It all looks very nice but actually it is the worst spot in the British Isles. Stinks.

There was this guy when I was in college who was stereotypical campus communist, really nice dude, and a friend and I who occasionally see what he's up to are glad that he's survived chaining himself to trees, doing work on the border, farming & teaching art classes instead of posting through it.

YESSSSSSSS

After a lengthy appeals process and productive discussion with the Blue Sky safety team I will no loinger be sending George Thorogood lyrics to beautiful women on here via DM. Thank you all

shoutout to whatever college kid on WJCU is playing a bunch of good noisy stuff. projektrecords.bandcamp.com/track/glitte...

once again these things boil down to “is your group a bohemian cultural identity” or “is your group actually trying to do things?” and the key tell is whether your activity centers on policing of in-group behavior or whether it centers on, again, tangible goals

George Gavriel's art is pretty incredible. I'm seeing a few people say some of these are about what's going on in our country but he's from Cyprus and it's a reminder that so many of our struggles are universal.

volunteering in church settings with people who were doing the same things for the same goals but not on the same page on other things has been a great way to learn how to work with and occasionally work around people you'd never interact with otherwise because the greater good is most important.

all I'm saying is that more people would come to downtown Cleveland for things if we had more restrooms than just the sketchy ones in the dead mall where security doesn't even want you. There used to be some on Public Square where Rebol is now.

CHOTINER: You chose Orthodoxy for its ancient liturgy? ORTHOBRO: Correct CHOTINER: You attend weekly? ORTHOBRO: Well I mostly watch YouTube homilies CHOTINER: So your ancient liturgy is streaming? ORTHOBRO: That’snot inaccurate CHOTINER: And “Orthodox Aesthetics That Will Redpill You in 30 Seconds?”

trying to figure out if I want to make the commitment to learning beginner's Irish classes at the neighborhood pub on Monday nights when my brain rarely feels like it works anymore.

Thinking about an amazing quote from a local author I briefly dated around the time these were everywhere who said "people who ride tall bikes definitely did not get enough attention that they wanted when they were children."

Well-Trained Mind Press isn't MAGA, or at least their authors I'm familiar with aren't MAGA, but they are conservative evangelical, and if even homeschool enrichment classes in Minnesota are feeling the need to make ICE contingency plans, that really shows the extent of ICE's reign of terror.

This whole thing finally crossed my radar and I am having a whole moment of "heck yes the bubble is popping" along with one of the homeschool moms who taught our art classes in the co-op when I was in my early teens.

I feel like things have gotten so bleak that I'm seeing this and feeling very "oh that sounds nice." right now.

Shaun King aka Talcum X aka (insert your favorite moniker here) is Shaun Kinging again, on Substack, writing ICE-related stories. Please do not support him. He's a serial grifter. He promises he's 'working hard behind the scenes'. He's not. He's just taking your money.

This explains like 80% of the Republican vitriol against public and higher education in Ohio.

It’s important to understand that Dominicans and other immigrants are part of the fabric of Puerto Rican society — and ICE is currently terrorizing them on the island. Benito is speaking against what’s going on in the U.S. but also on its colony, where people literally did not vote for any of this.

I'd expect nothing less from a longtime "well THAT wasn't really genocide" kind of guy.

Thinking yet again about how hard OSU is fighting the whole "can you please take down all those Wexner signs on all your buildings."

This is a good reminder that I need to replace this album that got lost at some point in the past few years. This song's one of my favorites off this album.

Liam is home now and we are grateful to @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social for traveling to Minneapolis with him and his dad. Welcome home Liam ❤️❤️

He's not a person I like but he's been consistent on this for almost a decade. This is from 2018.

spent the afternoon singing Ukrainian songs and going out for dinner with my classmates, enjoying their company so much while also hating that these wonderful people are going through it right now being worried about family and friends back home and the current situation here.

when i say bring that baby home i mean EVERY BABY

When I say that being on this format of social media helps me understand other countries' politics, this is what I mean.

a seahawk is a bird go birds

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This Kevin Leary flash sheet is hanging in my kitchen and every time I see it, it makes me smile. kevinlearytattoo.bigcartel.com/product/keba...

Nothing makes me more fundie than people like this doing antichrist stuff.

I worked at the zoo in the ticket office with this gay raver guy who wrote us stories about the animatronic dinosaurs eating bad customers and drove a baby blue wood-panelled '95 Dodge Caravan named "Babe the Blue Ox." This was one of his favorite albums. I hope he's having fun wherever he is.

An entire community of thousands, here legally, having been demonized with deranged lies about eating pets, is about to be arbitrarily DECLARED illegal so they can be forcibly ethnically cleansed. I don’t want to hear one more fucking word about comparisons to Nazi Germany being overwrought.

The amount of people I'm seeing on Facebook saying "I miss the days when Obama deported people the right way and was classy about it" like it wasn't often devastating, cruel and unjust before this current awfulness, and want to go back to just not having to see it, not making it stop.

Pretty sure I remember this dude being anti-vax and weird about Covid also so...

For decades, nativists have said that mass deportation was about "the rule of law." Now we can see that they never cared about the rule of law at all. The Administration Misleads & Ignores Courts Most Often in Immigration Cases www.cato.org/blog/admin-m...

I voted for Nina Turner over Shontel, but I've been very thankful for her doing the right thing on a lot of these issues.

With my background, there's no novelty in listening to right-wing blowhards and that's probably why my de-bubbling experiences are all "I'm fine with being the only person who doesn't look like me here because you invited me to a fun party and shared your food with me."

seeing a lot of discourse about "getting outside the bubble" only being for bad things and I feel like that's not quite the entire story.

I forgot I made this. (The parody, not the original from the 1920s.) In an age when an ICE regional director can also be an SBC pastor, it seems relevant.

a bunch of Burundian refugee kids I used to tutor and their families have moved out this way for jobs that fit more with what they grew up doing (there's a sizable diaspora out there also) and I'm hoping & praying they are all right through this too.

Working downtown in the winter is a whole "I hope people are okay" thing when you see a missing person report regarding one of your regulars (she's okay) and hearing one of your other regulars outside yelling on the plaza gives you relief because you know she's still alive too.

Having a lot of grumpy feelings about this as someone who did some genealogy and found out that Jewish and Polish Catholic relatives died in Buchenwald and Ravensbruck.

The fact that so much policy and rhetoric is aimed at refugees and asylum seekers specifically should tell Christians everything we need to know about where God stands on this.

One thing I found deeply moving about resistance in the Twin Cities was the universalism of loving your neighbor, the philosophy driving the opposition to the ICE/BP invasion. I couldn't help but notice the contrast with the blood and soil-ism of Miller and Vance. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Make sure you always read @radleybalko.bsky.social too bsky.app/profile/radl...

Last week in Minnesota, I watched ordinary people risk their lives to protect their neighbors. In the process, they not only won a significant—though not final—victory against authoritarianism, they proved virtually every MAGA social theory wrong. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

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