it was cringe when Elon tried to be the Meme CEO and in addition to being ridiculously shortsighted and unprofessional, this is cringe.

and yet, "this year" in its endless permutations, saving lives into the new generations who dont know it's always the closer and spend the encore pleading for it. you're not wrong, it just depends on how good you were at it when you were young and raw whether it becomes funny-how or farce.

Holy shit, what a comparison to make.

Thinking not for the first time about how the Clash song Spanish Bombs is closer chronologically to the Spanish Civil War than we now are to the song.

I hate this argument so much, for a similar reason as to why I hate when white people say it's racist to call them racist when they are being racist. Don't let them hijack the language of social justice to defend this evil fascist anti-human project.

Watching Jay, I realize I am simply exhausted by folks in positions of leadership who are driven to distraction by critique. If you can't function with critique and pushback, a leadership position is not for you. Leadership REQUIRES you to absorb and process the critique of stakeholders.

I am once again asking @moderation.bsky.app to stop labeling any picture of a woman who is showing even a little bit of skin as “sexually suggestive.” This is a news article about Refrigerator Mothers and the history of blaming moms for autism.

this is indeed a very funny point that we left out.

Big win. Now you can leave Bluesky AND return to their servers if you wanted to. Folks who migrated to blacksky.app, myatproto.social, and cryptoanarchy.network were taking a leap of faith move over to servers hosted by Blacksky Algorithms. Hopefully this de-risks things for folks.

a very long time ago but not too far from here @alexandraerin.com was listening to me riff on the Fourth Amendment and was like "The plain view exception seems sensible to me, like, if I'm visibly tied up in the back of a car at a traffic stop I would like to be rescued? But...not like that."

a short off the cuff "Courtney Milan explains how the beatings aren't distributed equally when it comes to the amendments SCOTUS likes and doesn't depending on who's arguing.

Yeah, I think we don't treat all amendments the same, and I think the second amendment in its current form allows lots of people to get shot, but also, for minority groups to be shot out of hand by cops if they try to exercise that right, and so I want to give it disfavored amendment status.

biting my lip to not snark "but did they control for the Benadryl" (yes this is a joke) (for the people who don't get it: the studies linking long-term Benadryl use and dementia risk didn't control for the insomnia/untreated MCAS participants were using it for)

I just made this up right now and did not do an extensive search of SCOTUS 25nd amendment case law, if it exists, so please understand this as shitpost and not attempted legal scholarship. Also I left off prohibition and its repeal.

Amendments ranked according to SCOTUS 2 1 5 (takings) 14 (only for punitive damages against large corporations that fuck ecosystems) 3 11 12 7 16 17 20 22 23 25 27 4 5 (crime) 19 (as long as they're not women of color, see 15) 6 8 14 (for actual equality) 13 24 10 15 9

You know what would protect more against tyranny? Not having highly militarized law enforcement in this country in the first place.

what they actually have to sell here is twitter but without the bigots and obnoxious CEO, & they seem determined to piss all that away as fast as they can

☠️☠️☠️ bsky.app/profile/fuck...

hope is the thing with feathers

🗣️ Journalist request (pls share): 🏟️ Looking to hear from NWSL fans who: ⚪️ got rid of a szn ticket or ⚪️ will not be renewing in ‘26 or ⚪️ has been going to fewer games than past years or ⚪️ has decided to buy a szn ticket/ticket package hmu ⤵️

It's a lot easier to understand what I'm trying to say when I talk about the second amendment if you imagine that I want the second amendment to be about as strong as the current court makes the fourth, and I want the fourth amendment to be about as strong as we make the second.

What the fuck do you mean I got a longer prison sentence than Diddy

to put it in terms they will understand: if you want to run a pancake store, but then millions of people who only want waffles turn up, fuck you, you run a waffle store now

Robert E (2-Gun Bob) Howard: I'd like to enter. Rector: Umm ... really? 2-Gun Bob: Yup. How much do you pay? Rector Pay? Oh, we don't pay. 2-Gun Bob: *frowns* Say that again? Rector: We provide EXPOSURE (so you can never get top dollar for anything you place with us first). 2-Gun Bob: *draws guns*

I love books and garlic but I do not love this.

King: what's a craven? Armentraut: well, i'm a-cravin' to read this book now! ha ha! King: King: ha ha! King: that's pretty good Barker: BOO Barker: NO ITS NOT Barker: GET OFF THE STAGE King: oh lighten up, clive! King: it's fun! Barker: the whole campfire smells like a pizzeria dumpster now steve

Rector: listen up Rector: here's the rules for the horror zine Rector: no sex allowed Rector: no gore allowed Rector: no serial killers allowed Rector: no slashers allowed Rector: no religious or political themes allowed

Edward Lee: hey broooo Lee: it's time for a bros night out! Lovecraft: oh no Lee: we're gonna have so much fun, bro! Lee: Jordan won't even remember his ex Jordan Shiveley: sighhh Shiveley: [plaintiffly touching framed photo] the void...

where is the lie

that and trans people and people of color, yep

I have no respect for Jack but at least he just stoically ignored us constantly yelling at him to ban the nazis instead of trying to be cute. Don't be cute with me. You're the bosses and we're the product, you need us.

use this useful data about your platform to improve t&s and don't retroactively change the rules for popular Nazis (untried)

if youre gonna be the ceo of a microblogging platform you have basically three choices as to how you deal with the fact that your mentions are where your users bitch at you: Jack (don't ban the Nazis, don't engage) Elon/current management (also don't ban the nazis, try to meme through it)

please do this actually

do people outside the south have "don't be cute with me" or equivalent?

they literally had a permit and not in the ron Swanson sense

y'all block this antisemite until I get back and can alt text a screenshot, ta.

To everyone talking about Israel this what you genuinely sound like. bsky.app/profile/sirl...

My fellow Jews: protect your heart and don’t read the replies to this post. My fellow allies: read all of these replies, internalize the antisemitism problem on the left, and start gathering your thoughts about how you will fight this vile rhetoric.

Lol they put the Epstein Trump statue back

The 'WAFFLES' thing is even more upsetting when you realise Jesse Singal came into a place where people didn't hate Trans people and he started yelling 'WHY DON'T YOU HATE TRANS PEOPLE' like he's literally the 'WAFFLES' person in the analogy ffs

Please spread the word. There are people in desperate need of the flower report feed, and they don't even know it exists!

this has big "he just tweeted it out" energy

"Complaining About Cancel Culture In Riyadh" feels like it should be a book à la Reading Lolita in Tehran

"do you have to fight in my bed when im trying to sleep' and other questions to ask your cats rhetorically

I am one of probably a very few people that knows basically nothing about that low tax except what his name is used as a euphemism for but remembers the intricate details of Byron "Low Tax" Looper leading up to and including him murdering state senator Tommy Burks.

the mods of this place will strangle it to death trying to avoid it having the reputation it already has and unavoidably will always have

Complaining about cancel culture in Riyadh is one of the best examples I've seen of how "free speech culture" rots the brain.

When disabled people fought the mask bans in Nassau County and North Carolina, we were told to get a medical exemption. Ugly laws were back. But when ICE wants to cover their faces? A mask ban is suddenly “unconstitutional”. Got it.

Gretchen Felker Martin is a top user on this site, she's darkly funny and good at posting . Bluesky is not incapable of flagging her account as "don't suspend without looking into it because she gets brigaded off here once a week amd every release day she has" they don't want to. Cause she's trans.