I find it sort of comforting when there's a string of posts I don't understand. The world feels a little bigger again and I consider putting my phone down for a while. Understanding every post I see is usually a bad sign for me or society at large.

orson welles? oh right, unicron! "then it pleases me to be the first." he was an awesome giant planet-eating robot planet.

the law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread.

in any just world, his assets would be seized and distributed to the families of those whose deaths he caused. and then he would be forced, for the rest of his long and miserable life, to watch home movies and hear testimonials about those people. eventually he would break. he's not that strong.

is there a really good video out there walking through how to play riftbound? i am always curious about other games, and the people who worked on riftbound make me pretty optimistic about it. i suspect i won't play myself but i'm curious enough that i want to give it a chance.

Republican: "Where is your evidence that Donald Trump raped children?" Me: "Release the Epstein files." Republican: "No! Then you'd have evidence that Donald Trump raped children."

I’m not sure I’ve ever heard a more succinct and powerful statement of the situation than this: “Few voters who prioritize bigotry want the diet version.” Got damn.

I'm not sure there's anyone on the planet who deserved to celebrate the defeat of Andrew Cuomo more than Lindsey, who had unimaginable amounts of courage in coming forward and continuing to push until he suffered actual consequences for sexual harassment thrilled for her

when you like your girlfriend's butt so much your hands glow just from touching it.

remember, remember the fifth of November gunpower treason plot and alli's birthday i see no reason why gunpowder treason or alli's birthday ought ever be forgot. happy my birthday, everyone. also i still want these presents from everyone.

i have never looked at a celebrity and thought "well fuck, that's a person who i would really love to befriend" *or* "well, friend, that's a person i would really love to fuck". not in ages, anyway. but anyway i'm watching dropout a lot lately and i am feeling both. a lot. they're all just cool.

billionaire-owned newspaper encourages opposition party to fight amongst themselves in an attempt to allow its owner to retain his oligarchic power.

*whispers* you can continue to read me, the pundit who insisted the other pundits were wrong about these conclusions

basically every 2024 truism is dead. Trump did not build a lasting multiracial coalition or turn young men into committed Republicans. You don’t need to cave on trans rights to win. The pundits have nothing left to tell you.

speaking as a jew: aipac lies. most american jews strongly favor palestinian rights and dignity because "never again" means *never again to anyone" and netanyahu has committed war crimes treasonable to jewish morality, among others. mamdani's victory is a victory for all of us in all of our ways.

okay, i've seen enough. i will sleep well tonight. thanks, fellow americans. even my fellow pennsylvanians - a weird thing for me to say, but here i am - did good with the votes to retain our justices. last year's birthday present election day was shit. this is a good start to a turnaround.

gotta be honest, i just exhaled in a way that i don't think i've done in a full year.

when republicans win: we will crush the democrats, they are the enemy within, leftists and dei and trans people will be mandated out of existence when republicans lose: don't forget to be a leader for everyone, don't dare do anything significant against us because we'll be back i sense a pattern.

tomorrow is my birthday and for my birthday i would like a small gift from everyone reading this: tell me something good that's happened to you recently. doesn't matter how big or small, just anything you're willing to share with the world. (please also make sure i would agree that it's good.)

Fellow Pennsylvanians: Please go vote today. If you vote for nothing and no one else, at least make sure you vote YES on retaining the three PA Supreme Court judges. They may be the only thing standing between democracy and PA GOP gerrymandering & election interference. Got that? Vote YES. TODAY.

good morning. may this election day be better than the last.

terrorists have taken over a building. you get to select one song to blast from speakers on a continuous loop to try to get them to surrender. copy and quote-post with the name of the song. i choose “the song that doesn't end" by shari lewis.

i miss what target used to be while recognizing what it is now. like twitter! right-wing assholes just shit all over everything. and i don't need to spend my money on anything covered in shit.

if grant o'brien didn't hook up with ty mitchell after this episode of game changers (season 4, episode 2, "like my coffee"), i am disappointed.

i'm catching up on game changer and i think the first episode of season 4, "sam says", has immediately justified every single dollar i've ever spent on this subscription.

well fuck. i've been taking melatonin for years. now i need to find a new way to get to sleep.

a movie you've seen more than 7 times with a gif

if people get blocked but think there's value in reading what bluesky posters think, they can create a backup account to follow those people who blocked them on main. if someone were to do that to me, and i never find out and it doesn't affect my life in any conceivable way, i wouldn't be upset.

teen vogue had been doing fantastic political reporting in recent years. pour one out for one of the last bastions of the fourth estate, now fallen.

this. star trek characters talk to the computer because that's how you make tv involving people using science fiction computers. (you can sometimes get away with showing a screen for a contemporary computer.) star trek is a fantasy that certain people learned the wrong lessons from.

one time, one time...

such a good line. holy shit what a good line.

The pandemic isn't over, and there's still much to fear from the COVID-19 virus. werd.io/this-physici...

i laughed *and* i wish i could read the dissertation from 200 years from now that references this post as a confluence of popular culture from three different centuries.

Remember how just a few years ago during the worst of the pandemic when we saw how the govt can actually do big things and saw that our collective health & well-being are intertwined, and then corporations got mad that they lost a modicum of power and helped fund a backlash of amnesia and fascism?

i'll go even further and say that i don't care how much money you have, signing up should be enough. you make n+1 times poverty instead of n? cool, take it anyway. you're jeff bezos? hey man, no judgment (on this anyway), you get snap funds. means testing is a plague and everyone should have food.

if the cat likes you, that's a green flag.

i have a very stupid holiday themed name already. i enjoy this bit of whimsy, but i think it's better if it's as dumb as humanly possible.

It's an immeasurably foolish thing for any trans person to attempt to seek to compromise with the anti-trans movement, it's a genocidal ideology with the singular stated goal of extermination, they want us "mandated out of existence" and any one issue brought up is merely a step towards that goal.

i am a huge believer in second chances, in the ability for people to change their mind and grow. but personally? i don't care how much brianna wu ever grows. I mean it's good for her if she does but i would like her to do so far, far away from me that i never need to perceive her ever again.

Just to be 100% clear: do not *trust* your employers - that's super silly. The relationship is economical, not based in loyalty, trust, or kindness. There's no judgement in forming a union, just understanding that capitalism requires a risk of financial loss to get companies to do the right thing.

apparently bluesky folks were just thinking "how can we rot the vibes here instantly? really just drive away people who don't want internet negativity in their life. hmm..."

more journalists need to ask questions like "so are you saying the guy behind you sucks too?"

i await the rfk crusade against covid now that it has been shown to contribute to autism chances. i refuse to say "risk" even if the article does. risk implies that it's a problem, and being autistic is not inherently problematic. i've known way too many autistic people to believe otherwise.

"there's no gravity on the moon" what? says who? that's an insane claim to ascribe to some generic other just so you can doubt it.

man-child in charge of three branches of government demands his political opponents "do something" about a problem that his party is actively abetting.

as an american jew, i have infinitely more in common with an american muslim than a christofascist. and i don't think that's a controversial opinion.

i've been singing more lately—only for myself, of course, since i don't want to irritate people—and the ad algorithm must have heard that because i have been getting a bunch of ads for an app to help train someone in singing. it's intrusive af, yeah. but i'm choosing to fall for this one anyway.

if liberals and leftists spent half as much time working together on the things they agreed on instead of fighting each other over the things they don't, i think the world would be a measurably better place.