Hey guys heads up – Republicans are repeating the same braindead lie about health care for undocumented immigrants to try and distract from their open efforts to spike your premiums.

Heads up: Feed, by Mira "@seananmcguire.bsky.social" Grant is on US ebook sale for $2. I got some for random giveaway.

Bringing workers back to the office full time won’t save our downtowns There are so many personal, professional, social, and environmental benefits to working from home. This commenter shares their thoughts: www.halifaxexaminer.ca/commentary/b...

Dear Universe: No more emails. Thank you.

Merlin sitting in my bedroom window #cats

I could see Grace Jones wearing this in the 1980s but in fact it is an evening dress designed in the #1930s by Valentina Schlee. Rayon jersey and gilt leather, gorgeous @mfaboston.bsky.social #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

let the gourd times roll

Shout out to the latinx workers who helped me pick up my bike and shout out to the dude in the Cybertruck who blocked traffic after I went down after being forced off the fucking road by an ambulance.

So stoked to have made this list

look it up then write to the author and thank them for teaching you a new word

It’s probably a good thing that comedy is going to have a reckoning about comedians pretending they’re dangerous or edgy when their definition of those words is that they whitewash repressive government regimes for money but also make gay jokes

calling yourself edgy while shilling for a king because he tossed you a coin like you're a shoe black boy at Victoria Terminus

Now might be a good time for Democrats to remind people that when they return to power they will not hesitate to prosecute people who murder civilians.

Showing up to work to avoid a shutdown is apparently a minimum threshold Republicans can’t be bothered to meet.

I started this thread in the middle of September 2025 because so much had happened this year that the media and zeitgeist had already memory holed. Their actions aren't "countless." They aren't "unfathomable." We can look it in the face. We can challenge it. Brave people already are.

‘Swear Her in!’ Republican Frantically Adjourns House to Avoid Swearing in New Member to Duck Epstein Files Vote

I can’t believe I’m watching interviews of city mayors talking about how they are coordinating with other mayors to discuss how to protect their residents FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES I know we are “used to it” but it is absolutely insane

folks don't see that the venn diagram of that & "i don't owe anybody anything" is a circle

my fav thing about technology is how much of it simply consists of just looking at nature and going "I'll have some of that"

The judges have had enough

We must pay billions to farmers Because we cut off their customers with tariffs And pay billions to Argentina Whose farmers are selling to the customers we forfeited Because that is America First

Who has watched the 24 hour live stream so far that the house Dems are doing on the shutdown????? This should be the biggest story right now and literally 45 people are watching www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrBY...

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The people who like being rich so much that they mandate presidential corruption from the bench as long as they get theirs are never going to let him tank their 401Ks lol

Ohio’s new age verification law targeting porn goes into effect today, which means people will either have to use a VPN or submit their IDs to use Bluesky. This is Project 2025 in action. The goal is to limit freedom and make it harder to access anything remotely progressive

maybe they think he's actually the good twin evil twin from Bollywood movies

I really like the phrase "Kavanaugh stop." It's not a Terry stop, because a Terry stop is short and based on reasonable suspicion of a crime. A Kavanaugh stop, by contrast, is when masked goons kidnap a person for speaking Spanish.

ah yes, opt out, the strategy of people with extremely popular features everywhere

I'll put this marker down now: if we go into a shutdown and Dems actually hold the line and don't immediately cave, their poll numbers will go up 90% of the reason their numbers are so low with non-Rs is they've managed exactly zero concrete opposition so far

The "liberals have to learn how to live with people we diagree with" line kinda stops making sense in a world where the central disagreement is whether disagreeing with them should be allowed at all

the only responsible position for Democrats on any bill that gives Trump more power over anything is no this goes double for bills that are abjectly terrible on their own merits, like KOSA

Stress-Free Eric Adams Spends Day Bribing Pigeons In Central Park

“Ah," said Mr Pin. "Right. I remember. You are concerned citizens." He knew about concerned citizens. Wherever they were, they all spoke the same private language, where 'traditional values' meant 'hang someone'. - Terry Pratchett, The Truth

thou shalt let donald john trump fire any government employees he wants, so sayeth the supreme court unless, and this is important, it fucks with our bank accounts

The average liberal pundit acts like you're Hitler incarnate for agreeing with Amnesty, Human Rights Watch, the UN, B'Tselem,, Yesh Din, Doctors Without Borders, and the International Association of Genocide Scholars. The average liberal voter is confused as to why we fund apartheid and genocide.

an extraordinary person with an extraordinary legacy who nevertheless didn’t take herself too seriously when Gary Larson published this cartoon, she was in Africa and her institute was horribly offended and drafted a complaint the whole thing was defused when she returned - she found it funny

wrote about a great writer thealexpress.substack.com/p/kaleb-horton

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just guess

i think we need to have a fucking chat about how bystanders "documenting" this shit on their phones instead of doing literally anything to help is, at this point, about as helpful as shoving their thumbs way up their asses

Hey remember when the CDC dropped 6 of the 8 foodborne illnesses from the nationwide monitoring system in July and one of them was listeria? Mentioning for no particular reason www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

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brb, gonna start a rumor that Pynchon ghostwrote a Star Wars tie-in book but no one's sure which one

I'm in touch with Tucker May, the husband of Barbara Gomes Marques. He's confirmed she's in custody in Louisiana and that her deportation to Brazil could happen as early as today or tomorrow. They are constituents of Rep. @chu.house.gov and are hoping someone can step in before it's too late.

Congress, Now More Than Ever, Our Nation Needs Your Cowardice

Junebug larvae use their back hair to move. #tmi #beetles #coleoptera #entomology #melolonthinae #scarabaeidae

Fun and thoughtful piece on ghost tourism from @andizeisler.bsky.social, on what it means to build a little business around entertaining people with historical traumas (with a quote or two from yours truly):

Miss Major, one of the mothers of the trans liberation movement, has been in the hospital for 10 days with sepsis and a blood clot. She has looked out for us for generations, now it’s time to look out for her. Donate if you can: fundly.com/missmajor

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It’s almost like our liberation is intertwined?????