That insane bus thread ended up on national news and "live skeeted" is the official term used

Pay zero attention to the labelling system on this website. This post has been labelled as "rude".

These whistle heroes have sent us THOUSANDS of whistles for free over the last 7 weeks.

wow just woke up from a nap, i guess everyone else on Air Force One realized we aren't going to the right place

Another element is that even Jews who scraped together the cash and documents to flee were often refused entry by ‘safe’ nations, including the USA and U.K. A lot of Americans are not eligible for foreign long term visas.

Telling me that I personally am at fault for what that shitheel president is doing is certainly your right but also he'd euthanize me if possible as a queer autistic so maybe understand He is the windshield, I am the bug.

When ICE agents realize the person they're holding is a US citizen, they push that person out the door of the building without their belongings, often including their coat. Temperatures are well below freezing. Part of what we do as volunteer medics is find these people and get them somewhere warm.

Important perspective from Greenland.

completely unironically, this is how we'll know

lmanul.github.io/null-pointer/ — episode 32

“may your grandkids race to change their names” is actually an incredible curse we should all start adding to our repertoire it’s gonna be true of a lot of these people

Calling published SFF authors! I’m researching the work lives & well-being of science fiction and fantasy authors for my doctoral dissertation, and I'm looking for participants! If you’re a published SFF author interested in participating, then DM me and I can provide details

I was present for the birth of the web, the explosion of personal sites, and the blogging revolution, and you know what we never had to do? Beg people to use our shit.

BREAKING: Maryland advances a redistricting plan that could wipe out the GOP’s last U.S. House seat in the state — as Democrats move to counter Republican gerrymanders nationwide.

Also creepy cops have used it to stalk an intimate partner who was fleeing abuse

Not headline news. No real fuss by Democratic leaders. No calls to censure. No pushback. No questions asked of GOP leadership by the press. Just totally accepted anti-Muslim bigotry across the board.

As someone who volunteers in local Democratic politics I want to once again remind the Bluesky community that the Democratic base is your friend, and LIGHT YEARS ahead of the national party leaders on literally every issue

Every time a Democrat says they understand why parents are concerned about pronouns or trans girls playing sports or whatever the fuck, they are campaigning for the party that will deliver on the affirmed “good“ that is transphobia

Lots of leopards eating faces comments etc but I am curious about the extent to which the discourse has been shifted to the right by propaganda because polls show that people were more progressive until the sustained campaign We should not assume queerphobia is a fixed state of mind

I think people underestimate how big this is. Like a city-wide strike is not something that has happened in the US for nearly 100 years

Literally everyone who even vaguely knew what a tariff was said this when they were introduced! You don’t need a team of economists to analyze the situation — no one who lives in reality was confused by this!

One thing I will say, having knocked on thousands of doors in my lifetime, (most recently ~1000 for Zohran), it is very, very consistent that a single conversation massively increases the chances of a person connecting with a campaign & voting if they're a person who is not engaged with politics.

I have never in my life seen a group of people fall shorter of meeting the moment than Congressional Dems. They are still out here playing chess, contemplating their next move, while the other team switched to playing hand grenades long ago and just keeps lobbing more and more of them.

BREAKING: The Greg Bovino Bitch Fund Benefiting Immigrant Rights in Minnesota has just donated $10,000 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota, an essential org working on the frontlines to protect people from ICE's terror.

"OTHER PEOPLE" = THE JEWS "OTHER PEOPLE" = THE JEWS "OTHER PEOPLE" = THE JEWS "This fantasy of invisible Jewish power explains how Black Americans, a supposed inferior race, could orchestrate the end to Jim Crow." - Eric Ward Here's a two (2) min video; pls watch! www.facebook.com/westernstate...

When will we learn from our mistakes? Japan, a wealth country endowed with a robust healthcare infrastructure, watched flu and pneumonia deaths spike after their govt stopped pushing parents to get their kids vaccinated. 🧪We are slipping downward while Japan is trying to catch up.

My theory about bbq places: The better the bread, the worse everything else is. If you go to a bbq joint and the bread is fancy, brisket will suck, sauce will be too ketchup, sides will be stale. If they throw a shitty slice of Wonder Bread at you from the counter, you are in for miracle meat.

In Australia, briefly during the pandemic, we raised welfare and pulled back on punitive “work for the dole*” and wouldn’t you know it? That helped unemployed Aussies much more than the current programs. But you won’t see that talked about and we went back to the same policy that doesn’t work

I can’t even fully comprehend the vast and enduring impacts this will have. It absolutely won’t be fixed in my lifetime. Fuck.

Outside of Miami, I have been, on the nicer end, kindly informed that we should do more to assimilate and, on the harsher end, been told to say goodbye to me and my cousins after Trump was elected. There is no "proud Cuban heritage of Florida."

I wrote up a longer piece about scammers pretending to be me, how you can tell it's not me, and why neither I nor any other "big name" author is likely to be emailing you at all, and certainly not with obviously "AI"-generated verbiage. Please feel free to share. whatever.scalzi.com/2026/01/20/r...

Someone I used to work with (and thought was a massive tit) has announced the (sad, obviously) death of her mother on LinkedIn (I know) with this sentence: "As a leader, an entrepreneur and human, I am having to grapple with a devastating rite of passage".

The absolute unwillingness of pundits & consultants to ever, ever say that Trump voters who *thought* they liked him on immigration & *thought* he was going to bring down prices ALSO voted - proactively! - for his white & male supremacism is going to kill me in the end. That's how it'll happen.

trump getting his feelings hurt by european leaders is the culmination of this new type of guy that emerged in the last decade or so: guy who goes out of his way to be a huge asshole who then gets really offended when the people he's being an asshole to don't like him

You cannot overstate how startling it is to see a politician just say the thing with clarity and poise. No fearful hemming. No overwrought qualifying down til it’s meaningless. No lingering sense that there is a loyalty to a donor class or an ideology of stasis that they’d never admit to.

lol. lmao.

NO

This is really not much less than some authors would get from someone buying their book on a discount from The Evil Bookshop. Never feel bad about getting that book from the library! We want you to do it! Most of use use/have used a library a lot! We still get paid!

I'm sure the thousands of people Carney had laid off today are so thrilled by his speech. Thousands of people out of good jobs. But who cares, eh? He's beakin' at Trump! Yay! Every Lib voter should make a food bank donation TODAY.

Wage theft = “more than ALL ROBBERIES COMBINED” And they’re allowed to do it.

no country on earth benefited more from American hegemony than America and it is absurd that it is being destroyed not by any of the people that suffered under it but by America itself

This is, in my opinion, not only the correct moral/ethical/legal position but also the correct political framing. Everyone can see the agency is out of control; everyone can see that it is constantly violating human rights. "Scrap it and start over" is the moderate position.

I’ve been writing Popular Information for 8 years, and this is one of the most important stories I’ve ever published. This is a humanitarian crisis that has gone unreported.

Me: your hair looks so nice when you brush it. You look like a princess 5yo: 😠 no I don't! Me: you don't want to be a princess? 5yo: NO! Me: What do you want to be? 5yo: a demon hunter.

For those who don't know the regs, there are restrictions on the amount of cash one can bring into most countries ($10K USD), but there are very few restrictions on the amount one can send outside. So where we have 2 people, there has been not even a regulatory offense committed.

Overheard: "I think that creepy guy is listening to our conversation."

A greeting card for my Bluesky friends

OK, research query here: I'm collecting conspiracy theories and urban legends about cancer, specifically about cancer chemotherapy. Send it my way. But need a source/cite/reference to it, not just hearsay