My secret, Cap, is that I'm *always* angry about old books. For instance, here's a tiny slice of the millions of books 1931-1986 that have no commercial value, that are digitized, but that we're unable to use in large-scale research because they are illegal to share or display.

ive been almost entirely off this app for about a month or so and now opening it feels like taking ten points of bleed damage every second

i'm firmly of the belief that everyone should have a creative hobby. even if you aren't "good" at it. it keeps your critical thinking skills engaged, it reminds you that you're still capable of learning and growing and improving at things, it helps you connect to other people. you gotta make stuff!

that is lindsey graham's legacy, and it's the only thing funny-adjacent (in a horrifying way) about him absolutely being closeted: he dedicated his life to torturing and traumatizing the people who felt like he did, channeling his self-hatred outward onto everyone else.

olive consumer@machete.gay · 2mo ago

While almost every joke about Lindsey Graham being a closet case is deeply unfunny and there are much cleverer forms of homophobia, I do think all the hand-wringing about it misses the point that it's funny a man whose life made the lives of gay people worse (a) was probably gay and (b) is dead.

DC is, flatly, owed statehood after what they have been through under this man to make sure this shit never happens again

Dave Karpf@davekarpf.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The entire city is on edge right now. It’s 96 degrees, we’re interrupted every 5 min by the sound of low-flying fighter jets, and the president has managed to ruin July 4th. Quietly muttering to myself: “just wait until IT happens. Everyone will be so happy when IT happens. It’ll be incredible…”

Hennepin County has cancelled the monthly outdoor warning siren test today due to the potential for severe weather. If you hear sirens today, assume it is a real alert and seek shelter immediately.

Just got an utena figure at Pride while wearing a lesbian flag. I've peaked its all downhill from here

Here we go again... again...

The Associated Press@apnews.com · 3mo ago

BREAKING: Iran's joint military command says that the Strait of Hormuz is closed again and cites Israeli attacks in Lebanon.

i disagree that it's something that's *going* to happen, because it pretty much already has happened

Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast@irhottakes.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Again reiterating my belief that “non-binary” is eventually going to go down the same route as “socialist” due to right-wing abuse of the term. Just like a “socialist” now is someone who wants potholes filled, a nonbinary person will eventually become a dudebro at the gym who does not beat his wife.

quick little march 7th #hsr

Shoutout to my pikmin bloom friends who I've never met in person or exchanged words with but send postcards to and always see at the same mushrooms

uptown nix flake@coffeeknife.wrenspace.dev · 3mo ago

Pikmin bloom. Play it

Pikmin bloom. Play it

If you're getting your knowledge of history from TikTok and Instagram and not from books (or at least long-form content made by real historians), then you are learning history in exactly the same way Elon Musk is, just on a different site than Xitter and w/ guillotines instead of Roman statue heads.

Zoomer Antimillenarian@surcomplicated.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Some ppl on this site need to read actual history instead of watching TikTok memes about it.

Okay, fine. Muppet Evangelion. I have never actually watched Evangelion, but from secondhand nerd culture knowledge, I believe this to be a funny idea.

Christopher Bird@mightygodking.com · 3mo ago

All these people naming literary classics are cowards. Give me FEAR AND LOATHING IN MUPPET LAS VEGAS. Give me MUPPET HOUSE OF LEAVES. MUPPET VALLEY OF THE DOLLS. FLOWERS IN THE MUPPET ATTIC. FIFTY SHADES OF GREY FELT

suddenly filled with the urge to put up a yard sign

🌙 TSUKUYOMI.・ﾟ+.ﾟ Lunar Divinity 🌓 #ffxiv

what...what exactly is this depicting

Bruce@contrasoma.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Seriously, Lego, what the fuck.

testing a new hypothesis of gauging my flare level by how red my fingertips are compared to the rest of my body

Popular unpopular opinion: touchscreens in cars meant to be operated by drivers are a terrible idea to the point that they should perhaps be made literally illegal

Many of you

The 5th Circuit gets all the attention, but the 8th is pretty wretched actually. It's not an accident that Minnesota filed its Tuohey case in DC.

Chris Geidner@chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 3mo ago

On Wednesday, the Eighth Circuit denied en banc rehearing in the mandatory detention case, further making clear SCOTUS review is all but inevitable next term. Background: www.lawdork.com/p/eighth-cir...

An actually cool documentary project would be drawing a random sample of Americans and paying each of them to have a one-on-one conversation about politics with Boots Riley, and seeing what he thought about this thesis afterwards.

Sam@samd.bsky.social · 3mo ago

the idea that there is a latent far-left socialist majority that refuses to vote is legitimately just the political equivalent of a cargo cult

explain your @ I was really into persona 5 when I was 16 and have had the same handle since. the domain is just my go to video game character name with the semi-standard "space.dev" ending

Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫@lookitup.baby · 3mo ago

explain your @ look it up, baby

Fuck ICE. Fuck Trump. Fuck all Fascists. These weak intimidation tactics won't stop us.

Daniel Suitor@danielsuitor.com · 3mo ago

What's starting in Minneapolis today is going to be just like the Broadview 6 case. A desperate attempt at a show trial pursued by dumb, vicious prosecutors performing for an audience of one. An attempt to discourage and scare people from fighting back. It's not going to work.

i think meg griffin would love Love and Deepspace

Memo to Democrats: You can be cis and straight and the Republicans will still run a homophobic and transphobic campaign against you. Also there will be racism. So just do the right thing. Support the most vulnerable in our society full throatedly and proudly.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3mo ago

REP. BRANDON GILL: This is a much more effeminate version of Beto O'Rourke ... this is somebody who is really obsessed with children ... I think of James Talarico as a barely straight version of Pete Buttigieg KAYLEIGH McENANY: We know Talarico has a longtime girlfriend and she's very beautiful

they didn't lie, spending less time on bsky is good for your brain

I think that one of the reasons tech CEOs are such shitheads is that people in tech just want to work on their stuff. We don't want to be leaders, collectively, and that means that we constantly promote social climbers up and out over us because we'd rather not worry about that shit

"never assume that children will remain where you last saw them" --dewalt push mower manual