i guess we are just stuck with these forever

why were we still doing cousin marriages in the 19th century USA? there are even some in the 20th, well after darwin demonstrated the problem, but it was rampant before then. (mad at my family tree; please don't laugh i'm from mississippi)

You know, I've held my tongue about this, but given that people's accounts are now getting hacked by clear scammers, I think we've moved well beyond "benefit of the doubt" territory here. Which includes, I'm sad to say, Molly Shah

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grok, what do you do when the president of the united states is the embodiment of slop

Oh... my God. My first tweet to be stolen by the President of the United States 😅

Eight million people will watch the Grand National today. No doubt at least one of the horses will die: 88 have died in the race‘s history. In the UK, a race horse is killed as a result of racing roughly every two days. It‘s a horrible, cruel, & exploitative sport.

Hello, I made you a feed of your cats watching the Artemis II splashdown bsky.app/profile/did:...

A thought here: whisper networks exist because people need to be kept safe, but without enough corroboration to take an allegation to print, anybody saying this stuff in the open could catch a libel suit. People are saying what they know, at last, because this is the first day that’s been safe.

nick rekieta anyone

textspeak in the mississippi gulf coast daily herald, 1911

kermit: "we proudly present the love duet from the third act of the barber of der fledermoose by giuseppe wagner" music: la ci darem la mano from mozart's don giovanni me:

The woman being murdered in the video Trump posted was an immigrant. Her name was Nilufar Yasmin. She was from Bangladesh. Trump is weaponizing her death against communities like hers. Outstanding reporting from @pabloreports.bsky.social for Migrant Insider. migrantinsider.com/p/her-name-w...

Wishing you and yours a very merry Confederate Surrender Day.

going through my family tree and making a list of all the confederate veterans and slaveowners. there are so many, it's a genuine legacy. some people had kids so young, by the time i get to the mid-19th i'm up to dozens of lines, all in the deep south. but america will be. poets.org/poem/let-ame...

their inheritors may hold unacceptable power and influence, but let confederate surrender day be a reminder of the victory that was, and will someday be complete

Before I became an American, I was Lebanese. Parts of my family live in Lebanon. Anyway, you don't need those bona fides to feel this way, but what is happening in Lebanon right now is a complete outrage. The people there, who mostly are just trying to carve out a living, don't deserve this.

Did you hear the story of the one man $1.8 billion business built by AI as portrayed in the @nytimes.com? Turns out basically every aspect of that story is bullshit and the story should be retracted.

I'm the daughter of an Army paratrooper who refused orders during our illegal invasion of Vietnam back in the day. He went to LBJ military jail. Dad taught his girls this: "Just following orders" is NEVER any excuse for anyone who's complicit in war crimes. You MUST refuse heinous orders.

Have emailed my MP, urge you all to do the same. www.writetothem.com?gad_source=1...

I'm not sure how you can be against removing this man from office right now. What will it take? A nuke being dropped? It's too late then. The purpose of impeachment and the 25th Amendment is to prevent that type of thing from happening, not just to react to it.

Absolutely egregious paraphrase

plenty of folks today would drop everything for an email job, js. physical labor is hard. aside from dangerous jobs, e.g. people in foodservice dream of email jobs where they don't have to work weekends and holidays or deal with any of the other associated bullshit. but most could never get one.

not a song, but i first heard one of chopin’s concertos on npr. i didn’t know he had concertos. didn’t catch an announcement beforehand. piano part: me: is this CHOPIN?? orchestra: me: no, can’t be piano: me: IT’S DEFINITELY CHOPIN announcer: that was chopin’s concerto in x minor me: I KNEW IT

What do you think friends should I do more speaking-to-the-camera-with-my-actual-face (!!!) content or should I endeavour to continue happily onward in visual obscurity?

Reminder that former Pinal sheriff Mark Lamb teamed up with Gregg Phillips in 2022 to do election fraud disinformation and now Lamb is running for Congress.

if you invented public libraries today, every opinion page in the country would be arguing for means tested subsidized Amazon Prime memberships

World’s oldest tortoise caught in viral crypto death scam

hello 👋 i have developed a new tool called blüuümpíi. blüuümpíi will convert every file on your hard drive to a .wav file without asking you, maximize your system volume, and play them on every bluetooth speaker you have ever connected to. if you offer feedback on blüuümpíi i will take legal action

Currently, the all-time most blocked accounts on Bluesky are: 1. JD Vance 2. The White House 3. ICE 4. Bluesky's AI app that was announced 24 hours ago

I don't know if this will accomplish anything But it is very fucking funny.

this may be my magnum opus (I know I say this once or twice a year but this is definitely one of those times)

she didn't marry the right kind of american i guess

This is what they are doing to NORWEGIANS, y’all — the very immigrants Trump claims to want more of. Imagine what they are doing to everyone else.

They're also misandrist, in a way that I'm very serious about. We make it impossible for men to even discuss their experiences of rape.

Most of my followers already know this, but just in case: 1. The US is not providing any weapons to Ukraine. It is selling them to Europe, who gives them to Ukraine. Your tax money is not involved at all. 2. Ukraine is not using US-made weapons to hit russian infrastructure and afaik never has.

Y'know what, I'm still with it "War don't sex" that's right brother, peace fucks

Manifestations contre Donald Trump : des millions d’Américains attendus pour dénoncer la « tyrannie » pendant une nouvelle journée « No Kings »

They started an illegal war of choice during an ideological, racist and sexist purge led by right wing podcasters calling targets on a sieg heiling billionaire’s website, believing their superior genes and brutality would lead to rapid victory and are now facing defeat bsky.app/profile/dunc...

Wow. You're telling me there's another bizarre and troubling story about Graham Platner?!? Color me completely shocked. Who ever could predict there would be issues with this guy.

i do it all the time when there are one-toilet private bathrooms. there are always more women who need to go, unless you are at some kind of sausage fest. and i’ve used the wrong multi-stall bathrooms so many times. often, the stench when i open the door is what indicates i might have made a mistake

Literally last month in Miami I was out at dinner and used the restroom. As I walked in, a woman came out of a stall, saw me, then looked over at the urinal and said "oh my god, this is the men's room!" We survived.

new matt taibbi context just dropped (ok it's probably not new, but it's new to me)

become ungovernable d2w9rnfcy7mm78.cloudfront.net/44803208/ori...

Bondi's argument here is also the main thrust of the chapter 'Subjects and Citizens' in Hitler's Mein Kampf (a chapter which, incidentally, lauds racist U.S. immigration policies)

transmisogyny is just misogyny with extra steps. it was always about controlling how we define women so that they fit a profile consistent with cishetero men's desires and "gender critical" feminists played right into it. now any woman who doesn't look "feminine enough" is in the crosshairs.

JK Rowling is calling women athletes men even after they pass genetic testing. People in her replies are talking about these women having “ambiguous” genitalia. We are in an extremely frightening moment for ALL women thanks to transphobia.

i read and engaged in two whole days' worth of harry potter slash jkr discourse before finally seeing why the discourse was trending again in the first place. today on the third day i learned. i wish to unlearn

i said last year that these people were segregationists and that “merit” just meant “white and male” to these people

sitting in traffic when a smart beautiful woman, w/an amazing personality, walks close by—about 5ft away. i lock my car doors out of respect