Whomst among us doesn't have a glow in the dark summoning circle shelved in their living room, anyway.

I subscribe to the @theonion.com for the ads.

I do take comfort from the apparent lack of stickiness of the regime’s efforts in this regard, but I also feel apprehensive because something will likely stick eventually if you throw enough inflammatory spaghetti at the wall. (Please excuse the mixed metaphors, lol.)

Inside of me there are two lions. Both have anxiety.

this is not a world for people who get frustrated by deliberate ignorance

Jesus fucking Christ.

So, if you didn’t watch the video, TL;DR: AFAICT, a dedicated Magic player who built and maintained online Magic resources dated two men who were also Magic players and @maro254.bsky.social ‘s Magic team decided to codify bullying & slut-shaming her into a published card. No one’s apologized.

Friendly reminder that this card is 100% on @maro254.bsky.social

Lucy wants treats Lucy was telling me she wants treats I was ignoring Lucy because I am in a meeting Lucy just grabbed my shirt in her little paw-fist, yanked me toward her like we’re in a gangster movie, and yelled in my face

The catch-22 of being a woman in games: the better you are at your job, the more likely you are to be abused by male colleagues who are afraid of your contributions, and if the story becomes known, you become known for the abuse you endured rather than your contributions. There is no winning.

I spoke to Catherine for an upcoming episode of Casual, and we specifically didn't speak about this card, but instead her journey and achievements, and let me tell you, she should be as known in the community as LSV or Finkel. She broke so much ground and took so much bullshit in an era of goons.

The video is an uncomfortable watch, but an important one nonetheless. Hearing Cathy tell the story of what happened to her is an important part of Magic: The Gathering's history, one that needs to be known about and acknowledged: youtu.be/-WVnrKRsuqI?... #MagicTheGathering

This is why people who don’t have cervices should also get vaccinated!! If you have sex, you should get the jab before you ever start, and since we don’t know how our kids are gonna turn out, they should ALL be getting it just in case

And here’s the population study showing a 100 percent success rate at prevention of cervical cancer. publichealthscotland.scot/news/2024/ja...

Hey if anyone’s frustrated at Christian authoritarian hegemony and wants to yell at a colonialist asshole Christian, this one insisted on offering himself despite my repeated invitations for him to leave my mentions.

A world where we are allowed to want white supremacy, but not allowed to want to end white supremacy is a very specific type of world.

What we are experiencing is an existential battle about what we're allowed to want.

Nihilism is the inevitable result of the future being wiped out of the social imagination at mass scale. bsky.app/profile/jenk...

But in the meantime www.npr.org/2025/08/06/n...

Nothing can be allowed to matter. bsky.app/profile/jenk...

Nothing matters because if anything were allowed to matter we'd have to change a lot of things, and a lot faster, that the most powerful industry to ever exist on the face of the earth, which has captured the technology that is the government of America, is invested in going along just as they were.

I have maintained for a while that the reason everything around the world (funded by petro-states and carbon oligarchs) is happening rn is because the most powerful industry to ever exist on the face of the Earth has no future. And so it must wipe the future out of our imaginations.

Only 3/5 of the way

All grifts eventually end in Jew-hating. It's a natural law.

“Karl stop pointing out the largest liberal grifters are going open Nazi to try and further their grift and radicalize their centrist followers”

It appears to be profitable these days.

Turns out people really like state capacity and tech bros don't understand how much they depend on it.

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

22-year-old Ward Sakeik, a Palestinian woman who has lived in Texas since she was 9, says her experience in federal detainment could only be identified as “human trafficking.” And she’s not staying quiet about the women she was forced to leave behind. thebarbedwire.com/2025/09/22/w...

As far as I can tell, there are only 7 (8 if you count Betty Bowers, written by a man) women in the top 50. (She/her pronouns in bio or identified in other media as female.) It’s 2025 on BlueSky and you still aren’t interested in listing to women.

I literally just watched some kid on the toks argue that decentering men is transphobic and the kids are not okay. (Specific feminist movements can certainly be transphobic but there is nothing transphobic about refusing to treat gender as a hierarchy.)

oh hey so maybe you all will care this time since they’re targeting dudes?

A+ www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

anyway, men aren’t lonely enough and really should not be allowed in public without chaperones www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMLu4YwU/

It’s interesting how there’s always a reason, supposedly from the left, not to vote for a female candidate. www.npr.org/2017/08/24/5...

The history of the "white gloves" in cartoons. As usual the answer is racism.

I have a saying for this: cut corners are cumulative! that more ties into a disbelief in material reality and practical sociology but it’s not unrelated to people being too scared to ask questions. They assume they’re good enough to figure it out themselves and stall out at conscious incompetence

I guess this ties into a larger question I have, which is something that’s a little harder to articulate. You could oversimplify it as “Are people getting less curious?” but I think framing it that way is already an oversimplification, because it’s really more about *types* of curiosity

Sooooo I do a lot of interviewing job candidates, and coordinating debriefs for interviewers, and it’s not just journalists whose job it is to probe and yet seem unwilling to do it. I wish I were old enough to know whether this is a significant shift in norms.

also he asks follow-up questions, which as I've noted many times seems bizarrely beyond many US interviewers, especially on TV.

Autism is a natural divergence from neurotypicality. It's normal & not the tragedy these clowns are making it out to be. Transness is a natural divergence from cisnormativity. It's normal & not the tragedy these clowns are making it out to be. Just deal with people being different than you.

Gus likes to sit on the couch, hold a piece of my clothing in his mouth, and watch TV.

Enya took her piles of money, bought a castle, and lives there alone with a bunch of cats. Enya is correct.

They get some biiiig bonuses from successful recruitment…and some people get very upset when you “take” that from them for having the audacity to not want to make less money

This man truly was made to be a C-Tier Silver Age Batman villain.

got a recruiter pitch last year for a job that was currently held by extended family member - for about 30% less than her FTE compensation this is how we deduced that her employer was about to "layoff" an entire level of management (which happened within 120 days)

Jesus

Recruiters are wild, man. I get pinged by recruiters for random contract jobs, so I respond with “I am FTE with an annual compensation package of $[number] plus benefits. Does this job pay more than that?” and several of them just blocked me in response

Max does not appear to recognize any difference between me listening to music that makes me teary and me being actually sad.