Whilst we're on the subject of shocking living things, did you know police departments routinely shock human beings with tasers until they die and chalk up their deaths to a fake medical condition they call "excited delirium" that was invented by taser companies to absolve themselves of liability?

We're raising money with @killjamesbond.bsky.social to help friend of the show Bella raise money for gender-affirming care, and if you post screenshots in the replies I will march your donations. I'll post my own receipt as well!

I'VE SEEN FOOTAGE

Losing my mind and what look like video game assets but instead were used to justify war crimes and genocide in the real world

BREAKING: Israeli war planes continue to launch raids on Gaza City as Palestinians celebrate the ceasefire announcement, according to an Al Jazeera Arabic correspondent on the ground. 🔴 LIVE update: aje.io/xqppys

“Girls love it when” + [any LOTR quote] = banger tweet, every time. Case in point: Girls love it when you throw down your enemy and smote their ruin upon the mountainside

The RIAA was suing teenagers. We had to sit through ⬇️ this shit anytime we wanted to watch a DVD. A whole generation shamed for using Limewire and torrents. Only for these silicone valley assholes to now find copyright infringement a necessary evil they shouldn’t have to answer for

Someone a few months ago waxed poetic about calling the genocide in Gaza a genocide and did rebuke Israel's actions but it was hard for them, being jewish, to condemn the only jewish state and it took me a minute there to remember: oh yeah, liberal zionism, that's technically still a thing.

Do you condemn the Pottawatomie Massacre?

Bluesky deliberately has no ability to make private accounts. When it started, it had no ability to *block* accounts. Zero privacy was baked in at the architectural level, here.

I'm the guy who steps on the back of your shoe on purpose. You convinced yourself that i don't exist. "It was probably just an accident." It's not. I do it on purpose

all discourse aside, there is one machine with consciousness. it's printers. they are alive and conscious and they hate you and they'd take your arm clean off if you let them. never trust a printer.

THE NEWSROOM is back!

NEW: In May, a Texas police department said they used the powerful Flock surveillance network against a woman who had an abortion "for her safety" Newly obtained court records show it was a 'death investigation,' and they considered charging her with a crime www.404media.co/police-said-...

Thread 🧵 Two years have passed since Israel launched its genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. Here’s the scale of devastation by the numbers ⤵️ 🔗: aje.io/r00cl2

We need a cultural resurgence of CW slop. You should have to watch an episode from the Arowverse when you sign into HBO Max from a new ip address. Corny earnesty will be the herald of woke 2.

i think an interesting cultural experiment would be if we started enforcing traffic law

She's so good man. She makes us all look like assholes

Bluesky engineers when their website is successful

And they should be yeeted into the sun.

One thing I’d be nice if Schatz and others acknowledged is that even judging their hard right turn on immigration in Spring 2024 on its own terms it failed miserably. In July when Harris took over Trump led on “immigration” by 9pts, by election day he led 13pts. At best it, electorally, did nothing

lazy sunday w/minipan and stripey

Please note that the things Mills is most mad about—false calls, and his officers being exposed to chemical weapons—have nothing to do with the feds attacking protesters. He's perfectly happy to have ISP do that instead so long as his guys are unbothered.

Every few months the more libish folk here nearly strain their wrists from jerking themselves off saying how good they are to be on Bluesky and how awful you must be to be on Twitter and I assure you the value you're generating for this site is maybe a step-change less evil.

Dems inability to confront the police and grapple with the reality of them as an opposing political force is really one of the foundational things by which all of this is unraveling. Such a simple inference but they're too wedded to decorum and too polarized against actual Left pol to make it.

MGS Comic

14 years after leaving spawn KurtJMac made it to the far lands. I was in my mid 20s when he left. Many musings and chats on space travel since and he's finally there.

Just on a practical note, it's a terrible idea for a CEO to personally wade into TOS violations and the banning or not banning of users because the minute they touch it, they own it. Everything that happens is no longer an amorphous "mods" issue, it's a CEO issue.

The New York Times doesn't tell you why the alleged murderer said he sent pizzas to the victim's house just before he ran down the girl and her best friend. He said on video that he was getting revenge for social media comments about death of Charlie Kirk.

really funny to say this when a month ago you were banning people making charlie kirk jokes

Awful feeling in the back of my throat as I'm realizing I'm soon going to have to learn how to make a Mastodon... thing? Instance? Account? Server? Whatever, we're 2 for 2 on techbro owned microblogs acceding to fascists.

I'm sorry but it gives its user base nothing, it hates Palestinians and trans people, and it responds to criticism with vague "we're listening" messages before banning another wave of critics. This site is the Democrats.

I'll probably be thinking about TENET for the rest of my life.

i love a man in uniform...... i love a man out of uniform even more!!!

Yes. This is zombocom.

on the bright side, this has put to bed any thought of posting on bluesky instead of twitter as a virtuous act. it was the nteenth nail in the coffin but still.

I just think it's important to keep in mind that there is really no system in place to hold any cop accountable for any crime they commit against citizens, whether that cop is local, state, or federal.

heh, well now that I'm out of that NAZI bar i can relax and enjoy drinks in this NORMAL pub! [camera slowly zooms out to reveal I am bar hopping in the third reich] ah piss

thinkin' about the end of Weapons(2025)

do we think we can trick a news outlet into referring to the american government shutdown/lockout as “locktober”

KOKO THE GORILLA: Koko birkin bag. Practical Koko possession bag RESEARCHER: No, Koko. You can’t have a Birkin bag. KOKO: Good Birkin good Koko give beautiful Koko deserve gorilla RESEARCHER: Koko, we simply can’t afford a Birkin bag. It is an unjustifiable expense. KOKO: jealousy professor

i think a very under discussed benefit of reorganizing society around walkable cities and mass transit is we would all have a lot less mental exposure to smug auto insurance mascots

Under my administration we captured 3 gray aliens and 2 green

How does one define "recession?" I asked my good friend, Dead Body Dave. He said he had something cool to show me down by the creek. I didn't get the answers I was looking for, but what I saw that day changed my life

I knew the flotilla having an escort was too good to be true

tried to call a phone carrier local retail store to answer a bespoke and locale specific question but the line routes to a call center from various general menu options lol love da future, so efficient

🌟 DASHCON 3 INFO 😀 - Yes, there will be a ball pit! - The Superwholock panel has been moved from Saturday to Sunday - All attendees are forbidden from defaming the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the Saudi royal family, legal system, government, or any religion, religious figure, or religious practice