Pitch: an indie game where you’re a brainworm and you have to infect yourself up into the ranks until you run the CDC.

The only reason Bluesky exists in the form it does today is through the efforts of an entire community of trans shitposters. They are the bedrock foundation of this place and Bluesky needs to acknowledge that and take special measures to protect them. This is the very least Bluesky owes trans folks.

I’m just gonna leave this here… (I wrote this back in early June)

"if you're going to do a bad movie, at least do it in a great location" is right up there with "I have never seen the film, but by all accounts it was terrible. However, I have seen the house that it built, and it is terrific" as far as Michael Caine quotes

the trans woman with a tech job is almost as real a stereotype as the trans woman who lost her tech job

Macron remarks are notable- some quotes: "We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks that are controlled either by large American entrepreneurs or large Chinese companies, whose interests are not at all the survival or proper functioning of our democracies."

the facts are that this is a centralized alternative to X that exists on top of an code base that is deliberately hard for would be mods to make into their own instances. everyone can’t be @rude1.blacksky.team, man! they centralized the decentralized social media app and are pissed off about it

you reap what you sow and you can’t pitch yourself as an alternative to X and celebrate when another group of users migrates from there to here and go “WHOOPS WE DONT WANT TO MODERATE WE LET USERS DO THAT ITS WEIRD YOU WANT US TO DO SOMETHING DIFFERENT WAFFLES” when people ask for more

look I understand being the CEO of a company is difficult and being the CEO of a social media company is impossibl but at a certain point the only thing jay is hurting is her own business which literally only exists because it offers a kinder experience than Twitter

Is it bad if your writing and general persona becomes such that you’re used as a device for trolling trans people?

Saw this ad recently

The culture of working in tech these days is being constantly worried about being overworked or unemployed. Take care of yourselves. We are replaceable cogs to our employers but irreplaceable to our family and friends.

Zodiac killer murders again, challenging legal bounds

Federal agents are overtly abusing their power to try to intimidate advocates and elected officials. We need ICE out of Illinois immediately and justice for people like Ald. Jessie Fuentes who are defending their communities. blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/03/f...

SCOOP — Pennsylvania prosecutors were alerted to possible voting irregularities by one of MAGA's leading voices against voter fraud. A long paper trail shows Jack Posobiec has been living in Maryland but voting using his parents' PA address for years. From @jsweetli.bsky.social, @slate.com + me:

Spending all that money on police and military not health care, education, food security, and housing, is looking worse and worse every day.

I'm ready to park on the 5

So, it feels like another thing I am grudgingly going to have to learn about is the protocol. To what degree is Bluesky actually capable of transitioning to a decentralized model? And to what extent would it replicate the problems we see on Mastodon?

Federal officer blasts chemical spray into vocal but nonviolent Portland protester, video shows The interaction illustrates how federal law enforcement officers do use aggressive tactics against protesters who yell and needle officers but don’t appear to present clear physical threats.

Do not pay $100,000 to become a podcaster for the love of god

Abughazaleh: I think Kristi Noem should be tried at The Hague. And if the response from ICE to people exercising their first amendment right is to drive vehicles through them, they should not be an agency in the US.

greta ily what an outfit

People out here sucking Satan's cock and justifying it by saying their mouth is a decentralized network

The CEO of Bluesky is craven and evil. The only people that build these platforms are infected with the self-reproducing moral rot of capitalism. They have no sense of duty or stewardship. They see their monetary reward as a cleansing justification for their actions.

"just upload a scanned image of your drivers license no big deal"

“no one listens to men complain” is a thing a guy just said and if i wasn’t fucking kitten weak right now i would jump on his back and bite his skull with my poky link teeth. kitten strong.

if there’s one thing that defined the last decade it’s “i don’t believe in the sunk cost fallacy; always double down” & if there’s a second it’s “let’s hear these whining men out; i know they’re a offputting but let’s give them the benefit of the doubt!” i’m not sure what order they’re in.

Jay actively sought out trans folks by providing everyone with 10 extra invite codes after Elon deemed cis a slur on Twitter in 2023. She cultivated this user base only to abandon and minimize our legitimate concerns, which is why it's especially galling she's spent the last three days trolling us.

the single best decision I’ve made about how I use this website is that I do not argue in my replies I ignore it or I block people, nothing good ever comes of it and I am just some guy and not the sin eater for every moderation decision

I am sorry that your social media experience sucks now it’s no fun at all to feel like you can’t use the platform you built without being yelled at unfortunately that is what being in charge of a large social platform is like, you were too successful and you can’t post through it

you cannot be out here arguing with the whole userbase even if you hate them and think you’re 100% in the right you cannot do this

It’s funny because it’s true

What's the Hatch Act anyway, it's not like law matters anymore

Why stop at company mergers? Billionaires could merge too. Instead of three guys, there could be just a BeZuckerMusk

I quote skeeted @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social ‘s post about how ICE locked up Rodney Taylor without his prosthetic legs. which is? fucked up! If you saw this and want to do something right now, well, here’s a petition to sign. I just signed it. let’s get loud abt this www.change.org/p/demand-the...

Once again, this admin’s opsec is…well…let’s just say it needs to be kept back a grade.

to put it in terms they will understand: if you want to run a pancake store, but then millions of people who only want waffles turn up, fuck you, you run a waffle store now

nobody who works at bluesky has any idea what bluesky is, eh

what they actually have to sell here is twitter but without the bigots and obnoxious CEO, & they seem determined to piss all that away as fast as they can

Shouting at the mods is totally useless. It doesn’t make them change their minds at all and you know that because of the days long meltdown the mods are having over it

I saw @radleybalko.bsky.social speak once when I was in law school and did think oh huh I guess there are some civil libertarians who are actually serious about civil liberties after all

Watching invisible-man-bun-and-is-that-beard-fake Ezra Klein's insufferable manipulative gaslighting attack vector was a chore but my thought came where at one point Coates talks about his ancestors fought and died for a future they'd never see, and Klein doesn't get the point at all.

and the only thing that matters is winning THIS TIME. RIGHT NOW. No matter how you gotta do it, no matter what you have to compromise or give up or entirely abandon as a tribe, as long as you win THIS TIME. Winning THIS TIME will fix everything. Just....like the last time you won.

But Klein can't see it that way, because the "no" we have to say includes an awful lot of inconvenient historicity he dislikes, and involves picking up a project that will take lifetimes, not years or even decades, to substantially move forward.

There is always only one real way to stamp out fascism, and that's to blow up its Death Star and kill its Emperor. This isn't a call of assassination, we're not in a shooting war, you can still do this non-violently, for now, if we all act quickly.

But if you don't become the "radicals" and "progressives" that actually fought the fascists, you gonn die. You gonn. Nothing for it, all of your hemming and hawing and capitulation and compromise won't KEEP you from dying it's WHY you'll die.

the cause against fascism. Eventually fascism fell, it always falls and it's destined never to last all that long, but there's an immense amount of suffering in the interim. And so to the liberals, I would just say: like the Jedi, I don't want you to die.

their original intentions, they were just protecting the rich and powerful and the galaxy around them was rotting. And that, essentially, is what liberals are. And, hate to break it to you, but the Jedi all fucking died. And so did a lot of other people, and more "radical" people had to take up

They acted like they had outlasted history, and were de facto right. They were lazy and let all sorts of shenanigans happen right under their noses because they were more or less all still comfortable and they were MORALLY right of course and so powerful and untouchable that whatever

A lot of them would even agree with concepts like white privilege but the way that it applies to them, if they could ever process it, would shock them to their cores. Anyway. In the Star Wars prequel trilogy the Jedi lost and the Empire won because the Jedi just sort of stopped giving a shit.