Caræsten 🇵🇸
@cara.city
I spend a lot of time thinking about all the ghosts that live in old electronics. Preservation, art, old tech. 18+ only Something beautiful is going to happen. (she / they) Writing: antientro.pics Patreon: www.patreon.com/caraesten
The Athletic@theathletic.com · 4h agoAaron Rodgers spoke out about Dr. Anthony Fauci. Sophie Cunningham spoke out about transgender athletes. Caitlin Clark chose not to weigh in. Three different approaches, one common result: criticism. Steve Buckley on how athletes can't win on social media: nyti.ms/3Sa9A7D
This is absolutely the most ridiculously "I'm not mad you're mad!" way to frame the progressive candidate winning.
Politico@politico.com · 9h agoProgressives didn’t get the big election night they wanted
fyi Israel is just doing this constantly to people in northern Jordan; I heard from a cab driver when I was there that it was happening in Amman at times. I personally experienced it around Umm Qais. bsky.app/profile/cara...
Justin Ling@justinling.ca · 19h agoHoly shit. www.wired.com/story/a-civi...
saying "we need to protect women and children from this group" is more than just hate, it's effectively encouraging violence against that group
obviously this is islamophobia, but it's also the liberal framing of american empire as always being reactive. none of our actions ever have consequences and no one ever has valid historical reasons to be hostile towards america
Mohamad Bazzi@mbazzi.bsky.social · 20h ago25 years after the tired American cliche of “why do they hate us,” helped instigate two forever wars (Afghanistan + Iraq), this is how @nytimes.com chooses to explain Iran’s political system:
{𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗳𝗼𝘂𝗰𝗮𝘂𝗹𝘁 𝗼𝗻 𝗽𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗼𝗻𝘀} Wow, we should abolish prisons for everyone {𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗳𝗼𝘂𝗰𝗮𝘂𝗹𝘁 𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘁} Wow, we should abolish prisons for everyone except Michel Foucault
The fake outrage by Cornyn and Tillis re: Blanche is/was just that. They'll vote to confirm him, then Blanche will do whatever Trump wants, and these two senators are going to act like shocked Pikachu and claim they were blindsided. They know what's going to happen. They just don't really care.
showed They Live to @femmeandfauna.bsky.social tonight and there's an interview with John Carpenter on the Blu Ray where he's just like "yeah I made this movie because I fucking hated Ronald Reagan and I thought everyone around me voting for him had lost their mind" and god I respect that so much
my county library system is still circulating a 1986 hardback of @greatdismal.bsky.social’s _count zero_
I helped my friend archive her appearance on "Tranny Talk", a public access talk show in SF circa 2000!
Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️⚧@charliejane.bsky.social · 2d agoBack in April 2000, I had barely started my transition. I was just starting to go out in public. I got drawn into an on-the-street interview for a local talk show, made by trans people for trans people. That's when my landlord (who didn't know I was trans) showed up! buttondown.com/charliejane/...
I'm not going to be lectured on misogyny by a guy cosplaying as a sea otter on the internet
geo group has to be stopped, y’all
Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · 2d agoICE has killed another person.
this is why ghandi always nukes san francisco fyi
Caræsten 🇵🇸@cara.city · 2d agoso there's been this big Clear Channel digital countdown to the world cup billboard in Oakland for the last six months, except the world cup is over, and they haven't found someone new to buy the billboard space, so right now it just says: "-51 days till all eyes are on the Bay Area!"
so there's been this big Clear Channel digital countdown to the world cup billboard in Oakland for the last six months, except the world cup is over, and they haven't found someone new to buy the billboard space, so right now it just says: "-51 days till all eyes are on the Bay Area!"
airbnb I’m staying at unintentionally created the toughest punk album cover of 2027
I don't really have an objection to the CEO saying Bluesky is open to all; it's kind of his job to do that. But as others have pointed out, the design of the site means it's harder for trolls/bots/chuds *and also* influencers/hypebeasts to get traction. The "bubble" here is actually normal humans.
would also like to point out that them union-busted its trans staffers out of jobs a while back so it’s also a choice to continue to write for them
correcting myself: writer of this piece is trans. she is ex-lds, tho. and i checked to see if she’d signed the nyt contributors’ letter along with the rest of us because she’d written for them in the past and she sure did not. which makes this even more fucked
Them@them.us · 2d agoThe ‘Jeopardy!’ host made it absolutely clear where he stands once again.
beyond the misogyny, it’s telling that he’s doing this to an Chinese woman given the long history of associating Asian bodies with machines/robots :/
Holy shit, this is insane trash. What's up @scottwiener.bsky.social you looking to get sued or something?
Caræsten 🇵🇸@cara.city · 2d agoScott Wiener is so fucking creepy!!! making an AI chatbot of your woman opponent so she says all the things your campaign wants her to say is deeply misogynistic!!! holy shit!!!
i like ken but come on. glazing him and not even mentioning the fact that gwen's been dragged through the mud for the past few days? embarrassing for a publication that's supposed to be about LGBTQ perspectives
Them@them.us · 2d agoThe ‘Jeopardy!’ host made it absolutely clear where he stands once again.
Scott Wiener is so fucking creepy!!! making an AI chatbot of your woman opponent so she says all the things your campaign wants her to say is deeply misogynistic!!! holy shit!!!
