Driftless Thinking
@mndriftless.northsky.social
Nerd by birth, HHS wonk by trade. Cis, white, 🏳️🌈, autistic ↙️↙️↙️ Trying to do better every day, because as Baldwin said, all children are our children. The profile picture is not recent. 🧊 delenda est
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I’m on @transrights.northsky.social Northsky now. As moderation on bsky gets worse, I strongly recommend looking at alternatives.
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THIS 👇
If the Dem consultant class were just "following the polls" they'd be encouraging candidates to go hard against "ai," stop arming the Israeli regime and embrace impeachment.
They are doing the opposite, and their targeting of trans people is, likewise, about their own twisted ideology and cruelty.
They are doing the opposite, and their targeting of trans people is, likewise, about their own twisted ideology and cruelty.
September 18, 2026 at 4:27 PM
THIS 👇
Ian is among the best of us. We keep us housed. Join me in pitching in?
I am raising funds for a South Minneapolis family in need. They owe $1800 in back rent, and every bit helps!
Can we make this happen for them today? We keep us safe. I believe in us!
V: @Ian-Coldwater
CA: $iancoldwater
PP: @coldwater
Please share and help if you can! Thank you 💛
Can we make this happen for them today? We keep us safe. I believe in us!
V: @Ian-Coldwater
CA: $iancoldwater
PP: @coldwater
Please share and help if you can! Thank you 💛
September 18, 2026 at 5:16 PM
Ian is among the best of us. We keep us housed. Join me in pitching in?
We *NEED* Kieth as AG. What we are able to fight coming down from the Feds, the amount that Minnesota can remain true to the rule of law depends on us not electing an AG who wrote fantasies about killing people over COVID precautions.
Early Vote Start TODAY! Let your voice be heard. Vote for your family, your family budget, and your future. Vote Immigration Justice! Economic Justice!
September 18, 2026 at 5:07 PM
We *NEED* Kieth as AG. What we are able to fight coming down from the Feds, the amount that Minnesota can remain true to the rule of law depends on us not electing an AG who wrote fantasies about killing people over COVID precautions.
The Her whitewash report in a nutshell.
Also, gotta laugh at the second bullet point under the did not substantiate section. “You didn’t do this, except for the instances in which you did.”
September 18, 2026 at 4:25 PM
The Her whitewash report in a nutshell.
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@naomikritzer.bsky.social is also collecting funding for the excellent @tigerrsmm.bsky.social! www.giveoutday.org/story/ap6lhf
September 18, 2026 at 3:47 PM
@naomikritzer.bsky.social is also collecting funding for the excellent @tigerrsmm.bsky.social! www.giveoutday.org/story/ap6lhf
I’m on @transrights.northsky.social Northsky now. As moderation on bsky gets worse, I strongly recommend looking at alternatives.
September 18, 2026 at 3:45 PM
I’m on @transrights.northsky.social Northsky now. As moderation on bsky gets worse, I strongly recommend looking at alternatives.
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… the greatest theft of labor in human history……..
*blinks Black / Indigenous / Guyanesely*
Does at his mean everybody will admit that teh philosophy around AI is closer to slavery than just about “intellectual property”
Or we gone keep making the American mistake
*blinks Black / Indigenous / Guyanesely*
Does at his mean everybody will admit that teh philosophy around AI is closer to slavery than just about “intellectual property”
Or we gone keep making the American mistake
“A senior executive at Microsoft said A.I. systems built on the work of others will be seen as ‘an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions’ and possibly the greatest robbery of labor in human history, according to court documents unredacted Thursday in an ongoing Manhattan lawsuit.”
Docs in A.I. copyright suit reveal startling admission by Microsoft exec over ‘astonishing theft’
The admission appeared in a newly unredacted filing in the landmark copyright infringement legal battle playing out between newspapers like the Orlando Sentinel and tech companies Microsoft and OpenAI...
www.orlandosentinel.com
September 18, 2026 at 12:10 AM
… the greatest theft of labor in human history……..
*blinks Black / Indigenous / Guyanesely*
Does at his mean everybody will admit that teh philosophy around AI is closer to slavery than just about “intellectual property”
Or we gone keep making the American mistake
*blinks Black / Indigenous / Guyanesely*
Does at his mean everybody will admit that teh philosophy around AI is closer to slavery than just about “intellectual property”
Or we gone keep making the American mistake
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i feel like a message that is missing in the midterms is that….republicans control everything?
it feels like a basic thing we should really be saying over and over. this is all their choice. unhappy? look who is in the drivers seat.
it feels like a basic thing we should really be saying over and over. this is all their choice. unhappy? look who is in the drivers seat.
September 16, 2026 at 11:36 PM
i feel like a message that is missing in the midterms is that….republicans control everything?
it feels like a basic thing we should really be saying over and over. this is all their choice. unhappy? look who is in the drivers seat.
it feels like a basic thing we should really be saying over and over. this is all their choice. unhappy? look who is in the drivers seat.
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Anyway: Peggy Flanagan has been steadfast in supporting our trans homies and I am co-hosting a fundraiser for and with on October 19, mostly aimed at members of the legal community but everyone's welcome. Let me know if you'd like an invitation.
September 16, 2026 at 8:50 PM
Anyway: Peggy Flanagan has been steadfast in supporting our trans homies and I am co-hosting a fundraiser for and with on October 19, mostly aimed at members of the legal community but everyone's welcome. Let me know if you'd like an invitation.
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This. Several rural DFLers voted against marriage equality a little over a decade ago in Minnesota and it was still a prime campaign point against them (and they lost).
Just vote for what’s right.
People deserve rights.
They’ll campaign against you either way.
Just vote for what’s right.
People deserve rights.
They’ll campaign against you either way.
September 16, 2026 at 2:43 PM
This. Several rural DFLers voted against marriage equality a little over a decade ago in Minnesota and it was still a prime campaign point against them (and they lost).
Just vote for what’s right.
People deserve rights.
They’ll campaign against you either way.
Just vote for what’s right.
People deserve rights.
They’ll campaign against you either way.
RETVRN
September 16, 2026 at 2:21 PM
RETVRN
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I saw this and I really thought for a minute it would be like, his favorites of the ones that he kept but then I realized this is meant to be something else entirely
George W. Bush’s new book of paintings of political prisoners will be out in March
George W. Bush’s new book of paintings of political prisoners will be out in March
www.chicagotribune.com
September 16, 2026 at 2:10 PM
I saw this and I really thought for a minute it would be like, his favorites of the ones that he kept but then I realized this is meant to be something else entirely
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Facts.
We must all have the freedom to make choices about our bodies, lives, and futures.
We must all have the freedom to make choices about our bodies, lives, and futures.
Trans rights is inherently a bodily autonomy issue. Just like abortion rights is. We can't have gender equity or reproductive freedom without trans rights. Full stop.
You can yell at me and make up shit that you claim I've said if it makes you feel better. I don't care. I'm right. And you know it.
You can yell at me and make up shit that you claim I've said if it makes you feel better. I don't care. I'm right. And you know it.
September 16, 2026 at 1:52 PM
Facts.
We must all have the freedom to make choices about our bodies, lives, and futures.
We must all have the freedom to make choices about our bodies, lives, and futures.
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some chud interviewing for patel’s FBI:
“if anything the goat fucked *me*”
“if anything the goat fucked *me*”
September 15, 2026 at 2:41 PM
some chud interviewing for patel’s FBI:
“if anything the goat fucked *me*”
“if anything the goat fucked *me*”
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I'm not a fucking variable for y'all to decide or not decide to be in solidarity with
Trans people are overwhelmingly out in the streets for every other civil rights cause
We are disproportionately overrepresented at every protest
If you fall for this trans panic, you're a fucking mark.
Trans people are overwhelmingly out in the streets for every other civil rights cause
We are disproportionately overrepresented at every protest
If you fall for this trans panic, you're a fucking mark.
September 15, 2026 at 3:01 PM
I'm not a fucking variable for y'all to decide or not decide to be in solidarity with
Trans people are overwhelmingly out in the streets for every other civil rights cause
We are disproportionately overrepresented at every protest
If you fall for this trans panic, you're a fucking mark.
Trans people are overwhelmingly out in the streets for every other civil rights cause
We are disproportionately overrepresented at every protest
If you fall for this trans panic, you're a fucking mark.
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I am declaring war on 82% of bluesky with this
October 29, 2024 at 1:15 AM
I am declaring war on 82% of bluesky with this
This is your semi regular reminder that transphobia is an absolute dead end, and a foot in the door for all kinds of repression. Stand together or perish alone.
September 14, 2026 at 1:03 PM
This is your semi regular reminder that transphobia is an absolute dead end, and a foot in the door for all kinds of repression. Stand together or perish alone.
Anne Frank died of typhus. We rightly see that death as every bit as intentional as those who were murdered in the chambers. The ICE camps must be liberated.
One woman I met outside Delaney Hall told me men inside the jail -- including her husband -- are denied medical care and have resorted to drinking their own urine to try to address infections. truthout.org/articles/thi...
This Back to School Season, Kids Face a New Fear: ICE Taking Their Parents
More than 200,000 children in the US are estimated to have had a parent detained by ICE.
truthout.org
September 14, 2026 at 12:36 PM
Anne Frank died of typhus. We rightly see that death as every bit as intentional as those who were murdered in the chambers. The ICE camps must be liberated.
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hey @duckduckgo.com can you please explain to me why your safe search blocks ALL RESULTS about porn performers, even our SFW content?? In addition to performing in pornography, I am an activist who went to law school and wrote a book. Am I completely unviewable bc SOME of my work is for adults only?
September 12, 2026 at 12:32 PM
hey @duckduckgo.com can you please explain to me why your safe search blocks ALL RESULTS about porn performers, even our SFW content?? In addition to performing in pornography, I am an activist who went to law school and wrote a book. Am I completely unviewable bc SOME of my work is for adults only?
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“AI may not be able to do your job, for instance, but the threat of it can be used as a disciplinary mechanism to hold down wages: which is exactly what has happened…” 1/
Superb piece by Richard Seymour on AI “criti-hype”: how warnings of extinction can reinforce the industry’s own mythology of technological power. The real dangers lie not in a god-machine but in labour discipline, ecological damage, and concentrated corporate power. www.patreon.com/richardseymo...
Kill all humans | Richard Seymour
It seems a strange publicity gambit, to say our product could wipe out humanity. In the lingo of our evolving tech empire, though, this is e
www.patreon.com
September 13, 2026 at 8:49 PM
“AI may not be able to do your job, for instance, but the threat of it can be used as a disciplinary mechanism to hold down wages: which is exactly what has happened…” 1/
It’s so much nicer to watch sports that aren’t actively, if slowly, killing the participants.
Have you accepted your lord and Savior “Giving Up the NFL”?
September 13, 2026 at 9:53 PM
It’s so much nicer to watch sports that aren’t actively, if slowly, killing the participants.
WE. WE keep us housed. WE keep us safe. The work isn’t over, not by a mile. But the people took a look an at incoming disaster and did our damnedest to cancel the apocalypse. Let’s get some more electeds who will fight as hard as we did so we can end this terror.
i wish i could properly communicate how crazy some people made me feel for even talking about covering people’s rent
it was just totally unheard of at this scale
thankfully the 100s of people that formed rent funds and PTA and neighborhood committees all disagreed with the electeds and foundations
it was just totally unheard of at this scale
thankfully the 100s of people that formed rent funds and PTA and neighborhood committees all disagreed with the electeds and foundations
September 12, 2026 at 4:28 PM
WE. WE keep us housed. WE keep us safe. The work isn’t over, not by a mile. But the people took a look an at incoming disaster and did our damnedest to cancel the apocalypse. Let’s get some more electeds who will fight as hard as we did so we can end this terror.
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I went to the trouble of generating it
September 10, 2026 at 6:53 PM
I went to the trouble of generating it
reposting this for no reason. see also, his entries on Charles I, and if a monarch can be held criminally liable. www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6E4...
Reform or Revolution? (1830 to 1832)
YouTube video by Historia Civilis
www.youtube.com
September 10, 2026 at 5:17 PM
reposting this for no reason. see also, his entries on Charles I, and if a monarch can be held criminally liable. www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6E4...
There are a lot of execs who should be worried about federal criminal exposure once this regime ends. Dems should be loudly talking about it and actually planning for it. We cannot have another consequence free fracture of the rule of law.
mfw my employer donated to the ballroom fund but I have to hit "i understand" during anti-bribery training.
September 9, 2026 at 6:53 PM
There are a lot of execs who should be worried about federal criminal exposure once this regime ends. Dems should be loudly talking about it and actually planning for it. We cannot have another consequence free fracture of the rule of law.