Okay so, in all sincerity - I know a number of organizations have basically depended on stuff like Nitter/XCancel as an excuse to continue posting important information on X. Now that people without accounts are really locked out I hope we can actually put serious pressure to post info publically.

musk c&d'd XCancel, which is definitely a thing you do when everything is going great

what a profoundly boring, authoritarian-coddling, unremarkable person

Tim Cook Gets Apple Farewell Party Before Stepping Down as CEO

Apple hosted a farewell party for Tim Cook ahead of his September 1 CEO exit, with OneRepublic performing at Apple Park.

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Always strive to be the kind of person Dolly Parton was, make the world a little better in whatever way you can

Dolly Parton did what literally no techbro billionaire would even think of doing: filling her life with good deeds that make people mourn her when she dies. Not one of these assholes would even think of this, they are all right now completely and honestly baffled by the outpouring of love for her.

The man who has a weird inexplicable box on his ass and visible signs of what appears to be rot on his hands wants to start renaming lakes as a power move to intimidate Canada.

Letterkenny: Softer Than a Tootsie Roll Fruit Cup

ALT: Letterkenny: Softer Than a Tootsie Roll Fruit Cup

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That I've lost my 20s to this dude and the only time that he wasn't in power in my 20s was most of covid has me a level of pissed off that will take the rest of my life to work on and tamp down. It is impossible to articulate with words how much he pisses me off.

the rallying of support for Cofnas, a fucking nobody, compared to the relative silence in defense of Claudine Gay and other Black academics really shows the rot at the core of the whole damn enterprise

Wagatwe Wanjuki@wagatwe.bsky.social · 2d ago

the white men running to X to complain they can't defend white supremacists in peace on Bluesky is so funny to me

From pandering to pop punk fans and teenagers, to acquiring music outlets and firing employees, to straight up grooming, Good Charlotte is awful and they always have been. youtu.be/jRaqjg8Vp6s

GOOD CHARLOTTE Is Awful! (and they always have been)

YouTube video by Rocked

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...I hate that he knows EXACTLY how to engage with the POS-in-chief down south - like a petty thieving putz. (he's still ripping out our bike lanes, you do NOT have to hand it to Doug Ford, for God's sake)

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d ago

Ontario Premier Doug Ford on Trump: "I have a real estate on my ass, so he has a lot of room to kiss my ass"

Canada should turn away anyone who was a political appointee in this administration at the border … forever. They won't let you in if you have a DUI, why should they let any of these people in?

When Doug Ford is lining up behind Mark Carney and against US Republicans, you know Canada is serious about this.

Presumably Nicholas Hoult's "scheduling conflict" was with re-arranging his sock drawer and trying to salvage his reputation. I can only hope for more "scheduling conflicts" in the future.

All of this about Nathan Cofnas and Richard Hanania and the embarrassing number of "academics" supporting them shows not an 'academic freedom' problem, but one of standards. Because I can't look at their admissions into these "esteemed" circles and not think '...hmm, I think they got a handout'.

JD Vance cannot play the bully. He is forever a toady.

Here is the deal: you use any derivative of the r slur in your screen name, you don’t get to put “be kind” or “diversity equity and inclusion 💙” in your bio. In fact, you can just go to the block zone.

How to do this.. - Stop buying games on PSN - Cancel your PS Plus sub - Stop preordering PS games - Boycott these things until they change (not for a week or month or w/e, UNTIL THEY CHANGE) - bonus points for bugging the shit out of them on social media.

The PS Blackout is really showing that gamerbros don't know how to protest or boycott anything. A week isn't going to do anything, leaving your PS5 off does nothing and isn't a challenge, unplugging it doesn't "show them".. they don't even know about that, and in between big releases is a laugh.

Cummins the Sad Cat Close-up

Alt: Cummins the Sad Cat Close-up looking confused.

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The Simon Wiesenthal Center *literally blessed* Donald Trump while he was ushering Nazis into the government. The organization condemned anti-fascist Jews for using a Yiddish anti-fascist slogan. To pretend they represent anything but a fascist fringe is absurd.

I know this will sound silly to most Americans, but if you put the might of the US up against the petty viciousness of Canada's Quebecois, my money is on those glorious French speaking bastards.

They were all learning to love FTX and doing whatever they suggested regarding crypto. Until the FTX money dried up.

If you can find common ground with Jared kusher, but not zohran mamdani, you shouldn't be in democratic leadership

Saeed Jones@theferocity.bsky.social · 3d ago

“Representative Hakeem Jeffries, Democrat of New York and the minority leader, met privately in recent weeks with Jared Kushner, President Trump’s son-in-law and top outside adviser, and discussed potential areas of common ground, according to five people with knowledge of the meeting.” BRUH.

Like with weaponized therapy speak among sexual predators, it's notable that nowadays racists and transphobes desperately want you to believe they aren't. They can't just say the slurs they so clearly want to, they desperately *need* you to believe they aren't bigots.

I have courses to prepare so I have little time for disingenuous fucks prattling on about academic freedom as if they know fuck all about the concept. I will say that the insistence that we give peta’Q like Cofnas time and space to do this shit is a big part of how Arday lost his life.

the average well-off DSA organizer is basically organizing to pay higher taxes the rest of their life and in a society where that level of selflessness is pretty rare I don't think anyone should be giving them shit for it

Idk how much Canadian trade deals get media coverage south of the border, but I know it’s usually reported as “Canadians are mad at tariffs” and not “he keeps threatening to annex us”… So FYI the US wanted to stop Canada from making trade deals with other countries, that’s why Carney rejected it.

Yes, I support putting a "kick me" sign on my own back. It's called having high-minded principles and I wouldn't expect someone who looks down their noses at every wallet inspector they encounter to understand.

the guy who said he wanted to chair the harvard department of eugenics and race science??? people are signing a letter in support of his right to bully black men to death in pursuit of his dream of eliminating black people entirely?? just making sure i’m reading this right!!

Jonathan W. Gray@elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 4d ago

There’s a petition signed by more than one hundred academics (& counting!) in support of Nathan Cofnas—the racist who instigated the pile on that led to J. Arday’s death—because he lost his postdoc. Apparently there’s nothing a white man can do that deserves consequences.

Agreed, and I think "they" is almost entirely Natalie, I feel like she's sort of the most logical explanation for the absolutely brain-breaking stuff like the shit pilot video and these imaginary penis returns

Ed Burmila@edburmila.bsky.social · 4d ago

We can’t rule out that he’s lost his mind or simply a liar, but I still feel like we’re eventually going to find out they’re AI generating fake news stories and showing them to him. It will be the tell-all book of 2031.

...yeah, this is a weird one. Not about to apologize for it, it's not for everyone, but I think I did what I wanted to do. Hope if @mike-eagle.bsky.social sees it, he finds it entertaining. :) So yeah, This is Not An Open Mike Eagle (and Kenny Segal) Review - enjoy! youtu.be/skHa1FWq_qU

This Is Not An Open Mike Eagle (and Kenny Segal) Review

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