This was a great recap of why we literally can not "go back." The America that we used to know is GONE, and it definitionally can not return. But what we CAN do is try to build something NEW that's better than what used to be. But we can't start building something new until we first ADMIT WE LOST.

My parents attended a No Kings protest yesterday in Ocean City, Maryland; they estimated about 1000 people were there marching against this regime, which I imagine is pretty good for a summer tourist town in the Red part of Maryland with a permanent population of only 7k. #NoKings

Accounts like the ones now trickling in from this fascist regime are just looking for any attention—good OR bad—and to spread their Hatch-violation propaganda. Do not indulge them. Remember the Bluesky way when it comes to ALL bad actors and trolls: Block Early, Block Often, Do Not Engage.

Okay, so I'm not much of a Pokemon person, and I don't really use Imgur anymore since the whole MediaLab FUBD debacle, but I did stumble across this link recently and had to chuckle at a few of these movie poster parodies.

I don't blame folks who are in the public eye for random people coming up to them for photos at events. I didn't blame Trump for that, so I won't blame Mike for that, either. Instead, I will blame them both—and the rest of this regime—for being HUGE FASCIST ASSHOLES who are destroying our country.

For all that's holy, YouTube: stop changing things just to change them. Your "Save To Playlist" menu was FINE; it didn't need the checkboxes to change to bookmark icons, and it didn't need the thumbnail of the current first video, either. And NOW you can't check/uncheck multiple options at once. 😡

Done! Oh, wait.

Clarification: President Donald Trump's administration for now HAS BEEN TOLD they must stop firing workers during the government shutdown. Given that this "administration" consistently ignore laws and rulings that it does not like, this ruling IN NO WAY guarantees it will be followed or enforced.

Happy Indigenous Peoples’ Day! And remember, people like Trump and the rest of this regime want you to see their heroes—like Columbus—as these infallible demigods of white culture who could do no wrong and never spawned any problems. Because if their HEROES can be shown to be flawed, so can THEY.

"Earlier this month, the Army announced Detachment 201—the name being a reference to HTTP code—for the newly commissioned executives." I could imagine codes that would be a better fit. 402 Payment Required 403 Forbidden 405 Method Not Allowed 406 Not Acceptable 451 Unavailable For Legal Reasons

Good lord, the White House/Trump is even more unhinged and all over the board on this whole Nobel Peace Prize thing that they usually are.

Holy crap. So @glitchprod.com just partnered with the crew from @lackadaisy.bsky.social's Lackadaisy for a full six (?) episodes. Glitch is like Santa Claus for indie animations these days, and I'm so here for it. Congrats to everyone involved!

As if the emotion-based "rebranding" with "Liberty" in the name wasn't a big enough clue, this is really, REALLY bad. Just as they'd lost all credibility in every other "official" statement from this fascist regime, there goes any potential credibility in how actual VOTING will be carried out.

Unthinkable that he could just literally say that so blatantly, so unconcerned, even by this point. But we all know his koolaid-addled supporters will still just say "Oh, you're just misunderstanding him, is all" or some other weak ass shit.

Well, these are depressing and broadly backwards: I see the Chamber of Commerce of my hometown of Ocean City MD is not only hosting a seminar on "How Artificial Intelligence Can Work for Your Business" but is ALSO putting the proceeds of their annual Gala to benefit the "Stop Offshore Wind" project.

RFKjr: "Wi-Fi radiation opens up your blood-brain barrier, so all these toxins that are in your body can now go into your brain." Joe Rogan: How exactly does Wi-Fi do that? RFKjr: "Now you’re going beyond my expertise." www.yahoo.com/news/article... I swear, the potential memes write themselves.

Anyone else having issues with @skyfeed.xyz's OnlyPosts feed? As of an hour or three ago, it appears to only be displaying things from 1d old or older. @support.bsky.team @bsky.app #support #onlyposts

Huh. If it wasn't for the fact that this directly benefits both the Saudis and Jared Kushner, the EA acquisition might have otherwise been the first Private Equity Firm buyout where I'd actually be rooting FOR the Equity Firm to strip everything down to the bones and sell the parts for scrap.

So, here's the funny thing, JD… we're not calling people who DISAGREE WITH US Nazis. We're calling people who ACT LIKE NAZIS, Nazis. Just so happens that we ALSO happen to disagree with the idea of people acting like Nazis, so I can see where that might be confusing if you're not paying attention.

So... completely on-brand, is what you're saying?

Just a reminder for the hard-of-thinking out there who still don't get it. If you're Anti-Antifa... you're just plain Fa.

After they inter him, I hope they remember to flush twice.

Holy crap, was that good. @glitchprod.com, Dana, John, Zach... You guys REALLY hit it out of the park (no pun intended) with this one. #kog #knightsofguinevere #glitch

Sorry if we just make more trouble for Bluesky, but the proper "appropriate, legal and Constitutionally sound" response to Clay's demand is FUCK YOU, and FUCK CHARLIE KIRK. No one deserves to be murdered, but I will shed no tears over his literal reaping of what he had sowed. And that IS my right.

"Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer […] said Democrats want to make sure […] that the funding agreement they come to will be honored by the White House." You already have your answer, @schumer.senate.gov. We already know from years and years of Trump behavior: it will NOT be honored. So NOW what?

Jesus fucking Christ, @schumer.senate.gov … "grave harms" are not BYPRODUCTS of the Republican policies, they ARE the Republican policies! You CAN NOT "negotiate" with them, because they see IS NO middle ground to be bipartisan ABOUT. As I think the kids still say nowadays, THEY 👏 ARE 👏 FASCISTS 👏

Some alt-right MAGA guy think's we're all terrible "woke" leftist extremists here on Bluesky, and as such, is telling his friends he won't play or recommend video games that have a presence here? OH NO! *clutches pearls dramatically*

I won't comment on the merits of any specific discussion in this particular thread I came across, but I do wish to point out how amazing of an insult "You are a compass that always points due stupid" is.

I mean, yeah, I guess I'll be happy to share a prayer for Charlie Kirk like all the conservatives over on Twitter are asking, but I'm not sure whether they'll appreciate what outcome I'll be praying FOR.

On admitting outbreaks would be inevitable: “We don’t need to do any projections. We handle outbreaks all the time. So there’s nothing special that we would need to do. And, secondly, again, there are countries that don’t have vaccine mandates, and the sky isn’t falling over there.”

So, I hear we can post animated GIFs now as well? Just testing with one of my favorite political memes.

Okay, Democrats. NOW can you admit that Trump and all the people in control here are a GOD DAMN FASCIST REGIME!? Seriously, how much MORE do you need to finally stop thinking all of what's happening here is still somehow just 'politics as usual'...? IT'S NOT. STOP ACTING LIKE THIS IS NORMAL.

Perhaps one of the few good things to come out of the existence of this fascist regime is the creation of yet another wonderful song from Elie Cordova. That said, I'll take any silver lining I can at this point. #AltGov

If people keep complaining that this regime's fake war with Venezuela is not a valid reason for them to use the Alien Enemies Act to advance their fascist policies, then by god they'll give us an ACTUAL war with Venezuela, even if we have to start it ourselves.

If only ALL reporters did stuff like this to keep these guys from trying to gaslight others. I also liked her forcing him to admit his "they require kids to get 77 vaccines nowadays" to actually just 16. Plus, you know, they recommend more today because we CREATED more vaccines to SAVE LIVES.

As a longtime human who has always loved using the em dash... yeah.

Holy CRAP this is so much better than I was even expecting it to be. And September 19th...! Thank you, @glitchprod.com and @danaterrace.bsky.social! This looks AMAZING so far. #KnightsofGuinevere

This is the moment, all right, if that moment was 1874. This is like top brass of the military droning on about how amazing and iconic "sharp sticks" are. Fucking embarrassing.

This has a whole lot of "Chamberlain agreeing with Hitler for the Sudetenland to keep him from doing something worse" energy to it. And appeasing authoritarians in the (false) hope that any short-term wins will dissuade their long-term plans has repeatedly been shown to not be worth it. AT ALL.

Sometimes I just don't understand social media. A little while ago, I agreed with a random person here who complimented someone else's cosplay, and now they've blocked me. Did they think I was being insincere? Did they not like my other posts? Did I misspell something? Did they not want any replies?

I couldn't NOT think of the running joke between @weelassreacts.bsky.social and @notsoavgfangirl.bsky.social when I saw this comic.

Phew! The Texas Measles outbreak is OVER! Just like that, it's all gone. I sure am glad THAT'S over with, and they haven't, say, stopped reporting cases or something. In all seriousness, I'd love to hear @altcdc.altgov.info take on this "announcement" and how legitimate (or not) it actually is.

Slightly diminish a band: Huey Lewis and the Olds

Anyone been having issues with @skyfeed.xyz's #OnlyPosts feed? I'm subscribed to it, and generally it works fine, but I've noticed that it doesn't show me a number of Posts from those I'm following. One account's Post from 3m ago showed up fine, but another of theirs from 2h ago still hasn't. >

"They want to come to this nation's capital and look at the fabulous museums and the monuments we have here." The fabulous museums and the monuments we have here under this fascist regime:

I really am having a hard time wrapping my brain around this. That said, I am all for any movie in which the Conquistadors get their asses handed to them by the Aztecs. #aztecbatman

Okay, this was clever (and a wonderfully soothing audio track by @vocaloutburst.bsky.social )!

I don’t know what that thing was but I GOT THAT THING.

I have to admit, I'm intrigued by the premise! To misrepresent a Lovecraft quote, "We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far." This feels an awful lot like mankind voyaging a little too far for their own good.

Well, this is depressingly accurate.