A friend who worked in Albany once told me: “Liberals always think there’s some bureaucratic fix—independent commissions, etc—that will make democracy fair. But the GOP will ratfuck anything. The only thing that matters is to organize and take power.”

When people say that the Trump Regime's policies "don't make sense," they're wrong. These polices make perfect sense. The Trump Regime actively aims to kill people. It's the GOP's politics of grievance taken to its logical extreme. www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-a...

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Hannah and Her Sisters and Grogu

This looks exactly like the zombie TTRPG I've wanted to run for literal years

Another unionization thought. Before we unionized at Paizo, we hemorrhaged staff. I am the only member of the 2018 editing team left at the company. By 2020, we had lost almost everyone. Then we unionized, and no editors have quit since. This is not a coincidence.

genuinely, it's time for All Blue California, which is completely possible and is morally correct

Oh for crying out loud...genAI is NOT sentient and CANNOT "confess" to ANYTHING. It parsed words as "accusation" and used its word-matching algorithim to spit back out the most statistically probable sequence of words it stole from all the books illegally scanned into its trainimg data.

Well. Multiracial representative democracy in the United States was just killed by six berobed gutter racists in Washington DC. They just put the final nail in the coffin of the Civil Rights Era. This is going to go down in history like the Dred Scott decision (1857) that nationalized slavery.

This newly insane, unprecedented legal stalling does nothing but delay our deal with the receiver to take control of InfoWars. We now expect new traps in Alex Jones' amoral war to deny paying the Sandy Hook families, but we're freshly surprised by the U.S. legal system's appetite to put up with it.

The book I absolutely HATED that I had to read in school? Tess of the d'Urbervilles OMFG reading that book was like pulling teeth. One misery after another befalls the title character and the depressing book has a downer ending. I fucking HATE that book and also Thomas Hardy for writing it.

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Like I said: the civil rights era never ended. You are still in it. The most important form of free speech, is the right to vote. Racists don't want Black people to vote. So they wrote down a plan to stack the Supreme Court with people that would make it harder for Black people to vote. It worked

I will never forgive AI for destroying one of my favorite emoji/symbols the humble sparkle

Impossible to understand the Suprme Court's Voting Rights Act case without the context that John Roberts has spent his entire career working to gut the VRA. As a Reagan DOJ staffer, he made the *same arguments* the Court just embraced. He lost then; he won today. ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/john-...

We must call this for what it is: voter suppression that will silence Black and brown voters. The magnitude of this decision cannot be understated — it guts the Voting Rights Act and its very purpose of protecting all voices. Every American deserves an equal vote.

This company should be sued and/or legislated out of existence. That sure as hell appears to be a HIPAA violation, and even if they obeyed the letter of the law, they completely violated the spirit and intent. www.proofnews.org/womans-talks...

It’s time

Holy fuck. I actually signed in to my dormant Twitter account to verify that this tweet is real. It is. The bar for the Trump Regime is so low they have to cut a hole in the floor, and they still can't clear it.

that's an album cover right there

Post an image of a game you played as a teenager.

I don't think I have ever seen John Oliver be as angry on "Last Week Tonight" as he was about AI chatbots this week. Absolutely worth a watch. youtu.be/Ykvf3MunGf8

Sic semper tyrannis.

His job is to destroy the United States

In case you're wondering, my recipe for a Good Bluesky Experience here at the three year mark: 1. Decide not to be a dick 2. "Don't engage, just block" for trolls/bots/chuds 3. Mute stressful nouns 4. Follow super cool people of all sorts 5. Choose to have fun over "engagement" 6. Pictures of cats!

If you're wondering just how out of touch Dem leaders are, well. If he wants to bring down the cost of living, stopping the guy who's causing it to skyrocket might be a priority.

Since Trump is out here denying he is a rapist, a reminder that a judge said he absolutely was one

trans people warned us. it's not gonna stop here

I didn’t see this at the time, but having it surface again is great, because I really like what they are saying and the clarity of thought behind it

Post a GIF from a movie you've watched more than six times. Hard mode: No Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli films.

I just backed Realis on Kickstarter! www.kickstarter.com/projects/cru...

mf literally goes WAR IS PEACE

This photo should be on the front page of every single newspaper in America today.

Eric Trump went on FOX to brag about winning ANOTHER multimillion-dollar contract from the Trump administration. I've been sounding the alarm and pushing for answers. Is the Pentagon just a cash machine for Trump’s kids now? This looks like corruption in plain sight.

"The central lie of the patriarchy is the delusion that men are women’s protectors and providers. If this were true, then uxoricide should be a crime that strips men of all social privileges and status."

Just FYI there’s an account on here called @redditspaceviewes.bsky.social (with over 200k followers) that is posting a bunch of AI slop (including a “Saturn polar hexagon” with 8 sides) and claiming it’s NASA imagery. If you see anything posted by them, it’s likely fake.

1 year ago today I was terminated by DOGE from USAID where I worked to get humanitarian aid into Gaza. Everyone I knew across almost 10 years of my career across 3 prior jobs became unemployed as well. My entire LinkedIn network suddenly became "open to work" I'm a one issue voter. Punishment.

Zhang Shan won the gold medal for the mixed skeet shooting event in the 1992 Olympics. The International Shooting Union *immediately* banned women from competing against men.

The President calls every black person he doesn’t like “low IQ” and the media believes it absolutely critical we draw no conclusions from that

Repost with your first celebrity crush.

Every single person in this regime needs to be indicted.

it's wild seeing the wheels coming off a guy like trump this badly. after over a decade of this shit, too. one way or the other the billionaire class is icarusing right in front of you, on wings of being way too ravenous, way too off-putting, way too creepy, way too stupid, and way too visible

I'm actually offended that I'm not on that anti-anti-AI / AI haters block list! Fuck genAI. GenAI/LLMs have a handful of semi-useful use-cases vs. 50 billion use-cases that that only serve to defraud, deskill, and dehumanize people while making very rich assholes even richer.

The four types of children (wrong answers only) Freshman Sophomore Junior Senior

RUSTY SELLSWORD DESIGN X CORTEX Huge news for fans of the Cortex system and more news to come. I’ve been working for a long time to get to this point and I’m thrilled to share the announcement! news.direwolfdigital.com/cortex-prime...

Some good political news for a change! www.splcenter.org/presscenter/...

OMG! The owners of the Cortex license are finally opening it up! This is really good news: Cortex is a FAN-FREAKING-TASTIC #TTRPG ruleset, and it's been an utter shame that it had been impossible to publish anything using Cortex rules for so long. news.direwolfdigital.com/cortex-prime...

you do not, under any circumstances, gotta hand it to tucker carlson or any of these ghouls for being a broken clock that happens to be right twice a day

It'd sure be nice if Kamala Harris' campaign organization wouldn't constantly promote Tucker Carlson, Alex Jones, Megyn Kelly, and whatnot. But oh well.

Without stating your age, what movie came out when you were 18?