If you have admin passwords on your devices, please, I'm begging you, have then recorded somewhere that the people handling your affairs after your death can access them. Do it now.

I don't care if you think electoralism isn't worth it, I don't care if you think politics is a waste of time, everyone needs to get over themselves and vote for Joe Biden this november.

introduce yourself as what almost killed you. hi, i'm my own father firing an "unloaded" gun indoors, missing his toddler "son" by a couple inches

Sage Deviant 🏳️‍⚧️@trans.bsky.social · 4d ago

introduce yourself as what almost killed you. Hi, I’m childhood conversion therapy

i think they'll get aggressively worse. once he's gone, he's the perfect boogeyman; the unfalsifiable proof that any future democrat they champion could always be worse, never mind the lack of daylight between his policies and theirs

Fun@funkelly.bsky.social · 4d ago

when he carks it what will the libs in the mentions of non-political shitposts talk about? still him? oh ok

for one weekend in 2019, hbo let you stream the watchmen tv series even if you weren't subscribed. i wonder if they'll do something like that to boost the numbers here

Cheryl Lynn Eaton@cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 4d ago

They are going to AstroTurf this thing to the stratosphere. They are going to have to pull up to influencers with dump trucks full of money. They will have to give out free 30-day trials of HBO and then have the Potter series play automatically just to fake ratings.

back in the olden days on twitter, i would say that there's no such thing as a good conservative, for obvious reasons. now that i spend my time on bluesky, i'm forced to conclude there's no such thing as a good liberal, either. you're either some flavor of anti-capitalist or a total piece of shit

look i understand that he's in incredibly poor health and very old, but he's also the president and a billionaire do people not remember he got covid back before there was a vaccine? he got a superdose of a highly experimental treatment and made it through. it's not gonna happen for a while

Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 6d ago

The swelling, the sleeping, the bruising. It's all here.

I will not vote for any candidate who doesn't fully commit to abolishing the gestapo

Erin Fogg says Free Link@criminalerin.bsky.social · 6d ago

"The gloves must come into direct contact with the skin and are not effective through clothing or hair, the user manual states. The manual says no more than 2 gloves should be applied to a subject at one time & they should not be used for more than 15 seconds in many instances." Oh Jesus. Oh fuck.

for anyone who doesn't know, this is standard operating procedure at most corporations: - do something awful - appear to capitulate to customer backlash - wait for customers to get distracted - do the awful thing again

Vajra Chandrasekera@vajra.me · 6d ago

nothing changed, they made an estimate of the strength of their readers' principles and memory, and waited what they thought was a reasonable amount of time. now Image readers know what that estimate was

to kind of underline this a bit: the first example of a plot-relevant sex scene that came to my mind was the one in The Terminator; and the thing that makes it plot-relevant is the fact it's procreative

rebecca sylvester@hattie.meangirls.online · last wk.

"sex isn't plot relevant" is literally just "sex should be for procreation only" with a different sauce

stop trying to make "fetch" happen. it's not going to happen

Benjanun Sriduangkaew @ Persephone Effect out now@benjanun.bsky.social · last wk.

Sorry every time I see 'noblebright' I just start laughing. It's not a very good coinage. It sounds pretty bad.

Please use alt text please

lotta good dunks to get in on Clinton here but this is why I just do not tolerate any anticommunism from people on the left, even if you are not a socialist. You are doing the Right’s work for them, this is how they sawed off the Left after FDR.

Karen Geier@karengeier.com · last wk.

ACAB includes the entire apparatus of the democratic party

LAWriter@lawriter1.bsky.social · 2w ago

Democrat Sen. Tim Kaine Votes for Trump’s Extremist to Head CDC — Erica Schwartz — Who Promises ‘Abortion Surveillance’ of Women newsvideoclip.com/democrat-sen... @kaine.senate.gov = pro-MAGA traitor, opposes women and Democrats

a pirate ship named Megan Thee Galleon is this anything?

it's a disservice to the public to run an old photo of him with this article when there's zero actual current photographic evidence of the events described in the story

Chicago Tribune@chicagotribune.com · 2w ago

Mitch McConnell released from rehab center to recover at home

it's also a signal like the fucking maga red hats or a thin blue line flag or a rising sun flag or a totenkopf tattoo or calling yourself grand wizard not everyone will react overly but trust, many are watching and distancing themselves, or marking you down as someone they can't trust

s. e. smith@sesmith.lol · 2w ago

JKR explicitly said she considers anything Potter-related, even fan-made, endorsement of her politics. And every time you engage with this franchise, you signal to the industry that there's still money in it and they should keep pumping out content from full-cast audiobooks to book box partnerships.

Remember when the NFL banished Colin Kaepernick for life for kneeling during the US anthem to raise awareness about police brutality and racial inequality?

W.E.D.em Boyz@leftistwonk.bsky.social · 2w ago

Jesus Christ. Sophie Cunningham fully embracing the right wing grift.

it is genuinely embarrassing to see this article written by a trans woman. my sister in gender no matter how many boots you lick They Will Not Pick You. have a fucking spine please.

Them@them.us · 2w ago

The ‘Jeopardy!’ host made it absolutely clear where he stands once again.

Hostile reminder that as well as all the horrible parts about inspecting children's genitals, you have the "genetic screening" part which is going to be used to exclude cis women of color from sports, an outcome we've seen over and over again.

Gillian Branstetter@gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 2w ago

An initiative on the ballot in Washington state in November would require all athletes seeking to play girl's sports from kindergarten to high school to undergo "genetic screening, a testosterone-levels test, or an examination of their reproductive anatomy" before they can play

behaving as if all news that first blew up online is somehow equivalent to two high schoolers yelling at each other on an obscure fandom message board is the new "Fox anchor acts like it's still 1950, is shocked to learn that poor people own TVs and electric refrigerators"

Ishmael, The Transition will be Live@comrade-ishmael.bsky.social · 2w ago

Billions of people use the internet. I'm tired of pretending it is 2006. Rowling being a transphobic freak isn't some niche Twitter thing; it's been reported in major outlets and talked about across every social media network.

Remember best Steam Curator, Casey Explosion? She's back, in video form

Casey Explosion@caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 3w ago

Wanna do me a little birthday favour? It's a bit of an uphill struggle for me to get eyeballs on my videos, lots of people don't know I have a YouTube channel and I'm working on video essays these days, so if folks could help me out and spread the word? That'd be nice! youtube.com/@caseyexplos...

ultimately, the problem is that Roz's advice presumes (without admitting it) that bigots put us in danger because of what we do, rather than what we are. there is no behavioural change that will make us safe. not even going back into the closet. once you're out, you're marked for elimination

moby dickgirl@eigenvectrix.northsky.social · 2w ago

Roz, I know you're intelligent and you have life experience. I have to disagree with this nonetheless. It is pointless trying to suggest what trans people as a bloc should do, because we're not a bloc. We're too large and diverse a group to meaningfully organise.

oh, you say the mediocre white man did some stupid shit? damn, what are the odds?

Kotaku@kotaku.com · 3w ago

YouTuber Hank Green Admits He Has Unhealthy Relationship With AI After Facing Backlash Over Recent Video 'The level of dopamine I've been getting from interacting with LLMs is not healthy for me,' said Green

yeah, The Lore of The Acolyte was crystal clear the problems were more fundamental. it was a season-long mystery, but the only reason it wasn't resolved in episode 2 is every character was like "i have questions, but i'll be damned before i let the people that i *know* have the answers talk to me"

Sage Deviant 🏳️‍⚧️@trans.bsky.social · 3w ago

what did anyone need to know? the sith are the baddies & the jedi are complacent arrogant centrists. they all have lightsabers & fight each other wuxia wire style. also there are lesbian anarchist space witches who just want to be left tf alone & the jedi genocide them anyways.

I'll be your sin eater. Whenever I see a liberal and a leftist get into it on here, and the leftist says something like, "that's a strawman; nobody seriously wants X"… 9 times out of 10, that is *exactly* what I want. let 5-yr-olds vote; "billionaire" should be a capital crime; borders are immoral

Zach Weinersmith@zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?

do you care about trans people? cool! cancel your new york times subscription! oh, but you just play the games? thats the worst argument you could've made! go fuck yourself!

Look, friends. I know that you don't think it's much. But the NYT Puzzles app is very much propping up the NYT's ideologically driven hate campaign against trans people. You gotta let your streak go. There are so many other puzzles out there you could be playing that won't fund hate.

Games are helping the New York Times thrive amid media chaos

A new Games app is on the way.

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now featured in the criterion collection@anem0ne.net · 3w ago

you're worried about your streak ending i'm worried because thanks to the nytimes normalizing anti-trans rhetoric, i won't be able to renew my passport, be careful which states i even consider traveling to, watch as more and more "allies" who "don't hate" regurgitate bigotry and right-wing framing

thinking about this today for no reason in particular,, cis people love to say they'll push back if the govt ever tried to round us up into camps but they quite literally cannot even SAVE THEMSELVES MONEY AND CANCEL A SUBSCRIPTION. they will not lift a finger to save us, y'all. we are all we have.

Emmy Cumslutress@coyotegirl.online · 2y ago

sent my friend of 20 years a text last week with a link to my NYT thread from a few weeks ago (that details the ways they're killing trans kids) with a request that he read it and, at the *bare minimum* cancel his sub to that transphobic rag. this was his response. we're ngmi, y'all i stg. 🙃

I hate saying the same thing over and over, but I’m right: the agents from The Matrix are the perfect metaphor for transphobia. Any cis person can, without warning, make “gender cop” their entire personality; and once they do, there is no limit to the level of violence they will wield against you.

moby dickgirl@eigenvectrix.northsky.social · 3w ago

You have to somehow come to terms with the fact that there is nobody in the world who, the moment it's convenient, won't switch off their own sense that you are human and start breaking you down with a circular saw like a rotting wooden flight of stairs.