finally deleted spotify, and I've had it for a DECADE PLUS and was mewithoutYou's 2% fan. it was the right call. hard to be ethical out there but i'm trying I used Soundiiz to transfer playlists to Qobuz, which is what I'm using now, and I'm not a smart techie but it was pretty simple and cheaper

i really resent the continued assertion that there’s so much anger on both sides, as if the causes of the anger are equally legitimate. we’re angry because masked maniacs are violently snatching our family and neighbors off the street, and they’re angry because we’re calling them out for it.

Happy Horror Month to goth Daddy, bisexual icon Vincent Price.

Look if everything else about Platner wasn’t rancid enough the fact that jacobin and nyt are in support should be telling you volumes

1. Graham Platner is an oyster farmer and Marine Corps veteran who’s running for the United States Senate in Maine. He’s trying to knock off Susan Collins. He’s presented himself as a common-man candidate who stands against oligarchy, genocide and the oppression of the little guy.

So the current mayor is a crook. The former governor is a crook. The "beret dude" is a crook. But you cannot find the spine to endorse the only non-criminal in the race who BELONGS TO YOUR PARTY, because he's a Muslim? A Democratic Socialist? Or is it because he's making you look like a fool?

They seem unable to settle on either "of course he's not a king, we just happen to agree with everything he says" or "of course he's the king, he won the popular vote so he can do whatever he wants."

Old enough to remember how legacy press mythologized the “grass-roots” Tea Partiers, and also remembering the Tea Party movement was funded by the Koch brothers

Remember kids, writing hashtags with every first letter of a word as a capital letter makes things easier for people who use screen readers. That's because then, it reads them as separated words. ThisIsAnExample of how to do it.

The president needs your help! He's collecting diarrhea for his plane. He has a plane that's 99% toilet with other people's diarrhea in it and he wears a little crown when he drives it around. Brave patriots please send your loose stool to your favorite diarrhea president for his diarrhea plane.

If you were one of the millions of people at No Kings who has a subscription to the NYT that diminishes your number to thousands. Now would be a good time to cancel your subscription

You don't necessarily need to say "image of" in your alt text for users to know it's an image. Screen readers will announce that it's an image. But it can help readers to specify if it's a hand-drawn image, Polaroid, infographic, screenshot, chart, map, diagram, or so on.

Mr. Mamdani, what do you think of the calls to include a Vegeta balloon alongside Goku at the Thanksgiving parade? Piccolo as well

Drew Struzan's Indiana Jones posters.

Man, Betty Gilpin is awesome, and her writing is damned good: www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

I love this account so much, not least because today I learned there are different varieties of strawberries

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison. Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

are shooters of priests ever the good guys throughout history

Thanks @autostraddle.bsky.social for including Queers at the Table! www.autostraddle.com/our-most-ant... @arsenalpulp.bsky.social

When the Yankees get eliminated

George Carlin would never have taken blood money to perform comedy for a Saudi Arabian tyrant.

There are a lot of important posts quoting images of government officials saying horrid things, but they don't have ALT text. C'mon folks, it's easy when you're posting a screencapped tweet; just copy and paste the text from the tweet itself!

Just confirmed I'm one of the author victims of the blood sucking company Anthropic that stole my book to train it's LLM. I filed a claim and it felt really good. If you're an author who may have been victimized, you can find out here: secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/?_gl=...

If you’re white, your accomplishments are your own and you can resent and criticize the country all you like, but if you’re black and successful you should be grateful to white people for allowing you in their presence. bsky.app/profile/jess...

Periodic reminder: use alt text on images, please! Many visually impaired folks use tech called screen readers to hear what is on the website. Alt text allows the screen reader to describe the image to these users.

When did professional sports go into overdrive with loud music? Pumping music after every pitch in baseball. Pumping music after every possession in basketball. Pumping music after every down in football. We can’t just enjoy the din of the game? We have to be told, they loud music, to cheer?

🚨 “They put black people in one van and immigrants an another… Trucks and military style vans were used to separate children from their parents.” THIS. IS. HAPPENING. People need to see this. We all need to see it. Nobody gets a pass here. Please share with your networks. 1/2

Please use alt text when posting illustrations or photos or other images. I realize it feels like an inconvenience if you didn't ever do it at the other place, but folks who need it are a zillion times more inconvenienced every single day.

thoughts and prayers to all the ICE agents who can’t get paid now

A very white, and famous, and most deadly immortal monster, Don;—but that would be too long a story.

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STICK TO THE BOAT, is your true motto in whaling; but cases will sometimes happen when LEAP FROM THE BOAT, is still better.

Look at all these stupid countries around the world holding their leaders accountable and acting like the laws apply to everyone evenly. What a bunch of suckers.

They’re running out of ways for me to hate them more

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Pictured: A terrorist, apparently.

While people are suddenly and uncharacteristically paying attention to media regulation, please take a moment to notice all the massive harm Brendan Carr has done to consumer protection and public safety as well me, back in April:

Trying this at work tomorrow

you need cold, salt and a meal at the same time

Don’t threaten me with a good time.

what the fuck are you going to DO chuck? you're posting like a fucking INFLUENCER instead of a SENATOR tell us what you're DOING and what WE can do OUTRAGE is pointless without ACTION (and the midterms are too fucking far away, so don't fucking talk about THAT right now)

I would love to be part of the conversation on MSNBC related to the Kimmel story and it's chilling effects on first amendment, but unfortunately I was terminated by MSNBC for stating that "hateful thoughts lead to hateful words which lead to hateful actions".

Remembering how Jon Stewart spent all of last year telling me that he’d grown more nuanced and wise after his retirement and that Trump v Dems wasn’t as black and white as people claimed. What a ridiculous fuckwad he turned out to be.

Today begins the process of removing interpretive assets across National Park Service sites that violate the president's EO. If you work for the NPS, please let me know what, if any, changes are taking place at your site. No names will be used. Thank you. #NationalParks 🗃️ cwmemory.com/contact-me/

Government funding is the one card congressional Democrats have to play, and one they could and should use to push back against Trump's authoritarianism. What's their big demand? RFK Jr's resignation? Reforms in ICE? Stand down of National Guard? NOPE. "Obamacare enhanced premium tax credits"

It needs to be said that by rebranding Charlie Kirk's views as moderate by both right wingers and liberal cowards resets the extremist views he held as normal and pushes the Overton window to the far right

i have said this before but when “getting rid of race in admissions” for the administration means “you can’t even try to reach out to underrepresented communities and encourage them to apply and if you do it is illegal discrimination against white people” then the actual goal here is segregation