Claes and Stripey were chirping at each other just a bit ago. Stripey seems to be coming around. But also, ISTG this is true, Acorn went for Stripey's belly like she was going to try and nurse. I thought maybe Stripey was hostile because she didn't realize these were hers, but no...

There's really something underneath this story about the energizing effect of having a purpose. I dig it. #horrorwatch

Here for #HorrorWatch! Another first for me. tubitv.com/movies/35857...

When i was in college, on coming out day, our club for queer students decided to have "denim day". Heavily advertised on posters and on the college radio station. The idea was, wear denim that day to show support for gay and trans students, whoever they might happen to be. None of us were out. ...

This is very eye of the beholder regarding high versus low, but I'm pretty sure my interest in folklore in an academic sense can be laid squarely at the feet of In Search Of, hosted by Leonard Nemoy.

For all of the people who want to know about suing the federal government: Google "sovereign immunity." Then Google "qualified immunity." Then you'll understand why fixing so much of what we see requires defunding the police.

So, a piece of random administrative advice, for people who are trying to get their ID or financial shit together In These Times: If you need to get something notarized and have a bank account somewhere with a physical office, they'll have a notary there and usually do it free of charge.

TONIGHT! TONIGHT! The greatest night of the week! Join us, my ghoulish gremlins for #HorrorWatch! Tonight we'll watch a geriatric Elvis fight mummies in Bubba Ho Tep! Written and directed by the guy who brought us the Phantasm films, and based on the Joe R. Lansdale novella of the same name

I'm the person who mentioned that solution to @karidru.bsky.social, and there are other ways to fix it. I'm mentioning it only so that people who might be having ID problems right now don't think that all is lost. But it's sort of a labyrinth and depends on what you were born in.

I actually have more hate for this flavor because every Marxist/AnCap I have encountered who advances this position eventually terminates in “fuck the disabled. Sacrifices must be made for the revolution.” At least the fash are transparent about their desire to end me.

Petition here: chng.it/XStWF7nVVF

Stripey just leapt over my head and landed right by Acorn on the way to the food. Stripey, this sort of antic may be why she always thinks you want to play.

I now have people explaining to me how to get your documents again and y'all... I realize this is a problem because I've had to do it. When you don't have ANY of them, it's not that straightforward even when the government isn't hunting you for sport.

This is one of the things I want to highlight: Jesse Singal using WAFFLES as a cutesy oblique meme is absolutely both 'supporting Jay' and 'nazi dogwhistling.' And this whole situation means that either Jay is actively in the same chummy club as him OR is a mark who he's steering right.

Wait a minute. Oh. I'm slow sometimes but I get there. This is where most of the organizers came post bordsite.

All charges brought against protesters at Broadview today must be dropped. When cops and agents attack crowds without provocation, they make shit up to justify their attacks (in his case, an attack waged on a cooperative crowd to produce fascist social media content). These charges must be dropped.

speaking as a comms manager who's been watching job opportunities massively constrict because people think the job can be replaced by AI: take Jay's behaviour today as an example of why it can't, because an AI cannot disconnect your keyboard and say "go for a fucking walk"

We will always find a way to use these technologies to shitpost and make friends with people, because that's what humans are actually for. But the people who make and run them want to make money from their userbase, which stubbornly refuses to do anything that makes that happen.

Context and giving visibility to victims who deserve to be heard : bsky.app/profile/thes...

I don't think Jay and her band of God's lost bets understand the degree to which everyone not currently on Bluesky has already decided it's the Faggy App for Trans Commies. They aren't going to come here just because you run us off! We're all that's keeping you from being Spoutible.

Please read all of this if you are at all confused about the last couple days and why I swerved to giving zero benefit of doubt to the team, here.

You can even go harder and point blank say "So you don't care about the government stealing *your* First Amendment rights?"

The Horror zine does not accept horror submissions is quite a take to have

OK it's been real but I'm gonna go pay some bills and write about orcs.

If you're doing overzealous things like putting an adult content label on Kate Bush or banning people for ill-wishing JK Rowling it's going to be very difficult to get people to accept there's nothing to be done about a user who announced his intent to use the platform to harass people.

As the mod who tamed a big news site's notoriously annoying comment section that serially harassed many of the site's authors, it's 100 percent obvious that the problem here is the same problem I solved back then. A moderation team can't earn buy in from a community they're openly contemptuous of.

What's most worrying to me is that there are already ways on this app to build a less hostile experience for yourself. Feeds, mutes, blocks, mod lists, etc. I'm really struggling to read these statements as anything other than "we're going to suppress certain viewpoints."

I'm not a big fan of Jack Dorsey but I have to admit that one of his better ideas was, instead of getting into posting wars with users, he would go off to a yoga castle and eat hallucinogens for two weeks

First off, self moderation doesn't protect anyone against serious behaviors like stalking or harassment campaigns. Second off, if you believed what you're saying, you wouldn't have suspended everyone for the great collective shrug over a certain shooting. You'd have let everyone block eachother.

CLEAR! Oh, thank you so much. Paying immediately. Now I can take a little break before trying to scrape up rent. (Not a full day, but I can get some bloody sleep.)

$25 more received! Thank you SO MUCH- I'm only $55 away from saving my storage unit! 6AM HARD DEADLINE, under 9 hours left. Can you help me cross the finish line? And please keep sharing!

Ornithology is all about the process. #GoBills | #BillsMafia

...................what

honestly if you say some variation of "This isn't news" "Are you surprised by this" "Everyone knows this already so what's the point" I *immediately* mute you. Exhausting

OOOOF. Zapped by about the only way clearsky has to hurt me; I'm immune to most of it but "oh hey my old twitter friend; I wondered where they were!" But I did not know where they were because when they got here they blocked me. Big "I was just tolerating you for years" energy.

Dear Jewish friends: do not wade into these replies. If you clearsky me, everyone I've blocked this evening is from here, if you'd like to be preemptive.

If you have two minutes free right now, call Netflix and leave a comment in support of this programming and ask them to stand up for their shows against political pressure. Phone number is 1-866-952-4456, and I waited less than a minute before a human picked up.

Thinking about that Chicago apartment building. Everyone got their apartments tossed as well, and this is how you can become functionally undocumented. How does somebody who lost their paperwork this time prove they're who they say next time?

Extremely time sensitive if anyone has extra today.

This is me being restrained. 😘

My hot take is that if the only way the Government of Canada can think of to reduce the cost of Canada Post is to remove the core services Canada Post provides, then maybe Canada Post does not have an efficiency problem at all. Maybe this is just the cost of having a functioning democracy.

It’s so annoying that we all have to just continually point out how rules around/between decorum and violation are applied asymmetrically to vulnerable groups versus the people who are always hassling them, and it’s extra insulting that the people in charge are trying to lol it away.

This is a re-enactment of how enslavement, conquest, and colonialism went down (and still goes down)... This is domestic terror.

We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.

Here’s a thing I’ll add, as someone who’s been there: if you’re the CEO of a platform with millions of users, you don’t get to have as much fun on that platform, period. And your job is to eat shit every time a legitimate critique of policy comes up. That’s the gig. Don’t sign up if you aren’t game.

Are you fucking serious right now.

"Look, we can't change the rules to exclude Nazis, because the Nazis don't think it's reasonable that they be excluded!" With democracy like this, who needs tyranny?

Hi everyone. You love my books where everyone is a lesbian and no one has gone to therapy, which is why I'm partnering with the garden section of Lowes on a Sunday morning.

Controversial opinion i guess but I want my books to smell like paper and glue.