As we boycott vile companies, a reminder that many US public libraries offer: 1) Ebooks & audiobooks via the Libby app. Pro tip: use the “notify me” tag to request your library add books by trans, disabled, & BIPOC authors! 2) TV & film streaming via Kanopy 3) Language learning via Mango 💙📚 And:

The reason more people are diagnosed with autism today has nothing to do with it being caused by some outside factor or vaccines. It's because our understanding of the spectrum of autism has increased significantly thanks to scientific discovery. He's going full Hitler

A fun fact about McCarthyism is that just two and a half years after he was condemned and censured, Sen. Joseph McCarthy drank himself to death at 48. Fevers break. Petty tyrants fall. Censorship and persecution drive good people to stand together and fight back.

there's always a John Waters quote, it seems

I have also been added to the "drama" moderation list by someone the CEO is following. I have not been hostile or derogatory towards the bsky mods, only disagreed with their terms. This is a very childish and irresponsible response to widespread concern over the new rules from their userbase

Intelligence report leaked to me warns of "trans militant cult," a framing echoed by Vice President JD Vance. The new "terror" obsession is here: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/white-hous...

In Defiance of Death

"authors are paid to write blurbs" please. as if anybody pays authors

THIS IS WHAT OPS LOOKS LIKE 📢 Bluesky Blackout is a good case study for how to kill momentum for anti-censorship movements. 🧵

actions that will contribute more to pushing against bluesky's censorship than a blackout: -submitting a feedback request -@ing moderation about it -commenting on mods posts about it -making and sharing memes (ex: "i consent!" sticker) -leaving an app store review -just generally posting about it

the revolution will not be televised (they canceled their subscriptions)

just saw a tiktok from a disney adult reading from On Tyranny and asking their followers to cancel their d+ and disney trips omg

THE GOAL OF CENSORSHIP IS YOUR LACK OF PRESENCE. They do not want you here. So, they do not care if you leave. Leaving not only destroys momentum and pressure, but it is giving the platform what it wants: space without YOU. If you come back, you’re giving it that PLUS the gift of your membership.

The fact that #blueskyblackout2025 is not suppressed and trending on the platform SHOULD be telling you that it’s a bad idea. Why would a platform support its own boycott? What could be the motivation for that, while it seeks to alienate a specific demographic of users?

I've been a queer political activist for 33 years. Boycotts (which this isn't, btw) don't work unless they are indefinite: the end is a *resolution to the complaint,* not a date. Worse, responding by "we're not posting here" is giving them exactly what their objectionable policy demands: silence.

THIS IS WHAT OPS LOOKS LIKE 📢 Bluesky Blackout is a good case study for how to kill momentum for anti-censorship movements. 🧵

Everyone post a Batman!

The effect of car dependency: in 1940, Basil Rathbone was photographed wearing an overcoat outside his home. As more men relied on cars, overcoats became shorter to accommodate drivers. Today, the right is marketed as an "overcoat," even if it would've been considered more sport coat length in 1940.

Kill the part of you that believes we’re cooked

I was truly ahead of my time with this one…

They're making the sunsets transgender!

SCOOP: he’s been released jail He’s currently at a mosque

HARDEST PHOTO OF 2025 JUST DROPPED

the hysteria has gone off the rails so far that the average american thinks 1 in 5 people are transgender. pure absolute insanity that is driving the current lavender scare

somebody hold my head up

I like that this is just official DOJ policy now

This is why everything sucks. It's not trans people. It's not immigrants. You are being robbed blind before your eyes and those same people also own all the tech and media networks to tell you that the cause is not them

I’m old enough to remember that slowing growth and rising prices is called “stagflation” and that it’s the worst of all worlds.

From ‘The Onion’ Editorial Board: In Defense Of Mass Censorship https://theonion.com/in-defense-of-mass-censorship-1848673776/

Have all those edgy, Free Speech comedians come out for Kimmel yet? Y'know, Gervais, Burr, Carr and the Riyadh Festival bunch with their "It's my job to mock both sides (but I'll be mainly sticking it to the Trans)."

Hey, having the head of the FCC demand that a show be taken off the air because he didn't like the political speech is actually kind of a big fucking deal. There are only so many event horizons that we can pass, you know?

“You used to be able to say anything” comedians never been more quiet in their lives

so many dead canaries and we just keep on mining

This man takes better photos on what are arguably the worst days of his life under fluorescent tube lighting than most of us will take literally ever It's borderline faerie glamour, has anyone tried touching him with a horseshoe to see if it burns

Obama: We have to recognize that on both sides there are people who are extremists  But I will say that those extreme views were not in my White House. I wasn’t embracing them. I wasn’t empowering them. I wasn’t putting the weight of the government behind extremist views.

remember when comedy used to be completely legal but rightwingers started a full on assault on the entire US media apparatus to “legalize comedy”

WGA Statement on ABC’s Decision to Pull Jimmy Kimmel Live!

Pritzker: What's at stake here is free speech. It's our constitution and our way of life. Do we really want the president intimidating people, organizations to get others fired? People ought to be standing up and speaking out.

Werewolf Woman and Knight: The Reunion

“My idea of heaven is to wake up, have a good breakfast, and spend the rest of the day drawing." Peter Falk #BOTD

A dream of the Abyss

A constant issue. It may never be solved 😔

sketch - memento💍

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Do you care me 🥺

Set aside Sen. Mike Lee's storm of lies and incitement here. Lee literally made jokes on Twitter about the fmr Speaker of the Minnesota state house being murdered in her home by a right wing extremist. Hard to imagine any more twisted and malicious person in public life.

in america, simply living with someone who might possibly be trans is terrorism now. everyone sees what their going to try to do now right

Heart Flesh- 2025