man, @publichealthguy1.bsky.social was (afaik) the first former CDC person to publicly call *explicitly* for RFK's resignation, rather than gently scold him, and he's currently being called a piece of shit and dogpiled for saying vaccine hesitant parents are facing a bad information environment

I heard that Rotta the Hutt had an 8-pack, that Rotta the Hutt was shredded

Think how bad the COVID response was with Trump in charge, and that's when we still had real public health people in charge of the CDC. We have a war halfway around the world against a country of 90 million being led by a weekend Fox News Host. We're going to get what we voted for good and hard.

Stories are like gardens that are nurtured — twisting along unanticipated paths, as they reveal themselves to even the authors. If you relinquish all choices too early, give them up in the name of efficiency, fully formed from the outset — you lose something. Wander curiously.

a thing I'm mortally tired of: watching the markets that set the boundary conditions of my life (and over which I have no power whatsoever) crater because people who, if asked, I could have told you were dangerous morons did something stupid

Next up Hot Rod! He’s SO PINK! He has SO MUCH GEAR! I’m a sucker for any bot with a shield to tell you the truth

I dunno, man, seems like our melding of GWOT "kill all the leaders, every last one, as soon as they poke their heads up" tactics with demanding the absolute capitulation from a nation-state, which would have to be offered by a leader who can speak on behalf of said state, are incompatible.

I know I’m not supposed to talk about the UK (for…reasons????) but how this is LITERALLY just

Trump will only get worse.

finally watched Casablanca. wild in this day and age for something to actually live up to the hype

twitter vs bluesky

It is 2026 and we are not fucking doing this anymore. EIGHT WOMEN came forward and told stories of Franken GROPING AND FORCIBLY KISSING THEM. The man was a sexual abuser. He did not and does not belong in congress. Fucking period. End of conversation.

A blog I respect the hell out of was Whedonesque. Huge fans, hyped up his work, promoted everything to do with him. The very day the news about him being abusive came out, they announced "Fuck that guy, we're closing the blog". Wish more fandoms were like that.

Odysseus had his crew lash him to the mast to keep him from doing an interview with Chotiner.

Israel attacking Turkiyë and forcing a showdown over article 5 is a situation made in a lab to drive the Reasonable Thinker caucus into Lovecraftian madness

even worse, it philosophically and materially changes my relationship to my students. now i am a cop rather than a teacher. I have no interest in that role. i have no interest in policing children.

Finally got a chance to appreciate my ill-gotten* gains *had to go to Target

“WE LACK A LOT OF ENZYMES!”

A Very Journalist posted today dooming about Talarico’s chances in the general and yeah we know Blexas is a tough climb but the reasoning was weird. His argument was that Texans are too Republican culturally to ever vote for a Democrat even if they agree with the D on policy rather than the R.

i don’t know how it can be more self explanatory that if you cover american politics and say you aren’t familiar with infamous nazi symbols—particularly in a country full of nazi sympathizers/white supremacists—you are either vastly unqualified for the job or lying

Chotiner interviews Janeway

This is such an embarrassing sentence to put in a newspaper

That's weird, who could have predicted something like this could happen with the guessing machine that's wrong 80% of the time???????

I thought hard about this and with other american wars big and small, recent and not, they were at least run, with conceivable plans, even flimsy ones I really don’t think that can be said, or said as credibly, with this gang

It’s genuinely hard not to see things any other way. They wanted to build a protocol. Bluesky the social network site was just a use case. There was no intention for it to get big. Now they’re stuck having a user base that they never wanted and they treat us like it. bsky.app/profile/jenn...

Trump and his ilk are positively obsessed with bodies—with their mangling, their alteration, their sexuality, and their destruction. I wrote about it for @liberalcurrents.com www.liberalcurrents.com/pervert-poli...

“Within a few hours it was gone.” “Ok full transparency in those few hours I killed it”

quoting the borg approvingly here is very “we’ve created the torment nexus”!

Unreal

One encouraging theme in last night's NC primaries is the simple fact that being pro-trans is now like being anti-ICE among Dem voters: to them, it means you're a fighter, it means you're not giving into Trump. That's a really, really good sign.

The world we live in is a world where wars are not fought for any strategic power competition reasons at all, but one where they are fought specifically to generate imagery of suffering for sadistic perverts to get off to without any more thought put into why than that

I haven't said anything about this before, bc in the grand scheme of horrors this only rates as an inconvenience, but since others are experiencing it: Just three days after CBP arrested me for filming them outside Broadview on 9/27, my TSA Pre & Global Entry were suspended—and so were my wife's.

The girls’ school in Iran, where 165 people were killed by an apparent US-Israeli attack, was hit with two strikes, with the second missile killing sheltering survivors, two first responders and the parent of a slain child have told Middle East Eye.

These two in particular being in the bag for platner is a smoking gun as far as I'm concerned

ok so I have A Theory about how they chose each kaiju character for each ranger I don't think they're going by them as Mighty Morphin Power Rangers at all. I think each kaiju match is inspired by the Zyuranger character.

1) yes 2) it’s been a long fucking decade

Attention people who think Stella is funny and cool (that’s you, reading this) — With Stella’s blessing I am organizing a fundraiser event (probably a livestream) to try and raise as much money as we can to replace the $24k that was stolen from her! Please DM me if you’d like to be involved!

Jadzia Dax: 🫦

Joy

anti-trans Dems ate shit last night

in case you ever wondered why bsky breaks all the fuckin time and is increasingly a pile of jank bsky.app/profile/why....

It is really hard sometimes to keep the big picture in mind but whereas it was noteworthy that just two people were elected to Congress in 2018 who were openly and hyper critical of Israel, in 2026 it will be more than two dozen.

There's been a lot of debate within the Democratic establishment about what rhetoric to use via ICE. Well, an incumbent doesn't lose by 48 percentage points very often—and her vote on collaborating with ICE was the defining issue here.

I don’t understand why you’d post this on Bluesky. Because one interpretation of it is incoherent, and another interpretation is something you shouldn’t necessarily say under surveillance.

this briefing appears to have gone so poorly that even members of the democratic party feel comfortable about taking the risk to get out in front of something they think is going to be a catastrophe. do you understand how difficult it is to get democrats to do that? do you truly fathom this???

HOLY SHIT Hegseth oughta be drinking paint thinner