There's a reason why people are trusting internet nutjobs over the Fourth Estate at this point. That Reckless Ben guy did it gonzo-style, but he exposed a massive amount of police corruption while trying to get someone's Lego set back and then locked in on *that* as the big story.

Schnorkles O'Bork@schnorkles.bsky.social · 2w ago

It should be obvious to anyone that a journalism that is fundamentally obsessed with hobknobbing with power as a signal of success is a journalism that cannot speak truth to power at all. The fourth estate is broke, and bluntly, it deserves the fact that it's falling apart.

I foresee absolutely no problems with the gambling platform openly manipulated by people with insider information branching out to death pools...

Django Wexler@djangowexler.bsky.social · 5h ago

Somehow things that would have been a background gag in a Verhoeven movie are now just real

Any time I post about how much I hate James Carville some random person shows up in my replies to tell me James Carville is a good man who is trying to help the party. His wife is a Republican op and all he's done is push the party to the right and you're an idiot if you think that's a coincidence.

If you see someone vamdalizing a Flock camera, no you didn't.

Taking my time to really listen and learn from the very valid concerns of the MAHA movement:

Memento (artemis) Morty 🌙@mementomorty.bsky.social · 8h ago

we should hear MAHA out about this they might be onto something

Consent manufacturing at its finest, folks...

Politico@politico.com · 17h ago

Progressives didn’t get the big election night they wanted

Spider-Man hanging with cops and a serial killer to help anti-mutant bigots is about what I expected for the current political climate.

"I just read the dumbest skeet by Will Stancil." "The dumbest skeet so far."

Do you think the have to keep the mirrors covered in his house to stop him screaming about strange men staring at him?

katie@supermathskid.bsky.social · 2d ago

okay now he's gone too far

They asked *Chibnall*?

IGN@ign.com · yesterday

Solving the "problems" currently plaguing Doctor Who will take time, the series' former showrunner Chris Chibnall has cautioned, explaining that the show's most pressing issue now is "primarily about money." https://bit.ly/3RUqeI6

I will maintain that transphobia is always a symptom of deeper rot in a person's soul, but it is remarkable how online a phenomena it is, to the point you can basically see people self-radicalizing in real-time.

Widow's Bay DSA@gonebabygone.bsky.social · yesterday

I think pointing to problematic stuff in Harry Potter as proof she was "always" like this is misguided because it ignores the very well-documented phenomenon of transphobes driving themselves totally nuts On Phone. She is worse than she's ever been, it's something we all saw happen.

See, mods pulling shit like this on the regular is why everyone was calling out Toni's "liberal bubble" bs...

Karrid 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️@karrid.myatproto.social · yesterday

Well, it appears that, sometime in the last 17 hours, Gwen Pepperoni was suspended for the crime of pointing out Ken Jennings' transphobia.

I've literally copied clip-art into a collage in Excel to create puzzle clues for my players. Looked like shit but it actually got them to understand the visual cues. Skill issue.

Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉@scumbelievable.bsky.social · 2d ago

"I'm entitled to whatever I want whenever I want it for any reason and I don't care what satisfying these urges does to me or the world" well okay dude, seems like there's something deeper going on here, but that's just my take

There are at least *three* right-wing text-based social media sites, one owned by The Actual President, another by the richest man in history, and all of which openly foster white supremacy. But those are not the ones every op-ed page in the western world is sneering about

It's only a "liberal bubble" in comparison to the site actively promoting white supremacists. Fuck off Toni.

The Verge@theverge.com · 2d ago

Bluesky's new CEO Toni Schneider on the platform's reputation for being a liberal bubble: "Yes, we definitely want that to change. It is already changing. It certainly wasn’t designed to attract one specific group of people."

They literally had to find a writer in Texas for this nonsense...

USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 3d ago

Opinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.

Conservatives are having to discover intersectionality and it's absolutely fascinating. Because the movement is ideologically opposed to the very idea of shared principles it feels like a whole lot is up for grabs.

Gonzomancer@samthielman.com · 2d ago

the real MAGA split, and the genuinely interesting one, is over the distribution of various temporarily useful ethnic and racial minority interests without which neither side can claim a plurality. Will raving antisemite Candace Owens triumph over toilet racist Ben Shapiro?

I'm so very tired of cishet liberals...

Watching FRIGHTENERS and, dodgy CGI aside, it's remarkable how much of the plot relies on people *who just experienced paranormal events* doubting Frank. Also this is so aggressively Wellington it's ballsy to set it in America.

Today's Project done-ish

Giving the second season of CAPED CRUSADER a try after thinking the first was pretty terrible. It has not improved.

No because the Harper's letter was targeting trans people

Joshua Foust 🪖🎮@joshuafoust.com · 4d ago

Rowling signed the Harper’s Letter, which lamented, “it is now all too common to hear calls for swift and severe retribution in response to perceived transgressions of speech and thought.” Are ANY of her co-signatories — some follow me — going to speak up about her crusade against trans people?

Surprisingly disappointing month for Vinegar Syndrome. Only subscriber title I'm interested in is OF UNKNOWN ORIGIN, which I already have. Still, FIRST DEADLY SIN is a get, and some people will be excited for DEATH OF A CHEERLEADER.

i honestly want to talk to someone who thinks this is a bad thing to say

A dark day for human rights.

They didn't "make" a fucking thing.

Dartmouth Arts and Sciences@dartmouthartsci.bsky.social · 5d ago

Students in the Foundations of Digital Design and Music and Artificial Intelligence classes teamed up this spring to make animation set to a music track, using AI to expand creativity rather than replace it.

I predict absolutely no one will be happy with those new Dark Sun books for D&D, and this will go down as another example of "don't listen to the loudest fans".