The real question is not "Why is Bluesky so left-coded," the real question is "Why can't the right exist in a social media environment without algorithmic assistance, where people can ignore them"

1. President Trump has posted hundreds of times in the last two hours. Here is a screen recording of the posts. Given that the video is nearly five minutes, I have to split it. Video 1 here:

'tis the season

Oh shit waddup

The combination of fascism covid more fascism genocide capitulation to fascism and the clear goal of AI tech bros to eradicate the workforce and make all jobs and future goals irrelevant as we all slide into poverty while eleven rich people become gods is really doing a number on us.

WHITE HOUSE SAYS HEGSETH AUTHORIZED THE ADMIRAL TO CONDUCT STRIKES ON SEPTEMBER 2.

Guy spends 6 months teaching an octopus to play piano: 🔊 #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsi...

mr president sir its time for your daily mri…no sir we will not tell you why…yes sir its probably because youre so healthy sir

This really is good

imo if you want to get back in power your slogan should be "If you elect us we will prosecute everyone in government who has violated the law"

Virgo: You’re living the dream! The one where everything sucks.

The past decade has seen grave threats and unmistakable decline. But the past few days and weeks reveal that we have entered in a new and more perilous chapter here in the U.S. It must be a call to a new kind of action. My latest. open.substack.com/pub/davidrot...

I wish Phil Hartman had been with us to do his voice.

We live in between two different radio stations (one in Austin, one in Waco) on 95.5 which sometimes results in some very strange mashups in the car, like right now with Rockin Around the Christmas Tree and Waiting for a Girl Like You

Be more than thankful, be grateful. I used to live in that space. The space where I could stop and be grateful. Not for possessions, but for my life, my wife, my kids, my family, my dear friends. “Life is good.” That was my silent mantra. And it was real. I carried it with me. 🧵

This is the correct take. Stewing in white supremacist propaganda is bad for your thinking. And if think you are so savvy that it won’t impact you, you are the exact kind of mark they are slowly converting (I’m looking at you, centrist pundits).

curious

Another impossible beauty standard

In the future, everyone will have an affair with Olivia Nuzzi for 15 minutes

I mean, are we sure this is consensual?

I like all and love many but my very favorite is Across the Universe jai guru deva om

everyone knows the number one quality of rigorous, responsible journalism is waiting months and months to reveal urgently newsworthy information until it can cause the most harm in your personal vendettas

Made a savory coleslaw (hate it sweet), deviled eggs with dill pickle mustard from Aldi, cranberry sauce (with blueberries & spices simmered in Malbec), a glazed orange-cranberry loaf that smells like heaven

publishing your greatest professional and ethical failures in a series of paywalled blog posts is certainly a choice.

it's one of those stories that immediately gives me a sinking feeling beyond the initial horror I feel with most shootings

Kristi Noem appears to confirm it was two National Guardsmen who were shot near the White House.

oh fuck this makes me very nervous, my stomach hurts

Today’s xkcd made me cry. In a good way. xkcd.com/3172/

Happy Christmas dog sweater season to all who celebrate

Someone has broken into our car and stolen all my husband's change 2x and is now stealing packages from our porch & I'm so mad that we live in a world where people are such shitheads we all have to spy on each other just to protect ourselves. I don't want fucking cameras, I want people to not suck.

Husband is off work all week and we were going to finally repaint the exterior of the house because it looks terrible but it's maybe? not sure? probably? possibly? going to be raining half the week so instead we're painting the interior and ugh painting sucks

One thing I've learned in 35 years of watching propaganda escalate throughout the US is that the closest thing to a vaccination against it is the firm, bone-deep understanding that YES, *even you* can be manipulated and exercising appropriate caution

Every day I wake up and give thanks for my health, my family, and for not being Cheryl Hines

They line up perfectly.

Discourse has been so relentlessly bleak for so long that it feels like drugs when the whole timeline is joyous about one thing.

the son he always wanted

brutal but accurate (amusingly, though, this does not carry over to everyone who watched Better Call Saul, all of whom would have run through a brick wall for Kim)

I’m howling.

im fucking crying dawg

Murkowski on Trump saying some Democrats committed treason punishable by death “So I was just explaining somebody out on the steps that I've just come back from Vice President Cheney's services, and I have not looked at my phone since 1030 this morning.” I offered to show my phone

So excited for all of us that we get to find out the real-world answer to this hypothetical question from a 1965 political novel, what a time to be alive

I dunno, it feels like an increasingly urgent problem that the president of the US is a violent and sadistic narcissist who truly believes he is the main character of human history and everyone else exists purely to serve and pleasure him and who has control over weapons of mass destruction

AND WHY WOULD VOTING TO RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES BE A TACTIC TO “GET” THE PRESIDENT?!

I know I’m a libtard but I think it’s bad the U.S. president keeps calling for the killing of specific sitting elected officials who didn’t even commit crimes

The President of the United States just called for Democratic members of Congress to be executed. "HANG THEM", he posted. If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.

Whistles are one of the most accessible tools in resisting ICE. Here’s how to use them:

Quiet, Piggy.

this is like his response to every question he gets asked now, too, everything is just an incoherent filibuster of bullshit because he has a medical condition destroying his cognitive ability and everyone around him knows it