ALSO. ALSO. Needing us to find Europeans who condemned him for his actions at the time--and there are many! So many! My God so many!--is also some white supremacist bullshit, because the TAINO PEOPLE HE WAS MURDERING CERTAINLY CONDEMNED HIM FOR IT AND THEY WERE HUMAN BEINGS OF HIS TIME TOO.

every asshole on this website loudly braying that elections either won’t happen or won’t be fair in 2026 had better be buying an inflatable costume and sturdy walking shoes for this saturday, because if truly believe that, you’re not gonna like what the next step is

People don't need more evidence to conclude he's a white supremacist. Evidence isn't the issue here. The problem is convincing people that white supremacy is a threat rather than something they can elide and quietly benefit from without actually saying they like it.

It is abundantly clear that no minority group is safe on social media, period. Link has been nothing but wonderful and kind, not only to me, but,more importantly, countless others on this platform. To ban him without warning is unconscionable, especially given what I’ve seen allowed here.

Can y’all PLEASE stop projecting other intentions on to a regime that has made it very clear that what they’re doing is taking the United States down as a global superpower. Trump avoiding legal liability for pedophilia is not The Reason this is happening.

“Meant to distract.” Or maybe it’s meant to do what it’s ACTUALLY DOING, which is destabilizing, terrorizing, and dividing the United States.

Whole damn thread is a word. Ive been going back and reading Baldwin again and got dang he gets it right every time

In the last 2 weeks MAGA aligned people have done 2 attempted mass shootings of a gay bar and pride center in Arizona and Texas, murdered 2 teenage girls for mocking Charlie Kirk, and torched a judge's home. Meanwhile, the government mobilized the military to go after the left.

free link, you ego-poisoned racist clowns. we can all see this is just personal retaliation

You know what was weird last week? I didn’t see anyone fired for quoting words actually spoken by Jane Goodall.

imagine going from cronkite and murrow to bari fucking weiss.

Kind of feels like feds occupying our city for a month, killing one person and shooting another while attacking neighborhoods with chemical weapons and kidnapping hundreds of people already counts as a civil war whether the Guard arrives or not, but what do we know?

I will just say having worked with a lot of politicians this is extremely not true lmao. In fact I personally watched a senator change their entire position on the Supreme Court because someone did a snarky quote tweet. The senator insulted the person first before they quietly changed their mind.

Jesse Singal should very obviously be banned for flagrantly violating BlueSky policies. And it says a lot that the CEO is railing about how people are complaining about this rather than acknowledge the violations.

The news

1/ This is so f'ing outrageous. You cannot safely restrain people on their stomachs. They're going to kill people. This is very well known now.

Are yall ever just sitting around and out of the blue you remember — again — that all of this is because of ONE Black President?!! Just the one!!

If ICE agents are proud of what they're doing, then why do they cover their faces like cowards, refuse to identify themselves, and hide behind anonymity?

One of the things I took away from the 60s and Richard Nixon, first mentioned by Hunter Thompson, but I believe to be true, is the fact that we believed, at time, that all our protesting, marching and sign waving was futile and pointless when in fact, it drove Richard Nixon to alcohol fueled madness

We Have at least 70? years of science fiction exploring this proposition and all reaching the same conclusions as Josie. Which I only bring up because everyone involved in this AI thing is a science fiction fan, but not one who understands what they read.

Do I have it right that people who are trying to create digital slaves are telling other people not to use "eugenics language" toward computer programs

A Texas megachurch pastor and GOP leader has been arrested for crimes against children. Not Robert Morris, a different one. Not Josiah Anthony, a different one. Not Luke Cunningham, a different one. Not Tony Evans, a different one. Not Scott Crenshaw, a different one. Not Steve Lawson, a different o

Which is what Black people have been saying about law enforcement for centuries. No one listened though. Now here we are.

This is why we had Jim Crow and this is why we have military bases all over the world. Israel is a mirror for us, run by a man who went to high school in Pennsylvania and spent his young adulthood on American television, because he's basically an American.

THIS IS WHO WE ARE. And in case you hadn't noticed...we're sending weapons to the UAE as they genocide Sudan. We sent billions in illegal cluster weapons to the Saudi government to kill Yemeni kids. This is just who we are. This is why we elected Trump. This is why we elected Andrew Jackson.

Saying Israel controls the US is nothing more than American exceptionalism. "We wouldn't be genociding if our government wasn't captured by Israel! It's not our fault!" It's a way of letting ourselves off the hook. It ignores, however, that imperialism and genocide are INCREDIBLY American.

Israel would need to genocide Gaza for another four years to reach our *conservative* death toll for the so-called Global War on Terror. We're the folks who made Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraib and extraordinary rendition and ICE. Occam's razor, folks. Israel is OUR proxy, not the other way around.

the genocide of chattel slavery, genocides in the Philippines and Cambodia, internment of Japanese Americans, war crimes in at least a dozen conflicts, the invasion of Iraq, and we've killed more innocent people in the 21st century than the rest of the world put together.

The United States has never needed to be "controlled" to do genocide. The United States isn't an uwu smol bean empire with an uwu smol bean Pentagon and uwu smol bean world's largest carceral state. We're directly responsible for genocides against multiple Indigenous nations,

We should be FREE. And have real privacy. The government should not be a threat to us. We should be able to organize society so that all the people here can live with dignity and be treated with respect. It's ridiculous we can't do this. There's no one waging war on us! There's low crime! Come on.

First it was "illegal" immigrants, then it was greencard holders, now they want to denaturalize people who are citizens, and it's going to keep going. They want to declare everyone they hate to not be a real American. It's about blood and soil and obedience not laws.

Notice how Vance is talking about a Brooklyn-born woman as if she were an immigrant. Normally we talk about this country being good to people who came here and became successful. They want to transfer all the contempt and punishment they heap upon immigrants onto their domestic enemies.

JD Vance calls Joy Reid uppity.

The White House admits that they're trolling the Democrats, which is proof they're not negotiating in good faith. You don't push your counter-party away from the bargaining table if you want to make a deal.

Hey @safety.bsky.app and @aaron.bsky.team this is not acceptable. You let this transphobe on here, now they are blatantly violating the terms of service. Are you going to ban them or what?? Why does Bluesky exist if it’s not going to be any better than twitter was??? Please do your jobs.

this is the same thought trap that drove jack dorsey mad. a simultaneous abdication of social responsibility for the realities of your platform and doubling down on approaching implementation and policy as one in the same, viewing social behavior deterministically. divine watchmaker complex.

Since you've voluntarily invited a boycott, you get one. A thread 🧵 about investors in Bluesky, who would love to hear your feedback by phone, snail mail, or email.

🚨 CW 🚨 This is fine

Man about a month ago I was on here propping up AI tools — not a stan or anything but I thought some could be useful — and smart people gave me some stuff to read and now I’m a for real certified gold star AI-hater. I present: stuff I read that made me realize AI is actually trash.

You routinely ban the accounts of Palestinians but you’re steadfast on Jesse Singal’s right to be here. We get it, Jay. You have no principles. And to think I thought a non-white woman would be better than white men. Fool me once, shame on me. Fool me twice, you’re not gonna get fooled again.

By the way, this is blatantly not true if you look at the way they suspended a bunch of people after Kirk's death. You can absolutely harass these people into moderating the way you want them to, you just have to be a right winger.

It's not harassment to call on a forum moderator for moderation! You're playing the victim card to avoid doing your job protecting your userbase from malicious actors, and I just do not think ANYONE is buying it.

it is funny like “What are you gonna do, stop posting here” like dog I only started a year ago

your user base consists entirely of people who are willing to migrate from social media websites that turn on them

Framing trans people asking you to do your duty to protect us as "harassment" is pathetic You do not understand leadership. I say this not just as a trans person, but as a senior science communicator who has worked in tech for nearly a decade Bluesky will fail if you keep this up

Here’s a thing I’ll add, as someone who’s been there: if you’re the CEO of a platform with millions of users, you don’t get to have as much fun on that platform, period. And your job is to eat shit every time a legitimate critique of policy comes up. That’s the gig. Don’t sign up if you aren’t game.

Guys I think we’re gonna need more than three ghosts this Christmas Eve

No one has a warrant to zip tie naked children