Wore a mask on my trip to New York and virtually zero people masked. The friends I have there said something about R values in such a big city making it ineffective .. I will research that, but first I'm curious if others who live in huge cities can tell me: is that normal or is NYC bad at masking?

@currentaffairs.bsky.social I accidentally subscribed to Foreign Affairs when trying to subscribe to your print edition 💀

The end goal of Grok sexual harassment is to make women afraid to be visible. It’s a punishment for daring to exist in a way the perpetrators can’t control. There’s no one solution to this, because the problem isn’t just technological. It’s cultural. It’s misogyny. This is just one expression of it.

You should be embarrassed to be a member of congress and issuing anything other than impeachment resolutions. You're in the model UN. They should give you legos and a propeller hat

Happy new year!

RFK is so *obviously* a grifter, it really baffles me how many people think he's in their corner.

A little #linocut for the end of the year 💚

Are there any good games that communicate the existential abyss that is executive dysfunction?

Fluoride conspiracy theories are a good case study to improve media literacy, and can help us flag low quality info sources. Fluoride occurs naturally in groundwater all over the place. That's how we discovered its effects. Some places naturally have too much and must filter it out to a safe level.

I swear to God the meat industry trade groups have been working overtime with huge retailers to reduce convenient meat-free options and push plant-based meat alternatives back into weird parts of the store.

Based on how AI context works, I bet Google has an awesome, ad-free version of their search engine exposed to Gemini under the hood. This gives the LLM clean, focused results before adding in ads and sponsored material. I'm more interested in ad-free, relevant, and diverse search than AI answers.

Insurance proves we know how to handle risk effectively at scale. In fact, scale makes it real cheap. That we don't socialize car and health insurance in the US and that many normal people *defend* our system from public alternatives proves we're collectively propagandized out of our minds.

Hashtags exhaust me. I prefer everyone appreciate my online bleating without any effort to appear on feeds whatsoever.

I just devoured Citizen Sleeper like a novel I couldn't put down! Thank you @jumpovertheage.com for giving us something so beautiful. The character illustrations by @blackysan.bsky.social transported me, they brought it to life and gave me an itch to create. What a beautiful & well written game!

here to remind everyone that you are closer to being homeless than you are to becoming even a millionaire, let alone a billionaire homelessness is not a personal failing, it is a societal one!

NEW: ProPublica examined months of Fox News’ coverage and reviewed over 700 videos posted on social media. The network used five-year-old footage, mislabeled other dates and implied footage from elsewhere was in Portland.

🎯 HELL NO WAS THE ONLY CORRECT RESPONSE. The president ILLEGALLY held hungry people hostage in order to take away their health care AND JUST GOT REWARDED FOR IT. He should have been IMPEACHED. COMPLETE waste of any leverage Democrats generated in the last 40 days. There is no way this ends well.

It's not like they weren't warned and didn't know this would happen. They were told. They knew. They did it anyway.

From the Guardian. Cartoonist Ella Baron.

I listened to the Supreme Court's oral argument today so you dont have to With the notable exception of Alito & Thomas carrying on like 'what if aliens were gonna destroy the world and the only thing that could stop it was a tariff,' the Court seemed Not Into It ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/learn...

I sometimes watch the this podcast, and I can't pin down what value it has for me as an audience member. Dad is homicidal, and mom's mental gymnastics are truly Olympic level. SO frustrating, yet I watch. How can we dismantle the lies and racist hatred? So many people are like this. I'm at a loss.

The "False or misleading statements by Donald Trump" Wikipedia article is at 770 citations; it's under constant edit and so long it has a warning 🫠 THANK YOU @wikipedia.org for protecting information against AI slop and propaganda. Everyone who can should donate! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_o...

Charlie Kirk receiving a medal of freedom legitimizes a hateful racist and embarrasses the US. It's also becoming a pattern. Limbaugh got one in Trump's first term. Segregationist Strom Thurmond got it in 1989. One has never been revoked (Bill Cosby still has his)... but we should certainly try!

I generally don't do long threads on here, but if you'll all allow it, a longer thought: A CALL FOR MORE ANTI-ICE POETRY, MUSIC, VISUAL ART, AND BEYOND

Rattober day 14: Rat church Rats pray in the STREETS! ✊🐀📣 The source image is reverend David Black being assaulted by ICE. He was protesting illegal federal activity in Chicago, Illinois in September 2025. #abolishice #ratsky #rattober #rattober2025 On Instagram: www.instagram.com/p/DPzEEfCCQRs/

The Inflata Antifa is at a biblical level now.

This week, MAGA figures claimed Kristi Noem "stared down" violent antifa protesters in Portland. Turns out they were talking mostly about a guy in a chicken suit. This episode opens a window into how MAGA propaganda works and MSM failure to handle it. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2016...

Seriously? For all the ICE violence why can’t they be charged with assault by the state they are in? I don’t understand.

Remember: just because someone wins a Nobel peace prize, that doesn't mean they're a saint. Machado is a pragmatic activist that praises Trump and vocally supports Israel. With how focused on privatization, neo-liberalism, and international intervention Machado is, it's hard to fully trust her.

There's a post going around with AI slop furry shirts, please consider buying from a real artist with bills to pay. This one sadly still doesn't have the minimum orders made for production!

Rattober day 10: Hello rat This was a fun one to put together :) Post on Instagram: www.instagram.com/p/DPot65ZkmR9/ Post on Cara: cara.app/post/d8f3543... #rattober #rattober2025 #rats #petrats #skyrats

Making it profitable to detain people and stuff them into camps is what we call a "perverse incentive".

www.economist.com/leaders/2025... “Fortress economy “ is a neat way of saying totalitarianism

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History professor Mark Bray has received so many threats, including a "vow to kill him in front of his students", he decided to seek safety in Spain. Now his family's flight was mysteriously cancelled. Let's hope the next one isn't. It is deeply unsafe to teach facts of history in the US. Shameful.

Rattober days 5-7! We're getting weird :) Day 5: Stinky rat Day 6: Ratio Day 7: Steamer rat Having a bit of travel posting more than three images right now, so I'm omitting the prompt list - but you can check it out on my past posts or over on Instagram :)

Trump is hoping to win his peace prize tomorrow while Israel considers which recycled excuse they'll give to violate the agreement and continue eroding Palestinian livelihood and existence. In the last two years, Gaza has been essentially destroyed. The US facilitated this horror.

Mike Johnson ignores a question about when he'll swear in Rep.-elect Grijalva and walks away

Trump and his movement have fulfilled nine of the ten stages that autocratic legalists advance toward full autocracy. The final stage to full autocracy along the trajectory of autocratic legalism is the process and act of rewriting election laws and remaining in power indefinitely. A thread 🧵

I'm going to try to be more active on Cara too. I realize I have put all of my eggs in the bsky basket, so it's time to spread out a little bit again. cara.app/eskiworks

Especially proud of this one :) Howl as Morpheus in Sandman. (Still love the art, though the author can take a hike) For Rattober day 4: Dream #howlrat #ratwaysanctuary #rattober #rattober2025 #sandman

It's Rattober! Proud to share days one through three with all of you 💚🐀✨ 1. Friend-shaped rat 2. (Biblically) Accu-rat 3. Lake rat We primarily post about our Sanctuary over at Instagram: instagram.com/rat.way.sanctuary #rattober #rattober2025 #rats #petrats #skyrats

I'm going to start cross-posting some of my favorite daily sketches from Cara, I like Bluesky and want to keep contrituting over here! This was inspired by “If I Must Die", written by Refaat Alareer, who was murdered by Israel in Gaza alongside his siblings and their children on December 6, 2023.

I've been out of the Bluesky loop and glancing around, it feels like my feeds have sort of soured. I'm sure all the fun, interesting, and thoughtful people and posts are still around here somewhere... Give me suggestions and help fix my Bluesky! What good news and niche feeds am I missing out on?

Friday, August 29 at 430pm CDT is a special charity stream playing @alblune.bsky.social @lukathemouse.bsky.social and @alexstrook.bsky.social 's SQUEAKROSS: Home Squeak Home and raising money for Rat Way Sanctuary via @tiltify.com ! Join Ratsune Squeaku as we nonogram some fun! www.sharkstars.net

I'm trying to start a daily sketch habit! Come visit on Cara if you're interested <3

More reading about the anti-disinformation education in Finland: edition.cnn.com/interactive/... www.theguardian.com/world/2020/j... www.printmag.com/culturally-r...