Rube: Everything is worse now! Could it be billionaires? Billionaire: "No it's… uhm… what else changed… uhm… SMOKING! Yeah! Everything sucks because no one smokes anymore!" Rube: I dunno… Billionaire: Worth a shot. Rube: Taxing the rich sounds hard, but I can buy smokes today! Billionaire: Atta boy!

Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 6h ago

I'm calling it: "Start smoking" is going to be mainstream MAHA / Republican health advice by 2028. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Nonsense! We all know most outlets' would blindly echo whatever he said verbatim... "Trump: I am viral 40-pound tabby cat named Daddy Cinnamon" …and/or frame it as some sort of masterstroke... "Is Trump even subject to our human rule of law now that he's an overweight cat?"

The Onion@theonion.com · 2d ago

Trump Baselessly Claims He Is Viral 40-Pound Tabby Cat Named Daddy Cinnamon https://theonion.com/trump-baselessly-claims-he-is-viral-40-pound-tabby-cat-named-daddy-cinnamon/

I don't have data, but I strongly suspect areas where rising costs have vastly outstripped wages have created donut holes where aid remains only available to the low income households even while working and even middle class increasingly struggle to afford things like housing and higher ed.

bing bong@brianvan.bsky.social · yesterday

"Let's make a base of modest, affordable apartments available to the working class" "And then let's rip those apartments away from them when they reach some arbitrarily-low means-tested line because the numbers are calculated from a county near Buffalo" "And let's charge poor people full rent"

Shocker! A vast majority of trans folk correctly identify they are trans before they transition. Of course, outlets like the NYTimes already knew this, which is why they stopped talking to trans folk when covering trans issues.

Doc Impossible@impossiblephd.bsky.social · 3d ago

Another study on youth transition that find that about 97% of all youth who says they're trans turn out to be. Only 1.1% who start HRT stopped it for any reason whatsoever. This is, like, the fifth youth transition study that I'm aware of, and all of their results have been identical.

New loading screen just dropped. (This might be my best Live Photo loop ever!)

As someone who experiences ASMR, I find these suggestive ASMR videos off-putting and think they perpetuate the idea that ASMR is nothing more than an excuse to watch mild porn. That said, I never saw anything ban-worthy and the most sexually suggestive content I see on YouTube these days are in ads.

Sam Cole@samleecole.bsky.social · 5d ago

a bunch of popular ASMR artists lost their channels forever this week, after YouTube cited them for violating terms against "sexually gratifying" content: www.404media.co/youtube-asmr...

Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli

Kirsty Isla Thomas@kirstyislathomas.bsky.social · 6d ago

Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli

It really was about anime being a m segment that could break the western "rules" about what animation could show and blood and titties were paraded in equal measure yeah

There was some part of the zeitgeist that definitely equated anime and pornography. While most of this undoubtedly stemmed from American xenophobia, I feel like at least some early U.S. based marketing of anime didn't help as I vaguely remember sizzle reels that really embraced "ADULT animation".

@kalina2hu.bsky.social · last wk.

bsky.app/profile/jack... also directly about your point Suncoast's anime section is in fact directly proving that anime culturally carried a stigma back then

When I started watching in the 90s, the anime section in our local Suncoast was a small section on the bottom of a shelf off to the side and facing away from most foot traffic. It eventually grew to take up the entire back wall, where it was also prominently displayed.

Zero Utopia@zeroutopia.bsky.social · last wk.

Genuinely impossible to make people understand how much most the United States in the 90s hated and looked down on anime if they didn't live through it.

Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, or Alice In Chains.

Running with Scissors ("Weird Al" Yankovic album) - Wikipedia

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Aram Zucker-Scharff@chronotope.aramzs.xyz · last wk.

Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, or Alice In Chains.

zohran is a completely normal (mixed-market socialist/new-deal liberal/whatever) and it’s completely frying the brains of people with too much money or whose livelihoods are built on catering to the opinions of people with too much money

Helen Kennedy@helenkennedy.com · 2w ago

The wild eyed radical communist continues to destroy capitalism www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

@robertmays.bsky.social @qbklass.bsky.social @davehelman.bsky.social Here’s a probably too late, but good question for the last mailbag. If the NFL ever decided to do a 4 point field goal, should it be for farther or closer attempts? Farther kicks are harder, but closer kicks reward longer drives.

Sir, she isn’t a mutt. She’s a…

posting this Classic over here in honor of the big man himself. adios bitch

In New England we are coping with the Jaylen Brown trade in our own way

Mainstream media went into a tizzy of consternation when octogenarian President Biden misspoke. What are the odds the same level of consternation will ever happen whenever octogenarian President Trump misspeaks? (He even confused Putin and Zelensky just like his predecessor did!)

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4w ago

Trump: "We had 11 missiles shot by the Islamic Republic of Japan"

Could be us

Me, upon seeing this meme: "But wasn't Rodgers the Jets QB? No, he left for the Steerlers. Was it Geno? No, he just joined the team. (Looks up Jets 2025 season.) Oh dear god!" The Jet's season was so bad last year that I had apparently completely forgotten about its entire existence.

Men in Blazers Media Network@meninblazers.bsky.social · last mo.

J-E-T-S, Jets, Jets, Jets! 🙃

J-E-T-S, Jets, Jets, Jets! 🙃

I am wondering if one way to distinguish a xennial from a millennial is whether or not the person in question knows who Dick Dastardly is and can immediately picture the character in their head.

World of Telly@world-of-telly.bsky.social · last mo.

A new episode of World of Telly is now available wherever you get your podcasts. This time we take a look at Dastardly and Muttley In Their Flying Machines via a whistle-stop tour of Hanna-Barbera. The video version of this episode is running a little late and will be released later this week.

But the “moderate” Dems are focusing on working with Haidt to keep kids in iPads from seeing any content that says “trans”.

Alexander Chee@alexanderchee.bsky.social · last mo.

This is what the moderates got us.

Given every previous prediction that society would collapse if some group was treated with dignity never came to pass, I'd like to think folks would be a bit more skeptical when told society will crumble if trans people are treated with dignity. And yet here we are. Stay safe.

Trans rights are human rights always and forever.

Is this the same meme I quoted a previous and similar post by Todd Vaziri. Yes. Yes it is.

Todd Vaziri@tvaziri.com · last mo.

but hunter biden www.nytimes.com/2026/06/28/w...

I figured out why my follower count jumped. I was added to a starter pack by @lmyers-2024.bsky.social. While I am certainly am glad someone likes my relatively infrequent posts enough to include me in a starter pack and also welcome the new followers, it would have been nice if Bluesky notified me.

Of the Cartoon Characters Espouse Working Class Solidarity imagery that has found itself into my Facebook timeline, I believe this is the capper.

Philip Michaels@philipmichaels.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I regret to inform you that Snoopy is back on his bullshit in my Facebook timeline.

I mean the moderator is right, a war involves at least two sides fighting for themselves, otherwise it's just predator vs. prey.

Hamilton Nolan@hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · last mo.

From “Meet the Press moderator who thinks a wealth tax during an inequality crisis is ‘class warfare cosplay’” to “NYT editorial board member who is scared to ride the subway and blamed DSA,” we must give famous journalists their due credit for the admirable state of American politics today

This. Also CamelCamelCamel is how I ended up getting a slightly better than Prime Day price last week on my new M5 MacBook Pro.

Andy Ihnatko@ihnatko.bsky.social · last mo.

(Okay, but seriously: this is a good time to remind everyone that CamelCamelCamel is your friend. I _have_ spent a bit this week…but exclusively on stuff that's been loitering in my Wishlist for weeks or months, waiting for a genuinely-good price drop.) camelcamelcamel.com