i don’t want to see a single white person say “woke 2 is back” for the foreseeable future

Totally agree with this - in general recency bias leads people to radically over-extrapolate how specific events impact forecasts of what happens over the longer-term. There are other biases at work here too but recency bias is the key one.

i am incredibly skeptical of yesterday’s shooting having the electoral and policy impacts that many on this website think it will have. you’re all sounding like you don’t remember ferguson

i’m so tired of x dot com living rent free in bluesky’s head

Pritzker to sign clean energy bill lifting moratorium on new nuclear plants, adding battery storage

Minneapolis Public Schools on Wednesday canceled classes for the remainder of the week “due to safety concerns” Why? Reported use of chemical munitions and alleged wanton use of brute force Via @mprnews.org

the same people enacting anti-trans laws to “protect children” are forcing schools to cancel classes because they’re deploying chemical munitions and pseudo military tactics at public schools

my final thought of the night: hold your loved ones tightly and remember this moment won’t last

this place’s monotonous tone of doom and #resist makes the user experience exhausting and also quite droll

About an hour ago, @axios.com was first to report that some Dems will be pushing their caucus to shut down DHS at minimum over the ICE shooting today

based on reports tonight it feels like there’ll be some sort of push to shut down the government over ICE

it kinda sucks here

i thought the point of trans people fleeing x for bluesky was to be free from bigotry or whatever

a word to the wise for all my trans followers: this guy misgendered me in my replies knowingly and then blocked me so i couldn’t show my followers

people on bluesky are misgendering me while they shame me for using x dot com. make it make sense

“in america, you deserve to be murdered by the state if you have gender pronouns in bio”

it’s the title track of the next ekko album

chemical weapons at a high school

the replies to me posting ekko lyrics are not beating the bluesky allegations

221-205, House passes the “motion to discharge” the Jeffries 3-year ACA funding extension. NINE (!) Republicans join unanimous Democrats in voting to advance it. This tees up a final House vote tomorrow; it’s poised to sail through.

The U.S. is withdrawing from the framework on climate change

if “woke 2 is back” or whatever then why is all of this happening every day

BREAKING: The White House plans to withdraw the U.S. from the United Nations framework climate treaty, according to reports. Here's @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social with what we know: heatmap.news/sparks/us-wi...

been really digging this post rock band Lurdez from Colombia

i hate bbq on pizza. discuss

hey does anyone here want to talk about literally anything else

has anyone on bluesky seen this episode of south park?

contrary to the conventional wisdom here, it is easily more pleasant to be on the other site right now, because somehow people are able to more often respectfully disagree and whatever ethical high ground you think you’re on spending time here, if you’re online at all, you are in the muck

[Reactivating so I can access my DMs, but I'm still going to be posting/checking this less for a couple days] Please just be normal and let it go. All good?

started getting dogpiled for saying i hate dogpiling. logging off today. i’ll be back when i have a story to publish or things to promote but for now, adieu 👋

This Wednesday at 5:30 p.m. ET I will be ZOOMING with @graceroso.bsky.social to discuss my book SUCH GREAT HEIGHTS: The Complete Cultural History of the Indie Rock Explosion. This is part of the Popular Music Books In Process series. Grateful to @carlzoilus.bsky.social and team for the spotlight.

this place has some of X’s worst traits

five years since the capitol riot

how i’m using this website from now on. so done

I could reply to someone with a small account about the research behind why I said what I said or I could literally do anything else

chair of the congressional western caucus. interviewed him a few times when i was on the hill. sad day regardless of politics

meh. deleted the skeets about TNN because, and this bums me out to say but, too many are already drifting into conclusions that i’d rather combat than continue to discourse on a random indie media pub

i wish martin supreme had more dinosaurs. why didn’t they put any dinos in the movie. has anyone asked

this is the part where i note trans women are at a much higher risk of suicidality & self harm

I am anti-getting bullied off the internet. I don't care if you think you have a valid reason for it, quite frankly. I have been consistent on this for literal years.

I just want everyone to step back and realize how often it's a trans woman getting bullied off social media.

May I recommend that people get it together a little this evening instead of lashing out at strangers

what happened to parker malloy seems at least partially caused by troll activity & 4channers btw (clue: use of “transwoman” as one word)

personally i think screencapping someone’s posts and blurring their name so you can safely mock them without people knowing who you’re being a piece of shit to is some piece of shit behavior but that’s just me 😇

the parker malloy drama is imo, instructive here in how stupid the firing squad stuff is now

Abigail Shrier, author of NYT best selling anti-trans screed “Irreversible Damage”, is now the official advice columnist for The Free Press