can I just say quickly that as a Silicon Valley native, I can attest that Larry Ellison has been a punchline since the turn of the century at least, and I'm glad everyone is catching on to how despicable he is

Live your life so that the people who come to your memorial don't talk about how they disagreed with you. Corollary: live long enough so Trump can't crash your memorial. Less-obvious corollary: take democracy back so you don't just end up in an unmarked grave somewhere.

Colbert resurrected his character from "The Colbert Report" and it's glorious www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATxL...

Bruh

New banger from @gwenckatz.bsky.social !

honestly, as a huge #LEGO fan, it's been especially disappointing that they have such big deals with Disney and Harry Potter both. I lost almost my entire Lego collection in the fire earlier this year and haven't bought any sets from those lines as I've started my collection over

“Life is essentially sad. Happiness is sporadic. It comes in moments and that’s it. Extract the blood from every moment.” Robert Redford

In the '80s and '90s, CJ Cherryh questioned and critiqued our assumptions about how gender is expressed and understood, creating science fiction narratives that reflect trans identity and experience. It's time for a retrospective. reactormag.com/exploring-ge...

I will say this for Star Trek: SNW - it's really made me appreciate how good Discovery was, especially when it took the leap away from the prequel era and its characters. The risk paid off tenfold and it really let them emphasize the values of the Federation and importance of all people.

the GOP has finally figured out how to put little pearls on the trigger so they can simultaneously clutch their pearls about liberals celebrating violence AND fire the gun themselves

Why can SpaceX afford to blow up a rocket every 5 seconds? Because going to space is not its goal. Its real goal is to funnel billions of dollars of taxpayer money to Elon Musk. So what he's announcing here is that NASA is no longer a space program, it's now a graft program.

sending love to trans folks today, and every day

"Was I radicalized or are you desensitized?" - from Death of the Heart, by JER (@skatunenetwork.bsky.social)

Lindsay's video just crossed $750,000 raised! Crazy cool! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qwpa...

Personally, I still haven't recovered from the passing this week of a beloved youtube personality whose most controversial position was that no box was too small for a cat to fit in people.com/maru-the-vir...

on Monday the Supreme Court authorized racial profiling and yesterday the President said he is targeting "Democrat-run" cities but sure, a shooting today was the only notable instance of bad "political violence" this week.

Age verification? I went to the theater to see The Little Mermaid... the animated one

Person on phone in the supermarket consoling friend about their job search: "You could always go work for ICE, you get a huge signing bonus. No? Good." Everyone around them overhearing this conversation and momentarily worried it was a serious suggestion: "damn straight" Very encouraging 😆

all the worst people in the world saw the IBM warning and thought "can't be held accountable? We gotta have it make ALL our decisions!"

kinda sucks when the Supreme Court has 6 people on it who don't actually believe in the Constitution

Listen to me: Our profit from the post office is the post office. Our profit from a library is the library. Our profit from a school is the school. And our profit from our lives is life. Our life. Ours.

Discworld QOTD, from Guards! Guards!

I just don’t want “film a video and hope it goes viral” to be a “reasonable” expectation of authors!! I hate being on video! I am too awkward for video!

Illinois Gov. Pritzker ahead of Trump National Guard deployment: "To Chicagoans... Look out for your communities and your neighbours. Know your rights. Film things that you see happening... Authoritarians thrive on your silence. Be loud for America."

happy Labor Day! If you can't strike, at least remember the wise words of Homer Simpson: "Lisa, if you don't like your job, you don't strike, you just go in every day and do it real half-assed. That's the American way."

Healthcare should not be tied to employment and I stand on that.

in times like these, I'm reminded of the saying, "Be the change you wish to see in the world."

if it turns out he's still alive tomorrow, Bluesky will singlehandedly have refuted the "Law of Attraction" manifestation stuff

Finding it difficult to write a simple straightforward update on international shipping for my print shop without it turning into a profanity-laden tirade

sending love to trans folks today, and every day

Something I've been struggling with this year for some reason I can't quite put my finger on.

been watching Lindsay for years now and continue to be impressed by the quality of her videos. Worth sitting with... every minute.

Someone on our block is practicing the Toccata in D minor on an organ and literally set off a couple car alarms

I turned it into a meme game. gwenckatz.itch.io/the-treacher...

NEW: Los Angeles protesters successfully disrupted ICE's crackdown by targeting hotels where officers stayed, emails show. Widespread rallies led Army to make list of "hotels to avoid" due to "harassment." "When we don’t want ICE in our neighborhoods, we can actually take actions to force them out"

Now this is messaging. Not my constituents, not the people of Chicago, he said “MY PEOPLE.” Very effective and moving.

so I traveled to Mexico in the 1990s, and for the first time I felt incredibly grateful that back home in the US I had never encountered that sort of ever-present heavily-armed police force asking for bribes. That feeling has been going away slowly ever since but much faster this year.

It's a Wonderful Life shaped my perspective on the importance of having principles, not pursuing money for its own sake, and not blaming oneself when life just throws shit at you constantly. There's still value in a "small" life that doesn't get to follow its dreams, as so many don't.

"We didn't come here to listen to a load of stuff about famine and colonialism and genocide and being forced into exile, we came to hear some Irish folk songs!"

highly recommend @aptshadow.bsky.social's "Service Model" to see how even a robot can be annoyed by this 😄

listen the world is a mess but a judge ordered the Florida migrant prison closed, California passed their "fuck around, find out" redistricting, and James Dobson is dead this is the best net good news day in awhile, I really do think

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the obvious Onion headline: Eric Adams Aide Hands Reporter Chip Bag With Not Enough Cash In It

sitting here like, "do I know what the old cracker barrel logo looked like?" "do I know what the new one looks like?" "Is there one even in my state?" my rule for discourse is that if you have to google it, it's not yours to weigh in on, of course.

29 years ago today, Jamiroquai released the music video for 'Virtual Insanity'

"you don't do politics, it's true, politics always do you" is great from @skatunenetwork.bsky.social on the new album

Just give us Florence Pugh as a lesbian James Bond. I assure you people will be totally normal about this

would much rather have US troops off fighting Russians instead of futzing around in our own cities harassing our own people. Similarly, arms currently headed to Israel to be used on civilians could be doing actual work in an actual war

We are outraged and deeply distressed that armed federal agents came onto our campus—making arrests on the very ground where, in 1942, Japanese American families were forced to board buses bound for concentration camps. It was a deliberate act of provocation and intimidation.