This is the only way I would return to my ex, Target:

So a lot of the hype around LLMs and a lot of the userbase just fundamentally misunderstands what the technology is and what it’s capable of, instead treating it like a mythical supernatural or religious being. The industry openly encourages this delusion for profit

Eternally love a good orange-cat thread

FFS, it’s killing people, driving them from their homes, adding to the enormous debt we owe nature, and literally driving people insane. Unless it’s lifesaving, I don’t want to hear it.

I have watched so many mini-videos of people making acrylic tables with pretty things sealed inside. I am so hypnotized. I want roses and trinkets in MY table

I originally felt like contacting my reps was for telling them my personal connection to some niche thing they might not be aware of. I did not realize it was going to involve "informing them that actually the president is not allowed to Do War without consulting them, so could they, like, object"

Why do Democrats keep fighting hard to pass rules that are already in place? ICE reforms, such as that they should have the kind of warrant they are already legally required to have. War reforms, such as that the president should have to do what he is already constitutionally required to do.

Meddling in the Middle East, Which Always Works Out So Well for Us: www.swistle.com/2026/03/01/m...

if you believe in any form of free enterprise at all, the idea that the Pentagon can not only cut off your contract but designate you a supply chain risk and prevent other companies from buying from you just because you won't build killbots for the government should be terrifying

You sound like an unhinged person if you in plain words describe what’s happening, but the Trump admin demanded Anthropic’s AI be able to kill things for it w/out human approval and also do mass surveillance. Anthropic said no, and now the admin is trying to destroy the company in retaliation.

So the women’s hockey team got fresh pasta at a swanky restaurant in Milan with Stanley Tucci and the men’s team got cold McDonalds in a room blaring Toby Keith where the President didn’t even eat with them. Y’all idk if you’ve noticed but the patriarchy sucks FOR YOU.

Regret to announce that we’ve reached Wrong Coat season. Every coat you wear from now til mid April will be The Wrong Coat for the weather

Also, this means I get to buy baby things. It feels like FOREVER since I got to buy baby things.

My cousin, who is also one of my top three closest friends, just welcomed her first grandbaby. I cannot tell you how much this feels like one of the best things that could ever happen. How did we GET here, when we were JUST NOW having babies of our own?? Who cares, because this is the best.

If an elected official brings our attention to an issue, I want them to say what they personally are going to do about it. I don't want only to be told that WE VOTERS need to do something about it, OR that we need to give them money. FIRST: what they are doing. THEN: they can tell me how I can help.

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Henceforth, I will be describing the way that U.S. men’s hockey spectacularly squandered good will, brand recognition, and fan loyalty as “pulled a Target.” They pulled a Target.

To summarize: The state of the union is that the union is amazing as long as you lie about every piece of it.

ABSOLUTELY THE HELL NOT Only Bluesky takes.

I have cleaned a bathroom. I have scooped the litter box. There is a batch of laundry swooshing in the washer. I am in my pajamas. I have two full measures of alcohol on board and am ready to add a third as needed. I am gearing up to watch the State of the Union---as seen by Bluesky.

Book: All Fours, by Miranda July www.swistle.com/2026/02/22/b...

Local zoning is the way! A lot of these are being stopped or stalled by neighborhood organizing. These warehouses often need to be purchased, permitted, approved for occupancy and specs. Each one of those steps can be interrupted. Ppl are pressuring corps not to sell, counties to deny permits, etc

The server complimented me on how prepared I was when ordering my food and coffee. It’s possible to win at ordering and this is a normal thing to want

Let's try this again 👋 Hi Bluesky - I'm Massachusetts' Attorney General. You might know me from suing President Trump nearly 50 times, beating Uber and Lyft in court, or being the first woman of color elected to statewide office in MA. I officially left X today - help me find my MA people?

Industrial-grade timeline cleanse Seriously when you see the hop

Last night I dreamed I was sitting in a booth having a cocktail with the Rev Jesse Jackson who, in the dream, was my dad. (In the dream, he was a kind and loving dad. One other detail I remember is him saying benevolently "Just put that on Dad's tab" to the bartender.)

My dears, it is 18 years since my last baby. Where can we find cute hooded baby towels with bunny ears?

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IS THERE EVER GOING TO BE A SINGLE CONSEQUENCE FOR ANYONE, EVER????

Every time conservatives talk about voting I swear it's like they've never done it. It's not like going into 7-11 and picking up a six pack, you have to be on the list

Shaped entire generations

Sometimes I get a little upset when I live in a collapsing dystopia for many years

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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.

Right now I have whistles designed by a man in Italy printing on a plate given to me by someone from Canada, in a filament donated from the UK, and I'm sending them to a union who wants to protect immigrants. Just feels like an incredible team effort. 💖

I am gonna go out on a limb and say that a Jersey dude so horrified that he went to his first protest and is trying not to cry on camera has a pretty good chance of staying radicalized. And that while Bluesky loves to pick apart things like this, this kinda video moves the needle for OTHER dudes.

Don't mind me, I'm just going to go sit and stare at the wall for a few hours while my brain attempts to assimilate this crucial new information

While gathering up the paper recycling I got a bad papercut under my fingernail. Never have I been so betrayed.

I have now read three books in Tamsyn Muir's Locked Tomb series and I STILL don't know what's going on (WHEN IS THE FOURTH BOOK COMING OUT)

Paul and I went out for an early Valentine's Day dinner, and there were two separate large tables of women celebrating Galentine's Day, which made me very happy 💖💕

YESSSSS I'd forgotten about "necking"!! I pictured people sort of hooking their necks together under their jaws and then, like...WHAT?

Sex Ed in Christian School: www.swistle.com/2026/02/11/n...

It is not our moral responsibility to coddle the delusional fears and bigotries of white supremacists. It is not our moral responsibility to change reality for them so they can hold onto those fears and bigotries. It is our moral responsibility to make their fears and bigotries THEIR problem.

What the fresh hell is this?

"The Epstein Class"! Perfect. Let's keep that term.

some people were asking what this meant. i actually said it on tumblr but here it is

Just because we aren't totally surprised, doesn't mean we can shrug it off. Decency, dignity, and humanity matter, even now. Especially now.

All these men driving women out of their fields with giggly idiot grabassery and then bloviating to the public about how the lack of women is proof of male intellectual superiority... I hate them all. I hate them so much.

I'm Kat Abughazaleh and I approve this message.

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