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'Matt Gaetz Raped A Homeless Teenager' is what you mean. A teenager with a homeless parent? What? The fuck? Did she have a home and not allow her parent to live in it? Ended up having sex with? What? Yeah clearly you guys been caping for pedos long enough and you understand the assignment here

The two hovering news items on the horizon are the Epstein Files releases and the economy-crashing collapse of the AI bubble, and the least productive part of my brain keeps trying to imagine ways that the Epstein release could somehow cause the AI bubble collapse

As all this disgusting Epstein shit starts surfacing more and more, I hope we don't lose sight of the fact that apparently every major media outlet knew everything and instead spent their time money and energy attacking the trans community.

based on the epstein emails released today i am Tapping The Sign

Here’s what is interesting about this answer: It is not a “no.” bsky.app/profile/just...

ever since I learned about three-cueing I've developed infinitely more patience for replies on social media. mfers literally do not know how to read. people are walking around conjuring random meanings into words they don't know, and they don't know a lot of words. it's crazy

The British government admits it is now monitoring VPNs use by UK residents. Regulator Ofcom has contracted with an AI-powered surveillance service to detect the number of citizens using VPNs to evade the Online Safety Act. The UK tech minister has said a VPN ban is on the table.

it's not that i ever doubted that being a barista was a skilled position, but my year-long effort to try to produce a half-decent latte at home has convinced me that a good barista is easily more skilled than virtually every c-suite executive on the planet

The reason people think the Democratic Party doesn't actually stand for anything is because it doesn't.

Sounds based to me. More politicians should follow sex workers. Sex work is work and sexuality is normal. The weird thing is when religious people are conditioned to toxically entangle their faith & shame with regular sexual desires. The weird thing is stigmatizing & criminalizing working people.

it does seem like there’s a major—though potentially fleeting—opportunity to invest in left-wing media. more than a million people in the most populous city in america just enthusiastically elected a democratic socialist and the world is watching. putting $$ towards left media rn is good business.

I don’t even have words for this. One of the 2 guys responsible for this mass death wants a peace prize and the other wants $1trillion to be a bad CEO.

WOW. 81% of women 18-29 voted for Mamdani, 80% for Sherril, and 78% for Spanberger. Gen Z women aren't playing around.

Republicans thought they had a permanent hold over young men. They didn't. Spanberger wins men 18-29 by 14%, Sherrill by 10%, and Mamdani by a stunning 40%.

TRANS RIGHTS ARE A WINNING POLITICAL ISSUE Every single centrist claiming we must all compromise our bodily autonomy for their personal comfort is a traitor to American democracy & rational human decency. They have no place in a modern Democratic Party, toss them out. Total liberation for all.

hey bluesky remember all these results the next time you want to doom about how civil war 2 is about to start and there's no way to stop it

this is a reminder that we dont have to settle for newsom in 2028

There are more of us than there are of them.

Maine has voted in a landslide to reject a Republican-supported ballot initiative that would have restricted voting access heading into the critical 2026 midterms

this is the most successful a CIA officer has been at toppling a government in years.

One of the better photos I've taken of a stubble corridor fading into the distance during high summer as a miscellaneous sky stands guard and collects its thoughts.

"It's becoming increasingly better not to ask, because it's becoming increasingly better not to know. If you know, then you have to do something about it. Thus not knowing has become a virtue among people who would rather not give a shit. Shame dies by atrophy." www.the-reframe.com/the-death-of...

i hope this is how you find out about dick cheney

the phrase “cost of living” is so fucking bleak

Anyone who has experience in an abusive household, or who has worked with people in them, or has read a lot about them, will be familiar with a particular dynamic: Dad is full of loud passions & intense moods, sweeping through like a thunderstorm, unpredictable, volatile, often violent. He is ...

I’m really starting to suspect that most of the tech bros haven’t actually read Tolkien, as they certainly don’t understand it. The gentle hobbits save the “hard men” of Gondor, largely through compassion and selflessness. Not the other way around. The Christian parable is barely hidden!

With SNAP benefits going to shit because of rich assholes and corruption running rampant through politics I'd like to point your attention to a Clinton. No, not one of those Clintons. This Clinton. Clifford Clinton.

If you see someone stealing food - no you didn't.

"If something evil is popular, is it still evil?" is basically the defining social question of our time.

I would donate to such a project and volunteer. Everyone should have food and clean water.

one thing about racism is the way people will ignore the most likely explanation for something like having a Nazi tattoo for 20 years. the most simple and obvious explanation was that he knew what it was and kept it. his excusers need to stop the embarrassing mental gymnastics.

⚧️ RADICAL TRANS IDEOLOGY ⚧️

the forced self-censorship gibberish we all have to do on social media now is having a devastating effect on the way people communicate with each other. nobody in a healthy society is saying "unalived"

this guy gets it www.huffpost.com/entry/chicag...

We gotta do a nationwide inquest into antisocial behavior. Leaving your dog's poop on the street. Not returning shopping carts. The What's Wrong With You initiative

“When they rob us of art and emotion, that leads us towards the aesthetics of fascism. In this film, all the sets are real, the decor is human-sized, there are painstakingly created miniatures... It’s there to remind us that art is not only necessary, it is urgent. And AI can go fuck itself!”

BREAKING: Pope Leo XIV is set to effectively disband Opus Dei in the coming weeks. This would be the most sweeping internal reform of his pontificate — and a dramatic continuation of Pope Francis’s legacy.

Afg is now trending on pornhub

When your custom character appears in a cut scene

Release the jaypstein files

Bsky: We don't need to sitewide ban fascist bad actors who work tirelessly to vilify & eliminate from the face of the Earth most of our core posters 😜 our content moderation tools are robust and many 😜 moderate yourselves 😜 put that in your waffle maker Also bsky: We have permanently banned Link 😇

Loss leader is Sam Altman's nickname

After a few days witnessing the Bad Bunny Super Bowl thing I guess my questions are: Is this just how it is now? Are white people just going to cry about every single thing that ever happens from now on until forever now? Like on top of the kidnappings are they just going to keep fucking whining?

Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.

This is how you *KNOW* AI isn’t “like the early days of the internet.” In the early days of the internet, Consumer Reports was writing article after article on how to take your family online easily and affordably. There was no “Here’s how to get that damned internet out of your life” piece.