Deth Veggie
@dethveggie.bsky.social
Herr Doktor Professor Deth Vegetable -- CULT OF THE DEAD COW -- .ooM Hacker / Archaeologist / Gadabout / Professional Something-or-Other. Anti-fascist and Pro-science. As the old axiom says, reality has a liberal bias. Nazis need to be punched.
I'm calling it: "Start smoking" is going to be mainstream MAHA / Republican health advice by 2028. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Flying got better and better for most of my life, but post-9/11 it's gotten WAY worse. Literally the only thing about air travel that's better now than it was pre-9/11 is seatback video screens, and alot of airlines have even been getting rid of those.
THIS.
David M. Perry@lollardfish.bsky.social · 2h agohey @joshuajfriedman.com if there's one thing I might beg you to communicate internally - the (a?) core of bluesky users want opt-in instead of opt-out, because we don't trust social media corporations to ever do good thngs. It's a learned distrust, and it might not be fair, but it's there.
'You'll choke too' - an aerial embroidery landscape inspired by all the wildfires happening right now... I'm upset every time I smell smoke outside and somehow we have people starting them maliciously too! But we all breathe the same air so they'll choke too (1/2 - see thread for close-ups)
This is such a lazy piece. It's like "this is a price control, and price controls always fail." First, it's not a price control. It's a government subsidy. Second, price controls don't "always" backfire. They prevent gouging in emergencies and help regulate monopolies.
USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 2d agoOpinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.
Moreover, Kaine appears to be implying that he is not taking legal issue with the extrajudicial murder of actual narcotraffickers. which, you can’t murder anyone, that’s the thing about murder.
Everyone who isn't willfully ignorant knows this. We are murdering people. These are war crimes.
CNN@cnn.com · 2d agoThe US military’s strikes on alleged drug boats have likely illegally killed “individuals who are not involved in narcotrafficking,” Sen. Tim Kaine told the White House, following “a careful review” of classified information he has seen so far.
Important to underscore that private prisons have long been centrally important to the deportation state. That is why Illinois banned them entirely.
Aman Batheja@amanbatheja.bsky.social · yesterdayNew: ICE recently spent over a billion dollars buying two private prisons that they were already using as detention centers. Officials with the two biggest private prison companies say they expect more such deals are coming.
Again, a bracing reminder that "tough on crime" conservatives are never actually concerned about being tough on CRIME. They want to be tough on PEOPLE who they want to CONTROL: non-white people, say, or in this case women. It has always been about social control, not public safety.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterdayNN: The abuse allegations against Rep. Max Miller -- Moreno says he should resign, but President Trump disagrees. Do you think Miller should step down? REP. JIMMY PATRONIS: No. I agree with the president. This is a family fight. Unfortunately, divorces are messy. There are two sides to every story.
Disappointed in my Senator for lots of reasons, but mainly because as a New Jerseyan, he should have said "shit" on the record here.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterdayBooker: "They have become so obsessed with the millions the Bidens made that they have ignored completely the billions of dollars the Trump family is making. That is like being obsessed with a stain on the living room carpet when behind you is a mountain of excrement."
Given we are approaching that time of the year, my big piece from years back on the 1983 Cold War Crisis (and the role of Stanislav Petrov in it) over onto authory as a free-to-read. Over the years, the myth of what happened has been simplified. The reality was scarier. Because: Ronald Reagan.
The Day the World Didn’t End
At the height of the Cold War, with alarms screaming, one Soviet officer stopped to think. It cost him his career. It may also have saved the world. The morning of the 26th September 1983 had started ...
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Deep shame on Dan Goldman, who misrepresents the Uncommitted movement and El-Sayed. El-Sayed ENDORSED HARRIS. Goldman got beat by 30 points in the NY-10 D primary for many reasons. This kind of thing is one of them.
Jodi Jacobson@jljacobson.bsky.social · yesterdayThe degree to which both Jewish Democratic leaders and white Dems generally are spewing animus toward El-Sayed is both deeply pathetic and deeply embarrassing. Dan Goldman should be ashamed, but he has no shame.
If you want to be friends, you have to stop expelling and terrorizing and harming and killing my friends. That's just a rule I have about friends. www.the-reframe.com/if-you-want-...
If You Want To Be Friends, Then Why Aren’t You Friendly?
A look at one of the most alarming and pressing problems of our age: the much-lamented fact that "the left" won't be friends with "the right," over "political views."
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My thoughts on Bluesky not being welcoming to Republicans is Trump blocks disaster relief to states voting blue, & is also legally codifying anyone who opposes him as a terrorist deserving violence, & his kidnapping brute gangs terrorize the streets, & there's much more but I'm out of characters
Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨@ciaraioch.bsky.social · yesterday"Bluesky is a political echo chamber" okay but I'm mostly here to chat with fun internet people and post art and make jokes, I cannot stress how much I don't care
Truth. As far as I'm concerned, the way blocking/blocklists work is the best technical feature of Bsky, bar none.
A.R. Moxon@juliusgoat.bsky.social · yesterdayThe best thing about this place is all of you (well, most of you), but the 2nd best thing is that if you come on here and you're a bullying dick you'll just get quickly sealed into a box and sunk to the bottom of Bluesky hell, muttering to yourself and leaving the rest of us alone.
Almost everyone who wants a revolution has a very specific perception of who will fall and who will rise. Revolutions, when they come, are notorious for how they do not follow the plan.
"Why can't you just appreciate how revolutionary the job-taking, environment-degrading, information-shredding, technology-hoarding, economy-swamping machine is?" My brother in Christ, there may indeed be a revolution in part because of "AI," but it might not be the one you wanted.
Every now and then someone takes a run at me along the lines of "I don't understand why you, a scifi writer, don't appreciate 'AI'," and I'm all, motherfucker, it's *because* I'm a science fiction writer I have the positions I have, how many times do we have to fucking yell "torment nexus," my dude
This is what happens when anti-racism norms erode, and elites bear a lot of the responsibility for norm erosion, as they have disproportionate power to set and enforce norms
Charles EP Murphy@cepmurphy.bsky.social · yesterdaynews.sky.com/story/nhs-st... stereotypically this has been seen as Old People, but not only would the old people of now have often been born post-Windrush, lot of this will be younger people who've always lived in a diverse Britain. The guy with a pregnant wife likely millennial at oldest
Today, August 4, 2026, is the setting of Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” about a fully automated house continuing on after the family who lived there and the world around it died in a nuclear blast.
It’s no surprise that ICE is surveilling Americans, but it’s nice to have concrete evidence. Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t after you.
Udi Ofer@uofer.bsky.social · yesterdayBombshell report from the Wall Street Journal: DHS has been tracking down Americans at work and on the road who are critical of immigration policies, spending millions on contractors to surveil First Amendment protected speech and create political dossiers. Outrageous. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
