we should have a new crack epidemic candidate. I vote for msg

Handing out Tylenol for Halloween this year. This next generation is going to build a world class high speed rail system in the US.

rapture this rapture that, all I know is rap sure is different after Kendrick ended Drake's career

fuck, man. this is so dystopian. my jaw dropped when the 19yo said "there are no innocents in gaza... there are mothers of terrorists that they support...the kids grow up to be terrorists... there are no innocents"

In 1983, 50 companies controlled 90% of the U.S. media market. That number is now down to 5.

should we shut down the government if Republicans don't make concessions? the answer is yes, mostly bc the current congress isn't doing shit anyway. guess how many bills were passed per day in Biden's term? ~0.44 bills per day (639 bills ÷ 1,461 days). since Trump took office? ~0.15. over ~66% less

Heritage Foundation has released an absolutely insane policy proposal to label all trans people as domestic terrorists. It uses completely made up instances of terrorism and made up statistics but facts don't matter to them. They want us all eradicated.

just a reminder that Kimmel would not be off the air rn if it weren't for capital capitulating to pressure from Trump. capitalism, the fact that power is with capital and not the people, means that when capital agrees with Trump there's nothing the people can do about it. capitalism must go.

*more than 50% of the electorate being left-leaning* Democrats: we should try appealing to republicans

is there a term for the idea that the public's opinions are swayed by how the see their peers and leaders respond to current events? like, I would argue that the reason the overton window has shifted to the right so much is bc Democrats (and others) haven't effectively stood against Republicans

I think the term should be either Context Server or Subnet. Context Server gets at the fact that it stores contextual info (likes, follows, blocks, etc.) about the lexicons it cares about. Subnet gets at the fact that it only cares about a specific subset of lexicons from the whole of ATproto

Looked at my data collections for state-backed activity. If the report were a picture:

the rightwing loves to be like “this is the moment we become the nazi party”

@tessa.germnetwork.com hey! how do I set a link to dm on germ in my bio?

The lack of mainstream coverage of regular huge protests reminds me of a talk from a Twitter employees who explained that they had to drop BLM off the Trending Tags section because otherwise it would have been there permanently. The modern media environment has no appetite for sustained movements.

north carolina is the north korea of the carolinas of the koreas

posted without context

Alright, so I've been afraid to say this out loud, but I think after today, I can say it: In the first Battle of Los Angeles, the good people of LA County have prevailed. We beat ICE back. 1/

I call my girl daddy cus I got vast deference, she call me daddy cus I got vas deferens

jesus never used ICE. neither should the USA

this is a great example of the conservative idea that the only *real* way to prevent crime is to make it so that you have a good guy with a gun (read: under their power) always ready to shoot someone intending to commit a crime, as the ultimate deterrent

idk that it's sunk in here on bluesky the the U.S. DoJ posted a apple notes app screenshot apology from a phone at 30% battery in airplane mode because the acting deputy chief got tinder honeypotted by james okeefe into admitting that they're going to protect Republicans on the epstein client list.

I will say, I figured Bluesky PBLLC would have built out more ways by now for users to safely own their keys and store them somewhere that Bluesky doesn't have access to

I remember playing with bubble-makers and how sometimes two bubbles would collide and instead of popping they’d merge into one larger bubble, I forget what happened next

youtube.com/watch?v=MmUO... @momtofourcats.bsky.social Share this video everywhere! We’re finally hearing from the survivors! #epstein #maxwell #releasethefiles

the current Sith Lord might be dying, and he picked his apprentice (JD Vance) because he's fundamentally worse than him at leading the fascist party (which ensures he would never be able to usurp him), but that might mean the party dies with the Sith Lord. the rule of 2 strikes again

What if news orgs/journalists could easily "certify" or "contest" parts of other stories?

kissing while scrolling through the comments on Whtwnd, call that internecking

to me opposition means criticism but not being defined by it. negation means "whatever they are, that's what I'm not". in the same way that masculinity should not be defined by the negation of the feminine, we shouldn't naively negate liberalism. we should actively be something that stands alone

computer, enhance

remembering good times

@danabra.mov how could I theoretically design an algorithm that identifies “clusters” or “constellations” (basically subnets of the network) in which a post from a member is relevant, and *keeps that post inside the subnet*, instead of letting it “break containment”?

if you live in the NC Triangle, please consider donating to The Burrow, a growing physical space for autonomous organizing. monthly donations are amazing but any amount is radical

human bodies are just bendy straws that drink through themselves instead of being drunk from

market based economy? no, market not based

I feel like the reason the average US voter is politically stupid is more so because the only thing they’re tasked with doing is voting once every couple years

am I unable to resist reading posts with cool scientific knowledge (like this statistical knowledge) that I won’t be able to understand bc of innate curiosity or ADHD hmmm

@hankgreen.bsky.social just saw your most recent vid. seems bad that american non-big-pharma research is getting severely defunded. given we have so many good scientists here, what if NIH became less funded by the US gov and instead part of an internat. grp funded by foreign govs + philanthropists?

“capital punishment”? why yes, I do want to punish capital

iOS 26 is so skeuomorphic (derogatory)

what am I but an H taking a nap

what is a labubu. i’ve got it narrowed down to breast implant or bandaid

I feel like the US (ruled by Trump) is basically just like France in the 1860s (Louis Napoleon Bonaparte) and China (Xi Jinping) is Prussia (Otto von Bismarck). Trump is gonna declare war on China over tariffs or to distract from Epstein and we’ll get ass-blasted like the Franco-Prussian War

Fascism is an autoimmune disease in the liberal body

on the bright side, this makes it much more likely that whatever vaccines get created will be released without a patent

WAIT @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social HAS APHANTASIA TOO??