The thing about you being on Bluesky is that if you personally posted better every single problem in the world from war to poverty would be solved

heard a guy say "you have to access it through the portal" and i was momentarily struck by how sad it is that what he said is so boring :( "accessing it via the portal" should be wonderful. we deserve that at least. it should be cool to access it via the portal and instead it sucks shit

remember, centrists: you gotta vote blue no matter who! time to get in line and support the clear democratic front runner 😇

Trans people: we're about to be genocided by the US government GOP: Awesome, can't wait Centrists: Thoughts and prayers Liberals: It's your fault because you are a wedge issue and support Palestine Leftists: It's not a real genocide like Palestine is

Powerful men like Chavez, Swalwell, Fairfax keep abusing women. They’re protected for yrs sometimes even by the women they’d hurt bec women are always expected to sacrifice for men’s potential or the good of the movement. My latest for @rewirenewsgroup.com rewirenewsgroup.com/2026/05/12/w...

Fun fact: Women's sports are segregated not to protect women, but to protect *men* from losing *to* a woman. Don't believe me? Look up Jackie Mitchell. Struck out Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig. Then suddenly women were unfit to play baseball.

incredibly weird behavior for this website to allow one member of their team to singularly decide that any/all criticism of them is harassment to the level of a bannable TOS violation it cultivates an environment where no one is able to criticize bluesky and that makes everyone less safe

26/x But there's an ongoing fight where sexual disgust is weaponized, & the only effective, responsible counter is sexual beauty. It pains me BlueSky fails to understand this. It pains me they cannot leave mute & block decisions up to individuals. It pains me they have chosen the bigots' side.

sorry I seem distracted just have to keep checking my phone to see if one of my freedoms is being arbitrarily taken away

Okay, hang on Aaron. When users identify a patten of moderation decisions that have a disproportionate effect on a marginalized community, or disproportionately target that community, an objection can be raised as to the neutrality of the moderation infrastructure.

Love how this person's wish fulfillment fantasy for Day 1 post-Trump is a purely aesthetic revision. I can only presume calls for DHS and ICE to be shut down on Day 1 are 'too extreme'

Today’s filmmakers are COWARDS who don’t know the value of a wet monster puppet

*brief radio static as the receiver clicks on* We're putting out an ATB -- That's an All Trans Bulletin

Incredibly valuable thread written by a badass trans woman lawyer, a must read for trans ppl and their allies in the US

Libs, Dems & Centrists are ideological opponents I still feel that I can appeal to. And I know them. Because I was one. I was programmed by the status quo. And my position will never shift back in their direction. Because it required a strict regimen of unlearning, deprogramming & self-reflection.

It is extremely reasonable to be pissed off and scared and stressed out about the depth of harm the Trump admin is committing. But when you lash out at people for vocalizing growing disillusionment with a party that intently refuses to listen, you only deepen those divides.

Too many Democratic leaders still don’t see that they’re choosing to play a game where Reps aggressively change the rules to win. If Dems don’t respond in kind, they’ll eventually never win again. The stakes here are whether Americans choose our govt in a democracy or Reps choose in a dictatorship.

You’ll be hard pressed to find a democratizing movement in the US that *didn’t* play constitutional hardball & *didn’t* break unjust laws. That’s literally what democratization is, though it makes some people uncomfortable. If you want a democracy, you have to break the undemocratic system.

The child of a transphobe is not always a transphobe. Sometimes the child is trans. 🤷🏿‍♂️ Similarly, the child of a racist is not always racist. Sometimes they're anti-racist. The child may not be racist, but many times, they are the one that suffers from their parents' racism.🙁 They deserve better.

drives me nuts when people say prosecuting the leaders of this regime is a pipe dream. all the other democracies in the world don’t seem to have a problem doing it. we can do it too.

Not true. There are many reasons why we got here. People not voting is one of them. Not even the most important one. This pedestrian analysis needs to stop. The number one reason we got here, above all, is racism. Until we contend with that we won’t even understand voter disenfranchisement.

Agreed. It's not possible to reconcile "rule of law" with "one week the GOP SCOTUS will nullify a 43-year-old statute so they can allow racial gerrymandering, then the next week the GOP VA SC will block voter-approved redistricting and have themselves a laugh by citing the SCOTUS liberals' dissent."

It’s telling that Alabama took 14 years to implement Brown (you MUST desegregate) and < 14 days to implement Callais (you CAN eliminate Black districts if you call them Democratic, but you don’t HAVE to).

We've reached the point where one party has so obliterated the rule of law that everyone else continuing to abide by it will only hasten the end of our democracy. That's a recipe for chaos and violence. It's terrifying, and I don't know what we do about it.

If there's one thing I care about more than trans rights its that people at the lowest rungs of society have gifts and talents that equal that at the highest, and their gifts are being squandered, and no one really internalizes that or cares.

Democratic Leaders: We need a strong GOP. This country needs a good opposition party. The GOP: FUCK YO LAWS AND FUCK YO VOTERS WE DO WHAT WE WANT

Kamala Harris' campaign was pro-genocide. NOW. . . if YOU felt you had to hold your nose and vote for her in the quietude of your voting booth? Fine. You did what you felt was right. But hopping online to DEFEND her, is defending a PRO-GENOCIDE candidate. That's how that works.

DOJ now actively working to decrease access & health outcomes, meaning causing death, in Black & Hispanic population. UCLA admits Drs to train to serve all communities, their needs & culture. DOJ only wants white Drs which science shows produce worse outcomes & less care www.upi.com/amp/Top_News...

We put people in prison for a bag of weed, but Obama would love to see the fascist party clean up their act a little bit 1 billion chances for the more murder party, barely half-a-chance for the plebs

yeah i don't think we're voting our way out of having an activist majority in SCOTUS, so....

"if i find someone online who has anything bad to say about any Democrat or the party as a whole, I WILL assume they did not vote for Harris and start screaming 'how are you liking Trump? bet yr friends in Gaza are LOVING Trump' at ppl whose communities and identities are at greater risk than mine"

"we lost this election specifically and ONLY because ONE particular group of people didn't support us, so we are going to spend every waking minute between now and the next election telling those people to eat shit and go fuck themselves and die" -The democratic party, on repeat, forever

Everyday I am forced to contend with the fact that the real reason that we will never get out of this mess is because the ultimate dream of the liberal is a world of convenience in which the systems of oppression work so stealthily & effectively that they can ignore it while feeling like good people

"Why would you criticize Democrats if yr a trans person? Don't you know it's worse under Trump?" If Dems only slightly win in 26/28, then the backlash is coming. I'll just be dead or fleeing in 2032 instead of 2026. Every Dem cohort that treats GOP as peers, not foes, assures this. We need rupture

YES WE CAN kill 3,800 people with drone strikes YES WE CAN double-tap foreign targets to take out their first responders YES WE CAN keep Gitmo open forever

I want to believe

Another example of things normal people say that Democrats are nearly incapable of: "Israel is practicing genocide on Palestinians "

Getting a little controversial today. You know, some of the homosexual little people like to gossip about how "people are pretending to be gay or trans for the perks", and if 'pretending to be gay or trans' is how you escape Cishet Hell, then I cordially invite you to pretend to be gay or trans.

there are obviously the Good Transes (the ones that are nice to me and agree with my posts) but you have to be very careful online because all the other ones are the Bad kind who deserve everything that's coming to them due to disagreeing with my posts

One "fun" aspect of transitioning in your 30s is being suddenly compelled to do all the things you would have done in your youth had you not been disgusted with yourself. Now I am the old bitch in the punk scene hoping that people do not clock my geriatric nature. Oh God, I've become Alan Vega.

Every splashy New York Times profile of a right wing influencer.

Inside of me there are two wolves -- one that loves this, and the other screaming "This shit is how you get H17 flu"

Like I think it's just okay to let kids enjoy stuff even if it's not the same stuff you enjoyed and you can also stop glamorizing your own past as well

Obsessive Compulsive Walking Taco

This is why I can't consider myself a Democrat -- increasingly the party requires me to shut my eyes to things that are bad / don't work, and just believe that the system works well. It doesn't. I cannot.

The conservative justices on the Supreme Court arguing that you can separate race and partisanship got me thinking about these maps. starkeycomics.com/2021/06/11/h...

Hey what's up, maine, you have ranked choice voting and Andrea LaFlamme doesn't have a nazi tattoo, just write her fucking name down, easy!

Father & son