in america, if you go over your 3 minute allotment to speak, men with guns come to take you away.

This makes no sense, this is impossible. Everybody knows that when a politician attempts a coup, you do a little grandstanding and then do nothing for years and then the coup guy gets to be in charge. That's just the way it WORKS

I just got an ad for this on Instagram and all I can think is "no thank you, I've read about what happened with Essure" fembloc.com/intl/about

I regularly see people wondering how it's possible that there are so many musicians and writers and film makers and artists from a tiny nation like Iceland. And the answer is really simple: State funding for art education and artists. I literally get a salary from the government to write books.

So Bree hinted at this story a few days ago, but I want to circle back now that I have permission to share it. WHISTLES OUT: A WHISTLE CREW MYSTERY

Just saw an ad that started out "your kids won't remember their best day of screen time" and while I of course broadly agree with the sentiment that you should do activities with your children, don't tell me i don't remember beating zelda a link to the past

Proposal: vampire romance is necromantasy

The left tried for decades to pass green energy subsidies, passed them, the subsidies worked, and now literally the entire planet's electricity grid is going to convert to solar+battery. It just doesn't feel like "tech" because it mostly produces kinda boring blue collar jobs instead of billionaires

My first time behind the wheel of a car (when I was 15) was after dark on a Friday night with an instructor who refused to believe I'd never driven before. When I got home, I was so visibly rattled that my mom made me a hot chocolate and half-jokingly offered to put some Bailey's in it.

how did I not know Dorico has a "create chord symbol region" ability where you can force it to show chord symbols in a specific part/region? I've searched the internet for like 28437 variations on "how do I make it show the goddamn chord symbols outside of slash regions"

I've seen the map of where Girl Scout cookies are made by ABC and where they're from Little Brownie and it's wrong because that map says I should be able to get Samoas but every troop in my area is selling Caramel DeLites 😭

you can really blow some minds with “actually there was an entire library and research institute for queer / trans history, science and medicine founded by a Jewish sexologist but the Nazis destroyed it in the hopes of exactly this outcome, ie future generations not believing trans people are real”

ICE doesn't ever "leave" any state. There will continue to be ICE and CBP enforcement actions as there were during previous presidents. Hillary Clinton was saying this in her remarks. She doesn't like the visible violence but she is fine with "regular" violence.

Let me tell you a tale of how completely the normies have been mobilized. My 14 year-old niece has done School of Rock for the past 5 years; last summer she was part of their touring band, and the kids loved playing together so much that they decided to keep doing it. (1/?)

these two young white guys on IG go to an NYC restaurant each week to try food from a different country. they posted a video bringing together the owners of their first 12 stops & it made me cry bc it was simple & beautiful. just people from all over the world hanging & being pals. how it should be.

oh no, I kind of like the Locutus one. I'm sorry for my bad taste.

Bluesky was literally meant to be a cryptobro social network for grifters, LinkedIn sludge, and libertarians who know way too much about age of consent laws. Jack Dorsey *left* when instead of weird and off-putting cryptonerds, trans people started hanging out here.

douglas adams was our most accurate futurist

He doesn't need me defending him, but it really bothers me when people misspell Gavin Newsom's name, because: 1) as someone with a frequently misspelled name, I'm upset on principle, but mostly: 2) Tawny Newsome does not deserve to have her good name tarnished by being mixed up with that guy

the Black Panthers were right

A fun way to learn that the electrical in your home is... maybe a little fucked... is when you realize that *all* the lights flicker when you're using the air fryer, implying that everything in your home is on the same circuit

I like how libs like actively screech at anyone who points this out, and then these ghouls are just loudly and proudly taking credit for building up and funding the fascist apparatus.

if an adult plays the trombone in the peanuts universe it sounds like words

This episode (specifically, the making of this episode) is my Roman Empire.

Nothing has brought this home for me like debating the electoral college online over the last decade. There's literally no contemporary justification for the EC that makes any sense that isn't "the cities and the people who live in them shouldn't be given the keys to the presidency."

What a great photo of Brazilian alpine skier Lucas Pinheiro Braathen, the first South American to ever win a medal at the Winter Olympic Games.

A, unless the caramel is soft enough to not get stuck in your teeth, then D.

this sequence in the U.S. women’s curling match was pure cinema

Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social

This is blackout poetry to me

In 2024 a lot of Trekkies were like "we're *this* close to sanctuary districts." And I get it. But that summer the governor of California and former mayor of San Francisco went personally to throw away homeless people's belongings with his own hands for a photo op.

i often think about this review

The talk to your friends app and the witness the horrors app being the same app is not great for the mental health is it

PornHub’s new VDay map is bleak. Age verification laws have done so much damage

🇺🇸U.S. zoning🦅 Putting cars in a house: ✅ and often required Using car as a house: 🚫 Doing business in a house: 🚫 Using business as a house: 🚫 Using car to do business: ✅ Putting cars in a business: ✅ and often required especially if it's a bar 😱 make this make sense bsky.app/profile/tmcc...

mods on vacation. time to deep fry a turkey inside the house

*rubs temples* As I've spent the better part of the day explaining why I don't think Newsom should be the Democratic nominee for president, it pains me to "defend" this, but... The governor of California is legally obligated to proclaim each Feb 6 Reagan Day per a 2010 state law.

Trekkies Against Fascism shirts are restocked! It's been hard to stay ahead of demand on these, for which I'm immensely grateful. For now I have most sizes ready to ship. willburrows.art/shop

"zoomers are killing the bar industry" oh interesting was it zoomers who decided a drink should cost seventeen dollars

I feel this way about pretty much all vaccine-preventable infectious diseases. You shouldn't be allowed to dump cyanide into municipal drinking water and you shouldn't be allowed to recreationally spread viruses around shared public spaces.

I have a friend who said, of Starfleet Academy, that this took them out of it - that seeing a person in a wheelchair in the 32nd century seemed unrealistic, since medicine in Star Trek "should be able to cure whatever was wrong with them." That's not the case, for any number of possible reasons.

what ablebodied ppl don’t rly get is that visible disability doesn’t mean a world that has failed to “cure” it, but a world where disabled people are given the equity and resources to BE AND BE TREATED LIKE PEOPLE

4 are a hard no, 3 more are on thin ice, 2 more are "I'll eat it but I have some caveats re: how it's prepared."

Found an additional graphic that gets even more of these quotes together. I've kept "I hate myself, I hate clover, and I hate bees" pinned above my desk since I first started studying evolutionary biology as an undergraduate. So relatable to get extremely frustrated with your study system.

this wonderful scruffy little creature just lives in our house with us

Happy birthday, Chuck. Proud to carry on your legacy of studying evolutionary biology while going through it

I love how they somehow couldn't think of the most obvious reason a person would stop attending a university

Just going to note again, because somehow we've all completely retconned this and I feel like I'm taking crazy pills, that pound-for-pound Biden had one of the most draconian border security regimes of any U.S. president ever, second only to Trump, *many of whose policies he inherited and kept*

Anyone who had genuine concerns about youth gender medicine would staunchly and wholeheartedly support social transition. Let kids explore their identities to see what works for them! The fact that this movement opposes even pronouns and haircuts shows that it's just bigotry all the way down.