Somehow things that would have been a background gag in a Verhoeven movie are now just real
Aaron The Sane Whitaker Bourque
@afbourque.bsky.social
Yeah I'm a socialist, socialists are trying to make things better. Retweets =/= endorsements. He/him. Has been discussed extensively, you're just 21. This likely won't stop anyone, but don't read everything online, especially social media, as serious?
El-Sayed on Vance: Is that Peter Thiel's boy with that Ohio charisma? The last thing that he said that made any sense was Hillbilly Elegy—after he said that Donald Trump had no business being president of anything. And then he decided to suck up to power.
Sure would be a fine time for someone to filibuster. Wonder why they won't.
Eromancer@eromancer.bsky.social · 8h ago🚨 KOSA UPDATE The added "duty of care" standard would force websites to identify minors to avoid legal risk, pushing the internet toward ID checks, facial scans, mass age-gating, excessive data collection and censorship FOR EVERYONE. Next comes a full Senate vote. Contact your senators NOW. (1/2)
Look up your senators at www.senate.gov/senators/sen.... You may contact both for your state. Tell them you oppose S.1748 (KOSA), as well as the KIDS Act and other unconstitutional mass surveillance bills that directly violate your 1st and 4th amendment rights. (2/2)
U.S. Senate: Contacting U.S. Senators
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🚨 KOSA UPDATE The added "duty of care" standard would force websites to identify minors to avoid legal risk, pushing the internet toward ID checks, facial scans, mass age-gating, excessive data collection and censorship FOR EVERYONE. Next comes a full Senate vote. Contact your senators NOW. (1/2)
Fight for the Future@fightforthefuture.org · 11h agoThe Senate Commerce Committee just passed KOSA out of committee with zero debate & failed to move the SCREEN Act. punchbowl.news/article/tech...
Remember when it came out that Jeffrey Epstein and his billionaire rapist pals had deliberately manufactured modern movement transphobia to make us easier to exploit sexually and no one but us cared?
Bugs, Yaoist@bugsmaytrix.bsky.social · 3mo agoall of contemporary transphobia feels so manufactured and fake and it's hard to explain how and why to people who haven't felt it happen at them but like people used to not like Really Care; there were shitty people but like no one built their life around being transphobic
all of contemporary transphobia feels so manufactured and fake and it's hard to explain how and why to people who haven't felt it happen at them but like people used to not like Really Care; there were shitty people but like no one built their life around being transphobic
Aaron Swartz deserves more justice and reconsideration than almost anybody in this century
Shannon Mattern@shannonmattern.bsky.social · 2h ago"In 2022, Wiley removed over 1,300 ebooks from academic library collections; [they said] perpetual access is not an option for subscribed content. In 2025, Clarivate,... announced they would stop offering libraries perpetual access licenses for ebooks and primary-source digital collections."
"In 2022, Wiley removed over 1,300 ebooks from academic library collections; [they said] perpetual access is not an option for subscribed content. In 2025, Clarivate,... announced they would stop offering libraries perpetual access licenses for ebooks and primary-source digital collections."
Consumers Are Worried About the Loss of Physical Media Ownership. Libraries Are Leading the Conversation. — Association of Research Libraries
Sally Sax is head, Collection Strategy and Partnerships, MacOdrum Library, Carleton University. In a recent Atlantic Monthly article about Sony’s plan to end physical sales of PlayStation console game...
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NEW: The Reflecting Pool story is about Trump’s grip on reality, but the press corps won’t go there: presswatchers.org/2026/08/the-...
The Reflecting Pool story is about Trump's grip on reality, but the press corps won’t go there | Press Watch
Journalists are treating his ‘vandalism’ claim as if it were a normal, disputable argument. But it’s completely delusional.
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Another damn MSM article about Trump’s vandalism claim that omits the essential fact that it is delusional. There never was any vandalism of any kind. He just couldn’t accept his own fuck-up. And anyone who went along was just telling him what he wanted to hear. apnews.com/article/trum...
No evidence? No problem. Trump pushes ahead on false claims that Reflecting Pool was vandalized
Jeanine Pirro this week found out there’s a trade-off between loyalty to President Donald Trump and being loyal to reality.
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News@froomkin.bsky.social · yesterdayNEW: The Reflecting Pool story is about Trump’s grip on reality, but the press corps won’t go there: presswatchers.org/2026/08/the-...
Fuck yes hell yes Sisko explaining the concept of time to a non-corporeal being that does not exist in a linear temporal space THAT'S STAR TREKS
God bless Avery Brooks for treating Star Trek like the mesh between sci-fi and off-broadway theater it is That man is always Acting and never acting
‘is there anything that might prejudice your opinion or make it difficult for you to remain impartial in this case’
onekade@onekade.bsky.social · 14h agoThis is not a joke. This is a screenshot of the actual case management software used by Massachusetts' 11 District Attorneys. Must-read work here by @nasser.wiki nasser.blog/dial-up-just...
This is not a joke. This is a screenshot of the actual case management software used by Massachusetts' 11 District Attorneys. Must-read work here by @nasser.wiki nasser.blog/dial-up-just...
David Ellison wants us to know he’s not ideological, and that’s why he put a conservative with no tv experience in charge of CBS
I shit a lot on the Phantom Menace, but it did accurately predict how most journalists would react to fascism
i saw this headline and thought something from 2021 was just popping up because of current news but.... nope it is from yesterday thehill.com/homenews/hou...
Grisham files restraining order against Max Miller
Stephanie Grisham, the White House communications director during President Trump’s first term, filed a restraining order against Rep. Max Miller (R-Ohio) on Monday, amid allegations that Miller ab…
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Yes, this is the only reason I pick this up. He's not even in the game. He's not in the rest of the issue. But he's in the Annihilation/Nova Prime outfit, I'll take what I can get.
"Officially" unknown, at least to me -- no one has told me one way or the other But so far as I know none of the legal filings you'd expect to see when collecting a judgment have been filed, which strongly suggests the underlying debt was paid in full bsky.app/profile/isaa...
Isaac Rabinovitch@isaac32767.picknit.com · 6h agoDid the defendants actually recover any of the money owed them?
Oh and this dipshit is still pretending to be relevant
Bombshell new report out from my investigators this morning spanning our four year investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s financial records. This report shows exactly how Wall Street protected Epstein and enabled his sex trafficking for decades. Mega thread following with some key points:
Deutsche Bank, JPMorgan, BofA Enabled Epstein, Wyden Report Says
Democrat Ron Wyden cited nonpublic documents held by the US Treasury in a report that says banks delayed reporting suspicious financial transactions and calls for tougher anti-money-laundering rules, ...
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It's never gonna be THAT different, but it MIGHT be just different enough that online choads who don't actually even like James Bond will stir up a bunch of shit, and all out of a complete misunderstanding of things.
The Independent@the-independent.com · 18h agoJames Bond producer shares update on 007 casting: ‘It’s got to be really different’
and that is how Carrot Top became James Bond
The Independent@the-independent.com · 18h agoJames Bond producer shares update on 007 casting: ‘It’s got to be really different’
think a lot about how even in '12 after going "nah i don't think i will" about a bunch of things people wanted from him, obama still had enough sense to go "fucking private equity, am i right? these rich motherfuckers, am i right? and romney's one of them" instead of "you owe me your vote, peasants"
Andrew Lawrence@ndrew.bsky.social · 16h agoif establishment candidates want to start winning primaries again all you have to do is say that rich people have too much money and that youll prosecute trump admin staffers and republicans that have broken the law