some little kid got my ass by asking if I like turtles

Light the fuse, then cry about the explosion. Classic MAGA.

We all already like him, no need to keep putting this stuff out there

This is probably true, but way too many inherently good people live in a fictional reality where they are shielded from uncomfortable truths and are fed a steady diet of misinformation and lies that encourages them to hate and blame the wrong people for everything wrong in their lives.

they got him strutting around the city like bugs bunny talkin shit, i bet cuomo is so mad right now

When calling my reps, I think it's just as important to push for "parental responsibility" alongside saying no to KOSA/SCREEN/IODA If these legislators care so much about family values, then remind them how much they matter to you too! #SaveSpeech

I’m reaching out for mutual aid again to make it through until my next pay day and not lose the room we’ve been living out of while trying to find a permanent place. Anything helps, even if it’s just a share. Thank you for all the support and encouragement.

The Minnesota shooter apparently used data broker websites to find the home addresses of the people he shot and murdered. Congress has had years to do something about data brokers and they've sided with the tech lobby over and over again. Their inaction is deadly.

so a pope can take a new name and it's cool but when iiiiiiiiii do it

Has there ever been anybody besides JD Vance to be specifically repudiated by two popes inside of six years of converting to Catholicism?

Janelle Monáe #MetGala2025

Gen Z and Millennials: In ten years when we’re still without a cure and you’re caring for your parents, remember what he did.

Every day I wake up to the news

Every day on the internet makes it abundantly clear that some people have never had a single person turn around and say to them, ‘Cite your sources’ because, and I say this with every ounce of love I can muster as a teacher: while you are entitled to your opinion, that does not make it fact.

The power of on-screen representation 😻🐈‍⬛

Happy #WorldFrogDay! 🐸💚 #art #illustration #frogs

DOGE recommended firing workers at: -FDA, which oversees Neuralink -FAA, which oversees SpaceX -USAID, which probed Starlink -CFPB, which oversees Tesla's financing arm and a potential payment platform on X. "Conflict of interest" is a severe understatement.

The waste is coming from the White House. 👇

Keep up the great work yall

Do Americans want safe food? Which Departments are responsible for food safety? USDA HHS -> FDA and CDC Commerce -> NOAA (fisheries) If one Department is disabled, we don’t have safe food Enjoy your dinner 🍲

Transphobic LGB people -- you know how you feel about me, a trans person? How nothing I do will ever change your mind about me? Yeah, well, that's how homophobes see you, and no amount of respectability politics or being "one of the good ones," will save you after they come for trans people.

LGBTQIA+ folks in #Akron and Summit County #Ohio: If you or someone you know needs assistance changing their name and/or gender marker on official documents, check out this article from non-profit newsroom Signal Akron. signalakron.org/here-are-som...

**Good News** Category: Not bending the knee

You know shit's not going well if a giant bank's an observably better employer option.

🎵Baby, you're a firework Scaring dogs and cats, you jerk 🎵

🚨 ATTN SPOOKY BITCHES 🚨 The Skeleton Dance is now public domain

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sometimes, the correct response to "the people have spoken" is "the people are fucking stupid, do it anyway"

I've written about this elsewhere, but the longer you're on Substack the harder it is to move. I've been on Beehiiv for a year now and I'm really happy I made the switch. The "growth" Substack is showing you is absolutely not real and you will find that out very quick when you leave the network!

If user-funded social media appeals to people, there are existing options? Contributing to them would make a *massive* difference. 70 people contributing $10USD to bluesky would probably be a drop in the bucket: for Pillowfort it'd be an injection of 10% of their monthly fundraising target.

Saying “I promise not to drink on the job” because you have a record of drinking on the job, should be disqualifying as fuck for ANY job, let alone the Secretary of Defense. Why didn’t he also say, “I promise not to sexually assault any women on the job.” Is sexual assault not as disqualifying?

New rule: when someone’s own health choices give them mercury poisoning and brain worms, that person doesn't get to lead the department of health and human services.

And because of this, they never had to live in poverty again! Everyone say Merry Christmas to Comrade Christmas Spider! 🎄🕷️🕸️ If somehow no one ever made a Spidersona based on this back in the early days of the Spiderverse movie fandom, WHAT ARE WE EVEN DOING?

Dear readers, I just discovered the Legend of the Christmas Spider, and shut up, this is such a precious story! Basically a poor family grew a pine tree but couldn't afford to decorate it for Christmas, but they woke up to find spiderwebs on it that turned to silver and gold in the sunlight!

On Bluesky, you can say Twitter or X without being punished in the algorithm On X, you can't say Bluesky, Threads, cis, Substack, YouTube, and lots of others without being suppressed Which one is the echo chamber?

It'll be dead soon. Nature abhors a vacuum.

Hank Green is so ambitious. It's exhausting. My life is like being the co-author of the Federalist Papers. I'm all like, "John Jay got sick after writing five." And Hank's like, "HAMILTON WROTE THE OTHER FIFTY ONE."

With a fully remote team of just 20 employees, Bluesky has surpassed 20 million users in its first year since opening to the public and is stealing thunder from rivals hundreds of times its size. At a time when conventional wisdom among bosses is that workers must be in-person to be productive.

When I tell you that Universal completely NERFED this movie by marketing it as horror/thriller…

Bluesky tip for newbies: Bluesky has no real algorithm. Likes here do nothing but show the poster that you enjoyed their content. That kindness is always going to be appreciated by creators, but if you want to help to boost something here, you have to repost it so others see it. 🙂

When right-wing scum tried to kidnap Gretchen Whitmer, Republicans made excuses. When a lunatic beat Paul Pelosi with a hammer, they made jokes. And when Trump sent a mob to attack the Capitol, they made up lies. Don’t lecture us about condemning violence.

I’m gonna send letters and call my House Rep and Senators tomorrow—and ask them to push for the Gaetz Report to be released publicly. And to speak out against recess appointments—and this garbage bill that would allow Trump to ban certain non profits. Lots to do. I hope you’ll join me!

Hello to all of the new Bluesky folks! Here's today's tip: You will not be deboosted or punished here for sharing your artistic work! Share your YouTube/TikTok videos, your blog, your music, your art! It's celebrated here, not pushed aside for advertisements Welcome!

This is why LITERALLY every vote matters. Talbot county is in Maryland's only Republican congressional district, represented by Andy Harris, an extreme, right-wing Republican. Dump only won this county by SIX VOTES.

Finally took the dive to delete my twitter, howdy y'all!

this aged well given the news and it’s only been two days.