obsessed with alysa liu's mall goth hair, smiley piercing, and Lady Gaga medley. 2008 is fully back, millennial cultural victory achieved

“We need immigrants to help develop our economy” - António José Seguro The position of the centre-right politician who trounced the far-right in Portugal. Meanwhile, here, Labour languishes in the polls after a year spent imitating the far-right's message on immigration and refugees instead.

if I can use this clogged toilet to make you a meal in 5 seconds, and you are going to use an entire kitchen and take all day on making a meal by hand, whose meal do you think people will want to eat, checkmate luddite

This whole story is horrific (TW transphobia, torture, abuse). On a general note:

Abducted, tortured, and trafficked to a country she's never lived in, she's still trying to help others suffering at the hands of the Trump regime.

My first grader (a US citizen) came home from school crying because a friend from class (also a US citizen) hasn’t been coming to school because his parents (one of whom is not a citizen) are afraid of ICE. Little kids don’t have concepts of racism and xenophobia. That has to be taught. Or imposed.

Of course, prisons are a very lucrative business. Slavery of Black bodies built this country, then the 13th Amendment was ratified and made Black bodies into enslaved people again. Then the crime bill made more money for very rich white folks off Black and Brown ppl. And now…

I still can't believe that Elon Musk has a brother who looks exactly like him except he wears a cowboy hat. If I wrote that into a novel my editor would kill me.

Real "Cocaine Party Before a Heart Attack" vibes from America as we enter the Super Bowl.

Republican Rep claims 'cisgender' is 'made-up word' Left use to 'destroy civil order' https://www.thepinknews.com/2026/02/06/republican-rep-claims-cisgender-is-made-up-word-left-use-to-destroy-civil-order/?utm_content=1770578400&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky

Read theory.

Sometimes I think “everyone is twelve” is overstated. Then I see the literal health secretary announcing that he will never eat his vegetables and you can’t make him.

according to a pediatric ER doctor my wife follows on Instagram they have started to see children coming in sick because their parents are asking ChatGPT what the correct dosage is on over the counter medication instead of just looking at the instructions on the bottle

I know. The internet isn't necessarily real life and we can be fooled by algorithms. But. I am telling y'all Something is happening and we need to encourage it

Bad bunny, 1979

So now that Imane Khelif has revealed that she apparently has a SRY gene, people who were already calling her a man before are saying she's been "proven" to be a man. My question is, what would they do? Should she be forced to change sex markers? To have genital surgery?

Indeed, the implications of anti-trans obsessives' view is that Khelif should also be banned from women's toilets, changing rooms, or any organisation designated for women. That she should have to tell any partner she's intersex or be prosecuted for sexual assault, and then jailed in a men's prison.

60 years ago today, mild-mannered jim bowl was bitten by a radioactive spider

1/ @motherjones.com reported extensively on this group, Freedom 250—and the larger effort to whitewash our history and get corporations to fund that destruction—in our cover story that went up last week: www.motherjones.com/politics/202... by @dfriedman.bsky.social and @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social

The state really needs to Do Something about super bowl being on a different streaming service every year, this is my second policy proposal after Punishing the Villains.

this should be a tradition

Nasty right-wing blood-and-soul worshipping pagans are closer to spirit of actual historic paganism (and stuff like witchcraft) than people who imagine some caring, tolerant society.

Warehouses for servers (with all the potable water); warehouses for humans (with none)

If Lutnick were a cabinet member of a Democratic President he’d resign before today was over and Trump would face questions re why he nominated him. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/n...

GOOD NEWS! A UNIVERSAL sarbecovirus vaccine candidate has officially started clinical trials! GBP511 is the FIRST vaccine to reach human testing that is intended to protect against MULTIPLE strains of SARS-CoV-2 as well as other related coronaviruses with the potential to spark dangerous outbreaks.

Ex-fucking-scuse me? REALLY MR THIEL? WHEN WE KNOW WHO TO ACTUALLY BLAME?

There is zero doubt in my mind that RFK Jr smells absolutely fucking awful all the time

If you read Benjamin Madley's "An American Genocide" - about the genocides against Californian Indians throughout the 19th century - you can really so easily see the parallels

The Trump administration is struggling to fill the exodus of competent US attorneys who don’t want to serve a crooked regime. They are drafting military lawyers and advertising on X The replacements will be more radical but less competent. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/what-i-wro...

I hope folks grasp the fascistic resentment underpinning this shit, and the fact that there is nothing these AI robber barons would like more than to automate human creativity because they resent it and wish to devalue, own, and control it and us.

The whole article is repulsive but this passage is at the core of it. She has no interest in writing books, she wants to win some kind of competition that nobody entered

It's funny that millions upon millions of people will be watching the halftime show, and there will be like a dozen divorced dudes with suspicious hard drives watching the parallel maga version where Kid Rock sings a duet with a hologram Epstein about how he thinks statutory rape is a fake idea

This is a Trump/DeSantis/Rufo, ahem, self-pleasuring fantasy. They revel in making people's lives painful and then using the anger they get in response to scapegoat their victims. tl;dr The cruelty *isn't* the point. The scapegoating is. The cruelty is just a bonus.

Mmmmmmmmmmmmmm yes he was www.usnews.com/news/best-st...

If you’re into books written by people instead of assembled by AI slop, I just finished this one, which is about a Black guy who quits the CIA to train Black freedom fighters in Chicago, and I can’t stop thinking about it.

crickets from the free speech crowd, of course

Come on, gays! We're going ghost hunting to find out. (The Evening World, New York, November 16, 1888.)

FAMU can't use the word Black on anything posted around campus related to Black History Month, to stay in compliance with Florida state laws against DEI. Black students can't use the word Black at their Historically Black College during Black History Month.

It’s bizarre to watch RFK Jr’s HHS try to pull the Jedi mind trick so many times and so unconvincingly

It is now likely that the Japanese government will seek to amend the postwar constitution in order to officially re-militarise.

this news suddenly reminded me of the fact that the National Gendarmerie of France has had its own distribution of Linux called GendBuntu since 2005

Unlike Canada, Europe is actually taking steps to secure its digital autonomy. This one stood out: “The Austrian military said it has also switched to LibreOffice, a software package with word processor, spreadsheet and presentation programs that mirrors Microsoft 365’s Word, Excel and PowerPoint.”

“House Study Bill 547 (‘The Admissions Reform Act’) would require Iowa’s public universities to admit students…only on ‘merit’ and the likelihood they will stay in the state after graduation. It would also require the universities to accept the Classic Learning Test”

Portland, OR mayor Keith Wilson responding to public demands that ICE's land use permit be rescinded after they gassed thousands of peaceful men women and children. Kinda curious what "the course" we should stay is here, Keith? Watching ICE gas, abduct and sometimes shoot our neighbors?

The degree to which legacy media starts with the premise that white racists and badly-socialized men are the default heroes of the American story is extraordinary. bsky.app/profile/jens...

The fact that MAGA is pissed about Bad Bunny in the halftime show should be presented as an uncomplicated positive. "Not only is he hugely popular with the majority of mainstream U.S. audiences, he's also made ignorant bigots as angry and excluded as we would always hope to make them feel."

Bad Bunny at the halftime show demonstrates not controversy, but the fact that this country is now a pluralistic modern nation containing vast cultural diversity, achieved through heroic effort against a flank of confederate-sympathizing bigots who are the most coddled little babies of all time.

Ma'am if you want to change the outcome of elections, you need to talk to white people Black people do not put republicans in office.