If only someone could have warned us this would happen. 🧐

Nick Barlow@nickbwalking.bsky.social · 23h ago

In a move that will surprise absolutely no one who's been paying attention, Stock has decided that women with disabilities are suffering from "social contagion"

If you're on Substack, you are funding Nazis. Please stop.

I've seen responses suggesting this is because Trump is stupid, but: If your life's ambition were to use nuclear weapons against people, and you faced possible revolt from your military if you ordered a nuclear strike when you had other options, might you not want to get rid of the other options?

CNBC@cnbc.com · 3d ago

U.S. has used 'virtually all' of its long-range precision missiles during Iran war: Reuters

"I want to do (thing). Here is one example of what (thing) might look like." Note that I did *not* say, "Here is the totality of what (thing) entails." People who suspect (thing) might be more extensive than (example) are not displaying poor reading comprehension.

"I can't understand why someone who has been mocked and derided for being fat his entire life lost weight and got fit and now gets angry when he's mocked and derided for having been fat. Why can't he just be the fatty fat fatso we know and laugh at?" 🧐

Dan of the Year@downwithdan.bsky.social · 4d ago

He will never understand that being "the fat guy from Superbad" is infinitely better than being "the martial arts chud nobody likes"

Oh no, BlueSky is a bubble for people who don't hate society, everyone in it, and themselves. 😱

The Verge@theverge.com · 4d ago

Bluesky's new CEO Toni Schneider on the platform's reputation for being a liberal bubble: "Yes, we definitely want that to change. It is already changing. It certainly wasn’t designed to attract one specific group of people."

Also known as the Buttigieg Model. 🧐

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 6d ago

Prosecutors charged an LAPD officer with felony eavesdropping for making secret recordings of his colleagues’ racist, sexist and homophobic comments on the job

In the Late Period, Egyptian Pharaohs began granting tax exemptions to the temples, especially the Temple of Amun, already almost as wealthy and powerful as Pharaoh himself. Eventually the country was half ruled by the Temple. And then in 525 BCE the Persians found Egypt an easy conquest.

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 4d ago

FLAG: Trump gets to keep tax immunity for himself, his sons, and the Trump Organization under the new 'deal' struck by Todd Blanche. The new order also reaffirms that Trump won't have to pay any taxes he might have owed the IRS.

LRP: Indeed... but the person is quoting the New York Times, where information about preexisting conditions is absolutely used to blame the victims and excuse death, and spread the belief that there is a mythical "healthy" which protects from harm, and an "unhealthy" which is a moral failing.

One of the more frustrating legacies of 2020 is the idea that reporting risk factors for mortality is somehow always a slight against disabled and chronically ill people, as opposed to an essential piece of information for people in that category to assess their risk before *or after* they get sick

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 4d ago

Breaking News: Two deaths in Michigan have been linked to cyclospora. Both people who had the parasite also had underlying health issues.

Finally I see a use for those horrifying "social capital" programs: track everyone who is in favor of or willing to accept measures like this, and ostracize them eternally. They're a danger to everyone and should be treated accordingly.

Gillian Branstetter@gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 4d ago

An initiative on the ballot in Washington state in November would require all athletes seeking to play girl's sports from kindergarten to high school to undergo "genetic screening, a testosterone-levels test, or an examination of their reproductive anatomy" before they can play

LRP: We *are* living through a plague. It's not past tense. If you use past tense, you are joining the ranks of the plaguespreaders.

I’m astonished by the ability of my fellow humans to forget the events we all just lived through. Folks remember the masks and the remote school. The million US dead are rarely mentioned. Folks, we lived through a plague.

From The Coeur d'Alene Tribe. #SpokaneFires

This is why it's so hard to dislodge conspiracy theory thinking: because the world really is controlled by conspiracies of the wealthy and powerful.

David Ho@davidho.bsky.social · 5d ago

Is everyone aware of the General Motors streetcar conspiracy? In the mid-20th century, auto and oil interests bought up electric streetcar systems across the US and systematically replaced them with bus routes and paved roads, funneling commuters toward private cars.

Ah, August, no. 2 on my list of Months I Want to Stab. No. 1 is July. July and August are as bad as each other, but I was born in July, so maybe if I stab it enough times I can reset something. Or at least get warranty service.

I'm finally trying to watch Thunderbolts, the Marvel movie, and there's this four-way fight scene with four people in black costumes all trying to kill each other in a dark grey room, and... they should pick a lane. Either make them distinct, or go all the way and make them completely identical.

There comes a time when anyone who wishes people to believe his past bigoted remarks were mistakes of youth either figuratively or literally retreats to a mountaintop hermitage for some serious introspection, or does this shit. Either way, you now know who they are.

Ken Jennings@kenjennings.bsky.social · last wk.

This may be true of others but I actually got express permission from the trans community to keep NYT games and recipes. I also have a news subscription, which is arguably worse, so I had to specifically send in a written request. Took 30 days but I got approved.

Anyone up to starting a blocklist for people who used to be scientists but now use "AI"? I don't want to accidentally ingest false knowledge from someone who effectively threw gasoline on the world-fire and then sacrificed a goat and consulted the entrails.

I usually answer Buckaroo Banzai for these, but since I haven't been able to bring myself to watch it since John Lithgow turned... HACK THE PLANET! 😁

hack the planet

Alt: From the movie Hackers, Crash Override aka Zero Cool aka Dade Murphy aka Jonny Lee Miller sticking his head out of an FBI vehicle's window and shouting "Hack the planet!"

static.klipy.com

James Petruzzi@hawaiianimages.bsky.social · last wk.

Film you’ve watched more than six times Hard Mode : No Star Trek, Star wars, LOTR, any Marvel, Disney or Ghibli

LRP: @pftompkins.bsky.social, who pitched in? I'll be in lockdown the rest of my life because hardly anyone has ever been willing to do the bare minimum to prevent transmission. I haven't seen anyone else wearing a mask in years, except health care professionals I have to beg to do it.

Is anyone more cartoonishly pathetic than the weak little babies yelling at Fauci The saddest YOU’RE NOT THE BOSS OF ME toddlers who just couldn’t fuckin pitch in like everybody else

1) This will be used to attack students. 2) This country will do absolutely anything about school shootings except take steps that would actually reduce or stop school shootings.

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · last wk.

Schools are adding pepper-spraying drones to help combat active shooters The plastic, non-lethal aircraft, which can smash windows and ram attackers will be at the ready at certain schools in Colorado, Florida and Georgia www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/...

If any of you jokers watch these, you deserve what you will be bringing upon all of us. 🧐

The Verge@theverge.com · last wk.

HBO Max is putting on vertical shorts

I'm not exactly arguing, but that's how it always happens. WWII was the anomaly, a clear case of needing to defeat evil. Every other war is sold with lies meant to obscure the simple, terrible truth that the people in charge just wanted a war.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w ago

Ossoff: "The price of admission to the president's service seems to be proof you're willing to lie for him. Maybe you saw Jay Clayton refuse again and again under oath to affirm Donald Trump's defeat in 2020, or Pete Hegseth ... There's something uniquely despicable about lying a nation into war"

Folks, I think we should be a lot more worried that an establishment-endorsed Democrat is using essentially Nazi terminology while James Clyburn smiles and laughs. "Coastal elites" = "rootless cosmopolitan," both used to mean Jewish people. First Platner, now this. Not a good sign.

Howard Mortman@howardmortman.bsky.social · 2w ago

"Cool kids on the Internet. They're doing the cool kid chatter. Some of 'em might be the coastal elites, making fun of how I talk. But let's be real. They're making fun of Michigan. They're thinking they're better than us. Their jokes, their criticism, only make me fight harder." -- Haley Stevens

The Democrats of Maine, furious at being denied their first-choice Nazi rapist, have chosen his friend who is publicly abusive toward women. But hey, the oppo research teams haven't found any credible allegations of assault yet, so he must be OK. 🧐

Taniel@taniel.bsky.social · 2w ago

Troy Jackson it is — officially

People saying he was humiliated need to find a copy of Threylax's Guide to Human Expressions for Visiting Extraterrestrials. He's enjoying himself. This isn't a shaming, it's a retelling of his exploits. And the journalists arev all happy to be there to share it with him.

Dan Diamond@ddiamond.bsky.social · 2w ago

Remarkable camera angle of President Trump as he listens to Wall Street Journal reporters receiving an award for their investigation into Trump’s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein — which they pursued despite Trump’s threats and lawsuit.

Great thread for nostalgia. I absolutely would have had this lunchbox, awful though it is, of I had ever seen one. Alas, I did not.

Discontinued Foods!@discontinuedfoods.bsky.social · last yr.

Day #20: Street Hawk (1984)