this post is the kind of pickup line that would work on me if you sidled up to me at a bar

Why isn’t this one banned Aaron? This is not just a threat - this is actual imagery of people dying.

This! bsky.app/profile/zacm...

So why haven't you suspended the department of war? Or does only some people get suspended for making threats?

"Your experiences were horrific. Here at bluesky, I'm going to make sure that those promising to normalize what you went through never experience any social consequences ever."

periodic reminder of the existence of Atkinson Hyperlegible, a free font available from the Braille Institute designed to improve readability for people with low vision I use it in talks because it's pretty and also because, as an audience member, I am perpetually squinting at people's slides

On This Day, Nov. 17: Nixon proclaims: 'I am not a crook' https://www.upi.com/Top_News/2025/11/17/On-This-Day-Nixon-proclaims-I-am-not-a-crook/1011763342243/

dw about it I'm sure it's fine

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You dont actually have to platform everything they say without evidence

'To crip something is to bend, compress, twist, subvert, and imbue disabled wisdom into systems, institutions, and cultures. As I’ve done before as a physically disabled person, I will now crip the world ... It takes a tremendous amount of emotional and physical labor to crip the world.'

The Crimson left off the worst of the Summers email chain: the part where he seemingly muses about threatening her if she doesn't have sex, then decides he not to. "To get her to be good probably requires more firmness than I enjoy". The only issue to Summers is whether he'd enjoy the process.

This is absolutely disgusting. Larry Summers discussed wanting to fuck a former Harvard student who was Chinese with Epstein. He nick named her "peril" a reference to the racist "yellow peril." Larry Summers needs to resign. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

@govpritzker.illinois.gov I want you to watch this video of me slammed to the ground- why are you allowing this to happen to people you know are on the right side of history. They tied my hands behind my back and when I asked them to be loosened because I was going numb they said, “STFU.”

“Why do women, especially women of color leave physics?” Oh I dunno maybe because you do have to be fucking crazy on a level to put up with this shit for your entire career and not walk away bsky.app/profile/chan...

Pundits: Why didn't Kamala Harris run on kitchen table issues? Kamala Harris's campaign speeches:

The lady who banged her subject, the Looney Tunes presidential candidate, and the nepobaby of Carl Bernstein and Nora Ephron both have journalism jobs with health insurance and I do not I am a significantly better reporter and loved having health insurance

3 years ago today, Riot Games offered me a job making more money than I ever thought I’d make in my life. I had 19 interviews over 2.5 months to get it. Partner and I were moving to LA for it. I put in notice at my job and apartment. 2 weeks later they rescinded the offer due to “headcount issues”.

Well, there's something you don't see every day.

those of us laid off from Teen Vogue were really fortunate to complete our fundraising goal — the laid-off staffers at VIBE deserve the same support, as Black media outlets and journalists continue to be targeted and discriminated against in “austerity” measures

Seriously, a lot of these heavyhanded mod decisions would be a lot easier to swallow if y'all hadn't specifically carved a little circle out of your ToS for a truly harmful transphobe to stand in.

And we knew this. This wasn't speculation. We studied it, we had the talking points. We trained volunteers to explain this to people. It's not a surprise. Rich people don't flee places with good quality of life when we increase the quality of life. They might try to cheat us, but they don't leave.

Holy shit, just learned about the typewriter art of Montserrat Alberich Escardívol, a Catalan typist. Using an extra wide typewriter and 180 color ribbons, she built up elaborate images from simple characters like 'm' and '.' and ';'. Here is her typewritten painting of the Cathedral of Barcelona.

When a crime becomes big enough, it indicts the entire structure of society and the institutions that allowed it, not just the guy who did it. At a certain level of atrocity it becomes impossible to pretend it was just one person, and not an entire system crafted to encourage and protect them.

Democrats at every level of power could simply repeat "he must resign" over and over and over again. It's what the GOP would do if the situation were reversed. Further erode his power by pushing him to lash out more.

New Epstein emails from 2011 indicate that Trump "spent hours at [Epstein's] house" with an alleged victim. Epstein called him the "dog that didn't bark." abcnews.go.com/Politics/hou...

I'm old enough to remember one month ago when Comerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said that the powerful men who spent time with Epstein didn't just know about the child sex trafficking, but they "participated." www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFg8...

Friendly reminder that dishwashers made after 1995 or so are so water and energy efficient that even if you ran them twice fully loaded it would still use less water than handwashing the same load. So many "green" things feel like sacrifices. Dishwashers are not one of them.

Saying, "we didn't suspend her because she researched authoritarian states, we suspended her because she talked about her research"....that's a bizarre distinction. If you suspended her because of something else, it would be useful to know.

Have to say banning someone like Sarah is already political, and it undermines trust in your moderation when you don’t provide an explanation.

Joyce Carol Oates sitting across a desk from Kendrick Lamar: "So I'm putting a team together..." Isaac Chotiner knocks on the open door.

It is deeply insulting to Brianna Ghey's memory to pretend that a campaign backed by the likes of Rosie Duffield is doing anything to help children like her. We've seen her reaction to a trans person discussing their suicidal ideation.

can you name an actual difference between the beliefs of the killers about trans people and labour's health secretary?

Postscript: they wouldn’t let us run this poster, even after we cut all our photos of SUVs up and re-composited them into new frankencars. We got them on the digital screens in the end but only as silhouettes

“Rather than taking over the Democratic Party the same way the right took over the Republican Party, we should take the easier route and just start up a new party ourselves!” I’m about to fill my pockets with stones and walk into the sea.

today outside immigration court someone said to the gaggle of photographers “thank you for the work you’re doing.” and one of the agents replied with “thank you” and the guy looked at him and said “not you.” 😂

AIPAC sucks, supports genocide, and is a hub for Christian Zionists as much as anyone. *And* at the same time: When you vaguepost like this about issues unrelated to Israel suggesting an org associated with Judaism is to blame, you are at least FLIRTING with antisemitic conspiracy theory.

It moves one to ask if she cares at all about the actual causes of her daughter's death.

Was this piece written by my sister's worst ex-boyfriend, who lasted maybe a day after saying "y'all read?!?"

Trans women are already banned from all of the sports at an international federation level already. This framing is a lie aimed at hiding the fact they're now going after other women that they don't like.

congress is a russian nesting doll of counter-majoritarian structures. seems to me that there's no need for a supermajority rule on top of that!

Didn't this same guy commit the largest Medicare fraud in history?

Non-binary godparents: how are your honorifics styled?

I mean your organization literally filed a brief in defense of people’s right to publicly harass lgbtq people in schools, Ari. And that’s hardly the first anti-LGBTQ thing you’ve done. Let me guess, you’re gonna pull the Milo Yiannopoulos defense now.

I mean, it's kind of shitty that FIRE is constantly going "No, no, bullying trans kids is good!"

the wine moms are trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored

If you’re wondering what a “least weasel” is, they absolutely live up to the name. This is the least amount of animal you can have that can still meet the bar for “is weasel”

As I’ve gotten older, I’ve started to realize that we acclimate very quickly to the events which constitute History Unfolding Before Us, so much so that we’re lulled into the useless belief that Nothing Ever Happens. No! We are in the middle of significant change. Take care to pay attention.