America is currently a giant experiment to see how long we can keep stuffing a year's worth of news and outrage into every single day before everyone's heads explode

Happy to announce that I'll be moderating a panel on how to run your first game for your friends, with @urbanbohemian.com @thecandacemarie.bsky.social @damphyr.com @dmjazzyhands.bsky.social and @gammaliz.bsky.social 11/22 12-1 PM in the Crab God Theatre (Lvl 1, 1113C) #PAXUnplugged

quick while the government is shut down let’s all switch to metric

Excited to introduce Vibes from Meta. Eat your slop, piggies!

The doc giving me the PreP shot this morning: "Once they've completely dismantled trans healthcare and women's right, you bet you're [people taking PreP] next on the list" And I think a lot of queer cis men haven't sat with that yet

Adrian Belew, Steve Vai, Tony Levin and Danny Carey unboxing the Limited Deluxe 3CD+Blu-ray Artbook including additional ‘Live in North America’ CD & 36-page booklet for their upcoming release BEAT LIVE. youtu.be/cJ4MuyCpPjQ

Get off TikTok Get your friends off TikTok What Musks Twitter did to the election in 2024 will look like childs play compared to what a Trump controlled TikTok will do in the next two elections The best time to peel away from it was when this all started but the second best time is right now

Pythagorean Triple Square Day, as one man affectionately calls 9/16/25, is a day like no other this century.

I have felt sick to my stomach all day about this horrific news, and it has yet to be covered by MSM, or even acknowledged by the WH. 🔊 JUSTICE FOR TREY REED. ⏰ NOW. ‼️‼️‼️

"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." –Justice Louis Brandeis Words spoken many years ago that are just as relevant today. We must continue the fight to get big money out of politics.

Looked at my data collections for state-backed activity. If the report were a picture:

Part of what makes this administration’s behavior and actions such a marked departure from past American administrations is that, previously, one wouldn’t worry about reprisals from one’s own government for one’s words. That is no longer true. michaelianblack.substack.com/p/on-watchin...

News from Finland. A 9-year-old lost an especially good stick he’d had since he was 2. He hung up 20 posters. A few days later it was returned. It had been found by a 2-year-old, who wanted to keep it for herself, but her mother made her return it. She got toys, flowers and candy as a reward.

This is wild, the Reuters reporting implies all the claims are completely fabricated.

China bought a record amount of soybeans… NONE from the U.S. 😔 In Iowa, soybean farmers have spent decades building a relationship with China. Because of Trump’s trade war(s), we’ve lost the market and they’re now coming from Brazil. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

I know everyone is consumed with other news, but this is a big fucking deal: The Trump administration says that IUDs and the Pill are actually abortions. Here's what USAID told the NYT about the $10m in birth control they plan to destroy. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/h...

I have a lot, but think about this one often

IT BEGINS!!!!

I think it is scummy to screenshot someone's work and not link to them. Everybody sign up to support www.the-downballot.com!!

Rather than discuss Blueskyism, I think we’re due for a discussion of Xism. There is a strata of political and media elites who act as if we’re still operating in a democracy. It requires a level of denial that’s incredibly dangerous and ignores the reality of authoritarianism. That’s Xism.

"Harvard can't use race as a factor in admissions, but ICE can use race as a factor in detentions" is a retrenchment essentially to a pre-Civil War understanding of the Constitution. It's vanishingly few steps removed from "Latinos have no rights which the white man is bound to respect."

i cannot believe they are expecting us to play along with this "might not be his signature" farce and that a lot of people actually are, i feel like ive lost my goddam mind

It's wild how politely asking grown ass adults to wear masks and stop coughing on produce was the second coming of Stalin. But military takeovers of cities based on who they elected is totally cool patriot freedom USA.

I strongly suspect members of the media arrived at this conclusion largely because a disproportionate share of them are from or reside in MAHA-adjacent affluent communities.

This

My God. Chills.

Who is he gonna fire over this number? And honestly, this number could get revised down again once all companies report. The ones that don’t report on time are typically going through some things…

METLIFE, on jobs: “.. Bad by any Measure .. Youth unemployment jumped to 10.5%, the highest (ex-pandemic) since 2016 and appears to be experiencing a AI-driven shift higher relative to overall unemployment. However, it could be a harbinger of things to come for the labor market as a whole ..”

Billionaire John Paulson—Trump donor, GOP kingmaker, and host of a $50M fundraiser—is now confirmed to be in Epstein’s black book. The same man bankrolling Trump, Speaker Johnson, and the House GOP was literally in Epstein’s Rolodex. Does everyone get it now?

Ok sure Trump is a pedophile and a Nazi sympathizer, but at least he’s also destroying the jobs market Wait

The thing with these jobs numbers isn't even so much this low number as the back months continue to have steep downward revisions. That kind of retrospective downward pile up is something you frequently see when an econ is moving into recession.

*Incredulous voice* "...is it Warhammer...?"

Disease prevalence in US states before & after vaccine introduction 🧪 From Edward Tufte & graphics.wsj.com/infectious-d...

Excellent framing by the Guardian. “Trump’s embrace of the old name, which seems to put to rest longstanding claims that he was ever the “antiwar candidate” for the presidency, comes days after he ordered the military to carry out the extrajudicial killing of 11 suspected drug smugglers”

The “problem” with vaccines? They so effective at preventing deaths that they create generations of people that question whether disease was a problem in the first place because they have never experienced the horrors of a world without vaccines.

That is quite a headline. @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Coffee is up 14.5% Beef is up 12% Bananas are up 4% Electricity is up 4% Republicans: Prices are coming down!

I don't know who needs to hear this but there is an Emergency Alert test - Sun 7 Sept, 3pm. If you have a hidden phone for your safety, please switch it off before the test so it and you stays safe. Tell anyone you think needs to know lovelies 😘 www.gov.uk/alerts/publi...

Me, feeling useless and worthless for roughly a good 10-15 minutes of every hour daily. Also Me, "Oh right, it's the fascism. FUCK."

Can you imagine what we could do in this country if we actually started caring about each other?

It’s not just that the President of the United States posted a video of eleven people being murdered in international waters it’s that the President of the United States ordered the murder of eleven people in international waters so he could post a video of it.

Trump could’ve intercepted the boat, seized the drugs and imprisoned everyone Instead he approved this Venezuela strike and killed all persons aboard The extrajudicial killing of 11 men and potentially provoking a war with President Maduro is an odd way to campaign for a Nobel Peace Prize

Introverts don’t recharge with sleep, we recharge by being left completely alone for 3–5 business days

@merriam-webster.com Why isn't "Hypocryphal" a word? You know, a kind of accusation claiming someone is doing something they are not doing, but that you ARE doing or plan to do. Example: "That comment about Dems running a pedophile ring strikes me as likely hypocryphal."

When centrists adopt far-right rhetoric, they don’t make themselves stronger. They make themselves look inauthentic, legitimise the far right, and shift the political debate onto terrain defined by their opponents. www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

More framing like this, please www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/u...

Results so stunningly clear they inspired this classic xkcd (xkcd.com/2400/):

A sea turtle surfacing by a MASSIVE school of rays near Clearwater, Florida a couple days ago. Another post into the BluSky void. Maybe 2 or 3 people will see this one and my time won't have been wasted. I'll keep trying a little longer. #nature #animals #amazing #wildlife #awesome #ocean

We keep trying to grow community in soil that has been strip mined and salted by capitalism and then blame ourselves when nothing takes root. You're not a failure, you're fighting a system designed to seperate us. keep fighting. however you can.