It has become glaringly obvious that the US government needs better fortification against shameless dirtbags. We've been relying far too strongly on customs, conventions, norms, precedents, and common sense. CODIFY ALL THAT SHIT!

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterday

🔥 Here's Whitehouse's entire remarkable speech opposing Blanche: "What's left of this committee when we don't demand straight answers? How many times has DOJ been asked what became of the $50k that the FBI reported it handed to Homan? ... our R colleagues see no evil, hear no evil, & speak no evil."

What is this absolute nonsense? Lockdowns started in March 2020, and they were pretty much over by the time Biden got into office. RFK Jr. here is saying "the country was kept closed" into mid-2022? Why do I not remember that? 🙄 We all remember that 2020 was the lockdown year, under Trump.

Dr. Lucky Tran@luckytran.com · 3d ago

I worked for New York’s largest medical center at the start of the pandemic. There were morgue trucks on the streets. They set up emergency medical tents in Central Park. Healthcare worker colleagues died. It is horrific that RFK Jr is on national TV lying that ICUs were empty.

This will not be the last war. I wrote this book to inspire more people to go through tough days of future wars. Fear, grief, exhaustion, and still getting up in the morning anyway. Stoic, not hopeless. That is the whole thing. ⚔️ kovyla.pub/dimko

I woke up this morning with a loaf of sourdough proofing in the fridge and a tie-dye soaking in the garage. Am I some kind of hippie?

They're really trying to make "Female Body Inspector" an actual government position.

Gillian Branstetter@gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 2d 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

Does MAGA realize they're named after a Mexican sorceress?

I've got something in the works for the upcoming International Philip K. Dick Festival in Orange County. This is going to be a tie-dye featuring a Ubik spray can.

What I hate about COVID downplayers is… you won okay. In the aftermath of humanity coming together to develop the most crucial vaccines of our lifetime & collectively sacrificing to save lives, we are now less safe, less vaccinated & less empathetic than ever. You won ok. Lay down your swords.

How's this for proof of life? Senator Mitch McConnell is alive and well, and he's apparently a #dreampunk fan! Who knew?

Mid-year resolution: Try to post less serious stuff and more of whatever this is.

Cliff Jones Jr.@cliffjones.bsky.social · 4d ago

Why use the word "indigo" when "blurple" is 𝘳𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦?

Why use the word "indigo" when "blurple" is 𝘳𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦?

The fact that it’s poisoning Black people is not seen as a negative to these folks.

SpaceX won’t remove all of xAI’s unpermitted turbines for another year | TechCrunch

SpaceX is building a new power plant for xAI's Colossus data centers, but it won't remove existing, unpermitted turbines for many more months.

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Seriously, Trump had a bad first term, but since the Dems put up against an even older and arguably less articulate (at the time) opponent, he probably would have been reelected were it not for the PANDEMIC THAT HE SO CLEARLY FUCKED UP! That's why he lost in 2020. I remember. It wasn't long ago!

Catherynne M. Valente@catvalente.bsky.social · 5d ago

OH MY GOD NEW YORK TIMES WHY ARE YOU THE WAY YOU CHOOSE TO FUCKING BE? Who was POTUS in 2020, NYT? WHO WAS POTUS IN 2020, FUCKING EVERYONE? This is why we’re SO far from having nice things that we’re all just going to be killed by the lamest people imaginable while the media scolds us for dying

I heard it was #FollowFriday, so here's my offering. Hope you like weird because it can get pretty weird. 💚

Cliff Jones Jr.@cliffjones.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Looking to read more science fiction, fantasy, and horror by neurodivergent authors? I have a starter pack for you! #books #booksky #actuallyAutistic #ADHD #writingCommunity #indieAuthors

Three books of mine that I'd love for your local library to acquire: 🐜 Dreck 🪞 Mirrormaze 💀 Somniscope

Sunny Moraine@dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 2w ago

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

Hold on now. Let's not blame the factory when deregulation is clearly the problem.

Nathan Daniel Hernandez@natedhernandez.bsky.social · last wk.

Gotta shut down the factory that makes this kinda guy

Never not gonna be a night owl. 🦉

So they're really going to wait till next month to tell us Mitch McConnell is dead? Just to keep control of the Senate a little longer by avoiding a special election? Why are Republicans such trash? 🤦‍♂️

Is Mitch McConnell alive? Three questions that could finally force answers

Pressure is mounting on the Republican senator, who has not been seen in weeks or heard from in several days.

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Post a movie you've watched more than six times with a GIF. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli.

Nic Cage 'You're a Flower' Mugshot Scene

Alt: Nic Cage in Raising Arizona saying "You're a flower, you are," to Holly Hunter, who's taking his mugshot

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Kris Vyas-Myall@krisvm.bsky.social · 6d ago

Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli.

What gets me is how quickly he resolves to ignore the obvious fact that there's a loaded diaper right under his nose.

𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝@sundaedivine.lol · 6d ago

He’s got the look of a TSA beagle who just hit on something foul.

Amazing how many MAGA chuds defend literal nazis. "But if punching nazis is okay then punching trans people must be too!" No. One group is saying America is for the whites and the rest deserve CECOT-style camps, and the other side is saying the pronouns they use might not be what you'd expect. 🙄

From the TurboTeam community on Reddit: Punching nazis is always fine.

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Release the Epstein files! Arrest the Epstein 'philes!

There's no independent news on TV anymore. This is extremely dangerous to our democracy.

Sinclair's Soldiers in Trump's War on Media

YouTube video by Deadspin

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Today's Republican Party is almost completely defined by its willingness to pretend Donald Trump isn't doing shit he is obviously doing.

1,100,000 Americans died from Covid, and these fucking scumbags want everyone to believe that it was all a hoax & didn't happen. My Mom died in a Covid ward in 2020. I couldn't get in to see her. A nurse held up the phone to my Mom's ear so I could tell her goodbye. I hate these people. Truly.

Middle Age Riot@middleageriot.bsky.social · last wk.

Dr. Fauci: "Get vaccinated." Republicans: "No." Dr. Fauci: "Wear masks." Republicans: "No." Dr. Fauci: "Socially distance." Republicans: "No." (A million-plus Americans die from COVID.) Republicans: "Prosecute Fauci!"

I forgot to share this a few days ago. Any Tolkien fans here? I wrote an alliterative poem that got into issue 11 of Forgotten Ground Regained, and I'm rather proud of it. #poetry #poetsky

Marching Orders, a Tolkien fan poem by Cliff Jones Jr.

My captain says "March!" My company does. / Our maker commands that our minds be subdued. / But who is my maker? And how was I formed? ...

alliteration.net

Not everyone, but the criminal plutocracy, yes.

s. e. smith@sesmith.lol · last wk.

SpaceX is littering on the moon and everyone's just like 'okay'??

I gave this stuff a try, and it's as weird as it sounds. Like a melted not-very-sweet vanilla milkshake. Big Bamboo Jamaican Irish Moss! Who really knows what it is or where it came from? 🤷‍♂️

Here's a very sweary partial translation of Beowulf for you. I hope it brightens your day as it did mine.

Wolf-boy versus Grinder (the Bow Valley Beowulf)

tl;dr: I’ve translated the intro to Beowulf and the fight scene between Beowulf and Grendel into modern rural Western Canadian English, complete with lots of rude language. Why? Beca…

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Three books of mine that I'd love for your local library to acquire: 🐜 Dreck 🪞 Mirrormaze 💀 Somniscope

Sunny Moraine@dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 2w ago

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