I really should know better sometimes than to talk to child-free friends about parenting problems. I rarely get the kind of support I’m looking for, and that’s fine; they have a different perspective, and that’s okay. but I also always leave those convos feeling like the bad guy.

oh look the cis het white guy who crawled out of the woodwork isn’t going to solve all of Maine’s problems out of nowhere. who could have called that one. what a surprise. 🙄😑

presented without further comment: as Aabria famously says in epiaode 6 of #theraveningwar, “it be that way sometimes”.

Victor says good luck to everyone protesting today, and remember not to comply in advance.

TSwift apparently wrote a song where she finally admitted to seeing a dick but this is all I can think of. girl, you are almost 40, this act ain’t cute anymore.

on a #pentiment reply and - as an artist - this moment always catches me and makes me sit and go “yes, this.” anyone who says video games aren’t art isn’t paying attention. some, maybe. but they definitely *can* be, and this one both *is* art and is *about* art.

white ICE agents rounding up Black people is particularly wild. like first white folks brought Black people here against their will and enslaved them, then we fought to keep them oppressed, and now we have the fucking gall to act like they did something wrong. the caucacity is appalling.

the tragedy of #syrilkarn is that he always had a moral compass, he was just so surrounded by bad influences and acting out of his own trauma and he never figured out how to do better. #andor

watching #acrownofcandy and getting to the part where the Bulbian Church declares war on “junk food” and says some people are unclean in 2025 is fuckin wild.

“I love goo as a texture!” my 14 year-old and I snicker at the same time. #gastronauts

you’re not abled. you’re just pre-disabled.

watching “Rulette” for the 4th time and it’s just the best most unhinged fun. Oscar Montoya seems like the nicest person. everyone just seems like they’re having such a good time. #gamechanger

frozen, factory-made lasagna is fine, actually. it’s not as-good-as handmade, sure, but it’s one of the few things that’s legitimately fine. once you get to family-sized or larger, if you have access to an oven, you’re best-served by using it to heat said lasagna instead of a microwave, tho.

tax billionaires

I said this in a comment to someone else but I think it bears repeating. if all your government offers is a military and laws, that’s not a government. a government also offers services. it doesn’t just scare its populace; it also cares for them. [more]

don’t forget to take time to rest ♥️

“yes or no” holds up so fucking well #gamechanger

this is terrifying

how about this for a response to your request for privacy? no. may Ken Paxton know precisely as much peace as every single pregnant person, abortion provider, and activist in his state has over the last ten years.

this absolute trash cat is lying is garbage in the bathroom love her #catsofbluesky #tabbiesofbluesky #cat #tabbycat

oh hey slippery slope, there you are. right on schedule.

orange slice 18ct vanilla aida, 1x1, begun 7/8/25 #crossstitchersofbluesky #crossstitch #xstitch

it’s morning, and the cat living in my garden apparently has a family, I just had to give his legal owner a bit of the riot act because he keeps coming to us injured and begging for food. have these flowers instead. I’m just glad he turned up this morning for breakfast.

hey y’all, surprise: the torture camp is a torture camp

july 4th stitch for this year. 14ct aida, 2x1. begun 7/4/25, completed today 7/7/25. this wont be the last time I stitch this one. #crossstitch #xstitch #crossstitchersofbluesky

Vaccines look like they cause autism bc autistic children are surviving to be autistic adults

hey bluesky lefties: just because you fled Twitter when it became [more of] a rightwing hellscape doesn’t mean you’re a “good” or “righteous” person. you can still operate with your privilege first and speak from a place of ignorance. being here doesn’t make you “better” if you’re a shit ally.

we have always been this country, but that doesn’t mean we can’t try to do better.

For reference the New York Times was among the outlets that declined to publish hacked materials from the 2024 Trump campaign www.cnn.com/2024/08/13/m...

always remember that the NYT was more offended by Jamelle Bouie calling out Nazi sources than they were about *using* Nazi sources.

yes, as an SSDI recipient I received this email. yes, it’s all lies and propaganda.

@nytimes.com thanks for the scrap paper. it makes good collage material.

With alt text because this needs as many people hearing it as possible all the time always.

this feels like the appropriate mashup for this July 4th. recuerdo:

“asian” and “african american” are often accepted as racial designations in this country, so what exactly is the fucking point here, Ben? 🤷‍♀️🙄👀

the Beige asFuck Lady?

what fucking “game” is he on top of, you soulless bootlicker? this is such a bad take.

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

when I was four, a hurricane hit my town and the power on my street went out. the power was out for five days. on day six, my mom called the power company, and discovered nobody from our street had called the power company. everyone assumed someone else would. now apply that to fascism.

I served on the jury of a rape case a few years ago. we acquitted the defendant of all charges. it was difficult and to this day, I’m not sure we made the right choice, but given the instructions given, we could not find them guilty “beyond a reasonable doubt.” the Diddy verdict is a tragedy.

don’t ever ask why victims don’t come forward again. weeks of horrific testimony, and this motherfucker is acquitted. this is disgusting. I’m so glad I have therapy today.

history often rhymes

speaking as another white lady, with all the privilege that confers, Kristen Gilibrand needs to apologize publicly for saying such unfounded and embarrassingly wrong and dangerous things about Mamdani. being a confused white lady is no fucking excuse.

the Senate is getting ready to push through the Big Beautiful Bullshit, strip the healthcare from the most vulnerable among us, and nakedly enshrine wealth distribution from the working class to the oligarchs. I’m too fucking mad to see straight. #crossstitchersofbluesky #xstitchersofbluesky

ugh, y’all, I just remembered the horror that was pre-existing conditions. do you remember that? what a fucking nightmare. anyway, here’s an article on the nightmare bill and some of the awful things it will do to healthcare, or a thing we all need. read it and go raise hell.

I don’t need to know what this is in reference to, and I don’t need to because cause that’s how universal it is. your morals are what they are all the time, not just in front of other people.