every single dem should be taking notes. this is how you message around trans issues (of note: i believe he is the only cis candidate for office to have trans people consult on his lgtbq+ policy platform)

I was wrong about this, alas 😔

It feels like this could’ve been prevented. If siff had done a donation drive specifically for repairs to the Egyptian I think people would’ve happily donated. This is so sad :(

You cannot be fucking serious

Conversion therapy doesn’t work because it is based on Christian principles, as opposed to the one true religion of Islam.

People get so angry at Taylor Swift for releasing music, which is crazy because that’s like, her job

like!!! we KNOW that it is a small number of weirdos with outsized influence who want to ban books, but it's always nice to get a confirmation

its truly remarkable, you have to really take the measure of it and it's almost hard to comprehend it, but the president of the united states is having texas invade illinois and oregon just to make twitter content

If Jay doesn’t like the bluesky community she’s welcome to go off and create a new one. The magic of atproto!

Portland never stops being Portland.

So is the bluesky CEO actively antagonizing people to kickstart the creation of alternatives on the atproto network?

It is morally wrong to want a computer to be sentient. If you owned a sentient thing, you would be a slaver. If you want sentient computers to exist, you just want to create a new kind of slavery. The ethics are as simple as that. Sorry if this offends

greta ily what an outfit

What could go wrong.

We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.

Italy's largest union is calling for a general strike on Friday in protest of the treatment of the flotilla

Who did SDOT listen to? Business and property owners. Why? Because drivers from *Madrona and the Eastside* are complaining about the new traffic pattern on Madison Street.

Found an old poem of mine and liked it.

I love the backlash to the Riyadh comedy festival because one of the free speech comedians is going to react to it by saying something they’re not supposed to on stage. And then MBS is gonna kill that guy!

We need to get this gutter socialist elected as mayor

Look I try not to doomsay or spread panic but this shit is truly and deeply Very Bad for every single trans person in America and unless everyone makes it their mission in life over the next few days to make sure that their reps know that shutting down the government is the correct option here.

Some amazing gay history. Listen up kids.

They’re dangling donuts, this is so fucking funny

My boyfriend to himself just now: “Ass… Very exciting.”

People keep on bitching about Palestine protesters as if they (in the face of massive state violence) aren’t responsible for one of the greatest shifts in public opinion ever despite an entire media landscape set up to stop them

@siffnews.bsky.social @nwfilmforum.bsky.social

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

let me offer a suggestion: you should try having a core of values that aren't knocked off course by a blue haired lefty having weird or even hostile opinions. you should want to have the basic mettle necessary to navigate such obstacles unscathed

i don’t think people on bluesky understand the severity of this situation. i woke up to literally hundreds of texts from friends and family thinking about either moving back home to india or applying to other countries for jobs. this includes me.

Jesus christ

Image of Mickey Mouse with blood spurting out of his neck

I keep encountering mystifying things that swipe typing on iOS straight up won’t let you type. For example, you cannot swipe the phrases “white woman” (try it!) or “don’t kill yourself” (try it!). The former always picks something like “white Roman” or “who’re woman”; the latter, ”don’t kill yodel”

Creating a startup that uses AI to design skincare products customized specifically for you. If the product burns your face you are forced into arbitration where the maximum settlement you can receive is $100.

so many dead canaries and we just keep on mining

One thing I'll say about DC not only canceling Red Hood, but recalling the first issue and refunding stores for buying it, is that you can still get Neil Gaiman's work through them. They still work with Otto Schmidt. Eddie Berganza worked there for years AFTER the formation of a policy that no women

Hey all! I'd like to thank the world's media institutions, and of course the Bluesky mods, for being totally normal and proportional about a barely famous trans woman cracking wise about a Nazi's death.

This is a fabulous, useful piece of writing and thinking. www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...

Sorry, who the fuck said what?

I will never escape west Pakistan

they don't want pussy. they want to endlessly critique pussy

Here is some non-satire for you: Trans rights forever.

The man’s dead but what’ll it take to kill the discourse

I’ve been making this joke for 3 days

Well… except for…

incredible

Rest in piss

Bluesky moderation is absolutely out of fucking control right now just absolutely arbitrary politically motivated suspensions and bans. No explanations. No adherence to terms of service. It’s literally impossible to know what we are and aren’t allowed to say.