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Felonious Monk

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I’m not happy about any of this, but thank you for asking

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bossk baby@bonnnt.bsky.social · yesterday

found out that my mother in law decided she was aggressively pro trans rights literally by going, I don't know anything about this but everyone who is against trans rights is also against free school lunch, the issue I know and care a lot about, so this must be the correct way to feel about this

Constant Screaming@ajaxsinger.bsky.social · yesterday

In 2017, my mother, a woman who had dedicated almost her entire life to political activism and education, turned to me and said: "I used to think that if people just *knew* they'd change, but I was wrong. Most misogynists and racists are too dumb to be educated out of it."

Snowden St.@snowden.st · yesterday

I think "having better tactics and answers for movements of emotionally reasoning people" is one of the most pressing challenges of the current age. And it's just gotta be acknowledged that liberalism's preferred tactics have struggled to be effective.

Constant Screaming@ajaxsinger.bsky.social · yesterday

She did a lot of amazing things -- was instrumental in bringing down a senator and a governor, changed conditions at Purdy women's prison, prevented the Navy from stationing in Seattle -- but all those accomplishments, for her, paled in comparison to her failure to change minds in shitty people.

dame@dame.is · yesterday

there is no meaningful difference between what people think of as "slop" machines and the tech stacks that many industries now run on slop and not slop comes from the same machine

VivicorpCEO@vivicorpceo.bsky.social · yesterday

I don't care what you call it I honestly think it'd be better to have a common usage term for taking to the general public that differentiates slop machines from other actually potentially useful tech and that's the closest we have that I know of.

Adam Bonica@adambonica.bsky.social · 2d ago

Once mass spam texts were made legal, younger donors vanished, leaving a grassroots fundraising machine that subsists on squeezing vulnerable seniors, some of whom give hundreds of times a day. It’s a horrific model. Consultants get generationally wealthy, and the party hollows out its future.

"Democrats traded their younger donors for squeezed seniors," showing the share of the party’s small-dollar donations (under $200) from 2012 to 2026. The subtitle reads: "In 2026, about 175,000 squeezed seniors — donors 65 and older charged 50 or more times in a cycle — supplied 51% of those donations. Gen X, Millennials and Gen Z, roughly 63% of registered Democrats, supplied 15%." Two lines track donation shares from 2012 to 2026: "Squeezed seniors" (orange line) starts around 9% in 2012, rises to 30% in 2018 and 2020, then jumps sharply to 45% in 2022, 47% in 2024, and 51% in 2026. "Gen X, Millennials & Gen Z" (green line) starts around 17% in 2012, peaks around 33% in 2020, and then drops sharply to 18% in 2022, 19% in 2024, and 15% in 2026. A vertical dashed line at April 2021 is labeled: "The Supreme Court (Facebook v. Duguid) clears the way for mass fundraising texts, piled on top of the email spam already flooding inboxes." Footnote: "Shares are by number of donations. By dollars, squeezed seniors gave 39% of small-dollar money in 2026 and Gen X, Millennials and Gen Z gave 18%. Squeezed seniors are donors 65 and older charged 50 or more times in an election cycle. 2026 is mid-cycle.
Jake Grumbach@jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 2d ago

We found that as of right now 73% of your campaign donation goes back to the consultants and vendors (!!!), four times more than just 20 years ago. Only 13% to ads. Even I was shocked.

Where your $100 donation actually goes Of every $100 raised by a Democratic fundraising text, $73 goes to consultants and vendors. Only $13 reaches voters as advertising — the most expensive dollar to raise in American politics. Consultants & vendors • Advertising, staff & admin | Your donation $100 Fundraising fees -$65 $35 left Strategic consultants -$2 $33 left Media placement commission -$6 $73 of every $100 goes to consultants & vendors $27 left Advertising -$13 $14 left Staff, travel & admin -$14 $0 left Note: Shares are for a dollar raised by a Democratic fundraising text or email. Source: Authors' analysis of FEC disbursement records.
Katie Mack@astrokatie.com · 2d ago

It sounds like hyperbole to suggest the current administration WANTS measles to become common again but I can’t think of much they’d be doing differently if they didn’t want that. (I think some of them really are eugenicists who legit prefer disease spread to prevention; others just don’t care)

David Ho@davidho.bsky.social · 2d ago

The CDC denied a request from California, Hawaiʻi, Oregon, and Washington to validate a high-volume measles test, citing “other priorities.” 🤨

Bo Vagner Hansen@bovagner.eurosky.social · yesterday

"Powered entirely by batteries, China Zorrilla is the largest electric ship ever built and is capable of carrying up to 2,100 passengers and 225 vehicles across the River Plate, a 30 nautical mile route."

Justin Gerdes@justingerdes.bsky.social · 2d ago

"The world’s largest battery-electric ship, a 130-metre vessel made in Australian by Incat Tasmania, has officially started ferrying passengers – including cars and buses – between Argentina and Uruguay in South America." thedriven.io/2026/10/23/w... via Sophie Vorrath