Nobody ever expected Walmart to embody some ethos that its users fantasized. Why did anybody ever expect Bluesky to do so?

Bluesky keeping it relevant real hard rn

Yesterday, NYT reshaped its coverage of Trump's tweets dramatically over a period of 16 hours, responding to harsh public criticism of its systematic sane washing. bsky.app/profile/jfal...

«Noreg tek sterk avstand frå bruken av atomvåpen i sentrum av Teheran i går. Vi oppfordrar begge partar i konflikten til å deeskalere og finne ei fredeleg løysing.»

When the US admits that they killed any “military-aged men” who walked within 3km of a downed pilot they mean any boy lanky enough to be a teenager and any middle-aged man able to walk unaided with a cane got shot in the head for the crime of walking.

Again, please resist the urge to dismiss this scenario. In Trump’s world this is absolutely normal politics. The 1999 terrorist attack that brought Putin to power was a false flag. The Russian secret services bombed apartment buildings and killed Russians. (9/17)

Again, if that seems odd to you, you are already inside the scenario, making it more likely. Trump is an admirer of Putin. This is exactly how Putin came to power: a terrorist attack in Russia that could be blamed on Muslims. (7/17)

So the WH Correspondent Self-Humiliation has nothing to do with Trump in particular. Journalists do as much for far less spectacular pieces of sheet

If you have not seen images of journalists competitively sucking up to some famous name for the price of lunch, yeah and there's a reason you haven't

We live in a world in which journalists crave the attention and approval of the very people they should be slashing to bloody gobbets

Journalism would be better if journalists reported viciously on other journalists sucking at that sweet access tit. Hell the world would be better

Honestly, all greater political considerations aside, it’s just really fucking obnoxious how many Americans seem to think it’s cheating for the other side to shoot back in a war. I mean look, I’m no fan of the Iranian regime, but buy the ticket, take the ride.

Hm, kvifor er det då på jobb-pc-en

Guinness has certified Lawson's Karaage-kun as the world's best-selling fresh-fried karaage brand (一番販売された揚げたてからあげのブランド). www.yomiuri.co.jp/economy/2026...

Me every time I see a full page of song or poem in a fantasy novel

cis men who take steroids are soyboi->chad transexuals and we need to start treating them as valid members of the lgbt community

The 25th Amendment exists for a reason. The President of the United States is a deranged lunatic, and a national security threat to our country and the rest of the world.

noooooo that’s where my girlfriends live

*as I get blasted in the face with raw sewage* I know it’s sewage so it can’t hurt me

My traditional Easter reading, from James Tate.

I miss Mastodon every day

Constitutional lawyer here. I don't think it would violate the Constitution for the VP/Cabinet to invoke the 25th Amendment, but the intended constitutional remedy for this behavior is impeachment & removal. The fact that that remedy is politically impossible is a scandal and a crisis.

That and acts of sincere contrition and munificent reparations and extraditing Heg (for example) seth to any jurisdiction that requests him

Nor does it mention that the things he is promising to do are war crimes. Or that the war is wildly illegal & violates both the Constitution & the UN Charter. Just a comprehensive failure of journalism.

“President Trump included Muslims in an Easter message, to liberals’ chagrin”

Good morning and Happy Easter everyone.

This would call for extrajudicial remedies. By that I mean court expansion, of course. But also other extrajudicial remedies

how will we even know when it happens

Japanese White-eye among cherry blossoms 梅ジロー 昨日の雨で桜もだいぶ散っただろうし、次なるターゲットは八重桜だろうか。 #birds #photography

Any ideas about where I could source a large colorful image of Gen Douglas Macarthur for displaying when right wing extremists picket my house?

Man, can you imagine the discourse if it happens on Easter.

The research shows that offloading intro classes to adjuncts makes it harder to get students to major in your discipline. Allowing AP and high-school dual enrollment classes to provide college credit doubles down on that problem.

Yeah very much this and by the way, you need to offer the surveys. Big meaty comprehensive surveys of your field

If admins claim your programs should be cut because you don’t have enough majors, you need tenured and tenure track faculty to teach the surveys rather than grand students, adjuncts, and high schools (AP or DE). That might pull in some majors or minors.

👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀

Actually we should just give citizenship to every undocumented person in the United States who wants it. Walking over an imaginary line isn't some great moral atrocity. Making people live in the shadows as a permanent underclass absolutely IS.

Me (shouting in your face): JOIN MY MISSION TO STOP PEOPLE SHOUTING IN YOUR FACE! CONTRIBUTIONS WILL NOT BE ASSOCIATED IN ANY WAY WITH MONEY THAT FUNDS SHOUTING IN YOUR FACE, BUT WILL GO DIRECTLY INTO A SEPARATE ACCOUNT THAT I CALL MY NOT SHOUTING IN YOUR FACE ACCOUNT!

I think a lot of Bluesky users are in the demographic of “people who simply will stop using social media entirely if all the text-based social platforms that aren’t run by unrepentant Nazis (like this one) go away,” myself very much included

@dexeve.bsky.social & I have a new piece out in Survival. In 2024, South Korea secretly deployed more than 300 KTSSM missiles at soft, fixed sites--suggesting that, in a crisis, Seoul may strike first & giving Pyongyang 300 reasons to beat them to it. doi.org/10.1080/0039...

It isn't though -- because typing classes were separate from other classes and students wrote by hand in class. In the aughts, computer labs were separate from academic classes. We've chosen over the past two decades to have students use devices everywhere.

Enjoyed this sympathetic and insightful take on Yoko Tawada defector.com/yoko-tawada-...

Georgia Republicans Abandon Confederate Monuments and the Lost Cause #CivilWarMemory open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...

Ok: Kva er greia med kritikk av typen "ånei denne krimmen har drap som ikkje er KOSELEGE, då vil eg ikkje sjå på"? Drap er brutale valdshandlingar! Getting murdered is bad & not pleasant!

I keep trying to grasp the point of Instagram because of friends there. Innavigable. A flood of video sludge. But I do enjoy reporting the ads as scams

Ah, the three genders.

One night I stepped out of my flat in Croydon to find a police SWAT team standing in the corridor. Helmets, body armour, HK MP5s. They’d just kicked in my neighbour’s door, but he wasn’t home. The leader looked at me and said, completely deadpan, “Is your TV licence paid up?”

America not being a signatory to a number of treaties does not mean that international law does not exist. The US is conducting clear war crimes, and boasting about it. They should be treated as a pariah state. They definitely shouldn't be getting a Royal visit.

I’ve spotted a few tanuki in the area recently but wasn’t quick enough with my camera. They seem to appear on the hottest summer days, during the rare snowfall in Tokyo, and when the blossoms are falling. And they’re very curious. I saw this one down my street around this time last year.