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be kind to everyone. Someone you know could be gay. Someone you know could be trans. Someone you know could ride NJ Transit

It’s always worth fighting back. Also, the fucking banners Trump has on government buildings makes the district look like it’s Wolfenstein The New Order or something. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/02/u...

Trump saying shit is cheaper today than when he took office is a tailor-made background for ads showing how actual working people are struggling to afford their bills. As out of touch-seeming as GHWB in the grocery store (and yes I know the lore on that one)

Haven’t really used Bluesky for MM romance discussions much, but I’m looking for some community conversation so throwing this out there. How do you feel about the use of the F-slur in MM romance books? www.instagram.com/reel/DVGVpRr...

Kurt Vonnegut stop being so applicable to all time periods of American life, you can’t do that Kurt Vonnegut, your insights are too evergreen Kurt Vonnegut

I urge you to stop what you're doing and watch Alysa Liu's free skate from yesterday. I have never seen anything like this. I understand why sports writers are born now. I have never seen anyone as free from the burdens of this world as this pierced Oakland girl spinning to Donna Summers.

X's algorithm is in fact doing what you think it's doing. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New #Union numbers were released this morning by BLS, showing that in 2025, 16.5 million workers in the United States were represented by a union, an increase of 463,000 from 2024 and the highest number of unionized workers in the U.S. in 16 years. 1/

Some critical thoughts about last weekend’s Love Y’all Book Fest (LYBF) 2026. I’ve talked about this on my Insta story and in a coffee chat posted in my Discord, but this is important enough to have somewhere a bit more public and permanent. To begin: I love romance books and the community.

Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social

the minute the fb algorithm clocks you as a straight man it immediately sets about trying to destroy your life & endanger those around you

I have this 30 Rock thing where if I experience something strange or incredulous, I’ll eventually say “that’s nuts,” immediately followed by “Nuts to you, McGillicuddy,” which in my life no one has ever gotten, but I still do just for me.

ME AND WHO ME AND WHO ME AND WHOOOOO cordcuttersnews.com/babylon-5-is...

They do that because they want you to think that only they love you. Its cult tactics

On the year of our lord Xenu 2026??

Reading @noellecook.com The Conspiracists (excellent!) and cringing to see Out of the Shadows (the QAnon “documentary”) playing at a chiropractor’s office as a QAnon vector for one of the women she explored. Not all chiropractors, but always a chiropractor…

So fucking infuriating watching Bezos and his cronies kill the Post. Taking away sports, books, and international reporting so you can write opinions praising Trump is so damn bleak.

Today, Virginia is the only U.S. state where someone convicted of any felony loses their right to vote for life, unless it is personally restored by the governor. Lawmakers last month advanced a constitutional amendment to repeal that rule.

Blue wave watch: Democrat flips Trump +17 Texas Senate seat in 32-point swing www.gelliottmorris.com/p/blue-wave-...

The guy that runs the Reddit where people post about patting their cat on the butt like bongos has put his foot down

stuff like this, etc

Every industrial revolution has depended on working people to make the transition work. If AI technology makes jobs safer and better, workers are in. If it’s used to replace workers and push them out with no path forward, working people will fight back.

The UAW will ensure that our member receives the full protection of all negotiated contract language safeguarding his job and his rights as a union member. Workers should never be subjected to vulgar language or behavior by anyone—including the President of the United States.

🧵 The autoworker at the Dearborn Truck Plant is a proud member of a strong and fighting union—the UAW. He believes in freedom of speech, a principle we wholeheartedly embrace, and we stand with our membership in protecting their voice on the job.

Trump yells “fuck you” and flips off an auto worker in Michigan who yelled “pedophile protector” www.tmz.com/2026/01/13/t...

"Quit demonstrating" is not something that a pro-democracy politician says. It's something that an authoritarian tool says.

I can't be this furious all the time, but I didn't know it was possible to be this furious even some of the time.

Folks, she brought a whole plate of spaghetti to the broadcast center to do her headshot. She then houses that spaghetti. Mattia sips on an espresso during his. Truly the heroes we need during these times.

Imagine my surprise when I discovered that the Lego Enterprise-D Wesley minifig has his Shimoda tractor beam device. Were @benjaminahr.mobi and @cutfortime.bsky.social consulted on this set??

Hello fellow Americans! Show this to both your French and Italian friends to have them both hate you and each other at once!

Why oh why did we get tickets to see the Stranger Things finale? Now I gotta watch this shit? And I don’t think there’s a single gay hockey player in the damn thing wtf

Whatever you are, be a good one (looking at you, gooners)

The book thefts of 2022 in European libraries. news.err.ee/1609888729/i...

Merry Christmas! Please enjoy the opening to this Japanese Christmas concert special that I watch every year. As far as I can tell, this has otherwise been scrubbed from the internet

Thank you so much to @benjaminahr.mobi @aragusea.bsky.social and @cutfortime.bsky.social for the lovely… tea towel? Bath mat? Whatever it is, I like it and your podcast a whole lot.

personally getting very irritated by the unbelievable arrogance of the data boys

Communities can be great but they’re also the thing that forces you into a Wicker Man to bring back their bees.

Animal Farm ft. Seth Rogen got me feeling

As we approach the end of the year and I reflect on what means the most to me, one thought rises above everything else: Smile 2 was a great fucking horror movie.

can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot

james cameron every couple of years for some reason:

Under 26 selfie (had to reach deep into the archive for this one, thanks Google Photos)

Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷

The Sneakers Suite is GOAT soundtrack material, JFC this is so good youtu.be/YynVo5DQc5M?...

This is so incredible. You have to see the photos. These workers held the line for THREE YEARS www.publicsource.org/post-gazette...

Why do I get the feeling Google called their Cursor clone ”Antigravity” so that “Google Anti-“ wouldn’t autocomplete to “Google Antitrust” anymore?

I agree and would add that where I think the popularists go wrong is in assuming a static issue space, i.e., there are many paths to strategic moderation and they do not actually all involve moving to the right on the issues that these strategists just happen to be preoccupied with.

oh my god you have to read this until the end www.telos.news/p/part-1-how...

TAKEN AT HER COURT HEARING. To all those Americans deceiving themselves that ICE is only going after rapists and murderers, another reminder that’s a lie. They are targeting folks doing the right thing, because it is easier and otherwise they don’t have enough people to arrest. Wake up now.