I remember learning about the Hays Code in film school and how it made it so that any amoral protagonist had to meet karmic justice by the end of the film and going “wow, that’s really silly” and then once a week I log online and see people argue that we need stuff like that now or it’s problematic

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Fuck this and everyone who helped get things to this point. Trans rights are human rights—full stop.

Erin Reed@erininthemorning.com · 6mo ago

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Is the president mocking the U.S. women’s hockey team on a celebratory call with the men’s team going to attract even an iota of the sustained handwringing that the idea of trans athletes disadvantaging women’s sports has gotten

To be very clear, that lady in the NYT article is not making any money with her hundreds of AI slop books. She makes money by *convincing people* she makes money that way and getting them to pay her to teach them how to do it. It's an evolved MLM, and the NYT is helping market it.

been reading a lot of “I believe in enforcing our borders but ICE has gone too far“. why? “oh we have to secure our borders to go after criminals” why? crime has always been illegal regardless of the offender’s citizenship status. does not justify the obama admin deporting 3 million people

A lot of Dems are going to take Bovino and Noem being fired as the finish line, and it's very important to make it clear to them that it is a starting line

Imagine what’s happening in the camps.

For me, I've found donating to organizations and mutual aid groups or to people who just need some extra money to get by is a real sanity-saver in these times of feeling helpless but full of rage.

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

And donate. Every time they kill one of us, help us make the resistance even stronger.

The newest video shows very clearly that they attacked him for coming to an aid of a woman that the agents pushed, and then executed him while he was immobilized. Everything the government has said, like with Good, has been a complete lie.

the news moves so fast i feel like i can’t even finish thinking of a way to express my grief and fury before there’s something new to be furious about. but like as a catch-all: jesus fucking christ

LACK OF CAMERAS IS NOT MINNESOTA'S PROBLEM. are we really gonna pay $20 million for them to record more angles that they'll just stand there and lie to your face about?

Greg Pak@gregpak.net · 7mo ago

Absolute garbage. Call your reps and tell them NO BODY CAMS, NO TRAINING - ICE CANNOT BE "REFORMED." ICE OUT OF OUR CITIES, THEN DEFUND AND ABOLISH ARE THE ONLY OPTIONS. Find your reps here: reps.fyi They are giving ICE *MORE* money with these garbage "reforms." More money to HURT US.

This is CRITICAL. I know you’re all putting your back into mutual aid & a thousand other great things, but if there’s anything left here, so many folks depend on these front-line lawyers right now.

Karen Schultz@oneairspace.bsky.social · 7mo ago

I spoke to a friend on the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota board. They need financial donations to keep up with the heightened demand for their services: www.ilcm.org ILCM is a nonprofit that provides free immigration legal representation to low-income immigrants and refugees in MN & ND

There have already been 25 data center cancellations or postponements this month, according to @macroedgeres.bsky.social. That's nearly as many as the previous 6 months combined.

semi-regular reminder that ICE was only created in 2003 when you are asked to imagine a world without ICE, you're basically being asked to remember where you were when Lilo & Stitch came out

Watercoloring... First wash 🖌️

i love when cats play The Floor Is Lava and follow you around the room by parkouring over the furniture

heated rivalry good :’)

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Acrylic nightwing #art #nightwing

Funny Numbers xkcd.com/3184/

wow this show is excellent

fer 🪻@hyacinthsuns.bsky.social · 8mo ago

hmm. why did i wait to start watching heated rivalry until the night before i go spend a week at my parents’ house

hmm. why did i wait to start watching heated rivalry until the night before i go spend a week at my parents’ house

everyone STOP what you’re doing and write FANFICTION ON THE CLOCK!!!!!

worm for you

inside me are two wolves. one wolf likes french braiding my long hair and the other wolf saw this clip of ellen kim’s 2013 “you know you like it” choreography and desperately wants this exact haircut

They’re killing people as a twitter joke. It’s depraved. Can’t let yourself lose the capacity to be appalled and disgusted and outraged by this.

Yashar Ali 🐘@yasharali.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announces another boat strike in response to a request/wish from Turning Point USA’s Andrew Kolvet.