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Atheist, Agnostic, non-Believer, Asexual, Demiromantic, Snark Lover (cis woman, she/her/they) ProChoice, Probacon All the Bacon #FuckSCOTUS #RussianWarshipGFYS
Cops. Pissing. On. The. Unhoused. ACAB.
Critical Criminology@critcrim.bsky.social · yesterdayMontreal cops are literally pissing on unhoused people. "Several dozen demonstrators gathered in downtown Montreal on Saturday to denounce police violence, a day after allegations of misconduct involving two city police officers came to light." www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
If game studios are shifting to the Hollywood model, game workers are going to have to shift more quickly to the union model in order to survive.
Christopher Dring@dringo.bsky.social · yesterdayLower pay? Not usually. It’s just so they don’t have to fire folks once their job is done. They can just be reassigned by their actual company to a new project at another studio. It’s the Hollywood model, basically. The whole industry is semi-pivoting that way.
The right is spending the day complaining that Abdul El-Sayed was "rude" and "a bully" to Tommy the Republican Operative at his town hall, which is hilarious given how they had nothing to say about a woman getting beaten up at a Trump rally as the president cheered on.
I also think a lot of people genuinely don’t know what a significant percentage of book sales *tend to be from libraries* Libraries PAY MONEY FOR BOOKS
Tom Cox@dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 3mo agoSomeone said to me, "I'm sorry but I got your book from a library." Nobody should ever apologise for that. You read my book! That's brilliant! I grew up hanging out in libraries and the idea of a world without them fills me with dread. Without libraries, authors, like readers, will only suffer.
If you want to read a book and your library doesn’t have it, it is truly a massive favor to an author to request that the library acquire it. It really and truly is
Perryman on East Potomac golf course: This is a public course. It’s a public park, a national park, and really of historical and current significance to the community. This is another place where has sought to violate federal law in order to try to remake things in his own image here.
She had script control over King Vidor’s adaptation of The Fountainhead, refusing to change a word of the climactic monologue, even when Gary Cooper - a fan! - said he didn’t understand what he was saying. It’s an amazing thing to witness now, an actor sternly prattling on and on, himself lost.
Encephalophatass (Any pronouns)@encephalophatass.bsky.social · yesterdayAyn Rand is so fucking funny. "I'm going to write a 1,000-page book about why helping other people is bad, with prose so unreadable that millionaires will have to pay to promote me. I'll call my philosophy 'I am always right'. Also, I'm on benefits."
Mitchell And Webb: Are We The Baddies Sketch
Alt: Mitchell And Webb: Are We The Baddies Sketch
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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE@leftistlawyer.com · yesterdayThe United States has 4% of the world's population and 22% of the world's prisoners. More Americans have been arrested than have college degrees. And the police in the US kill ten times more people every year than the entire EU, Australia, Canada, and UK *combined*.
In 2025, a majority of S&P 500 CEOs made more in 1 day than the median US worker made the entire year. Meanwhile, the median US worker would need to work 43,154 years to earn what Trump made in 2025 thanks to his crypto scams & various grifts. When I say the system is broken, this is what I mean.
@yinizhang.bsky.social tracks elites use of AI in political messaging & suggests that because news loves novelty & AI messaging is strategically ambiguous, this use of AI by leaders is rewarded with news coverage. She also shows that when people perceive AI in their feeds, their trust goes down.
I just spent two days in Madison with the brilliant scholars of @cccr.bsky.social at @uwsjmc.bsky.social and others studying media and the crisis of American democracy. Bad news is that things are bad. Good news is scholars are still tracking and studying what’s happening and how to fix it. 🧵
NYPD keeps doing what it's doing because there's never been an organized voting majority that can instill more fear in City Hall than the police. Constructing such a majority is the governing-power Left's responsibility; until our orgs undertake it, the city will never be safe—let alone affordable.
Community Service Society of NY@cssnyorg.bsky.social · 3w agoBetween 2019 and 2023, police misconduct cost New Yorkers $427 million. @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social must break with the policing tactics tolerated by past administrations and show it's possible to enforce laws without singling out Black and Hispanic men. amsterdamnews.com/news/2026/10...
“A.i.” is for fraud.
Claes de Vreese@claesdevreese.bsky.social · 4d agoThe use of AI in political ads is not evenly distributed: “More than 80 percent of the ads were produced by Republican campaigns or Republican-aligned political action committees” #midterms #AI #ads $137 Million in A.I.-Generated Ads Flood the Midterms www.nytimes.com/2026/10/16/u...
Energy Secretary Chris Wright admits that Trump is giving "a carrot to Russia" Martha Raddatz points out that just a year ago Wright himself was berating countries for buying Russian oil -- the very thing the administration is now encouraging!
Correct. It closes if a beloved loop for bikers and runners as well as several spots known for hosting large family gatherings. And it manages to leave the space with fewer golf holes than it had before. It’s a travesty.
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · yesterdayThis design appears to completely eliminate the much-beloved loop road and public park at Hains Point, and cut down the cherry trees which line the road. The park is a public space used by tens of thousands of Washingtonians and heavily visited by tourists. /photos not my own.
Donald Trump doesn't limit his mob-boss style interference with elections to the United States.
“Whatever Trump’s worst instincts are, he had those bad instincts in the first term, but in his second term, he’s been able to follow through on them, and his worst instincts may get worse in the next 2 years.” @stevelevitsky.bsky.social in @atrupar.com’s PN: open.substack.com/pub/aaronrup...
Steve Levitsky on the slide into “competitive authoritarianism”
“I continue to believe it’s quite reversible. But I think we crossed that line.”
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This election is not really a choice between two parties. Nor will it be a choice between the “left” and the “right.” The real choice is between ever more concentrated wealth and power at the top VS. more wealth and power in what used to be the American working middle class. Some thoughts 👇
Sunday thought: Big Money vs. The People
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TikTok “Permanently Suspends” the ‘Musk’ Film Account, Raising Suppression Fears (Exclusive)
TikTok “Permanently Suspends” the ‘Musk’ Film Account, Raising Suppression Fears (Exclusive)
TikTok has banned the entire Musk film account, citing political content that violates its policies. The move, which comes just as the Alex Gibney’s investigation into Elon Musk expands to more than 470 screens across North America, raises concerns about Big Tech suppression that the very film seeks to expose.Distributor Bleecker Street was informed Friday afternoon a “permanent suspension” was coming. The entire page disappeared from TikTok’s platform shortly after. The film company had been planning to spend ad money to boost certain posts; that will no longer happen.
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This is fucking trash. The "A.i." industry is a business of predatory surveillance and theft. Resist it wherever and whenever you can.
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 2d ago“The boom has created a thriving group of go-betweens who hunt for small businesses rich in data and low on cash. After scrubbing sensitive information like Social Security numbers and home addresses, they resell it to AI giants.”
ZELENSKY: “Of course orders for the disruption of Starliknk and Starshield services came directly from the 🇺🇸 government — and SpaceX did it… Starlink speed hasn’t been fully restored despite assurance from (Musk).” Putin is pleased.
#FuckJanCrawford and #FuckTommy too
Leah Litman@leahlitman.bsky.social · 2d agoJan is CBS’s legal correspondent. She gave the puff piece interview to Alito on his book. She’s criticized people who criticize the Court too much / in certain ways. She’s a perfect case study in why some mainstream/legacy media press coverage of SCOTUS is broken, bad, and misleading.
🔭 JWST Program 12491, Macarena Garcia Marin (PI) (ESA Member) - NIRCam and MIRI observations of a young stellar cluster: www.stsci.edu/jwst-program... data: Cluster-NIRCam, released: 2026-10-13 NASA, ESA, CSA, STSci/ #JWST NIRCam 444-470, 335, 200
Colorado parolees shouldn’t have to choose between their beliefs and staying out of prison. After years of advocacy by atheists and allies, the state has agreed to offer secular recovery options. Here’s how organizers made it happen. www.friendlyatheist.com/p/colorado-p...
Colorado parolees can now choose secular addiction recovery programs
Parolees will be offered programs like SMART Recovery and LifeRing instead of being required to attend religious “twelve-step” groups
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In other words: “You brown people should be grateful to live in a country where the vice-president calls you weasels in public”
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4d agoJD Vance calls El-Sayed "a little weasel who should shut his mouth and show a little gratitude"
"That's not where I would be" -- even Mike Rogers can't defend Trump waiving sanctions on Russia
This is the quality of senate staffers in offices where republicans haven’t had to face competitive elections. The nazification / groyperfication of the GOP staffer class is essentially complete now. You’re starting to see the practical consequences of that too, these aren’t bright people.
Adam Gurri@adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com · 2d agoEl-Sayed handled this so well I almost started thinking this guy was a plant lol but apparently not www.thehandbasket.co/p/tommy-teep...
Just saw an exchange every politician should note. Someone said their dad was considering Ashley Moody because of negative ads about Angie Nixon. Angie showed up in the replies, addressed his concerns & made it personal. People want to feel heard, not talked at & Angie’s response is perfection 🔥
