Tapping the sign again.

It seems to me that a pastor being threatened after *checks notes* “walking the walk,“ is what religious persecution looks like. Stay safe, everyone.

Collective, racist punishment.

The number of children who are dead because of POTUS, Rubio, and Musk is estimated to be approximately 400,000. It didn’t have to be this way and the people who voted for Canks tell me they didn’t think this would happen. I don‘t have a response to that nonsense that doesn't include expletive.

I don’t want to formulate words yet, but my friend Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social of the Disability Visibility Project, has passed. Here are the words she left behind: www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...

“Side effects include, headache, runny nose, mild to moderate death, and upset stomach.” Incidentally, my husband and I often joke about doing a set with nothing but covers of drug commercial songs 😂

Jesus: take care of the poor. SV: Jesus wants a hackathon! I honestly struggle to understand why weirdos like Pat and Pete want to hasten the end times, as if they’d actually fare well (something about a camel and the eye of a needle).

Venice Bakery is remembering those that have died in ICE custody this year by adding them to their community altar for Dia de Los Muertos. By @eltragon.bsky.social

🚨BIG changes happening -- ICE leadership is being purged tonight. The old guard, which prioritized targeted enforcement operations aimed at people with criminal records, is being replaced with Border Patrol and Gregory Bovino's "Midway Blitz" style. Think things are bad now? It'll get worse.

2025 continues to be absolute trash. This man was an incredible musician and an inspiration for multiple generations of drummers, myself included. 🙏🏽 www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o...

I’ve finally purchased a frame for an art print. It’s been 6 years. THEN, I placed said framed art on a shelf. Please clap.

It’s been three weeks. The federal government is still shutdown. This. Is. Not. Normal.

David Byrne at #NoKings on his bike. (via @wutangforchildren.bsky.social)

Making music with friends is the only good thing about 2025, also known as the stupidest year to date. @effinbirds.com gets me.

2025 can go straight to hell. 😭 people.com/soul-legend-...

I wish to state for the record that while I am among "We, the people of the United States of America," my federal government's decision to terrorize #KilmarAbregoGarcia is not one concerning which I was consulted. I stand with him and his family. That's me in the corner.

Good. If your business model depends on IP theft, let it burn down and fall into the swamp.

I’m firmly convinced that one worships the god they think others deserve. Some folks want the best for others, some folks want the worst. This also a fine time to remind everyone that Christian ≠ good.

Bagged San Gorgonio. It kicked my ass. I can’t believe we get to live here. Total mileage: 19 Total time (including breaks): 9:30 Total ascent: 5640ft #BlackSkyOutdoors

Of all the best and kindest humans to ever live, Jane Goodall is near the top of my list. Rest in Peace, you beautiful soul. On behalf of the earth, I thank you www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/o...

Money can’t buy good morals, exhibit number eleventy-billion.

AAUP v. Rubio is out, and look at how it starts. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

“Russell’s expectation that those who relate to others as though they are not worthy of respect ought to be treated with the regard that orientation deserves.” ✅ Prof. @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social had me at Russell not giving Mosley the time of day. 💯 www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

If you have some values that suck…you can always get new ones.

If you see this skeet, skeet a pic from your device with no explanation.

What will it take for people to stand up for women and families the way folks stood up for Kimmel? This is an example of our tax dollars at work: kidnapping people and assaulting women. This isn’t your lil Disney subscription cost: this is 6-figures a year of consequence-free criminal behavior.

I love libraries. We went to this one in CDMX last week and it’s wicked cool! P.S. There’s never been a better time to support your local library. I don’t know who I’d be if not for the many libraries that served as a school and shelter for my curiosity. #booksky

“But crafting policy wasn’t the goal of Microchip’s petition. Rather, he wanted to engender fear and rage in the MAGA faithful while simultaneously distracting and deflecting from the very real, and often very deadly, violence of the far-right.” Fear and anger are fantastic unifiers. Unfortunately.

Musicians who participate in the White Christian Nationalism recruitment efforts are the greatest disappointment. Music unifies, this we know. Using it to unify people under supremacist ideology grieves me in a way that I cannot find appropriate words for.

To a point! But what's weird is that, apart from Brendan Carr and Troy Miller (pictured below), we don't have human beings who are even willing to *pretend* to be a part of civil society. Just billionaires playing games from the shadows. Accountable to hardly anyone. Know what I mean? 1/x

Well, there it is. Sinclair is digging in for a fight, so please help push back -- find stations in your area, watch their local news to see what ads they run, then write those advertisers to tell them you're boycotting as long as they're on a Sinclair station. List here: sbgi.net/tv-stations/

“There’s theological kayfabe, political kayfabe — there’s all kinds of kayfabe.” Learning the meaning of “kayfabe“ a few years ago was a perspective-changer. Thanks to @daviddark.bsky.social for hosting Dr. Thornbury’s words about this. open.substack.com/pub/daviddar...

Today’s church: San Antonio (Mt. Baldy) 10,066ft. #BlackSkyOutdoors

Part of being “civil” is having a shared understanding that the other person is worthy of being accorded the same dignity and respect that you believe you deserve. Treat others the way you want to be treated. Key words: shared understanding.

Something I loathe about our virtual reality is that everyone and their nan feels compelled to release a statement on news events. It doesn’t even seem optional anymore: if you’re online, you MUST have an opinion (informed or ill-informed, nay bother) ready for publication.

An antisemite shot two kids in Colorado, at least one of whom is Jewish. The White House “fighting antisemitism” doesn’t care, because the shooter was a student radicalized online into far right beliefs, which the regime is cool with, rather than a student verbally criticizing Israeli govt policy.

This is the biggest story in America right now. Coffee up 20.9% year-over-year Steaks up 16.6% Apples up 9.6% Bananas, 6.6%. www.axios.com/2025/09/11/t...

If you are a Black woman who was online talking about race and class and gender and politics? Your feed was full of bigots incited by TPUSA and the precursors since social media existed. Bluesky has some folks forgetting what actually happened to BIPOC creators on Twitter

No better evidence that "The Cathedral" is fake than allegedly liberal journalists tripping over their dicks to praise, as a champion of free discourse and expression, a guy who made one of his central accomplishments a blacklist of professors

Metaphors be with you.

Thank you, @heidilifeldman.bsky.social for reminding us that two things can be true at the same time. He wasn’t interested in intellectually rigorous or morally serious discussions, @governor.ca.gov. He was a grifter who built a career on deception & hate. This is not an exhaustive list.

Strangers policing how other strangers should feel will always be weird.

Exactly. I must've gotten dozens of "you're the only reason I'm still on Twitter!" in the months before I finally left in October 2023. They meant it as a compliment, but it always struck me as confirmation that I was complicit in what that place was becoming, so I left. So can everyone else.

All of this. Moreover, the current far-right regime using the might of the federal government to terrorize communities of color on a daily basis, is political violence.

The CEOs are all really excited about AI being people because that means they can own them again

"Christians, get out and vote, just this time. "You won't have to do it anymore. Four more years, you know what, it will be fixed, it will be fine, you won't have to vote anymore, my beautiful Christians." - Trump, July 2024

Pluralism is out, Christian supremacy is in (not that it ever left but still). Stay safe, everyone.

Fundamentalist schools and churches, that promote and instill the teachings of White Christian Nationalism, have been around for decades. I’m not sure “taliban” is a more appropriate term than calling this what it is: terrorism. On our dime, btw.