Reminder: we are in this together. Whether you accept it or not, they’ll eventually remind you.

THIS IS THE FUNNIEST THING TO EVER HAPPEN TO ME ON BSKY DOT SOCIAL

We've had our fun getting into dust ups, socialists communists progressives liberals shitlibs centrist bvnmw blue wave bozos can we all agree to just block any of the right wing accounts we see? They lost the privilege of being in the conversation.

No Kings includes Shaun King

Speaking Power to Truth

People going "America was always fascist" or "it's been like this since the 1980s" or making related claims don't seem to realize it, but they're telling everyone that nothing different is happening, nothing worse than usual, so if you weren't up in arms about eg 2013, you shouldn't be now either.

I live in one of those small cities where the bus is free and I can confirm that it 1) makes sense here and 2) makes the bus ride significantly more pleasant.

I got to see some early-blooming Rocky Shoals Spider Lillies this weekend. Overall just a beautiful evening on the lake.

JERRY: they're all coping about the pope GEORGE: because the pope is woke? JERRY: because the pope is woke GEORGE: so... it's pope cope? JERRY: it's woke pope cope, George, woke pope cope!

This is all hilarious but I especially love the idea that the Pope shouldn’t be a “globalist”

3/4. If we accept the idea that moving a person from one place to another undoes rights and disempowers the judiciary, we are endorsing the basic Nazism practice that enabled the killing of millions.

no lies detected. #civilrights

wish i knew where to attribute this idea, but someone said cars are like a gas and will expand to fill up every possible space unless restricted. bike lanes really prove this out.

this is literal idolatry and it's insane to me how they don't see this

I suppose there’s some hypothetical version of a textile mill you could dream up that’s ok to work in, but when we did actually have textile mills in this country they were decidedly not good places to work and there’s no reason to believe they would be any better in Trump’s America.

it seems clear that everyone thought that their additions to the security state would be limited to their specific motivating contexts and wouldn't be misused in the future by a malicious actor. but, surprising no one who thought about it, death machines can be used for many purposes by bad people.

Nobody named "Hunter Walker" gets to accuse anyone else of gentrification

every college, corporate, and nonprofit president right now

Well that’s an intersection I never expected to happen. Reserved seat for Mick Mulvaney (yes, that Mick Mulvaney) at my job.

"one armed gesture" "questionable salute" "roman salute" "elon musk salute" all of these were actual headlines

If your primary political orientation is “American exceptionalism but America bad,” I mean you’re gonna be right a lot of the time but you’re also gonna have some embarrassingly bad takes like this one. Is this person entirely unaware of the history of the Caribbean?

let me recommend this paper on "class abstractionism," which argues that the structural primacy of class does not imply the political primacy of class and, in point of historical fact, non-class identities have been powerful catalysts for working-class mobilization.

Turns out the "inefficiencies" were actually "human interaction" and "relationship building" all along and that those things were deeply valuable.

If you wanted no leaks you should have gone into Settings -> Security -> Configure privacy & security -> Privacy options -> Other -> Configure -> Media interface and clicked “Disallow.” The Leak setting is on by default but we understand your privacy is important so we’ve made it easy to opt out

With all the talk about undocumented immigrants, we can’t ignore that one driver of people coming to the border has been the increasing inaccessibility of legal immigration. And the only way to fix that is Congress, which hasn’t talked seriously about the issue since 2013.

It can't be overstated how much of the appeal of ascending fascism is "You get to be the shittiest kind of person imaginable with no social consequences." These chucklefucks act like they lived through some kind of Kafkaesque distopia but in reality their friends just asked they stop using slurs.

“Think of the poor influencers who monetized their online presence” has got to be the funniest *and* worst defense of tiktok as a platform. I will not be weeping for them, thanks!

The amount of stupid on social media right now is depressing. The billionaire Resnicks own a lot of land and a lot of water rights. They do not, contrary to a lot of the stupid, "own all California's water" or have anything to do with the L.A. fires.

and just for the record: that random skilled migrant worker from e.g. India or Bolivia has every fucking right to the inflated wages that an American enjoys. Fuck you.

Every time Venus is low in the west or Jupiter low in the east after sunset - for going on a century now - there are spikes in UFO reports, because they each "seem too bright" to be ordinary celestial objects. Both are the case right now, and UFO panic shows up right on schedule.

We’re better off without these people

Bigots treat this fact as if it were a trans shitposter joke or lie, but it is true. Chromosomes stop playing a role in phenotype (organ development) in the embryo during the first trimester, & can be overridden by maternal hormonal levels & other epigenetic factors. Hormones! Not Chromosomes!

Todays vibe: Mini Forest on a pinecone 💙 moment of zen

If we’re sharing recipes I guess I’ll include my college invention, which was a shot of Southern Comfort with a few dashes of Tabasco sauce. It was an absolutely terrible drink, but I loved it solely for the name I gave it: Sherman’s March to the Sea.

The thing that keeps getting me about all the pieces fretting about Bluesky being too insular is that the argument seems to be that those of us who are most likely to be abused by the right (BIPOC people, trans people, queer people, etc) must put up with being abused for the sake of public discourse

[after someone says tweet instead of skeet] go back to x, colonizer

I would vote for a lump of rock over a rapist fascist criminal. Any criticism of Harris and democrats is irrelevant

I keep seeing people say half the country supports Trump, and that is simply not true. The one election he won was in a low turnout race where he lost the popular vote. He maintained low approval ratings through his presidency and lost reelection. He has never represented a majority or even 50%.

Our first domestic terrorist named Skyler

🧵⬇️ “We're not guaranteed to triumph over Fascism. We're not guaranteed progress - the "arc of the moral universe" isn't guaranteed to bend anywhere. We have to keep showing up. We have to keep building - to create things sturdy enough to shelter our most vulnerable through whatever the future holds.

Driving is most dangerous thing most of us do every day. It’s a danger that has been so normalized we have to remind ourselves not to kill children on the rare occasions that we let them use the roads.

If you can vote but do not and cannot articulate how abstention will result in improvement in whatever issue you’re abstaining over then you have decided to sacrifice your obligations to others at the altar of personal virtue. This is an act of vanity, not an act of principle

It's why I make sure to think of being good, and being not-racist, as a *process*, a *thing you do*, not a thing you inherently *are*, because-- well it's fucking DANGEROUS otherwise!

Anyway fuck cars

Trend in hours of work needed to purchase a week's worth of groceries, from CEA. At the height of recent inflation, this topped out at the same number of hours as in 2018, @bchadhill.bsky.social notes. But you probably knew that from economic news coverage, right?

Wow a hit skeet