Just rewatched “Children of Men” for the first time in years —fascist/racist governments, anti-immigrant propaganda, troops on the streets, erosion of basic rights, non-citizens held in cages like animals. If humanity suddenly becomes infertile then reality is a lazy plagiarist. See ALT text caption

If you’re looking for government waste👇🏼

I didn’t realize the Dead Internet had a voice… or voices.

This whole thread is a revealing and depressing reality check for anyone who publishes in academic journals.

This is a good read👇🏼

This👇🏼

Seeing these two posts one right after the other… it’s like Bluesky got what I was thinking😅 @scalzi.com

Love to see the strategy/planning docs that show how MS NOW survives without NBC News & its local stations. That’s a lot of hiring and a huge capability gap. You could end up with a weak, news-free cable channel and a less visible but still expensive NBC News. Maybe a justification for cuts at both?

🤦🏻‍♂️ So… the people setting the alleged guardrails for AI at Meta are racist, misogynistic and think it’s okay to sexualize children? Yeah, this AI-thing is a real boon to humanity.

Just want to share this with @jamesgunn.bsky.social and @mattreevesla.bsky.social. If DC can sue over a doctored poster, how about audio lifted directly from one of your movies? This IP theft uses the words of a hero to glorify a sickening political agenda. We know whose side The Batman would be on.

Loved Superman but the most real and depressing part was the army of bureaucrats, techbros and wannabe IT types who cheered on and enabled a mad “genius” as he committed crimes, lied to America and set himself up to be a king. Every movie villain has had their henchmen but this felt too real today.

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This is disgusting. It’s how gangsters operate.

Watched Dr. Strangelove with my daughter and quickly realized the world hasn’t changed much: rabid conspiracies about fluoride in drinking water and communist plots, toxic masculinity, misogyny and powerful men with ED… all leading to incel fantasies and a warped reality that could doom us all. 5 ⭐️

This is our government being weaponized against itself, Constitutional order and the rule of law

This will end well…

This is real. Just saw it myself. The polite term for this is “journalistic malpractice.”

Tell me you’re rich and don’t care about most of your constituents without flashing cash or telling me you just don’t care about your constituents. Just be smug and sanctimonious, okay? Go!

If it stands, this MAGA hat trick is an attack on: 1. International students who often add to our country’s wealth & power 2. Higher education as universities may cut back or even close their doors 3. American students who may pay more or perhaps have to give up on the idea of college altogether

Not journalism.

Crickets after a McSweeney’s read is rare… maybe because this piece by @lisaborders.bsky.social reads more like a protest poem and an honest accounting of what is happening than the usual satire.

Shame on the White House Correspondents’ Association. Those among us who would give up their integrity for a little access are no better than those who would give up their liberties for a little security.

These people are idiots. I was stunned to see pages and pages of social security numbers, DOBs and POBs. Some of those named are dead but I easily found people who are still alive. This is criminal and it’s what you get when you rush something like this to fulfill some politician’s dumb promise.

This is the worst timeline.

So MAGAs thought we were great back when everyone had to raise their own animals for food and had to have many kids so when half died of diseases like measles there would still be someone alive to feed the chickens? Got it.

What an embarrassment. What a tragedy. What a crime.

The Trump Clown Car is almost at full capacity.

Who knew the darkness Democracy dies in is actually the inside of an Amazon box?

Called it.

It’s a good start.

The comments here are worth a read.

I need a friend like this.

This is an ongoing case of journalistic malpractice by the NYT.

No way I am liking this one. We need a “WTF” button. Looking at you @support.bsky.team .

Yet another reason why we need a “WTF” button. There is no way i am going to “like this.” Looking at you @support.bsky.team .

What a DOGEbag.

Another reason why we need a “WTF” button. There is no way i am going to “like” this. Looking at you @support.bsky.team .

This new Mark Cuban bot is terrible.

Another reason why we need a “WTF” button. There is no way i am going to “like” this. Looking at you @support.bsky.team .

This why we need a “WTF” button. There is no way i am going to “like this.” Looking at you @support.bsky.team .

So many of the comments here are perfect. It would be great if the NYT focused it’s resources on the other reasons this “too-dark” winter makes people want to hide under a blanket.

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This is another terrible take.

This is the ad Jeff Bezos’ Washington Post refused to run. Definitely their right as a business but also my right to point out their real business depends on free speech and a free press…not corporate cowardice.

Only the ignorant and uneducated would bet their future on this terrible take.

And I am proud to announce that within the borders of the United States, I shall now refer to “Google” as “that so-called search engine that returns AI hallucinations and outdated Reddit posts in place of useful information.”

This is how he sounds when he talks about women too. Still just creepy and weird.

Welcome to North Korea on the Potomac.

Now this is what I call a Bluesky welcome. Thank you @alfranken.bsky.social.

Hello, Bluesky community and @bsky.app. There's a lot to see, like and react to here, but (as always with social media) it feels weird to "like" some of the truly dystopian posts we're all now seeing. So, can we please get a "WTF?" button? The stats could be fun to watch.