lesson learned from this thread: never interact with any rando on bluesky when they are so culturally and politically illiterate and flat-brained that a satirical and precise visual reference to one of the most famous anti-authoritarian images in modern history confounds or infuriates them.

#Pokemon #ChineseNewYear is super effective!

So the United States will only use empty warehouses to house people it wants to terrorize, not people it wants to shelter from the cold. We really are not a very good-natured country.

Sort of gives away the lie that they're arresting hardened criminals who are drags on society when they're setting up traps to lure in Good Samaritans

Go full Karen with your #Discord review. Big Brother shall not pass.

If you're a streamer who doesn't know about politics, that's because you chose not to know. You chose not to pay attention because the politics that are happening right now don't affect you & you don't care about them. You're privileged & lack sympathy. Being apolitical is still a political stance.

Never before thought of precaution: don't live with drunks if you're emetophobic, even hearing them puke is disturbing.

"We can either tax you out of existence or we can launch you into the sun with a trebuchet. Your call!"

I recommend using ProtonDB www.protondb.com alongside AreWeAntiCheatYet areweanticheatyet.com. AWACY tells you if the game works or is blocked, and it tells you the Anti-Cheat the game uses. ProtonDB gives you similar info, but with the addition of why it doesn't work, and the steps the user used

This is straight out of the same playbook Imperial Japan used to justify invasion of China and Imperial Russia used to justify the invasion of Ukraine. Trump will be claiming Albertans are ‘persecuted’ and require U.S military protection next. Canada, take note - unity is strength.

If true that Greg Bovino is being demoted and forced to retire, it’s because of us. The resistance. Now let’s step it up and get rid of Kristi Noem for good.

If this doesn’t tug at your heart, make you well up with sadness, you are not human.

The fact that we should add this information to our knowledge base says a whole lot about where we are.

Bovino is just the patsy - a noxious and odious fall guy. Stephen Miller is the architect and prime mover of the whole thing. Everything they do is at his direction - often after his threats. As long as he runs policy in the WH, nothing will change no matter how many Bovinos come and go.

Remember the other day when I was saluting my friend Greg Ketter, owner of Minneapolis’ DreamHaven Books? This is him the following day. Greg will never say this, so I will — now is a great time to buy books from DreamHaven. Support Americans who stand up vs. 🧊. dreamhavenbooks.com

Infinite respect to Woke Hoth Guy, who freestyled a two-minute Federalist paper.

Comedian Mike Goodwin breaks down why some nursery rhymes are ridiculous! 😂😆 youtu.be/arY-KUhvne

Nice to see Maine on a list.

The party of law and order literally just wrote themselves a memo that says they don't have to follow the 4th Amendment. That's right, ICE intends to perform illegal search and seizures without a warrant. Add that to the list with "we had to beat up the police on Jan 6 to defend our democracy".

NATO was created after WWII to block Russian aggression in Europe. Every Russian leader in the past 75 years has tried to destroy NATO. Putin is finally succeeding by making Trump his bitch. As a bonus Trump is bankrupting America. Putin is laughing his ass off.

Quite the statement from the Prime Minister of Poland

Joseph Gerbils

The tactical formation is mostly there to prevent him from being vacuumed into a Roomba.

bsky.app/profile/out5... They signed up for $50k bonuses If they kill they get another $30k As heard on this recording

The FBI is pleading for agents around the country to volunteer to temporarily transfer to the Twin Cities. They know that they have to win in the Twin Cities or else resistance will spread—and so far, they are not winning. All out to support resistance to ICE! All out to the Twin Cities! 🧊 🔜 🕳️

one of the best things about this whole nightmare has been watching a whole bunch of folks who have clearly never been seriously political in their lives standing up and going, no, absolutely the fuck not, we’re not letting this happen

It feels like Minnesotans are directly bringing into doubt the validity of Robert Putnam's thesis of declining social ties and cooperation among citizens.

It's been a chaotic time to be an artist. Now that Canada has a trade agreement with China, it's only a matter of time before Trump ends free trade. If you're American and been eyeing a piece, now's probably the time. I know times are tough, but if you could help with a share, it'd mean so much.

If you read one thing today, it should be this Iran report says 16,500 dead in ‘genocide under digital darkness’ www.thetimes.com/article/01ba...

It's Wilhoit's Law: "Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition …There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect."

Minneapolis groups call for ‘general strike’. "...several local unions—including Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1005, SEIU Local 26, UNITE HERE Local 17, CWA Local 7250, and St. Paul Federation of Educators Local 28—have lent their support to the strike." www.commondreams.org/news/minneap...

It seems as though ICE has been instructed to escalate the violence to justify more violence, and to create propaganda to make us forget we outnumber them 10,000 to 1.

There's (entirely unconfirmed) reports that the six month old is in a bad spot. I wanna repeat that it is not confirmed, but if they killed a fucking baby I don't know how anyone can tell the people of Minnesota, of Minneapolis, that they're supposed to sit there and "witness".

Comic-con deciding to allow GenAi imagery in the art show —giving valuable space to GenAi users to show slop right NEXT to actual artists who worked their asses off to be there— is a disgrace! A tone deaf decision that rewards and normalizes exploitative GenAi against artists in their own spaces!

We are fucked if this happens.

Britain's Rulers So Inept They Outsource Big Brother

Like you really wouldn’t have seen Göbbels or even Göring fuck up like this: