citizenship doesn’t exist.
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April 28, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Found on threads:
‘It’s quite the thing seeing the “shall not be infringed” crowd try to argue that birthright citizenship doesn’t exist.’
www.threads.com/@andrewjwein....
‘It’s quite the thing seeing the “shall not be infringed” crowd try to argue that birthright citizenship doesn’t exist.’
www.threads.com/@andrewjwein....
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FT: Russians linked to Ukraine war bought Maltese 'golden' passports
Several Russians sanctioned over Russia's Ukraine war obtained Maltese passports via a golden visa program under EU court scrutiny, FT says.
euromaidanpress.com/2025/04/27/f...
Several Russians sanctioned over Russia's Ukraine war obtained Maltese passports via a golden visa program under EU court scrutiny, FT says.
euromaidanpress.com/2025/04/27/f...
FT: Russians linked to Ukraine war bought Maltese “golden” passports
Several Russians sanctioned over Russia's Ukraine war obtained Maltese passports via a golden visa program under EU court scrutiny, FT says.
euromaidanpress.com
April 27, 2025 at 1:38 PM
FT: Russians linked to Ukraine war bought Maltese 'golden' passports
Several Russians sanctioned over Russia's Ukraine war obtained Maltese passports via a golden visa program under EU court scrutiny, FT says.
euromaidanpress.com/2025/04/27/f...
Several Russians sanctioned over Russia's Ukraine war obtained Maltese passports via a golden visa program under EU court scrutiny, FT says.
euromaidanpress.com/2025/04/27/f...
What kind of logic is "three of us signed it, we sent it by mistake, but it still stands"?
April 22, 2025 at 9:20 PM
What kind of logic is "three of us signed it, we sent it by mistake, but it still stands"?
waiting for ol yeller to demand that the college of cardinals elect him
April 21, 2025 at 11:24 PM
waiting for ol yeller to demand that the college of cardinals elect him
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