I'm a three. I didn't like the daddy/boyfriend thing in Armageddon, and I thought the pacing on Dante's Peak was too clunky to be a good b-movie and it's too bad because I really, really wanted to like it. I love geology and fear volcanos.

Remember all this nonsense about the supposed inferiority of “third world” immigration? They really believed that and applied their theory to international relations and it failed. Racism makes you stupid.

A particularly targeted variant of, "just kidding".

The best explanation why millions of Americans worship and support a convicted felon and sexual predator...

Epstein is not trending folks, so let's make some noise. RELEASE ALL THE FILES.

Trump starting to fire people is a big deal. The whole point of his administration has been "What are you gonna do about it lib? Lmao owned." And keeping people in the face of massive scandal was perceived as showing strength. That he's SO unpopular that it's broken is a big deal.

The @washingtonpost.com describes the deaths of an estimated 750,000 people to date as "messy"

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Americans have already been using credit cards to buy necessities like groceries for years. It’s unacceptable and Susan Collins and repubs in Congress keep making things worse. We need change. Maine needs a senator that knows food policy and what it’s like to rely on govt assistance. Maine needs me.

I don't think it's quite Bsky's fault that US politics has became extremely hard to ignore over the last 15 months. But there are ppl on here doggedly posting about other things that can be followed.

I was never a "Dynasty" fan, but had I known Carrington Manor was a death trap I would've probably watched this show.

I say this one to my mom and @scoiattolo.mountainherder.xyz all the time @ndgree.bsky.social

This is a tenrec! They ecolocate, like bats! They have cloaca, like birds and lizards! They communicate by rubbing quills together! Their closest relative is the Otter Shrew, but they're pretty closely related to Elephants - far closer than they are to Hedgehogs, which they kinda resemble!

The last dog is a LEGEND

FYI she’s the one in the middle

There are specific circumstances and requirements we have to meet in order to call for and participate in a general strike. Here’s the basics of a general strike, what it takes to strike and a few historic examples of general strikes working.

No, not at all subtle, but a mere four-year degree is no match for the ingrained cultural lens through which (white) people tend to view racism. I like to say that at some point in the 70s racism became a bad thing, so white people decided they weren’t racist without changing any other thought.

My catte ys a chaos ball A mess of mischief makinge But everye daye thys litel guy Doth keepe myne hearte from breakinge

It's not everyday you get to shake a dinosaur's hand

I find myself REALLY wanting people to get this. The problem is people's hearts. It doesn't require a four-year degree or a good grasp of history to correctly interpret Trumpism as viciously racist and misogynist. It's not at all subtle.

Yeah Joe Rogan and other right wingers work because they can just lie and say whatever they want to make things interesting. Left Joe Rogan is just... the news.

Everything is terrible so painted a shrimp

I feel pretty comfortable in criticizing Democratic officeholders for not even living up to their own self-stated views or policy regimens. I don't need to choke on some idiot Republican's ballsack to do so.

Kinda awful that they are involving minors in this disgrace. And in an unerasable, fantastically public way. Additional victims.

this is a handy “what’s fascism anyway”cheat sheet

It's been a hot minute since I dug into the numbers, but about 25% of the US has college degrees; 60% of people who get college degrees are women; 15% of the US population are degree-holding women, versus 16% of the US population living in rural areas. "Men falling behind" is what they said.

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Of course, this dovetails with the fact that folks on the right are able to talk about cities as sh*tholes & urban voters as not Real Americans all the time. It's all of one piece & the two wildly different standards applied to Democrats/liberals vs the GOP/conservatives. bsky.app/profile/mcop...

Europeans are not different from us, aside from the good fortune of different political institutions & multiparty systems:

My deal is this: This is no one who can do a better job than Chuck can right now. NOBODY. You can’t pretend you can plug and play someone else, but the fact is YOU CAN’T and ESPECIALLY right now.

I will never apologize for a post

If you believe that Pete Hegseth is a piece of shit, please repost. www.npr.org/2026/03/27/n...

I also have a cat that is obsessed with popcorn. I didn't know that could be a thing before.

Oh my god, the alt text is a gift. 😹

One of these days I'm going to get back to scanning my collection of CB radio QSL cards. If you and I connected on CB radio we would get each other's address and send a QSL card as a souvenir of our interaction.

Bingo. I'm sure Biden telling Israel to suck it up after Hamas massacred 1,200 Israelis, tortured & raped dozens of women & kidnapped >200 more would've done wonders for his electoral prospects, especially w/Jewish Americans. People seem to forget that OTHER voting blocs besides theirs exist.

It’s not the biggest problem but one real reason why no left-liberal popular front has emerged in America is because of a loud and highly visible cohort of not-that-young-anymore leftist edgelords who refuse to be in coalition with their moms.

Wow, it's the 5th anniversary of the #9ReplyGuys thread on Twitter, posted by me & @shrewshrew.bsky.social. #WomenInSTEM who post about harassment & sexual misconduct get a lot of misogynistic replies. We (a woman & a man in science) tried to categorize them. THE NINE TYPES OF REPLY GUYS 🧵

What's the difference between the Vietnam War and the Iran war? Trump had a plan to get out of the Vietnam War.

HUNGRY OPINIONATED BABY

My speech is weird because I had to have an operation on my mouth last Friday, but I have to show you this incredible object made by Tim Kowalczyk (www.instagram.com/timsceramics). I commissioned it as an urn for Fergus’ ashes because he loved boxes SO much. 📦

Feeling inspired. Not sarcasm.

Just the story of his name is one of the coolest things of all time

An anti-suffragette postcard from the early 1900s 'First she gets the vote, then she gets your wife!' #WomensHistoryMonth

This is not only a beautiful remembrance, but an astonishing document of a society and a civilization undergoing dizzyingly rapid, profound change. Like Cixin Liu's "Sun of China", in real life. What a thing to have written, and what a thing to have lived.

Like, you don't have lines in the sand that you won't cross, you have what feels good and what's acceptable in your social milieu, both of which can change until you are a completely different person, because you weren't much of a person to begin with.

THE GREAT BRITISH SEWING BEE: oh my this is fun, oh what larks THE GREAT BRITISH REAPING BEE: well this is a spot of bother and make no mistake, what on earth

Anyway I am going to bed here’s a satisfying one from the archives @erinbiba.bsky.social everyone else please try to be cool.