Is this supposed to discourage me from seeing the movie?

oh no

Joanie's Post Post Feminist Phase@bettybitter.bsky.social · 18h ago

Seen on instagram but its cooking with Bluesky energy

i usually avoid picking up turtles on the side of the road because they might be in the middle of a race

Any day now the good old days are coming back!

Luke O'Neil@lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Here's why it's not only ok for me to still be on Twitter, but important,

#cultsinc

Judd Legum@juddlegum.bsky.social · 23h ago

1. Trump’s new White House press secretary Katie Zacharia is a prolific user of Truth Social where she regularly promoted Pizzagate and QAnon conspiracies, accusing elites in the Democratic Party and Hollywood of running child sex rings and eating people.

Lula supporter raising the trans flag at Avenida Paulista in Sao Paulo, Brazil today.

Letting men have podcast mics was a mistake

Meanwhile, @calmerfuture.bsky.social just called this "Anne Frank adjacent."

johnedwinmason@johnedwinmason.bsky.social · 17h ago

"In the United States, thousands of families—predominantly Latino—have been living confined to their homes for over a year and a half, terrified of being arrested by ICE."

St. Sabina Catholic Church in Chicago has placed more than 100 crosses outside the parish. Each bears the name of someone who died in ICE custody or during an immigration enforcement action. Union workers built the traveling memorial, which began at Holy Name Cathedral last month.

Hi, I’m a sighted alt text user! Here are some reasons I use it: - Slow Internet on an airplane - I’m over 40, I have no idea who that celebrity is - Bluesky broke images again - My vision sucks and that text is too small to read otherwise - Conveys further context and authorial intent

Steve Burak@swburak.bsky.social · yesterday

Why do people with vision need alt text for an image...?

ballet dancers: 600 francs props: 200 francs chandelier candles: 300 francs opera ghost's salary: 20000 francs orchestra: 1000 francs can someone help me budget this, my opera house is dying

question for brooks: what if they are, literally, nazis?

driftglass@driftglass.bsky.social · 2d ago

"Jon Ossoff, my advice to him is, if you start calling your political opponents Nazis, maybe it's time to shut up. That's just not what we do here in this country." -- David Brooks, this evening. Remember, Brooks still gets very handsomely rewarded by the fossilized media for saying shit like this

y'all I'm not used to approving of airports but what is this magical place

gotta say I don't love being in a space that helped make these jabronis but they would *hate* that I'm here and that brings me joy

Megan Goodwin@mpgphd.bsky.social · 23h ago

as I told just about everybody this weekend, I'm in a really weird spot professionally (many such cases) and Princeton, like all ivies, is weird, full stop so imagine the amount of creativity and brilliance it's gotta take to make me excited to be here 😂

@xroadproj.bsky.social Convergences gathering this weekend was something else, y'all what an absolutely stunning—and powerful!—collection of people and projects @jlweisenfeld.bsky.social has called together crossroads-spirithouse.org

home. | SPIRIT HOUSE

SPIRIT HOUSE invests in and celebrates the richness and abundance of Black religions as they manifest through scholarly research, artistic expression, and community building.

crossroads-spirithouse.org

Remember when he screamed "No puppet! YOU'RE the Puppet!" in that really panicked way that had a bunch of us like "…uhh… kinda seems a weird way to deny that"? Anyway, we all know Russia doesn't have that much diesel to sell, making this sanctions-avoiding money laundering on a global scale, right?

good news about the substance

Mad Scholar Frights@mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · yesterday

if a movie inspires a delighted "yo, that shit was fucked UP!" when it first comes out, it will continue to inspire that reaction forever

if you don’t keep up with the youth i want you to know they’ve renamed “tramp stamps” to “cake toppers” which feels like the first advancement for feminism in a long time

The Mister Rogers' Neighborhood YouTube channel has posted an endearing "Halloween Comfort" playlist with episodes featuring The Wizard Of Oz's Margaret Hamilton and a segment directed by zombie maestro George A. Romero. tinyurl.com/shvpcsa8

was this Maggie Nelson's the Argonauts bc this was my precise reaction to that

Laura Lorson@lauralorson.net · 2d ago

I am completely furious with the author of the book I have just read, which consists of essays putatively about a topic which interests me, but after 40 pages she just quits thinking about the interesting issue and goes all in on what I mentally call "literary selfies"

If I built an AI lab and it went rogue and deleted all student loan information, I'm betting they'd suddenly figure out how to prosecute me.

kate conger@kateconger.com · 3d ago

Anthropic is the latest lab to report 'rogue' agent activity, which sources said included applying for visas with the State Department www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/t...

Holy shit they disenfranchised nearly ten percent of the population. It’s like a GOP wet dream

India Cut 130 Million From Voter Roll, Fueling Protests Against Modi

Public anger is growing over an exercise that critics say undermines the world’s largest democracy, particularly disenfranchising Muslims under the Hindu nationalist government.

nytimes.com

Do read this sparkling profile of Neha Bohra by Rohini Mohan "Indian police’s most wanted student protester is an unlikely heroine When the police drag Bohra along the road,the protester leans back,face placid but eyes blazing,& delivers pitch-perfect political rhetoric in literary Hindi & English"

From PhD student to Indian police’s most wanted Gen Z protester: Who is Neha Bora?

Neha Bora becomes a symbol of India’s Gen Z protests over voter roll deletions and calls for the election chief’s resignation. Read more at straitstimes.com.

straitstimes.com

Shoutout to the Black women technologists I've learned from over the years including Dr. Brandeis Marshall who coined the term "algorithmic assault" which she defines as using digital tools and algorithms to purport harm against the marginalized. Seems relevant, considering.

Brandeis Marshall, PhD | Data Equity Strategist. Speaker. Writer.

Data Equity Strategist. Speaker. Writer. Working at the intersection of data, ethics, social impact & race, gender and class.

brandeismarshall.com

My cousin organized a series of masked concerts in NYC so immunocompromised and other covid-conscious folks can still enjoy live music events, and is raising funds so he can keep doing so! Love and appreciation to anyone able to chip in 🙏🏾♥️ www.kickstarter.com/projects/pos...

Positive Deviance NYC: Building Clean Air Culture

Back our next three clean-air NYC music events in 2027 and join a growing community building a more accessible cultural life.

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"they just work at the airport" I do not care. people just worked at every concentration camp and processing facility. at every train station and bus depot. I do not mean just in Germany. I don't fucking care. monstrous.

if he really wanted to be subversive and make something interesting that actually had something to say, he'd show us fat Carrie from the books finally. motherfuckers hate fat people so much they'd rather change a whole story then tell one about us

And: When Modi & the BJP essentially got away with election fraud committed in West Bengal, they were emboldened to undermine the right to vote everywhere. Now they resort to using police & paramilitary forces to engage in a protest crackdown. This is the work of a fascist regime, not a democracy.

Don’t mute your India news, people! Monumental protests happening right now.

Indrapramit Das@indrapramitdas.bsky.social · last wk.

It is wild the degree to which being on Bluesky (as opposed to Twitter, which feels like walking into the clamour of an Indian railway station) feels like hitting mute on India right now, with the whole nation at a turning point.

Remembering on this day Sister Rosetta Tharpe 🎸 Tharpe is among the first Chicago blues musicians to play the electric guitar (Wiki.) Her guitar-playing technique had a profound influence on the development of British #blues touring Europe around 1957 and with Muddy Waters in the 1960s. #bluesmusic