Human Instrumentality as a concept is racist, mononormative, and Turkophobic.

My turn to post one of these and dox myself.

this is a common question and the answer is that a lot of companies actually do track piracy numbers when it comes to gauging interest in an IP so if you really want to send the message that Harry Potter is toxic: no, you should not pirate it either

Pantuso@pantuso.com · 2w ago

What about piracy?

Is there anything more quintessentially American than the fear that somewhere, in some small way, a persecuted minority might have less shitty private health insurance than you?

Cirice Gray @House of the Underworld out now!@ciricegray.itch.io · 2w ago

This kind of content is just everywhere on tiktok. Just round the clock fomenting of resentment and bigotry towards trans women.

This is a sadistic level of contempt for Democratic voters and what they clearly want. I swear they get off to this. A ratio like this should inspire a deep crisis of confidence, but it will instead be interpreted as evidence Schiff is willing to make “hard choices”

"Earthers get to walk outside into the light, breathe pure air, look up at a blue sky, and see something that gives them hope. And what do they do? They look past that light, past that blue sky. They see the stars, and they think, 'Mine.'" -Anderson Dawes (The Expanse)

ryan cooper@ryanlcooper.com · 3w ago

galaxies. as in, more than one. the things that are 2.5 billion+ light years away

Seeing people on reddit discourse about height differences in dating gives me yet another reason to be overwhelmingly thankful that I’m not straight.

“I dislike right and left equally for different reasons.” -a hardcore right-winger, every time, without fail, even if they don’t admit it.

worms cited@christa.bsky.social · last mo.

New from Kathleen Stock: I am too dumb for climate change

Is this why Bluesky is dying? In a couple of years there will only be one generation left here.

Big Joel@bigjoel.bsky.social · last mo.

I think there are two gens, people over 40 and people under 40, and that's it and nobody gets to feel special anymore

I made it until my mid 30s before touching anything by Virginia Woolf and holy cow I just love her prose.

Occasional reminder that there’s no, “it’s too late, its over” for anthropogenic climate change. Every molecule of CO2 that doesn’t go into the atmosphere makes a difference. Preventing 0.1 degree of warming makes a difference. Every bit of climate resilience we build together makes a difference.

People like this often sound uber-woke when they’re talking about nonbinary transmasculine people but when they talk about binary trans women they might as well be quoting The Transsexual Empire. It’s literally the same arguments about trans women enforcing gender TERFs were making 45 years ago.

Thorne 🌸@ens0.me · 2mo ago

I'm not trying to be "revolutionary" or "subversive" by being trans. I had gender dysphoria, and this is what fixed it. I wanted to be a girl as long as I remember. I'm way happier now that I can be. I'm not trying to make a political statement about gender by existing.

I came up with a joke about Helen, but a younger, hotter comic stole it from me.

strigix@sovereignbeast.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I came up with a joke about Cassandra, but no one would listen to me when I told it to them

Cowards, they should have left it up.

Erin Reed@erininthemorning.com · 2mo ago

5. The statement drew swift condemnation from Democrats. The Ohio Democrats Progressive Caucus issued a blistering rebuke: "Our hearts break for those kids. Those who disagree with that will never vote—let alone doorknock—for Amy Acton." Then they swiftly took down the post.

My alma mater is already cutting staff to the bone and reducing student services to make up for a budget shortfall caused by a sudden drop in international enrollment. This will gut both public and private higher education in the US.

David J. Bier@davidjbier.bsky.social · 2mo ago

OMG DHS appears to say that it will apply this rule about changing majors to ADDING a major, telling students who need double majors to "plan ahead and enroll in both at the same time." These people are intent on killing America's university system. They are not this stupid.

In general, calling these interventions "gender affirming care" has never fostered any empathy for trans people. Rather, it is used to pejoratively liken cis people to us, reducing trans people to punchline, while also regarding our healthcare as both frivolous and shallow, vanity not necessity.

Depression is a real shithead sometimes.

You stupid motherfuckers

James Goodwin@jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 2mo ago

My god. The Heritage Foundation, which mercilessly attacked transgender kids in order to protect the "integrity of women's sports," is now attacking the legal basis for women's sports. The transgender student decision is barely 2 weeks old.

The dark ritual was successful, I see.

Alejandra Caraballo@esqueer.net · 2mo ago

McConnell suddenly appears healthy and alive the same day Lindsey Graham dies after a month of radio silence. www.axios.com/2026/07/12/m...

This has been extremely clear since we all saw how "essential workers" got treated in 2020 and 2021 while everyone else got to stay home.

jon ben-menachem@jbenmenachem.com · 2mo ago

Americans fundamentally do not respect the vast majority of low paid occupations (aka the jobs most people in society work). Instead there’s a weird mythology around nearly nonexistent forms of work in contemporary US, like industrial manufacturing

I just saw "I'm staying skeptical because I remember what happened to Emmet Till" over on reddit. And there you have it! The worst possible faux-woke misogynistic (not to mention racist) response to this whole mess. We can pack it in, discourse over.

Predicting it now: McConnell is alive but never going to wake up and they’re hiding it because “see, you can’t replace him, he’s alive” is deeply fucking embarrassing in light of that. Honestly that sort of “akshually we technically can do this” BS is perfectly fitting with his rotten legacy.

I think it looks more like Bernie, Warren, et al. lost a checkers game to a toddler

Eric Michael Garcia@ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 2mo ago

AOC not getting behind Graham Platner looks like a chess move now.

“i imagined a world where you got that scholarship instead of me and it was so emotionally devastating i need the government to eradicate all your wretched kind from public life so no real girl will be traumatized by hypotheticals like i was ever again”

This country was one person's vote away this morning from putting any birthright citizen in danger of being deported tomorrow. We are so much closer to the abyss than we think. Man oh man.

That’s a sincere hope, by the way. Platner is obviously a dog shit liar with no real moral compass, but there’s a chance a good team will keep him in line. For the sake of American Democracy and the end of the violent imperialism he cheered for, I hope that happens.

On my fucking knees begging “leftists” to not talk about the US left being “stabbed in the back” by international Jewish money. It will surprise no one that this was a discussion about how people need to support a certain senatorial candidate in Maine.

This headline seems hyperbolic but my personal experience both bike commuting and riding recreationally is that a lot of drivers definitely do, even in a deep blue city in a blue state.

Conspiracy theory: there isn’t going to be the jet fuel to run these flights into the US soon anyway, and this saves face for it.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 4mo ago

This plan is actively *insane.* Airlines cannot divert large numbers of international flights from one city to another; they'd just have to cancel flights en masse, causing enormous economic damage that splashed waaaaay beyond a few big cities that were the target.