Schade

I'm Schade (they/she) and I'm a software dev by day, and a worldbuilding-rich writer when the keys work with me. My current project is a cyberpunk heist novel where 2 sisters try to reunite while their country falls apart around them.

Study after study has shown that higher rates of policing can actually harm social stability. You know what *has* shown to substantially improve social stability? Strengthening social services, educational opportunities, and labour power. But those actions decrease the power of the wealthy elite.

There will be a lot of equivocating about all the times search warrants have been executed on members of Congress for corruption investigations and the like, and it can't be stressed enough in how many ways HSI raiding Ilhan Omar is extremely not like that.

Troy Jackson: "The gentleman's name was Johan Sebastian Guerrero. He had a 3 year old daughter. The only mistake he made that morning was going to work. Because Sen. Collins is not willing to stand up to Donald Trump, he was murdered in the streets of Biddeford for doing nothing wrong."

A recap: the FBI was probing a potential bribery scheme in Congress until Trump gutted the bureau. Martin Kao, an ex-govt contractor facing prison, told the FBI he traded campaign donations for military contracts. Agents corroborated parts of his story and launched an investigation.

Maine is so sparsely populated that many of the tactics that worked in Chicago and Minneapolis just take too many people

This difference is especially stark at a time when the national media has zeroed in on a tiny group of LGBTQ people over interpersonal conflict versus a group of young men who have also been publicly identified over the alleged crime of gang rape

I cannot stress how important it is to actually make sure this story gets to as many Maine voters as possible. I have routinely spoken with voters over the past few months who still have very little understanding of just how deceitful Collins is despite the facts. That needs to change! #mepolitics

Collins should resign immediately, suspend her campaign, and be charged. But we all know she won't, so it's even more important that Troy Jackson win in november

I for one think it’s critically important to national security for us to beat China at high speed rail. We must invest in this race immediately

How to replace your CEO with AI:

This man objected to my warning that apocalyptic "AI extinction" talk is corporate ploy for regulatory capture, marketing, and side stepping accountability. He said he left DeepMind, like the Anthropic "whistleblower." So lets have a brief history lesson about DeepMind's origins in doomer cults🧵

When reactionaries advance some bullshit, the FIRST thing to do is identify the framing and reject it They're selling this as "trans rights vs. women's sports" when they hate both those things and want to ruin them both Accept the frame and you've lost Reject the frame and call bullshit

25 years ago, we turned one horror into thousands, hundreds of deaths into millions. Has the American empire learned anything from it? Have our politicians who cannot denounce genocide? We took this one tragedy and sunk everything into bombs while our own worlds collapsed.

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This is obviously bullshit because Omarchy is doing nothing whatsoever that is technically novel or interesting. It’s literally just DHH’s dotfiles. The ONLY reason to support it is because you support him

Paul LePage forced towns to raise property taxes and blocked affordable housing programs for seniors. He even proposed ending the homestead property tax exemption. LePage created the housing affordability crisis and he won’t get it fixed.

Abortion is healthcare. That’s common sense to me. But Susan Collins helped give us a Supreme Court that overturned Roe — and today, a majority of the US Senate still stands in the way of restoring abortion rights nationwide. Let's flip the Senate and restore Roe. That starts right here in Maine.

8/28 Financial disclosure reveals Senator Susan Collins’s husband was paid last year by lobbying firm owned by same person running top SuperPAC supporting her re-election campaign #maine #MEpolitics

The Press Herald put @mainenewsroom.com in the same story as a dark money site that mimics their own logo. One is paid astroturf. One is a Mainer on the ground, interviewing political leaders, conducting important original reporting. Lumping them together isn’t balance. It’s a hit piece.

The two hardest problems in Computer Science are 1. Human communication 2. Getting people in tech to believe that human communication is important

if you don't know what the word "pseudorandom" means your opinion on claude watermarking is probably wrong

"Candidates should be talking much more about not just the rule of law on principle, but the prosecution of people in practice."

Again: this "controversy" could not be more manufactured. Number of trans women in the WNBA: Zero Number of trans women trying out for the WNBA: Zero Number of trans women in college ball: Zero These people are liars intent on destroying the WNBA: sports.yahoo.com/articles/wnb...

Unlocked. www.pressherald.com?p=7704584&uu...

He bailed on higher education after spending just five years as an assistant professor, but during that time he came to some sweeping conclusions about all of academia.

ICE killed Johan Durán Guerrero a month ago today. Five weeks after Susan Collins handed them $70 billion. Now she’s bragging about cameras. We don’t need ICE filmed. We need ICE gone. Out of Maine. Abolished. The agents who killed him prosecuted. Vote her out.

Amen. #AbolishICE #ICEoutOfMaine #RetireSusanCollins

Seeing Susan Collins announce that all ICE "officers" in Maine now have body cameras like its some sort of victory really highlights how much of a failure she has been. Those cameras will magically not work or the footage will simply not be released to the public. It is not a victory. #mepolitics

Now we just need a dedicated bikeway through saco/biddeford

Ultimately, all of this -- as @kathbarbadoro.bsky.social says -- comes down to "dude didn't like his coworkers and wanted to do something else". Which, I mean, cool beans. But willingly signing up to be a Black anti-DEI voice in *this particular moment in history* is crazy work.

This piece starts off by casually dismissing a Black woman's experiences with racism and then washes itself with every anti-DEI trope out there while making the argument that most racism isn't real www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

Golden State Valkyries forward Gabby Williams: “There’s a lot of discourse around trans athletes and what they can compete in. I would welcome a trans athlete on my team or against my team. Anytime. I don’t think it’s a problem in the world, it’s just another way to kind of attack trans people.”

🧵 I’m deeply disappointed by MaineHealth’s decision to close the L+D unit at Lincoln Hospital, and fearful of what it means for Midcoast families. Maine has lost 10 birthing units in 10 years. This will put more pressure on other hospitals and create unnecessary stress for expecting mothers. (1/3)

More cops have been arrested for using flock cameras to stalk women than there are transgender athletes in youth sports.

It's important to note that Susan Collins has *never* held an oversight hearing as Senate Appropriations Chair. Her office asked @PressHerald to give her credit for doing something she's never done, and the PH complied with the request.

Experian and other credit companies have so much data on everyone and they sell it for pennies

I’ve cosponsored several bills that would ban members from trading stocks. Republicans have refused to bring a single one to the floor. Now they're pushing an "insider trading" bill that doesn't even ban stock trading—but DOES include voter suppression measures! I’m not falling for their bullshit.

Mainer here. Interesting fact - ICE COMMITTED 100% OF ALL MURDERS in Biddeford Maine this year. And last year. That’s right. Biddeford Maine has had only 1 homicide in over 2 years. ICE committed it. ICE is clearly not making our state safer. Susan Collins voted for this.

#MEpolitics: Janet Mills’ campaign to challenge Susan Collins for the Senate was ill-fated for a number of reasons, but I maintain her veto of LD 307, which would’ve banned data centre development statewide until studies of impacts and effective mitigation could be completed—was the death knell.