Facebook knows that it is committing fraud and does not care. www.reuters.com/investigatio...

People thinking they’re inventing network television after 10 years of destroying network television, I am going to walk into the fucking ocean.

There are no words for how evil this is

I think a lot about the story Carl Reiner told: he’d have been a sewing machine repairman if not for a free WPA drama class. That led to other theater work, to Sid Caesar, to Mel Brooks, and all the rest. All because of one free class paid for by a government that felt the arts were worth teaching.

I’d like my passport and driver’s license changed to say I’m 22 inches long and 7.5 lbs, please.

There is no one else who can replace you in this fight, there is no one else who can replace you in the rebuilding, there is no one else who can replace you when joy comes in the morning. Stay and fight. www.patreon.com/posts/142915...

"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk

Should women be hated as witches or patronized as overgrown children? The paper of record debates the two available options.

This is on Republicans and especially Marco Rubio. That man has the blood of hundreds of thousand on his hands.

UPDATE: Here's the written district court order that the Trump administration pay full SNAP benefit payments for this month by Friday. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... DOJ has already filed a notice of appeal to the First Circuit. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

If you can't totalitarian strongman rule electeds in your own party, it's gonna be real tough to establish totalitarian strongman rule over everyone else

Yeah, the fact that Trump can't strongarm the congressional GOP on filibuster stuff strongly suggests to me that the regime's opportunity for consolidation is pretty much blown. There's always a chance that they land a colossal emergent crisis and manage to exploit it. But otherwise... I think nope

1.This is not the only known example we know of ChatGPT cheering on a vulnerable young person to die by suicide, this time it is a recent Texas A&M grad 2. Every single university that has invited OpenAI into our midst should be asked to account for their choices. www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...

A bleppy Bagel belly #DailyDoggo #Dachsky

This is the funniest piece of writing I have ever read about a baked good (very funny even if you have not watched the Great British Bakeoff episode): defector.com/the-not-so-g...

It's Thursday. Be like Bagel. Blep & hang out.

Seattle degenerates: want to see Nate Bargatze tonight? Two tickets looking for a new home, no rehoming fee. I'm stuck in flight delay hell and won't make it home to use them, hoping they can go to someone who will walk and feed them twice a day.

THIS IS AMAZING. ALSO WHAT, IF ANYTHING, DID WE FORGET TO RUIN?

A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women 🧵

INVESTIGATION: American taxpayers already spent $6 billion to develop GLP-1 drugs, and then pharma lobbyists bought enough politicians to make sure drug companies were allowed to charge Americans the world’s highest prices for those drugs that we already paid for. This is how corruption works 👇

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Your cat when you're choking to death in your apartment

Hey are you interested in doing an ART against AUTHORITARIANISM? And want tips on things that work? Webinar at c4aa.org/news/anti-au... (scroll down)

A bleppy Bagel belly #DailyDoggo #Dachsky

Realized that @writerodell.bsky.social and I weren't following each other, which we both thought we had been. Which leads me to think that perhaps Bsky has unfollowed other people for me secretly? If we're friends, or have been mutuals in the past, and I'm not following you, please LMK!

Need a reminder of all the stories Kaleidotrope has published?

Attn folks in Delaware, Nevada, New Hampshire, Maine, & Michigan! Your Dem Senators are also getting a LOT of pressure to cut a deal to end the shutdown- by ditching healthcare. Reach out & let them know healthcare must be fixed first! Names & phone numbers below.

To make this clear, the media need to walk people through what happens when tariffs goods arrive in a US port. Who has to fork over the tariff money? The US importer. Where does the money go? The US Treasury. It's a tax.

The sandwich guy has been acquitted. When the jury did not return a quick verdict, it looked like he might be toast. Turns out they needed to chew on it some more. www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

ICE deported him anyways. They literally put a man who was at death’s door on a plane to Costa Rica. Doctors there found he had encephalopathy, rhabdomyolysis and the inability to eat on his own. What happened to him in ICE custody to cause this? He died a few weeks after deportation:

Holy crap. MAGA diehard Danielle Jurinsky lost her city council seat in Aurora, Colorado. She more than anyone is responsible for ginning up the false claim that Tren de Aragua had "taken over" the city. She also repeatedly tried to dissolve the city's groundbreaking public defender office.

someone got indicted on the basis of “transporting antifa materials” for allegedly transporting a box of ZINES THEY’RE PROSECUTING PEOPLE FOR DOMESTIC TERRORISM OVER ZINES

Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...

The EU is defunding the anti abortion World Youth Alliance, after last year me and @soitakw.bsky.social exposed how its founder compared abortion to the Holocaust! www.opendemocracy.net/en/eu-fundin...

In the shadow of the forest, though she may be old and worn, They will stare unbelieving At the last unicorn 🦄 🎼

Its SHIGIDI paperback release day, US & Canada! Its been a long, lovely journey but my award-winning novel about African gods on a supernatural heist at the British museum finally hits stores in a new format, with a new cover + a bonus short story! Get it y'all🙏🏾 Art by @stephenembleton.bsky.social

Shocking behaviour on the Nazi app

Mr Measured just ran in here to tell me he saw a video that said all the little girls dressed as Rumi, Mira, and Zoey on Halloween last week sealed the honmoon so things can get better now so if you need me I’ll be sobbing in a corner 😭

A happy bleppy belly rub #DailyDoggo #Dachsky

A stereotype is NOT a generalization of how some population differs from human universals but a way to demonize members of that population precisely WHEN they act according to human universals.

I don’t know how many times I’ve watched this video. I don’t know how we’ve gotten to the point where men in full balaclavas can abduct daycare teachers while they’re watching children. But I do know that this isn’t sustainable. Abolish ICE. There is no way to reform this.

heads up to anyone who holds trans kids near: amy harmon from the nyt is searching for and having a hard time finding people to interview to find out exactly what trans kids are doing when their care is limited or cut off, and for purposes of community safety, please shut the fuck up around her.

Not to replace substance with message but I genuinely do not think that the GOP establishment is prepared, nor capable, of regulating itself in a world where all high profile democrats are directly staring into a camera and telling Trump to go fuck himself.

joyscrolling is a nice change of pace

I have still only found one purpose for the weird pockets they put on the bottom front of scrub tops: kitten pouch.

If it goes up, don’t cross the picket line. Collective action is the only way we ever get things done.

Dusenbery highlights the astonishing underfunding of conditions that affect more women than men.

Have a little blep for your Wednesday. You’ve earned it.