Getting ready for CONvergence. R5-QT and I will be at the droid meet up in Holodeck at 5pm on Saturday. Will you be bringing your droid companion? sched.co/2LxmD. #cvg2026

someone should tell hegseth that disease has taken out more soldiers than any armament

Your periodic reminder that people are *more* abusive online when they're using their "real names" than when they're using a persistent pseudonym and this effect has been replicated in literally every study that has ever been done

Q: How is DOJ defining 'antifa'? ROSEN: What is antifa goes beyond I think the scope of what this indictment is Q: Is that a crime to be affiliating with a group, if it is even a group? ROSEN: It's a crime to conspire for the purpose of impeding or injuring federal officers

By calling them antifa, the prosecutor is admitting on the legal record that ICE are facists. ----- Fifteen people charged over alleged interference in Minnesota immigration crackdown https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/16/minnesota-immigration-enforcement-conspiracy-charges

it’s a tight, top-down conspiracy ...but also somehow 97 decentralized chats, orgs, members, and parents trying to help neighbors, conspiratorially it’s led by hardcore antifa operatives ...but also they spend 99% of their time creating new Signal chats, arguing about vetting & coordinating parking

The Punisher sticker we've needed all along

"Oh my god, she went crazy. I mean she carried us..." Courtney Williams on Olivia Miles

Natisha Heideman is in the crowd tonight. Prowl is showing appreciation. #mnlynx #studbudzreunited

"It’s time for Minnesota governments to reopen the sidewalks and figure out how to house folks somewhere that doesn’t result in the erosion of public space." THIS. Always this. Leaders actually believe that closing off public spaces is a _solution_. It's not! It never will be!

George Floyd should be alive. It is a moral failing of Minneapolis that Jacob Frey is still mayor and that MPD is funded at higher levels than ever before & STILL overspending. None of that failure is of South Minneapolis. It is the white liberals and the overseer class that still hold power.

These 8 Democrats voted to pass a national ban on trans teachers and mention of LGBTQ topics. Rep Henry Cuellar (TX) Rep. Don Davis (NC) Rep. Cleo Fields (LA) Rep. Laura Gillen (NY) Rep. Vicente González (TX) Rep. Marcy Kaptur (OH) Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (WA) Rep. Eugene Vindman (VA)

ProPublica used leaked tax returns to calculate that through complex tax avoidance schemes, Jeff Bezos pays a tax rate of 0.98% www.propublica.org/article/the-... So if we doubled the taxes he pays, that would mean he'd still be paying less than 2%.

Minnesota's "Hennepin County Attorney’s Office issued a nationwide arrest warrant on Monday for the ICE agent who allegedly shot a Venezuelan immigrant in north Minneapolis during Operation Metro Surge and then lied about the circumstances that led to the shooting."

Follow-up: ♦️There were FBI investigations of BOTH candidates in the 2016 election. Why did you broadcast the (largely bogus) one on Hillary, and keep secret the (enormously important) one on Trump? Asking Comey that question would have been #journalism.

Donor-advised funds (Fidelity, Schwab) are NOT letting clients donate to Southern Poverty Law Center. This is pretty much what Putin did in Russia, he de-legitimizied nonprofit organizations that didn't fit the fascist goals of the regime. I'll give SPLC non-tax-deductable $, they need it now

still not quite over the fact that i watched 15 year olds get sued for millions of dollars for downloading twelve songs and now we all have to accept AI slop because every tech company in the known universe decided that IP laws don't exist now that they're inconvenient for them

Also @startribune.com you are citing work funded by an anti-trans organization in this article. See the next post in this thread for additional information.

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Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli.

This is unequivocally a step forward and Frey's opposition is based in his corporate interests, not care for citizens.

I hate that the @startribune.com went with the discarded needle on the street image. That’s the status quo- where people ditch the needle because they’re afraid of being caught with it. If it’s not a crime to have it, and you can turn it in for safe disposal & access resources, that’s a win

"Joy is resistance" is not just a platitude, it's actual fucking praxis

Trust me, disabled people feel this hostility acutely.

Have you heard about our expanded Attendance Grant? We are excited to continue our BIPOC Attendance Grant (first come first served) as well as launching a grant for folks experiencing financial hardship. Want to know more? Check it out and apply here: www.convergence-con.org/about/conver... #cvg2026

Is he writing RPF on main now?

She is just such a jerk

ignorance is strength

CHRISTINA KOCH GREETING HER DOG AFTER RETURNING FROM THE MOON IM GONNA CRYYY 😭😭😭

Update: Oh hell yes www.nytimes.com/2026/04/12/w...

I missed this from @phineas.bsky.social when it originally came out but it sure feels relevant at the moment. Also, you can buy this as a print from the artist here: www.inprnt.com/gallery/phin...

Want to honor Melissa Hortman's legacy? Elect a progressive DFL majority to be a pain in Amy Klobuchar's milquetoast ass every goddamn day.

Atheists are mad about this and they’re absolutely right but please just let me say as a Christian I am not wild about the Center for Racialized Kidnapping profaning the iconography of my religion either. The Piss Christ or that David Wojnarowicz video are thoughtful provocations, this is just shit

It's impolite to call Musk a genocidal white nationalist because "civility" in American discourse functions not as a neutral procedural norm but as an asymmetric weapon to shield the powerful from accurate moral characterization while policing the tone of those who object.

Hegseth not only fired the Sec of the Army. He also fired head of Army Training & Command, as well as the Army's chief of chaplains. Destabilizing Army leadership during an active shooting war is another example of Hegseth's incompetence & cannon fodder philosophy www.military.com/daily-news/h...

Love that the quotes on this are like 50/50 "This is unconstitutional, what the fuck" and "Why the fuck did the department of homeland security put a cross on the dick of Our Lord And Savior Jesus Christ?"

The best time to get an IUD or vasectomy was November 2025. Second best time is now

this is incorrect, the count is Eleven, a tesla was launched in 2018

Non-Essential Oils is my Red Hot Chili Peppers cover band.

@convergencecon.bsky.social, your directors say hi! We're getting ready for #cvg2026

“The purchase is the second time in recent months that a large Oklahoma warehouse targeted for potential ICE use has instead gone to another buyer or been pulled from consideration…”

Because there are *always* Epstein connections, here's your friendly reminder that Prince Andrew was invited to the HBO Harry Potter set... Last year. www.marieclaire.com/celebrity/ro...

*adds to miles long TBR list*

OH HELLO www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ma...

One would hope it drops directly into an auto-flushing toilet.

okay so AI is absolutely cratering imminently and I need all of you to PROMISE me you won't take the high road, and will laugh and rub it in their faces as much as possible. I need you to laugh and go 'WE TOLD YOU SO, BITCH" at every opportunity, PLEASE be extremely mean and ruthless

Trump is nothing if not a petty bitch. Also fuck Bill Maher but this soooo funny considering Mahers whole “I had a meal with him and he just seemed like a kind chill dude to me” speech a year or so ago.