I hate it when my cynicism turns out to be right.

Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈@danifroom.bsky.social · yesterday

Well they finally got around to calling trans people "mutants". Imagine being freely allowed to talk about any other minority this way in a major newspaper.

Y’know what this community needs? More lines in the sand. More rules. More people to whom we can say, “Begone, and be no more a part of our covenant.” I mean, what’s a community without its pariahs?

Nothing like hearing one moment that anyone is allowed to use labels that resonate with them, then hearing the next moment that the labels they choose make them suspicious, if not outright complicit in harm, to make me feel totally safe disclosing anything at all about myself in this community. 🤦‍♀️

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The Cybertruck is getting canned. Post a vehicle women actually like.

The Expanse

Alt: From THE EXPANSE, the Rocinante (formerly MCRN Tachi) spirals in a manoeuvre while firing its 40 mm autocannons.

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Kara Buchanan 🏳️‍⚧️@magicariot.com · 3d ago

The Cybertruck is getting canned. Post a vehicle women actually like. Magica Riot's magical girl band van Vancent Price, of course!

My mother sent me to fetch something from another room. I skipped off down the hallway to get it, and hit my head on the plastic casing of the wall thermostat. I came back and tried to give her whatever I'd been sent to fetch, but she screamed. That's when I realized my hair was soaked with blood.

Steven Perkins@stevenperkins.bsky.social · last wk.

please delight me with your most on-brand story from your childhood mine is that I quit Cubs after two weeks because it clashed with Coronation Street

Make a band less mild: The Sisters of No Mercy

🏳️‍⚧️ Alexandra Merideth Erin [she/her]@alexandraerin.com · 2y ago

Make a band less mild: The Vengeful Dead

pretty sure this song is about to be illegal in the UK so that's neat

Choke, by Jana H-S

from the album Tied

janah-s.bandcamp.com

a lot of people act like winning the election means The Evil Is Defeated, but it's more like putting down the killer in a slasher film: if you don't incinerate the body it's gonna hop right back up and start murdering again

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You can't reform this, you can only abolish it.

ashley fairbanks@ziibiing.com · 3d ago

we can never forget that they shot a mom and a nurse in the middle of the street and told us they deserved it

we can never forget that they shot a mom and a nurse in the middle of the street and told us they deserved it

Congress could rename it to the department of war crime

Huh. Funny, that. Probably nothing to worry about. 😗🎶

Leonard Pierce@leonardpierce.bsky.social · 3d ago

WARNING: Please do not draw any extremely obvious conclusions from the fact that a mass rejection of reactionary authoritarianism resulted in an immediate collapse of the stock market

The fact that “lesbian Twitter” is a thing that can in any meaningful way be said to exist vitiates the credibility of anyone stupid enough to take part in its discourse.

👁️🍄🪸@bloomfilters.plus · 4d ago

i checked lesbian twitter and they're currently 1) arguing over whether the smut you consume makes you a fake lesbian 2) arguing whether the anatomy you give fictional characters in fanart/fic makes you a fake lesbian 3) arguing over whether your taste in women makes you a fake lesbian

We didn’t elect you to play pattycake with murderers. We elected you to DEFEAT them: to destroy ICE, to prosecute every last one of them, and to make them a warning to the future that we have no mercy for fascists. If you can’t do that, there is no point to you, and you will be replaced.

House Judiciary Dems@democrats-judiciary.house.gov · 4d ago

It’s time for ICE to take the masks off, turn the body cameras on, and start answering to the American people who pay for their bloated budget.

Close the camps. Abolish ICE. This ⬇️ is bullshit.

House Judiciary Dems@democrats-judiciary.house.gov · 4d ago

It’s time for ICE to take the masks off, turn the body cameras on, and start answering to the American people who pay for their bloated budget.

I was a girl who didn't know I was a girl, born too early for that to be a thing I was allowed to be, so instead I was brutalized by my stepfather, bullied by my peers, and beaten by anyone who didn't like the look on my face or the way I stood. Bit of a miracle I didn't turn out worse, really. 🤷‍♀️

Louie Stowell@louiestowell.bsky.social · 4d ago

Now I want to know your childhood villain origin story. What radicalised you as a child? What filled you with a rage that lasted a lifetime?

Remember… “Ideas are bulletproof.” It’s the Fifth of November. Keep fighting fascism. (Page from the V for Vendetta graphic novel by Alan Moore and David Lloyd)

"Now is the time to reach across the aisle." Me:

Anime Girl Drawing Katana with Rifle Nearby

Alt: A girl in a short skirt with thigh-high socks with garters tosses a rifle aside, pushes her katana loose from its scabbard with the thumb of the hand holding it, and begins to draw the katana with the other. A flash of light glints off the blade.

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ℭ𝔥𝔱𝔥𝔬𝔫𝔦𝔵, ℭ𝔬𝔩𝔡 𝔅𝔯𝔢𝔴 & ℭ𝔬𝔣𝔣𝔦𝔫𝔰🪦🍂@chthonix.bsky.social · 5d ago

"Now is the time to reach across the aisle" Me:

you think "understanding" matters because you've been convinced that you have power over who we are. you are trying to be supportive, maybe, by using that magical power that you think you have to make us more "real" you do not have that power. you are just imposing violence on us like everyone else

Jana H-S (she, like a knife)@jana-aych-ess.bsky.social · 5d ago

the thing that you, hypothetical cis reader, should be trying to understand is not the intricacies of anyone's gender, or the reason that they ask that they be referred to and thought of in a specific way the thing you should be trying to understand is that your feelings simply don't fucking matter

You want to know what you can do? Like right now? Pick up your phone, and call the two senators for your state. Tell them your name, your zip code, and say you want new leadership when the Dems take the senate majority next year. It will take MINUTES and could make a monumental difference.

Black Aziz Anansi@blackazizanansi.blacksky.app · 5d ago

I just called Jon Ossoff's office and requested that he not support Chuck Schumer as the next majority leader.

GODDAMN PEGGY COMIN IN 🔥HOT🔥

Bring Me The News@bringmethenews.bsky.social · 5d ago

The day after winning election, Senator-elect Peggy Flanagan called for Chuck Schumer to be replaced as the Democrats’ leader in the U.S. Senate.

Taking a break from politics to sit at my desk and sob a few times. This album is so good that I’m kind of in awe. I’ve never heard anything like it before. You should listen to it. (And turn on the subtitles!)

Musical Transients (Full Album)

YouTube video by Psynwav

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Okay, let’s pump the brakes on the Washington state despair for a bit, things aren’t settled yet. 🤞

Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE@leftistlawyer.com · 5d ago

Deleted my last post because people in Washington are telling me that contrary to media reports, the anti trans genital inspection referendum there did NOT pass. Apparently there are still a million outstanding votes, mostly from blue areas. Thank you for the correction (and, frankly, the hope)!

woke is back and it has a fucking gun

The data does not lie. Black women turned out at 94% Democratic. Black men at 77%. Every non-white voting bloc leaned Democratic by double digits. White men voted Republican at 61%. White women at 59%. If you want a progressive agenda in this country, it must be acknowledged and respected,

Holy shit. I expected “Peggy Flanagan” to be the name of someone who makes a mean casserole, not someone eager for blood… but she sounds ready to go curb-stomp fascists. 😳 I wonder if she’d share her casserole recipe with me.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5d ago

Peggy Flanagan: "We will rip ICE apart!"

As a former Seattleite, I cannot stress enough how misinformed people are about the Pacific Northwest. Yes, Seattle and Portland are more progressive than many cities… but their progressivism is a lot more centrist than you think, and they’re surrounded by a LOT of deep red counties.

Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢@taliabhatt.itch.io · 5d ago

The Genital Inspections For Girls ballot measure in Washington looks like it's going to pass btw