Breaking: Ken Paxton says he'll drop US senate bid if you can guess his TRUE name.

I would like to remind you all that we are broke, we have no money, we have to cut spending immediately for all of you entitlement bums on Medicare and Medicaid... but war, we have tons of money for that.

Mad enough to quit? No. Whistle-blow? No. Get paid to help them with their evil? Yeah but they'll be all frowny face about it.

"It's not enough to see who's at the table. We have to see who's missing." I heard this at the MA Conference for Women several years ago and it's stuck. I'd like to add this: "Let's move over and add a seat for you. I see you. You belong here." #datawit #celebratingwomen #womensmonth

I’m trying to keep a leash on my comments about the Epstein/Trump war in Iran. How many innocent civilians need to die to keep Trump in office? Why are the Guardians Of Pedophiles allowing this to continue? Has the Iranian or the American government killed more Iranian citizens in 2026?

(Subtweet for nobody and no one, particularly.) I’m going to scream. Then I’m going to therapy. Then I’m going to make a better fire evacuation plan. Then, maybe more screaming.

👋 I know of some people killing Americans in America, some literal Nazi shit

It me (in a "passenger of Earth" sense)

The horrors persist, but here is a video of a goat munching on a Spinach leaf. Sound up for max enjoyment

Checks out

QUICK! What song should I listen to next?

Post a pic you took, no context, to bring some zen to the feed

The cats, they have not been herded

Oh. I don’t know if I’ve ever actually come out publicly, SQL people. Yeah, I’m pansexual (and juuuuuust a smidge genderqueer). No, not kidding. Yes, it took me a LONG-ASS TIME to figure that out. So, yeah. I thought y’all might maybe oughta know. (Waves cheerily at @brento.bsky.social.)

Once again, trans rights are human rights. It shouldn’t need saying that trans people are just as valid as I am, and they have just as much right to exist and be themselves as I do, but here we are again. If you’re willing to sacrifice trans people for political expediency, block or unfollow me now.

I always get mixed feelings reading about history. I feel like we’re all so incredibly dumb for repeating the same mistakes over and over. But I also feel hopeful because we always overcome those mistakes and there are survivors who move on. So far, at least.

I would like to remind everyone that none of us are free until all of us are free. The arc of history bends whatever way we bend it - let's work together to bend it towards a just, free, equitable society for all. I'm also QUITE comfortable with the Paradox of Tolerance, thank you. 1/

@bencollins.bsky.social I hate to “well actually” in public, but that’s not a mule, it’s a donkey. Or is that the joke? That most news outlets get even basic facts wrong? Or is it a reference to the execution of Topsy the elephant? Please help, I’m so autistic.

I have discovered the roots of a spell*: Asking at least 3 people if they’ve seen My Missing Thing is part of the magic of FINDING My Missing Thing. —— (*Note that I, personally, don’t strictly believe in magic. OTOH, I don’t NOT believe in it.)

Something my Mom got VERY right (& I expanded and passed on to my kids) was to say, "If you're away from home and you're drunk? DO NOT drive. Just call me, and I'll come get you. No punishment and no questions asked."

Sub-skeet, without apology. (I am fine, I am just TIRED.) — Fuck entitlement. And the victim complex. Fuck aggression, blaming, lack of accountability. Fuck these last five years: fuck cancer, fuck kidney disease, fuck Covid and fascism and narcissism. Thank fuck I see my therapist today.

Keith Porter was shot and killed by an off-duty ICE agent. Say his name. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

“A federal agent fired shots through the driver’s side window”. Sound familiar? That’s exactly how Renee Nicole Good was killed. This 23 year old lost his life and ICE’s involvement was covered up for a year. They’re killing people and hiding the evidence.

FELLOW AMERICANS: We are NOT powerless. When we raise our voices, united, in opposition, people and CORPORATIONS are forced to listen. Ring backing down from Flock is just the latest example. We have to keep the pressure on to prevent a police state. You won't be using MY DATA to ensnare anyone.

TRUTH [image of white text on black background, reading “if the Epstein files were full of Black men there would be hundreds of arrests by now”]

As someone whose whole family medical history ends in one cancer or another (we never die of the same cancers but we do die of a cancer like it's a big old wheel of misfortune) and as someone who really REALLY misses smoking because it's cool (shut up about the smell, it is) this is very exciting.

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South Korea sent their fascist crazy couper to jail for 30 years today.

I think I have come up with a term for something I've experienced for years. "Joy recoil" - when you see something that's supposed to be uplifting, but the background or implications are so awful as to create an overall negative or (at best) bittersweet effect. #joyrecoil

AHHHHHHH THE FINISH LINE CAMERA 💀💀💀 bsky.app/profile/mich...

THEY TRACKED THE DOG (uhh, wolf?) WITH THE DOLLY CAM, BLESS THAT DIRECTOR'S SOUL

Again, what he means, what they all mean is they don't want anyone voting and they will do all they can to put a stop to it because that's fascists.

Turns out when you are not struggling to survive every day, you can make art. Which means a fascist government has every reason to keep art-makers impoverished.

⬇️Yes. Remember this. ⬇️ ⬇️In the US EVERY YEAR ⬇️cops kill over 1000 people ⬇️ ⬇️regardless of dropping crime rates ⬇️ ⬇️and no matter ⬇️HOW much $$$ for training ⬇️ ⬇️no, bodycams didn’t help

Not-fun fact: your state, or the state you vacation in, may be a “downwind” state and get mercury emissions from the west. Maine is one of these states. www.mainepublic.org/climate/2025...

@sqlgoddess.bsky.social hi Pam, I’m looking at your your SQL security session from Summit, and I don’t see a slide deck. Could I get a copy of the deck?

He got out after 3 months in an ICE gulag.

@anotarian.bsky.social I think you accidentally sent me a message about a book and then deleted it but now I need to know what the book title is

I am old enough to remember when Republicans screamed that bar codes were the Mark of the Beast and the One World Government would use them to track and control Americans and eventually they'd have to have them tattooed on their foreheads and hands.

My people are all occupied and I NEED SOMEONE TO SAY TO ME “Yay, I’m so happy for this wonderful, positive milestone!” What it IS doesn’t matter. Just say “yay” with me.

My colleague got into Trump's sprawling family detention camp, which is full of toddlers, kids, & teens. - Kids have cut themselves or talked about suicide -There's worms & mold in food -300 kids have been held for 30+ days, far longer court settlement allows www.propublica.org/article/life...

Do NOT go to the US. It is a rogue state.

“Researchers from Johns Hopkins, Georgetown and Yale universities recently found that 60 FDA-authorized medical devices using AI were linked to 182 product recalls, according to a research letter published in the JAMA Health Forum in August.”

why are ppl still bringing tweet screenshots here to show off racist stuff said by the best-known-racists on the planet? it's like y'all WANT them to have influence bc not a single soul needs 'evidence' they are racists; again, they're THE BEST KNOWN RACISTS ON THE PLANET

1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken. Hundreds of kids are still detained. We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

This is Maria, a 6-year-old detained by ICE last year. She began to unravel soon after arriving at a detention center in Texas, wetting the bed after years without accidents, crying through the night and begging to breastfeed again. Most of all, she wanted to be reunited with her cat, Milo. 1/

reminder

A bill introduced in the U.S. House would upend the administration of elections in states like Colorado that rely on mail ballots.

Over 21K people on this #NoKings Eyes on ICE call. Check it out. www.youtube.com/live/4xBUa67...