Quibble While Rome Burns
Just here to be on bullshit
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- Reposted by Quibble While Rome BurnsJeff Bezos had $75 million to bribe Trump for the Melania movie but cut 16,000 jobs at Amazon and is cutting more at the Washington Post today. And somehow people *dont* want to campaign on the issue of evil billionaires.
- Reposted by Quibble While Rome BurnsPeople who wouldn't be safe from 🧊 to drive our steets in person are the "man begind the curtain" to get out of paying US drivers living wages. Or just making public transit efficient, safe, clean, and accessible enough to be an ideal choice
- Reposted by Quibble While Rome BurnsThis week at Group Threat, I spoke with @grundrza.bsky.social about Florida's censorship regime, teaching under authoritarianism, and how folks are coping (or not).
- Reposted by Quibble While Rome BurnsWhile reporting this, I had something happen that's never happened. A comms rep for one of the co's disputed my reporting and said what I was telling them was untrue because it was not in Grok, xAI's chatbot. I was looking directly at the files. And this person was using AI to challenge the truth.
- Epstein had many known connections to Silicon Valley CEOs, but less known was how he made money from those relationships. We did a deep dive into how he got dealflow in Silicon Valley, giving him shots to invest in Coinbase, Palantir, SpaceX and other companies. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/b...
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- Organizers have collected 14 lotion bottles, two deodorant bottles, and one AA Battery that detainees have thrown over the fences with notes attached to them. The full story: lataco.com/captive-loti... By Aisha Wallace-Palomares
- Reposted by Quibble While Rome BurnsHELP FOR SOMEONE KIDNAPPED BY ICE! Oliver Aguillon is the nephew of one of my mom's friends, and his family is raising funds to help fight for his freedom. Please consider making a donation! If you can't, hit repost and/or share with comrades by email/text. Thank you!
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- So I knew that putting your phone at greyscale can help with dopamine seeking & doomscrolling but it can be too severe for use 24/7, screwing with its purpose What I didn't know is that colorblind settings can have the same effect at high strengths without totally screwing with color visibility
- Reposted by Quibble While Rome BurnsHelp me out here: has anything useful come out of the Epstein files yet about the enduring mystery of how, exactly, he made his money? www.ft.com/content/a07b...
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- It's scary as hell job hunting rn when people I thought would always have paying work are broke and job hunting too Like at what point do we all accept they aren't trying to pay us for fair work and we should do something about that? Cause this shit ain't working and it's fucking everybody up
- Today, I learned about INCUP and Dopamine Farming from Alora Young, after spending hours trying to find a new agenda my brain will work with in winter blues, and just... Honestly, I wouldn't have survived if it wasn't for other neurodivergent folk. Her worked help me SO MUCH today!
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- Reposted by Quibble While Rome Burnsas a sex worker, I am an anti-capitalist business owner.
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- Reposted by Quibble While Rome BurnsEvery day the mods on here:
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- Reposted by Quibble While Rome BurnsThe walls no longer protect us. We seek a tentnot just cloth,but a roof to preserve our dignity and offer our children the lost security.Who will extend a helping hand to shield us from thewinter's cold and harshness? Ourhope is in God and then in your compassionate hearts chuffed.org/project/161883
- Reposted by Quibble While Rome BurnsSharing again for the morning crowd. Rogue is now taking freelance pitches! pitches@rogue.site
- A month shy of our 6 month anniversary (!), we're opening up freelance at Rogue. We're a small business, but we want to help build a place where new writers can flourish. pitches@rogue.site Instructions below! www.rogue.site/news/were-op...
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- Reposted by Quibble While Rome BurnsINBOX: Washington Post Ukraine Correspondent Lizzie Johnson announces that she has been laid off in the middle of a below-freezing war zone without power, heat, or running water.
- Reposted by Quibble While Rome BurnsI think one thing people outside Minnesota don't understand is that after Good and Pretti were killed by feds while observing, the most normal people you could imagine have made peace with the fact that they could be next, and they are still out there because they say it's the right thing to do.
- “If I am killed doing this, throw my body at the White House, martyr the shit out of me & raise hell. Do not be sad. Do not think I would do anything differently. I would do it over & over again — this is too important to sit down & shut up and not do anything.” www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
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- Reposted by Quibble While Rome BurnsThis is the pattern. Purchase/Take Over a media source that has informed the public. Then dismantle them to the lowest form: 1. Twitter 2. Meta 3. Washington Post 4. CBS-60 Minutes/News 5. Public Broadcasting 6. Tik Tok We are up to our necks in state run media.
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- Reposted by Quibble While Rome BurnsWASHINGTON (AP) — Washington Post says one-third of its staff across all departments, not just the newsroom, is being laid off.
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- Reposted by Quibble While Rome BurnsNo, I do not want to be a “creator journalist” or “influencer” or run a newsletter by myself I want health insurance and a decent editor to work under and a team of comrades to work with, attend union meetings with, do good with Launch the billionaires into the sun and pass out their wealth
- Reposted by Quibble While Rome BurnsDo not love how this industry has been shredded and remade into a teetering heap of gig work Freelancers fighting each other for a dwindling number of scraps, generational talent falling out of the ecosystem entirely, former staffers struggling while billionaires stuff their pockets A fucking mess
- Reposted by Quibble While Rome BurnsThis is like laws preventing Germans from giving Jews safe harbor www.bostonglobe.com/2026/01/28/m...
- Reposted by Quibble While Rome BurnsFormer race and ethnicity reporter Emmanuel Felton wrote, “I’m among the hundreds of people laid off by The Post. This comes six months after hearing in a national meeting that race coverage drives subscriptions. This wasn’t a financial decision, it was an ideological one.”
- They haven't even worked on the dlc they promised, why in the hell would they be working on a sequel already??? People's expectations concerning development cycles is getting outta hand, this response and everything else doesn't make a lick of sense.
- Honestly, one of my favorite things is still that cross cultural exchange between us and China on RedNote I routinely hope Chinese censorship ends because I'm so interested in what I don't and can't understand as a Black American that they can't openly communicate
- In her new book “The Wall Dancers: Searching for Freedom and Connection On the Chinese Internet,” journalist @yilingliu95.bsky.social examines the country’s censorship, viral trends, and growing power. Read an excerpt: restofworld.org/2026/wall-da...
- Reposted by Quibble While Rome BurnsIn her new book “The Wall Dancers: Searching for Freedom and Connection On the Chinese Internet,” journalist @yilingliu95.bsky.social examines the country’s censorship, viral trends, and growing power. Read an excerpt: restofworld.org/2026/wall-da...
- The gender affirming care professionals whose entire industry is built on providing gender affirming care should, idk, be wise enough not to fuck up their bag in a for profit industry but what do I know!!!
- Reposted by Quibble While Rome BurnsOh. So they do understand why Black people want police to lose qualified immunity. It's amazing how much clarity people suddenly have now that the children being harmed are not mostly Black.
- The fatal shootings of Alex Pretti and Renee Good in Minneapolis are fueling efforts to allow lawsuits under state law to hold federal officials liable for committing civil-rights abuses. on.wsj.com/3MjgeFE
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- Reposted by Quibble While Rome BurnsOctavia’s brood; Black futures
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- You know he think he's Ghost rn
- Reposted by Quibble While Rome BurnsGod i heard Mitch McConnell is down bad Outshallah 🤲🏿
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- Reposted by Quibble While Rome BurnsIf accessibility disappears after a snowstorm then there was never really accessibility to begin with. Winter reveals so much about who our cities prioritize.
- Snowstorms are more than just an inconvenience for wheelchair users. Inadequate snow clean-ups means a loss of autonomy for many. New for me at @motherjones.com www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
- Reposted by Quibble While Rome BurnsRep. Ro Khanna on Breaking Points reacting to Sen. Chuck Schumer touting unconditional military aid to Israel: “I couldn’t believe it. Here is a nation that has committed genocide in Gaza, and Chuck Schumer in the same years is bragging about providing them unconditional military aid.” Khanna...
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- Reposted by Quibble While Rome BurnsTrump supporters are claiming that whistles should be “considered a violent weapon,” that their use constitutes “interference” with immigration enforcement operations or even “assault.” In other words—the rapid response networks are working. The whistles are working. Let no one tell you otherwise.
- Reposted by Quibble While Rome BurnsI think the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs just suggested Elon Musk is a pedo.
- Reposted by Quibble While Rome BurnsThe target boycott is pretty much the dream outcome of the corporate activism that’s been targeting Wal-Mart for decades now.
- *smiles in #BlackHistoryMonth*
- Doesn't matter if they plan to cheat again.
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