Eisenhower

A big part of the authoritarian playbook is war. War takes over the news. War blots out criticism. War divides a nation’s people, subjecting those against it to being called unpatriotic. War grants leaders all sorts of emergency powers. War consumes everything else. We mustn’t let this war do so.

I'm already sick of "It's all a distraction from Epstein" replies. This regime is killing innocent people because our leaders are all power-hungry tyrants and war profiteers. When you say it's "just a distraction" you minimize the gravity of what's happening and the lives lost.

So Trump thinks he can blitzkrieg into Russia as easily as he did into Poland? Sorry wrong evil warmongering fascist. I meant Iran vs Venezuela.

A healthy film industry makes sleazy movies. Weird, borderline kink films are like coal mine canaries- they're offensive, often deeply personal, and a foil to the clean blandness of big budget propaganda. A lack of bizarre "not to everyone's taste" films is an indicator of a sickly studio ecosystem.

If the rich and powerful who hung around Epstein's island regularly don't start ratting each other out, then I think we must assume they are all equally guilty.

This is amazing. www.getyourfuckingmoneyback.com

MAGA on social media: trans people are just cosplaying so they can terrorize society via dangerous ideology! Meanwhile, MAGA irl... ("Every accusation is a confession" remains true)

The richest man owns X. The second and third richest men control Google. The fourth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fifth richest man owns The Washington Post. And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?

Ughhh looks like my sinus infection spread to my throat thanks to post-nasal drip. Not a fun week medically

with how rapidly parts of the US and canada are moving to criminalize transition now is a better time than ever to get linked into the diy networks and also please do not post about them in public too much

can I please piggyback off you as a Bigger Account that responses like "lol it's Kansas what did you expect" or "Kansas deserves to be hit by more tornadoes" are actually not helpful or comforting to the people being harmed most right now? Because no one bothers listening to me

Measles was wiped out in the U.S. 25 years ago and now we’re already past 1,000 cases in February because vaccination rates dropped below the safety line. This is what happens when public health gets gutted and people stop trusting basic science.

They won't start with banning birth control. First they'll lie about it. Then dictate who can prescribe it, use it, fund it, in what forms, and for how long. Suddenly, your doctor won't call you back. I know this is what they'll do because it's what they're doing to transgender healthcare right now.

So I have a medical sign that doesn't make sense and which will require followup with a trans-friendly urologist. Noticed a semi-firm, painless 1.5cm mass attached to left testis and/or cauda of epididymis last night. Wasn't there two weeks ago. *Gone* this morning. No history of hydroceles.

i need to stress this to puritan furries: Nothing will get the fucking non-furries to like you. It doesnt matter how sanitized you make it, they will always assume the worst because the people who hate us are evil ghouls themselves who hate the notion of expression by default, it doesnt matter if

if you have any influence over hiring decisions for your company you should do everything you can to get trans people hired

more progress on this piece. hello tslycha.com/turning-part...

I think about this tweet every time I feel something online start to curl its annoying little grip into my head

New Jersey has proposed the F.U.C.K.I.C.E Act. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/21/n...

The reason we're here is that tens of millions of people will punch a hole in a wall if they hear someone used food stamps to buy soda but they're fine if the right-wing podcaster turned fbi director uses his taxpayer funded private jet to go party whenever he feels like it bsky.app/profile/thed...

Beginning to suspect Americans don't really care about kids being raped or minorities being persecuted or their fellow countrymen being executed... Americans just want to be the loudest people in the room. That's their chief priority.

A trick my over-literal ass used to use to help manage words and phrases with a variety of meanings is to imagine many virtual worlds in my mind, where the thing had a clear, fixed, but distinct meaning in each little world, then I would imagine "what world is this conversation probably from" to map

The only thing that can truly make a country Great is if its leader is able to pilot that country's most advanced passenger aircraft w/o autopilot, with all of that country's rich and powerful onboard. That's the only real display of personal power that matters! Soaring majestically through the sky!

recalling how I would fantasize about what some drug would be like, wondering what they [=authority figures] were keeping secret: how captivating it was, because I& was so used to an atmosphere of semi-secrecy, not about any serious infraction, but just a vague closed-off-ness, amplifying curiosity!

a shy plural person is a nervous system

Me every time my body shows some random illness-like symptoms but with no clear indication of infection: I hope this isn't covid. I still usually mask around others but I'm not perfect about it Covid test every time: Negative But my body has been doing random things like this for decades so 🤷🏼‍♀️

Some coworker talking about how he thinks the female Olympian figure skater who complained about stress related to Trump's bs affecting her performance is just making up excuses for not training harder, and his tone of voice was almost like he found the idea of being stressed about Trump comical...

It's like a cosmic joke that my sexual arousal levels were so intense as a preteen that it kept me awake when I badly wanted to get sleep. Now I'm a middle aged, married adult and my libido is easily overwhelmed by minor anxiety. If only puberty hit at 30 instead of 10 right? (Genetic engineering?)

Anyone else notice YouTube playlists not playing in order and the site having a bunch of random italics everywhere suddenly (Chrome on PC)? Is this a CI/CD SNAFU...

If Democrats want more gun control in the US, there's a super easy way to get that right now: Dems just need to become the majority of gun owners and gun control will suddenly be a big topic with bipartisan support

Seeing posts about the Epstein/Trump files on Twitter right now is a wild time. Musk and the LinkedIn guy going at each other and this Trumper girl almost had me clicking like until I saw her bio

The lesson human leaders learned from the Holocaust was not "never again"; it was "just try not to get caught next time". The disliked and disadvantaged groups of people on the planet are still trampled underfoot en masse to benefit the groups holding the power.

I wonder what it must be like to be the guy next to me in the aisle seat who ordered an IPA then promptly fell asleep covering the armrest so I can't extricate my tray table from it (bulkhead row). Not only am I annoyed but he's probably annoyed with himself because he never got his beer

One important that way a person slapping a Nazi isn’t as bad as a Nazi is, and this is key, they aren’t a Nazi.

One thing about being a kid in the 80s was that you were used to elderly people regularly being racist, but they were usually seen as behind the times and uncool for it (at least by decent folk). I imagine TERFs in nursing homes in 20 years sounding like absolute fools sometimes.

@unileverusa.bsky.social when are y'all going to invent Dove-brand flavored antiperspirants? Immense marketing potential in certain communities!

I keep seeing folks say they'll just accept a Teen Friendly account on Discord rather than scan or ID and I don't know if I wanna mass normalize leaving NSFW pals out in the cold yet again. Especially with all the censorship stuff goin on I think we gotta stand with the freaks now more than ever.

Usage idea: once you have finished bagging items into some set of bags, as baggage, and begin lugging them around, they become luggage. So baggage is stationary whereas luggage is what you are toting around? So, um, when you put items into a tote... Wait... 🤔 *Looks up lug (noun)* huh... 🤔

"There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is turn the right MCP knobs at the right time and the 737 flies itself." –Johann Sebastian Boeing

Well I never took a literature class which covered airsickness bags, but they do have one complete sentence on them, which I suppose counts for something?

Medley idea: Tangerine Dream's Tangent, from Poland, blended with the BBC HBO series His Dark Materials's main theme

Website: MFA code wrong, try entering it again Me: oh two digits got transposed somehow, let me fix that "Smart" Javascript of website: user just entered two digits not seven so I'm keeping the submit button grayed out (Cue me retyping what's in the box and hating Javascript "enhanced" websites)

Learn how to protect yourself in case an LRAD gets deployed on you. Move to the side, then away from where the device is pointing. Taking hard cover also helps! And remember, BRING EARPLUGS!

Shame might be why we're so amorphous as a plural (just "personally" speaking)

#FloridaFreeze prep! ☑️ Bring in the potted plants ☑️ Put a tiny space heater in cardboard box wrapped in thermal insulation for neighborhood strays ☑️ Survey home w/ thermal camera Coming up: Reverse the heat pump to non-AC Make sinks on each pipe drip a bit

Everything old is new again.

Airlines some years back: checking a bag costs money now Also airlines: Wow everyone is fighting over overhead bins, creating problems with multiple aspects of flying that add up to significant inefficiencies! Like they expect to be pitied... Made your bed, lie in it!

I wouldn't mind having to be on airplanes so much if straight men were required to take etiquette courses before they could travel. Just being surrounded by obnoxious straight men for hours is so annoying