SO MUCH THIS!!!

I was going to say something like this. I think about how it must have felt in 1940. Europe fallen. Carpet bombing in London, unrestricted submarine warfare. Victory must have felt unimaginable. Today is dark, but there is still time to keep the key from turning.

Democracy dies in darkness lmao. WaPo helped drag it there and bury it.

I stared into the void and the void stared back.

Baby owl! 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍 #bluesky #nature #animals #wildlife

Exceptional Doctorow piece on the solar rollout, why it's unstoppable, & why many old downsides of solar aren't factors anymore. The entire material mining needed 4 a global solar transition = only 17% of the fossil fuel mining we do every year! & then we're done! doctorow.medium.com/https-plural...

There's never been a social site or board with the kind of user self moderation tools available here. And more could be added. Genuine question: do we *really* need moderation beyond removal of illegal content? Moderation will always be flawed. Maybe opt-in community modding is the entire answer?

💯%. Allowing some users (overwhelmingly, right wing voices) a safe space while banning their critics is the kind of slanted platform users abandoned with Twitter. If you think users won't move on again if you don't learn from your mistakes (and fast), you are in for a surprise.

Racists engage in the exact same conduct. "I'm not racist but..." says the racist. Nothing someone says before "but" actually matters.

@lovekat41.bsky.social 😊

OH MY GOD IT'S HAPPENING deadline.com/2025/10/kill...

Great stuff. Any group which defines itself as “defending women’s sex based rights” is clearly anti-feminist to its core, given that feminism is about liberating us from being defined by our biology. Something “gender crits” seem incapable of grasping. Stupid sods.

Elmina Wilson structural #engineer 1st US woman to earn 4 yr #civilengineering degree, 1st master's degree in field & 1st woman professor of Engineering @ Iowa State University. Moved to #New York & helped design Flatiron Building & Met Life Tower b. #OTD 29 Sep 1870 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elmina_...

Panda cub being taken to the bath... 😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊 #bluesky #nature #animals #wildlife

This baby otter is eating fish for the first time... ♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️ #bluesky #nature #wildlife #animals

For anyone not in Alberta or not paying attention, girls playing sports in school now have to prove they were born female to play sports. And can be challenged by anyone at anytime and must prove they are female to keep playing. This doesn’t apply to boys. What a dystopian hellscape

The #babygoat weekend starts now y'all! ♥️ #bluesky #animals #nature

NEW: The Heritage Foundation is pushing a terrorism designation based on "transgender ideology" on the claim that "50% of major (non-gang) school shootings since 2015" involve a transgender shooter or trans-related motive. @dell.bsky.social and me on why that's false: www.wired.com/story/herita...

It’s still the case that Canada has one of the largest pay gaps in the OECD. Women in Canada working full-time earn 84 cents for every dollar men earn—and for Indigenous women, women with disabilities and racialized women, the gap is much larger still.

I've been sitting with this piece of @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social for two days, reading it, re-reading it. You should too. #EzraKlein is the avatar of a new kind of liberal indulgence for the worst of the far-right, embracing bad-faith as a practice. www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

The Felinoid medical team has been dispatched to monitory my wife in the sick bay. Their methods are unconventional, involving rhythmic vibration, making of excessive cookies and the tactical theft of pillow space and warmth.

Democrats seem to believe that they can turn a big dial that says "transphobia" up and down with no consequences. But all they're doing is bolstering a fascist drive to wipe trans people off the face of the earth. It's disgusting and shameful and it needs to end www.thenation.com/article/poli...

"To put it bluntly, (Singal) thinks he’s right and that everyone else is wrong. ... Singal is, in fact, aware of the criticism he has received for his Atlantic cover story and his coverage of trans issues. He’s just uninterested in hearing it" www.jezebel.com/private-mess...

The Spectator has deployed 'protecting women' as a cover for some apalling transphobia in the past. Now we know how miuch they actually care about protecting women.

see how settled science suddenly gets turned into something unclear as soon as conservatives make it a political issue? this has happened on dozens of issues.

pretty sure that if Le Monde calls your trans kid a "fashion week sensation" while you're scaremongering about bathrooms in an off-year Virginia gubernatorial they should just scroll credits on your ass because it's over www.lemonde.fr/en/m-le-mag/...

major traffic incident

Seeing a lot of people who apparently looked at the Neville Chamberlain playbook and thought, "That went great, no notes." Or maybe, "if only he'd appeased faster, it would have been more successful." Looking at you @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social

We had the "goodwill and common sense" compromise in sports. Conservatives lied repeatedly about it. No one bothered to look into whether they were telling the truth, and now we're here. Same exact thing happened with youth gender care.

Raptured, felt cute. Might delete later.

...and multiple studies demonstrating that shifts in identity and/or stopping GAHT are overwhelmingly *not* indications of transition regret are linked to in this essay (specifically, in the "Detransition, Regret, and Dynamic Transition Trajectories" section): juliaserano.medium.com/spotting-ant...

Receipts; bmcmedresmethodol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

❤️ ❤️ ❤️ this man for looking into what SEGM, funded by the same groups that fund the extremist Heritage Foundation and ADF, really stands for and speaking up. We emphatically do not live in a good faith media environment. I hope more scientists, authors and reporters can wake up to this reality.

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The king watching over his kingdom! 👀 #cat #catday #bluesky #animals

Cuteness! ♥️ #cat #catday #bluesky #animals

My professional assessment is that Ezra Klein is a moron @jezebeldotcom.bsky.social

It's beyond time to stop listening to Ezra Klein. www.jezebel.com/only-an-idio...

Good read. I didn’t know McCarthyism was a manifestation of antisemitism too. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

This feline demands enrichment!

its just not defensible in 2025 for democratic candidates and officeholders not to have a clear position on asserting the equal rights of transgender americans. if you're unwilling, step aside and let a patriot take your place.

Beautiful moments I love: watching my two rescue kitties snuggle and snooze after play. Dot was ready to love Pixel the moment they met. Pixel not so much 😂, but she's warmed up and it's beautiful to see.

Thanks for sharing Sandy. This is a moment that I'm also mourning and reflecting on my childhood experience. I'm doing this in the hope of reconciliation and alignment with myself. Letting go of deep rooted shame and fear so I can live my life with courage and awareness.

Is there anything more frustrating than dress shopping for several hours and finding nothing that will work for the occasion? Ok, there probably is, but it's still pretty frustrating.

Joy: enjoying the last of warm summer Saturdays with friends.

Things that make me happy: someone I love ( @suthakamal.bsky.social ) coming to visit this weekend. ☺️

Things I love: snuggling with @rianadbanana.bsky.social and playing Split Fiction, resting after a busy week.

Dorothy Martin Simon, US physical chemist in aerospace combustion & development of polymers. Worked on heat shield construction& improvement of rocket engine designs @ NACA. Work @ DuPont led to invention of polymers Dacron & Orlon. b. #OTD 18 Sep 1919 #WomenInSTEM en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy...

Because you needed a video of a cute baby sloth crawling towards the camera... 😊 #bluesky #animals #nature

While mainstream media is fully folding to fascism, it’s a good time to stop supporting it with watches, clicks, subscriptions, $. You can help more by SENDING $ to amazing indy outlets like @assignedmedia.org, @equalaccesspublicmedia.org, @404media.co, @propublica.org, and many others.