the elite aren’t powerful politicians or billionaires. common misconception. the elite is anyone i think is cooler than me, funnier than me, more artistic than me, or generally anyone i resent for daring to be happier than i am despite my immense wealth and political clout

A defining aspect of the present is that our elites created an alternate media and information system for themselves so that they could hide from the reality of their own making in a make-believe fantasy where all of their decisions don’t have any effect on them.

@hitfactorypod.bsky.social Hooting with jubilation seeing that there is a podcast episode on Hyenas, a movie I watched a few months ago on Mubi. Looking forward to listening!

I just organized some resources for whistles if anyone wants to DIY an event or join forces with my whistle event team. We could use support with 3D printing whistles! I’ve got files, donation links, and a sign-up sheet. Also a link to the zines if you need it! linktr.ee/apwhistles

It it insane that the only direct communication I get from any politician higher then my alderman is fundraising appeals. Just complete poisoning of one of the most important modern *ways communication happens*

It's not bored it's no purpose. We said buying stuff is the be all and inevitably people found it hollow and instead of doing the normal thing and running off and finding a monastic religion or donating all their riches or even fucking they decided on world destruction

I think this is the right take. From outside of New York, I know it seems NYC is a hotbed of democratic liberalism. But actual New York politics are almost the reverse: the New York Democratic Party leadership is united mainly by trying to keep the left from power.

I am surrounded by people who are outsourcing their own thinking to ChatGPT and they are quickly and obviously becoming dependent on it for even the most banal tasks. Once again, the "figuring it out" is the important part. Yes, you can use a crane to lift weights but you will not get stronger

Do not buy books from Dark Owl Publishing! The owner and operator is Andrea Dawn, a known white supremacist, who is currently on threads talking about plowing cars into protesters.

These "hunger games" being played by Israel and the US are so disgusting. The humiliation and terrorizing and murdering of Palestinians via inhumanitarian aid is further evidence of how dehumanized Israel and the US are. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

It is hard to grasp but large masses of Americans are both racist/xenophobic AND not racist/xenophobic enough to applaud what Trump is doing. It's goldilocks shit, they want a level of racism/xenophobia calibrated exactly to their personal preferences, and you just can't make that policy. Don't try.

3 to 5 years of experience for an entry-level job. Rounds of interviews only to get ghosted. Lengthy applications that seem to disappear into the void. For @teenvogue.com's Work in Progress column, I talked to young workers and experts about why finding a job feels so impossible right now:

"Seriously, I don’t care how much it costs. Take every dime I have. But know this: I would level my house to the ground before I paid slightly higher property taxes to fund infrastructure that would prevent a landslide from leveling my house to the ground."

Admitting you don't know something is like a superpower. That's how you learn. Most of the problems in the world are caused by people pretending to know things they don't

To everyone in a similar scenario: the tactic my doctor's office has taught me is to ask, in writing, for: 1) the name, board specialty, and license number of the doctor making the determination the treatment was not medically necessary;

This whole thread—all of it—about how rigged this game feels, and how you can do everything right and still have things go wrong that should never go wrong.

Took me a bit but I've found the framing to put into words a way to express to the people fretting about the death of the UHC CEO why we just aren't heeding their admonishment: The social contract stipulates that all life is sacred, and Brian Thompson violated it. But it's more than that.

The fact that this is the woman exposed the most powerful man in conservative media as a monstrous sexual predator when he preyed on her is a reminder that, for better or for worse, solidarity and empathy are optional. You can just not have them if you don’t want to.

Trans bathroom bans are bad for all of us, for MANY reasons. Aside from their obvious discrimination against trans people—what they say, at heart, is “You body, especially what’s in your pants, decides what rights you get.” I hope cis folks, especially my fellow cis women, see the dangers here.

I don’t know why people are annoyed by mutual aid posts and not just sad that we’re in a society that constantly puts people in situations where they have to mutual aid post

all we have is each other do your fucking part

okay so currently: a cybersecurity provider called crowdstrike has knocked out massive swathes of business operations all over the world, from airplanes to hospitals to tech to tv stations, forcing computers into a boot cycle. They rolled out an update at night that was faulty

@mskellymhayes.bsky.social Have you heard of any organized write-in campaign regarding for pres. for the IL primary? I was going to write-in Tlaib, but if their is a push for something like "ceasefire" in NH or "uncommitted" like in MI I'd like to write in for the one w/ most oomph behind it.