I have taken the Tylenol that was in the medicine cabinet and which they think probably is the reason you like trains forgive me but that’s bullshit you got autism from your dad

bear: rawr rawr rawr rawr rawr rawr rawr rawr rawr rawr rawr rawr me: this bear's repeating

Also yes we’ve been talking about Kimmel, a rich white dude who’d be fine without the job, but his show employs 200 people who have struggled through five incredibly hard years. We saved 200 jobs by standing together for the guy who used to make women jump on trampolines, and that’s a win.

Happy birthday, Joan Jett!

now is the autumnal equinox of our discontent

Ama: "Mr Machine Herald, I overheard them being *very* rude about Jayce!"

Mabon blessings to those who celebrate

You know, it’s not like I’m half-assing this, I am actually trying my best despite the fuck-ups.

No immigrant has ever sacked me, or cut my wages, or offshored my job, or closed my hospital, or stopped my mum's disability benefits, or crashed the economy. Those things were all done by white English men who went to Oxford and wore a nice suit.

Ed Davey, "I'm afraid Nigel Farage should be apologising for helping cause this problem in the first place" "Before Brexit we didn't have a small boats problem because we had 27 return agreements with EU countries and we could return people" -Maybe we should call them Farage's Brexit Boats

Good morning I don't know why, but I love pylons. I found these in the East Bay somewhere in Northern California. I call the shot The Hum, which is as term you'll know if you follow @hookland.bsky.social 's account (which you absolutely should).

Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension backfired—comedians, writers, and everyday Americans are rallying against Trump’s assault on free speech. Plus, Trump’s approval ratings just sank even lower. This Week in Wins is one you won’t want to miss. thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/week-progr...

BREAKING: The U.K., Canada and Australia officially recognize a Palestinian state, a significant shift away from alignment with the U.S.

How’d I end up an unbearably communicative, queer, nonbinary, polyamorous leftist? 🤔 I dunno Mom and Dad, maybe because you raised me on Star Trek: TNG? And it explained Extremely Fucking Logically that all those things are not only *totally fine* things to be, but often *valuable* things to be? 🙃🤷🏻‍♀️✨

That is just annoying. That contributed nothing to the conversation and was just a pointless vocalization to make the humans comfortable.

“Privatisation is a failed experiment.” Green Party leader Zack Polanski says UK households are paying £250 more a year thanks to privatised services. Time to take back control of water, energy, and transport! Link:

i would quite like anyone who has said that the trump administration would be better for free speech to write an column saying "i was wrong, sorry, and now i'm going to get a real job so this space can be used by people who deserve your time"

One thing I'll say about DC not only canceling Red Hood, but recalling the first issue and refunding stores for buying it, is that you can still get Neil Gaiman's work through them. They still work with Otto Schmidt. Eddie Berganza worked there for years AFTER the formation of a policy that no women

timeline cleanser

Do not fuck with sea gods.

The buff-tip moth (Phalera bucephala) has mastered a very particular kind of camouflage. When they close their wings up, they resemble a broken twig. Native to large parts of Europe, there's regional pattern variation that reflects the local tree species. This one best resembles birch twigs?

live your life so that when you die everyone talks about how hot you were and not how you were a hateful bigot

Alright, because you demanded it, here we go: 🌟 MY TOP TEN LINE DELIVERIES FROM ‘THE STONE TAPE’ (BBC2, 1972) 🌟 10. “We got a ghost.”

If you see this, quote the energy you bring to bluesky

I love Murderbot because it will be like “this situation is very stressful I’m going to put some star trek reruns on in the background to help me calm down” And the stressful situation is literally a shootout it’s in the middle of

Murderbot hitting the emotional bullseye yet again. (I am in this quote and I don't like it)

Imagination is like a Bengal kitten. If you don't give it plenty of enrichment, it'll just trash the place instead.

All these Tory MPs switching to Reform.

THEY'RE CALLED GROYPERS COOP. A GAGGLE OF YOUNG MEN ONLINE WHO CAN'T DELINEATE BETWEEN VIOLENCE AND ENTERTAINMENT. DARNDEST THING. ONE OF THEIR SHELL CASINGS TURNED THREE OF OUR BEST AGENTS GAY.

yeah

Pretty sure this was just the plot of S2 Act 3?

I finished painting my house today

please stay alive, 1) so you can see a better future, and 2) so you can help make it

this from my piece on charlie kirk is probably the most important takeaway if you want to know why bad faith, right-wing voices in media are treated as just another set of peers

"We must abandon all the things we supposedly stand for and promised and be as performatively racist as possible, so we can retain power and continue to do none of the things we'd hoped to do". I mean, if that's your thinking, why even bother? Just walk away and take up lawn bowls, or something

New work about how perceptions of social consensus shape belief. My sense is that the design of social media, w/ signals of engagement on top of massive attention flows, shapes social consensus… a key factor (IMO ) of information disorder.

This is similar to the myth that health conspiracism is driven by dissatisfaction with the American healthcare system. Countries with the best healthcare systems in the world also have very large anti-vaxx movements! In both cases the problem is more closely related to information environments.

This is such a throwback to 1930s press normalization of Hitler, with trans community in same position, even as other parts have shifted somewhat.

We don't know why, but we can't help thinking this bird is on its way to a nightclub. We also think it might have taken something. 😬 #MosaicMonday

Pungeon idea. Elemental Wizard school under attack from monsters who are invulnerable to all their magics. Eventually you realise the new naive innocent recruit needs to use their earth magic to shatter their protection and allow victory. Because let he who is without sin cast the first stone.

Me: i’m Autistic Them: Oh you take things literally Me: No that’s kleptomania

My Who/Trek crossover idea: The Enterprise flies into the last moments of the destruction of a great spacefleet. They hear a manic, gloating voice glorying in the destruction. They beam aboard the only survivor. The Dalek barks 'protect me from the warlord known as the Doctor'. Opening titles.

Remember that NASA was only able to *start* because the rich were being taxed at 90+% marginal rates. Now, *you* pay a greater percent of your income as taxes than any billionaire. You're just not gonna get NASA back without billionaires paying taxes again.

Every pundit article: BLUESKY IS A HOTBED OF RADICALIZATION Majority of posts in my feed: Check out this cool bug/bird/random historical personage I found! Small but vivid minority of posts: Do you think Gritty and Alf are in a polycule or nah?

KIM KITSURAGI - "What is it, detective? Can you make it out?" BULLET - "if you read this you are gay lmao" 1. "It, um, doesn't say anything." 2. "Transgender ideology. My old foe." 3. [Espirit de Corps - Medium 10] "I think you should read it for yourself, Kim."

Bluesky isn't a place where trolls come to get mocked and insulted. They love that. Bluesky is a place where trolls come to be blocked and isolated and ignored — which they hate. If you're seeing a lot of shitty people in your feed, you aren't blocking enough people.

Update: Civil War cancelled due to shooter being demographically uncooperative

what if we analyzed (linguistic or other) misgendering misgendering not as an error, not as a misidentification or reflection of a different understanding of reality, but rather as a speech act intended to discipline, enforce, and re-inscribe gender onto a referent