i've mentioned this before, but a character not having the words for who they are, or having words but struggling with them, is often way more interesting and meaningful an exploration of who they are and the context they live in, which is more important than a checkbox

Took this video of a guy getting detained and a citation for putting his hand in the water an hour ago.

Absolutely NO reflection allowed.

Can't believe this guy isn't more popular www.bbc.com/news/article... www.economist.com/interactive/...

normal, not psychotically racist country.

Welp

“The Israelis and their American supporters, fully aware that Trump is out for a separate peace, have entered a deeply satisfying season of lamentation now that the war they have for so long sought to manufacture is the fiasco I told them for decades it would be,” writes @attackerman.bsky.social

This is just ZOG in a red coat of paint.

The Trump DOJ is now arguing in federal court that Elon Musk’s AI company should be allowed to run dozens of unpermitted gas turbines polluting a Black community in Mississippi. They also argued the federal government should have the power to shut down citizen lawsuits like this one entirely.

Wow who could have predicted this would happen

yeah, I sincerely doubt we can bioengineer senescence away any time soon one of my favorite recent findings in gerontology and longevity research is that it turns out the "blue zones" aren't really hot spots of centenarians so much as a combination of shitty record-keeping and outright fraud

[P] Someone tell Trump that there was slavery history info written on the paint they peeled up

"Maria" sent the pic sharing, "The 2026 tomato harvest has begun. My hope is that they raise the price per bucket. I've heard that this year, they are going to start going to start paying us 89 cents a bucket where I’m working." #WeFeedYou

I keep seeing people on my feeds interested in switching to Godot, and I’d like to help. Please enjoy this list of tutorials to help you get started: docs.google.com/document/d/1... #godot #gamedev #indiedev

They're going to prosecute people who tried to take home pieces of Trump's peeling paint so he can falsely blame them for his embarrassing fuck-up. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/...

Switzerland is like “well at least he’s not here for too long, Christ what an asshole”

OPINION: "I don’t get excited easily. I’m pretty even-keeled. But I couldn’t believe what was before me," Assistant Editor Kevin Edwards said of his Grand Canyon trip in April.

Eat shit, Queer Harmer. Asshole fascist POS. www.reuters.com/world/uk/uk-...

1/ A lot of cities banned facial recognition and a lot of people relaxed. They should not have. Police moved to a new system. It does not need to see your face. It tracks your body. Your gait, your build, your bag, your clothes. 🧵 Big Brother is Watching #DV1 #ProudBlue #Voices4Victory #USDemocracy

all the 'centrists' who were a week ago defending keir starmer are now all lined up behind andy burnham bcos he's no different we keep getting sold dud after dud after dud bcos it only matters to neoliberals that they keep the gravy train rolling on for another year or two then the cycle repeats

Every generation has a choice. Sit on the sidelines? Or carry the torch forward? John Lewis chose the fight. Our ancestors chose the fight. Now it's our turn. #GoodTrouble Weekend of Action July 17-19. Will you stand with us? #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory

1/ Twelve cents. That is what one record costs on a US servicemember or even you. Home address, health, finances, location. Duke researchers ran the experiment and one purchase routed through a foreign .asia domain. Our troops & you are for sale. 🧵 #DV1 #ProudBlue #Voices4Victory #USDemocracy

2/ Duke's full study walks through exactly what data was sold, what it cost, and who could buy it. The findings are not subtle. Take a moment to skim thru this and recognize that all of our data (yours & mine) is available for pennies from whoever wants it techpolicy.sanford.duke.edu/wp-content/u...

this is your mission. our pedophile president needs you to show up in full combat gear on a hot summer day to the pool he filled with algae because he gave a paint job to one of his cigar puffing cronies. you are ordered to stop tourists from touching the green water. good luck soldier

Outrageous.   Dr. Justin Ryder, a pediatric surgeon and expert at Northwestern, was booted from a conference for sharing an article on federal cuts to biomedical research.   This is the impact of Trump's administration.

I’m saying this as someone who’s in a 90% teaching position. Teaching vs. research is a false choice. Robust public funding of higher ed that existed without controversy until Reagan is the answer. The answer to “solving” whatever “problems” exist in higher ed is literally “throw money at it.”

A shirtless white man, in the street with a knife in his hand, having attacked and wounded five people, allegedly shouting anti-Muslim slogans is the sixth story on the BBC UK news page. There is absolutely no doubt at all this would be the lead story if attacker and intended victims were reversed.

Listening to this and they're talking about the "suppressed memories" therapy trend of the 80s and 90s. So many women I knew in the 90s suddenly decided that maybe their father had abused them and they'd blocked the memories.

The media is abnormalizing Mamdani as pathologically as they normalize Trump

Everyone has lost their minds. Mamdani's record in office is that of an ambitious center-left pragmatist yet the entire media is still casting him as a dangerous ideologue.

Death of the author has really just become DEATH OF THE BOOK. Because we abolished media literacy, abolished analysis, even abolished media consumption in a sense. The actual work is utterly irrelevant, because it is merely a vessel for what *you*, the audience, want to see & hear.

It appears that people like 4x3... Special treat for Bluesky users today :-) (Click the hub word after you finish the puzzle.) Bit of a tricky puzzle today though! www.hankgreen.com/fourbythree

@kennethhite.bsky.social This is you and your time machine isn't it? boingboing.net/2026/06/19/j...

That's enough Death of the Author. It's time for Death of the Audience. Start running fools

Finished sculpting more space sharks! Handsculpted out of greenstuff and milliput in scale of 28mm. #warhammer #warhammer40k #oldhammer #greenstuff #40k #roguetrader

every single study done on this shows that the actual best behavior is done under consistent pseudonyms and people behave worse under real names it’s counterintuitive but at this point the real names thing is willful denial of evidence

This book is so bad that when my colleagues and I (all trauma specialists specifically in IPV/SV) read it for our office book club we could hear each other yelling about it through the walls. Fuck this book and this man's shitty fucking science and gross ass writing.

We're gutted to be missing #originsgamefair, but if you want to pick up some Pelgrane goodies, check out the extensive Pelgrane shelf at our good friends @studio2publishing.bsky.social, booth #1307!

I only need another $100 before I can buy my family food for the weekend. Please consider little old Black old me as you send your Juneteenth tips! I'm thiiirdperson at cash app, ko-fi, venmo, and paypal. Anything helps! Please share if you see this.

The three players in this photo: 1. Nigerian heritage, grew up in England, and is only a citizen thanks to birthright citizenship. 2. Born + raised in Holland, has a dad who immigrated to the US from Suriname. 3. Said he wanted to “make people who look like me proud” while playing on Juneteenth

This year's winter storm season is going to be a disaster in more ways than one now that the Trump admin has dismantled the infrastructure essential for everything from weather forecasting to emergency response.

What do you wanna bet they replace the dead squares with new ones, making it stand out more. Then they try to fade those squares with peroxide turning them bright yellow.

I'm going to post some more old sailor moon art here because why not!!!

I have this head cannon that Ami absolutely hates Haruka and it makes me giggle every time I draw something about it

this is not what happened

it's remarkable how like, you can visibly notice how people who still use X regularly are either getting dragged to the right (if on the centre-left or centre) or just getting more toxic in general

Recently I was at an event where a reasonably respectable person talked about how Trump’s threats to Greenland speak to the human desire to go on a grand mission, etc, and that’s why we need to respect the mass appeal of this idea. Invading Greenland polls at like 6% approval. But they like it on X