I’m rooting for you! お仕事頑張っている人を応援しますっ‪☆

So much of what Democratic politicians do and say, that makes you go "what the fuck is wrong with them?" is just downstream of the fact that they want a millionaire's money more than they want your vote, because they believe they can buy the latter with the former

Israel bombed a kitchen that provided meals to the forcibly displaced Palestinians in Gaza, killing three and injuring others. The Palestinian Health Ministry in Gaza said Israel has killed at least 871 people since the so-called ceasefire began last October.

this is such a great encapsulation of what the various factions of the reactionary right want. i might add that they envision themselves as slave masters and the rest of us, in one way or another, as their slaves. betterdonkey.substack.com/p/the-vra-wa...

Truth.

it's caturday, but i'm making an exception for Her

Absolutely devastating review of Aubrey’s “Iceman” by @mike-eagle.bsky.social

HERE'S THE THING IF SOMEONE WANTS TO PUT THEIR COMPUTER HARDWARE IN YOUR HOUSE AND WILL PAY YOUR INTERNET AND POWER BILL AND POSSIBLY $150/mo FEE FOR LETTING THEM DO THAT, IT IS A SCAM AND IT IS A DANGEROUS SCAM LEGALLY FOR YOU, THE PERSON THE HOUSE AND UTILITIES ARE IN THE NAME OF NEVER DO THIS!!

Did y’all see Dr. Cheyenne Bryant on Drake’s album beef with Chud the Builder hating’ on Beyoncé at the Julio Foolio trial for KevonStage hates gay Christians? Now that I have your algorithm’s attention… We’re about to pay reparations to Jan 6ers www.nytimes.com/2026/05/15/u...

faith in humanity restored

My latest: I wrote about Trump's Golden Statue. And as a former Christian, let me hold y'all's hand when I say...the Trump figure is not the modern version of "golden calf". If you know your Bible, the statue represents something far worse. karenattiah.substack.com/p/trump-is-n...

I don't like the technofascist stage of capitalism where technofash jack up our utilities bills then offer to pay our power bills in exchange for letting them put technofascistic computers to power homicidal chatbots in your house that will burn down your neighborhood if u try to use your microwave

Today marks Nakba Day, an annual day of remembrance to commemorate the expulsion of more than 700,000 Palestinians between 1947 and 1949 during the creation of the State of Israel and the year that followed.   Inea is a New Yorker and a Nakba survivor. She shared her story with us.

The money you put into libraries, parks, schools, and museums you get back a thousandfold. Without indulging cliches about social class, it literally raises the conversation. You’ve got people wondering about van Gogh’s colors instead of ranting and complaining. We all see this in our own lives

IT'S HATER O'CLOCK:

"I have a right to decide what is best for my child" No, your *child* has rights and you are entrusted as the best guardian of those rights but the rights are the child's, not yours. Your role is responsibility and authority. (And the responsibility comes first actually)

This This and This ... are not 3 things... they are one thing

Every time you make a "tranny" joke, every time you overlook the way we're treated, every time you get irritated when someone brings up pronouns, every time you hesitate and act weird about a trans person in a bathroom, you feed the culture that murdered Juniper Blessing.

When a trans person so much as jaywalks there's a month of calls for all of us to die screaming and I need people to bring that energy to holding every transphobic monster that helped make this murder happen accountable for it. Juniper's death is the intended outcome of transphobic propaganda.

Today marks the 78th anniversary of the Nakba (catastrophe), during which more than 750,000 Palestinians were expelled and over 400 villages were destroyed to establish the State of Israel.

Juniper Blessing singing Tom Petty’s Wildflowers at the New Mexico School For The Arts in 2024

Hind Khoudary: people in Gaza say the Nakba is being repeated.

i’ve been thinking of what could even be said about such a tragedy. someone said it best that trans people are “born so late and die so young”. we uproot our lives and transition and live more life than anyone else ever does and society punishes us for it. we deserve better

"there is something you can do. she loved Pokémon. she named herself after a character. i’m going to be leaving a Pokémon stuffed animal at her memorial. if you could just encourage others to do the same. or to donate Pokémon stuffed animals to shelters and such"

State officials in New York say the Salmon River district's special education program confined young children with disabilities in wooden boxes. Parents weren't notified. n.pr/4nrDVto

If someone put Nico in one of these boxes I might … well, I might be denied bail after. The idea makes me hurt. If you live in NY, you better call your representatives, or I don’t even know you. www.npr.org/2026/05/14/n...

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I feel I should alert Bluesky to the baby foxes in our yard

Since the start of this war in Iran, more than 3,600 people have been killed and over 26,500 injured in Iran. In Lebanon, 2,700 people are dead and over a million are displaced. And Netanyahu says: “The war is not over.” We cannot continue to be complicit in Israel’s wars.

Once again for the hard of thinking…

A…stunning campaign launch. "My dad got cancer & my mom's employer collapsed. The executives got paid & the workers got screwed. She didn't have the heart to tell us, even when the bank took the house…when she took her own life, the eviction notice was in her pocket." @ahlmanfornebraska.bsky.social

One of the best things I've seen in a while.

"The oligarchs want a permanent ruling class. The extremists want a permanent underclass to grind a boot into. The deal between them is straightforward enough: the oligarchs get captured courts and permanent tax cuts, the extremists get their hierarchy of human worth written back into the law"

A friend just sent me this perfect piece by Karel Čapek, trans. Dora Round, ‘From the Point of View of a Cat’.

Never forget 5/13/1985

"When people try to sell you on the idea that the future is already settled, it is because it is deeply unsettled.” - @tressiemcphd.bsky.social

The Tennessee Speaker of the House will remove all Democratic Caucus members from standing committees and subcommittees as punishment for their redistricting protests. Democracy dies in Nashville.

The guy your wife tells you not to worry about when she realizes you can’t back a trailer

@mark-carney.bsky.social just spoke abt the worsening humanitarian crisis in #Gaza and ongoing settler violence in the #WestBank. At @msf.ca, our medical teams are witnessing the consequences every day. Read direct testimonies from #Palestine on our website: www.Doctorswithoutborders.ca #Canada

PCOS is being renamed to PMOS. (Polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome) The change comes from experts that say the old name was misleading, stating that it inaccurately suggested ovarian cysts as a defining feature.

I like my women like I like my coffee:

I like Bsky a lot, but it seems undeniable that the ownership/staff hate who their users are, and particularly hate the fact that trans people are such an avid userbase. In addition to being despicable, that's also concerning as someone whose living currently depends on trans Bsky.

The movies get it wrong. Drowning happens quickly and silently. Always watch kids closely at pools and spas.

Historian of abolition here, history tells us how we got here, to put it succinctly “John Brown was hanged for treason and Robert E. Lee was not.”

Hey man, you need to stop taking my fucking videos, cropping off my handle, splicing it with other clips (which you presumably also stole), and then slapping your name on it. It’s one thing to download my TikTok and post it instead of just sharing here, but we’re hitting lawyer territory here.

Dudes rock