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bold.bsky.social
working in digital media (audience and social) but at what cost ⚔️ crj forever 🌈 nyc
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X is blocking links to @signal.org, now widely used to discuss / report on Washington. Same technique (flagging as 'potentially harmful') that X has used to block / throttle Bluesky, Instagram, NYT, Reuters & Substack. When Twitter derailed links to Hunter Biden story, Musk called it "tyranny."

New York City votes for mayors like they believe Batman is real and want him to have someone to fight

NEW: Medications for HIV treatment and prevention were supposed to resume around the globe. But they haven't, multiple sources told me. Not only are there basically no employees left to carry out USAID projects -- the waiver itself was extremely limited. www.npr.org/sections/goa...

ngl I’m feeling very moved by the story of two women on a subway stepping up to deliver a third woman’s baby. a reminder that most people are decent and brave and willing to help. hoping for the best for the new mom. www.nydailynews.com/2025/02/12/b...

Biggest part of crooked Adams deal which is only barely being noted is that the charges aren't really dropped (not in the ordinary sense of the word). They're put on hold with the letter explicitly saying they'll be considered again after November. So Adams has ten months to perform for his freedom.

“I’m told that we can’t post our way out of fascism but they literally posted us right into it.” — LUKE FUCKING O’NEIL WITH THE FOOT ON THROAT

I had to check the article to be sure because "10% of recycled paper in NYC gets turned into pizza boxes on Staten Island" is exactly the kind of thing I would make up as a joke

everyone wants their wizard tower to be the tallest and most ominous. but they never want to do the arcane paperwork or get the proper fey permits for their "sky-rending obelisk of pain." 🙄 it'll fall over. idiot

apparently there’s an Edgar Wright remake of The Running Man coming out this year but I’m looking up the plot summary of the book and uh…… it’s basically just a documentary isn’t it

Let’s be really clear, THIS IS NOT ABOUT SPORTS. This is about *violence* against Trans women. This is about enforcing hate as public policy. This is pure evil.

Hey man sorry to hear about all your political turmoil. Would it help if I scrolled around on the computer all day and drove myself insane?

I’m always saying this

Civil servants are being named "targets" for their work. I know what that's like. If you're a current or former federal employee, contractor, implementer or grantee, and you're worried about your online safety, I want to help. Monday night @ 8pm ET - Please share 🙏 forms.gle/rHBUP4oqcdsP...

in a good move today, NYC Health + Hospitals (the public hospital system) sent out an email titled "Care For NYC. No Exceptions."

NEW: Sources tell WIRED that NOAA* employees were ordered to give a Musk engineer (Nikhil Rajpal) editor access to all NOAA's Google sites by EOD. *monitors oceans/atmosphere & forecasts long-term effects of climate change. By @timmarchman.bsky.social & @hudsongiles.bsky.social:

It's hard to overstate the vitality of NOAA's free, publicly available extremely good data. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

egg theft is truly a sign of the times

the little pop up about how all the underwear on stage during charli xcx would get donated was very funny (good timing)

beyoncé winning best country album as presented by taylor swift is !!! the first gutsy thing the grammys have ever done

sure, i guess

it’s 2025 and there is someone in homestuck cosplay at my local taco shop

why is every musician i listen to on tour the same three week stretch in april/may?? i can’t keep up 😭

this is where "just asking questions" and sports bans have brought us - the attempted total erasure of trans people from public life fuck these people, trans rights are human rights

Is Congestion Pricing Working: Yes. New tracker from @jfro.im

tiktok has me out here relistening to the original 5sos eps that i've had on my itunes for over a decade

TSA at this airport has a machine where you can mail home confiscated things? fascinating

looking forward to trying this coffee method

rewatched the twin peaks pilot and i forgot how much of this show is just a soap opera with a side of fbi murder mystery before the latter overtakes the former

unrelated to news i watched the outrun today and whew what a difficult movie about alcoholism and getting sober (saoirse ronan is very good!)

I'm really hoping that social media can actually diversify and evolve — it's definitely been going in spurts even since before the Twitter/X takeover, but seeing people more actively quit Meta products this week gives me some hope

out of all of the auto-captions generators out there, the one that is most consistently accurate is Slack's

Don't know if this is useful for others but I periodically bulk delete old posts using this helpful app: bsky.jazco.dev/cleanup - it works well.

i hate that LinkedIn is pushing verification through CLEAR and that their T&C is essentially “you can’t sue us lol”

it’s capitalism over community all the way down

the hardest part of lurking in discord is trying to integrate yourself into the ongoing conversations without feeling like you have to do a “hi, thanks for having me” bit