In a world that made even a lick of sense, anybody w/ a degree in anything like social implications of tech should be able to write their own ticket rn. …But if we lived in a world that recognized, let alone properly valued that expertise, a whole lot of shit would already necessarily be different.

It’s amazing how many times “intelligent” people have to re-learn the same lesson about why Deplatforming is the only effective strategy for dealing with extremist rhetoric. “People will see how crazy it is” is simply not a valid counterpoint. People don’t think it’s crazy BECAUSE it’s platformed.

PBS hopes if they take it deep enough they’ll get their funding back, but they’re just simping for Nazis for free.

We have a big Latinsky update today. Recently we announced that the #AddToAfrolatinsky hashtag will add posts to our feed. Today, in partnership with @rude1.blacksky.team and @blackskyweb.xyz, I’m thrilled to let you know that #AddToAfrolatinsky will now add accounts to Blacksky’s feed as well.

ever hear anything about john brown or other white abolitionists turning around to enslaved people and going "HEY! I'M FIGHTING FOR YOU! I'M FIGHTING FOR US ALL! IT'S NOT ALL WHITE PEOPLE!"

Go to therapy instead of projecting your problems on your damn daughter.

"Stay woke" was a warning to not trust these systems as they are out to screw you over. Which, ironically, is exactly what a lot of these conspiratorial right folks believe too. But they warped it to just mean Black.

So, when will y'all white people START LISTENING to black people about Fascism?? Your "Oh no, that sucks" is tantamount to passive acceptance. When you're quiet about this kind of stuff, YOU end up with KIMMEL/COLBERT situations THIS is the kind of shit you need to be angry about, all the time.

this is not the end of days sorry you don’t get to crawl under the covers and wait for death to come. you and i have to find a fight to join *even if that fight isn’t won in our lifetimes* because we aren’t so fucking special that we get to take our ball and go home

Disney adults canceling subscriptions, vacations, etc really are making the Harry Potter adults that threw a fit over a $60 video game look like huge bitches

If I'm the Working Families Party, I'd use this against them to go after all their seats

Polycule idea: one is the cartoon villain and the other two are their bumbling 2nd-in-commands with vague erotic tension

Recognition of State of Palestine by Canada, France, UK etc is not only performative it is dangerous. It doesnt commit to ending genocide or implementing arms embargo and sanctions. Plus, explicitly calls for demilitarization of Palestine and disarming resistance. Reviving Oslo is not an option!

The success of multi-ethnic liberal cities violates the belief that racially homogenous, conservative places with white people (however they choose to define that) at the top are the best. That's why they're trying to destroy those places.

This is truly insane. The definition of "disappearing people"

My problem with everything is that I know For A Fact that the purpose of life is frivolity. It is to fool around & pursue joy.

wtf is this

You guys, so many Romance girlies are reading "On Tyranny" that they've broken the Goodreads recommendations algorithm. 10/10; no notes. #romancelandia

Whoever said this country was three plantations in a long trench coat wasn’t wrong

also see: disabled ppl that they then turn around and mock for only doing “online activism” like yeah bro u won’t mask or plan in bldgs w/ ramps, i can only do online activism bc yall MAKE IRL ACTIVISM PHYSICALLY IMPOSSIBLE OR DANGEROUS

White men are talking incredibly tough for a demographic who has literally NEVER helped anyone but themselves.

As someone who has run a black queer Mastodon server since 2023, yes to this. Most users on the fediverse are hostile to us. There are a few people who are committed to doing the work as there are on Bluesky, but the difference is we never reached a critical mass of Black users. This was by design.

Somebody at Disney getting thrown in a volcano soon. 4 Billion in 3 days?

1. BREAKING In an undercover operation last year, the FBI recorded Tom Homan, now the White House border czar, accepting $50,000 in cash after indicating he could help the agents — who were posing as business executives — win government contracts in a second Trump administration.

People (*whisper* and not just Dwights) are hearing the word visa and thinking "ah we're keeping out immigrants. Who cares?" No baby. We're keeping out the specialists. As a nation already so far behind so many other industrialized nations. Imagine the Georgia/Korea debacle on STEROIDS.

Nobody wants to find out what it is that makes us not fall for the bullshit like the Asians and Latinos? Nobody wants to ask how it is we are able to peg this guy so well? Not even curious? Because in any other context, if only one group was able to master the material to that degree there

At this point, they're not just calling us stupid. They're telling us, the Black community, that they can do whatever bc we're not going anywhere and we don't have a choice. And everyone pretty much saying "that's accurate" is getting crazier and crazier by the day to me.

RICOs for organizing. Snipers for college protesters. Covid funds for cops. Cop cities. Genocide. Every ”this is better than nothing” concession was a straight line to this.

Michelle Obama’s mother refused to leave Secret Service alone with her granddaughters for school pickup for the entirety of their lives before her death. She went with them every single day despite the Service’s protests b/c she didnt trust the safety of Black girls to them people & that institution

pornography is not the problem pornography is good actually cismen believing that they have a right to our bodies is the fucking problem

Periodic reminder: 1) Black men attend church more frequently than any other race in the US. More than Asian. More than white. More than Hispanic. 2) Black men are more likely to support reproductive rights than every group other than Asian men. 🙂🙃

You cannot understand US politics without understanding racism. It's impossible.

Call that a “grandtherapist”. (NOT my coinage. I don’t remember who I got it from, but I love it.)

What we're seeing in the "don't sign up for protests" discourse is what Paulo Freire described as the convert's failure to trust the knowledge of the oppressed. As the convert tries to stand in solidarity with the oppressed, they refuse to let go of a world where they were the authority by default.

Amongst the many, many other faults and follies of the party, perhaps the single most dangerous problem with the Democratic Party today is their incessant habit of reinforcing the idea that there is absolutely *no* principle that matters, no policy that is sacrosanct that they will stand behind.

A World Without Caesars Except The Caesars Who We Would Really Like To Appease Pretty Please Give Us Your Money Pleeease

Good gas masks help protect your identity, keep you safe from gassing & Covid Good shatter proof goggles... Look you get it They've shot people's eyes out. Making a protest assessible & providing materials so people are prepared for when (not if) things go south, is smart & good. But alas

Girl! They won’t even mask at these superspreader protests. They were NEVER serious.

companies make it difficult or impossible to disable ai in their products because it is an authoritarian project made from a stack of consent violations in a trenchcoat they don't give you a checkbox for "i don't want this and will never use it" because they know many people would check that box

White folks don’t realize how privileged it is to sit back and talk about “empathy” when they are not the ones at risk for losing their lives when you sit back and do nothing to stand up for black and brown communities. Your “empathy” will cost the lives of those who don’t look like you.

You almost certainly aren’t going to get out of the war crimes tribunal by producing a letter that you solicited because you were aware that the legality of your orders was questionable.

Holy shit they are just straight up admitting they believe people who express anti-Kirk opinions are in danger of physical violence

You cannot create a bread and circus society and then yank the bread AND the circus Yall gon learn

i'll put "celebrated charlie kirk's death" on my resume that is how much i do not gaf about these dipshits

Ppl are up and down this thread claiming the only ppl who say things like that are liberals and that they're not leftists. I hate to break it to y'all, there are leftists doing the same shit in Black people's mentions. If you haven't seen white leftists be racist, you don't know how to spot racism.

One thing I’m starting to see a pattern of is they are almost always OLDER white Folks. It’s like their racist by default 🥲 (also if anyone wants to help a black Woman survive, plugging my crowdfund if that’s okay) ⬇️🫶🏽 bsky.app/profile/ille...

I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Kamal. Kamal has helped so many people I know in Gaza but never asked for my help before. He had a few careers before this including a tailor and a solar power tech. He’s helping his siblings including Aliaa, 25, Yasmin, 15 and Mohammad, 12.

See, this is the disgusting thing about all this. This is what makes voters stay home. The implication in all of this is "Look, I need to lie to those people to get elected, then we'll make sure you have rights." I have heard this literally my entire life: "Politicians have to play the game."

I think the Dutch owned my people way harder.