this was so much fun 🦕 🦖 👙

After a U.S. attack on a boat in the Caribbean earlier this year, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth reportedly ordered a second strike to kill the survivors. Journalist @attackerman.bsky.social says it reflects "the moral degeneracy that the war on terror has left as a legacy in the U.S. military."

6 years ago, on the 1st of December 2019, a cluster of mysterious pneumonia cases broke out in Wuhan, China. The outbreak would later be linked to the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market through unverified leaked documents. On January 8, the cases were linked to a new coronavirus. #otd #history 🗃️

The Roundworld year for 2026 shall be known as [FX Drum Roll] : The Year of the Curious Squid. Artwork by Discworld artist Paul Kidby.

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yep. no mention in the article of right wing billionaires ruining the WaPo and CBS. no mention of Murdoch outlets spreading right wing bullshit for decades. no mention of the clear biases of nuzzi and tapper and so many other famous journalists. no mention of destruction of teen vogue.

"Surely a quick, violent, successful war of aggression is just what the ruler needs to shore up his legitimacy," said just about every failed monarch in history shortly before invading Serbia.

I played Guildenstern in a college presentation of "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead" and am certain I didn't do it justice, nevertheless happy to be able to speak the words. What a writer. RIP.

It was Downey who coined the phrase in the LEVERAGE writers room “future episodes do not win out over present episodes”. Trust me, you’ll have more ideas. You’ll die full of them.

Iron Circus has a TON of really great comics. I've purchased a lot of them - a wide range of subjects, art styles, writing styles, etc. - and they're all great. Iron Circus has a BIG emphasis on quality.

I got banned from Ko-Fi for THIS drawing. It’s absolutely not “tHe MoSt eXtReMe NsFw aCcOuNtS.” You and your community are being attacked.

This is an obscenity.

My roast is 3.81 lbs, so it'll cook at 500 for 19 or 20 minutes, then cook in the residual heat for 2 hours, and hopefully come out perfectly medium rare. This is a Chef John/Food Wishes recipe, BTW! More detailed instructions here. www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUQ4...

Finally got it up youtu.be/-gMAHm8LBes?...

the only time i ever gave back to my community (cinephile dorks whose parents claim they can't see it but we suspect are messing with us a little)

Society is a construct. You can just ask someone to do a ska cover of Faith of the Heart and they'll say "$300 please" and you give it to them and then you have it. Everyone, give @skatunenetwork.bsky.social your money. They deserve it.

Come to think of it, I'd also like to see the animated adaptation of "Finian's Rainbow" that was nixed after the director/lyricist refused to testify in front of the House Committee on Un-American Activities, and became functionally radioactive in Hollywood. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finian%...

"My mentor always tells me, 'Kim, dogs don’t bark at parked cars." They’re coming after critical race theory, 1619, intersectionality because these ideas mobilized people. They gave them the language to actually articulate what they were seeing with their own eyes," says Kimberlé Crenshaw.

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture. They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

Viola Ford Fletcher, oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died at 111.

I paused, out of breath. The Void had taken all my frustrated screaming and absorbed it. "I'm sorry," I whispered. "You must have heard all this before, countless times." 'only you,' said the Void, 'scream your frustration like you do' I took a deep breath to resume, then smiled. "Thanks."

Seeing how much of the right-wing on Twitter is just bot farms, kinda lays bare how much hate and hatred is a project that needs to be constantly maintained, a fire that needs to be fed all the time lest it go out for a moment, so much time, effort, and resources to keep people angry and hateful.

This is very good. Clear, calm, factual, and devastating for proponents of bans on puberty blockers for trans youth. theconversation.com/puberty-bloc...

@patstaresat.bsky.social on ＡＩ doomerism

Anecdotal, but in June a pal returned from Glastonbury and Wimbledon, comically sunburned from both. "Ha!" I said, "remember when we were kids, every year it was mudbaths at the main stage and rain-stopped play on centrecourt? That was the *whole* deal with both those things- oh right jesus fuck".

"Pop quiz, asshole. You have a hair trigger aimed at your head. What do you do? What do you do, Charlie Brown?"

American minds were poisoned and conned by propaganda on Twitter.

Many good ideas in the comments, including the Tom Tomorrow newsletter!

Really important to stress that the Crown Jewels of the US higher education system were never the Ivies or elite SLACs (other countries have equivalents of these) but the well-funded, large, cheap, and excellently staffed public state university systems bringing high quality education to the masses.

Like vaccines denialists, I feel being able to say "birth is totally safe" with a straight face can only be the result of a generation that both 1) Has no living relatives that remember when that was not the case, and 2) Does not own a library card/history book.

Morning Bluesky.

They’re slashing ICE’s tires in Charlotte. Is 12 years in NC enough to feel state pride without it being stolen valor?

Me: it's just a normal plant, it's fine Fly: I dunno man, it's got teeth Me: it's just leaves, go on Fly: What's it called? Me: a venus fly....friend

Rolling out the Matt Christman quote from after Charlottesville (2017) again:

Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other. Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq

Fixed it for you. Idiots! If the exclusion is based on appearance then it will certainly impact cis folks as well as trans folks.

"The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media... especially a kind of celebration of ignorance." ~ Carl Sagan Sagan knew exactly how bad it would get.

An awesome 🧵, especially w/ current fuckery. Also recommending 4 cookbooks: * YOU GOTTA EAT by Margaret Eby * THE SAD BASTARD COOKBOOK by Zilla Novikov and Rachel A Rosen * THE POORCRAFT COOKBOOK by Iron Circus Comics * GOOD AND CHEAP by Leanne Brown Nab from library or get online PDFs if you can.

America's top podcasting minds are already hard at work: youtu.be/yl8r2QIEhKY?...

Cancel your Spotify subscription until the ICE ads stop. There are other streaming options that don’t profit from exploiting artists while recruiting for ICE: indivisible.org/cancel-spotify?source=bluesky

Orb wants it employees not pondering anything, huh

happy transgender day of remembrance thank you for sticking around in the hardest of times. if you haven't, you are missed dearly please live 💜

Side note, if you ever *do* have to run for it, remember: Hippos can do 40mph on land. On rough terrain, they can outrun your jeep. They just don't corner very well. Run serpentine.

Please share. If anyone is to be quoted after Trumps despicable speech, minimizing Jamal Kashoggi's torture and execution, its her. Thank you.

Showing up in the Epstein Files because you were a thorn in the side of one of his buddies is a serious flex. Rebecca Watson has been doing great work for a long time now. youtu.be/VNLdyWPAz18?...