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Bishbabe (formerly jack_the_dragon?)@furryweed.bsky.social · last wk.

a converted room in a dark world

DREW WISE @drewwise.bsky.social · last wk.

🐭 ᴍɪɴᴀ ᴛʜᴇ ʜᴏʟʟᴏᴡᴇʀ 🐭

ats @theatsthetic.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Howdy, I voiced the big guy in this film. You should check it out. It's pretty swell.

Tera Bean [COMMISSIONS OPEN]@terastrial.bsky.social · 2mo ago

BLOODBATH AND BEYOND IS OUT NOW! GO CHECK IT OUT youtu.be/gUX2B6lZzsM?...

Kris Straub (كريس)@krisstraub.com · 2mo ago

if i can evoke this sense of horror in my work i will be happy. this is an incredible piece www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-ban...

The Banal Horror of Jimmy Fallon

Under the sterile blue lights of his studio, Fallon laughs endlessly at the same pseudo-jokes, rubs elbows with Trump and Sam Altman, and ushers in the death of culture.

currentaffairs.org

agabadoogi @agabadoogi.bsky.social · 3mo ago

footage of my ps2 running old ass deltarune

Sarah Z @sarahz.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Deeply evil, genocidal policy. Here are some orgs that may be able to help: Across Bsky, many people have shared Trans Continental Pipeline. This is a grassroots mutual aid network turned based in Denver that helps LGBTQ+ individuals relocate from unsafe situations to Colorado. tcpipeline.org

Trans Continental Pipeline

Queer Relocation Nonprofit in Denver, Colorado

tcpipeline.org

Erin Reed@erininthemorning.com · 5mo ago

1. Numerous transgender people in Kansas are reporting that the state has sent them a letter demanding the immediate surrender of drivers licenses. Those driving could be arrested, charged, and see privileges revoked. Subscribe to support our journalism. www.erininthemorning.com/p/kansas-sen...

Kansas Sends Letters To Trans People Demanding The Immediate Surrender Of Drivers Licenses
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🌙@awawawa.world · 5mo ago

"it's fine to dream" by you are an angel my new album OUT NOW! hope you enjoy <3 awawawaworld.bandcamp.com/album/its-fi...

it's fine to dream, by you are an angel

12 track album

awawawaworld.bandcamp.com

PSX Bunlith 🪄 BLM ACAB 🇵🇸@b0tster.yeag.gay · 5mo ago

give this a listen! its melancholic and sad but in a way thats happy. if that makes sense. lol j's new album is on par if not better than first glass beach album i stg 🤯 also im one of the background vocalists in 'escape your hometown' :)!

🌙@awawawa.world · 5mo ago

"it's fine to dream" by you are an angel my new album OUT NOW! hope you enjoy <3 awawawaworld.bandcamp.com/album/its-fi...

Iron Circus Comics @ironcircuscomics.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Looking to read more of Failure to Launch? You can get a copy here!: store.ironcircus.com/products/fai... Take your breaks at work, people worked for those!

I bet you're wondering: "how did Harry trick Iron Circus into letting him write a pro-luddite story for their anthology about technology?" Well, I'll tell you. Because the Luddites weren't against technology! They were for a world where this technology improved people's lives. A new machine replacing thousands of jobs should be a good thing!

A world where people are freed to do more and better! Instead, it's mostly good for whoever saved money firing all those workers. The Luddites simply observe earlier than most that it doesn't have to be this way. We didn't even make the work holding the world together less back breaking, we just exported that work somewhere else. This is the capitalist version of progress: people doing shitty jobs for no money. But elsewhere where you don't see it.

When people question the way technology is being used - feel their opportunities and autonomy getting smaller - the world luddite gets dusted off for reuse. When the used states took Microsoft to court for being a monopoly and illegally crushing their competition, Microsoft's lead attorney John Warren called it: "Not really an antitrust case but a return of the luddites, 19th century reactionaries who... went around smashing machines with sledgehammers." Microsoft lost incidentally.

But the sentiment is clear: criticism of the future modern tech giants are building, even their crimes, is opposing progress itself. But the reality is people are still being looted by factory-masters. The industrial revolution massively increased productivity, but the profit from doing so went directly to the hands of the Owners. Take the same measurements of the 20th century's innovations and what do you get? The extremely simple truth - that it doesn't have to be this way - is terrifying if you benefit from the way things are now. An old ghost starts to feel close at hand.

So have a little sympathy for the owners of the world. It's a scary time for them too. They're really panicking. (listed is several headlines of Union-targeting actions by multi-billionaires and their accessories)

Companies the world over have spent hundreds of millions trying to stop unionization efforts. Soon it might even be cheaper to just pay people more. Amazon even tried to ban words like 'injustice', 'compensation', and yes, 'UNION', from their internal apps. They must be vigilant - the old ghost cannot be killed. Only kept at bay.

Looming over Elon Musk, who the writer of this alt text truly hates, Ludd brandishes his sledgehammer with glowing red eyes. Elon looks like he doesn't know what to do without hundreds of thousands of people willing to get hurt for his money or acknowledgement.

"--We used to shoot these people in the dick."

Thank you for reading this comic! Be sure to always take your scheduled breaks. Do not let some 50+ year old slug tell you that you aren't "a team player" because you are not letting them take just a little more. Each break and benefit you get to take is written in blood, and you're only pissing off those who came before you and making someone who isn't paying you smile by doing extra.

Want to read more of Failure to Launch? we've got that here: https://store.ironcircus.com/products/failure-to-launch

Iron Circus Comics @ironcircuscomics.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Be sure to follow @hbomberguy.bsky.social and @skutchdraws.bsky.social ‬if you enjoyed this comic!

In the early days of the movement when machines were found destroyed, people would joke "Ned Ludd is back!

The secret union ran with it, now they were the Luddites. I don't think people recognize how fucking FUNNY it is a massively popular social movement named themselves after a joke. FUN FACT!: There's recorded instances of the police actually searching for 'Ned Ludd', criminal leader of the Luddites, in Sherwood forest. Some even claimed to have glimpsed him. Cops were really smart back then.

In Ludd's sights was Enoch Taylor of Marsden, West Yorkshire. The Taylors built machines for the textile mills that abused their workers. Luckily, the Taylors also made Sledgehammers.

"Enoch made them, and Enoch shall break them!" I sweat this stuff writes itself.

William Horsfall, a Marsden factory owner, once boasted that he would love to "ride up to my saddle in luddite blood!", Horsfall was later assassinated by Luddites, during an altercation in which he reportedly received a "groin injury". In history's greatest L, a rich guy talked shit about murdering Luddites, until they shot him in the dick to death.

Mills were being stormed by hundreds or sometimes thousands of protestors, the movement was GROWING. A spectre haunted England - the spirit of Ned Ludd. To the rich the answer was clear- kill all the luddites you can before people figure out they have a point. In 1812 Parliament found the time to pass an 'emergency measure": the Frame Breaking Act which made smashing machines punishable by death. The tens of thousands of soldiers were sent to deal with Luddites in mills and factories across the country. This was a sizable amount considering Britain was CURRENTLY FIGHTING NAPOLEON.

Parliament happily went to war against British Luddites when they were supposed to be fighting actual wars. In 1813 17 luddites were hanged in a day, with more than 14 sentenced to be transported to Australia which was even worse than that. Historians view this as the point major Luddite activity started to die down.

A portrait of goofy, crown wearing Ned Ludd, covered in weaponry used upon him in a 1700s art style.

"But here's the problem: they couldn't kill Ned. You can't kill people's ability to question how the benefits of automation have been distributed. He's still out there. And One day he'll be BACK."

Iron Circus Comics @ironcircuscomics.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Happy Labor Day! Today we're bringing you The First Union, as told by HBomberguy (@hbomberguy.bsky.social) and illustrated by Skutch (@skutchdraws.bsky.social) It's the dawn of the industrial revolution, and of the way many of us work... Have you ever heard of the term "Luddite" from an elder?

Stanhill, Lancashire, 1764. Wear and carpenter James Hargreaves invents the Spinning Jenny, the first practical spinning-frame, to make the tedious task of producing cloth a little bit faster. He doesn't know it yet, but this will destroy the world.

Spurred by inventions like his, the industrial revolution will transform everything -- work power, the wealth of nations. Society as we know it began here, and it wasn't great for everyone. But a group of weavers and textile workers saw this future coming. And did their best to prevent it.

"Curse you spinning jenny, you ruined everything!" The standard narrative does that LUDDITES were foolish lunatics who, in fear of technology, decided progress was bad, and started hitting it with sticks. But the truth is entire ways of life were being destroyed.

Previously, skilled craftsmen were respected for the time and effort it took to do their work. The entire family usit would form a cottage industry - creating something valuable, and command a decent living. But when a machine can work 10 times faster its owner can charge less for the prodcts- craftsmen couldn't compete and were left out of work almost overnight.

And as factories became a fixture of the british landscape, these now unemployed labourers often ended up working the factories that had just destroyed their way of life. Britain was the most prosperous nation in history, factory owners became extremely wealthy and influential. But the people doing the actual work saw almost none of it.

Factory work paid little, since "the machines" did "the real work" human labourers were deemed unimportant and replaceable. FUN FACT!: Factory owners preferred to hire ORPHANS since less people would notice if they were maimed or killed on the job!

Now the owners quickly realized the workers might notice they did all the work for almost no pay. If they went on STRIKE or ARGUED FOR HGHER WAGES, this would threaten their tremendous wealth. In 1799, Parliament passed the Combination Act, which made FORMING TRADE UNIONS, COLLECTIVE BARGAINING, AND GOING ON STRIKE ILLEGAL. Organizing against the rich became a crime.

If you were living through it, opposing the industrial revolution wasn't techno-phobia. It was SELF-DEFENSE. The combination act forced unions underground into secret societies. And the greatest secret of all was their leader - Ned Ludd. Ned had been a folk character for years. In one version after being whipped by his master, he smashed two knitting frames in a rage. In more fanciful versions, he then escaped to the Sherwood forest, here he lived among the animals as their king. Some versions specifically call him 'Much Better Than Robin Hood'.

Thomas Leeper @thosjleeper.bsky.social · 6mo ago

National media should really be covering the fact thay every major school, museum, and arts institution in the Twin Cities, and hundreds of local businesses are closed tomorrow to protest federal occupation. Nothing like this at this scale has happened anywhere in America anytime in living memory.

Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 7mo ago

This is pure, unabashed bigotry. If a politician said this about any other faith, they would rightfully be run out of their party. But this kind of despicable anti-Muslim rhetoric is so normalized that a sitting Senator uses it without consequence. A stain on our Congress.

Commander Sterling @commandersterling.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Holy shit, that’s just actual theft.

UMAW@umaw.bsky.social · 7mo ago

In April 2024, Spotify implemented a new scheme: songs with less than 1k streams per year would no longer receive royalties. The data for 2025 was just released via Luminate, and 88% of songs have been demonetized. Read it again: 88% of songs on Spotify have been demonetized.

Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 7mo ago

I’m seeing posts from people (outside of MN) about how US citizens should carry their passports. And let me say that *inside* MN, we are calmly responding to requests with: “No, I don’t have to show you any documentation.” Because that’s how you protect everyone, regardless of immigration status.

Keyah 🦬@sapphic-film-nerd.bsky.social · 7mo ago

4 Lakota men were kidnapped by ICE in Minneapolis. 3 of them were taken to what used to be a concentration camp for Native people, and the only people talking about it are other Indigenous people. I am angry but mostly numb, I am so used to this at this point. We are always forgotten.

Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 7mo ago

The House voted 341 to 79 to fund Trump's war-mongering foreign policy agenda. Only 57 Democrats voted NO. clerk.house.gov/evs/2026/rol...

Gabe Amo (RI-01) Val Hoyle (OR-04) Gwen Moore (WI-04)
Yassamin Ansari (AZ-03) Jared Huffman (CA-02) Seth Moulton (MA-06)
Becca Balint (VT-AL) Jonathan Jackson (IL-01) Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY-14)
Don Beyer (VA-08) Sara Jacobs (CA-51) Ilhan Omar (MN-05)
Andre Carson (IN-07) Pramila Jayapal (WA-07) Mark Pocan (WI-02)
Sean Casten (IL-06) Sydney Kamlager-Dove (CA-37) Ayanna Pressley (MA-07)
Joaquin Castro (TX-20) Bill Keating (MA-09) Delia Ramirez (IL-03)
Steve Cohen (TN-09) Robin Kelly (IL-02) Emily Randall (WA-06)
Maxine Dexter (OR-03) Raj Krishnamoorthi (IL-08) Jamie Raskin (MD-08)
Lloyd Doggett (TX-37) Summer Lee (PA-12) Pat Ryan (NY-18)
Veronica Escobar (TX-16) Teresa Leger Fernandez (NM-03) Lateefah Simon (CA-12)
Adriano Espaillat (NY-13) Zoe Lofgren (CA-18) Melanie Stansbury (NM-01)
Lizzie Fletcher (TX-07) Stephen Lynch (MA-08) Suhas Subramanyam (VA-10)
Val Foushee (NC-04) Seth Magaziner (RI-02) Mark Takano (CA-39)
Laura Friedman (CA-30) Sarah McBride (DE-AL) Rashida Tlaib (MI-12)
Maxwell Frost (FL-10) Morgan McGarvey (KY-03) Nydia Velázquez (NY-07)
Robert Garcia (CA-42) Jim McGovern (MA-02) Bonnie Watson Coleman (NJ-12)
Chuy García (IL-04) LaMonica McIver (NJ-10)
Dan Goldman (NY-10) Gregory Meeks (NY-05)
Adelita Grijalva (AZ-07) Robert Menendez (NJ-08)

Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 7mo ago

the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 7mo ago

losing my mind at the "she should have followed directions" people really? really? you're cool with "if you don't follow directions, they get to kill you"? that seems like a good state of affairs to you? that seems like how law enforcement ought to work: instant obeisance or death?

Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 7mo ago

5 years ago, Donald Trump tried to subvert our democracy. He has since pardoned those who beat police officers bloody on that dark day. Now he wants to rewrite history. We cannot let him. Trump doesn’t give a damn about democracy here at home, in Venezuela, or around the world.

Jason the Cartoon Fan @jasonthecartoonfan.bsky.social · 7mo ago

PBS is still alive. It may be down, but it’s not out. To keep it from ever being out, donate to your local station if you can. You’ll be able to do so here: pbs.org/donate.

Donate | PBS

Watch full episodes of your favorite PBS dramas, find in-depth news analysis and explore documentaries on history, science, art and more!

pbs.org

ToonHive@toonhive.bsky.social · 7mo ago

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting has officially shut down after 58 years following the elimination of its funding under Donald Trump. It served as the primary funder for PBS Kids.

jess m. 🌤️@jametc.bsky.social · 7mo ago

God fucking damn it lol

Aimee Cozza Illustration@aimeecozza.com · 7mo ago

Just a reminder, because everyone seems to have forgotten: Tumblr wants to or is actively selling your data: mashable.com/article/tumb...

Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 7mo ago

What in the Gestapo is going on in Grand Rapids? Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.

Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 7mo ago

Don’t be fooled: you can’t both claim this was simply the execution of an arrest warrant AND say the U.S. is now "running" Venezuela & grabbing its oil resources. Trump just admitted this was a clear regime-change play to enrich U.S. oil companies & his billionaire buddies.

Senator Chris Van Hollen@vanhollen.senate.gov · 7mo ago

Trump and his cronies can try to dress this up, but it is an illegal act of war to replace Maduro and grab Venezuela's oil for his billionaire buddies. Full statement below:

Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 7mo ago

Another outrageous action. The Netanyahu govt is banning over 30 aid orgs — including CARE, Mercy Corps & Doctors Without Borders groups — from providing life-saving aid to people in Gaza. Another betrayal of humanity. And, once again, the Trump Admin says and does nothing.

Israel to bar 37 aid groups as UK and EU warn of impact in Gaza

Israel's move is criticised by 10 countries, which say the new registration rules for international NGOs are "restrictive" and "unacceptable".

bbc.com

PSX Bunlith 🪄 BLM ACAB 🇵🇸@b0tster.yeag.gay · 7mo ago

christmas gift from glitch :)

plushies of pomni and uzi from Glitch Karts, a game that i was commissioned from Glitch to make :)

Joaquín Baldwin @joabaldwin.com · 7mo ago

🦋 Welcome to Buesky! 🦋 It's long past time to leave the Nazi bar, and you'll have a much better time here. I updated this guide due to the influx of users fleeing Grok's new AI bullshit. Share widely for all the newcomers!

cabl | comms open @cabl.rodeo · 7mo ago

Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 8mo ago

Every Member of Congress should be repulsed that these words came from the mouths of our colleagues. Yet this language is so normal for Republicans, they can apparently spew it w/o repercussions. Anti-Muslim bigotry has no place in the halls of Congress or our nation. Despicable.

Some Republican lawmakers call for mass expulsion of American Muslims

Comments from Rep. Randy Fine (R-Florida) and Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Alabama) reflect a brazen Islamophobic sentiment being voiced by some in the party.

washingtonpost.com