My old person opinion is that way too many places expect tips now!

The "ICE is using military tactics suited for a warzone, not for American streets" rhetoric kinda misses the point that warzones are not naturally occuring. The US military creates war zones from residential neighborhoods and the tactics are not more justifiable just because it's overseas

My manifesto: Podcasts should not have sets. Podcasts should be made by little weirdos who you see a picture of ten years later and you're like "that was not what I was picturing at all". A podcast is not something you "watch". Also obviously and always Fuck Newsom

This is quite a post www.planetearthandbeyond.co/p/reality-is...

New: After Renee Nicole Good was killed by an ICE agent, right-wingers attacked and mocked her sexuality, motherhood, and politics. Other protesters are being told to "learn" from her death. @parkermolloy.com reports on this aggressive smear campaign: www.wired.com/story/the-ca...

hot yaoi bros

Medical transition for me involves a getting a prehensile tail, so science: get to work.

Like to charge, reskeet to cast

Fantastic game. Haven't stopped thinking about it since I played it. I know it's late for this sort of thing but it was up there as one of my best games of 2025.

hey Mom can you come pick me up. yeah everyone on the niche microblogging website is arguing about who has the correct emotional posture to the unknowable future again

"b-b-but why do you keep criticizing Democrats??"

"we didn't vote for this" Bullshit.

ICE was created in the post-9/11 haze as security theater and immediately weaponized against racial and ethnic minorities. There's nothing to reform, it shouldn't exist.

Charlie Jane Anders (@charliejane.bsky.social) talks with fellow authors Karen Russell, Mia Tsai, Seth Haddon, and Yiming Ma about the wave of recent books asking incisive questions about the ways memories can be politicized, policed, stolen, and shared...

The issue with ICE is not training, the issue with ICE is that it fundamentally should not exist. The violence is the purpose

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They never wanted "small goverment," just a goverment they control weaponized to harm the people they don't like.

This. Give me this shit carefully etched into the the leather cover of an old tome. [Context in ALT text.]

Big afternoon plans.

"white people have no culture" white people:

For a while, Musk seemed to be a liberal. Then, after the mildest friction he flipped to working with the GOP. Now that he's monetizing the sexual abuse of children we finally can identify his political alignment as Libertarian.

X, the Child Porn for profit site.

I would really caution anyone against implying that paywalling this feature is a legitimate response to public outcry. The paywall is an endorsement, not a restriction. Musk is saying "this thing you're all talking about is valuable. Pay me for it." The actual material effect is just monetization.

Accidentally unlocked new belief which is making dogs be cops is cruel and should stop

I think we should boycott Apple. Stop buying apple products, cancel your Apple TV sub, stop all App Store purchases (which they receive a huge chunk of) until they remove the child porn app from their storefront.

It’s time to squeal pig

"...the more one relies on vice signaling as a style of action and communication, the less relevant and powerful the in-group’s moral compass is as a practical constraint on anyone’s behavior." latest for @bostonreview.bsky.social www.bostonreview.net/articles/emp...

it's wild that a police force indiscriminately murdering protestors is one of the inciting incidents that led to this country being founded and now we just let it happen.

Yup. If you’re wearing an “I Voted” sticker, they’ll pass over you like it’s the blood of the lamb

some of my work in monochrome

Baker & Taylor is one of very few companies that handle book distribution for libraries — getting books from publishers into borrowers hands. But a few months ago, the company abruptly announced it was shutting down. n.pr/4biyDfS

idk, i kinda think it sucks that in the face of everything the best supposedly leading dems can muster is "ur a fag, kek"

Attachment issues

normalise replying "skip ad" en masse in shout chat today

"It's not transmisogyny, all of our targets just HAPPEN to be trans women."

You cannot value the librarian code of ethics while also being pro-genAI. GenAI is a direct violation of our code of ethics.

Why are you still on X in the first fucking place.

Ernie Bushmiller, 1947

The first two hours this morning

Since there has been a lot of "what are Americans even doing" talk on the timeline today, my gentle reminder that none of you better be posting the exact details of what you are doing on bluesky dot com, it is more important to safely do the work than prove to strangers that you are doing something!

Wuk Lamat would be fun in fandom, just innocently and unintentionally ragebaiting everyone every day #FFXIV

My whole life, advocating war has been fed to me as “the adult position,” akin to drinking your coffee black or reading the business section of the newspaper. Let’s be very clear — war is the childish nonsense of impulsive destructive idiots playing baby-brained video games with real human lives.

You wouldn't expose war crimes... would you? ddosecrets.com/submit

PayPal and it's continued consequences for humanity, tbh.

"This isn't who we are!" yeah, our media normally manufactures consent first.

the united states is an empire built on the corpses of others, if you haven't realized this you might genuinely might be complicit to their imperialistic actions