Start spreading the word that you must 🔄 FLIP OVER YOUR BALLOT 🔄 for those all-important Judicial Retention votes -- they're on the back!

It’s giving sapphic hellcheer 🦇🎀❤️

I feel like this is something Emerie’s neighbors would say when she’s moving into her new house @katinoxford.bsky.social #HellsHeresies

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tbh I've been to That Wendy's numerous times and never witnessed an altercation... but also I am a normal customer who orders their food, pays for it, and leaves without trying to start any bullshit, so 🤷‍♀️

Oskar

It's a new low for PA billionaire Jeffrey Yass and his errand boys at the Commonwealth Foundation. They sent out a mailer that claims the current Supreme Court created the gerrymandered maps that they overturned. They're lying to overthrow our courts. #VoteYes www.inquirer.com/politics/ele...

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Might be the most cliche, Bluesky nerd post I ever send but… “They need to teach media literacy in school!” They did. It was called English class. You complained about it and used SparkNotes instead of reading.

That's key. "Politics" gets used as an umbrella term to mean "getting worked up about stuff that doesn't matter." But there's a big judgment call in saying what matters, whose rights and existence matter. Excluding someone from the discourse is just as much a political decision as including them.

joining the war on autism on the side of autism

This November, Pennsylvanians will choose what kind of Supreme Court we want — one that serves billionaires or the people. The Philadelphia Inquirer editorial board explains what’s at stake in the retention elections:

Man I used to go HARD for Target, it was my favorite place to shop… they seem to still have no idea how hard they fumbled 🤨

PA voters: shady ass groups are trying to reshape the PA Supreme Court by framing the retention vote (to keep the current Dem-led SCOPA) as “protecting your vote” I got mailers yesterday and just flagged and Instagram ad as “false info”

Saw an ad like this on insta and it seemed fishy af, good to know we have yet another creepy crypto right-wing and probably dark-money-funded operation trying to fool people into voting their rights away 🫠

Yarrr and very fine “Talk Like a Pirate” Day to all ye landlubbers. Enjoy phrases like: - “Walk the plank,” - “Shiver me timbers,” and - “Paul Skenes threw 7 perfect innings as the Pirates fall to the Marlins 1 to nothing”

If you see this, quote with a #sunset

A lot of people seem to think “reasoned debate” just means “saying whatever lies and hateful bigotry you want to as long as you say it in an even tone of voice”

Literally that one Leverage ep where the CEO says “You and me, we kill a guy and we go to prison. My company kills a guy and we just pay a fine.” Except now they don’t even pay fines 🫩

Battle doomscrolling by posting 5 small pleasures in life: A warm breeze against your skin The opening notes of your favorite song Fresh baked cookies out of the oven The smell of a barbecue down the street mixed with fresh cut grass A perfectly set table with pretty vintage glasses & teacups

Idea: food delivery drones for music festivals so you don’t have to leave your prime spot near the stage if you’re hungry. Like those little parachutes in the hunger games

I would like these rural roads in PA and MD so much more if they weren't exclusively populated by angry men in the biggest pickup trucks you've ever seen who can't believe you're not doing 80 in a 45.

Maybe now I will know peace

Oh hey, Pittsburgh folks or anyone with funds to spare, here’s a list of fundraisers for people displaced by the Squirrel Hill apartment fire earlier this week.

rightwing media ecosystem operates by stoking hatred and anger and divisions every single day, they want people to constantly be afraid and want people to hate eachother, everything we are seeing is a result of the destablization the right has profited off of

My main observation from the last few hours of monitoring US social media is that Democrats are universally denouncing political violence and calling for calm while MAGA are escalating language and openly lusting for retribution against broad categories of people they identity as their enemies.

I would like to take this opportunity to remember Melissa Hortman, a serving Democratic politician assasinated by a right-winger.

New fic prompt just dropped

When the Mean Brain starts up with her bullshit I try to imagine it being said in the voice of whatever absolute moron whose opinion I have zero respect for

CITIES OTHER THAN CHICAGO @meganpiont.bsky.social has created zines for a number of cities/regions & if you don't see your area on the list, she's included a request form in the file, too. THANK YOU MEGAN PIONTKOWSKI ❤️ 6/6

Alaric “Lightweavers are bad” realizing since when is gold his new favorite color #thehurricanewars #amonsoonrising

Is it just me or do all the people acting like ChatGPT deserves first amendment rights or whatever ridiculous thing they’re arguing now sound just like antis acting like the characters in a story are real people to whom concepts like rights, consent, autonomy, etc are applicable?

i am begging everyone to stop repeating the myth that brains are underdeveloped until 25 www.sciencefocus.com/comment/brai...

*ahem* PSA for artist peeps

Not to cross fandom shit with Pittsburgh shit but like… Caller sounds like they clutch pearls over a 1-year age gap and should probably touch some grass

Gotta love how all the responses are like yeah tbh that sounds pretty on brand for UPMC

Students don’t need chromebooks and AI tutors, they need Shakespeare and Jane Austen and the Greek myths, they need the Arthurian Legends and the Arabian Nights, they need constant exposure to nature, fairytales, folklore, poetry and beauty.

Everyone’s up in arms about the weird Sydney Sweeney jeans commercial but can we please talk about how absolutely mesmerizing the Beyoncé Levi’s commercial is? Whenever it comes on I have to stop what I’m doing and watch it again

@ninepiecesofcrait.bsky.social Reading a biography on Roberto Clemente and this chapter on the 1960 World Series against the Yankees is reminding me of your Reylo baseball fic 😄 Scrappy underdog vs. legacy powerhouse is truly a time-honored dynamic ❤️

Today’s the day! 🎈🥳

We have a judicial election in PA this November -- this is why it's important! Go vote, and text 5 more Democrats to go vote. Vote YES to retain the Democrats on the PA Supreme Court, and Superior & Commonwealth courts. And vote for Stella Tsai & Brandon Neuman!

This is just Nate and Sophie in s1 of Leverage

I grew up in Richland. Fuck Colin Dunlap. There are good people in that community. He isn’t one of them. www.gofundme.com/f/help-emili...

Furthest I've been (assuming we're using the international dateline to divide east/west): N: Berlin, Germany 🇩🇪 E: Prague, Czechia 🇨🇿 W: Kauai, HI 🇺🇸 S: Tena, Ecuador 🇪🇨

The struggle of writing a smutty fanfic after a long-ass creative block is that every word has to be exceptionally perfect just to be “good enough” Then I remember that some people use genAI for writing & I’m like ok I may not be a genius of erotic literature but at least I’m not doing THAT

They tried to get me. NEVER GO TO A SECONDARY LOCATION.

This is literally Captain Holt when Madeleine Wuntch died 💀

My spiciest take is that I do think there’s a common type of pseudo-intellectual who acts like art is automatically “good” simply because it’s bleak and depressing, and anything with a happy ending is automatically looked down on as low-brow & pedestrian, and those people are very very annoying.

Ok which yinzer has the monkey’s paw? 😒

The dopamine receptors in my brain when they see I’m about to get a new hyperfixation