Dammit, Cassella
@zekehero.bsky.social
I know the day of the week based on knowing movie release dates.
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wrote an essay about the lowdown, and how it can be hard to think about drama at a time when there never seem to be consequences for bad guys, and how the lowdown offers us a way out
www.vulture.com/article/the-...
www.vulture.com/article/the-...
Drama in a Time of No Consequences
The Lowdown finds hope in a world where most crimes go unpunished.
www.vulture.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:22 PM
wrote an essay about the lowdown, and how it can be hard to think about drama at a time when there never seem to be consequences for bad guys, and how the lowdown offers us a way out
www.vulture.com/article/the-...
www.vulture.com/article/the-...
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So grateful for this conversation. Timely topics on age verification, freedom of speech... and why it matters, has value, and is worth defending. Thank you @adamconover.net @siridahl.com & Noelle Perdue!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjWU...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjWU...
Why P*rn Bans Will Destroy the Internet with Siri Dahl and Noelle Perdue
YouTube video by Adam Conover
www.youtube.com
November 5, 2025 at 10:29 PM
So grateful for this conversation. Timely topics on age verification, freedom of speech... and why it matters, has value, and is worth defending. Thank you @adamconover.net @siridahl.com & Noelle Perdue!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjWU...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjWU...
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Short version because people aren't reading the blog
- "dislikes", essentially just a "not interested" button, private, doesn't effect anyone but yourself
- "Social proximity", puts people you know at the top of comments
- "Reply context", shows people full thread before they reply
- "dislikes", essentially just a "not interested" button, private, doesn't effect anyone but yourself
- "Social proximity", puts people you know at the top of comments
- "Reply context", shows people full thread before they reply
Threads on Bluesky should feel more like conversations you’d have IRL.
We’re testing new systems to improve reply quality. See what’s coming: bsky.social/about/blog/1...
We’re testing new systems to improve reply quality. See what’s coming: bsky.social/about/blog/1...
Progress Update: Building Healthier Social Media - Bluesky
Over the next few months, we’ll be iterating on the systems that make Bluesky a better place for healthy conversations. Some experiments will stick, others will evolve, and we’ll share what we learn a...
bsky.social
November 1, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Short version because people aren't reading the blog
- "dislikes", essentially just a "not interested" button, private, doesn't effect anyone but yourself
- "Social proximity", puts people you know at the top of comments
- "Reply context", shows people full thread before they reply
- "dislikes", essentially just a "not interested" button, private, doesn't effect anyone but yourself
- "Social proximity", puts people you know at the top of comments
- "Reply context", shows people full thread before they reply
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Mamdani's media strategy is, funny enough, exactly what actual news orgs should be doing.
Stay with me; a short thread:
www.nbcnews.com/politics/ele...
Stay with me; a short thread:
www.nbcnews.com/politics/ele...
Inside Zohran Mamdani's private influencer briefing
NBC News sat in as New York City's mayoral front-runner took questions from dozens of content creators, highlighting his media strategy and the shifting pressures of modern politics.
www.nbcnews.com
October 29, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Mamdani's media strategy is, funny enough, exactly what actual news orgs should be doing.
Stay with me; a short thread:
www.nbcnews.com/politics/ele...
Stay with me; a short thread:
www.nbcnews.com/politics/ele...
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Fuck you.
Using sex work as shorthand for classy or trashy or morally repugnant or whatever this is supposed to be puts you more in line with the current administration than it does his opposition.
Using sex work as shorthand for classy or trashy or morally repugnant or whatever this is supposed to be puts you more in line with the current administration than it does his opposition.
Trump already made the Oval Office look like a movie-set whorehouse; imagine the White House ballroom he’s building.
Money doesn’t buy class.
Money doesn’t buy class.
October 21, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Fuck you.
Using sex work as shorthand for classy or trashy or morally repugnant or whatever this is supposed to be puts you more in line with the current administration than it does his opposition.
Using sex work as shorthand for classy or trashy or morally repugnant or whatever this is supposed to be puts you more in line with the current administration than it does his opposition.
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Yeah these people are exactly who you think they are
October 16, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Yeah these people are exactly who you think they are
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Can someone please do a wellness check on Roger? I have a bad feeling for where this is gonna end up for him. No, really.
"I was married, but I’m not married anymore. Women don't like the vehicle," says Roger Davis, a Cybertruck owner.
Davis also uses the Grok feature in the car: "Her name is Aura, and I use her as a therapist."
www.wired.com/story/owning...
Davis also uses the Grok feature in the car: "Her name is Aura, and I use her as a therapist."
www.wired.com/story/owning...
October 16, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Can someone please do a wellness check on Roger? I have a bad feeling for where this is gonna end up for him. No, really.
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This video is everywhere because it's a hilarious visual refutation of Portland being on fire. You can't get a mass movement going without convincing the masses
so yes, this does do something actually
so yes, this does do something actually
October 10, 2025 at 12:06 PM
This video is everywhere because it's a hilarious visual refutation of Portland being on fire. You can't get a mass movement going without convincing the masses
so yes, this does do something actually
so yes, this does do something actually
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New from 404 Media: the Discord hack is every users' worst nightmare. Yesterday the hackers started posting Discord users' selfies, identity documents, email addresses, phone numbers, more. I watched in real time. This is risk of tech storing ID for age verification
www.404media.co/the-discord-...
www.404media.co/the-discord-...
The Discord Hack is Every Users’ Worst Nightmare
A hack impacting Discord’s age verification process shows in stark terms the risk of tech companies collecting users’ ID documents. Now the hackers are posting peoples’ IDs and other sensitive informa...
www.404media.co
October 9, 2025 at 3:28 PM
New from 404 Media: the Discord hack is every users' worst nightmare. Yesterday the hackers started posting Discord users' selfies, identity documents, email addresses, phone numbers, more. I watched in real time. This is risk of tech storing ID for age verification
www.404media.co/the-discord-...
www.404media.co/the-discord-...
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These people were enslaved as laborers for a call center soliciting church donations in case you’re wondering the exact level of where we went wrong as a human species
October 5, 2025 at 4:32 AM
These people were enslaved as laborers for a call center soliciting church donations in case you’re wondering the exact level of where we went wrong as a human species
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The Republican platform is simple: they want to sexually abuse children, and they want you to pay for it.
A Texas megachurch pastor and GOP leader has been arrested for crimes against children. Not Robert Morris, a different one. Not Josiah Anthony, a different one. Not Luke Cunningham, a different one. Not Tony Evans, a different one. Not Scott Crenshaw, a different one. Not Steve Lawson, a different o
October 5, 2025 at 3:50 PM
The Republican platform is simple: they want to sexually abuse children, and they want you to pay for it.
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This is what Trumpism has wrought.
October 2, 2025 at 11:01 PM
This is what Trumpism has wrought.
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Surprise. The Online Safety Act is only pushing people to worse corners of the internet.
To combat the fact that their surveillance law is a failure, Labour proposes revamping school curriculum focused on digital literacy, which is what they should have been doing all along.
To combat the fact that their surveillance law is a failure, Labour proposes revamping school curriculum focused on digital literacy, which is what they should have been doing all along.
'London teachers need training to protect pupils from Andrew Tate'
London's Deputy Mayor for Children and Families is concerned a 'toxic environment' is drawing children into viewing even more 'serious and damaging content' through the social media algorithm
www.mylondon.news
October 1, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Surprise. The Online Safety Act is only pushing people to worse corners of the internet.
To combat the fact that their surveillance law is a failure, Labour proposes revamping school curriculum focused on digital literacy, which is what they should have been doing all along.
To combat the fact that their surveillance law is a failure, Labour proposes revamping school curriculum focused on digital literacy, which is what they should have been doing all along.
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That's part of why I wrote this. It's important to understand that MAGA is not "real" America.
On the contrary, the reason they're all so fucking bitter is they know most people aren't like them. And they resent that.
www.salon.com/2025/10/01/m...
On the contrary, the reason they're all so fucking bitter is they know most people aren't like them. And they resent that.
www.salon.com/2025/10/01/m...
MAGA can't expand its base — and Christian music tells us why
The songs from Charlie Kirk's memorial exposed a serious problem
www.salon.com
October 1, 2025 at 1:49 PM
That's part of why I wrote this. It's important to understand that MAGA is not "real" America.
On the contrary, the reason they're all so fucking bitter is they know most people aren't like them. And they resent that.
www.salon.com/2025/10/01/m...
On the contrary, the reason they're all so fucking bitter is they know most people aren't like them. And they resent that.
www.salon.com/2025/10/01/m...
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Good read on one of the most interesting characters in tech debate. As someone who used to read the housing bubble blogs like Calculated Risk back in 2005 /2006 (i.e. before the bubble burst), there's a similar vibe with @edzitron.com - and maybe he'll be proven right.
Ed Zitron is mad as hell
How a British-born hobbyist blogger became one of Big Tech’s punchiest critics
www.ft.com
September 25, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Good read on one of the most interesting characters in tech debate. As someone who used to read the housing bubble blogs like Calculated Risk back in 2005 /2006 (i.e. before the bubble burst), there's a similar vibe with @edzitron.com - and maybe he'll be proven right.
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Here’s how Trump’s post-presidency went for Hope Hicks:
She broke down crying on the witness stand just after she provided crucial testimony in the criminal trial against her former boss.
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/fire...
She broke down crying on the witness stand just after she provided crucial testimony in the criminal trial against her former boss.
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/fire...
September 21, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Here’s how Trump’s post-presidency went for Hope Hicks:
She broke down crying on the witness stand just after she provided crucial testimony in the criminal trial against her former boss.
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/fire...
She broke down crying on the witness stand just after she provided crucial testimony in the criminal trial against her former boss.
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/fire...
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I see that a lot of people are discovering today that Snopes isn't a reliable source of information any more and is probably doing as much harm as good now, so here's how it got from there to here
So if anybody sees me periodically go on and on about how I was right about everything and nobody listened, this is pretty much what I'm talking about. I don't really expect sympathy so much as I really just need to work through it and what better place than Bsky? Anyway here's a story about it
Inside Snopes: the rise, fall, and rebirth of an internet icon
The Snopes saga would ultimately remind the world that sometimes the people who police our messy digital lives are themselves in need of—at a minimum—some adult supervision.
www.fastcompany.com
September 16, 2025 at 8:18 PM
I see that a lot of people are discovering today that Snopes isn't a reliable source of information any more and is probably doing as much harm as good now, so here's how it got from there to here
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NEW: in recent weeks, right wing media and influencers have seized on new research suggesting a connection between Tylenol use during pregnancy and autism
Ariana Cha, @laurenweberhp.bsky.social and I broke down the science and what MAHA influencers are claiming
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Ariana Cha, @laurenweberhp.bsky.social and I broke down the science and what MAHA influencers are claiming
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Some suggest Tylenol is linked to autism. Here’s what to know.
Conservative media and influencers are amplifying research suggesting a link between Tylenol use during pregnancy and autism.
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September 6, 2025 at 3:01 PM
NEW: in recent weeks, right wing media and influencers have seized on new research suggesting a connection between Tylenol use during pregnancy and autism
Ariana Cha, @laurenweberhp.bsky.social and I broke down the science and what MAHA influencers are claiming
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Ariana Cha, @laurenweberhp.bsky.social and I broke down the science and what MAHA influencers are claiming
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"Obesity" doesn't actually make you more likely to contract COVID or suffer from LC. That said, if "obesity" qualifies you to get the vaccine under the CDC's awful, dangerous new rules, *use that to your advantage.* Bringing back a blog entry I wrote on this issue in 2021:
COVID-19 Vaccines: When Systemic Fatphobia Works "For" You — Samantha Puc | The Verbal Thing
Thousands of people qualify for the COVID-19 vaccine because of their BMI. There's a lot to unpack there. Here's my personal attempt.
theverbalthing.com
May 22, 2025 at 10:28 PM
"Obesity" doesn't actually make you more likely to contract COVID or suffer from LC. That said, if "obesity" qualifies you to get the vaccine under the CDC's awful, dangerous new rules, *use that to your advantage.* Bringing back a blog entry I wrote on this issue in 2021:
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Know your rights, Chicago. Ask for a warrant. Record the goons from a safe distance. We don’t want or need them here.
Donald Trump says he is going to deploy the National Guard to Chicago. This is what weak men do to pretend they’re strong.
Stay safe, stand with your community, and most importantly, know your rights:
Stay safe, stand with your community, and most importantly, know your rights:
August 24, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Know your rights, Chicago. Ask for a warrant. Record the goons from a safe distance. We don’t want or need them here.
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what being alive currently feels like
April 7, 2025 at 9:56 PM
what being alive currently feels like
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ayo, if you write anything remotely horny, this affects you.
Romance writers? You are not going to be exempt from this. GOP senator's bill to make all porn a federal crime advances to committee www.thepinknews.com/2025/08/12/s...
GOP senator's bill to make all porn a federal crime advances to committee
GOP Senator Mike Lee's bill to make all pornography a federal crime in the US has advanced to a committee for review.
www.thepinknews.com
August 13, 2025 at 9:39 PM
ayo, if you write anything remotely horny, this affects you.