‘They knew exactly how many people were going to die as a result of running the plant even while the filter was down. And they decided it was worth it.’ On the pod, James Lasdun explores the links between murder and pollution in Caroline Fraser’s ‘Murderland’. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

Pulitzer prize-winning author Caroline Fraser has a riveting new book that explores the environmental toxins that permeated the PNW in the 70s & 80s & the surfeit of sadistic serial killers there. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

When asked about his goals, an IDF soldier said he wanted to “enter Gaza and kill everyone.” The interviewer chuckled. @OunkaonX via X: "Even in his wheelchair, all he can dream about is killing Palestinians. This is what decades of dehumanization creates - a nation where cruelty is celebrated."

I know it's a little early for Creamy Shits(Σ ʁʁ)🌲🎅 but the urgency of the need was too great to be ignored . Andy Rehfeldt 🎁 us this remix complete w a festive fart keyboard

Just in case you thought this was about trans athletes. This was solely about creating a fascist and racist gender bureaucracy over what constitutes being feminine enough to be considered a woman. They're targeting cis women who may be intersex and banning them from sport.

We’re not even TAPPING into the readers. Now you’re dealing with a freak who has a vivid imagination.

His bravery will make a difference

"Humans, unlike frogs, often fail to react to gradual dangers, such as climate change, highlighting a critical need for awareness." www.ted.com/talks/ted_ed...

I'm a huge fan of Chicago media critic @markjacob.bsky.social. Every week he has a brutally smart take on politics & the news media. This week may be my favorite yet with this graphic ⤵️ & this line: "If only the media acted more like frogs"

So I looked it up. For coverage to start on Jan 1 you have to be enrolled by Dec 15. You can still enroll up until Jan 15, but you will not have coverage between Jan 1 and the day you enroll? Assuming they get a deal for the subsidies to come back before Jan 15. Feel like they are not even trying.

When you are just a pillow for a cat

The Supreme Court was always going to swat away Kim Davis’ latest appeal, which did not even properly raise an attack on marriage equality. But pay close attention to what the Republican-appointed justices get away with after today’s positive headlines fade. slate.com/news-and-pol...

How bad was Kim Davis's case that even our current evil Supreme Court was like "nah"

They are mocking the communities they are terrorizing. We are going to need detention camps for ICE and Border Patrol themselves.

@solomonmissouri.bsky.social had a great thread on Kim Davis "Face full of strength… she look like she trying to swallow Vegemite." "Just bitter and ignorant… she got hating in her bones" "I can't believe we letting a woman with a peanut M&M head & NASCAR starter flag eye brows bully America

Bernie Sanders is talking about how American's healthcare premiums might "double or triple" but mine is so high (from $50 to $1228) that I inadvertently learned the tuple of 24. My monthly healthcare premium for 2026 is quattuorvigintuple my current rate.

We are being led by absolute cowards

"We don't want people to go hungry or miss another paycheck. But we *are* okay with them dying a little more slowly, without healthcare." This is so bleak.

Doubling? My premium is going from $50 to $1,228 PER MONTH That is 24x or quattuorvigintuple my current premium @sanders.senate.gov

top tier skeet

That's not insurance — that's a fucking scam. $144K/year? Might as well hire your own doctor.

This is predatory capitalism. They gave tax breaks to billionaires so that folks could get bills like this for healthcare.

I don’t even know what you do in this situation. Pay your rent, pay your healthcare, eat rice and beans, learn to live without electricity?

this is fucking unhinged

I'm single. No kids, no claims, no pre-existing conditions. The cataclysmic leap from paying $50 a month to $1,228.28 a month is a level of devastation the depth of which I'm struggling to articulate. I wasn't going to be able to afford when I thought it was going up to $350 a month. And now...😵

Plumes sang Eye Of The Tiger TO tigers and purrrportedly ripped a hole in the space-time kitty continuum. 🤗😍💗 #TimelineCleanse #CatsOfBluesky

I thought my new health insurance premium was going to be $350 per month until I got this letter informing me that it would be $1,228.28 PER MONTH. I CURRENTLY PAY $50. Is my math mathing? Is that.... a 2,356.42% increase? 2256.42%???? TWO THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED FIFTY SIX POINT FORTY TWO PERCENT😩

At fairgrounds full of young men, the government sets up shop to hire immigration agents.

Plumes sang Eye Of The Tiger TO tigers and purrrportedly ripped a hole in the space-time kitty continuum. 🤗😍💗 #TimelineCleanse #CatsOfBluesky

From $50 to $1228.21 would be 2456.42%. Encourage Dems to hold strong, this is nuts.

Republicans gave the wealthy a 1,488% reduction in their taxes and passed on the “savings” to ordinary ‘muricans.

@ the center of shutdown — and should be placed alongside unnecessary tax credits and tax reductions for the wealthy👇

“If the border is a petri dish for sadistic technologies that are eventually used on Black & brown communities in the U.S. interior, then Palestinians are the test subjects for these projects of annihilation.” For Israel & the U.S., there is always ‘the next enemy.’ Marah Abdel Jaber explains.

Not only is covert white supremacy socially acceptable; critiquing it or even just naming it is increasingly seen as socially unacceptable, or even as a radical instigation to violence deserving criticism or punishment.

Historians, race and ethnicity, women & gender studies scholars, take a look. The idea that teaching *accurate* history and scholarship is "grievance studies" misdirects who is nursing the grievances. Gorgeously written. Read it now.

we're snailposting, post your snails

It's hilarious that there is a snail who meows in Bikini Bottom.

everyone, go watch this video of a snail giving birth to 3 adorable babies

how's this

have you seen the video about teaching an octopus to play piano yet it contains the breadth of human/cephalopod experience youtu.be/PcWnQ7fYzwI?...

I thought my new health insurance premium was going to be $350 per month until I got this letter informing me that it would be $1,228.28 PER MONTH. I CURRENTLY PAY $50. Is my math mathing? Is that.... a 2,356.42% increase? 2256.42%???? TWO THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED FIFTY SIX POINT FORTY TWO PERCENT😩

🚨🚨 NEW: Body Cameras Show How Police Acted During Minneapolis’ Largest Mass Arrest Unicorn Riot is releasing the footage of 73 Minneapolis Police videos from the arrest of over 646 people the night after the 2020 elections. View the story, videos, & a curated media guide at our website. 🧵

Leaning in to #Caturday

The world is imploding but Janet & choreographer Tina Landon are forever🤗💗 Wait for the #cookie grab & slam 🍪 #Dance #TimelineCleanse 🎥Blake McGrath

BRB going to write a bunch of obits just in case i keel over tomorrow

The machine that's being built to replace all workers needs workers to bail it out so it can keep existing

A great doctor for anyone who's tired of being a centaur.

🎵Slumped by the courthouse with windburn skin That man could give a fuck about the grin on your face As you walk by, randy as a goat He's sleeping on papers, but he'd be warm in your coat🎶 Debora Iyall y'all💗💗💗