RICHARDS! I BID THEE A HAPPY HALLOWEEN! FOR IT WILL BE…YOUR LAST!

In case you forgot. You are worthy of love. You are worthy of joy. You are worth taking the time to take care of yourself, you'll feel better when you do.

Putting people in cages instead of feeding them is a policy choice

in today's news, I've been added to a block/mutelist by someone that a bunch of people I know follow. Why? No idea. I have this person muted because they're a trans bigot but the impact is still there

"built different" usually means "not up to code"

parent teacher conferences right now as a teacher of multilingual kiddos was • handing out red KYR cards • dropping off food, books, and comfort items to families in hiding with increased ICE activity • hearing kids' relatives HERE LEGALLY were taken and the lawyers can't get them out 🧵

• families of kids I have known for years self-deporting and not being able to say goodbye • parents breaking down because in a two income household they are down to one income while the other hides and they are struggling to make ends meet • parents worried about SNAP benefits getting cut

• parents learning that their kids were crying in the counselor's office scared of ICE • getting multiple messages on ICE verifier chats that calls were made in multiple nearby cities • a friend texting me that ICE was at that moment at a school in a neighboring town we both have folks at

And what doesn't get mentioned in this piece: this will almost certainly push and promote more right-wing garbage into everyone's feed as a result.

is your child accessing information?

a nice ircv3 extension would be ATProto identification, and servers would make a mask from the DID and set your nick to your handle (you can probably override this but not to a domain). 🧵

People did warn me when I was younger to pursue high-paying fields, and I always shrugged them off. I thought, “I’m not a materialistic person, I don’t want to live in luxury—I’ll be fine making a modest salary. Money’s not important to me.” Turns out you need a shitload of money just to be broke.

Me, sowing: fuck, this isn't doing anything, this is gonna be a tiny ass tree forever Me, reaping: Hell yes! I've never felt better under the shade of this big tree!

Marc Andreessen, who sits on Meta's board, is funding a click farm www.404media.co/a16z-backed-...

my #chatmail #deltachat app now does something notable that the official app doesn't: unified inbox (all your chats from all your profiles, in one list) two big things though: I have to merge the device/saved chats across accounts, and I also have to reorder the list in the app

Feeds, notifications, and non-post pages are the big things Leaflet (publications) is missing. (Being able to repost into publications would also be nice.)

Because they’re going to use guided missiles domestically?

Democrats: We support the “no kings movement” Also Democrats: We vote to give more power to the king

An extremely underreported point is the interplay between the disappearing middle class in the United States, the stark increase in wealth and income inequality, and the collapse of resources necessary to organize things like a general strike.

"In response to Variety‘s request for comment, a representative for the White House simply sent a “Top Gun” meme that reads: “I feel the need for speed.”" Yeah, they're 12-year-olds in charge of the administration.

These are totally legitimate real accounts in Gaza that just happen to craft posts that abuse a Bluesky bug to invisibly mention 651 accounts.

right wing bigots have admitted - the “trans women in bathrooms” issue - the “trans women in sports” issue and - the “trans kids getting surgery” issue were all MADE UP TO TAKE OUR RIGHTS AWAY are you paying attention?

cannot overstate the degree to which "relatively comfortable middle class people with low political consciousness" is unfortunately the axis on which fascist takeovers fail or succeed

almost like cops make crime, not the other way around, so if the cops don’t make it, it ain’t there

I’ve seen just one counter-protester at No Kings San Diego. He’s got a Trump 2024 flag and this guy has been following him around for probably an hour playing Benny Hill and circus music.

After a week of ridiculous Republican smears and Trump claiming that “very few people are going to be there,” you just made history. #NoKings

look at all the giant crowds in big cities and the big crowds in small towns like!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

"It is up to us to save us."

my tablet has a background music setting and one of the options is "Her City" which is pretty much the Cities Skylines radio genre

MS Office's new app icons are. Well, they would look good, apart from the fact they completely miss the point of what they're supposed to symbolize. OneDrive should be puffy rather than flowy; it's a cloud. OneNote shouldn't chop the bottom of the first page; it's supposed to be a tabbed notebook. 🧵

The whole #chatmail thing bugs me, because for one, yeah it's great to try to push encryption, but at the same time, we're only using (decentralized) email now because we've used it for a long time before. It only changes in response to corporate catastrophies, in ways like DKIM and SPF. 🧵

Hear me out: ATProto PDS-backed custom-emoji packs #atproto #deltachat #chatmail

BREAKING: Nazi Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels caught using antisemitic language

reposting because like. pls?

(turned off the timestamp display for now) This is really shaping up!

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

What do we think about this? In particular, the timestamp text. (I might nudge it up a pixel or two.) (also yes I just noticed the timestamps are in reverse order, these are demo timestamps created off of the message IDs, where the "you joined" is 1, oops, so don't mind that)

When they tell you they plan on throwing out the constitution, believe them.

(when listening to Wash Away Those Years by Creed for the first time) lines 1-4: oh so this is another song about a self centered narcissistic prick lines 5 and 6: oh no, that's not it at all

he/him, really? at this point if you’re still holding onto a mental image of the sad husk of a person you met 5 years ago that says more about you than it does about me. especially if you’re looking at my tits when you do it.

If we really put our heads together and keep the evening of December 24 clear, I am convinced we can Christmas Carol this man.

death to america and all that but it sucks to be stuck in the empire

Aaaa a local mutual aid Signal channel I'm in advertised an anti-YIMBY protest 😭 can we really not have anything nice?

girl,,,,

sleep token is going after tattoo artists making sleep token fan tattoos with copyright claims very cool thing to do

if we'd treated their obvious baldfaced lies and deflections more like this over the past eight years maybe we wouldn't be in this situation shocking how easy it is when you actually see it done

or just keep doing them whilst adding a few more genocides in addition. There was a sign over Auschwitz that read "Arbeit Macht Frei": work sets you free. It was a lie. The United States is founded on the same lie, but the difference is we perpetuate it to this day.