We've all been taught to hate and fear #socialism because it is incredibly powerful and compelling. FDR dabbled in it and was elected four times. Mamdani apparently just calmly explained some of it to Trump and won him over.

You know what? MTG resigning from Congress is something I respect. I don't respect her because she spent SO LONG being a vile mouthpiece spewing hatred, bile, and misinformation, but I respect that she stood up for victims and I respect almost anyone who looks around and decides "I'm out of here."

46 years ago, I was born. It is an event that has since received mixed reviews. I like my life, though. I'd like to spend the next year making it incrementally better, but I wouldn't trade it.

Other, more serious countries don't do this. Senior politicians who commit crimes go to jail <all the time>. We could be like those countries, too. But since we've never been that sort of country, it's going to require wholesale reform of our deeply broken societal & political institutions.

They are literally firing all the judges they think might grant relief. They just fired a friend of mine a couple hours ago. They have no shame. The bastards want an assembly line for deportations and nothing more; rubber-stamping bootlickers who’ll yes’sir at every new diktat to deny.

Every story on Page One in Charlotte is about ICE/immigration: @charlotteobserver.com

The Pirate Borg booth 3519 is out of control this year! Last, sails, pirates, and a poop deck. Nice work @limithron.bsky.social team!! Looks great! 🏴‍☠️ 🦜 #PAX #PAXU #PAXUnplugged

If you receive an illegal order, you have a duty to disobey. This isn’t controversial. A President calling for the execution of anyone who reminds service members of this oath is showing us why the duty to disobey illegal orders is so important in the first place.

You might find @mathjones.bsky.social's alliterative paraphrase of the opening of the Hattatal easy to follow! alliteration.net/poetry/a-the...

Trump openly threatening the Democrats with death is honestly an example of political savvy because Jan6 proved that the party, as an apparatus, simply doesn't respond to death threats with any urgency like a prey animal with one of those brain parasites, AND it energizes his base. Why WOULDN'T he?

Ahead of Transgender Remembrance Day, the Rev. Jihyun Oh has joined other heads of diverse religious traditions in issuing a landmark statement proclaiming that transgender, intersex, and nonbinary people are worthy of love, support, and protection. Read more: www.uua.org/pressroom/pr... #PCUSA

Happy #Bookvember 20! I don't really read nonfiction, but because of my love for cephalopods I picked up "The Soul of an Octopus" by Sy Montgomery and I am sososo glad I did. It's beautiful, fun, and delightful; I highly recommend for anyone even a little interested in these incredible creatures.

🌟 Join the wave of #TTRPGRising! 💘 Celebrate creativity and uplift small #Punk, #TTRPG, and #Queer creators. 🚀 Share your promos and hype. Just remember to boost others too. Bonus for supportive comments! 💝All We Have Is Each Other, We All Rise Together💝

Just in time for SCIRE!! www.myth.works/products/sci...

Old-School Essentials DEMON Month May! Gavin Norman of Necrotic Gnome and Old-School Essentials is releasing his long-awaited Demonic Grimoire for Old-School Essentials. And he is not alone. Six others, including yours truly, are joining in. #ose #osr theotherside.timsbrannan.com/2025/11/old-...

We speak with one of the Indigenous leaders at the U.N. climate summit in Belém for the climate negotiations, in greater numbers than ever before, taking center stage at COP30. www.democracynow.org/2025/11/18/e...

Let’s talk about #mentalhealth and the toxic claims in some cultures that getting help and medication is a sign of weakness #anxiety #depression

I enjoyed learning this. youtu.be/-jfO0w2IWYI?...

NEW: When Andrew Tate landed in the US, Customs & Border Protection seized his electronic devices. But @propublica.org found that a White House official told DHS to return the devices, emphasizing that the request came from the White House. By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Schapiro

Update: secular authorities are now considering raids on churches during holy days

🌞 Good morning all my lovely #TTRPG friends! 🌞 The hashtags of the day are #TabletopTuesday to share promos and/or celebrate the hobby and #TTRPGThoughts to share your ideas about games from play advice to #RPGDesign. Let's have some fun and mix it up today!

Linus Torvalds being unfathomably based

Gorgeous. e.givesmart.com/events/LYw/i/

I spy Heavenly Bodies!!! 🔎 👀 So excited to see the game get played and read Dan’s thoughts on it!! If you want to get a copy: I’ll have 50 of them specially printed for Indie Games Night Market during Pax Unplugged!!

If there are a million Dickheads, then I'm one of them. If there is one Dickhead, then I'm THAT ONE. If there are no Dickheads left, that means I'm dead.

Another book my friend wrote! Check it out: #writersky www.amazon.com/dp/B0G2KDPXY5

I realized this morning that I've been waking up without intrusive thoughts about self harm for a few weeks now. I made it through! For now. Anyway. Take what I can get.

The novel my friend is writing - check it out! #writersky www.royalroad.com/fiction/1377...

Halp kittehs gofund.me/90b922257

They kidnapped a mayors daughter to stop police reforms

This is just a straight-up quote from Dilexi te, NY Times.

Here is some aerial footage posted by the church itself 👇 youtu.be/kkXFxzTMUKo and there is further information on our website 👇 www.scotlandschurchestrust.org.uk/church/corst... 🧵2/2

A 15th century church with a tower and pre-Reformation relics is our #ScottishChurchOfTheWeek. Two restorations on Corstorphine Old Parish Church by William Burn and George Henderson, the latter redeeming the original Medieval layout, have taken place over the last 200 years. 🧵1/2

Feeling stuck amidst the wave of authoritarianism? I just bookmarked this well organized list of things you can do for myself, so I'd like to share: choosedemocracy.us/what-can-i-do/

if you shoplift from Target they'll send the Double Pinkertons after you but if you just declare you need to steal from everyone all the time or your fake machine won't work a bunch of weirdos will write you billion-dollar checks

My question is who is doing all the Epsteining for these powerful wealthy men now?

🌊 In Liminal: Sea of Dreams, you’re a soul with no skills, only your true self and motivations. Escape before your Nightmare Self traps you forever. ✨ Explore this unique #TTRPG experience now! 🔗 revcasey.itch.io/lim...#TTRPG #IndieGame #TRPG #JDR

"A citizens group in Ontario, California is spearheading an effort to make the community aware of incidents involving federal immigration agents. They're placing signs at the locations that read, 'ICE stole someone here'..." abc7.com/post/ontario...

For #FossilFriday & in honor of @alinemghilardi.bsky.social & colleagues' fantastic discovery of a new Cretaceous pterosaur in Brazil in a dinosaur regurgitalite ("fossil vomit"), here's a diagram I made for my book 'Dinosaurs Without Bones' (2014) showing the physics of a puking brachiosaur. 🧪🦕🤮🪨

Day 16 #NoirvemberChallenge Lesser-Known #FilmNoir Everyone Should See THE ACCUSED (1949), a feminist response to the misogyny that overran the film industry in the 1940s. Dazzling performance by Loretta Young as a psychology professor who kills the student who rapes her, then covers up her crime.

Techbros created a religion, and it's profoundly stupid, because of course it is. Bad news is, they might have the money and power to impose it on us anyway. jacobin.com/2025/11/musk...

I didn't need another reason to detest Megyn Kelly, but I sure do have one now.

You cannot eat words. Rhetoric does not pay medical bills. Face it—the Democrats didn’t just lose the shutdown fight; they were crushed. And the brutal truth is they were never going to win, because they walked into a political gunfight armed with talking points and wishful thinking.

Bethany Fellows put together a book that might have something. chalicepress.com/products/99-...

If you’re attending Indie Games Night Market at Pax Unplugged this year: You can be the winner of a painting supporting @boardgameanimal.bsky.social pay medical bills!! I’ll be selling $5 raffle tickets and announcing the winner at 9:30 PM! All proceeds will go to Justin for support. Come thru!!

"300 agents stormed the building, rappelled from a helicopter, knocked down doors and hurled flash-bang grenades. Agents ziptied and detained many US citizens for hours..." Prosecutors have not filed a *single* criminal charge against anyone arrested that night: www.propublica.org/article/chic...