As smart phone companies become more overwhelmingly capitalist-capitulatory, if we're going to see an increase in phone FOSS as well as an equivalent "app store" for FOSS apps and emulators for compatibility thereof? Seems like the next logical step as more people jump to Linux on other computers.

As Trump wages war on DEI, Apple essentially just ratified the MAGA view of law enforcement officers as a protected class. (new @msnbc.com column)

nailed it!!! absolutely iconic work by @pizzacakecomic.bsky.social

Many other prisoners were treated much worse. Don't misunderstand, people SHOULD be mad and SHOULD care she was treated so terribly. However, hers was not a unique experience, and I don't want what happened to overshadow that.

It's stratifications in society that make some people feel they can deny authoritarianism here, because they're advantaged & they don't feel it or can consume their ways out of feeling it.

it is time to drink the Gender Fluid

People give a lot more praise for western queer works then those across the pacific. I understand why (there's more expected cultural crackdown of western media, so defiance of that feels stronger), but that's still a bias people should disabuse themselves from.

is this part of why they were going to ridiculous lengths to crush sex work on the internet, so they could automate it with AI? I get that the AI bubble is the last ace in the hole for the tech industry (if not the US economy proper), but this is as infuriating as this is pathetic.

Vance reacts to the Young Republicans chat leak

When we write or draw porn or erotica, we get banned from having a bank account and our livelihoods get seized even if we give it away for free. When billionaires steal what we've written or drawn to churn out a slop-approximate of porn, they're allowed to charge for it.

just as a fucking reminder

If your masculinity is threatened by smart/successful/powerful women then you have an incredibly weak sense of self and masculinity

It's insane that there are still hordes of useful idiots out there sincerely giving it "come on, you can't just call everyone you disagree with a Nazi" after a solid decade of this mask-off shit. They're trying to outlaw being anti-fascist! We're not making that up!

side rant: when are newsrooms going to get over parents' ablest squick about their kids and start using identity first language? "disabled person" not "person who is great!! except for this icky disability!!" "autistic person" not "person with a lil' case of the autisms" etc

There's a big propaganda push to frame US zoomers as having gone far right as a whole as a sort of echo of the young Republicans, but that's a distortion of the truth. The truth is they've gone further left AND right depending on who you talk to.

FLAMES OUT OF THE SIDE OF MY FACE there is no forgiveness for these horrors, ever

Hey @thetechnocracy.bsky.social, does the NWO have me on a list as people who may potentially be Catherine "X-Cel" Blass. I get the reason why, I obviously fit the profile below (pretty much exactly), but I'm not actually her.

Topics Mike Johnson thinks are serious: - Super Bowl halftime entertainer - getting a Nobel Prize for Trump - terrifying naked bike riders Topics he thinks are not serious: - Epstein Files - domestic violence - being able to keep the govt open - the neutering of Congress

essentially what we are doing with this piece is 1) holding up the tragedy of SEVEN Tylenol Murders and acknowledging it as real, just as Johnson & Johnson did 2) holding up the untold millions of people Johnson & Johnson killed with Baby Powder etc etc etc Real reporting. No cost. No ads.

This is an abandonment of the most vulnerable trans youth, for whom Fenway Health was often a provider of last resort, and signals Fenway’s willingness to abandon all trans patients. They must be pressured over this capitulation. We need your help - reach out, call, demand answers!

Counterinsurgency tactics in American cities from American troops. (Which will do what counterinsurgency usually does: wrecked neighborhoods, rising body counts, distrust everywhere, and forever wars.)

maybe this is a radical idea but i believe that instead of paying tech corporations to displace sex workers we should just pay the sex workers

why are we pretending that race shouldn't be predominant when remedying racism? it's the same problem I've always had with affirmative action being about "diversity" rather than quotas. AFFIRMATIVE ACTION SHOULD BE ABOUT QUOTAS. REMEDYING RACISM IN VOTING SHOULD CONSIDER RACE PREDOMINANTLY.

new @teenvogue.com: students at the 9 colleges invited to Trump's "college compact" have been pushing their universities to reject it. + a bit of a scoop: @sunrisemvmt.bsky.social tells us that they're launching a national coalition to support students pushing their schools to fight the Trump admin

Many people have become aware of Atlas Talos being a predator, so I just wanted to take a moment to point out that Natou is currently stuck living with him Please please donate and share to help get them out of this situation linktr.ee/tichatnwa

Honestly the answer is yes and no. They have always been racist, sexist, etc (though they didn't always acknowledge it). However the ways it manifests has changed. It used to be evangelicals and aspiring businessmen; now it's a more brazen Hitler youth who brag about having only white friends.

I think the main difference between the College Republicans, YAF and YAL of yore and now is that there always kind of a “tee-hee” trolling element to the racism. Now, it’s just overt. I kind of saw that shift happening in real time as I was in my final years of college.

A official Border patrol Instagram reel uses the controversial Michael Jackson song "They Don't Care About Us" with the lyrics: Jew me, sue me... Kick me, k*ke me We have a nazi government.

Your daily reminder. There may be no greater threat to the health of democracy than the unhinged billionaire class, convinced that it, alone, matters.

Vance is more cognizant then Trump (even back when Trump was lucid) who his base is and who actually butters his bread. Not sure if he is a grifter or, like Miller, a true believer.

Fascinating. Politico notes that when notified of the texts, many state-level Republicans fired or condemned these cretins. Now Vance emerges to excuse the racism, and calls the reaction to it "pearl clutching." He seems determined to purge the party of its last enclaves of decency.

Chicago has always been a second home to me, so I take this shit kinda personally. Second City siblings, fight back. I know you're trying not to bait the fash, trying not to give them the excuse. However, protest isn't enough. Keep it legal but diversify your tactics, throw them off.

All Chicagoans should fight back, fight back for real.

NEW: DHS Secretary Kristi Noem's risible claim to have arrested "the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa" opening an investigation that could potentially expose a nationwide terror network comes from Andy Ngo, a pro-Trump conservative media personality. www.rawstory.com/raw-investig...

Universal masking, which we tried for two hot seconds in America before people started throwing tantrums & posting up with their guns, is about the same kind of understanding ourselves as a collective we would actually need to counter fascism. You care about the community so you set a group norm.

Remember getting told my shortness of breath was caused by being over weight + long covid. It wasnt until I went to the ER and was told to see an Endo where the doctor was like "Bro your thyroid is HUGE what the fuck?"

“A clarinet player was arrested after playing her instrument to the tune of the ‘Ghostbusters’ theme song outside of a Portland ICE facility…”

this is terrorism

They tear gassed 13 Chicago police officers. Please watch this footage of federal officers throwing tear gas canisters into crowds of people who are simply observing and recording on their phones. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

This is an attempt at a purge, and a stupid one. I've worked with a lot of veterans and trust me when I say they got malicious compliance on lock, probably all the way down the chain.

Put up or shut up. I don't know if the cops were following your orders or if they've become so detached from the state proper that what you say doesn't matter any more, either way that's a problem. But regardless, if you say you're going to do this, prove it.

They are trying to turn enforced discomfort and retraumatization without reprisal into an act of enforced submission (since they don't view university students as adults). This also tells the "kids" getting secondary education at Oxford that they have no right to social and political boundaries.

Not once have I seen an explanation for why teenagers must hear things that upset them in virtue of the unspecified speech-acts being upsetting, nor have I ever seen an explanation for why teenagers will be forbidden to express displeasure with upsetting things.

What purpose does a Fenway Health that abandons trans youth, and presumably will soon abandon trans adults, even serve? At that point, you may as well shut the entire clinic down. This is tearing the entire heart out of the organization, sacrificing it's mission and sabotaging it's legacy.

Something that I don’t think people realize is how bonkers racist society was for a long time. Like it is racist now but it was *SO RACIST* that it is hard to describe it without sounding unhinged

I think Eric also makes a very important point about the motivations of Republicans in supporting this kind of legislation. It reminds me of how Republican support for increased SSI income limits is tied to religious people wanting more disabled couples to marry.

What you see here is the political consciousness of the ICE agents. They see their mission the same way the Trump administration sees it - as a state of war, not against immigrants, but against cities. They correctly understand themselves to be at war against Chicago and all who live in her.