when you have that one friend who didn't pick up a subculture with everyone else but you're still cool

Here’s the CBS News report about ICE making bogus 911 calls and filing false police reports in Chicago. ht: @mikenellis.bsky.social

I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections

One of the most common reasons people come to visit the e-bike lending library is "because we want to avoid buying a second car to get around" (usually parents of two small children).

Oh I am on it. Printing this template out and bringing my loom to afternoon craft time at the library to get started.

I did draw it immediately in the time between replying to your post and now 😅

Reports of the staffing shortfalls came hours after Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said that there has been a slight increase in sick calls since the government shutdown began. on.nbcboston.com/YRL3OMZ

Hear ye hear ye a message of hope and inspiration from our courageous leader in exile, Link. May all his loyal followers take heart!

Kid in Jersey (yes, he is) kills two girls for talking shit about CK. Dad’s a cop, uncle is chief of police. This should go well, right?

i had no idea this is how canada's supreme court dresses

Now posted at The NDN Silver Blog, it's a Monday Photo Meditation for the first full week of October, and for the seasonal shifts that make this the most hauntingly beautiful time of year here: wingssilverwork.com/monday-photo....

These are what are known as lenticular clouds, or more colloquially, shelf clouds. They begin as the small versions you see here, looking like flying saucers hovering above the ridgeline, sometimes stacked upon each other.

oh don't like wasps or nutria? here's your moment of calm if you at least like ducks, you bastards 3/3

oh don't like wasps? here's your moment of calm if you like nutria 2/3

please send me your candidates for the weirdest things Eric Adams has done in 2025

My entire childhood, he was a punchline. I can’t get over it. All this for a guy who was a throwaway joke on Golden Girls.

Even Sesame Street!! youtu.be/yQyTpPu0gvc?...

Like, they recreated Trump’s gilded apartment for this movie! Because they knew audiences would know what “absurdly gaudy tacky New York apartment” meant and it was not complimentary. bsky.app/profile/aman...

I cannot express enough how much of a joke Donald Trump was in 2008. He was a reality show host who had previously been mostly known for going bankrupt. This would be like someone planning to blackmail Jeff Probst

Glad that Erin Biba is back but I am going to not be much until Link is. And I didn't even follow him. Ain't about that.

I kind of can’t believe this Bari Weiss quote is even real, and yet www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/b...

rent and car have got to get paid ; $1180 needed as donations to GFM won't process in time #UrgentNeed #HelpFolksLive2025 #MutualAid 💸 💕

It is really obvious you're either using tools or individuals who are incapable of parsing the simplest contextual use of human language. This is an ironic statement that demonstrates no active desires to oppress any group of individuals. It doesn't shove them in vans at gunpoint. Calm. Down.

@safety.bsky.app this post is not intolerant. I don't appreciate how you're gaslighting this community every ten seconds. One of the good things about this site was a public agreement that truth and accuracy matter. Do you know how painful it is to see you endorse the disintegration of meaning?

precarity abounds pretty please ponder paying me on ko-fi rent: i gotta pay it! groceries: they ain't free! help me pay for being alive so i can keep drawing stuff! 💸 ko-fi.com/thxnywy 💰

I see management decide that's all acceptable as long as Jesse Singal gets to continue posting. When leadership goes on a multi-day tailspin of ignoring, brushing off, and mocking user complaints, that's toxic. When people get banned for existing, that's toxic.

THIS feels incredibly toxic after the behaviour of Bsky leadership this last week. How often do I see toxicity? I see Palestinians get deleted for asking for help. I see sex workers harassed. I see Jewish people brigaded. I see trans people put on irl watchlists. I see white supremacists lauded.

oh hahaha no, I'm sorry apparently a full half of the 3000 settlement per book goes to the publisher, so I think my total share is $3750 for stealing my work in an attempt to replace me

If the world has you stressed out lately, Kitten recommends you just get someone to rub your ear.

these are the base mugs for the thing i am working on. i don't know if the pixel art will be completely ruined when i post it

24 hours left, please share—New day, new drive for the giving circle, partnered with six families & a displacement camp to support their survival—nothing less. Most have been devastatingly displaced from their beloved city and URGENTLY need food, tents, blankets. 0/500 chuffed.org/project/hope...

Saw this osprey on Oct 5. Light was terrible so I slid the sliders and recovered this pic. Checking eBird records I see Oct 8 is my latest sighting, so I guess this means farewell for now, you beautiful, yellow-eyed, fish-grabbing monster. Have a great winter in the Gulf of Mexico, friend #birds

As somebody with asthma who uses inhalers - SHUT THE FUCK UP. THIS ARTICLE IS SHAMING PEOPLE WITH A CHRONIC CONDITION. "Significantly" My ass. You know what else does? AI Data centers - corporations - cows - asphalt - THOUSANDS OF OTHERS THINGS THAT ARE NOT MEDICINE. Fuck you - fuck you again.

The #BirdOfTheDay today is my favorite bird or birds. Mr & Mrs White-crowned Sparrow are my very favorite. They are the patient ones at the feeder while the House Finches and House Sparrows run amok. #birds #photography #EastCoastKin

Let me tell you a story about the INS agent who killed my grandmother... He crossed the median and his huge truck rolled on top of her car and crushed her. He blew over 2x legal limit at scene, his blood test later had him at over 2x. He was cut off at ski lodge so he went cross street bought box

I've been trying to put my finger on why ICE/DHS lies feel so much more outrageous than normal cop lies, and I think it's because they don't lie like cops, they lie like aggressively stupid criminals

delighted to report that MARGHOULRITAVILLE is open for the season

Working on a bloödcheëp shirt. I'm proud of those letters.

This kind of pacing has bothered me for ages; I just checked and it looks like I first complained about it on my blog nearly a decade ago: www.superdoomedplanet.com/blog/2016/04...

I've been seeing a lot of this even in books that seem like they should be more driven, pulpier, more plot & action-focused. What frustrates me about it—to be clear, I adore a contemplative lost-in-the-landscape literary meander—is when it seems to stem from a televisual concept of *time*.

part of the whole promise of bluesky, the reason we put up with lax moderation, was that we could moderate ourselves, and choose what we wanted and didn't want to see, and apparently that's a problem now that we don't want to see silicon valley's latest worthless garbage

$25/150. let's not have this be the second winter i get scurvy

Some kind of water main issue on beacon st in Somerville. Flushing the hydrant and more water on the street in front of the star no one goes to. @universalhub.com

Pennywise really taught those kids a lot

“hey uh i went into a trans woman’s replies & yelled about a year old issue—that’s fine, right?” “and i made up alt text for the skeet—sorry, sorry—the bloot to keep the black guy offline.” “i banned a jewish lady!” “ooookay, so darrin, you’re fine to go ask people about where they see toxicity?”

I dunno man, try listening to marginalized people *before* shit goes wrong, and maybe it won't keep being like that

“everyone is twelve now” theory

The Plymouth County Correctional Facility is the only ICE detention center in Massachusetts and the linchpin to ICE's infrastructure in New England. It seems like the easiest way to weaken this infrastructure is for the Mass. legislature to pass a law terminating any county-level contracts with ICE.

the fuck is this shit