oh now they know how to use a block button! lmao

under no circumstances is a atranger you had a volatile interaction with online your abuser, and this is just gaslighting atp. you're not doing anything brave, you aren't calling anyone out, no debate is happening, you are pathetically antagonizing someone who is clearly already upset enough.

but that's Worse, Actually, because that would just be her liberal attempt at obfuscation of her true and underlying compliance with fascism /s

GOT discourse hurts me physically bc I seem to disagree with basically everyone about the ending and its meaning and how consequential it is or isn't, and no one is chill about it ever

For months, the Social Security Administration was quietly sharing sensitive data about immigrants with DHS. Now it’s official.

oh look, people freaked out about technology again and look silly if you have gmail, you’ve been in datasets for decades. spam filtering depends on the same technology you loathe. it’s 2025, privacy is basically dead, and punishing ourselves to pretend otherwise does not jp

As much as I love the game of thrones novels I genuinely think the ultimate question at the heart of it is “fire magic vs ice magic, which would win”

"If it were me I would simply launch a mass campaign and win" - Person who has neither launched a mass campaign nor won

every time I see a post by Ms Sawant about revolution I think about how she quit a position on the city council to do a podcast

This is precisely the problem I identify with contemporary "Trots". Old-school Trots had a *program* (from 1938, but still) of what exactly they wanted to happen. Modern Trots just say things about "build the movement/the party" or even worse "overthrow capitalism" in the vaguest, least serious way

A sadly large number of otherwise-sane people believe that doing politics is tawdry and impure; only movements are capable of real change. They refuse to accept that movements are an outgrowth of politics; thus, when someone does politics well, it's a betrayal of the movement that should've been.

okay but truly, what the fuck

the Victorians were WEIRD and ESOTERICALLY HORNY and there was a lot of reaction against that that reads, correctly imo, as prudishness but flattening it all to "the Victorians were repressed prudes" loses SO much (extremely wild, often funny, often awful) information and context

the more you read about this stuff, the more that Foucault's point about the exaggeration of Victorian repression rings true. We want to imagine the past as being more prudish than it really is because it makes us feel more free than we really are

MBTI? eh ... Astrological signs? tired! what the people really need to know is whether you are an anteater or a crab and to what degree (where are you on the animorph transition illustration)

Strong nuclear force ruined my life

Also certain classes of people could self-select into professions that were compatible with florid unmanaged ADHD, in jobs that essentially don't exist anymore.

Before she died, my great-grandmother told me what her mother told her as swastika uniforms took her to the gas chambers: "Remember you're a Jew; I'll return soon." She never saw her again. A new Coast Guard policy says that same swastika isn't hate but "potentially divisive." Never again is now.

AOC to @pabloreports.bsky.social : A swastika is one of the clearest symbols of hatred in all of humanity… to remove that designation… indicates a possible collaboration with those very elements, which I think is genuinely frightening to any American.

a world without trans people has never existed and never will

My god. After 4 days in ICE custody, they found the man in a shower stall hog-tied, with a sheet around his neck. The medical examiner claimed there were other instances of this. Which means this is not an isolated case. Trump's Lynching America

I hate how often reading the news makes me burst into tears

NEW: Churches in Charlotte are hosting trainings on how to response to ICE agents — with *hundreds* filling pews. At one training, a child led those gathered in "This Little Light of Mine" — but changed the words to “All around Border Patrol, I’m gonna let it shine" religionnews.com/2025/11/20/a...

America 2025.

WHOA. The FBI was/is spying on a Signal chat for a New York immigration court watch group, claiming they were “anarchist violent extremist actors.” Your reminder that the government is watching and don’t say anything in a big group chat you wouldn’t say on TV. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

can’t help noticing that a lot of these folks (a) feel like it’s totally great to use slurs/deadname/etc if they’re talking to or about bad people, and (b) are very eager to identify bad people they get to use slurs for

"We're activists" "What's your activism" "Harassing transfems online"

New poll finds Dem voters broadly want independent redistricting but favor passing new maps to neutralize GOP gerrymanders. California's prop 50 was unprecedented but easily passed due to Trump. 2026 is an opportune time for ballot measures in VA, NJ, & CO that would empower Dems to draw new maps

The biggest piece of shit I have ever met in person was a prison guard, so this makes sense. Bet he’s continuing his preferred pastime of tying prisoners to radiators and torturing them in immigration detention.

They are literally firing all the judges they think might grant relief. They just fired a friend of mine a couple hours ago. They have no shame. The bastards want an assembly line for deportations and nothing more; rubber-stamping bootlickers who’ll yes’sir at every new diktat to deny.

What are miracles one could perform in the context of a rave that could later be used as evidence of one's sainthood?

I am officially ancient.

Star is a smart, nuanced, critical thinker and man you'd have to be pretty fucking stupid to find her point angering so it's not surprising the quotes and replies were some of the dumbest meanest fucking things on gods green internet. Use the replies to her post here to fortify your blocklist.

I have a real problem with the whole "bullying works" side of things that people have trotted out RE: MAGA. I suspect a lot of these people have bought into that idea.

so much of what I see on here is just, when your entire political ethos is "I simply would not do anything bad and everyone would clap"

“well i just wouldn’t run the world system” that’s just option 2, since you’re still morally responsible for everything you could have prevented but didn’t. the worst stain on Bill Clinton’s presidency wasn’t any intervention, it was the lack of one in Rwanda.

the replies and quotes to this really demonstrate why moronic “anti-imperialists” should never be trusted with power. you try running the global system without ever doing violence or ever allowing anything bad to happen absent your intervention.

nah, you know what, i'm gonna go off "you could only think this if you were in the plane instead of under the plane" i'm neither. i'm in america, where my daughter was born with fewer rights than my wife when she was born. because of republicans

bsky moment

Democracy puts the great and terrible power of the state in our hands and many people flee from that sort of moral responsibility.

and too privileged to admit it.

Biden got the most consequential environmental policy ever passed through a difficult Senate and Reagan's Secretary of the Interior though trees cause pollution.

I'm shocked, SHOCKED to learn that "proletariatreborn" has politics that are entirely vibes-based and not even loosely based in reality.

Everyone I Don't Like is Ronald Reagan

saw someone unironically say "queerness is about existing in opposition to society's status quo" and it's just exhausting man what are you even talking about, sucking dick isn't gay unless i'm doing it communist-ly?

if you're transgender you have to live

Naturally the folks swarming into her replies are happy to say that yes, of course Kamala Harris would do that, and yes of course ANY American government is eager to kill as many "brown people" as possible. So what does it even matter? Which demonstrates just how useful the whole "discussion" was.