@maura.bsky.social alert

if you see somebody using "cancel" unironically to talk about people facing consequences in 2026... you CLOSE THAT TAB! You don't pause, you don't start to typity-type. You CLOSE THAT TAB!

I don’t think "Dem HR ladies" is labor coded or working class aligned. It comes from the same place everything that is terrible in the last two years has come from. The backlash to the Me Too and Black Lives Matter movements.

Enough turning these animated films into live action movies. I want to see live action classics turned into animation. Gordon Gekko’s cigar exploding, turning his face black. Lawrence of Arabia imagining a sand dune as a roasted ham.

Losing my mind at this Murder, She Wrote promo

spoke to my good friend, mitch mcconnell, for about 20 minutes today

me looking at my heterosexual friend, who I am friends with, heterosexually

"McConnell? Mitch McConnell?" "He's sick. My best friend's sister's boyfriend's brother's girlfriend heard from a guy who knows a kid who's going with the girl who saw him pass out at 31 Flavors last night. I think it's serious."

alright I'm sick of reading about platner let's get back to what matters

Platner is a product of white people who are desperate for addressing classism but refuse to acknowledge that misogyny, transphobia, homophobia and racism are components of classism that need to be exorcised for the socialism they want. They want reprieve with no deconstruction of their bigotry.

'She should have come forward sooner' is always the first response like no she was waiting to see if maybe society would do better and she wouldn't have to join the ranks of women who ruined their lives in the hope that their assailants wouldn't gain even more power.

most of the worst men I’ve known have been amazing at therapy speak.

Thinking of the most romantic places to get married. Madison Square Garden, of course, Bank of America, one of those cable company storefronts that’s totally empty except for an iPad on a podium that’s bolted to the floor, the streaming service Fubu

Stop anthropomorphizing billionaires

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*mouth slowly opening as i realize the logical endpoint of capitalism is one wizened, soulless old man holding the full sum of the world's material wealth, sitting on a throne built from the corpses of the rest of us* Shit sorry, brain fart. I'll have 3 mcdoubles please

oh shit they all got signed!! here’s some good trans legislative news for once

last weekend my friend and I actually did find $86 on the sidewalk. we split it

god I love the message of “second hand news” — I hate you so much, I will see you in HELL, let’s have sex in the ground right now

The term "biological sex" was adopted widely only in the last decade as a reaction to mainstream acceptance of trans people. It was rarely if ever used before that. By any metric, from legislative usage to search query usage, it's plainly evident this is a novel term only made popular by the right.

When people ask me if I have any good stories from when I used to interview rock stars for a living my mind often goes a bit blank, and to be honest a lot of it was quite ordinary and unremarkable, but on the other hand there is this.

I am not made for Capitalism. Every relationship I have feels cheapened and dehumanized by the exchange of money. Everything becomes a hollow experience because it is meted out by an arbitrary quantification of worth. It makes me feel as if the only true emotion or relational value is exploitation

The trans sports ban are almost completely an invention of the media, conservative and mainstream. it has been years of lies, of shoddy fact checking on just completely false conservative claims, years of phony concern trolling.

this mf doesn’t even use alt text.

We don’t get here without the unrestrained transphobia of outlets like The Atlantic and The New York Times or the utter failure of messaging from the Democratic Party. The liberal establishment kicked trans people to the curb and looked away as the bus ran us over.

All of these cases are basically litmus tests for any Dem nominee. Are immigrants Americans? Do trans Americans deserve human rights? Are corporations superhumans who get to spend endlessly on elections to put whoever they want into power? These are simple questions with simple answers.

how much fucking SCOTUS do we have the rest of the week? I know I’m not the most affected but I still don’t know if I can take much more.

...and this right here is precisely what trans folks have been saying: these sports bans *have never been about sports* – they're a backdoor way to stripping trans rights more generally... bsky.app/profile/elie...

We fucking told you. Hell, the bigots told you. Flatly and directly while cis society made its ignorance the loudest voice in the room, concerns and “won’t somebody think of the children” grown from distortion and fear. Piece by piece we’re cut back and told this was our fault for being visible.

Tom Kean Jr today

Every single week for the past ten years I’ve had to call my senators to beg them not to vote for something called POOKA that gives local sheriffs the legal right to summarily execute anyone making fun of cops online only for it to pass 98-2 before dying on a procedural hurdle in the House

they don’t start making it taste like wax until the sequel

I cannot be on this site while we have World Cup and scotus at the same time

Every year, people are betrayed by their optimism. "Fireworks have exploded in other people's hands, but surely they will not explode in mine. My hands are different."

I have the roller rink carpet version of this one

honestly, holding pride in late June when it feels like 103 out is homophobic to me specifically

“’Centrism’ is just performative compromise devoid of critical thinking, policy, or ideology,” D’Arrigo wrote. “It’s a political vehicle that gives permission to do nothing in service of protecting a status quo that benefits large corporate donors and special interest groups who fund both parties.”

Everybody loves a blood drive but I suggest a blood elevator and suddenly I’m the asshole

The tyranny of Zohran Mamdani using tax dollars to provide services benefitting the people paying taxes chill me to the bone and demonstrate the rank selfishness of his political project, “we pay the taxes so we should get something out of it” Self-absorbed egotism, that’s all it is.

The way I've gotten this across in talks to US audiences is to explain that by the time the Battle of Gettysburg was fought... ...the London Underground had already been open for six months.

NYTimes just keeps getting worse & worse & worse & worse...

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Technically, they’re Remains now.

“get married in madison square garden” is something louis b mayer would force judy garland to do, not an authentic choice made by a well person

A phenomenon I've noticed recently is people trying to occupy some untenable middleground wrt to the use of systems sold as "AI" -- this is a position where people try to recognize the harms of this tech but also hold space for "responsible" or "ethical" use. 🧵>>

the punishment is a bit medieval but i appreciate the enthusiasm