"frankly some civilizations are superior to others" My sibling in casserole, we Western Europeans are so famously filthy that whole nations start dropping dead the instant we set foot on their shores. Our primary exports are slavery, disease, and famine. We have no fucking high horse here.

Just requested an invite from @transrights.northsky.social -- probably sitting at the back of a very long line but I wanna get a degree of separation from the new Matt "Tumblr Carhammer" Mullenweg. I knew Bluesky was heading this way when Juni got banned, I'm just tired.

I told Link about how sorry I was and how bullshit this all is and the nice things people have been saying about him but instead he just asked how ~I~ was doing THAT'S who you banned, Jay, you absolute breadless breadstick

it's been a weird few days on bluesky dot app so, we need to specifically not advertise some specific items

Carnivore bonding time

Is any of this "offensive"? No, but it's instructive. Notice the people blurting "waffles!" above aren't internet randos, like the reply gals that got Jay so upset to start with. They're operators of startups and journalists who were published in the economist, like, last week. They're an ingroup.

In 3 days nearly the entire Bluesky team doubled, tripled, quadrupled down on the "WAFFLES" thing in response to upset users, and now Jesse Singal etc are using it as a slur against trans people It would have been so easy to just *not* do this. There was no reason to escalate for days. :\

oh lord did i break containment again

Can we stop calling a few frames of autoplagiarize video an "actress"? Hatsune Miku is more of an actress, because real humans use Miku to create actual art. Likewise Miss Piggy. And the only true Tilly is @tillybridges.bsky.social , this is established fact.

*record scratch* I bet you're wondering how I got here

NOT NOW, CHEVRON

It's only Catholicism if you actually follow the Pope. Otherwise it's just sparkling evangelist fundamentalism.

My grandfather spent WWII in the 10th Mountain Division kicking Nazi ass across the Alps. They couldn't have done that under Hegseth's "leadership". The Alps are FAMOUS for devouring armies that don't have rock-solid logistics and support.

actual events of the video aside, this is a perfect encapsulation of where these nazis stand in society. There's one of them for every several thousand normal people. They know everyone thinks they're weird little freaks, which is why they spend all their time pretending to be mainstream

Monster High s2 is streaming on Paramount+ @susanlbridges.bsky.social and i wrote six episodes this season, including the hourlong Monster Fest halloween special that introduced Phoenix, a trans woman! @sheafontana.bsky.social made something special we were honored to be part of go watch it! 💀🎀🏳️‍⚧️

The most pathetic thing about this attempt to sound human is that THERE ARE NO CALICO CATS IN THE PICTURE. that is a MOTHERFUCKIN TORTOISESHELL you flatironed duckdick

This is the doc I was watching -- available for free on Youtube from National Geographic. www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3b6...

RIP Jane Goodall, groundbreaking and devoted scientist. You changed science -- and the whole world -- for the better.

A cool thing to do with journalists who don't use alt text on big screengrabs of text, is just fucking mute em. You don't need to see sloppy shit from people who fucking suck at their jobs. Just mute em. If the text is really important, someone *will* repost it with alt text.

Today marks a decade since the loss of El Faro. DISASTROUS INDIFFERENCE: The Loss of SS El Faro youtu.be/-BNDub3h2_I?...

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Wife made the tactical error of letting ADHD me and my ADHD kid go off by ourselves while we were shopping today. In addition to the jeans my kid needed, we came back with a halloween shirt, a $5 pair of yellow earbuds with ducks on them, and a $5 pair of pink earbuds with coffee cups on them.

Dragonfly nymphs have rectal gills! This is your ADHD binge watch fact of the night. You're welcome! Bonus fact: Scientists are hoping to model artificial heart valves off dragonfly nymph buttholes.

UNTIL IT'S DONE, Ep. 2 When the Brownsville Clinic opened in 1916, it was the first birth control center in America. Its very existence felt impossible. For young women, it was a lifeline. 109 years later, the Clinic is long closed—but Brownsville mothers are still struggling.

It's so interesting* that most of these "split your kid's vaccines into separate shots/visits" people have never ONCE accompanied their own children to routine doctor visits. *utterly predictable

The most accurate recreation of DS9 I've seen.

Hey Bluesky, especially Angeleno and Labor Bsky Can we get a load of signatures for the Cal State-Dominguez Hills Labor Studies department? Which is a really valuable (and unusual) dept and is under restructuring/budget cut threats Thanks y'all! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Ladder baby is trying to destroy the authority of @cpsc.gov 's catapult baby. And don't even get that baby started on trebuchets ...

Almost every autistic person I know of has one thing in common: Parents who had straight sex. Really makes you think 🤔🤔🤔

I know this is a waste of time, but of anyone in the Bay Area can take on a cat, this ~5 month boy I trapped for TNR turned out to be way friendlier than I thought and also has a limp that does not pain him but can't be easily fixed.

I keep telling folks, if you need something to generate random ideas to stick together so you can brainstorm, get a deck of tarot cards. It'll give you better ideas and it won't call itself Mechahitler.

There are some stories where you go "wow this writer is amazing" and some stories where you go "wow this writer has been THROUGH some shit" this is both, 10/10 would recommend and order the burger

If you want a deep tech dive this is also great(contradicts the article re role of 2nd vs 3rd mate tho) www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BND...

Love to see a shout-out to the amazing Brick Immortar. Highly recommend that channel. And if you like Brick Immortar, maybe check out Oceanliner Designs, Big Old Boats, Part-Time Explorer, and What's Going On With Shipping!

Just realized how well the cover of my planner insert and the zine I keep in the pocket go together.

YOU MUST STOP AND BEHŒLD THE HŒRF

YOU MUST STOP AND BEHŒLD THE HŒRF

What a lie. "Titans of industry" have NOT ONCE, NOT EVER been guiderails for anything but their own profit and others' suffering. Every guiderail we've had has come from COMMUNITIES AND UNIONS. You know, those things the rich (esp. those in government) have been tearing apart for generations.

I have taken the Tylenol that was in the medicine cabinet and which they think probably is the reason you like trains forgive me but that’s bullshit you got autism from your dad

hiya babes! wanna remind you that i'm in the process of adding all past trans tuesday podcast episodes to youtube please subscribe and hit like on some episodes, and leave some comments! the 'tube tells me that helps them decide to actually designate it a podcast eventually thx! 🤗

Autism does not need to be cured Ableism does The end

It's that season again. You know the one! The one where you already have next year's planner and you're dying to start using it but you can't but maybe you can set it up but what if something changes but you don't wanna crease it too much but it's so pretty but

The answer is LEAVE THEM THE FUCK ALONE JESUS FUCKING CHRIST YOU TALK TOO LOUD AND YOUR TIE IS CROOKED Signed, an ADHD ally (if you know the vibes you know the vibes)

Where is his condemnation of the endless amount of harassment Erika Ishii has received because they're playing the main character in Yotei?

The reason people say that rabies is "99.99% fatal" is because there is ONE confirmed survivor. One. And THIS is what she went through during and after: (CONTENT WARNING: detailed explanations of the horrifying reality of rabies) www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsYj...

If you are trans and in the United States and want some jewelry from the shop but can't afford it, go to this website at the top of the next hour (9AM Mountain/Denver time) and submit an (easy, non-arduous) application. nora.jewelry/pages/we-wan...

And no, fourteen dusty bottles of ground chili peppers with names like "Joe's Anus Grater" is not a spice rack. It's a sign you peaked in high school and you were boring then too.

My fellow saltine-Americans. My siblings in unseasoned chicken breast. My casserole crew. You have GOT to learn to shut up and sit down sometimes. ACCEPT that sometimes people with a good spice rack know more than you. I promise you it does not hurt. Our mouths can close.

Thanks to @lindsaynikole.bsky.social I bought a cheetah bracelet that came with a code to track an individual cheetah (location delayed to prevent packing). "My" cheetah is Dexter, who spends his days nyooming around a reserve in Namibia.

This whoooooole thread. Read it, print it, wrap your sandwich in it.