Building Digital Ecosystems at Google. https://hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke He/him.https://blacksky.community/profile/mekka.mekka-tech.comhttps://blacksky.community/profile/mekka.mekka-tech.com/post/3mq3eclajjs23This is another way of saying what I tell y'all every election: it's all about turnout. Swing voters aren't real. Chasing them hurts your own turnout, and then you lose.🤡 (And Enten should make it much clearer when he switches from real poll results to prediction market results. He knows better.) [contains quote post or other embedded content]07 Jul 2026 19:40 +0000at://did:plc:6vwhi5d44wq5ttdhu5rrfbx3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mq3eclajjs23https://blacksky.community/profile/mekka.mekka-tech.com/post/3mq32w26kgs2dMaine is a whole mess! All the dudes that got the unsolicited "I VOTED FOR PLATNER AND I LIKED IT!🤡" forehead tattoos are still doubling down. 6 people wrote in Andrea LaFlamme on election day, and 5 of them are on BlueSky. Janet Mills is like, "I already said goodbye to everyone! It's weird now" https://static.klipy.com/ii/c3a19a0b747a76e98651f2b9a3cca5ff/16/67/NDv52XK9.gif?hh=441&ww=498&mp4=YgX1odDJ6AhoYhs&webm=hVMoZ6DBXVEx07 Jul 2026 16:52 +0000at://did:plc:6vwhi5d44wq5ttdhu5rrfbx3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mq32w26kgs2dhttps://blacksky.community/profile/mekka.mekka-tech.com/post/3mq2wdx7z4k2dNot Wilt. No one whose name we know.🤷🏿‍♂️ Some undersized mid level track star, gymnast, or skater kid that was good at hacky sack.🤷🏿‍♂️ If you ask who the best footballers in history are, you get more answers like Pele, Maradonna, and Messi, than Haaland, Lukaku or Ronaldo. Football is a skill. [contains quote post or other embedded content]07 Jul 2026 15:30 +0000at://did:plc:6vwhi5d44wq5ttdhu5rrfbx3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mq2wdx7z4k2dhttps://blacksky.community/profile/mekka.mekka-tech.com/post/3mq2ui7zbzc2dI'm glad that Belgians got the real, local, American experience!🇺🇸 * Some right-wing weirdo tries to cheat to give your opponent an unfair advantage " Through your own hard work, you overcome the opposition, despite the game-rigging * Your victory is now used as evidence that "The System Works!🤡"07 Jul 2026 14:57 +0000at://did:plc:6vwhi5d44wq5ttdhu5rrfbx3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mq2ui7zbzc2dhttps://blacksky.community/profile/mekka.mekka-tech.com/post/3mpzegnuwpk2dSomeone dies in ICE detention every 6 days! That is horrific! Double that number, and that's someone dying every 3 days. Double it again. One human life every 1.5 days. Double it again. One life every 18 hours. Double it again. More than 2 lives a day. Now it matches pretrial detention deaths. https://www.aclu.org/news/immigrants-rights/deaths-in-detention-ice-is-rapidly-expanding-detention-camps-into-warehouses-despite-record-deaths07 Jul 2026 00:37 +0000at://did:plc:6vwhi5d44wq5ttdhu5rrfbx3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpzegnuwpk2dhttps://blacksky.community/profile/mekka.mekka-tech.com/post/3mpyvx3dv6s2bWasn't there like, a third Dem nominee in Maine whose platform was "I don't have nazi tattoos and I am not Janet Mills?" This is like when the first two quarterbacks get injured, so the person with the conspicuously clean jersey gets to line up.06 Jul 2026 20:18 +0000at://did:plc:6vwhi5d44wq5ttdhu5rrfbx3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpyvx3dv6s2bhttps://blacksky.community/profile/mekka.mekka-tech.com/post/3mpwepit75c2c🤡 [contains quote post or other embedded content]05 Jul 2026 20:04 +0000at://did:plc:6vwhi5d44wq5ttdhu5rrfbx3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpwepit75c2chttps://blacksky.community/profile/mekka.mekka-tech.com/post/3mpvytn3eps2tAgain, any time someone says, "An AI detector thinks I write like AI!" It means that the person writes more like AI *source training material* than like a lazy American college student trying to cheat their way through a college paper. I play a game called "Writer, Professor, or Anti-colonial.🇳🇬🇮🇳🇰🇪" [contains quote post or other embedded content]05 Jul 2026 16:32 +0000at://did:plc:6vwhi5d44wq5ttdhu5rrfbx3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpvytn3eps2thttps://blacksky.community/profile/mekka.mekka-tech.com/post/3mpvnggdgas2tAnd they were worried about Mamdani's little community commissaries? This is real competition. [contains quote post or other embedded content]05 Jul 2026 13:07 +0000at://did:plc:6vwhi5d44wq5ttdhu5rrfbx3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpvnggdgas2thttps://blacksky.community/profile/mekka.mekka-tech.com/post/3mpvfwqrlcc2t🤔I haven't lived in the UK for a while so I'm wondering: Does England still have that tradition where they make a pop song in advance of the world cup? And that song becomes their world cup theme music for a few months? But then becomes a sad reminder of the specific way that they were knocked out? [contains quote post or other embedded content]05 Jul 2026 10:53 +0000at://did:plc:6vwhi5d44wq5ttdhu5rrfbx3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpvfwqrlcc2thttps://blacksky.community/profile/mekka.mekka-tech.com/post/3mpuxwpmma22tGuardian editors, high-fiving each other: "Yes! A new 'Africanized Bees' just dropped! And they're called 'Blackchin Tilapia?!' that's perfect! We are so back! If anyone complains, we'll just say "What are you talking about?! They are an invasive species! We're talking about bees and fish here!🤣" [contains quote post or other embedded content]05 Jul 2026 06:43 +0000at://did:plc:6vwhi5d44wq5ttdhu5rrfbx3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpuxwpmma22thttps://blacksky.community/profile/mekka.mekka-tech.com/post/3mpuvcp6fgk2t"Expending our entire fireworks arsenal in one silly display, when there are multiple fireworks worthy events throughout the year, is a metaphor for something... I can't quite put my finger on it though? Like, I know it has something to do with expending ordinance faster than we can replenish it? [contains quote post or other embedded content]05 Jul 2026 05:56 +0000at://did:plc:6vwhi5d44wq5ttdhu5rrfbx3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpuvcp6fgk2thttps://blacksky.community/profile/mekka.mekka-tech.com/post/3mpucbybmu22tTaking a lightning bolt to the bald spot to own the libs 🤷🏿‍♂️ [contains quote post or other embedded content]05 Jul 2026 00:15 +0000at://did:plc:6vwhi5d44wq5ttdhu5rrfbx3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpucbybmu22thttps://blacksky.community/profile/mekka.mekka-tech.com/post/3mpttga22os22Pain. [contains quote post or other embedded content]04 Jul 2026 19:49 +0000at://did:plc:6vwhi5d44wq5ttdhu5rrfbx3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpttga22os22https://blacksky.community/profile/mekka.mekka-tech.com/post/3mptief62o222For decades, the KKK marched and protested wearing masks, and Dem lawmakers said, "It's free speech! We have to let them talk!" Then for a few summers, some Black kids said, "We need a ceasefire in Palestine." And Dem lawmakers passed laws against masked protest.🤡 Now those Dems are quiet again.🤷🏿‍♂️ [contains quote post or other embedded content]04 Jul 2026 16:32 +0000at://did:plc:6vwhi5d44wq5ttdhu5rrfbx3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mptief62o222https://blacksky.community/profile/mekka.mekka-tech.com/post/3mpt7yyfhsk2uShipwrecks are not more common than car crashes. Several sources that estimate the total number of shipwreck deaths in history, put the number around 20 million. Total number of car crash deaths is over 90 million. BTW. Americans, don't drive today, if you don't have to. Just get a hotel. Please. [contains quote post or other embedded content]04 Jul 2026 14:02 +0000at://did:plc:6vwhi5d44wq5ttdhu5rrfbx3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpt7yyfhsk2uhttps://blacksky.community/profile/mekka.mekka-tech.com/post/3mpt5ze4ejs2uHappy birthday America! The United States was started 250 years ago today, but it was not finished 250 years ago today. Our story is incomplete. Our Constitution is based on ideas from the French enlightenment. But we added racism to their ideas, and corrupted it. We're still fixing that mistake. [contains quote post or other embedded content]04 Jul 2026 13:26 +0000at://did:plc:6vwhi5d44wq5ttdhu5rrfbx3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpt5ze4ejs2uhttps://blacksky.community/profile/mekka.mekka-tech.com/post/3mprnnd442c2uCalifornian. Definitely. But... I find myself slowly turning into a New Yorker? All my high school friends that called this eventuality? Shut up! [contains quote post or other embedded content]03 Jul 2026 23:01 +0000at://did:plc:6vwhi5d44wq5ttdhu5rrfbx3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mprnnd442c2uhttps://blacksky.community/profile/mekka.mekka-tech.com/post/3mprjjsl7t22uBut that's not the American way! That's not how we do things! The American way is: * Cut taxes on super rich people in Blue areas (thereby reducing the tax revenue that can even go to red areas🤡) * Fight immigration in Blue areas (making them less productive, again reducing tax revenue 🤡) [contains quote post or other embedded content]03 Jul 2026 21:47 +0000at://did:plc:6vwhi5d44wq5ttdhu5rrfbx3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mprjjsl7t22uhttps://blacksky.community/profile/mekka.mekka-tech.com/post/3mpqvhnjehs26Important counterpoints in this thread. @cockymf.bsky.social does a better job than me of explaining why Black voters have historically tended to trust the Dem core much more than Dem Socialists. There's a trust gap in reducing US racism that the DSA has to bridge. I'm optimistic. Others, less so. [contains quote post or other embedded content]03 Jul 2026 15:48 +0000at://did:plc:6vwhi5d44wq5ttdhu5rrfbx3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpqvhnjehs26https://blacksky.community/profile/mekka.mekka-tech.com/post/3mpqsfm67ws26🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 USA! USA! Why don't Black people in the US call 911, part 9 million. You never know when one of these officers is going to show up, to make something out of nothing. Creating a dangerous situation for no reason. 1 in every ~200 of these unnecessary confrontations, US cops kill someone.🤷🏿‍♂️ [contains quote post or other embedded content]03 Jul 2026 14:53 +0000at://did:plc:6vwhi5d44wq5ttdhu5rrfbx3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpqsfm67ws26