I see a lot of people saying that "protest" isn't the right word for what observers and whistleblowers are doing, and I agree, but everyone seems to struggle for the correct word. Isn't it just "defense"? Neighborhood defense, local defense?

Well after years on social media that's finally one post too many I don't get because I don't know what gnosticism is. Time to finally look it up

This was actually made by a time traveler who forgot that in early 2026 we had not yet invaded the UK nor established the northern Federland colony, nor had the Bahrain and Singapore earthquakes happened

That's still so funny that his title was Commander at "large"

A lot of people don't realize that every Final Fantasy game takes place in a totally separate universe from every other game where the story is the "final" story of that particular universe, but also the music that plays at pivotal moments is somehow the same as in the other universes

I'm glad he's being kicked out but no he can't come here. Somebody start a ballot proposition. About time we put those to good use

I try to avoid physical appearance bashing but he really does look like he is dating Michael Jackson

Oh my god the "I'm a former special forces guy and I'm here to tell you the Minnesota resistance is a well funded secret insurgency" rant is probably ChatGPT - scroll about the quoted post for more evidence

Ok so I got it now. Free markets means that your reporters are freed into the job market and personal liberties means they have more spare time

When I first read it I was worried this would be too subtle for Bluesky but it's not going too bad so far. Anyway great plan, makes a lot of sense. They should definitely get the maximum. Amount of training that is

Wow it really is a doggy dog world over there

one abrams tank can't do much to turn the tide of a war, but in the hands of the IRS you'd be surprised at how much a single one could do for the collection of tax revenue

Wow, harsh

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I honestly thought at first glance that cone was supposed to be a dunce hat

Ugh why is it always men 🙄, am I right folks

"We didn't do the fucking news =("

"I'm sorry I misread the polls. I was looking at older ones. They always run a little behind and things move fast these days. As soon as I saw the latest polls I changed my tune right away"

People say Elon didn't care about losing money when he bought Twitter and just wanted to destroy democracy but I don't think so, I think he expected it to be a financial success AND let him be a beloved dictator of online discourse and he's only doing the destroying tantrum now that didn't pan out

Ok so this account has been replying the same thing to anyone they can find mentioning Minnesota protests and at first you're like oh a fed, but then it looks like English isn't their native language? Maybe it's a pig butchering scammer looking for a good source of active people to message?

There are a lot of heroes involved in all of these incidents

Unfortunately for monotheistic religions this is really strong empirical evidence for the ancient concept of regional gods

It's encouraging to see this breaking through to conservatives and people who "don't really care about politics" but I hope it's not just "this one thing is too far and if they stop it I'll go back to not caring" but a gateway to "wait maybe some of the other bad things about these guys are true"

Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him. White. Hot. Rage.

This sounds like what happened to Oscar Grant, except multiple shots

I know it's a typo but you know, I don't hate it

You can keep selling the same dowsing rods until the end of time as long as you come up with a new technological term for them every year

Everyone is saying that would immediately halve the police force (laudatory) but like that's going to be the normie argument against it, that "why almost half of all cops would be fired" would read to most people as "the requirements must be too strict" and not as "cops are really messed up"

One of the best things about my childhood media consumption was consuming everything in the wrong format like I read Dune, not the Herbert book, but a children's book with screenshots and descriptions of the David Lynch movie. I listened to 101 Dalmatians on a record. Not the songs the whole movie

How come when they put old timey cowboy songs in Fallout everybody is like oh that's so cool, they're so hip, but then when I put them on in the car people are like, are you like an 65 year old man

Hot take, I really don't like the waffles tweet. It's a long and clunky example of a common phenomenon that doesn't need a fun analogy to explain because it's something straightforward everyone is familiar with already

I'm sorry it's funny that the "whites" demographic changed so little that the attempted rendering of a u-turn arrow is a bizarre unreadable glyph. I mean it's not funny like fun but you know like when the executioner comes to get you and he has toilet paper stuck to his shoe or a milk mustache

George Orwell would have thought the Board of Peace thing was too over the top to put in a book

People keep replying saying they're going to do worse but the law isn't on your side and you have your own life and loved ones to think about. Be prepared for this kind of thing ahead of time. Set up an alcove in your basement with a cask of amontillado

lol

X's product head has multiple brushes with death from failing to chew

I'm not sure it's in the constitution exactly but I think a community should have the right to refuse to accept the poop of border patrol agents

I worry that CEOs' takeaway from this is "I'm smarter (that's why I'm the CEO) so I can leverage the power of AI, while my workers are too dumb to figure it out themselves and need more training" and not like "my work is easier to automate" or "I'm out of touch with what my workers actually do"

So the hero of One Battle After Another is the town right

1) that's an interesting rhetorical tactic to imply women should follow in the footsteps of things, not what I would have gone with 2) these are all "you've heard of such-and-such, what if we changed one word so it was such-and-so"

A really bad thing about social media is you can find someone saying anything. Like if you claim "leftists are pushing this dumb argument" or "this new thing has all the magas worried" you can find a tweet or skeet or facebeet of that type of person saying it and people are like that's enough for me

“What the fuck are you talking about dude, this is insane” replies are the immune system of social media. They aren’t very effective, but you notice when they’re gone.

I think the root problem is the average politically unengaged American assumes both sides do the same amount of bad things (possibly shifting now with the recent extreme ICE stuff?) so they assume a news outlet is fair if it criticizes both sides the same amount. And editors target/agree with them

Like everyone else I get annoyed by replies from people that can't read but I don't see the point in arguing with them or starting a quote fight because if they can't read, they also can't read your rebuttal. Just have to write this one off

My guess is Trump personally is fine with the "scary" and "tough" optics of agents hurting and terrorizing people and actually was complaining about the optics of them slipping on ice and standing by impotently while being heckled. Probably also wants "tougher" looking victims

I'm pretty rabidly pro open immigration and a lot of people probably take it for granted like "of course you would be" but I know lots of immigrants that are like "of course it should be easy for the good ones like us but we can't let the gross scary ones get in"

I'm glad Merritt reshared this because I want to tell you I learned the other day that Michelle Yeoh's first husband was named Dickson Poon

I am at Tony's with a bottle of Macallan 18 and he is not even answering the door? Did I miss a text?

Other than cowardice which I admit to having plenty of, the more practical thing causing most people to hesitate to do something drastic (I don't mean killing someone! I mean like something that will get you fired or in jail) is you only get to do it once so you have to figure out what to use it on

If elected I will take over and shut down Polymarket and turn the domain and trademark over to a dating website for swingers