Weds, May 6 @ 7:30pm - BITS, the variety show created and hosted by @vangsness.bsky.social, and in which I'll be doing a bit. Benefits Theatre of Note (where it's at - 1517 N. Cahuenga in Hollywood) and the Selah Neighborhood Homeless Coalition. Tickets: theatreofnote.ludus.com/index.php?sh...
When Bluesky creates accidental poetry (or something) out of the arrangement in your feed of posts from two friends who are independently posting a lot of agreeable nonsense today.
if you don’t think you can campaign on abolishing this agency and prosecuting the people involved - if you don’t think you’re able to make that case using this video and other like it - get the fuck out of politics
Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · 7mo agoMinnesota: "School officials say the [5-year-old] child was used as bait. They say [ICE] agents made little Liam knock on the door to ask to be let in in order to see if anyone else was home."
Somebody please project this on loop at maximum volume onto every ICE HQ and everywhere they're billeted. youtu.be/IQ28jC6zG9k?...
Schoolhouse Rock - The Great American Melting Pot
YouTube video by AreaEightyNine
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Sane foreign and domestic policy will return in AVENGERS: DOOMSDAY.
Ben Rock@benrock.com · 7mo agoDr. Carl Hill will return in AVENGERS: DOOMSDAY
A game in which you try to prevent Chicken Soup from choking on a bone.
Jack de Quidt@notquitereal.bsky.social · 10mo agoif you've not played rule of rose and don't know the premise (or only hazily know the premise) PLEASE share what you think that game is about and what you do in it
A narrative is taking hold that LAPD shot her because she was out after curfew. But the curfew was only imposed just last night (Tues, 6/10), and check the timestamp on this. They're not shooting unarmed people for being out after curfew. They're shooting people because they want to shoot people.
Raider@iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · last yr.a woman just trying to get home gets shot
To the National Guard: You are not alone. If you are given an order that violates the Constitution or asks you to act unlawfully against citizens, call 877-447-4487. There is support there! The GI Rights Hotline. Don't do something you can't live with.
Meanwhile... (wanted to post this as a response to the below post but couldn't)
Saltbearer@saltbearer.newgrounds.com · last yr.I accidentally closed it when it suggested Taxi Driver was adapted into Taxi, so I searched again, and it just kept saying different things
"the adventures of pete & pete" but it's buttigieg & hegseth, is that anything
I don't even particularly enjoy John Waters movies but I now suddenly think a John Waters Batman movie is a thing that should exist. "Batman: Seduction of the Innocent"!
Pop Arena@poparena.bsky.social · last yr.I love how in every live action Batman thing, Alfred never looks like he does in the comics, because a comic-accurate Alfred would look like a John Waters pervert.
The White House Correspondents’ Association said it fired host Amber Ruffin so it can instead focus the dinner on celebrating the First Amendment. Which apparently can be done best by preventing a gay black woman from speaking.
All I'm saying is that if they didn't want this commercial audition for the role of a wacky neighbor in the opening credits of a cheesy 80s sitcom to turn out like this, then they shouldn't have included a still frame from "Too Many Cooks" in the audition sides. youtu.be/98W4iYZevcU?...
Wacky Neighbor - commercial audition
YouTube video by Corey Klemow
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Tired: Schumer should be primaried in 2028. Wired: Schumer should be replaced as Minority Leader RIGHT THE HELL NOW.
Do you want The Substance? 'Cause this is how you get The Substance.
Eric Topol@erictopol.bsky.social · last yr.A strategy to slow/reverse human aging—partial epigenetic reprogramming—has big bets (many $ billions). Here's a simplified graphic + explainer for how it works, along with the many uncertainties and serious risks www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/202... @gretchenxreynolds.bsky.social
Interesting old Richard Pryor interview (was there any other kind?) where he talks about racism being involved in NBC cancelling his show. 50 years ago. It's in the interest of capitalism to promote racism because if you keep people separated, they don't talk to each other.
my daughter sees a specialist at CHLA but I'm loathe to trust an institution with no backbone or conscience or desire to help children. Want to send them a comment demanding they reverse course on obeying Trump's fascist ban on gender-affirming care? childrensla.sjc1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
Children's Hospital Los Angeles: Send Us Feedback
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Public comment is now open for passport gender marker changes. You can go here to go to each of the three proposed passport rules, and submit comment. My suggestion: be unique, argue for trans-inclusive policies, against the constitutionality of the changes, etc. www.reddit.com/r/Passports/...
Public comment on US passport form changes related to trans
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I clicked on the Valentine's Day Google logo and things are going really, really well over there.
Breaking news: State attorneys general from California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Nevada, Vermont, and Wisconsin advise Trump's EO banning trans care is unlawful, hospitals should provide care. Big counter salvo!
Attorney General Neronha and 14 attorneys general issue joint statement on protecting access to gender-affirming care | Rhode Island Attorney General's Office
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This is a great follow… great resources for staying informed in a way that combats despondency. Remember, Nolite Te Bastardes Carborundorum.
Danny Cherry Jr (twitter/Insta/tiktok: @Deecherrywriter)@deecherrywriter.bsky.social · 2y agoIf y'all haven't caught on I'm going to annoy the shit out of y'all with examples on how democracy is being fought for and saved on the local level. I want to unshackle y'all from the thinking that only the national horse race matters.
🏳️🌈 Re-sharing since folks seemed to find this helpful, & this week was 💩 This is alarmist, but I strongly suspect gay marriage will be overturned this year. There are cases in the pipeline, and we all know the cruelty is the point, so I see them taking away marriage equality on its tenth anniversary
Jack Phoenix (a comics librarian)@comicslibrarian.com · 2y agoPlease share this, because this could help some folks with worry. For LGBT married couples, it's time to take steps to protect your marriage in case same-sex marriage is officially dissolved in the coming years. My husband and I did this when Roe V Wade was overturned, so I hope this is helpful. 👇
GoFundMes for friends from the L.A. theater community who lost their homes yesterday (1/3): www.gofundme.com/f/g8sjka-sup...
Donate to Support Natasha's Family After Devastating Fire, organized by Hebra Rush
Our dear friend Natasha (Norman) Perez and her family, lost their home in t… Hebra Rush needs your support for Support Natasha's Family After Devastating Fire
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Jokes For an Incredibly Tiny Audience: If Tom Waits had been a stand-up comedian, he'd have released an album called "Gary Mule Deer Variations." This has been "Jokes For an Incredibly Tiny Audience."
Project to help trans people get their Federal name and gender document changes squared away before Trump's inauguration. www.gofundme.com/f/pretrump-t...
Donate to Pre-Trump Trans Federal Document Project!, organized by Shadi Petosky
As you know! Trans folks have a lot of anxiety about getting all of their Fede… Shadi Petosky needs your support for Pre-Trump Trans Federal Document Project!
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fascism is stopped when enough people say one of two things: 1) "nah, I'm not doing that" 2) "nah, you're not doing that" a lot of people want to imagine how they'll say the second thing, but you should *really* start practicing the first one
More to the point, art is the most visible part of most perspectives, whether ideological or identity-based. The duty of artists representing that which people want eliminated is simply to continue producing art.
Jack Graham@timescarcass.bsky.social · 2y agoCritical analysis of English literature may not be the most important antifascist praxis, but it *is* a kind of antifascist praxis. Literature is where we store and keep and guard everything they hate.
