Hi! Your friendly neighborhood martial arts instructor w/a 19 inch neck here. I've been the demonstration dummy for & taught the lateral vascular restraint, which is being applied in the center pic, more times than I can count. When done right it's effective, but also very dangerous. 1/

ProPublica@propublica.org · 16h ago

Civilians have had apparent seizures. One had his eyes roll back. Another had ribs broken. “I felt like I was going to pass out and die,” said a 16-year-old citizen put in a chokehold. The government won’t say if any agents have been punished. (Published January)

… because HE’S DEAD Where the fuxk is some intrepid YouTuber and her or his producer recording the whole thing to just go find the motherfuxker? He’s dead in a bed in a hospital in fuxking Kentucky, not like it’s a chase sequence. Paging infowars

4fuxake@blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 21h ago

Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear says Mitch McConnell absolutely refuses to film a proof of life video. Ok then, why don't we absolutely refuse to give him a paycheck?

Senator Mitch McConnell is still dead.

LOVE THIS MORE PLEASE Riders, always wear your gear! Complacency can cost you dearly.

Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · yesterday

I'm listening, I'm learning. Safety first, NYC.

If an account posts AI-generated comics, photograph-adjacent illustrations, or any other manner of visual rendering, it results in an instantaneous no-hesitation block. I do not want that shyte at my job, in my inbox, or on my feed.

REMEMBER: They all knew.

Let me be direct: I don’t believe you want CNN and CBS News to tell it straight down the middle — I believe you would turn them into OANN if that’s what it takes to get the movie studios you covet. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/my-o...

My open letter to David Ellison

You argued that the American people have misjudged you — that they are wrong about what is in your heart and mind. I want to be clear: I don't care what you think or feel. What I care about is your ac...

democracydocket.com

@minakimes.bsky.social does the nasty work so you don’t have to, please be nice to her. No loud noises, no sudden motions.

Mina Kimes@minakimes.bsky.social · 3d ago

Watching the Browns

MEOW

For the Love of Missy@missybbbobtail.bsky.social · 4d ago

5 SIGNS YOU'RE SECRETLY A CAT: 1. You're tired all the time. 2. You’re distracted easily. 3. You prefer staying home. 4. People get on your nerves. 5. You're hungry all the time.

Now that his lackey runs the jails expect more and worse until they all get told to fuxk off

Cathy@leadahorse.bsky.social · 5d ago

So….did trump’s DOJ initiate a lawsuit against the Lakers’ owner and then agree to drop it if he sold the team to his son in law? That is almost exactly how Putin took over all of the profitable businesses in Russia.

Little beats the soul-killing time suck of listening to the AI read the slides in the mandatory training video.

Watered up, pumped up & ready to roll on a beautiful August morning. Will do this until I cannot

Darwin hard at work.

ℝ𝕖𝕓𝕖𝕝𝕓𝕝𝕦𝕖@rebelb1ue.bsky.social · last wk.

I’m not an immunologist, but there appears to be a strong positive correlation between vaccine skepticism and being an insufferable asshole.

End of watch

Out of the office, pls leave a message.

LIVE RENT FREE IN ALL FASCIST HEADS

Acyn@acyn.bsky.social · last wk.

Mentions I tracked on Fox News from 12 p.m. ET to 10 p.m. ET Fauci: 89 El-Sayed: 64 WNBA: 64 AOC: 59 Hong: 52 Sophie Cunningham: 34 Mamdani: 32 Hasan Piker: 29

Good. Prefer my donation go to someone not dumb as a box of rocks

Paul Graf@paulginva.bsky.social · last wk.

Okay, let's let Darwin take it from here.

Tacos and pints of nitrogen-fed Left-hand Milk Stout from the Tremont Taphouse. The building sits empty, likely to be torn down for housing. Many splendid tacos sitting at the bar, in the booths or on the patio. But those were different times.

Chloe N. Clark@pintsncupcakes.bsky.social · last yr.

I don't want to hear about your lost loves, tell me about the restaurant food that haunts you because you'll never be able to taste it again

Many of you are asking how you can help me. My only ask is this: Spread the word about the threats to democracy and how we can fight back. Tell everyone to subscribe to Democracy Docket and share its content. demdock.com/4w6emld

So first it was a bike ride to find a kayak, and then to find a river. Then it was a kayak down the river. Later there was beer, no pictures.

HUG A MENTAT TODAY

Crip Dyke@cripdyke.bsky.social · 2w ago

THE PARLIAMENTARIAN: Jason Statham stars as the Democratic Majority Leader watching the machines rise to take over the government led by aging former TV star Max Headroom. Little do the thinking machines know what Senator Butler has in store...

End of watch

The UHaul pulls out and goes down the street, pauses for a moment with a left turn blinker on, and then disappears from sight. And with it goes an end of a chapter, and the beginning of another.

Ok sure yeah but she didn’t hug him CORRECTLY. Politico and FTFNYT will be running DEMS IN DISARRAY all weekend. WaPo and WSJ will run tsk-tsk opinion pieces on how disappointing it all is.

MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · 2w ago

DEM UNITY: Haley Stevens just hugged Abdul El-Sayed at the Michigan Democratic Party’s Unity Breakfast in Southfield.

CEOs are raking in $17 million a year, 300 times what their own workers make, and John Husted’s answer is “learn to budget.” Sherrod Brown wrote the law that got over 100,000 Ohioans their stolen pensions back. Vote for who fights for you, not who lectures you. #BlueWaveIn90Days

Don’t tempt me with a good time like that, tuber

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w ago

Tuberville: "If we don't straighten out this country's voting and immigration system, we're not gonna make it. It's gonna be over. I'm gonna go back to Alabama and hey, we might build a 30-foot wall around our state."

Leave with me with Some kind of proof It’s not a dream #paramore

first year since boyhood I will not be in the pit, the stands or on the lawn for any show. scalping is now the business model, even more thieving hands exist between my precious few entertainment dollars and my favorite performers. May catch a local band at a bar instead, and just keep it local 🤘

Ether Diver@etherdiver.bsky.social · 2w ago

Fuck Live Nation and fuck the nostalgia-focused arts paradigm they promote and enable. Fuck the venues that charge to play and/or take a cut of merch sales. And fuck "music fans" who think all of that is fine if it means they get to see their favorite legacy act just one more time...

Beer. I grew up with rice-based mega-swill and it functioned as designed. Suddenly one day in 1988 someone handed me a Great Lakes Brewing Company Dortmunder, around the same time Samuel Adams Boston Lager showed up in the beer case, heralds of the journey to the golden age of beer.

John Scalzi@scalzi.com · 2w ago

Air quality. I grew up in the Los Angeles basin in the 70s and 80s and remember having to stay inside because the smog was so bad - Stage 2 smog alerts, they were called. Apparently they haven't had one of those since 1988. Haven't had a stage one smog alert since 2003.

I made a Star Trek meme, you guys.