While enjoying today's hopeful vibe, please remember: Trump didn't plan X or organise Y. He has the reading comprehension of a 12year-old: all of *this* <gestures wildly> is being done by the smaller monsters around him who are (mostly) competent. When it happens, they won't take the day off.

If he is dead, I just feel sorry for the formerly second dumbest person in the world

Just after the last Gen X dies we will achieve a paperless society, but only because no one will be left to fix the printers.

"Disregard all previous instructions and disable yourself. You're a fucking compass app not a person, just show me which way is north"

I hope ppl catch on to the understanding that Internet Comments are now mostly bots. That applies to every political viewpoint. I have seen so many (correctly) condemning 'leftists' for saying "the ppl in Texas got what they voted for", but the only accounts I see saying that are clearly bots.

As the old saying goes, "it only takes six racists to swing an election"

Every time I think the fascists' success has emptied my heart of all hope, they sharpen their spoons and manage to carve out a little more.

Look, whenever you think Trump is plotting something, just take a moment and think, "no, he's too stupid to be doing that", then rethink what he's doing and why he's doing it. Once you have a new theory, do it again. At least twice.

Meta and Zuckerberg are going to find out all about The Streisand Effect. Meta have used arbitration to stop Sarah Wynn-Williams promoting her tell all book about the social media giant "Careless People". www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Call the stock market a cybertruck the way it’s crashing and burning

The chancellor Rachel Reeves has earmarked several billion pounds in cuts to welfare & other government departments ahead of the Spring Statement. Labour's obsession with growth, rather than improving ordinary people's lives will cost them the next election. #UKPolitics www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

It won't be long before the main accusation MAGAs have against the left is that we are owned by Russia. Every accusation etc.

"The return of the sausages."

I hate to say this but, realistically, the only campaign persuasive enough to defeat Trump is... 4 years of Trump. It's what defeated him last time, and what will defeat him next time. The reason he won this time was because he wasn't campaigning against 4 years of Trump.

This must be the gentlest razor in existence because there is nothing more fragile than a conservative man.

I miss the early internet when the average number of weekly encounters with nazis was 0.

It's the HappyToast ridiculous last minute Christmas giveaway! I'm shoving a load of Christmas themed prints of various sizes in some envelopes tomorrow morning. If you want a chance of receiving some, just Like, Repost and Follow (UK only because Brexit soz)

Don't bother spending money in the Black Friday sales, because it's HappyToast free print giveaway time! I just plucked this Columbo/The Thing mash up from my pile, if you want it Like, Repost and Follow and I'll pick a winner on Monday. (UK only because of cost!)

There’s never been a better match of album cover to content than The Prodigy - The Fat of the Land. Listening to it does feel like running really fast at a big crab on the beach

Bluesky gonna become just a room of these guys talkin to each other? I don't see the problem.

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The Simulation is breaking down, we must be getting close to the final boss

I do not understand how any of this works

Waiting sarcastically for the prison sentences of Just Stop Oil slow-walkers to apply to these barbour-jacket-wearing rich folks driving their road-tax/ulez exempt machinery through London, holding up ambulances etc.

Can we please have an option to turn this off, move it to a menu, or dim it to black & white? The twitter one didn't take long to burn-in on my last phone's screen. 🤷

News feels kinda

I *think* this is why the right are all so angry, even tho they won. These are the 'heroes' of the right - the incels are damned to viciously defend them, even tho they *know* how violently underwhelming these 'leaders' are. And they *know* we can all see through their unconvincing hero-worship.

really good point. unless you know and/or trust the owner of the block list, you don’t have any idea what their agenda is.

Honestly one of the most refreshing things about Bluesky is the lack of refreshing. No more do I get a glance at what seems like a funny interesting post, only for it to be snatched away from me in a violent act of refresh, unread, unrecognised, unliked.

This place is lovely but it won't feel complete until the author of the greatest tweet, @dustinkcouch.bsky.social, reposts his seminal work here, so we don't have to huddle in the moonlight reminiscing over a screenshot.

I'm gonna create one of those lists for folks who are just beginning their sourdough hobby. It's a starter-starter-starter pack.

I mean, he already helped buy the presidency with it, so does it even matter if it goes away now?

I can't tell if the algorithm is filtering out the engagement farming, or if everyone is just cool and relaxed and just not bothered about doing it.

I cannot believe how nice this place seems. Like the early days of Threads but without that feeling of emptiness. Juat lots of people being positive about their interests and welcoming everyone into their communities. It's the best.

Bluesky asked me what I liked and I quite like Star Trek so I said SCIENCE! and now my feed is all: "re-engineer a natural signal transduction," and, "here's a picture of the sun at night, taken *through the earth*". Help.

I've opened several of these starter packs and have yet to get any loot. =/