Alright I need to know is creating a tiny tree on purpose a sin? It feels like it might be but also in 20 years I could make the sickest palidarium (pretty sure I spelled that wrong)

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS BATTER

This is a great example of state officials stepping up to ensure compliance with the law, if the feds won’t do it. Maine secy of state @shennabellows.bsky.social finding a way of restricting ICE illegal conduct wgme.com/news/local/m...

I hope what saves the UK is our lack of respect for law enforcement. In America the idea of not respecting the cops is fringe whereas here they're hated by the right coz they think the cops are loony lefty enemies of the white British race and hated by the left coz of what they're actually like.

I can't trust politicians who are anti-trans. Not because I'm "only searching for perfection" which is what centrists will be accusing me of for the rest of my life, it's because if you're not pro-trans you'll be garbage on lots of other issues too. Being anti-trans NEVER exists in a vacuum.

If you're in the UK gaming accessibility space, the BSL Gaming Glossary is a really awesome resource to keep an eye on. If you can BSL Finger Spell a lot of the terms so far on the glossary are going to be really easy and intuative to learn, and be memorable if you've got existing gaming knowledge.

WHEEEEEEN YOUUUUUU MISCOMPREHEND THINKING IT'S THE WEEKEND THAT'S A THURSDAY

Piss Melts ICE! That's science.

That joke about having to birth a single sperm is never going to hit the same again

Co-founder @katelynburns.com writes an essential piece for @xtramagazine.com  about the homophobia and erasure in the wake of Renée Nicole Good's brutal murder by an ICE agent: 

It has come a long way, hasn’t it?

The interpretations are (1) thuggish and very stupid ICE agents stole the phone and tried to sell it or (2) thuggish ICE agents kidnapped and brutalized the kid and threw his phone out the window or dumped it in the gutter, laughing, and someone else found it and tried to sell it.

“In our continuing fight to make America great again, it is vital we maintain Republican control of the government so we can ensure the extrajudicial killing of all U.S. citizens at the hands of ICE officers,” said Republican National Committee chair Joe Gruters

My 3 year old is reading Foucault and asked me, tears in his eyes, "why is power in society only reified through force and surveillance?" I told him to read more Fanon

Landlord has had the house on the market for a month and there's not one single suitable property available

WASHINGTON (AP) — Claudette Colvin, whose refusal to move seats on a segregated bus helped spark the civil rights movement, dies at 86.

"i serve the Lord, not a draft-dodging coward" is the kind of phrase that would be slightly cringe online and is incredibly badass when being stated by a man surrounded by armed men threatening to murder him

This is 10th-grader Arnoldo Bazan. A citizen. Immigration agents grabbed him and put him in a chokehold. "We're from the United States bro!' he screamed. Agents took and sold his phone And when he finally got home hours later, his shirt was ripped, he neck had angry, red welts, and he sobbed.

… what

seeing other diy resources blatantly copy from pghrt.diy makes me feel both proud and incredibly smug (it's good because the goal is spreading understanding, but also annoying that they don't always explain the crucial WHY), but also annoying I'M the one who gets bad-faith "ermm source???" criticism

We are supporting the Intersectional Uprising marches taking place across the UK on the 17th January: “We rise for trans women—because trans women are women, and their fight is our fight.” www.intersectionaluprising.co.uk

4 male ICE agents tackle a woman U.S. citizen—lift her off ground with no concern over groping her breast or exposing her midriff. "Help me! Help me!" she cries out. "Check my ID!" Agents shove her into back of SUV hitting her head—literally run away from scene of crime. St. Paul, Minnesota.

for example, if you think you might be a lesbian ex-wrestler-turned-stuntgirl whose ex girlfriend, the actress for whom you're playing a body double, was just brutally murdered at a drive-in movie, you should check out Blood On The Lens Part 2 it's very affirming. it will make you a better girl

I'm sorry ... but this not crazy to you????? abc7.com/post/federal...

FUCK KEIR STARMER

Today at 34 & Park in Minneapolis, a woman tried to drive down the street where a protest had broken out in front of a home ICE was raiding, saying she had a doctor apt to get to. ICE agents busted out her windows, cut off her seatbelt, and pulled her out before arresting her.

Sometimes I QS to take a conversation away from a thread so the thread poster doesn't have to see me acting a prat in their mentions

I haven't added a fresh take about how repulsively, unctuously empty it is that our government is cluck-clucking at Iran for not allowing protest because a) everyone already did it and b) if I think about it for too long my brain will split in to segments like a Terry's chocolate orange.

I really want ppl w/o Minneapolis connections to understand You might've heard that Mpls public schools went hybrid bc so many families are in hiding. Well, a coworker just told me that today, during his kid's hybrid class, a kid's apt building was raided onscreen *Everyone has stories like this*

The Trump regime is targeting Renee Good’s wife now????? Low-down depraved monsters. “Six federal prosecutors in Minnesota resigned on Tuesday over the Justice Department’s push to investigate the widow of a woman killed by an ICE agent and the department’s reluctance to investigate the shooter.”

Hundreds of Met officers and staff declare Freemasons links

I’m trying to stay sane and for this reason am currently unable to be as engaged about trans issues as I have been since Alice died. However… I’ve seen the petition demanding the UK government bans the puberty blocker trial for trans youth. PLEASE READ ON there’s only one of me but 1000’s of you

Masking is sexy

If you don't know the story of babybel and need to see a sweetness look it up 💜

ICE is now ramming civilian cars through red lights in Minnesota. — they are tax payer agitators ‼️

2025 ended with a backlash against disabled people supposedly getting “free BMWs” on Motability. To kick off 2026, the @theipaper.com asked me: what do disabled people in Britain really get from the state? And what do they actually need? inews.co.uk/opinion/mota...

@stephencollins.bsky.social made the point best

Breaking NYT: The Pentagon used a secret aircraft painted to look like a civilian plane in its first boat attack, according to officials briefed on the matter. The laws of armed conflict forbid combatants from feigning civilian status. That is a war crime called "perfidy."

:^)

Going through old stock and found this banger

I don't know who needs to hear it, but those big train horns jerry rigged to run off of cordless impact drivers are on sale right now, in case you find yourself somewhere where you need to make a lot of noise very quickly. bosshorn.com/products/dew...

From a good friend in Minneapolis: "Target is allowing ICE to stage in their parking lots, use their restrooms, and abduct people from inside their stores - so if you weren’t boycotting already, now is the time." They were staging in Chicago as well.

So what is a tyrannical government and what is it you're supposed to do about those? What counts as "well regulated", precisely?

they're creating a law that already exists bcos they're too cowardly to enforce the law that already exists. it's a way for them to look like they're doing something when they're not actually doing anything at all.