Underneath their bluster, Republicans & their institutional enablers are *terrified* of serious investigations & accountability.
November 11, 2026 at 8:28 PM
Underneath their bluster, Republicans & their institutional enablers are *terrified* of serious investigations & accountability.
What if we normalize sharing institutional knowledge. What if we just normalize asking for help from your peers. Man.
November 11, 2026 at 2:21 AM
What if we normalize sharing institutional knowledge. What if we just normalize asking for help from your peers. Man.
people got on my ass for saying nintendo clearly values its own institutional knowledge
"no they just can't fire people cuz its illegal"
ok
"no they just can't fire people cuz its illegal"
ok
This is neat. Nintendo of America is hiring a librarian to catalog their vast trove of development documents. This person will also be conducting interviews with important Nintendo employees to make sure their experience is preserved for future devs.
careers.nintendo.com/jobs/4458631...
careers.nintendo.com/jobs/4458631...
CONTRACT - Digital Archivist, Historical Systems - Nintendo Careers Site
Learn about CONTRACT - Digital Archivist, Historical Systems and apply for this open position.
careers.nintendo.com
November 8, 2026 at 9:30 PM
people got on my ass for saying nintendo clearly values its own institutional knowledge
"no they just can't fire people cuz its illegal"
ok
"no they just can't fire people cuz its illegal"
ok
failure in chain of command, carelessness w institutional knowledge, damage from layoffs, or all three
November 10, 2026 at 8:17 AM
failure in chain of command, carelessness w institutional knowledge, damage from layoffs, or all three
America needs a more coherent institutional design
(*hides*)
(*hides*)
Over 99% of Bluesky has literally no fucking idea what a Majority Leader does.
Over 95% of Bluesky has no fucking idea what the Speaker of the House does.
Over 95% of Bluesky has no fucking idea what the Speaker of the House does.
NARRATOR: THAT IS LITERALLY A BIG CHUNK OF HIS JOB.
November 6, 2026 at 9:11 PM
America needs a more coherent institutional design
(*hides*)
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👇🎯 25-30% of the country still wants authoritarianism & probably always will. The only long-term solution to that is institutional reforms, not winning every election forever.
I’m wary of folks over-interpreting the meaning of the midterms, and this gets at one reason.
“Make no mistake, white evangelicals will be back. They haven't changed their theology, their cultural attitudes, their informational insularity, or their certain belief in their own righteousness. They comprise the most pro-authoritarian subculture in our country, and that's not a recent thing.”
November 9, 2026 at 2:32 PM
👇🎯 25-30% of the country still wants authoritarianism & probably always will. The only long-term solution to that is institutional reforms, not winning every election forever.
Ah, yes, “institutional neutrality”, the betrayal imposed by cowards and yes-men everywhere
November 8, 2026 at 1:40 PM
Ah, yes, “institutional neutrality”, the betrayal imposed by cowards and yes-men everywhere
And on making institutional/structural political changes that would impede them from seizing power.
November 9, 2026 at 4:17 PM
And on making institutional/structural political changes that would impede them from seizing power.
let JPow rest, having basically shown the most backbone of any major institutional leader
November 11, 2026 at 6:55 PM
let JPow rest, having basically shown the most backbone of any major institutional leader
Institutional memory matters: Code edition
November 8, 2026 at 4:41 PM
Institutional memory matters: Code edition
The problem with electing young guys like this is they have no institutional memory.
Senator Chuck Grassley says he is rushing to advance Trump's judicial picks in the lame duck. "Some Democrats so despise President Trump that for the first time in our nation’s history they’re planning to stonewall a president’s ability to appoint judges," www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
Senate Republicans kick off lame-duck dash to advance Trump judge picks
Republicans on the US Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday began a push to consider and advance as many of President Donald Trump's remaining judicial nominees as possible before Democrats take contr...
www.reuters.com
November 10, 2026 at 11:04 PM
The problem with electing young guys like this is they have no institutional memory.
They are thus issues on which a university committed to institutional neutrality can absolutely take a position. If Vanderbilt doesn’t support its faculty and students, that’s not an indictment of institutional neutrality, but a sign that its administrators are using that term to excuse cowardice.
November 8, 2026 at 4:43 PM
They are thus issues on which a university committed to institutional neutrality can absolutely take a position. If Vanderbilt doesn’t support its faculty and students, that’s not an indictment of institutional neutrality, but a sign that its administrators are using that term to excuse cowardice.
ICE is an institutional bounty hunters club. How this professor was held beyond identifying her status is unconscionable. Abolish ICE now!!
November 11, 2026 at 12:18 PM
ICE is an institutional bounty hunters club. How this professor was held beyond identifying her status is unconscionable. Abolish ICE now!!
...and more "unity has been so gutted of developers and institutional knowledge that the people working there don't actually understand the engine or its intricacies"
November 10, 2026 at 1:28 PM
...and more "unity has been so gutted of developers and institutional knowledge that the people working there don't actually understand the engine or its intricacies"
This is institutional transphobia.
Glad to now have you as our MP.
Sad to see other Bristol MPs being openly transphobic.
Glad to now have you as our MP.
Sad to see other Bristol MPs being openly transphobic.
November 10, 2026 at 5:59 PM
This is institutional transphobia.
Glad to now have you as our MP.
Sad to see other Bristol MPs being openly transphobic.
Glad to now have you as our MP.
Sad to see other Bristol MPs being openly transphobic.
THIS IS OUTRAGEOUS‼️ Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer provided limited financial and institutional support to Angie Nixon following her primary victory in Florida's U.S. Senate race: $5,000 That’s ALL #FuckChuck
November 9, 2026 at 2:02 AM
THIS IS OUTRAGEOUS‼️ Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer provided limited financial and institutional support to Angie Nixon following her primary victory in Florida's U.S. Senate race: $5,000 That’s ALL #FuckChuck
“Institutional neutrality“ is when you lose your best people because capitulation to an authoritarian leader is unbiased but defunding grants that include the word “inclusive” is neutral.
Good story about how one American born scientist resolved she has to leave the US to keep doing meaningful work. She lobbied to reverse cuts, but her Chancellor at Vanderbilt was calling for institutional neutrality
www.nytimes.com/2026/11/07/s...
www.nytimes.com/2026/11/07/s...
Top Astrophysicist Leaves U.S. After Trump Policies Affect Her Work (Gift Article)
Kelly Holley-Bockelmann was one of the top astrophysicists in the country until President Trump’s policies affected every part of her work.
www.nytimes.com
November 8, 2026 at 2:07 PM
“Institutional neutrality“ is when you lose your best people because capitulation to an authoritarian leader is unbiased but defunding grants that include the word “inclusive” is neutral.
John Oliver's piece on Hegseth highlighted the lowlights, but the institutional damage from the purging of people with decades of experience is what was really sobering. A word not generally associated with Pete.
Se sorta already knew this, but the details are still jaw-dropping:
*the military has an aggressively meritorious selection process
*Hegseth ran a separate, secret process using internet searches
*Officers denied promotion were told over the phone, given no chance to respond, forced to retire
*the military has an aggressively meritorious selection process
*Hegseth ran a separate, secret process using internet searches
*Officers denied promotion were told over the phone, given no chance to respond, forced to retire
Pete Hegseth had his inner circle google promotable officers and create paper-only files assessing their wokeness.
www.ms.now/news/pete-he...
www.ms.now/news/pete-he...
November 9, 2026 at 3:09 PM
John Oliver's piece on Hegseth highlighted the lowlights, but the institutional damage from the purging of people with decades of experience is what was really sobering. A word not generally associated with Pete.
Personal view is that valuations would be WAY CRAZIER if there weren't still institutional memory of the 90s.
November 8, 2026 at 2:29 PM
Personal view is that valuations would be WAY CRAZIER if there weren't still institutional memory of the 90s.
Anyone who tries to deny it's serious institutional racism that kept Black voices out of Mississippi politics at the highest levels for 148 years is a racist
November 11, 2026 at 11:48 AM
Anyone who tries to deny it's serious institutional racism that kept Black voices out of Mississippi politics at the highest levels for 148 years is a racist
Great news for @york.ac.uk - we are now officially institutional members of @ukrepro.bsky.social, with @cbolibaugh.bsky.social appointed as York's Institutional Lead for the network 🎉
York joins UK Reproducibility Network (UKRN) as an institutional member
The University of York has officially joined the UK Reproducibility Network (UKRN) as an institutional member, reinforcing its commitment to the highest standards of research rigour, transparency and ...
www.york.ac.uk
November 9, 2026 at 10:20 AM
Great news for @york.ac.uk - we are now officially institutional members of @ukrepro.bsky.social, with @cbolibaugh.bsky.social appointed as York's Institutional Lead for the network 🎉
But how is an individual #scientist advocating for #research funding in her area violating #institutionalneutrality, by definition institutional neutrality is limited to high level administrative officers only in their institutional and not personal capacity…
You know what, never mind, I give up
You know what, never mind, I give up
November 8, 2026 at 1:30 PM
But how is an individual #scientist advocating for #research funding in her area violating #institutionalneutrality, by definition institutional neutrality is limited to high level administrative officers only in their institutional and not personal capacity…
You know what, never mind, I give up
You know what, never mind, I give up
Trump purged DOJ to bury the evidence and instead handed Congress a staff of people who know exactly where everything is filed. You cannot shred institutional memory. It just changed employers.
November 8, 2026 at 8:29 PM
Trump purged DOJ to bury the evidence and instead handed Congress a staff of people who know exactly where everything is filed. You cannot shred institutional memory. It just changed employers.
A view from Ireland, a nation with a century of institutional abuse and a just comical amount of morality-citing censorship: this is the same picture.
I do feel like I'm going slightly insane when we have institutions facilitating the abuse of women and girls by celebrities and then passing a bunch of Mary Whitehouse-esque laws
Just a fundamental confusion between preventing actual harm and preserving an entirely imaginary moral order
Just a fundamental confusion between preventing actual harm and preserving an entirely imaginary moral order
November 11, 2026 at 9:20 AM
A view from Ireland, a nation with a century of institutional abuse and a just comical amount of morality-citing censorship: this is the same picture.
Also: yes his brain is soup but there's actually an important point here about American institutional cowardice and conservative politics.
Every single time an American war crime was swept under the rug because handling it would have been uncomfortable, conservatives have parsed that as permission
Every single time an American war crime was swept under the rug because handling it would have been uncomfortable, conservatives have parsed that as permission
Trump: What about impeaching the person from Biden? His person. What about impeaching the people who did the Vietnam war?
November 9, 2026 at 10:55 PM
Also: yes his brain is soup but there's actually an important point here about American institutional cowardice and conservative politics.
Every single time an American war crime was swept under the rug because handling it would have been uncomfortable, conservatives have parsed that as permission
Every single time an American war crime was swept under the rug because handling it would have been uncomfortable, conservatives have parsed that as permission