On the phone with my grandmom, just awake from hip surgery. “So a George Washington cultist guy said Patreon users and poor trans people are whores and then used the straw man that his last male embryo didn’t stick and would thus not be named Barack. Grandmom: “what do you mean you’re a woman?”

this waiter is currently in your Bluesky mentions

you might not believe in climate change but your insurance company certainly does.

One Nation & the Atlas Network-linked Advance have flagged that they’re going in hard to import UK/EU’s level of Islamophobic fearmongering to Australia. The Israeli Ambassado’s speech exposed the nonsense for its hollowness. Inoculate your friends: lucyham29.substack.com/p/the-israel... #auspol

I got four (two are technically more Maundy Thursday ones but still)

Post your favorite Good Friday jokes

The first time the local alternative rock station played Higher by Creed the DJ said “that was so good we’re just gonna play it again” and then they did and I honestly think it put us on the bad timeline

You don’t get much cooler

I say without any irony or sarcasm: yes, thank you, we want parliamentary sabotage. Again, I'm 100% serious. It's one of the few things a minority party can do, and which Republicans themselves did. It's essential.

they blocked Pizzaballa from entering the Church on Palm Sunday. This has led to Bluesky’s first mass conversion event. Welcome new Catholics of Bluesky. Peace be with you

*thinking of starting a Bluesky pile-on* Discrimination against Catholics is still discrimination!

lately I have had the Neko Case lyric “God Bless me I’m a free man / with no place free to go” stuck in my head an awful lot

New discourse topic: we should subsidize researching new colorations for rabbits

Report that Israeli forces in occupied Syria killed a civilian by firing on his vehicle with a tank shell.

Truer words have never been said.

BREAKING: The White House today proposed eliminating the Title X family planning program. A few hours later, the health dept quietly released guidance that would shift the focus of the program millions of low-income people rely on away from contraception and toward "family formation."

It's just absolutely wild and sad this comes on the heels of Artemis.

Things Iran was doing in the Stone Age:

The illegal war in Iran is killing US hegemony faster than I could have ever predicted.

NEW: Before Nick Shirley went to California this year, DOGE's Edward "Big Balls" Coristine was helping him "extract" info from a public dataset to identify targets for his YouTube "investigation" into fraud. w/ @telliotter.bsky.social More here: www.wired.com/story/edward...

French President Macron: “Europe is an extremely attractive continent. For months I’ve been saying this. And thanks to our American friends, I now have an unprecedented selling point: We are predictable.”

when we're all unable to connect to use the internet, send emails, pay our bills, use our toasters, and god knows what else if AWS goes down, i want you to know now that i blame our lack of antitrust laws far more than i'll blame a foreign missile

People really memory holed-covid, due to a huge far right propaganda effort. That's why all you hear about is lockdowns, and not: - hospitals out of capacity - Skype calls with family members in quarantine as they died - bodies stored in freezer trailors - mass graves in NYC

What I remember about the lockdowns is restaurants essentially being allowed to build an addition and call it outdoor seating even if it was entirely enclosed in a building. That oughtta tell you how seriously covid prevention measures were enforced.

The lock down myths are so damn weird. So there were just no open hospitals, factories, grocery stores, etc? Everyone just existed on vibes and tap water?

1. Nobody was locked in thwor homes for a year and a half 2. The weird thing about diseases is that they spread and impact people from multiple demographics, in this case, children, people without healthcare, those with poor immune systems. But fuck them bc boomers suck? I guess?

The Eighth Station: Mothers weep for their children "imprisoned during protests, deported by policies devoid of compassion, shipwrecked on desperate journeys of hope, killed in war zones, and wiped out in death camps."

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Just a meme shared on Lebanese social media And yes this is a real story. Israel is targeting Lebanese Shias and explicitly warning Christians and Druze not to shelter them

Via Crucis.

Technically true!

Oh, look--the recently tenured guy at Notre Dame who trolled all of Bluesky Academia is using his "cancellation" (read: whiney running away from people criticizing him) to parlay a spot for himself in right-wing grievance media. Didn't see *that* coming at all, *totally* not what we all expected.

Katie Tightpussy: The First Influencer Who Actually Wants To Improve Your Life

wrong, it needs to accelerate

“Many women were there, watching from a distance. They had followed Jesus from Galilee to care for his needs. Among them were Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James and Joseph, and the mother of Zebedee’s sons.” (Matthew 27:55-56) thinking of the women who witnessed on this #goodfriday

- desert holds resource necessary for travel and the mechanisms of imperialism - empire through shenanigans puts a dictator in charge of that place - empire then kills said dictator, putting his considerably more fanatical hardliner son in charge - son cuts off access to resource as revenge

Most Americans still instinctively think of America as rich & modern & powerful and emerging economies as vaguely primitive & backward. Man are we going to have to update those assumptions. We have met the shithole country, and it is us.

Over 10 hours and no posts from CENTCOM despite today's USAF incidents.

Been rewatching Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles (2008-9) and it's interesting from a 2026 perspective to watch a show where the premise is just "let's go find everyone making AI and assassinate them"

A second USAF combat plane crashed in the Persian Gulf region today and the lone pilot was rescued. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/04/...

Both sides all the way down

Tis the time’s plague when madmen lead the blind. William Shakespeare King Lear

"'Even if the war be wrong we are in it and must fight it out: we cannot retire from it without dishonor.' Why, not even a burglar could have said it better." -- Mark Twain

maybe the staff shouldn't actively dislike the userbase

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A brilliant lefty church move would be to collect a fund that would pay PTO for those in a congregation who don’t have it so they can observe the Triduum

We lost an F-15E and A-10 and 2 specialized rescue helicopters today... We are losing and they aren't telling us shit. Just like Russia www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEHt...