all these universities kept axing medieval history departments as if they thought tyrants beefing with the Pope was going to stop being relevant

New to BlueSky, huh?

Listening to some Dirtbag Leftists praise Platner for refusing to support Israel and like yeah man I don't think the dude with the Nazi tattoo can get plaudits for that

Listening to some Dirtbag Leftists praise Platner for refusing to support Israel and like yeah man I don't think the dude with the Nazi tattoo can get plaudits for that

Iranian FM:

Before I became an American, I was Lebanese. Parts of my family live in Lebanon. Anyway, you don't need those bona fides to feel this way, but what is happening in Lebanon right now is a complete outrage. The people there, who mostly are just trying to carve out a living, don't deserve this.

Massacre upon massacre in Beirut in the last hour. AUBMC announced a “code disaster.” Over 100 airstrikes in 10 minutes across the country. One hit right behind my house. Sirens ambulances & the smell of sulphur. The city is in total chaos the people in complete panic

Nuremberg was an important symbol of German nationhood so I say with 100% sincerity that this is a job for Philadelphia

BREAKING: Trump announces two week window for Congress to remove him from office

I was on a panel with Leland years ago. Then we went to the airport straight after. Then we ended up on the same plane. So we swapped seats to keep talking. Then we had a long layover and had lunch together. And reader, Leland Melvin is EVERY FUCKING BIT as awesome and sweet as you think he is.

"substitute"

This is no way to live, man

Personally I think when a world leader announces “Tune in tonight at 8pm Eastern to watch the world end” like it’s the fucking season premiere of Roseanne we should have a different leader the next day.

This isn’t a lamentable side effect of these products. It’s the actual reason they exist.

Is this real? I hate that I have to wonder, it's exhausting

I want you to watch this on silent and guess what app Meryl is saying she uses the most.

You have more in common with the people of Iran than you do with anyone in this administration, any member of the technocracy, anyone who is profiting from this war, or any billionaire. When you see Iranians forming human chains outside key infrastructure sites, you should feel a sense of kinship.

yes, please do not fedpost but also it is incredibly infuriating that the president of the united states can threaten to destroy an entire civilization with impunity and the rest of us have to say <redacted> a lot

just to be clear, everyone, when 8 pm EDT comes and goes, regardless of what does or does not happen, the president still threatened genocide and war crimes and we should still impeach, arrest, and try him

How it feels doing literally any task right now.

This is real

Whoa 🤯 The Moon, in full eclipse, with the #Artemis II Orion spacecraft. Part of the Moon and spacecraft are lit by Earthshine, and both Saturn and Mars are visible to the lower right. Incredible. Details: images.nasa.gov/details/art0...

Promises won't close Rikers Island. Action will. We're announcing the opening of NYC’s first Outposted Therapeutic Housing Unit at Bellevue Hospital for people in custody with complex medical needs, including critically vulnerable Rikers Island detainees. The journey to close Rikers has begun.

Muriel Rukeyser, always but especially today. Full text at www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47657/...

The Moon: oh wow you guys decided to come back Artemis II crew: earth’s haunted

me to the deep state

Armageddon is terrible, but our only other option was diversity trainings at work.

I feel sick to my stomach waiting around to see what atrocity Trump has in mind for the people of Iran this evening. It's hard to fathom our other elected leaders aren't able to check him in any meaningful way. It's an indictment not just of voters but of our whole system. We're ruled by a mad king.

the fuck am i supposed to say in therapy today lol

[Chuck Schumer scavenging through the post-apocalyptic rubble for scraps of food] He's gone too far. Someone should do something about this

pretty clear bright line today, anyone in power who isn't doing everything they can to remove him from office deserves handcuffs when this is all over. that includes any democrat who votes for anything he wants

yeah man i'll circle back to you on that agenda item from yesterday's all hands in just a sec. our pedophile king just threatened to destroy a whole civilization

I'm mucking about in two different pottery studios right now and people keep telling me I don't understand how you make these, you have a lump of clay and then suddenly you have a guy and uh yeah I don't know how this happens, that's how it seems to me, too

I simply can’t believe Congress and the cabinet are sitting around, totally fine with what is absolutely demented behavior from the president.

The media told us, based on the amount of coverage they devoted to it, that the number one military-related issue of the 2024 campaign was whether Tim Walz retiring from the National Guard after 21 years was too soon or not.

The thing about Ahab was that he had a consistent operational objective, could hold a thought in his head for more than 45 seconds, and frequently navigated high-stakes professional situations without falling asleep

Smart people who get themselves a brainworm are actually really good at finding justifications and rationalizations for why the brainworm is good and righteous and the truest expression of intelligence and reason itself.

SNL UK is absolutely putting its American counterpart to shame dear lord

God, I love her so much. Just banger after bager. She's in it purely for the love of the game and I respect that.

Ah yes why every teacher became a teacher, so they can teach the next generation....*checks notes* cognitive surrender bsky.app/profile/matt...

What this also means: We should be grateful for our atmosphere 👀

Someone with the handle @velocity69.bsky.social is sharing a video with the caption: "The highest quality video of the moon was just released… so beautiful * Artemis II" It's gone viral, but it's not from Artemis II. If you've shared it, you might want to un-share.

as an American Jew, I do not believe that the world in which America is no longer safe for me because of my identity could ever include an Israel that would be

If you’re an engineer in the US with Iranian colleagues, they probably graduated from here. It’s MIT caliber. What the fuck are we doing.

this feels like time for one of my periodic rants about how Judaism gets some stuff wrong - like all religions - but one of the things we are REALLY GOOD ON is the nature of forgiveness. which is to say: first, unless they have come to you with sincere repentance, you don't have to forgive anyone!

I hadn't seen this before. This is pretty remarkable. Earth and Moon in one NASA photo. ht @astrokatie.com

extremely bad time for an astronaut to find out he's a werewolf

New shot of the Moon taken only a few hours ago by the Artemis II crew! More of the lunar far side coming into view :-D flic.kr/p/2s676GN

The thing about there needing to be a path of redemption for people who have been “canceled” is: there already is a path to redemption and it’s called “redeeming yourself.” The path is open! No one is blocking that! You just have to do it!