Remember when Amazon raised over $50 million for independent bookstores? Oh, no wait, that was us. 😎 Thank you for choosing bookstores over billionaires. 💜
✊ Marissa 🌊
@marissarae.bsky.social
Brain of a mathematician, soul of an activist, body of a chocolate-lover. (Pronoun: she.)
Saying you won’t vote for Talarico, who has a very consistent record supporting trans rights, against Paxton, who is actively trying to harm trans people, is the same thing as saying “I am indifferent to what actually happens to trans people” It isn’t principled, virtuous, or logical
Imani Gandy@angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 2d agoTeam Blue No Matter Who is going to have their work cut out for them because I for one refuse to entertain voting for or even saying nice things about someone who wants to compromise on trans rights. Like get the fuck away from me.
This is spectacular, folks. We live in a moment in American history when the president and his administration are so racist and dumb that a toy company has to put out a statement saying: "OUR GIANT ROBOT THAT TURNS INTO A TRUCK DENOUNCES RACISM AND HAS NO CONNECTION TO THE CURRENT PRESIDENT."
Project Salt Box@projectsaltbox.com · yesterdayHasbro on DHS’ use of Optimus Prime in their deportation slop.
So JD was clearly the one making recordings in the situation room and giving them to Haberman and Swan right?
Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · yesterday“.. the commanders were blunt. They were most worried about their depleted stocks of Patriot interceptors .. .. Stocks of critical munitions such as these, they told the vice president, were the lowest they had ever seen.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/09/10/u...
I was behind a Dodge SRT with the license plate HRCRUX and like… is the car the Horcrux? Are you giving me permission to stab your car with a basilisk fang?
I was out for a late-night walk and I was walking past one house and their dog got in front of me on the sidewalk and was barking and the owner came out and tried to corral it and it wouldn't go inside so I waited a while and then said "I'm gonna cross the street" and the dog was STILL PISSED and
youtu.be/L3l9JsDea7U I always thought the guy was demonic, but a decade ago, I wasn't concerned about dementia. I truly didn't realize how much he's gone downhill in the 11 years since he's entered national politics.
Trump’s speech and language abilities: 2016 vs 2026
YouTube video by Hilary M.A. CCC-SLP
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It's September 9th and I've finished my Goodreads challenge for the year
Jon Stewart Says 'Done And Done'
Alt: Jon Stewart Says 'Done And Done' (looks like circa 2000)
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Blogging, podcasts, and wikipedia were never considered the equivalent of slop in the pre-AI. They were often low prestige forms of writing with less quality control than big publications, but nobody thought they were thoughtlessly mass produced. They were/are the labors of individual creators.
James Van Fleet@horrorfilms101.bsky.social · 2d agoYou know things are going well when you’ve entered Day Three of Posting Through It.
I… we literally all have a flashbulb memory from that day We've been saying "never forget" (and meaning it!!) for a quarter century This makes me want to scream
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3d ago"September 11th was 25 years ago" -- Ted Cruz defends Trump lying about his response to 9/11 but suggesting he might not remember because it was so long ago
Roko’s Basilisk, the dumbest thought experiment I’ve ever heard in my life, is somehow the basis of operations for tech companies more powerful than anything we’ve ever seen.
Adam Rutherford@adamrutherford.bsky.social · 3d agoI’d like to know who is on the Anthropic comms team
Imagine the self restraint to wait two and a half decades to tell this story for the first time.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3d agoTrump claims he was basically lifted out of the rubble on 9/11: "Two fireman, big strong guys, they grabbed me under the arms -- 'got to get our of here!' -- and they literally lifted me up, and they started running with me."
I didn't realize how weird it was until many many years later, but I spent months in my early teens being paid to manually convert Word docs to HTML webpages.
SarahJSloat@sjane.bsky.social · 4d agoHappy labor day (USA). What's one of the oddest paid job you've had? Mine was probably as a reader for a medical professor at Rutgers, whose eyes were failing. I read him many academic texts, as well as Samuel Butler's "The Way of All Flesh."
Wildest attire I saw @ the MD State Fair was a girl wearing her jeans unbuttoned/unzipped on purpose. Like they'd probably not fit if she tried to zip them; that's how they stayed up w/o fastening. I'm not a big "you're not leaving the house dressed like that" mom but if one of my kids pulled that…
What differentiates the Maryland State Fair from other state fairs south of the Mason-Dixon is that my enby can walk around in a "No gender, only goose" tee + a skort and literally no one looks at him twice. Everything else is the same. Pigs, cows, midway, fried Oreos, Scrambler, blue-ribbon quilts.
one of the things that pisses me off most about the Trump administration is that it’s literally just affirmative action for Nazis I know some incredibly smart, accomplished people working in mid-level roles under Biden taking pay cuts meanwhile the ticket to the top now is just being a Nazi freak
Edward Wong@ewong.bsky.social · 5d agoNEW: Nate Hochman was fired from the DeSantis campaign in 2023 after promoting a video with the Sonnenrad, a Nazi symbol embraced by white supremacists. He now works in Rubio's State Department, as deputy director of policy planning and chief speechwriter. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/06/u...
So, real question, how does Australia stay mostly sane under a 100% voting mandate?
Hill Woward@convolutedname.bsky.social · 5d agothere it is, biggest draw for the AfD came from non-voters
I would never be MAHA but I have personally experienced a maternal-fetal doctor straight-up lying to my face to achieve the outcome she wanted & that is not unrelated to why more women have a mistrust of the medical system. Obstetrics is diabolical in its systematic paternalism, and it needs fixing.
The idea that making a sitting president answer for criminal charges would distract him from important official duties has never looked more ridiculous.
Frank Amari @frankamari.bsky.social · 5d agoThe President of the United States today:
Ah yes, the guy who was quoted on STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW, a podcast I used to listen to often, and when I emailed them to be like "Mercola's an AIDS denier???" they were like "his stuff isn't all bad, go away." And I never listened to SYSK again (but you do what you want, I'm not the content police).
ProPublica@propublica.org · 5d agoAfter ProPublica contacted Dr. Joseph Mercola for an article on babies dying after parents turned down vitamin K shots, he publicly reversed his long-held stance that the shots weren't needed. “The data is clear: vitamin K saves lives,” he wrote. (Published June)
His pathological need to associate himself with whatever people are talking about is one of his funnier traits and only gets better as his brain decomposes. "September 11 is a date that frankly we'll never forget. I was flying one of the planes"
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5d agoTrump claims that after 9/11, "I went down, I was building a building in New York, and I went down there very shortly thereafter -- the following day, you couldn't go down the same day -- and we worked long and hard"
i really cannot maintain enough that my current theory of donald trump is that he is utterly gripped by the terror of death, and is desperately attempting to leave some mark on the world that history cannot erase--this is the point of the wars, the annexation threats, the dc vandalism
Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅@cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 5d agoi think it's super cool that posting this is what the most powerful man alive spends his Sunday afternoon doing
…kinda feels like we should fund alternative delivery mechanisms? Patches or something?? There are oral vaccines for some diseases of childhood; can we expand that? Because if the children of this country are being raised by "eek needle scary" idiots, I'd rather a slightly worse vax than nothing
Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 5d agoVaccine conspiracism is overwhelmingly clustered among the religious, white and affluent. It’s a function of conservative ideology and bad faith media. Being nicer to MAHA types will not ‘bring them into the fold,’ it will only increase their sense of entitlement.
Do it. This is the mad emperor shit with the highest ratio of political damage to collateral damage.
Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · 5d agoEverything is just impossibly dumb
I truly don’t see how this country can go on if we don’t ban online sports betting. This story is stomach-turning.
FanDuel sent a personal message from Phillies star Bryce Harper to a customer with a gambling addiction
Terry Thompson lost $1.5 million on bets he placed with FanDuel. The company gave him VIP treatment — including a personalized video message from the Phillies' All-Star first baseman.
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Horrifying context on Frederick (a town I love): it's one of the Deafest towns in the U.S. You think ICE is terrifying, imagine dealing with them when you can't hear them screaming at you, and you know they'll shoot to kill. Also the city is D+~50 so it's no surprise they're being targeted.
Friendly Neighborhood Mouse@missmouse.bsky.social · 5d agoFriday morning, I was gardening when I checked my phone. A request had gone out for help. For 25+ hours, ICE had been laying siege to a quiet neighborhood in Frederick, MD. Community members were afraid, some didn’t want to leave their homes. ICE vehicles seemed to be lurking on every corner.
Non developers seem to have absolutely no awareness that everything important is coded with AI now and theres just no escaping using it.
i think if you wanna know what the current limit is on the level of targeted animosity and dehumanization the government feels it can inflict - both politically and in terms of its own capacities - against its enemies, look at what's being done to the haitian refugee community in ohio