I think I want to be told I'm pretty, but if someone tells me I'm pretty the first thought is "you are flattering me so you can eventually sell me a time-share"

met a celebrity today

whether this is a discussion about relapse, stunted development, vulnerability, armchair diagnoses, or the exhausting talks of culture informing violence—are we all finally in a place where we can at least say “i hope she is back someplace safe and is okay” or are we all still being weird about that

Puritanism

do i have to sign every post with <3 ? yes, yes i do <3

bsky isn’t dead you just aren’t used to non botted internet activity anymore <3 wake up wake up you’ve been in a coma for 5 years

things are different now

I just don’t see how we can pretend even for a moment that anything involving our federal government is remotely normal when the president is covering up his involvement in a child sex trafficking ring. Like, what are we doing here

can the next unfiction movie be respectful to women and victims of SA? that would be nice, to put it lightly <3

we gotta get like three VPNs deep with signal chats set to a disappearing turnaround of minutes to be able to use adult words instead of "unalive" or "grape" meanwhile our political elite are apparently just emailing each other plaintext "up for sex crimes tonight ?"

She's actually really shy.

dear x users, would you like to start feeling better? stop going to the nazi bar

“I discovered a new emotion last night”

insomnia!!!

i dream of data centers in ashes

i do not want to be online. i do not want to be offline. i need some sort of third line

It’s been ten minutes since last time, you know what that means: Val is asking for money again. I’m saving for a car.

Trying to scare people. But it won't work. No one looks scared to me anymore. And it's power in numbers. All the TV hits in the world won't change the fact that when Americans see the sheer number of people out there, absolutely no one will believe anything these guys say.

One curious thing on this site about speaking out against the encroachment of LLMs is that inevitably you get accused of being anti-tech. I don’t hate technology. I’ve used machine learning in my own code before. But I also recognize that oligarchs are so hellbent on pushing this tech for a reason.

remember to keep your october spooky lovelies

As much as folks might not want to believe it, artists who sell their work cannot survive exclusively on platforms that cater to primarily other artists. The Circulating The Same Five Dollars™️ model can't feed us or pay bills for long. We need places where we can be seen and discovered.

People saying the fascism we’re seeing is unprecedented, unimaginable etc miss the larger point. We‘re not experiencing anything new. We‘re experiencing an *expansion* of existing realities targeting Black people especially. Until we get that, we’ll miss how to fight US fascism at its core.

honestly it makes sense that one of the most evil game companies is getting bought by oil barons and the evil landlord responsible for the deaths of countless americans

He may play a CREEP but Mark Duplass is a stand-up guy, as Duplass Brothers Productions is teaming up with the Transgender Film Center to launch the Found Footage Fund for trans filmmakers.

replacing doomscrolling with star trek marathon was a damn good decision, i highly recommend ^^

been raptured for 90 mins now. lines are insane. VERY disorganized. scalpers by east entrance

In our fictional dystopia for NIN’s “Year Zero,” Hollywood had been destroyed and rebuilt in Florida where it was strictly regulated by the state & overseen by Evangelical groups, so news was state propaganda and entertainment was sanitized pro-Christian content approved by the US Bureau of Morality

I do feel like part of the hatred extended toward Bluesky is a function of preferring to think that the alarm about the state of the country that’s common here is misguided or exaggerated. Dismissing the site as liberal doomers allows you to dismiss those concerns, too.

One last thing. He said if his ten-year-old daughter got pregnant, he would force her to carry the fetus to term. I do not feel grief for that family. I feel relief for them. May his children grow up in a more loving world than the one their father wanted.

It's just a sports ban. It's just a bathroom ban. It's just a healthcare for kids ban. It's just a military service ban. It's just a federal jobs ban. It's just a university housing ban. It's just a passport & visa ban. It's just one Constitutional right. It's just your status as free citizens.

what’s this..? O_O youtu.be/H3AozHl0Yio

when the AI hedge fund money gets to these filmmakers, they all start using the same non-specific jargon. say "developing tools" one more goddamn time james. WHAT tools?? maybe the best tool for VFX artists to develop is a union 😇

beyond themes of identity crisis, i think you could read rising doppelgänger horror as an evolution of the zombie in the unit of cultural fears. we feared unthinking violence for a time, but now in post-internet boom, low trust society, we fear conniving and scheming violence.

NEW: Our colleague @janus.bsky.social wrote today about that terribly out of scope FTC anti-trans workshop we made a lot of noise about + why Congress should not put the FTC in the position to police online speech with bills like KOSA : www.fastcompany.com/91377373/tru...

Babes. I mean this with the utmost kindness and respect, but funding your own projects or monetizing your social following or „just go indie“ is really, REALLY hard. I have a partner that’s employed and we have no dependents and no dept, and I still can’t make it lol These cases are the 0.0000001%

to those in privileged positions, don't be fooled. this system cannot be saved. more people are going to die in the US than ever before and i implore you to reduce your complicity by helping your friends, your community. insulating yourself with capital will not save you. all we have is each other.

bringing a little mystery back into the world

Fuck the Supreme Court and fuck Tennessee

they made a computer that kills you!! ❌💾💥

actually disgusted at the new trend of bluewave centrist libs pointing and laughing at any trans women having a meltdown from their awful bigoted bullshit. just kiwifarms chuds with business casual turtlenecks and a laptop job that pays them to bitch on bluesky and troll the trannies all day

New phone

when ur making fun of my yaoi hands this is who ur being mean to btw

I think at some point we have to stop indulging the fiction that conservatism is a legitimate political tendency and isn't simply a grievance cult for those who value the ability to enact cruelty over their literal basic needs.