I feel like I'm losing my goddamnned mind. This op-ed was written by Kathrine Mangu-Ward. Katherine is editor-in-chief of Reason magazine. Reason fired @shikhadalmia.bsky.social for being too anti-Trump.

This kind of smart, walkable, mixed-use urbanism is illegal to build in most American cities.

kind of funny that an olympian said they are here to represent "compassion, respect, and love for others" and some people automatically knew that was a statement against them

Dude, you have to feed them *every* *day*!

Attn: @pptsapper.bsky.social

Now I want a coat with rope toggles. They seem easier to use than buttons.

Amplifying Trump's threats to the midterms isn't helping anyone. The states at risk are well aware and are preparing. You can help by getting involved. Become a poll worker. Run for your local election board. You can do your part. Don't merely repeat Trump's threats.

So, why not? Save the fighting for the serious stuff, like "Don't start WW3 over Greenland." We can change it all back after he chokes on an overcooked steak. Besides, once every single public building in America is named after him, maybe MAGA people will finally realize was fucking child he is

An "investment" with no fundamentals is worth nothing? Huh!

Wish I'd known about this before i bought the fancy Sony speaker I use to listen to podcasts in the shower.

The article neglects to mention that Lake Oswego is basically a wealthy, conservative enclave within Greater Portland, which is the funniest thing about this episode.

A lot of people took this as an invitation to hatefap about wellness people. Grow the fuck up.

Thread. Shitty people can make good and even great art. Likewise, dropping a favorite artist after you realize you can no longer support them can feel like a divorce or a friend breakup because they and their work were just that important to you. That shit hurts, even when it's necessary for you.

A gang of thugs are wandering my state beating the shit out of random people

one of my strongest beliefs is that we're in our situation right now bc some of the most prominent talking heads (e.g. joe rogan, andrew schulz) are learning about politics in their 40s and 50s, instead of their teens and early 20s, and we have to go along for the ride as they learn basic things

But his net worth is not fixed. His net income is about $71 million a day. He could do the million-dollar daily bonfire *forever* and still be getting richer.

attn: @disabilitystor1.bsky.social

I've never seen any of the Purge movies, but from what I've heard, I imagine the typical ICE thug is a fan.

@georgemonbiot.bsky.social: "Vote in hope." A slogan we in the US need to steal.

I'm worried that the broader public isn't really understanding the Epstein Files. The problem isn't that everyone in the files is a secret pedophile, it's that all the people are corresponding with him because they *don't care that he's a pedophile*. It's a story of elite impunity.

The man who murdered Renee Good didn't need a bodycam because HE FILMED THAT SHIT LIKE IT WAS HIS IG REEL

So this post: bsky.app/profile/harp... is a reply to this post: bsky.app/profile/isaa... But Bluesky doesn't thread the two. So many stupid little issues on this platform.

If a university student group had celebrated Charlie Kirk being killed, complete with a graphic made from an actual picture of the killing, the whole lot of them would have been expelled before the ink on the digital story was dry.

Dem leadership: changing this is a difficult process, you fool. You rube. You utter infant. Give us between $5 and $50 Mamdani, wiping grease off his hands: So it turns out there's a switch on this machine that puts it into either orphan-shredding mode or free school lunch mode. Just had to flip it

at the time that film came out I remember quite a lot of "it's disgusting that he even wanted to" discourse. but I actually think we could do with having a great deal more art about how people have problematic desires, wrestle with them internally, and manage to avoid becoming abusers.

Deciding that Luke and Leia were sibling still feels like one of the most poorly considered plot twists in pop culture.

It gets worse. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfalfa...

I would expect Phil to say something like, "Yes, I know it's all bullshit. *Everybody* knows its all bullshit. It's just a harmless little festival."

I'm a fan of @k8lister.bsky.social's podcast, where denial about the existence of the clitoris has come up a few times. Perhaps she should do a whole episode about it.

Men aren’t born with a propensity to commit acts of sexual violence. It is socialized behavior, often learned through abuse itself. Take fraternities and hazing as one example. The slightly older students beat the younger ones and the cycle continues year after year. Sports teams, armies, the same.

This is a notebook in the Epstein files. It looks like it is written by a pregnant girl. This text looks like it says "help me!" www.justice.gov/epstein/file... 👀⚖️♀️ #doj #epstein #files

This piece says that Melania "breaks with East Wing tradition." Which is funny, considering that Trump illegally destroyed the East Wing. www.military.com/feature/2026...

So, more like the Gestapo then, or what the Gestapo would have been like if Reinhard Heydrich had grown up playing Call of Duty: Black Ops.

Since the wording never changes, Kate could just tape the Fair Do's Warning once instead of having to re-read it twice a week. But I guess she has too much fun with it!

In my day we used manufacture consent for illegal military action, but I suppose the president never was big on consent.

A glimpse into the lives of low-level civil servants.

The only reason Homan replaced Bovino as the face of the occupation is because his lies are more polished and he doesn’t dress like a member of the Third Reich in public. But the policies and the state instigated violence remain unchanged.

the biggest concern everyone has right now is that democrats will rally around a set of weak reforms. but another thing to watch is them abolishing ICE in name only - shuffling the agency around and renaming it while keeping the personnel and culture in place.

"Tangibly soulless." Thank you. I've been looking for a term that describes the weird feeling I get from almost all AI-generated images of people.

A year ago, he folded Twitter into xAI, which I guess was how he prevented Twitter's creditors from forcing him out. Now he seems to be doing the same with xAI. People with actual High Finance expertise should feel free to correct me.

As a voter, you can make demands without gaming out the politics. Do people know this?

If you mentioned the Vienna Conventions to this dude, he's probably wonder what canned sausages had to do with anything.

ICE just showed up at our house for the second day in a row. Four cars yesterday, today five. They rolled up slow, then got out to taunt us, and take pictures of the house. They want fear to overwhelm us, to project a fantasy of power meant to intimidate, isolate, produce obedience—not happening.

Another brilliant move by a uniquely astute businessman who certainly knows what people want and need!

Sometimes I think "I should get a trail cam" but I might never sleep again if I knew what all goes on out there at night

CC 318924: carrying a concealed annoyance device

Those who make whistles impossible make vuvuzelas inevitable

bro whistles are the NICE option. do you really want to challenge 1,000 nerds with 3D printers to invent something louder and more annoying???

Subposting a closed thread that's in my feed: here's a cartoon from a 1933 issue of the Journal and Guide of Norfolk, VA, a Black-owned weekly newspaper.

The actual agency involved here is Homeland Security Investigations, that same entity that warns you not to pirate your DVDs. it turns out that they're part of ICE,, which I guess shows how thoroughly fucked up DHS is.