“I like to be chic,” he said. “I go to school like this.” -this kid is a character from a YA novel!

Today’s Batman quote: “I am everyone you’ve ever hurt. I am their vengeance.” Nice.

Yes. I've seen people be dismissive of the efforts to make them unmask, but this is genuinely important.

This is the thing here - it’s pretty obvious the Dems don’t want to abolish ICE (right now), but the genie is out of the bottle. Normies are screaming for ICE agents’ heads. You can’t slap a rainbow sticker on this one bsky.app/profile/atta...

Readers Celebrate the Reveal That Fedora Man is Not Actually a Cop

I love him!

An autumn leaf got in the house and Reggie has been carrying it around all morning!

If will never not bother me that in a world of supposed adults running things that when they first launched m a g a nobody asked “What makes someone great? What’s great? And follow up, are (vulnerable group) great? What about (other vulnerable group)?” Not a one of the major media asked.

My theory about Joyce Carol Oates is that all her bad posts are her charging up like Godzilla's spines until she lets loose with a radioactive blast that leaves the world's richest Nazi a pile of ash

This is unrealistic. The other day I saw a video of a man touch the world’s largest spider colony, several times.

So one can know that things in the US are set up in a horrible way but it is really highlighted when you get to watch the horror on someone who is abroad’s face as you explain just some regular ol’ this is how it works in America

Samuel Alito owns fossil fuel stocks. Those companies now have a case before his court. He’s staying on the case anyway. www.levernews.com/alitos-oil-i...

“WHY WOULD ANYONE LOOK INSIDE AN ALIEN EGG??” this is why:

Mamdani is going to impose Shania Law. It won't impress you much.

🚨I had a grocery list ready to go. I have to get my food delivered. I just spent 1/2 my months worth of SNAP benefits (of course it does NOT help when orange juice is ALMOST $7). But my UNDERSTANDING is that they CANNOT take back your SNAP benefits if you SPEND them. But they CAN from your account.🚨

Ryan's gang is putting out a distress signal.

I think a number of press outlets badly want there to be a groundswell of anti-trans feeling, because the ownership/senior editorial of those papers have absolutely cooked their own brains on transphobia. It seems to be largely an elite psychosis!

Social media and Twitter in particular is directly responsible for the state of the world today because so fucking many pundits, politicians, celebrities, billionaires and wanna-be aristos discovered that people just don't like them and it *BROKE THEIR BRAINS*

Who had "biology is destiny, after all" on their feminist bingo card? The answer is "no one," because it's the complete antithesis of everything feminism stands for. And if that isn't obvious enough, just look at who's pushing it: every authoritarian fascist in the world, without exception.

Something I think most minorities and radicals understand which most centrists don't is that conservatives fundamentally believe that all the suffering in the world is inevitable. They see life as a zero sum game; 'those people' must suffer so that they can maintain their level of comfort.

Some conservatives can appear to be good, kind, reasonable people. So long as you are in the category of human beings that they consider to be people. But their empathy and consideration is always conditional, and that's not something you can logically debate someone out of.

UPDATE: himb down

It's always weird to me when people are like "I'm an uncompromising artist" and then the famous story about any great artist is how they compromised. Like Akira Kurosawa being asked about a shot and going "well, there was a highway on one side and a factory on the other, so that's all I could shoot"

Collaboration and cooperation are foundations of human development. But we force our species’ story to fit one of relentless competition, because a certain sort of dickhead likes that version. Probably because they can exploit it, and declare themselves a Magic King. Ridiculous.

The discovery of DNA seems to have been a collaborative effort from a mixed gender group, by any reasonable account. But it has been forced into the Great Man narrative, where it doesn’t fit at all. Like Bletchley Park and so many other stories.

if you terfs actually spent time reading radical feminists instead of selectively quoting them you’d realise, very quickly, that ‘gender critical’ is just bigotry rooted in patriarchy. here is catherine mackinnon:

Rules are made to be broken. Injustice makes the rules, and courage breaks them.

Study for Summertime - 1943 https://botfrens.com/collections/173/contents/3104242

I've never had an issue with "gifted kid burnout," but man oh MAN, "gifted kid aversion to not being immediately good at something right away" has been a lifelong struggle. I cling to my incremental gains in coding/gamedev and Japanese like a fucking life raft.

This was really interesting. I want to know what the company plans to do when law enforcement comes and asks for recordings from inside the homes of particular clients from them, because it WILL happen. What do they store, what will they share? @kevinroose.com @caseynewton.bsky.social

pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.

Remarkable that every boss talks about how amazing AI is, all the way up until that AI's outputs hit people whose jobs don't depend on agreeing, at which point they inevitably have to conceal that they are using AI. The shitty Coke ad studio. Games that use AI generated assets. Support chatbots.

The WSJ on how unbelievably stupid Noem and Lewandowski are. I don’t care that I’m late to this; it’s to good to pass up. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Some of this is probably internalized ableism but it’s also understanding the “bottom line” disciplining dynamic of how getting & keeping work functions: asking for help or accommodations puts you at a disadvantage & means you’re much less likely to get the job. I’ve heard how employers talk.

Starting to suspect anyone vowing to abolish ICE and prosecute these fuckers would win in a historic landslide

I am 64 years old and FOR MOST OF MY LIFE two things were true: - fascists were trying to take over the USA - we were beating them Those creeps are beatable. We beat them for decades. In the 30s they tried a form of MAGA and US beat them. The 50s? McCarthy purges. US beat them. Do. Not. Doom.

Science will never succeed until we recognize the humanity of all scientists and break the dehumanization cultures that crush too many people.

Mamdani is going to implement Shannara law. Everything will be extremely derivative of Tolkien and predictable.

Donald Trump’s economy. Where McDonalds is too expensive for 30-year-olds. The Golden Age.

Learning that a lot of people genuinely hate reading in general and not just when it’s assigned or boring was shocking to me when I was younger. This species continues to confound me in the ways it will avoid doing one of our greatest societal accomplishments.

Kill the Indian, Save the Man: The US gov't ripped kids from their homes & brought them to American Indian boarding schools like Carlisle where they cut their hair, forbade them speak their language (beating them or worse if the did) & more. This wasn't just about "assimilation." This was genocide.

Donald Trump and Republicans REFUSE to pay Child Support.

This is how transphobia's right wing fuckery blew open basic respect in the UK, there is absolutely no reason to expect now that being "women critical" is not also a protected belief, if you truly do not believe that women should just be reproductive slaves for cis men. This will be used to abuse.

Self-Portrait with Cod's Head 1940 https://botfrens.com/collections/90/contents/25877

Fascist bully-boys hollering like hit dogs because not everyone cowers at their presence.

This is what’s happened and is still happening in journalism, politics, education, and business. Less than five years after so many revelations and pledges.

“We *really* wanted to believe every and any possible explanation, and give every benefit of the doubt to the racists but they’re leaving us no pretexts to work with.”

Bust of a woman https://botfrens.com/collections/111/contents/31503

the first Resident Evil One comic I did vs the last ✨

I’m not bailing out the only people in the world who can actually afford to lose $13 billion. Go fuck yourselves.