I don’t think BlueSky is dying but I do think it‘s stagnant because there are only so many unpleasant terminally online politically hyper-engaged left of center aging millennials with personality disorders and a history of underachievement to draw from. We’re pretty much all here already.

I'm going to keep beating this drum: the story of this century is the weakness of Congress. We're in one long legislative crisis.

With the caveat that this is a Fox poll, this would seem to suggest that in 2006 the majority of people polled simply did not know what the 14th Amendment said, but by 2026 Trump’s demagoguery around birthright citizenship had educated a huge swathe of the public, only NOT in the way he intended.

"The KKK Memorial Park is staffed by slave labor" is the most Georgia headline of all time

Besides being overly concerned about what people do in their bedrooms, unlike Maga the Catholic Church reads and occasionally read things like this:

one of my first moments of real critical reading was asking "why do all these milsf books I like have politicians who exist only to look like idiots for believing in the possibility of diplomacy"

Shoutout to people like me who has misophonia but only for 🥭, can’t catch me hatewatching

Footage captured from passengers on an airliner above Florida, showing the exact moment the Artemis II mission lifts off.

This is the sort of gangsterism that even Genghis Khan found to be offensive, it breaks a taboo that predates the very idea of true international law.

“My solution to the bad officers is that all the good officers should quit and let the bad officers remain in charge and allegiant to the cult leader” is not the brilliant idea a lot of you think it is.

He will definitely be thrown under the bus when this is all over. He is just too stupid to know it...

bold move when they’re already having trouble with military enlistment

By the way, the tell that Will is absolutely right here is the number of times people have posted my own profile pic at me but upside down. Subtle.

Oh fuck

in conclusion

Mad king blasphemy stuff here.

This is called “strategic defeat.” You have ended up in a worse position than before you began, with your adversary, while battered, emerging in a stronger position than before.

“And when you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites. For they love to stand and pray on the street corners, that they may be seen by others." Matthew 6:5

I think this really illustrates that a lot of dull people who complain about "politics" in stories, simply do not know what politics are. including, sometimes, the authors of those stories.

I feel most for the American servicemen/women who are out there in harm's way with the intimate knowledge that nobody back home is happy they're there, are actively angry that they're fighting, and are staring down the barrel of Vietnam-style hatred for their service.

PizzaINT = OUT StripperINT = IN

"Do you know why a shark keeps moving?"

i thought we were past this phase of the discourse 😵‍💫

In my darkest moments, I fear that this is how democracy dies. Not with a secret conspiracy conducted in the middle of the night. But with a brazen confession made public in the light of day. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/ther...

Tough challenge here for geolocation experts - guess the country.

Write a paper as a major that makes an unstable, bus-in-the-woods-dwelling marine uncomfortable 15 years in the future? No promotion for you. Provide logistics support to the last few weeks of a 20-year failed strategy of three administrations? No promotion for you.

If a secdef violating the 14th amendment rights of US servicemembers by denying promotions based on race isn’t impeachable then I don’t see what is. The man would rather the military be racist than effective.

MASSIVE WIN: no one wants to live in the united states anymore

"You (or people you know) know about a thing that is bad, therefore you are bad via the transitive property" is an incredibly anti-intellectual worldview that a kind of shocking number of people subscribe to

Reacher has a grizzly bear rug in his living room. He didn't shoot the bear - it's just too scared to move.

Yep. See also: Antonin Scalia refusing to read WaPo or NYT because he preferred to cook his brain on rightwing talk radio

Douglas Adams said it best: “To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it. To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.”

Saw an old interview with Frank Herbert who said “I don’t think that the old saw about power corrupting and absolute power corrupting absolutely is accurate. I think power attracts the corruptible” and, yeah, that.

Pretty sure Crimson Desert is just Two Worlds all over again - a clunky but expansive RPG for the new age beset by technical issues

This is going to be the GOAT of didn’t age well takes

bad night for AIPAC as Venezuela wins the game

-The all white jury ruled completely in favor of Afroman and first amendment rights. Like and subscribe: www.youtube.com/@ogafroman

It is disappointing that individuals failed to recognize the consistent shortcomings demonstrated after his first four years. The individual in question appears to be an aging figure whose actions are causing disruption, seemingly for personal gratification.

So, let me get this strait: - Bomb Iran. - Iran retaliates by shutting down the Strait of Hormuz. - Lift sanctions on Russia to keep oil flowing. - Respond by lifting sanctions on Iran - who you have just bombed. - Iran and Russia make a shit ton more money. - We all pay the price. 🤦‍♂️

SF + City Lights: You’re legendary.

Lying about what a gold star family says to you is next level psycho