A simple question

Sharing my morning with this tiny person. She was too cold to move! When the wind blows, she shivers 🥹. She was on the porch floor and couldn't fly away. She desperately wiggled her little butt so we'd know she was a person. Got her to safety. Now she's eating frosting 🤣 happy Easter buzzing ones!

Here it comes. Trump’s $1.5 trillion dollar grift to end all grifts.

Even if total user count is technically still growing, slowly, about a third of *active* users left over the last 12 months. That's a dying social network, not a growing one. If it doesn't change, bluesky won't survive. I think that would be a bad thing tbh. I mostly like it here.

But let's be honest: there's a large cadre that basically cheers on chasing off any lib/centrist/academic who's the punchbag of the day. There's a culture of saying "fuck off back to X, then". And the anti- bedtime leftists set too much of the culture.

I don't know if it's fixable, especially as I think quite a lot of the people here don't *want* to fix it. But at the rate users are quitting they'll run out of targets soon enough, and the rest of us will lose what is – for a fair few of us I suspect – the last fun/useful social network. Sigh.

Who’s pulling Trump’s strings? Do you really have to ask?

Who’s pulling Trump’s strings? Do you really have to ask?

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell has been named a 2026 recipient of the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award, to be presented in May, honoring his defense of the Fed’s independence amid intense political pressure and personal attacks.👇

The law applies a 9.9% income tax on income over $1 million.

BREAKING: GENERAL STRIKE The economy only works if we do. Friday, May 1 🚫No work 🚫No school 🚫No shopping You in? 🤚🏽

AI industry taps January 6 operative to run $100 million campaign to boost MAGA candidates #Trump

Two young boys were locked up inside ICE's notorious detention center in Texas. Then Ms. Rachel shared their stories.

This is an excellent summary of current circumstances Kyle Kulinski: “A sundowning president with Alzheimer’s who’s a malignant narcissist is dragging us into WWIII, committing war crimes on a daily basis and crashing the global economy, and nobody is actually grabbing the steering wheel.”

In what world is it okay for the Defense Secretary to make multi-million dollar investments in defense companies: a) Ever; b) In the run-up to starting a war in the Middle East FT has the scoop: www.ft.com/content/744e... In a functional democracy, he would offer his resignation tonight.

Trump is funding Russia who is providing targeting support to Iran for hitting U.S. bases.

Just sayin’

I really like the work of men like @remakingmanhood.bsky.social - sociologically based. So too @jacksonkatz.bsky.social - both educators who speak about systemic masculine toxicity - but also offer something better for men. Each has their own websites.

The gender friendship gap turns out to be driven almost entirely by white men's uniquely low levels of friendship closeness. And among white men, higher socioeconomic class predicted even lower closeness. The most privileged group has the least close friendships. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Fox used nationally representative data (NLSY97) to compare friendship closeness across Black, Latino, and white men and women. Black men and Latino men reported friendship closeness similar to women of all groups. So... the gap is not universal. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

For decades, research has found that men's friendships are less close, intimate, and satisfying than women's. This has been called the "gender friendship gap." But most of that research was based on predominantly white samples. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

New research challenges what we thought we knew about men's friendships. A new study by @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social Sociology grad student, Emily Fox (@emilycfox.bsky.social), asks: is the "gender friendship gap" really about gender? Spoiler: not exactly. 🧵 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Republicans control all three branches of government. Not paying TSA is a choice.

Super needed this war for what again?

Stupid. Fucking. Trumpsters.

EXCLUSIVE: 7 months ago, Ukraine tried to sell the U.S. their battle-proven technology for downing Iranian-made drones. The Trump administration dismissed the Ukrainians, only to reverse course last week after more-than-expected Iranian drone strikes.

quite the brain-trust we have in the Pentagon...Still no cards but they are well fed - lobster tails and sushi and bottomless ice cream machines....and too head up your ### to get help from our ally who knows more about a problem than you do.

There is absomuteky nothing Jack Dorsey has to say that's remotely unique or interesting and it's embarrassing when editors and people of prominence pretend otherwise

I definitely want to hear more deep thoughts from the guy who claimed Elon Musk's purchase of twitter would "extend the light of consciousness"

What is the one thing Americans did not want?

Why are folks not asking more questions about this FBI complaint in the Epstein Files? www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

Specific Trump child r**e allegations in Epstein files.

Gus Greene’s new album is an ode to Nick Drake. gusgreene.bandcamp.com/track/time-i...

I occasionally think to myself do you know how WEIRD YOU HAVE TO BE to weird out what is probably the largest geographically networked self-selecting group of EXTREMELY weirds in human history

Elon being asked to leave the eyes wide shut party because he’s weirding everyone out

ICE is a lawless agency that needs a conservator to oversee its complete shutdown.

Just think about the amazing Epstein scoops the new CBS Evening News contributors will have just by interviewing each other.

All European countries joining forces on defence is the only way forward in a dangerous world.

This is so unhinged

EPSTEIN: Who are the Maxwell 29? #maxwell29 #epstein

On Trump’s ICE monsters withdrawing from Minneapolis.

On CNN, Anderson Cooper using the sentence "That was a lie" over and over tonight regarding the words of Noem, Miller and Bovino.

Judge, jury, and executioners

He’s in there.

Trump will happily murder any of us to keep from releasing the Epstein files.

This is absolutely worth listening. 👇

The killings of Renee Good & Alex Pretti show Trump's DHS culture is rotten to its core. Trump, Vance, Noem, & Miller have made these agents feel immune from the consequences of their actions. That must change. Everyone involved in these operations must be held accountable.

*ICE shooting someone* Democrat: "Don't take the bait." *ICE rounding people into concentration camps* Dem: "Let's focus on the economy." *ICE nukes Baltimore* Dem: "Don't give them what they want." *The first Galactic Empire forms* Dem: "Violence only helps them. Give me between 5 and 50 dollars."

WTF happened to the Epstein files? Full release was required December 19 by federal law. Today, 99% are still undisclosed. Initially, there were rolling releases. Now, nothing in weeks. REMEMBER: The DOJ said the review of these documents was complete in JULY.

We’ve grown arrogant about the rule of law, like it’s permanent instead of fragile. Jack Smith is right. Democracy isn’t given, it’s maintained. Democracy is flawed, but until we’re governed by empathy and compassion, it’s the best tool we have. And it’s easier to lose than people think.