CHICAGO — Outside an elementary school during dismissal… horrifying. What have we become?

The world would be such a better place if we had more people like Jane in it. Rest in peace to an absolute legend. This one hurts. She will be missed. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Go...

Taken just a few minutes ago outside the ICE facility in Portland that Trump claims is under siege. My message to Donald Trump is this: we don’t need you here. Stay the hell out of our city.

Well, fuck. Fuck, fuck, fuckity, fuck. RIP democracy. It was a good run, ruined by the greed of a minority, abetted by the hatred, racism, and misogyny of a 3rd, allowed by the complacency of just enough to have made a difference.

Wow so you’re telling me everyone who cheered on the Iraq war is on board with this now too? And so are the people who opposed the Iran nuclear deal and killed it? You’re kidding.

The Trevor Project's hotline is still live. But recent fuckery by the T r u m p admin. means LGBTQ people can no longer be connected to it through the US national 988 suicide prevention hotline. They will need to be contacted DIRECTLY! So spread this around. They can be texted. They can be called.

Happy Juneteenth!

This is terrifying, so please read this as cope: The Wilshire Federal Building is 15 *miles* from the protests in downtown Los Angeles. It is a half-hour drive. You could fit an entire Manhattan, the long way, between them.

Cops shooting a woman at point-blank range for trying to get to her apartment Very protect. Much serve. Cops are great

On Election Day 2024, I watched "V For Vendetta". At the time, I thought I was watching it as something we were about to make sure never happened. I was wrong. When I woke up the next day, I was stunned to find that we had not averted authoritarianism after all. 1/8

Footage from the LA protests, where law enforcement intentionally shoot a reporter with a rubber bullet. www.tiktok.com/t/ZTjg7MF8X/

Free speech. The right to peaceably assemble. The right to tell Nazis to fuck all the way off. Use them or lose them.

If you want to show solidarity with Los Angeles, the best thing to do is organize protests against ICE tonight/tomorrow in your own cities. Search the web for ICE rapid response networks in your own city / state and sign up. Help your neighbors.

This is very well said, and applies to visual art as well. 👏

Time to post it again.

This is a good read.

Sharing so you can block it

I don’t want to read about a former President’s mental decline because a journalist got a book deal. I want to read a report about the current President’s mental decline by a journalist brave enough to speak out now.

It took like half an hour for it to even occur to me that someone could have done this on purpose because these cars just do that on their own so often.

Same.

If Musk *actually* ran SpaceX. xkcd.com/3018/

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Is there a Peter Gabriel maxim where if he appears on the soundtrack, it's likely the movie kind of rules? NATURAL BORN KILLERS, SAY ANYTHING, THE CHOCOLATE WAR, STRANGE DAYS, VIRTUOSITY... what am I missing? BIRDY? LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST of course... Well, there should be.

SL people! An acquaintance has recently posted a feature request, and it's a good one! Please have a look and give it an upvote if you agree. Sharing to boost is appreciated, too: feedback.secondlife.com/feature-requ...

Put plainly: They choose anticipatory obedience.

Oh yeah...I'm an artist. I ought to post some of my work. Pardon the watermark - I'm leery of posting art because of AI scraping. Though, these images have already been stolen for training anyway so I suppose it doesn't really matter. Anyway - here's some art. #artist #artshare #supportlivingartists

Seems like I'm on this list and have been blocked by the o7rise account... Block lists can be very helpful, but be sure to check the trustworthiness of the person making them. Looks like the MAGAs are here and making bad-faith lists with the intention of ensnaring non-MAGAs.

You didn't miss it. This was reported for the first time in my newsletter this morning. popular.info/p/13-things-...

I am very curious to see if the military brass sees a disconnect coming between their oaths of service and their chain of command. And by curious I mean, this is not a situation anyone should ever want and yet here we are.

All right, who broke Discord?

To help with this, you can go to Settings and under "Basics" click Accessibility and you can turn on "Require alt text before posting". It's helped me - I've tried to remember to do alt text wherever I can, but I forget occasionally - I love that Bluesky has this setting.

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Ages ago, I posted a link to a video (because videos couldn't be posted here at the time) of me after 2 weeks learning bass. Since we can post videos here now - this is one from August I think. Anyway - I'm quite pleased with how well I've done in just under a year.

This is really important. Trans people basically founded Bluesky Being on here the last year has allowed me to learn so much about the trans experience, and the trans community is a special, integral part of the Bluesky community We don't do transphobia here, got it?

Meta (Facebook & Instagram) is purging links to our comics going back a decade and forbidding folks from sharing even in private chats. This does severely limit our ability to reach our followers, BUT people can join our Patreon FOR FREE to still receive comic updates! www.patreon.com/c/OhJoySexToy

Spotify just reported record-breaking profits. In totally unrelated news, Spotify stopped paying nearly 90% of artists on the service ANYTHING (no royalties for songs w <1k streams/year)

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I'd like to create an "Authors of Small/Indie Press Books 2024-2025" starter pack. Is that you? If so, please reply here. Also, if you don't mind reposting this for visibility, I'd appreciate it! #writingcommunity #indiebooks #indieauthors #booksky

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renew your passports! not bc everyone should “just move somewhere else” but bc it’s an important legal document and passport renewal might start taking years to complete!

As @jvl.bsky.social pointed out, Harris ran a smart campaign. She was a solid candidate. Trump ran a disastrous campaign and is in clear decline. This was a clear choice. No matter who wins, half of voters either chose bigotry and authoritarianism, or had no problem with it. And that’s hard to take.

LFG!

Friendly reminder that MAGA is a cult, TFG is not giving every American $2M, & the "they" who called him a "stable genius" is himself...guess his pronouns are he/they, then. Anyway, if you'd like to be able to vote again in 4 years, maybe vote for the lady who isn't planning a fascist dictatorship.

Y'ever notice when a natural disaster occurs in a perceived liberal area it's "God's wrath" because liberals believe people should be allowed to live their lives as their authentic selves, but when its happens in a perceived conservative area some nebulous "they" are "controlling the weather"?

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #524,854!