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2025-12-28 01:46:08 UTC

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yeah everyone is immediately like ooohhh is it fun what’s it like are they hot what books are you hearing about tell us more we’re jealous omg librarian party yay @npub1wsm…lwcl

2025-09-14 05:45:20 UTC

trying to imagine what it’s gonna be like to be alive on earth in 50 years and just getting bummed out

2025-09-13 15:04:25 UTC

I moved from a majority MAGA small rural town in Alaska to portland, or and all I have to show for it is my salvaged mental health, a sense of belonging and self worth, and the overwhelming feeling that it’s ok actually for me to be exactly who I am
in Portland I interact with a lot of people who are very different than me, I talk to lots of trans people irl not just online, and I’m constantly inspired by the creativity, quirkiness, and sense of possibility in this city

2025-09-08 02:30:48 UTC

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is this a pattern???? leaving twitter for fedi has been my first real foray into The Internet

2025-09-08 02:27:06 UTC

what I’ve seen over the last 3 yrs is that mastodon’s protocolist assertion (accompanied by willful ignorance) that AT protocol Was Not Decentralized resulted in people functionally decentralizing ATproto

2025-07-27 16:34:05 UTC

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wild how we grew up thinking streetcars were this really cool quirk of san francisco alone, and didn't understand what was taken from us
@npub1jf6…jumu

2025-07-27 15:46:58 UTC

i moved to portland, oregon, which is an overwhelming transition, so i'm soothing the life transition anxiety with old historical society photos from when Portland had a citywide streetcar and trolley network
https://digitalcollections.ohs.org/coll142-1-streetcars-and-trains

2025-03-05 17:44:24 UTC

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partner telling me I can offend fewer people by hanging this on bulletin boards instead of cars and I’m like bro u r missing the point, this coup won’t end without discomfort among the privileged
tfw you live with a white moderate

2025-03-05 17:00:33 UTC

101k upvotes on Reddit - you can download and print and put under windshield wipers of certain cars
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gssFRuHS45pKMy57tX2HuRNG5HnXaspKdwLkbrEf2wY/mobilebasic

2025-02-24 22:08:51 UTC

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we fight for what's right and keep marching forward, nothing is gained from giving up

2025-02-24 17:13:22 UTC

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"Trump and Musk are violating our Constitution's Separation of Powers. The remedy for this violation is impeachment. As an elected official you took an oath to uphold the constitution. I ask that you initiate impeachment hearings and proceedings immediately."

2025-02-24 16:15:58 UTC

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my politician calls today are for impeachment, impeachment is the outcome we need. I am fantastically uninterested in the whining about what is or is not possible

2025-02-24 15:47:08 UTC

good morning! it’s a perfect day to fight fascism ✊🏼
may we be honest and courageous! may we practice solidarity with the vulnerable and not the wealthy! may our fierce love for one another lift our movements 🔥

2025-02-08 18:28:52 UTC

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yeah i empathize deeply and agree it would be nice to figure out solutions here. when you say underwater, do you mean if you sold it you would have no money at all? like you currently owe more than you think the car can be sold for?

2025-02-08 17:24:03 UTC

has anyone seen any websites dedicated to targeting Tesla via educating owners to sell them etc? I’m dying to make one with some of you

2025-02-03 02:58:47 UTC

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We cannot, we CANNOT, let Elon Musk put the US Treasury on blockchain
please join with others and find a way to fight back. Courage is contagious. Community beats chaos.
✊🏼❤️
https://alaskansocial.files.fedi.monster/media_attachments/files/113/937/712/671/117/009/original/a31ac75944ec2711.jpeg

2025-02-02 20:23:38 UTC

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yeah, same. a big splurge for me is 1 mg. right now i am doing a deeply brewed sleepy tea blend, a teaspoon of food-derived magnesium mixed in water, and a nibble of sleepy weed gummy that includes CBN and THC

2025-02-02 20:19:06 UTC

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did it work??

2025-02-02 19:47:25 UTC

Wired has identified 6 young men helping Elon with his illegal coup inside our Office of Management and Budget (OMB), their names are Akash Bobba, Edward Coristine, Luke Farritor, Gautier Cole Killian, Gavin Kliger, and Ethan Shaotran
https://archive.ph/QYBhK

2024-11-24 21:04:47 UTC

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colombia elected a left wing president who is now maybe the only major leader in the world FIRMLY trying to do what's right and turn away from fossil fuels. how can the international climate community support him? how can leftists around the world support one of our only successful recent electoral movements? how can we help make sure his win isn't in the end painted as a failure? this seems pretty important tbh

2024-11-24 20:58:54 UTC

“Colombia is doing the right thing in a way by saying we need to move away from fossil fuels,” said Bill Hare, a climate scientist and chief executive of Climate Analytics...
“They’re doing it for a combination of different reasons, some of them economic, some basically completely moral and oriented around the climate crisis. What is really bad that’s happening is that they’re not being backed up by the international financial community.”
https://apnews.com/article/clean-power-colombia-cop29-azerbaijan-baku-muhamad-environment-oil-coal-6ce481e124b7a3725fdcb5967b66b6ae

2024-11-23 19:08:46 UTC

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no there was not one perfect place to go. yes, collectively, the crew that is now on bluesky did and does have the capacity to address that problem by creating and supporting other types of platforms. twitter migrants DID change fedi and in big enough numbers could REALLY change it. great to see that creative energy going to bsky now but we should look at the reasons it took so long, and so many people do not feel empowered to leave bad situations or work together to make better ones

2024-11-23 19:00:55 UTC

ok i'm about to get off the internet for today but i have to say that the one thing i don't see AT ALL on bsky is any self reflection on why it wasn't more of a priority to get communities the fuck off twitter after musk bought it. plenty of slow realizations that oh wow turns out its good actually to get off of there, and that our reactions to the right's online house of terrors only fuels those same terrors.
but all of that was known 2.5 years ago

2024-11-22 02:21:12 UTC

TLDR: trump is about to break the country, we will have a window in which to blame that on billionaires since musk is so visible in the architecture. We have to be building a movement -a REAL pro life one -that is ready to receive people as they are radicalized or turned off by maga consequences. let’s cut the left’s snark & virtue testing, make space for good faith debate with one another, and look to labor to learn how to find common cause with different types of people
https://alaskan.social/@seachanger/113522452315213249

2024-11-11 17:27:28 UTC

yes I hope bluesky replaces twitter, I’m also aware that bluesky is in its VC-funded phase of trying to replace its entire perceived market and especially any ideological competitors. the pattern of is well understood if not well known: domination over cooperation, hype over honesty, vagueness that serves capital

2024-11-08 18:19:33 UTC

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some older cultures hold the belief that we're always required to be "fixing the world" - the Karuk who live in the heart of Klamath River country are one, they self identify as fix the world people (pikyav is the verb). Some Jewish people interpret the Tikkun olam tradition in a similar way - fixing the world through our deeds.
Tending rope and nets is similar. If you're not always fixing, you're vulnerable to storms.
Are we able now to see ourselves as people who are perpetually repairing?

2024-11-06 21:13:21 UTC

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I have invited roughly 30 people from various chats to reconnect on signal and roughly 1 person has responded lol. stay the course malena, be persistent

2024-10-26 00:34:16 UTC

the bsky left is obsessed with wapo not endorsing kamala, they see it as an act of preemptive collaboration with fascism, and propose we all cancel our wapo and prime accts to fight it
but bezos isn't afraid of trump, he just doesn't want to pay taxes. he doesn't care if you cancel your prime because he knows everyone has to shop at amazon. bezos only cares about staying untaxed and unregulated, therefore trump is his better option

2024-10-17 00:10:00 UTC

just went on a misty ridge hike with a friend and once we got up to the ridge we were treated to a full close up surround sound wolf pack howling! I’ve never been that close to so many wolfy voices singing together, it was really a sonic highlight of my life tbh! so haunting and beautiful coming through the fog! we were a little cautious about walking directly toward them, but they seemed to disperse and we only heard them intermittently and further away after that
https://alaskansocial.files.fedi.monster/media_attachments/files/113/319/857/028/271/964/original/2159a9bedb562f4b.jpeg

2024-10-15 21:42:34 UTC

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troubling line of inquiry

2024-10-09 21:21:02 UTC

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this is because I watched the political forces play out in my town, state and nation in front of my eyes. Had biden put science first, the US could have used its considerable power to side with countries taking Covid seriously etc
@npub1lh2…wq3v

2024-10-09 19:23:34 UTC

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unfortunately I think the signal came from cowards in the Biden admin who wanted to appease republicans rather than debate on the science. a stunning ideological position in the face of so much death, and one that has changed global public health for the worse

2024-10-09 17:26:53 UTC

listening to local radio hosts intentionally avoid the word Covid while publicizing an upcoming flu vaccine fair
to be clear, recent data shows twice as many Americans now being hospitalized for Covid as the flu, and the Covid patients are 35% more likely to die in the hospital
https://www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdisease/generalinfectiousdisease/110126

2024-09-26 21:43:23 UTC

had five (5) conversations around town this morning about last night’s termination dust on the mountains
https://alaskansocial.files.fedi.monster/media_attachments/files/113/206/034/362/163/622/original/c35893f9aa8a8320.jpeg

2024-09-26 17:08:21 UTC

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The obvious gimme here is Americans HATE their health insurance corporations. Kamala could be proposing to actually regulate them!
A true centrist position might be to insert a public option into state “markets” with less than a dozen companies to choose from. A true incremental position would be lowering the Medicare age bit by bit while adding vision, mental, and dental to Medicare etc
instead, Harris doubles down on the Republican plan to loot public coffers for insurance exec bonuses 😣

2024-09-26 16:39:19 UTC

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the biggest gift bernie ever gave me was the gift of how it feels to not be cynical about healthcare policy.
kamala harris's public pirhouettes on healthcare are nauseating to watch and they snatch that gift right out of my hand.
and for folks typing out "would u rather have trum--" right now let me tell you, when the dems choose corporations over people, they lose voters. this isn't about me

2024-09-23 22:44:28 UTC

sheets of rain pouring down outside my windows, the weather equivalent of a weighted blanket

2024-09-23 20:17:59 UTC

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it’s a winding road but the direction is clear. in stark contrast to its self-conception as global police & peacekeeper, the US acts in violation of its own laws and international law to escalate regional problems into full blown war. the cause of this is deep corruption of the US political process, in which pay to play donor politics defeat the will of voters and subvert democracy itself

2024-09-22 21:11:58 UTC

10 months after I made this post, it was recirculated by bad faith anime accts to target me for antisemitism, which worked. the post was consequently removed by kolektiva.social and i was suspended from lgbtqia.space. both actions were reversed within a few days, presumably as mods actually read the thread and did their own critical thinking.
but it really showed me how easy it is for bad faith actors to limit speech on the fediverse
https://alaskan.social/@seachanger/111228936610170237

2024-09-17 21:15:53 UTC

hope folks realize it’s been decades now since “citizen review boards” and “more training” and even “body cameras” were launched to stop “police brutality” and the result is that police are still just as brutal
this is why people are calling for reallocating their funding and changing the entire program

2024-09-12 22:27:32 UTC

I’ll say it. Bush era neocons Cheney and now Gonzales endorsing Harris is bad, actually. It doesn’t mean she’ll be a better leader than Trump, it means she’ll be a more reliable imperialist & create more predictable weapons markets.
when the neocons were in charge we hated them even more than we hate trump now, because they excelled at launching wars abroad and a surveillance state at home. nothing to be gained from their solidarity, even republicans hate the Iraq war

2024-09-11 16:30:52 UTC

if musk tried to give me a child I would try to give him the end of his life

2024-09-11 01:33:22 UTC

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Kamala just laughed at him and you could see the rage cross his face

2024-09-11 01:26:06 UTC

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the abortion question is getting under his skin, he’s getting mad

2024-09-11 01:17:49 UTC

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trump is def coherent and carrying his talking points in his usual firehose way, I was hoping to see him in clear cognitive decline

2024-09-11 01:15:16 UTC

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I can’t tell who’s winning lol, they’re both just being themselves

2024-09-11 01:02:43 UTC

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omg American political spectacle is a caricature of itself

2024-09-11 00:58:55 UTC

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tv is so weird, chris Christie’s disembodied makeup face piped into my house? no thx

2024-09-09 00:51:43 UTC

moving forward but side eyeing my shadow self https://pixelfed.social/p/csilverman/736389566071300268

2024-09-03 16:50:02 UTC

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annoying because this is a simplistic nod to a very real and complex conflation of petroleum -derived power with human masculinity. it’s not (only) about dick size it’s about possessing the means to do large amounts of physical work, which confers Uber male status in communities like mine

2024-09-01 17:43:45 UTC

“this suggests that getting hit by an additional 1,000lbs of steel and aluminium—roughly the difference between a Toyota Camry and a Ford Explorer—boosts the likelihood of death by 66%.”
the economist publishes research on how US car bloat kills people
no paywall: https://archive.ph/faiXa
https://alaskansocial.files.fedi.monster/media_attachments/files/113/063/534/302/634/755/original/32acdb43737ea28f.jpeg

2024-08-29 17:30:29 UTC

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incredible

2024-08-21 02:56:09 UTC

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about time

2024-08-07 17:06:57 UTC

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“see what happened to Cori and Jamal? we can breaka your legs too”

2024-08-07 16:48:29 UTC

brb gonna go lose an opportunity to move to the center
https://alaskansocial.files.fedi.monster/media_attachments/files/112/921/759/290/005/786/original/5ae92b29ecfc87dd.png

2024-08-05 16:40:10 UTC

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the democrats could tax the rich out of existence and win generations of dutiful voters but choose not to

2024-08-05 16:37:11 UTC

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next election cycle, make the payments annual, election cycle after that make them monthly

2024-08-05 16:36:13 UTC

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$2000 per person, paid for by taxing obscure Wall St trades or some shit. Use the push to win senate seats, shine a light on dirty speculators, give us the money, give us the money, give us the money

2024-08-05 16:28:40 UTC

democrats should introduce a $2000 “inflation payment” for all Americans who make less than $100k or something. give us money, win elections

2024-07-27 20:40:34 UTC

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listening! I just maxed out on being online for the day but I hear you!
I just mean “nonprofit” as in not for corporate wealth extraction, but am open to any fun models within that large category

2024-07-27 20:16:14 UTC

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I just have desperately wanted our own project 2025 for a long time 😭
and I guess since I ended up on mastodon I see having nonprofit social infrastructure as part of that

2024-07-27 19:29:07 UTC

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“the left” is arguably hamstrung by our sense of urgency and inability to get excited about things that require… years

2024-07-27 19:00:37 UTC

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i think whats hard is that they do do a lot of kind of complex things with the protocol that are less important from a user safety /vulnerable user standpoint

2024-07-27 18:46:58 UTC

how blooski is empowering users with the option of filtering who can reply to their posts
https://alaskansocial.files.fedi.monster/media_attachments/files/112/859/932/065/010/476/original/9cc5153cfe2dc9d8.png

2024-07-08 16:37:42 UTC

following #frontPopulaire, I got the impression the French left met their moment with an instant, vibrant campaign of art, public rallies, slogans, essays etc. ultimately, shrewd coalitioning brought them victory, but the win rested on action among and between a set of organized -if small - left political parties. In the US we constantly hear, from left & center, that a diverse and organized electoral left is impossible or pointless. yet, elections still have consequences https://piaille.fr/@DionyZack/112711596540845275

2024-07-03 15:45:57 UTC

one thing i notice visiting the lower 48 in a heat wave is how able bodied people acclimated to heat really take for granted the threat heat can pose to others. i find myself continually pointing out that just because *you* feel ok in the heat doesn't mean others will. it's not about being tough or pushing through it, we have to get more folks considering the least vulnerable members of communities

2024-06-30 22:47:32 UTC

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Central Valley counties (about the size of Vermont) represent less than 1 percent of US farmland, but produce about a quarter of the nation’s food and an even larger share of its fruits and nuts.
central valley farm workers average $20,000 annual income and 90% identify as Hispanic or Latino

2024-06-30 22:34:28 UTC

California’s Central Valley forecasted to hit 120F next weekend.
over 150,000 people work outside growing food for the US in the Central Valley, (and prob more considering 75% of the workforce is undocumented)
https://blog.ucsusa.org/kristy-dahl/central-valley-farmworkers-surviving-extreme-heat-while-feeding-the-us/
https://alaskansocial.files.fedi.monster/media_attachments/files/112/707/922/142/335/048/original/0824392d9ef1d346.jpeg

2024-06-23 17:43:19 UTC

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Bernie sanders god bless him tried so hard to identify the role of oligarchs in destroying American democracy but no one understands him. I think he should say “look, these guys are the mob, they are the mafia. They are the reason we cannot have nice things, and it is time for billionaire mobsters to get out of our political parties, out of our primaries, and out of our democracy…”
But of course you can’t tell sanders what to say😂

2024-06-23 17:35:33 UTC

one problem with telling Americans we are ruled by oligarchs is that Americans only care about oligarchs if they are Russian or from the Middle East. Apply the word domestically and suddenly people legit have no idea what it means

2024-06-17 19:07:00 UTC

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Of all the people responsible for covid denial, doctors are the ones with the most potential for reframing and whose failure to do so causes the most harm. They have the latitude to speak freely, the training to interpret new covid science, the responsibility to do no harm to their patients, and often, they are the ones with the power to set the tone for entire hospitals, public health officials, politicians, and patients.

2024-06-17 19:02:26 UTC

the failure of mainstream medicine to name post-covid immune dysregulation as a serious public health crisis is causing not just unnecessary death and disease, but also feeds the democracy-destroying fires of disinformation. when doctors, as the public face of science for many, are untrustworthy, conspiracy theories are easily weaponized https://assemblag.es/@hugo/112625277951807994

2024-06-14 17:43:47 UTC

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kinda makes you wonder about where American anti vax and anti mask disinfo comes from doesn’t it

2024-06-14 17:37:55 UTC

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imo the thing to look out for is what do democrats do with this info? are they able to hold congressional hearings? are they able to put conditions on the pentagon’s black box funding? do their appointees at DOJ open investigations? do they name names? or do they just run out the clock

2024-06-14 17:30:15 UTC

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if the US was morally superior to China or Russia (as it claims to be) it would be dismantling and exposing internet propaganda, not protecting and creating more of it. But the US can’t do that, because it is controlled by elites whose wealth and power also require internet propaganda. like Russia, the US is a corrupt oligarchy (and in case that word is confusing it pretty much means high level organized crime, we’re a mafia state too)

2024-06-14 17:10:28 UTC

“Through phony internet accounts meant to impersonate Filipinos, the [US] military’s propaganda efforts morphed into an anti-vax campaign. Social media posts decried the quality of face masks, test kits and the first vaccine that would become available in the Philippines – China’s Sinovac inoculation.”
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-covid-propaganda/

2024-06-12 18:27:19 UTC

Managing a mastodon server of 50-100 has been so far doable for our crew, and the cost is about $300 a year. it’s possible that this is a scale at which ad-free, user-owned social media works well. it does require 10% of the members help govern, but I think that’s good practice for co-op culture in general. Also pay what you can works fine at this scale and sorts itself out

2024-05-22 21:35:17 UTC

this is where I’m coming from with #SocialTech for changing culture, we need to rescue the idea of change/innovation/evolution from capitalism and its bros and girl bosses. We need a working vision & definition of technology that centers long term societies oriented around life itself, not just short term profits for a few. this is def a note to self for my upcoming book lol https://fediscience.org/@steve/112486844345257840