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I left X almost exactly two years ago because of the violent, celebrated rape culture that was dominating the platform. Two years later, Iโm undeniably better off, and the culture around sexual violence at large is arguably worse. I believe X has played a serious role in that.
Character raised more than $190 million in investment. Perhaps worst of all, the founders of this terrible company were quietly exfiltrated back into the loving embrace of Google, whence they came, returning to lucrative jobs as their shithole company imploded over terrible harms to children.
This is actually really striking. The Republican candidates are genuinely quite bad!
Paul Waldman@paulwaldman.bsky.social ยท 3h agoIt's really remarkable how in race after race, Republicans are saddled with the worst candidates imaginable - Paxton, Whatley, Husted, Rogers, Marshall, Moody, M. Collins, Graham... Some of them may win, but my god what a collection of losers, crooks, and dumbasses
Took me years to embrace my propensity for swearing Every person who ever told me not to swear ,or act more like a lady Go fuck yourselves
Hello Sunshine: a horror GN about a boy who comes home from bible camp to find that his secret boyfriend, Alex, is missing after a public mental breakdown. Eisner, Harvey, and Ringo nominee, winner of a Graphic Medicine award and an ALA honor award for best GN โ๏ธ Here: bookshop.org/p/books/hell...
Broke up with my medieval bf because he keeps asking a priest over to read the mail
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Probably the saddest thing is you donโt realise the best days of your life are the best days until theyโre gone, just hindsight and you look back. Anyway have a good day
Musgraves, who asked a trio of mariachi players who had been abducted by ICE to open for her, โhas been forcefully and repeatedly connecting the dots between how closely relatedโand indebtedโcountry music is to Mexican traditional sounds and the ppl that MAGA is constantly demonizing and targeting.โ
Rolling Stone@rollingstone.com ยท 2w agoNo One Trolls MAGA Better Than Kacey Musgraves Raising money for immigrant children, descending from disco testicles, and shading Ted Cruz, the Texas-born singer repeatedly drives MAGA crazy while making big bucks for charity.
heartbreaking: yakub has admitted to switching over to using AI to generate new types of white people
HOW CAN YOU TELL ME THAT YOU LOVE ME WHEN IโM SITTING ON YOUR FACE
ASSASSIN'S CREED VALHALLA HAS THE WRONG SQUIRRELS
Daniel@deargodwhaat.bsky.social ยท 20h agoPrompts a fun question: whats the most niche historical inaccuracy in a piece of work that annoys you Not like 'oh they were referring to the wrong king' , more 'they had the wrong king on a banknote in one scene'
I openly tell my cousins that it's fantastic getting to be an uncle when I see their kids but that it's also fantastic getting to go home and not deal with them whenever we're done hanging out so I feel this to my marrow
Karen K. Ho@karenho.bsky.social ยท 19h agoI admire anyone who is choosing to have kids but I have heard many of my toddler nephew's tantrums and they continue to be the best form of birth control for me.
Seeing a lot of folks wondering why establishment Dems aren't using this as more of an attack and I'd like to remind everyone that when Musk and Trump "fell out" last year those party leaders were drooling at the prospect of converting Musk because they wanted this very war chest for themselves
Tim OโBrien@timobrien.bsky.social ยท yesterdayMusk has funneled more than $276 million into Republican groups and his PAC since July, building a huge turnout operation for the midterms. โThe staggering amount of money makes Mr. Musk, the richest person in the world, by far the largest known donor in the midtermsโ www.nytimes.com/2026/10/12/u...
"Celebrity vs. Brooklyn toy store" feels like a good example of why a major power shouldn't want to be drawn into asymmetrical warfare
Werner Herzog: you see in this creature the cruel mockery of nature. A man attempting to harness the beastial nature of Gharfeld, the decadence of Nehrmal, but the image is one of a grim masquerade
Iโm ok. Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement. For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation. I will not be silenced.
I just don't care about any ~law enforcement~ story coming out of this administration because the idea of this man enforcing laws is preposterous on its face. We're talking about an arsonist doing fire code inspections. You're a sucker if you engage with any of it in good faith
Relationships are just someone who understands your jokes enough to want to keep seeing your genitals.
She was 12. This is a claim that a 12 year old committed immigration fraud.
Adam Serwer@adamserwer.bsky.social ยท yesterdayI do not think an exec branch led by a man who thinks he is entitled to treat federal agents as an arm of his firm, refers to Somali Americans as โgarbageโ and has said racist things specifically about Omar is capable of neutrally applying the law to her, to put it mildly apnews.com/article/ilha...
What's a genre jump for a franchise you think could work? Like I think Rocky punching his way through a zombie uprising led by undead racist Pauly could have been fun