"Be very skeptical of folks who show up in your spaces trying to rally all the other users to their flag. You made a cake, not a pie, and there will be folks who take that personally." Bluesky is horrendous with this shit. Most communities are, but wow. Spot-on as usual from Matt.

Within days of landing at the beach, Woke 2 is victorious.

Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design. news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

A lot of people in the comments are somehow just learning that MAGA is eugenicist / intentionally marginalizes the disabled even further.

Despite being a Catholic so lapsed, I'm forgetting the smell of incense and palm ash, I am elated at how many people from all walks of life are spotting and calling out TradCaths as the affront they are.

They are the relative who shows up to Thanksgiving and gets told off and escorted out when they "finally say what we were all thinking [sic]".

Horrible morning, as I have a Sonder-like revelation that everyone I ever talk to isn't so much listening to the words I say, but like, filtering them through their own experience and assuming meaning I didn't put there.

If your government thinks the Pope “doesn’t know what he’s talking about” when he defends migrants’ dignity, the world should see the warning sign. The US is no longer leading on human rights. It’s suppressing them.

Wow, this is just awful.

I am unironically in favor

the entire twitter and group chat poisoned elite of American society who decided Trump winning an election by 1.5% heralded a thousand year reich may have miscalculated a bit

Tonight, was another reminder: there is no single mold for a Democratic winner. Progressives won. Moderates won. Rural, suburban, urban —they all won. Black, White, Latino, AAPI — they all won. We won in the East, South, Midwest and West. Victories in races from City Council to Governor.

I like that Dark Woke has a patriotism rooted in the Civil War. We need this.

Bluesky rn

Ayyy that's my so-often unreliable state getting called for the good guys within the hour.

Technically, Pittsburgh's mayor was on the ballot, but this city doesn't elect Republicans (laudatory)

OK not gonna lie, I did not expect an actual Blue Wave until 2026, and that will be the one that matters, but ... so far, some of us around the country are eating good tonight.

Cry, JD, cry into your crying-couch you fuck.

Bluesky is not therapy. (I know, right?!) I want it to be therapy, too! Every time I log on, I want to start posting about sad shit and minor personal drama, and how increasingly hard it is to cope with, but it's unhelpful for everyone. We can't manage your feelings. We're in a rectangle.

Oh, me? Just blocking toddler-ass cranks and muting people who will probably just get banned on their own for truly wild rhetoric. It's election night in America, and America can't just be fucking happy for five seconds, as usual.

I think a lot about @joshuamalina.bsky.social's essay from 2021 on Gibson. www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...

It's annoying to keep having to point this out, but the actual DNC has been behind Mamdani ever since he won the primary, which you wouldn't know by reading some posts on here.

How is this real life

I am 30 or 40 years old, and I just realized that I play Magic: the Gathering under pre-Revolutionary War customs. I don't wait until I have 10 mana to play a combo; I just play the first part of the combo on Turn 4 and everyone can see it. Mostly, I am just realizing everyone else *doesn't*.

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"Do not forget that shit in this moment" is exactly the chord I keep trying to strike.

So was NIXON (1995) any good, or was it weird propaganda or something? I have never met anyone who's talked about seeing this movie.

oh my God this really is what's happening

I was wondering! This showed up on my partner's Citizen app, but nobody was talking about it!

Did I miss some kind of 11/1 protest announcement? I keep seeing throngs of people from afar

I gotta be the only dumbass in the entire world freaking out about my own party plans that were entirely my idea

There are so many people parroting this Nazi fucking talking point and it’s so fundamentally anti-American I feel like repeating it should get you investigated by the House of Representatives.

There is a very stupid protest or something in favor of a famously dead racist man behind the park right now, and I wish I didn't know about it. Ah, well.

You ever think about the sheer number of actionable crimes Lucy commits on I Love Lucy? B&E, theft and burglary, mostly, but God damn.

CPD has been notorious for their Black Boxes over the years, so the fact that these people are somehow running *worse* Black Boxes is a whole new level of evil.

What I'm about to say is damage and not healthy, but: I about hyperventilated when I saw my account in a screenshot yesterday, because I don't want to know how I show up in a labeler. (Turns out all they had active was when I joined Bluesky.)

At least "starting a war for no fucking reason" is one of the recently documented surefire ways to get shit tons of youth not to vote Republican, I guess

It is unjust that Congress doesn't outright impound Nazi money just like we did Russian money.

That bird wants its fucking Big Mac

Too many Americans can't comprehend the phrase, "You're not allowed to parent me the way you want to anymore."

The "When I Was a Lad I Served a Term" admin continues apace

I use Claude (an AI) to scan my posts for spelling and grammar errors. On the most recent post (about the East Wing, link below), I got a really amazing addendum. www.pbump.net/o/yes-most-a...

I want renumeration from any upcoming trials for every invoice I have to process with a Tariff line.

Holy shit. Please tell me they got the license, badge number etc & reported him to not just the Baltimore PD but every local news outlet.

Am I just a victim of reverse recency bias, or do modern horror movies try way too fucking hard

Let’s be real: approximately ten seconds after you told Tolkien that Catholics couldn’t go to Mass because they were afraid of being disappeared by agents of the government, he’d be out there protesting.

i'm a classical social democrat. i think we should raise tax on the upper tax brackets, increase broad-based tax enforcement, and provide universal programs on transit, housing, and healthcare. this apparently is viewed as neoliberalism

There was, in fact, a Worse Thing before the present. Quite a few Worse Things, in fact! In many ways the past was an unending horror show we have only clawed ourselves out of enough to be bothered by our *current* new set of discontents and dissatisfactions!

Love that Republicans refusing to fund people is resulting in rampant theft at my job from people worried about upcoming food scarcity Fuck you, Republicans: *pay us*

To sum up my mood today: I want every shitbag claim to get a response that sounds like the Charlie Brown tweet -- "No, it isn't. That isn't true."