Shawn Fleek
@shawnfleek
Political. Creative. Portlander. Northern Arapaho. Husband. Dad. Hype man for humanity and cage free futures.
Thrilled beyond words to have been invited by an old friend to this extremely fun Warsaw Poland Bros show at Alberta St Pub. 90 minutes remain. #Ska
this reads to me like something the kids will end up saying to a therapist and the therapist will say “wow, your mon said that in the newspaper… why do you think she thought that?”
hitting the outer limits of considering chili crisp a condiment versus an ingredient in my mac n cheese #CulinaryArts
Modern parenting gripe: Spotify for Kids will only let you block content once your kid has listened to it, and apparently feature “Worship” and “Top Christian Tunes” under the always-available “Learn” section of their Kids app.
unfollowing him now, I loved him for making an flashy impact on the Reagan Administration, I had no idea he would ever have a twitter account in 2026
So I clicked “Change” to actually get an appointment scheduled. And welp.
Gonna keep hitting on this because my service is actually this bad. I was supposed to be visited by a third tech (ghost of internet future) today. Went to check my appointment status in the (barely functional) app, and saw this: (below the ad for a product I will never buy)
$5B changes hands, my ability to work from home is diminished for days on end, shareholders are thrilled at the efficiency of the free market, everyone who matters (owns and controls the means of production) wins!
but hey AT&T is seeing positive earnings growth … so … “hooray” for whoever that is benefitting I guess
When I see Portland police trying to raid a climate investments fund focused on delivering benefits to communities of color, I remember the same police department sold t-shirts mocking a Black man they murdered after he had stopped a crime.
when I see “moderates” on my city council align with the worst Police association in the country to defund a voter-approved police oversight board, I remember that when I was in second grade the NY police department staged a riot to prevent similar oversight.
Over on Facebook, the rage engagement algorithm is currently remutigating the US Civil War and decrying anti-slavery violence. This is Mark Zuckerberg’s legacy: turning “a place for friends” into a psychotorture program upsetting enough to react and comment, so ad sales stay strong.
Updating this classic banger to report that social media is now a gateway drug to sycophant LLMs that give your most-bored and impressionable relatives spiritual psychosis. The greatest global human error was giving boomer retirees social media access.
Good news for close observers: young people have started going to bars again. Bad news for the service industry: they lost years of experience since 2020 and do not know how to bus their own tables. @ Suki’s 2
New “fix your hearts or die” just dropped. Potentially for people whose hearts aren’t being fixed with any seriousness.
Anne Hathaway casts her vote for Rose Byrne via wearing basically the same dress as her #oscars
“No one needs reminded”… actually, CNN, it would make sense to CONSTANTLY REMIND EVERY AMERICAN that foreign wars are treacherous. When people worry CNN is being purchased and converted to MAGA, remember it started out failing to take educating the public seriously. What’s the difference?
Can anyone working in journalism reach out to Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem and ask him, “Hey man, what did you mean when you emailed Jeffrey Epstein and said ‘enjoyed the torture video.’?” Or is this one of those things that only the crazies on Bluesky care about whereas respectable X journos don’t?
Twitter got rid of its content moderation standards and now it’s full of racial slurs and computer generated CSAM. It’s not that much to ask that people leave the site and use one of several alternatives whose algorithms aren’t tuned to spread abusive and illegal content for the clicks.
Imagine being so annoying to ICE that an independent expenditure campaign prints your tweets on a mailer to try to discredit you on unrelated issues AND social media accounts focus on replying to mentions of your name with images of that mailer. Stancil is living any true organizer’s dream.