Every time bluesky isn't loading, I think maybe It Happened.

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Ppl, now more than ever: sever your reliance on Amazon.

The red headed stepchildren of journalism, despite often putting themselves in great physical danger for their photos.

i wrote about a sandwich* *and being trans buttondown.com/theswordandt...

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It’s pretty crazy that Air Force 1 can turn around and we don’t know shit about what’s going on in 2026

So what are you going to DO about it? Not talk, but DO?

Cities have existed in the US since before it was the US.

Seems like time to re-up: There's a reason why sports teams don't chant "I believe that we will lose" before a game, a reason so obvious that I'm pretty sure it needs no explanation in that context. Words have power. They not only describe but shape reality....

When Renee Good said "I'm not mad at you" what the ICE goon heard was "I'm not scared of you." That's what enraged him. The populace wasn't fully terrorized and cowed into submission yet, so he acted to make that happen.

Please use ALT text. You’re not doing any kind of good public service if you’re excluding a huge number of people from accessing your posts.

need more cosmopolitan chauvinism imo. to be able to go to a world city and do this without crossing a border is something you should be proud of, it means you're a great country. To want to tear it down means you are inbred provincial hog with no greater drives than envy and fear.

Listening to the entire Minutemen catalog for some reason.

We have reached a point where George W. Bush and Cheney and Powell presenting false information to the UN to try to gain international support for the invasion of Iraq is no longer the most egregiously illegitimate US war of aggression.

did i miss anything

Happy new year, friends. Courage and hope.

Thank you Tubi

The news that AI was being trained on stolen works? It was broken first about the BooksCorpus, on May 11 of 2021, and it was discussed in major news media thereafter. Romance authors talked about it. A lot. The first archive they stole was largely romance. arxiv.org/abs/2105.05241

The Michael Mann adaptation of the Bari Weiss tenure gonna be epic.

Whew. Roll out that 25th.

I just backed Brian Finke’s Bike Life on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/blu...

Former teacher and state school superintendent

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.

Anyway this entire thread is actually about how Emmylou Harris released the best album of her life in the 90s and I need, like, Natalie Merchant and Alanis Morrisette to up their fucking game.

All of these men are white.

Maybe you're a normal Democratic liberal. Ask yourself: Does the party inspire you? Do you think it's been effective at fighting the dire situation we're in? Do you feel represented in the party? Are you bothered that anyone can be a Democrat, and there are no democratic processes inside the party?

We are Legion.

I should be participating in the politics of joy but I've been captivated by the Cuomo party live feed. Hypnotic schadenfreude. Mind-blowing playlist.

RIP Peter Watkins. His whole filmography was an incisive stab to the gut. If you've never seen his work, I recommend starting with Punishment Park, an eternally troubling look at the swings of authoritarianism in motion. It's a masterpiece.

Jake Tapper is a stain on journalism

Set up a small monthly. So worth it.

Listening to the Prefab Sprout ep of @junkfilterpod.bsky.social. I start making connections to bands like Talk Talk that I am more immersed in and hear spiritual kinship.

Viva la rana.

I get why TechCrunch would write it this way, but I largely disagree with this framing. The broad conversation here is about power, respect, control and whether the voices of the vulnerable are taken seriously. This is the story of a leader and a team showing that they don’t get that.

Mountains of evidence that Ted Cruz is an awful person and derelict politician, and both are undergirded by his self-loathing.

Yes, it’s a weird theory. But no more weird than the president posting an AI video of himself promising to give Americans a magic bed that could regenerate limbs.

If Ollie Wainwright were On Here I'd @ him

Temple Grandin is 78 yrs old.

I feel like the day you learn you can't unilaterally overrule the First Amendment via getting your ass kicked by Jimmy Kimmel might be a bad day to announce you've discovered one weird trick to undo millennia of medical science. I feel like you might not be projecting the strength you think you are.

genuinely crazy that this is happening on behalf of charlie kirk of all people

In short: Happy Constitution Day!

I continue to be amazed at the absolute lack of courage

Y’all made me think there was something verifiable for a minute,

Museum of Jurassic Technology reopens after escaping destruction in fire | LAist

“Hey quick follow up for the History Respecter — what aspect of the Confederacy are you *most* proud of? The treason against the United States? The defense of slavery? All the losing? I bet it’s the losing.”

I'm going to let A.R. take the lead here for articulating what I have been holding back.

Wrote a thing about the Christian industrial complex art historian in charge of destroying academia and the left by calling them all terrorists’ book about art and democracy: “Coates’s idea of liberty seems ready to accommodate a lot of tyranny to get things done.” www.artnews.com/art-in-ameri...