they were both good

have not been on bluesky the last few days but the alysa liu free skate was one of the most beautiful expressions of human joy i've seen in my life and something i'll remember for a long time

It's a neat argument because he's not leaning at all on the quality of the homily's prose or the creativity required to write it, but the intersubjective exchange it consummates.

if you are in the pittsburgh area please come to my concert in april. it's a couple months out but it doesn't hurt to be prepared

spring is a feeling in your heart, so there's no such thing as "false spring" unless you're a coward

here's what to know about the DHS shutdown:

you live in a boxcar *one time* and they call you "the boxcar children" forever

New to this platform, so still figuring out how this works. I've been working on this little game for like a year. This is the first actually sizeable project I started in pico8 and it's about to be released on itch. #pico8 #indiedev #pixelart

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

you live in a boxcar *one time* and they call you "the boxcar children" forever

Armies do not fight for abstractions. Armies fight for [an abstraction]; armies fight for [an abstraction]. Armies fight for [an abstraction about an abstraction].

un bouquet queen victoria italian parsley grown in california & arizona (product of mexico)

happy valentine's day :)

Who are you… You must help me, please… Bring me the salmon treats… I can't… I can't see you… hear me… I need the salmon treats, you must bring me the salmon treats… Please bring … beg of you, bring the treats… Help me… I am Babka… Given up long ago… There is one thing I need to be rescued… You must…

i didn't find out about this bundle in time or you can bet my garbage game would be in there too - i will however be supporting it, and you should too

Every photo from Minneapolis looks like this. Cops decked out with guns and full tac gear facing off against people in bathrobes, parkas, and sweatpants armed only with whistles and cell phones. Yet every verified MAGA chode on X dutifully calls it a riot or violent insurrection.

The No ICE in Minnesota bundle has launched, raising funds for the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota. Over 1400 items for $10.00! itch.io/b/3484/no-ic...

A stunning detail the ICE chief shared in this hearing that was supposed to be a brag, except it isn't: ICE has arrested 379,000 people between Jan. 2025-Jan. 2026 -- but only 8,700 were suspected gang members or known suspected terrorists. That's 2%! www.huffpost.com/entry/latest...

Rep. Delia Ramirez to DHS officials: "I have as much respect for you as I do for the last white men who put on masks to terrorize communities of color. I have no respect for the inheritors of the Klanhood and the slave patrol. Those activities were criminal and so are yours."

Plans to invade Greenland have just been cancelled after this

Please don’t forget about us and our neighbors! standwithminnesota.com

some things are actually getting worse here.

The No ICE in Minnesota Charity Bundle has officially LAUNCHED! There are 1,439 games to discover for a $10+ donation to Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota! Purchase the bundle here: itch.io/b/3484/no-ic...

why is it that the only leaders who ever invoke a "mandate from the people" are the ones who are doing a bunch of stuff that everyone hates

1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken. Hundreds of kids are still detained. We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

No Kings includes Draft Kings

I'm hardly the first person to note this, but it's enormously instructive that our President and his followers saw the message "THE ONLY THING MORE POWERFUL THAN HATE IS LOVE" and understood it, correctly, as an attack on them

it's wild how many of these grifters-only events kid rock manages to headline. they're calling him "the hardest working pedophile in rap-rock"

skeleton is an excellent name for the sport most likely to turn you into a skeleton

if you've ever wondered what the world's most divorced men are doing instead of attending their kids' birthday parties and graduations, the kid rock anti-halftime show just about sums it up

in an era when carnivore diet influencers are in charge of the american nuclear arsenal we have to admit the "annoying vegan" stereotype barely ever actually existed and the "all meat diet guy" is real, increasingly omnipresent, and way more annoying and inconvenient to actually be around

I disagree with Congressman Gonzales that 5-year-old American citizen children are helped in any way by their kindergarten classmates being kisbnapped and disappeared by marked, armed thugs.

If you're a business owner who fires someone you have assigned to an overseas job and you don't buy them a plane ticket home you should actually go to prison

watching another country's scheming vizier resign

it is extremely funny that the US skating team is getting hard carried by their ice dancers

NBC Olympics Coverage Cringe Compilation (22 Hours)

Truly upsetting phrases. Imagine a wretched little goblin whispering them

i was so sure the pro-billionaires march was a joke i mean i guess it still might be

i'm pretty tired of winter

the last 8 years of male US figure skating have been a breathtaking arc of gaming creating and then solving a masculinity crisis

every male figure skater's outfit looks like dlc lootbox armor

Joanna Newsom in the party shuffle to prove to my guests I'm not using Spotify

whether a shadow can be seen at Gobbler's Knob, PA on the morning of February 2nd is a simple matter of atmospheric conditions, which means that anyone can predict if there will be a long winter, it doesn't have to be a rat

Hot take: The "Phantom Tollbooth" characters King Azaz and his brother, the Mathemagician, are prefigured by two 9th century Byzantine intellectuals, Patriarch John VII, known as John the Grammarian, and his cousin, the archbishop of Thessalonica known as Leo the Mathematician.

“Notorious pedophile Jeffrey Epstein played a role in convincing Bobby Kotick to embrace loot boxes, essentially gambling for children” what is this sentence, what is this world

Reminder that Anne Frank died not in the gas chamber but of typhus.

I can’t stress this enough. The state of 4th Amendment law is that the cops can’t force you to type in a passcode but they can force you to swipe your finger or present your face. Never stop using passcodes/passwords to unlock your devices. And consider additional code to unlock Signal.

i'm learning so many new names of the massively powerful people who have ruined the world by people's surprised-not-surprised posts about the epstein files

skaters will not have this problem should they choose to skate with the universally beloved music of the Mountain Goats

why does everyone including news media refer to tom homan as "border czar"? i don't think that's a real title, and if we're just making stuff up, why not "rejected ghostbusters concept sketch" or "toxic slime wearing human skin"