Immigration and Customs Enforcement just joined Bluesky.

"this is not who we are" is 90% of the time a normative statement of aspiration, it's not an empirical claim of "these events have never taken place in this country before". one of the most obnoxious genres of "actually..." is reacting like it's the latter when it's clearly the former.

Nazis have been using whole milk as a dog whistle for years, like a decade ago they were doing weird and off-putting shit like recording videos of themselves sensually pouring an entire gallon over their heads. It's weird that a lot of people still can't hear it now that it is a shrieking klaxon.

allowing people to bet on who will win an election and allowing them to vote in the election is bad.

allowing people to bet on what they think the news will be and allowing the news to report on what people are betting they think the news will be is bad.

"We didn't land on Plymouth Rock, Plymouth Rock landed on us!" takes on a whole new meaning when you realize that it's only big enough to land on one person at a time.

Once again posting Plymouth Rock, the final boss of disappointing landmarks

This is the kind of thing that happens when your product is absolutely gassed. From "this technology will change the world" to "what if counting hard?" in less than 3 years.

we have to find the guy who did this

The Hartmann battle in Control is extremely annoying

if i were someone regularly appearing on ESPN from a home setup, i would: 1) commission good fakes of the art stolen from the Gardner museum in 1990 2) exclusively decorate my backdrop with those fakes 3) wait until the internet noticed this 4) never offer public comment

“For decades, I thought The Civil War would stand as my most important contribution to the art form, but Mr. Biscuits will far exceed the impact of any of my prior works,” said Ken Burns

Roses are red Nazis are lurking Beware of them here because

I get why people don’t like bluesky but if you go into a bar and everyone dislikes you and your reaction is to leave and go to the Nazi Child Porn Bar down the street I think that offers incredible insight into why the people in the first bar didn’t like you.

whoever runs the gigantic digital display at the top of the Target HQ building in downtown Mpls has a chance to do the funniest thing in history

Have we considered showing all the ICE agents our mean Bluesky posts

The death spiral for any mental disorder is when you start believing that nothing at all can ever get any better, and that all advice is useless.

Bro, people are going to build entire lives around the neighbors they’ve found in these anti-ICE signal chats. Marriages, lifelong friendships, weird hobbies. It is actually breaking my brain. I am almost crying in the club (chat).

People mock “vote blue, no matter who” but maybe the more apt slogan these days is “vote red, end up dead.”

Heard and seconded

Proposal: The equivalent to “cruising for a bruising” for bad bosses is “croonin’ for a union.” Send skeet.

Well, either my father-in-law stopped by fresh off a Costco run and is currently putting fresh produce in my fridge (and probably cleaning my kitchen a bit), or a murderer's just let themselves in and is rifling around. I'm in with Tres Leches, so I guess we'll just be surprised!

We should do the Morbius thing where we get them to reverse course and actually do Whiskey Fridays

Every goddamn person in this country with a sparkly title and a nice office thinks everyone else is supposed to answer to them and I’m fucking sick of it

No, No, and Will Laugh Hysterically at the Democratic Party going after yet another California option in the face of hundreds of online partisans telling me to shut up, and then vote for him in the loss

I was thinking about how the Biden Administration couldn't figure out how to overcome people getting news on Gaza from videos on the ground, in Gaza, and Trump 2 is running into the exact same problem in Minneapolis.

pretty sure he meant the other thing, grok, but very cool that those are your two things

Everyone uses this meme when POTUS "implements his agenda," but it was made for Kyrsten Sinema simultaneously being both a US Senator and a horny bisexual chaos demon

I find it necessary these days to affirm the obvious because the descent into fascism is mostly a continuous, not discrete, process so here it goes: these are internal checkpoints by secret police for what is routine freedom of movement.

I'm sorry is Newsom talking to Ben Shapiro *today*? What a fucking loser.

I feel like I’m taking fucking crazy pills why isn’t the fucking media telling anyone we’re about to go to war with NATO

Shedding a tear for teenage western Mass shenanigans 😂

exactly

What an amazing fucking country we'd be if we were able to think even one (1) step ahead

remember when Bari Weiss spiked the CECOT story to "wait on more reporting" but then uncritically published random unnamed administration officials claiming Jonathan Ross had "internal bleeding" with zero corroboration

If Axios is trying to snowplow "uhh probably the Feds are gonna stop so everyone should go home now" then Minneapolis' resistance is working like gangbusters. Time to double down on those Gestapo motherfuckers.

feature request: let me block from the notifications list

I'm going to say it plainly: Vote scolding is good, vote shaming is good. You should be reminded that the choices you make have consequences especially if those consequences are dire. If you don't like people pointing out what your decisions lead to, try making good decisions.

Variation of the rule that you're not allowed to get up if a cat is sitting on you: If a cat with urinary tract issues is drinking water near you, you must remain absolutely still until said cat is finished drinking.

Lotta people on here who won't post "I hope Stephen Miller contracts chronic Exploding Asshole and dies from a chronically exploding asshole" for fear of getting in trouble seem to want seated federal officials to release statements like "You should start shooting" and can't parse why they haven't

Fall River is lowkey awesome and I wish more massholes would visit it. The Portuguese/Brazilian food is off the hook

Having kids is pretty great if you like hearing the same story fifteen times before 8AM

If you cannot be brave (And it really is okay if you can't. Try again next time) You must learn to be scared quietly

In Minneapolis they watched a woman get killed for nothing and they came out by the thousands day after day to put themselves in proximity to the killers.

“Two or three ICE agents outside a polling place would be enough to make a substantial portion of the population stay home” you mean yourself. You’re talking about yourself.

Every time somebody posts something like this, someone else is like “it would just take surgical injection of a few agents at a couple of key sites to suppress huge amounts of the vote” and there’s way shorter ways to tell us your pants are constantly soaked in piss.

I knew one of my favorite (for personal reasons, not for like, notoriety or anything) challenge coin was within arm's reach, but I didn't know the goofy coin that came with some House of the Dragon merch was sitting with it. So I'm either a Sergeant Major in the NY National Guard now, or a Targaryen

Beautiful