Is EDM neoliberal? Are OCs petit bourgeois? Is Mastercard my friend? bsky.app/profile/curr...
Current Affairs@currentaffairs.bsky.social · 2d ago
Matthijs
@mccaine.bsky.social
Bi femboy/twunk. Former social scientist. I like owls, languages, Tolkien, and socialism. Tell no lies, claim no easy victories. Private account (sfw). Live in Berlin. Gegen jede Staatsräson
Current Affairs@currentaffairs.bsky.social · 2d agoY'all think you know what's important and what's going on. But you don't. There's something much more important happening right now. It's international owl awareness day‼️
Adorable Owl with Flower
Alt: Adorable Owl with Flower
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This is unironically good in context and we need way more normies and non-Americans here and way less people working each other up into an outrage lather about everything bsky.app/profile/thev...
The Verge@theverge.com · 2d agoBluesky's new CEO Toni Schneider on the platform's reputation for being a liberal bubble: "Yes, we definitely want that to change. It is already changing. It certainly wasn’t designed to attract one specific group of people."
Little known fact about me: I have spent a long time listening to the podcast "Writing Excuses" and have gone back to the beginning to make extensive notes on (almost) all the episodes. I'm almost 14 seasons in and my notes already come to 55.000+ words. I'm wondering if I should upload em somewhere
Hasui Kawase, Japanese (1883-1957), Shikishima Riverbank, Maebashi, 1942, color woodblock print, image: 24.29 x 36.51 cm, sheet: 26.19 x 39.37 cm, LACMA, Los Angeles, California, USA
Solarpunk is real bsky.app/profile/earh...
Dr Earhart Sampson PhD 🌎 🇨🇦 🇺🇲 🇲🇽 🇩🇰 🇺🇦@earhart.bsky.social · 3d agoMassachusetts farm installs 832 solar panels above berry fields, and the berries grown underneath turned out sweeter and juicier and could change the future of American farming - The Economic Times share.google/GDGqQBgisqhG...
Als je vindt dat een foto van een kussende Putin en Trump pop een statement voor vrije waarden is, moet je je laten nakijken. De suggestie dat ze gay zouden zijn is de punchline en dat is homofobie in optima forma. Heel simpel.
Once in the US I was for some reason on a plane full of students from Calvin College and the guy next to me started a similar line, combined with the usual American inquiries about where I'm from etc. So I made a point of telling him all about my sex work bsky.app/profile/unla...
Anna O. Law@unlawfulentries.bsky.social · 4d agoWas at 30K feet cruising altitude when my seatmate asked me, "Have you found Jesus as your personal savior?" Houston to Honolulu is an 8hr+ flight. I glanced @ emergency exit. Turned to her & said, "I'd appreciate it if you kept your religion to yourself." She was aghast and offended. Whatevs
It's always disappointing when I look into my bathroom mirror and it doesn't say to me: "despite everything, it's still you"
I always find it kinda silly when people say "you give people too much credit", à la I should be more critical of people or more suspicious. I mean maybe I do. But maybe you give them too little. Which of us is more likely to be happy in the long run?
Squishiness on trans rights is a dealbreaker for me because (a) it’s a straightforward issue of personal freedom and bodily autonomy much like abortion, and (b) the right is obviously coming after us cis gays next.
ashley 🌹@clearlyashley.bsky.social · 7d agotrans rights frankly is a top 5, potentially top 3 issue for me despite not being trans and not having any trans family being bigoted against trans folks not only hurts my trans friends and every trans person but is so predictive of further bigotry
I'm afraid I'm going to have to declare perpetual protracted people's war on the mosquitoes
At least with me, you will never get discourse about movies or television, since I don't watch any
Walking by two kids on an e-scooter (I'd estimate maybe 12 yo or so?) in my rainbow colored outfit. One of em loudly yells, as I walk by, "slaaaay!" The kids are all right
Cities dismantled their tram networks to become “motor cities of the future”. The result? You could travel further within 30 mins via public transport in 1957 than you can in 2026. Cities are seeking billions to rebuild networks. Incredible piece of work this.
The Exchange@theexchangeleeds.bsky.social · 2w agoIf you stood on Briggate at 8am on a weekday in 1957, and stood there again in 2026, in which year could you reach more of the city in half an hour? Samuel Bancroft has crunched the numbers. Since the 1950s, Leeds has got bigger - but the city has effectively shrunk.
Although I can't help but feel butting the judge as soon as he entered the ring - as one beast did - has got to be worth at least a couple of points. Sadly we missed the "most evil sheep" category this time. We did get to see a Lincoln Longwool have explosive hiccups though.
