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every single study done on this shows that the actual best behavior is done under consistent pseudonyms and people behave worse under real names it’s counterintuitive but at this point the real names thing is willful denial of evidence

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YALL FR Instagram blocks your content from anyone who doesn’t have an account or the app. The number of times I find an artist who’s only on IG and I’m like “damn okay 🪦🥀” and just leave.

I remember like a decade ago people insisting that forcing people to use their real names online would make them less likely to be assholes. Instead what has happened is people turned being assholes online into political careers and are now killing democracy. Shame isn't effective in stopping shit

more accurate headline: doctors commit crimes, violating local anti-discrimination laws, because they're scared of being charged with other crimes and not scared of being punished for breaking local anti-discrimination laws. Colorado must show them they can't get away with this. Now.

Coffee and Bacon for me both SMELL fantastic but I do not enjoy ingesting. Caffine immunity meaning coffee would ONLY be for taste doesn't help.

Has anyone tried to breed poodles without horrific dental issues. What dogs have good teeth can we fix this like how they are making pugs that have functioning noses again. What do you breed them with to avoid repreated sedation for tooth issues. Have doodle breeders hit it by accident yet.

Last week or so between the basketball and world cup stuff I am kinda jealous of sports fandom. Seems fun. I really need to figure out how to convert sports manga knowledge into sport enjoyment.

Look at dis and contact ya reps about how bad this is if it helps Kosa passing would mean almost every site online especially social media and YouTube or such will need ID verification and it won't be optional x.com/i/status/206...

We need to recognize that the actual reason that the dems being shit on class is suicide is because with Platner, as kinda hinted at since the Bernie bros, class solidarity is something a lot of people are single issue voters on and they will throw everyone else under the bus to get Medicare4Them.

Persepolis - Eye of the Tiger (2007)

"fiction normalizes—" idk abt any of that but I think social media has normalized absolutely batshit behavior and social conventions that are inconceivable to anyone that is actually well-balanced and thriving in the real world and that's a bigger problem than fiction will ever be

Even in the best case scenario where you're privileged enough to just be let out without legal consequences, stuff like "how long can you go without access to medication" is a potential life ruining factor.

Seriously, Maine, you have ranked choice! You do not have to vote for Sinema in a Henley! I promise! You can even No Award Platner, like we do for the Hugos, just don’t assign him a number at all. You have Andrea LaFlamme and David Costello right there, for your one and two, as you please.

I don't exist in the same world as everyone else and I'm tired of having to just sit here and smile and nod and pretend like I have anything in common with other people.

bsky too quiet? missing comments? not seeing posts from spicy artists? check your moderation settings and your bsky filters if you haven't configured these before, many of these will be set to hide as defaults

People seem to think YouTubers make a lot of money. We don't. A lot of us are lucky to make minimum wage, and we only make that because we're constantly asking fans to help fund the art. Caelan has been self funding to the point where they're in substantial debt.

I was actually thinking yesterday specifically, how "virtue signaling" is usually associated with liberals and empty performative "awareness" shit, but really one of the biggest culprits you could accuse of it are so called christians who resent having to follow any of Jesus's teachings.

Just to be clear how little I’m exaggerating, in 2016, the UK Government actually advised trans people against travelling to certain US states due to the implementation of bathroom bans. @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social is now implementing those same bans across the UK. www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-u...

The message shouldn't be "taxes are bad," it should be that you should get something for them, it's your money, it shouldn't be going to some rich dipshit's Dr. Claw-ass ballroom or into the pockets of J6 child molesters

Just a little PSA- Neil Gaiman has reactivated his Bluesky account. Because he deactivated before a lot of people could unfollow him, and/or because Bluesky doesn’t remove you from a person’s followers when you block them, a LOT of you are still publicly listed as following him. You should check.

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Again this should inspire wall-to-wall media coverage for months. The crowning achievement of the Civil Rights Movement is dead. Black people just lost all of their remaining political power in the South. This is a monumental moment in American history that simply isn't being treated as such.

With more people than ever discovering the joy of beans due to the Republicans fucking the economy, it's worth reminding that 4 raw kidney beans are enough to get you very, very sick.

You're telling me a vibe coded this website?

So an easy, silent, virtually anonymous and undetectable way for adult strangers to watch (and record) children they have no involvement with Btw do we have any way of independently confirming that each time this happens, it's merely a sales call?

Alito’s Jim Crow racing into effect within hours of the decision

really "funny" how schumer is totally fine with backing here but refused to get behind mamdani in the slightest. why you might even think there might be some particular biases going on here

So many people urge us to vote if we are dissatisfied with our democracy. And yes voting matters. But as today’s Supreme Court ruling tells us, it’s not that simple. Not everyone who should have the right to vote can exercise that right.

Only Bluesky could produce a guy that loves Will Stancil’s takes, thinks Hasan Piker is too radical, and believes the best course of action is to try and assassinate the president.

the irony is that there are many journalists who are threatened and killed for their work globally, except they don’t overlap at all with the people willing to attend the MAGA White House correspondent’s dinner

Social media is no longer social. Most of it is passive viewing of videos and pictures from people we've never met. But we're still studying social media like it's 2010. We've entered the post-social media era — and research needs to catch up. osf.io/preprints/so... preprint w/ Richard Rogers

Trust me, disabled people feel this hostility acutely.

We have a chance of removing the Online Safety Act! Any UK residents, PLEASE take the time to fill out the whole form. If we want to remove ID verification on websites that actually don't need it, we need to take action NOW!

It’s weird watching it from the UK, Labour did the same, romped to victory then became one of the most unpopular govts in living memory. And that unpopularity is in part because they ostracised anyone who might actually fight for them.

fell for it again award

If everyone got a receipt for their taxes breaking it down like this, I think our country would look totally different

This is the single funniest thing I have ever seen Bluesky staff do.

this is what i meant weeks ago when i said so much of the aggressive surge in migrant policing felt like a boundary test, where a period of highly visible violence would eventually recede in favor of less visible and more "professionalized" migrant policing at a level beyond its baseline pre-trump.

It is always the case that any radical action by workers to resist the power of capital is "violence" but the constant suffering of poverty, absence of healthcare, hunger, surveillance, wage theft and the rest of it, well... that doesn't really count as "violence."

I feel like my ability to function conversation just keeps getting worse and worse even when I do talk to people. It turns out maybe the bootstraps method of being mentally ill does not work any better than ignoring inability to eat food and wow I am so far gone hahaha

Hey if you still have an Angelfire or Tripod site, or if you like one, now is the time to back it up, like, urgently

I have for a very long time had a hard rule of only promoting the crowdfunders of people I know personally. This is part of why. And I think especially important because I am a community-facing voice/journalist. You simply cannot reliably verify strangers.

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I'm one of those trans women. I worked ground ops for Artemis I. I am torn between celebrating the success of my friends and peers and grieving how my dream of working for NASA was shattered by hateful assholes in Tallahassee

I hate 2026 and having to have thoughts like "hopefully, the pope will condemn this" IM NOT CATHOLIC ANYMORE DAMN IT I QUIT OVER THE PEDO SHIT why are we at the point that fucking. Seperation church of state is on backwards or something and i have to fall back on the FUCKING CATHOLIC CHURCH to moral