Good night, Bluesky, here is a picture of a deeply relaxed dog to carry you through until we see each other again.

Beautiful fall colors coming alive in Minnesota 🍁🍂 #Photography #Photographers #BlueSkyArt #EastCoastKin #Fall #Autumn #Nature #Minnesota

#nature #photography 1/3 Gribskov forest (Denmark) yesterday

It feels slow not because of facts, but because the doom-narrative drowns out reality. 📉 The truth: solar doubled from 1,000 → 2,000 TWh in just 3 yrs, wind’s surging too. Fossils took decades. The fastest energy leap in history is here—don’t let fear blind you. ⚡🌞 #EnergyTransition #BESS #EVs #LFP

I read the news the day before yesterday oh boy I read the news yesterday oh boy I read the news today oh boy I'll read the news tomorrow oh boy, not having learned a goddamned thing

This is why I've never wanted children. Because they will grow up to humiliate you with all the knowledge gleaned from decades of looking at you and wondering how you ever made it to adulthood.

Nintendo announces a cool thing: everyone gets very excited Nintendo reveals pricing for that cool thing: people say they’re out of touch and nobody will pay that much Nintendo posts earnings report: turns out everyone bought that cool thing; sells millions the Nintendo cycle

fwiw I'm not sure we'll be able to pin down a coherent ideology for this shooter. Like the Trump shooter or the MN school church shooter, we're living in an era of incoherent, violent nihilism. People are being radicalized inside algorithm-driven personal realities.

Happy new Taskmaster Series day to all who celebrate. Good first episode for Season/Series 20 (have we finally convinced @alexhorne.bsky.social that it's actually a season, not a series? Because the thumbnail says so...) www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwKY...

Well, that’s a lot of truth …

If anyone was wondering exactly how seriously MAGA takes their own crying and sobbing bout what a tragedy his death was, he it is. He wasn't their friend, he was a business rival. Their only interest in his memory is how they can monetize it.

maybe everyone who got the covid vaccine really did die and this is hell

Today was my last day at the Eisenhower Library. I came across a 1964 letter Dwight Eisenhower wrote warning against “hate-filled people who set themselves up as super-patriots and, so doing, try to destroy the rights, liberties and opportunities of the average loyal American.” Worth heeding 🗃️

The best part is that the FBI isn't going to get more competent with him out. It will just start a new round of purges and loyalty tests as the new boss secures his little empire.

It absolutely matters here that Pritzker was effective at sounding the alarm and plainly stating this would be unconstitutional in a profoundly radical and fundamental way, and showing he could rally practical popular opposition, which then gets spun as backing out over "legal headaches."

I quite enjoy following right-wing propaganda bots and accounts, just from an anthropological standpoint. Is it a good use of time? No. Can I change their minds? Of course not. But it's interesting to me and I get to meet a lot of cool people who are also dunking on them in the comments.

The Nation pulls NO punches, from @espiers.bsky.social "There's no requirement to take part in this whitewashing campaign. Refusing to join in doesn’t make anyone a bad person. It’s a choice to write an obituary that begins “Joseph Goebbels was a gifted marketer and loving father to six children.”

one of the funnier bits of Online is the extent to which the right's depiction of Dem politicians is everything the left criticizes them for not being the left spent years being annoyed at Obama for not being more confrontational! Michelle's "when they go low we go high" was mocked endlessly!

right winger: "chuck schumer is tirelessly dedicated to the destruction of all of the ideals we hold dear" leftists: "man that guy sounds great, where can we find him"

Im rewatching the first Captain America movie because dammit sometimes you need a story about heroes. In it, the scientist Erskine says, "So many people forget that the first country the Nazis invaded was their own." I mean, dang. That's good writing in any case, but right now? It hits hard.

One thing about Conservatives is that their views on if someone should live or die is purely a moral question of their individual character. They absolutely can not picture thinking someone's an evil little weasel yet not wanting them shot to death.

This is the play, incidentally. Even though the entire media machine has fallen over itself to offer glowing praise of Kirk and condemnation of his killing, MAGA is just going to go ahead and pretend otherwise. If MAGA is going to lie anyway, why not be honest?

"The man who shot Charlie Kirk was a conservative white man from Utah. But the fact that we assumed it was a transgender Mexican demonstrates how out of control Leftist rhetoric has gotten." Tomorrow in the Washington Post

Was it worth it? #massshootings #schoolshootings #charliekirk #guncontrol Please share #laloalcaraz cartoons

It’s a really bad look for right wingers to consistently be such dumb, evil shitheads who suck

It’s Friday! It’s been a hell of a year over the past few days! I have to ask you for campaign contributions now! (we’re literally covering it *right now* in the training) If you don’t want to contribute, or already have, please make sure to signup on the website so we can get you info about stuff!

Three Wins Today (Sept 12, 2025) MN Tues, Sept 2 - Nine mayors came together for a press conference demanding a special legislative session to ban assault weapons. 1/

You know, I'm starting to wonder if MAGA is Like That because they just lack object permanence.

Republican Flip Flop

Never should have stopped calling these people weird.

This is the person they are suspending people over btw

There are people upset about the assassination, not because murder is wrong, but because they think Kirk was a swell guy. This is the kind of guy Kirk was, and you can assume anyone fluffing him knows that. Don't play their bad-faith games trying to pin them down about Kirk's obvious evil.

This was genuinely the funniest fuckin thing she (both) could possibly have done

So maybe those "baseless rumors" about him having a series of ministrokes when he stopped posting for a few days might not be so baseless after all.

“awful people don’t deserve to be killed, but they don’t deserve to be praised, either” is apparently a thought too complex for the pundit mind

if you get killed by the owo bulge bullet your soul is automatically obliterated upon death with no afterlife

How many people can name the attempted Trump assassin without looking it up? As soon as we found out he had a social media account with a bunch of anti-immigrant and antisemitic posts he poof’d out of public and media interest. Dog bites man.

Remember: If it turns out he’s a leftist, that indicates a pervasive problem of violence on the left. If it turns out he’s a groyper, that means nothing whatsoever and he will disappear from the news cycle immediately.

just saw a billboard with “RIP Charlie Kirk, it is time for the left and right to unite!!!” written on it and I cannot stress enough that is not what he wanted

my literal first response upon Emrys telling me he was dead was,"The tiny face guy??" bc that's is his legacy to me tiny face temu-brand Shane McMahon lookalike

For a company allergic to new ideas and insistent on continually rehashing the same five franchises, Nintendo sure seems hellbent on pretending starfox doesn’t exist

So this is apparently how it goes these days: (violence occurs) TRANSPHOBE: It's the evil violent trans people who have done this! (perpetrator revealed not to be trans) TRANSPHOBE: Ah! Nevertheless -

Notice to criminals I guess: do whatever you want and, as long as you don't turn yourself in or, like, leaved a signed confession at the scene, the FBI won't do be able to do shit.

This is why Kirk probably isn't going to be the MAGA Horst Wessel. Trump can't pretend to care even a little about anyone not named "Donald Trump" for more than 30 seconds at a time. You need a certain degree of humility to put *someone else* up on a pedestal and Trump doesn't do that.

Update: Civil War cancelled due to shooter being demographically uncooperative

The reason Charlie Kirk is being lionized by so many journalists is simple: he was very good at cultivating journalists and it seems a lot of journalists don't seem to understand the concept of being cultivated as a pet reporter in exchange for scoops or leads. They think he was their friend.