Xopher Halftongue RESISTS!
@halftongue.bsky.social
Opinionated heterochromic homosexual hemiglossic. He/him. Cis. Soyboy. Views my own. Tolerance is a social contract; if you're intolerant I don't have to tolerate you. No LGB without the TQ+. Sine homines gaudere rebus. #BLM No hands but ours 👍👎.
I will say that this is making ease up on the snark. Worth noting, this is being consistent about going "Vote Blue No Matter Who"
Evan Sutton@evansutton.bsky.social · 6h agoI encourage all of us to have the grace and focus shown in this going up within minutes of the race being called.
This is the UK. Similar forces are planning stuff like this here, so don't get complacent.
Louie Stowell@louiestowell.bsky.social · 8h agoThis is a horror and our country has disgraced itself. But laws change and in the meantime, no toilet narcs + malicious compliance time.
"Everyone at MSNBC was that kid who reminds the teacher that she forgot to assign homework and everyone at Fox News was that kid who says 'Wanna see my dad's gun?'" 😂
Parker Molloy@parkermolloy.com · 3h agoAnyway, Karl Rove mentioned, so I need to share this comedian's bit about working at Fox News: www.youtube.com/shorts/z76kW...
Gonna go out on a limb here and say racist cranks who write for extremist white nationalist websites like VDARE should not, in fact, be confirmed to top roles in the Department of Justice.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3h agoSCHIFF: You told my staff you stood by your article in white nationalist website VDARE where you wrote, 'Muslim immigrants & their kids seem prone to terrorism' C: I wrote that article in support of Trump's travel ban S: Do you stand by it? C: I stand by that article S: That's all I need to know
Well, I still can't listen to The Parting Glass without at least tearing up, sometimes weeping outright. Here's an article with an embedded video of the best performance of it I've ever heard. I've always said the song is about death; this article presents the evidence and says "maybe."
"A Parting Glass" Is Offered to Those Who Stay Behind - Behind the Music
"The Parting Glass" is a farewell song to those that the speaker is leaving behind, perhaps permanently. It may echo actual tragedies.
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If I am to die loathed, all I ask is that my close friends working for national newspapers NOT take the most devastating and accurate dunks possible from social media and print them in those newspapers.
Mic Wright@brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 13h agoNow, I *am* a nobody but @seamas.bsky.social is a bestseller so surely Joanna is just showing herself up here.
More of these lawsuits please. They can't be allowed to get away with this shit.
Kathleen Bachynski@bachynski.bsky.social · yesterday"Get away from me right now," King, a retired U.S. Army captain who served in Iraq and earned both a Purple Heart and a Bronze Star, can be heard telling the three male guard members in the video as they approach her on the bench. "You have absolutely no authority to detain me."
In 1986, contracting HIV meant you were going to die, usually slowly, painfully, and alone. Now it's a chronic illness like hypertension. In 1986, gay and lesbian couples couldn't have their relationships legally recognized and had to adopt elaborate legal workarounds.
Constantine@ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 19h agoFood, man. Food is so much better than it was in 1986. All of it. Poor-people food, restaurant food, fresh food, frozen food. Food is just a hell of a lot better.
It's vital to understand that the conservative obsession with calling their political adversaries groomers, rapists and pedophiles while simultaneously protecting sexual offenders in their own party isn't a contradiction, but the result of an ideology that views rape as a crime of property damage.
Ron Filipkowski@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 18h agoPure scum wrapped in fake piety.
this is really good! this is in fact how you act when two years of funding for the gestapo is on the line
Alex Ip 葉清霖@alexip718.com · 14h agoBody isn't even cold yet
The closing credits for The Sheep Detectives, which I watched last night and highly recommend, have this song as music. I'm now earwormed, rather more pleasantly than average, with this lovely piece. CW: For some reason the video is interspersed with scenes from Benny and Joon, so...Johnny Depp.
The Proclaimers - I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles) (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by Dig!
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Today is the day the story There Will Come Soft Rain is set. An amazing and heartbreaking work of fiction for our modern age. Read it here:
a wooly man without a face@jojororo.bsky.social · yesterdayInsight into my reading process: the book I'm reading keeps referring to Plattsburg. Every time I read it as Pittsburgh, realize it can't be Pittsburgh, and go back and look, and then it says Plattsburg. But I would swear I actually saw "Pittsburgh" on the first pass.
A post by @kathryntewson.bsky.social got me thinking (as they so often do). I wear the button shown below (when I remember to put it on; it's easier in the winter, because it just lives on my coat). But I worry that someone might think I'm proclaiming myself "one of the good ones." 1/5
Marisa is absolutely right. Not only rape culture, but "saying the quiet part out loud" rape culture.
Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · 22h agoThis is rape culture.
I just learned (from watching a British panel show, what else) that a "helter skelter" is a ride in the UK, where a slide goes down in a helix around a lighthouse-like structure. I'd never heard of that. I haven't seen one here, but they probably exist. I have no idea what they're called.
That's what taxes are, man. That's the definition of taxes. "You are subsidizing things you might never use" man shut the fuck up. My taxes currently subsidize like oil company exec private jets, you think I'm upset at low-income people eating inexpensive bananas?
USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 2d agoOpinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.
JUST IN: Staff reportedly increasingly concerned that companies are hiring them for the value of their output, as opposed to their wellbeing and development.
Max P III@blackballer.bsky.social · 2d agoIts embarrassing how many grown ass adults live in these fantasies where people work for some nonsense like the artificial cultures oligarchs manufacture over survival.
Thread. A fascinating story, mostly (despite the opening post) about how penicillin came to be produced in Japan BEFORE the end of WWII.
Dan Kaszeta FRHistS@dankaszeta.bsky.social · 2d agoPenicillin was not, in fact, the first antibiotic.
Absolutely. Even though I wear the "ALLY" button, it's a shorthand for "I'm striving to be a trans ally."
Evan May@gianttourtiere.bsky.social · yesterdayI feel like 'ally' should be one of those things other people say about you rather than something you claim yourself.
WA workers under UFW contract are clearing off leaves for better growth and production of the wine grapes. "Miguel" says: Chateau Ste Michelle cares about us. When temps reach 95° we're sent home. In hot weather they bring us in early so we can work when it's safer." #WeFeedYou
A PSA to my fellow cis people who are (or want to believe they are) trans allies If you are getting pushback from trans people and your reaction is to be all “no! not me! I’m one of the good ones!” please remember that “being one of the good ones” is something you DO, not something you ARE
lol YUP. One of the funniest 48 hours on Bluesky. They would try to bait all the big accounts, get the nuclear block, get added to a bunch of moderation lists, and then just be standing there like 
Ryan's Confused Stare (The Office)
ALT: Ryan's Confused Stare (The Office)
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John Scalzi@scalzi.com · 2d agoBluesky oldheads will remember that brief period of time when the conservative trolls tried to storm the place and were flummoxed by the idea they would have to organically grow an audience and that someone who didn't want to talk to them could nuke every interaction they ever had from orbit
the cranky xennnial nerd demographic is over-represented on bluesky lol
Norm Charlatan@normcharlatan.bsky.social · 2d agoSomehow have curated a timeline where when a mutual posts “MTG,” it’s equally probable that they’re referring to Marjorie Taylor Greene or Magic: The Gathering.