From the bestskeeting author of the Bluesky-famous six-week Bad Bunny 101 comes this essential close reading of the halftime show! 🧵

That Ring ad

I'm hardly the first person to note this, but it's enormously instructive that our President and his followers saw the message "THE ONLY THING MORE POWERFUL THAN HATE IS LOVE" and understood it, correctly, as an attack on them

It WAS real!!!

That was absolutely my takeaway - do not trust anything that claims to think, if you can't see where it keeps its brain

#BadBunny's performers continued to dance and party outside the stadium after the #SuperBowl #HalftimeShow

This is fun

I'm sad that the Patriots won't be the first team to get no points in a Superbowl

We saw it!

I think they did!

This whole halftime show is an incredible love letter to American Latino culture

Spider paws, spider paws With hair that's covering tarsal claws See them scuttle up your walls Through the power of Van der Waals Look out! Here come the spider paws!

The real tragedy, to me, of the people trying to AI shortcut their way through art is that it represents a fundamental misunderstanding of what art represents to the artist. They see a finished

It me.

question for the Newsom libs: do you think you need our votes or not? if you don't need our votes, there's no reason to crash out every time we say we won't vote for him. if you do need our votes, i recommend taking a different tone.

Not resharing that video of an ICE agent literally *kicking a puppy,* because we do not need more violence in our faces on the skyline, but no one should be surprised at this. Also, no one should be more upset by this than everything else ICE is already doing to human beings, but knowing people...

Which is why a lot of ND people end up burning out--because it is a disorienting and exhausting experience being repeatedly penalized for being the only person who knows water is wet--or learn to keep their eyes on their own paper and their observations to their fucking selves.

FWIW this is more or less how white conservatives destroyed multiracial democracy after emancipation. That & paramilitary violence, but of course they would never... oh yeah they're doing that too.

remember when everything was possibly cake and we were driven mad by the possibility that everything was cake? don't you wish everything was possibly cake now instead of probably ai? we were such fools to squander a cake-based reality.

Big Tea Energy is generally how I start my day, but as you can see, it's helped a lot by big mug energy

When they say Me Too "went too far," they mean "got too close."

I'm feeling pretty good about my husband's birthday cake. It's chocolate sponge with a filling of pistachio cream with crunchy kadayif and sour cherry jam, with chocolate ganache bark, ground pistachio moss, tuille lichen, and meringue fungus. We did his candles in binary for practicality.

I *KNEW* IT!

Alan Smithee solo project

if you use your freedom of speech, we'll kill you which is regrettable. don't make me kill you. it's all up to you

There's really good info in here, even if you don't yet need it

I usually don't release discarded draft versions but this feels like it might be useful today

More than a week before his crucifixion by Roman law enforcement, Jesus of Nazareth infuriated other authorities as he overturned vendor tables at the temple farmers market and cursed at an innocent fig tree causing it to wither, according to newly unearthed videos. Watch here.

The immigrant shredder we built as a bipartisan exercise in good governance is unfortunately voice-activated, specifically the voice of anyone saying “don’t shred immigrants.” If non-immigrants don’t want to be shredded, they should avoid making the shredder feel bad. I won’t vote to turn it off btw

This is sort of a throughline in cases of excessive force used by law enforcement. The civilian is supposed to perfectly adhere to some unwritten code of conduct; the armed professional supposedly trained for such situations is only human & must be given lattitude if they succumb to fear and rage.

Extreme Linoprint!

The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.” That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.

Winnie-the-pooh made it to Bluesky

A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.

This is a great piece and touches on what a lot of folks are dealing with on the emotional side of things right now

But when I asked an organizer what they wanted to see out of press coverage, they told me they wanted people to see the beautiful things they are building here, and not just the worst stories of the worst of ICE's crimes. What people are doing here is beautiful. It's a tragic beauty, but a real one

This is entirely driven by small businesses, for whom a day of lost revenue is a big deal. Who is not participating? Minnesota’s 17 Fortune 500 companies. “Those organizations have not spoken publicly about the federal immigration activity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/01/23/u...

Incredible ad. No wonder the greens are up 50% in polls since Polanski took leadership. The explosion of the greens in the UK is quite something - they're now well ahead of the LibDems in polls, and within 2pts of Labour and the Conservatives Reform's rise is not the only story in UK politics

Here is the newly-unsealed State Department memo confirming -- finally -- that the detention of Tufts student Rümeysa Öztürk was based on an op-ed. No antisemitic activity. No support of terrorism. An op-ed in a student newspaper. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

The United States has officially withdrawn from the World Health Organization. This is a shameful move that puts both Americans and people all over the world at greater risk from disease outbreaks, which require international collaboration to contain.

I, uh, may need to go to Portland, for reasons

Yup.

This feels way too real right now

Hey @batmasterson.batfu.ink, have you tried this pen, and if so, what are your thoughts? I ended up with it somehow, and am loving using it.

SUBSTITUTION: You ordered *normal January* which was out of stock. We substituted *extra length Hell January* at no extra charge

Look, it's not that those numbers aren't workable, it's that they only work if a lot of other things fall into place. I feed my family well on less, but that's only possible because we have a bunch of factors working in our favor (1/?)

Calling for more ICE agent training is calling for more ICE funding, for a more efficient ethnic cleansing machine. They don’t need more training, they need to be destroyed. ABOLISH ICE. ABOLISH ICE. ABOLISH ICE.

This Californian is staunchly in support of their petition, especially if it means we can get rid of Gavin Newton as part of the exchange.

If you can be taunted into using a firearm you have no business anywhere near one.