Many things can be true at the same time: * The US government and Western media generally systematically lie about socialist-leaning leaders and smear them as authoritarians even when they're not * Maduro was an actual authoritarian * The US intervention was wrong, and rooted racism & imperialism

Matt is a very good football writer. VERY good He is an even better person

A mission of Between The Hashmarks is to leverage my work to make a tangible impact on those most vulnerable to the Trump regime Portion of proceeds from each new Annual Plan is donated to one of -ACLU - Moms Demand Action on Gun Sense - Trevor Project - Women’s Way - immigrant Defense Law Center

In short, every shithead you don't ban costs you ten other customers. "A [potentially regular] customer doesn't say anything but never comes back" doesn't register with you as An Event the way that kicking someone out (temporarily or permanently) does, so it's extremely easy to miss it.

Synopsis: You need to kick more people out. You will actually have a larger base of customers/attendees if you kick more people out. You will make more money. I am dead serious.

I spent an excessive number of years moderating a gaming forum and I learned a great deal about community spaces and cultivation, whether I wanted to or not. I have critical advice for anyone who runs a game store or gaming convention. Please share this thread with people who run those things.

Okay, so here’s my Avengers team: 1. Night Nurse 2. Spider-Woman 3. Boom Boom 4. Rachel Summers 5. Janet Van Dyne 6. Valkyrie 7. She-Hulk

I understand how easy it is to get really mad online, I am more guilty of that than most, but we have to have level heads and recognize when the narrative is getting it wrong.

-Parker did, in fact, walk back her comparison of the modder with incels who mod video games so women have bigger breasts.

-the modder isn't on bluesky as far as i can tell, so i find it unlikely that hundreds of Parker's followers here, most of whom have permanently left twitter, logged back into to that website just to send the modder death threats.

-the modder is still online and posting on twitter, so no, they weren't bullied off the internet -the modder's post was already going viral when Parker shared it here, so it is false to ascribe everything done to the modder at the feet of Parker's following here (cont.)

A couple of falsehoods have already solidified in the Parker Molloy narrative that I want to point out. -To the best of my ability, I haven't seen anything that suggests the modder is trans, happy to be corrected on this but it appears invented as a post hoc justification for bullying (cont.)

Vaccines save lives. That’s it. That’s the post.

You know what the Avengers: Doomsday teaser campaing makes me think of? It's like is WotC announced they were printing a new Legacy masters that includes the original dual lands and the Power Nine (This is NOT a good thing) www.youtube.com/watch?v=kH1X...

Bluesky likes to think of itself as less toxic, but it truly is not. It's just that the people who view it like that think *they* have the right to be toxic for they are Righteous. Parker and I agree on some things, disagree on others. But she is a model of thoughtfulness and good-faith. For shame.

You literally can't make this shit up What's next, "you are not allowed to pass out anti-war leaflets"? "You can't say if you had a rifle you'd aim it at the president?" Some people are just the perfect combination of ignorant and arrogant

When you are so antisemitic/internet poisoned that you have to ascribe horrible mysoginy to a big Jewish conspiracy, but you're also such a chickenshit coward that you disable quote posts because you know what an embarrasment you are...

I don’t use blocklists but if someone would make one listing every pointless shitbird who piled on Parker Malloy and made her leave, I would subscribe.

amazing how the entire machine can pivot within 24 hours. no need to slowly upsell the argument; just issue new marching orders

You couldn't publish this today. You'd have to cloak it under several layers of metaphor.

Reposting this b/c it’s a new year, and because the American healthcare system is stupid and Texas makes it worse, I had to change ACA plans effective today because my old plan is no longer offered. All my deductibles and out of pocket amounts reset today. I appreciate you all more than you know.

the water thing about genAI is bullshit but the thing where it makes on-demand nudes and CSAM isn't and the thing where it talks you into killing yourself isn't and those seem pretty bad

There is an undeniable shared understanding in humanity. When people see "I hope this year it will happen" there is not a slightest doubt what "it" means.

Until tonight I did not consider myself a superstitious man, but a friend at this New Year’s party just acquainted me with the superstition that you should not clean on New Years or you will “wash away a loved one.” And if my wife will buy that excuse, I’m beyond superstitious. I’m ultrastitious.

I don't know if it's funny ha ha, but a lot of people got VERY mad when I said that genocide is bad, even if it's fine by a dictator whose politics you like

I am probably less-against-AI-in-all-its-forms than many on here. But. I don’t think a product that does this can be allowed to exist.

Bsky, my pneumonia has taken a bad turn. I may be facing significant medical costs. I’m starting a GoFundMe to help out with medical bills and expenses. Please share if you can. gofund.me/19d78b218

Musk, DOGE and Rubio are mass murderers for cutting USAID. That's not hyperbole, it's simply a fact.

Starts out as a graphic designer IIRC (it's literally only on the first chapter of a two-book series!) and ends up as a social media super-star I'd suck at both of those, but probably slightly less so at the second one (not because I think it's easy, but because GD is not even my passion)

Zuckerburg is paying only $190M to settle an $8B lawsuit by FB shareholders for the Cambridge Analytica crime. $8B would’ve been 3% of his net worth, and $190M is .08%. ~$75 for ordinary working people. “If the penalty for a crime is a fine, then that law only exists for the lower class.”

That Fox promo touting A) the wrongest man in sports B) Portion the sex pest C) some dude who I don't know but who has THE most punchable face on Earth Is the worst 30 seconds on TV

Sunday Taquitos #8: Never Wrong Art by Ivan Ehlers.

Every jaw in the room dropped. He had done the unthinkable. He had not only told them his beliefs, but he had done it with the equal degree of certainty that they had employed in telling him theirs. And there's this unspoken rule in America: Only Christians are allowed to do this.

The Lions have now lost five of seven since Amon-Ra St. Brown’s stupid Donald Trump dance. Everything Trump Touches Dies.

Merry Christmas to those who like being wished Merry Christmas and have a very nice Thursday to those who do not

Never change Bluesky!

52% disapproval among white people seems like a notable problem for a party with a one-issue platform of white supremacy.

You might question her methods, but credit to Bari Weiss: her leadership has pushed 60 Minutes into new formats and attracted a bunch of new viewership outside the normal broadcast audience.

"The Free Press"

Find the people asking if Taysom Hill is a hall of famer and invite them to your fantasy leagues in 2026.

Please share. Thanks

hey everyone here is a video of Andrew Tate getting the shit kicked out of him in slow motion happy holidays and you’re welcome

GOOD BETTER BEST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@danieldopp.bsky.social Myles Garret already did not get a sack on the bad snap. If he did, it would not count as -5 rushing

"Mainstream" libertarians see shit like this from the Libertarian Party chapter in the most libertarian state in America and conclude the only real racism in America is against white male millennials.

With Kash Patel as head of the FBI, there's never been a better time to get away with a mass shooting.

david duke probably wouldn't have shut down most of the CDC

#ai #mozilla #firefox #fuckAI #genAI #fuckGenAI