"Republicans blocked a law to keep your taxpayer money from going to convicted pedophiles"

Kickstarter has reverted their policy changes on Adult Content! They issued an apology, siting Stripe as the reason. The pressure we put on them worked. This is a step in the right direction. But the threat of Stripe remains. It’d be great to see KS end ties with them & process payments elsewhere.

THIS IS HUGE: Colorado Supreme Court orders Colorado children's hospital to resume gender affirming care for trans youth. www.coloradopolitics.com/2026/05/18/c...

I've heard some people are side eyeing the Noah Kahan song "Dan" because there's a line about "fighting over politics" with his best friend. Personally I choose to believe they're fighting over $25 minimum wage vs universal basic income.

Just a little PSA- Neil Gaiman has reactivated his Bluesky account. Because he deactivated before a lot of people could unfollow him, and/or because Bluesky doesn’t remove you from a person’s followers when you block them, a LOT of you are still publicly listed as following him. You should check.

To my dismay, there was no comments section.

What the fuck is "AI boosted gameplay"? I don't want AI to play my games for me.

Finished putting together my big comfy porch lounge chair just in time for the weather to get too hot to sit out there lol

37 hours straight on the House floor.

Boycott starts today!

REI’s anniversary sale begins tomorrow. After years of union-busting and no contract, tens of thousands of REI members are standing with @reiunion.bsky.social workers and saying: enough! Show your solidarity with REI workers and boycott the sale May 15-25! https://www.ourrei.com/boycott

Sega Genesis, but my grandpa had a Colecovision

Alistair, Morrigan, Wynne, Leliana, Zevran, Dog

Found footage horror movie lol

I fucked something up and it's entirely my own fault. I'm so mad at myself. Sigh. (the thing is fixable, just... ugh)

Out of desperation I just bought one of those continuous glucose monitors (I do not have diabetes). I feel bad succumbing to this wellness bullshit but I keep getting what sure FEEL like hypoglycemic episodes. And my A1c was low which is weird so...

really insightful and horrifying stuff from @thefarce.org

I'm so tired of all my podcasts. I need someone to do one of those chapter-by-chapter podcasts on Waverly so I have something to listen to.

Did we finish reading it yet? Is the discussion ongoing?

Dear @mayor.nyc.gov, please get a NYC Alt Side Parking account on Bluesky. Right now, the only social media account for that info is on X. Please do not endanger New Yorkers or make them support a right wing billionaire by forcing them to visit that hate site.

update on the update: I was wrong lol (it won't be the last time) I looked at the wrong number and the FB/Instagram book didn't actually change Which means so far Bluesky is the only platform to move books and it has moved every tested book thus far

My alma mater! (for fellowship) Gift link share.inquirer.com/pAr9RJ

Important. I just checked. I had 2 out 3. I didn't know about the Locations trap.

The best part about being in your 40s is fucking up your back by I don't even know what I did.

Sincerely believe that a major contributor to the male loneliness epidemic may be that the most common type of cishet man is ‘Can’t Handle A Baddie’ Guy & the most common type of woman period is Baddie.

"AI hater" hell yeah

What I hear every time an electric vehicle starts moving

In high school when I was working at a music venue I’d sneak in on breaks to see the show, and during a Michael Bolton concert I saw a man in a confederate flag tshirt shed a single tear when he sang "How Am I Supposed to Live Without You." That was the whitest thing I’d ever seen until today.

This is reassuring. It is the Andes variant, without biology changing alterations. Its sequence is very much as the sequence from past efforts back to 2018. No rearrangements of exchange with other Hantaviruses. This is not a different or new variant. All come from the same initial infection.

Somewhat unexpected news from South Carolina: Enough Republican senators *opposed* a vote to add redistricting to the ongoing legislative session, so the measure was DEFEATED. This prevents the GOP from taking up a new congressional map and eliminate the majority-Black district held by Clyburn.

dear god PLEASE let this also lead to a wider acceptance that treatment needs to include *improving quality of life* and not just "how to make them have baby"

My favorite misanthropic PI who hallucinates her dead sister while solving crimes is back and I am once again imploring you to read this series

The hospital healing garden is quite nice. Just needs some sort of water feature.

I am genuinely so miserable at work today I don't know how long I can keep doing this. It's a normal day. I just hate it here.

There are two wolves inside me, one of them says go back to Instagram because my friends are there and the other one says join @flashes.blue because fuck meta

folks, the idea is out there. Virginia Democrats are talking about it. this could happen. gift link to the NYT: www.nytimes.com/2026/05/10/u...

I fixed it! Also it is designed to be removed, just, you know, from the inside of the house.

I checked out the Zillow listing of a house in my neighborhood just to see what the local market is doing and now I'm mad because that house is better than my house and also cheaper

Post your warning sign

If you support us—which you better—please sign this pledge not to cross our picket line if we have to go through with a strike. If it comes to that I'll let you know when it's happening.

My union unanimously voted to authorize a strike. It's bad enough that we've been trying to negotiate a contract for 16 months and counting, but now management made major changes to our health plans without negotiating with us, which they're legally required to do. So we don't really have a choice.

Hey Bluesky. I need help. Haven’t been on much because I just barely started work & my data is out. My call & text is just barely hanging on. I still owe $350 overdue from last month from when I got sick. If anyone wants to help me get my data up to help folks more PayPal/EMT [email protected]

The EU flag is flying at Hungary’s parliament again after Péter Magyar was sworn in as prime minister — the first time it’s been displayed there since Viktor Orbán had it removed in 2014.

Please explain to me the scientific nature of the whammy.

My housesitters locked the backdoor, which I never do (I only use the deadbolt), so when I went outside and pulled the door shut behind me it locked me out. So I went around the house to come in the front door, but my fence gate has been broken in such a way that it can't be opened from this side.

Is this anything?

Cosigning this thread. Because of my disabilities the only bike I can ride is an e-bike.