Ok, so while this is objectively bad and state-sponsored terrorism, it’s also hilarious that they think 30 people are going to be able to keep up with the particlecannon firehose that is the internet/social media on a daily basis. They’re trying to moderate at scale, and that shit don’t work.

Walmart is so committed to making America healthy they won’t provide health insurance or a living wage to their employees but they will remove some food coloring from some of their products. Mission accomplished!

When you run a social media platform and definitely understand the difference between organic pressure campaigns from your user base and "harassment"

I think what’s most frustrating right now for Black and Indigneous people is waiting for the bulk of white folks to catch up. At some point the “this isn’t who we are” and “I didn’t have this on my bingo card” has to end and y’all will catch up, right? RIGHT? WE NEED YOU TO CATCH UP.

It's amazing how I can feel like hell and still have FOMO.

Songs that, for whatever reason, give me a fall vibe is the theme for tonight's doom break.

The fellowship of the Beer. 🍻

This Tumblr user summarizes something I've been feeling/doing lately. Against everything going on, it somehow feels helpful.

No one hates voters more than Ohio Republicans.

Look, I’m not gonna bang on this to promote my campaign, because odds are you’ve already seen my “please give me money since we live in a Citizens United world” posts, but this is precisely why I’m running for state office. These fuckers do NOT care about our Union, and we need to fight them.

My uterus has decided to use this month to get revenge on me for its future eviction. Too bad, so sad, out you go you worthless hunk of offal!

"A guy like me?! I'm a guy like me!"

How on earth is "warfighting" being used as a word by someone who is NOT a six-year-old boy trying to get you to play GI Joe with him?

Biopsy complete. Just gotta wait for Husband to get the time off next year and then I can schedule the YEETERUS! 🎉

Things you can say that could be about designing a monster, or a clockwork gear: "It needs more teeth." #JustLabThings

Ohio state Sen. Bill DeMora with a colorful statement about Ohio redistricting and lawmakers missing the first deadline requiring a bipartisan map.

It's a myth that banning a book increases that book's readership. For most books, banning has the chilling effect the censors want. Your favorite banned books need to you be loud for them!

Increasingly, I feel as if these self-proclaimed coalition builders talking about "winning the middle" aren't talking about the people they hope to win over. Rather, they're talking about themselves, and defining what it will take to keep them in the tent. Not opposed to purity tests; issuing them.

Happy October! 🎃

It's been a doomy day, so let's listen to some tunes.

This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important

Being fat: not an indication of being a shitty person Being fatphobic: absolutely an indication of being a shitty person

Conversations with the 8yo DM: 8yo DM: I am sad. Me: What’s wrong? 8yo DM: It is almost October again, and the DnD people (@dndbeyond.com) still haven’t created an inflatable yard beholder for Halloween. Me: I am sorry. 8yo DM: I have been asking since I was four!

Please EA, start by selling BioWare to someone who will actually show their amazing IPs some love

Criticizing the article itself, not the OP here - that isn’t what a mania/someone manic looks like. I wish the press would use mental health terms accurately or not the fuck at all.

NEW: Rachel Maddow drops unseen bodycam footage of feds coordinating the arrest of Newark Mayor Baraka. I REPEAT: the feds ordered his arrest even though he wasn’t breaking any laws. Federal agent: “We are arresting the mayor right now per the Deputy Attorney General of the United States.”

It’s official: AIPAC is trying to buy my election to keep me out of Congress. Apparently, I’m a “dangerous detractor”... by believing Palestinians (like myself and my family) deserve basic human rights. But we’re not going to let AIPAC win.

“Now Lucy, I know we’ve had our differences in the past vis a vis you pulling away the football, but this time, THIS TIME, I really trust that you’re not going to pull it away. I trust you, Lucy, and not just because of the twenty nine concussions I’ve received from falling after missing the ball.”

it's a party that's been captured internally by a bunch of squatters who treat it like a personal fiefdom and needs the exact same solution your closet does in spring, a good solid airing out and replacement of the worn out parts asap

Priztker: if federal agents fired upon journalists and protesters, when unprovoked, what would we call it?  I don't think we'd have any trouble calling it what it is. Authoritarianism.  So let's not pretend it's something else when it happens in our American cities.

How do we run this clown out of office? We can't wait on elections. How do we force him to retire now?

This should be the rule for the entire world.

Um guys I still need help

@vampfiend3.bsky.social I can't get into my DMs right now because both Ohio and Bluesky suck. When I get it squared away I'll let you know.

I'm not currently able to get into my DMs here thanks to Ohio's AG really leaning into the fascism. I'm BluedyMoos almost everywhere I have an account (mainly IG & Discord) so if you need to send a private message to me those are the best bet for now. Deciding on my course of action...

MrBeast nearly burning a man to death and EA buckling under the leveraged buyout from hell are the exact same problem expressed differently. The rich will burn everything if it makes them a single extra dollar or feel one emotion, and they must be stopped

particularly given that ten years ago the country revolted when NC passed a bathroom ban. It was a decade of bullshit from conservatives and people like Jesse Singal to get to where we are. It's not just that nobody gave a shit in 2016 which I think most didn't. But people sided WITH trans folks.

Eyeballs are still doing well. Had a specialist appointment this morning and they looked at my optic nerves and other eyeball bits. So well I don't need to come back for another year. Nice to have something go right with this meatsack now and then. 🎉

this business model should be flatly illegal taking on a bunch of debt to buy a company and then burning the company to the ground to service that debt while paying yourselves huge fees is a purely destructive practice that has never once had a positive outcome ban it completely

As a former gamer, I cannot overstate how big of a deal this right-wing takeover of Electronic Arts is. Are they going to create video games where they kidnap and dismember journalists like Jamal Khashoggi?

Me as the cops hunt me from helicopters because I cut the brakes on a school bus: IT WAS A PRANK

We are so beyond “we have to run anti-choice Democrats” in order to win. We’re fighting fetal viability conditions now tyvm. Not the right to abortion in the first fucking place.

We have to stop dehumanizing ICE agents while they are doing their important job of dehumanizing us