The best thing about Vote Blue No Matter Who is that it unloads a lot of cognitive burden. I wanted Tom Steyer to be in the Governor's race, but he's not so I'm gonna vote for Becerra. I don't follow his campaign at all: I'm voting for him because he's not a Republican.

Twin Peaks: Gordon Cole.

Eating is white supremacy but we're not ready for that conversation.

I’m doing my part to change this!

bonque, ben (טריפה שאלות)@kwstzhaderbonch.bsky.social · yesterday

Yes, there are cats on BlueSky. But they're not yet a core feature of the experience.

Can - Tago Mago - Ege Bamyasi - Future Days What else comes close?

Mia Murphy 🏳️‍⚧️@miamurphy.com · 4d ago

What's the best three album run from a band? (the correct answer is Moving Pictures, Signals, and Grace Under Pressure by Rush, but I'm excited to learn second place)

Edu Lobo - Cantiga de Longe - Missa Breve - Limite das Aguas bsky.app/profile/cyan...

Mia Murphy 🏳️‍⚧️@miamurphy.com · 4d ago

What's the best three album run from a band? (the correct answer is Moving Pictures, Signals, and Grace Under Pressure by Rush, but I'm excited to learn second place)

kirking hard or hardly kirking?

Sky Marchini@sky.skymarchini.net · 3d ago

sister tells me that the kids these days don't say "low key" they say "lowkirk" or "lowkirkuinely" and I don’t know how to handle this information

Just got followed by a gay porn & sex toys account. Curious if there’s something that scanned as gay about my posts? Or the account just likes my dumb jokes & politics reply guy posting?

Why? Because they suck! I love this store, a couple blocks from the library, filled with beautiful things, mostly clothing, mostly from Japan or made on site A lot of it gorgeous but not anything I could pull off, but they have a line of men’s shirts that look great & fit me so perfectly

Michael DiTullo@d2lo.bsky.social · 6d ago

Why do people think downtown Portland is “scary”? This is what is happening on Thursday at lunch. Live music, people playing ping pong, jenga, corn hole, and connect four, sun shining… #pdx #portland #downtownpdx @drmitchpdx.bsky.social

This is Fenrir. He has not yet been successful in cuddling with the cat. But thinks if he goes slow enough she might not notice. 13/10 (IG: fenrirfanclub)

This is a really cool idea generally and especially if you’re in or have a connection to Lane County Oregon. I’m camping this weekend with some friends originally from there & who have family still residing outside Eugene & will spread the word

Oregon 🕎🎲@oregonthedm.bsky.social · 6d ago

Update #1 Sponsored Results 7 garbage bags of trash picked up Pulled Invasive thorn bushes and weeds for a wildflower park for bee Next week is chopping vegetables for Burrito Brigade to feed homeless And sorting/packing a freezer for Food for Lane County (food bank) 6 hours still available

I got into a hollering argument about trans rights with a chud at my Olympic weightlifting gym a few years ago. A few weeks later, he dropped a full-blown N-bomb during a casual conversation. It's like clockwork.

ashley 🌹@clearlyashley.bsky.social · 7d ago

trans rights frankly is a top 5, potentially top 3 issue for me despite not being trans and not having any trans family being bigoted against trans folks not only hurts my trans friends and every trans person but is so predictive of further bigotry

the cure to the male loneliness epidemic is to realize that it actually is a real mental health crisis and why so many incel youtbers are having so much clout cuz folks want to treat it as a joke rather than like an actual mental health issue

Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫@lookitup.baby · 6d ago

A thing I learned a while back that blew my mind is that men almost never receive compliments, especially cishet men. Giving a man a compliment will literally make their year

Looking up the word “frumpy” on Wikipedia and seeing that picture of Douthat Following a link from “frumpy” to one for “loser energy” and ah! Douthat—We meet again! Through the Wikipedia wormhole we go, “rancid vibes” to “sad sack” to “oof” & on & on…it’s Douthat all the way down

Mark Copelovitch@mcopelov.bsky.social · 6d ago

Inside you there are two wolves:

One of the greatest bad movies of all time #Victory

The maternal great grandfather I knew best fought in WW1 in the British army, got injured, fell in love with a nurse at the hospital & they came to the US and settled in the Bay Area where he was a maintenance man at different places before retiring to Fairfax & died in his 90s when I was a kid

Mr. Chimpanzy@cyanescens.bsky.social · 6d ago

One of my paternal great grandfathers was a classic “went out to get a pack of smokes & never came back” guy c. 1930, leading to my grandfather leaving school early to work in the oil fields of west Texas & eventually working his way up to VP at a natural gas company. Can you guess his politics?

One of my paternal great grandfathers was a classic “went out to get a pack of smokes & never came back” guy c. 1930, leading to my grandfather leaving school early to work in the oil fields of west Texas & eventually working his way up to VP at a natural gas company. Can you guess his politics?

Mr. Chimpanzy@cyanescens.bsky.social · 6d ago

100 years ago my maternal grandfather’s job was learning to control his bowels On my dads side I’d guess basic spelling & grammar, some arithmetic

100 years ago my maternal grandfather’s job was learning to control his bowels On my dads side I’d guess basic spelling & grammar, some arithmetic

Revan@revan.eurosky.social · 7d ago

Enough “what would you do on the commune questions” If you got sent back 100 years and were given your grandparent’s job, what are you doing?

I propose that the next Democratic trifecta places a small tax—maybe just a nickel—on cynical or “recreationally nihilistic” social media posts on any platform.

Mr. Chimpanzy@cyanescens.bsky.social · 7d ago

“Recreational nihilism” accurately describes a distressingly large portion of Bluesky content

“Recreational nihilism” accurately describes a distressingly large portion of Bluesky content

Derek@d-coo.bsky.social · 7d ago

"Recreational nihilism serves no political purpose." - @pollytics.bsky.social

Great point made here and a a bunch of very reasonable, thoughtful replies

Hemry, Local Bartender@bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 7d ago

Without addressing the hate mob phenomenon which is self-evidently bad I think we're also running into a philosophical difference where one side is like "does this action solve this problem" and the other is like "is this action morally good"

[sitting in a therapist's office] [record scratch] i bet you're wondering how i wound up here

We have a plan to bring Donkey Kong back to New York where he belongs

Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑@emilylhauser.bsky.social · last wk.

I'm sorry this is one of the funniest pictures I've ever seen

It *is* really funny that Kash Patel has that same goofy, googly-eyed expression in every photo I’ve ever seen of him

The New Republic@newrepublic.com · last wk.

“PSA: Now that my case is settled, you are free to refer to @FBIDirectorKash as a ‘chud,’ a ‘googly-eyed Kremlin bitch,’ and a ‘traitor’ without fear of legal repercussions!” trib.al/e8IVBnp

just in case you wanted a rough idea of audience ratio and mob dynamics timing

Hey, me too!

Elliot@1t2ls.bsky.social · last wk.

I am, broadly speaking, a Rortyan liberal, which means I think good government is a product of experimentation, a thriving society supports a diverse range of viewpoints and goals, government ought to promote justice and equality for all, and we should view human cruelty as the worst thing.

- I am pro democracy. - I think liberalism is good. - I am generally in favor of well-regulated capitalism. - I think marxism can be analytically useful within limits - I am tolerant of ambiguity and suspicious of binaries.

I am, broadly speaking, a Rortyan liberal, which means I think good government is a product of experimentation, a thriving society supports a diverse range of viewpoints and goals, government ought to promote justice and equality for all, and we should view human cruelty as the worst thing.

Jesus—made what I thought was *obviously* a dumb little joke reply to a post, but just to be safe posted a reply to mine stating “I hope it’s obvious that was a joke but since this is Bluesky you never know” Bet you can guess what happened next…