marcusismael.bsky.social
Just some dude. Thoughts are very much my own and any content here has nothing to do with my employer. California Forever, Goodbye ✌️
34 posts
27 followers
18 following
Regular Contributor
Active Commenter
comment in response to
post
Solidarity is the strongest tool we have to fight fascism. Aside from…the other means. The Admin is throwing everything at the wall to distract us from their dismantling of our institutions. They haven’t taken over fully yet and any opposition now, while early or feeling insignificant, matters.
comment in response to
post
Why? Demonstrations may not directly disrupt the federal government’s crackdown the marginalized, yet, but it’s important to remind residents they’re surrounded by people who care and who do not support what is going on. If you’re driving by, give a couple honks. This is what democracy looks like.
comment in response to
post
Had any of these happened any sooner - just like him not running for reelection - we’d be in a much better world. Waiting until it’s too late is Biden’s legacy, not the infrastructure bill, not a whole bunch of federally protected land, not COVID rebound, but intransigence all around.
comment in response to
post
Thankfully every TSA agent I’ve encountered that I told that I’d be opting out of the face scan didn’t have a problem with it but it’s concerning how every other traveler doesn’t see the problem with a growing surveillance state and the threat that civil liberties erosion has on public trust.
comment in response to
post
And I’m going to reiterate - bc any time you criticize capitalism’s excess on social media, there’s this knee jerk reaction to defend it in the name of accessibility or poor people - no, a lot of these services exist to help corporations make MORE money, not to help niche use-cases you can imagine.
comment in response to
post
More services should be accessible to those who don’t use cars. If stores could offer more bike infrastructure and understand their customers include more than just those who drive, we’d make better progress towards truly walkable and 15-minute cities without the controversial and expensive policies
comment in response to
post
And it was great! I joined everyone else waiting in their gas-guzzling and idling SUVs and the service was prompt, the staff found me right away and the hand off was seamless. Most people are not using these services for disabilities or to avoid COVID but I am now sort of glad they’ve stuck around.
comment in response to
post
The failure of partisan governance over infrastructure projects comes from a lack of long-lead vision and patience. No, we don’t and can’t have every dollar for major transit projects spoken for, but that doesn’t mean we can’t plan for them to be built as promised. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/24/o...
comment in response to
post
Diridon Station - already the Bay’s most comprehensive transit hub in the with bus, light rail, intercity and interstate rail - is poised to become a Grand Central of the West with BART and CAHSR. Having a strong vision for the future matters, critics be damned. www.diridonsj.org/open-house
comment in response to
post
*Californians hearing Arizonans claim there’s a rivalry*
comment in response to
post
Regularly-scheduled commercial passenger flights that take off and land at predictable places and times in the sky are how alien invasions start? This is how all you people look and sound ⤵️
comment in response to
post
tl;dr, old man tells woman her Toyota Corolla cannot handle endless 50 pound bags of gravel, because cars have weight limits and somehow she got to adulthood not understanding gravity.
comment in response to
post
Holding space for the lyrics of the new Kendrick album, very powerful 🙂↕️🙏💚
comment in response to
post
I’d like a formal Congressional resolution passed about having better ventilation systems, noise machines and bidets in public restrooms too. Biological males, biological females? How about the biological hazard when the air in there can’t vent out fast enough?!
comment in response to
post
The pain box is supposed to scale up in intensity, you started off too strong! First you gotta bait the line with “you know, the sequel trilogy wasn’t so bad, after all it introduced a new generation to star wars” and then you hit em with the “Rian Johnson did nothing wrong”.
comment in response to
post
Ah, thank you. I just need to dig around. It’s neat how they have that and the UI for it is nice. How does the moderation lists work?
comment in response to
post
There’s got to be a way to limit comment ability per post. I get it’s a public platform but allowing a “followers only” filter would do wonders to preserving our peace. Thankfully, it seems like a civi place, but I can see it not if user-initiated content moderation isn’t possible. @safety.bsky.app
comment in response to
post
I’m muting and blocking so many of the resist lib accounts that have migrated over from Twitter. Just as it’s seamless to follow through “starter packs” it should be easy to mass block or mute those accounts. They thrive over discontent and I don’t want to see them on my skyline!
comment in response to
post
As we’re training our skylines to show us relevant content, I’d like a simple thumbs up or down button on posts to input my interest level. Currently you have to click on the hamburger menu, navigate down to “show me more/less of this” and no indication that does anything.
comment in response to
post
They’re called “posts” but I feel like there’s something more creative? The logo/mascot for this site is a butterfly right? Why not “flutters”? Idk, something whimsical like “tweets” used to be.
Blocking/muting should remove that person’s content from the “skyline” immediately….
comment in response to
post
Keeping this video on hand for the next four years. Not even the start of his term yet and people are shocked what the leopards are doing! Shocked!
comment in response to
post
Given we’re all learning the ropes here training our algorithms to show us content we want, could a little temporary bar be added to posts that allows us to thumb up or down content we do/dont want to see? Having to click on the meatballs menu to then scroll to indicate interest is a lot of friction
comment in response to
post
Here’s more:
Masha Gesen’s Surviving Autocracy www.nytimes.com/2020/06/03/b...
Ruth Ben-Ghiat’s Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present www.barnesandnoble.com/w/strongmen-...