And YES. Charles de Lint used AI for the cover of a book he has coming out this fall. He sent out an email that lead with "AI Haters shouldn't read too much further..." #booksky

People making excuses for Charles de Lint using AI…When we don’t hold people accountable for their actions, especially destructive actions, we are complicit.

We all have to post as hard as possible about Lindsey Graham's death so we can see who wins by getting cited in an article in the Atlantic about how Bluesky is destroying the fabric of American politics next week.

This...explains a lot actually

The third act of A Christmas Carol, one of the most famous examples of "don't die a dickhead, " was the ghost showing Scrooge how happy everyone was that he died and it was a big motivator for him to stop being a piece of shit and still we got a bunch of dickhead Dems talking up Lindsey Graham

I wish people cared at least as much about Lindsey Graham's victims as they do about his family.

Man, nothing makes the state of politics more apparent than when a warmongering monster who actively made life worse for millions of people dies and the supposed resistance party stalwarts come out of the woodwork to talk about how they’re going to miss their friend they had so much fun with.

i know you’re looking for it. here she is, girls. here she is, world

Democrats feel more comfortable defending a genocidal war criminal who they see as a friend than trans kids who experience harassment, bullying, and trauma routinely as a side effect of their existence under a fascist regime.

no because the problem is people should be saying stuff that isn’t nice but is true, and instead they are saying nice things which are erasing harm

I’m seeing a lot of “well they had to say something and they can’t be mean, it’s unprofessional” they do not, in fact, have to say anything! saying nothing is a whole option that’s available if you’re in a position where it would be personally dangerous to say something true but ugly

The best thing about Lindsey Graham dying is that he’s no longer going to be in the news, and so liberals won’t keep calling him gay and/or a woman constantly since he’s going to become irrelevant

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That Democrats see mass-murdering fascists dismantling the country as nothing more than "colleagues they dislike" is why we've been in a non-stop plummet. Incredible this is still debatable, by people who ostensibly oppose fascism, ten years into this?!?

Michael Fanone's take on Lindsey Graham is one of the most powerful I've read:

I saw this interview with Tom Hanks about Toy Story 5 and filming one of the saddest scenes he's ever filmed. I have not seen the movie but I have to ask....why? why do you keep doing that? It's like torture porn at this point. 3 movies of this? Do you think thats what the people want?

Today is a good example of how Marco Rubio had 99 votes in his confirmation hearing.

"i held a profound respect for my colleague, senator hitler" isn't harmless friendly piffle, it comes from the same place as their inability to even *imagine* putting an ICE guy to death for torturing men, women, and children to death in a fucking concentration camp

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Primary every Democrat who releases a statement about how sad they are to lose their good buddy Lindsey fucking Graham

Remember everyone. DON'T be mad that the people who rule you will willingly lie for awful people. DON'T be mad that these eulogies walk hand in hand with the lack of any consequences for anyone involved in a coup of the country DON'T be mad it shows politicians to be craven worms

Democratic messaging would be 97% better if they simply stopped and asked "Who is this for?" before hitting Send and deleting everything where the answer is "People who love Donald Trump."

We need to tear this party down to the studs. Sorry but there's no place for this kind of outright performative trash in the name of good manners. He was a bad person that made life a nightmare for many, many Americans, including YOUR CONSTITUENTS. You know this is true.

I know everyone’s making their jokes, but to be real: it’s an American sickness that the media and political class are praising someone who has spent last year calling for a genocide. Lindsay Graham was the worst of us. He wanted the blood of children to flow in the streets of Gaza and got his wish.

It has been a "fun" era seeing every Dem I once admired just totally fail to meet the moment. I do not feel represented or protected by you.

- cheers for attacking Iran at the Sotu - endorses Platner - praises the humor and wit of fucking Lindsey Graham And yet again, i am depressingly reminded that a long time ago I thought this woman was an answer. I detest her

this actually tracks for a person who endorsed a man with a nazi tattoo

If the people are denied justice they will celebrate vengeance, as that is all that is left to them. If you die your way out of accountability, we will piss on your grave, instead.

BREAKING: Lindsey Graham’s sudden death reveals everyone’s wake-up time on Sundays.

North East Ohio. I gave my roommate a 30 day notice if he doesn't rehome his cat. I need his cat to go to a patient place where he will get lots of space and play... play is important!! NO SMALL KIDS, when around hands he tends to play aggression bite. It's because he's not being played with here.🧵

Posting this again to remind you you dont have to be an amazing artist to draw comics!

Here is Graham gloating about "killing all the right people." Just in case you see anyone try to do the whole "we should have decency for the dead" nonsense.

The fucking asshats doing homophobia are not going to ruin my good time My block list grows. As others have said, there's plenty to hate upon with Lindsey Graham. You don't need to call him 'Lady G' and you don't need to talk about rumors he was closeted. Whether true or not, that's hardly apropos

There will be inevitable Articles™️ about the left celebrating Lindsey Graham's death to which I will respond that no man celebrated death more, perhaps in all of American history, than Lindsey Graham

lindsey graham won't see your jokes and memes because he got diarrhea and is in hell now, but someone writing an op-ed titled "the left's problem with manners" might. So make them really funny.

A liberal conflict aversion can lead to a desire to pretend no one IS enemies (we're all just engaged in Robust And Civil Democratic Process! Ezra Klein's "was practicing politics the right way" etc) but, no, Lindsey Graham made enemies by being the enemy of people who want peace.

It's actually good to live the kind of life where your enemies rejoice when you die, the trick is just to make sure that those enemies are bad people, and not--as with the whole Lindsey Graham situation--correct.

Not the use of the word "detained" here to make it appear as though the settlers have some legal capacity to be doing this. If i ran up on a US Rep with a rifle and prevented them from leaving it would be, correctly, described as kidnapping; and doing so with political ends would be terrorism.

And no "it's not homophobia it's just pointing out hypocrisy, i have given myself a special dispensation"

I mean I’m as happy as the next guy that Graham died but I’m not looking forward to the onslaught of libs posting homophobic AI slop about him

No fucking homophobia (About Lindsay Graham)

"I’ve never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure". ~ Clarence Darrow, 1932

Quite the legacy you've left, Senator Graham.

This was not the news I was expecting to wake up too! Many will say we shouldn't speak ill of the dead, but I say no, speak the truth. And when it comes to Lindsey, his legacy will always be his opposition to LGBTQ people's rights. Rest in Piss Bigot.

Don't be like Simon. Show some respect for your disabled neighbors and use alt text

WOW.

Why don’t they report on the condemnations, too? This is when the media doesn’t report the news and instead does some sort of “decency” thing, as if we’re still in an age of decency.