I have, with my own eyes, watched my tax dollars in the form of missiles as they hit buildings inhabited by civilians. I'd much prefer subsidizing a grocery story I don't use.

USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 2d ago

Opinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.

I had my car broken into and laptop stolen in front of a police station in San Francisco and when I walked in to report the crime the officer on duty asked what I wanted him to do about it

Em, midly@lefttheprairie.bsky.social · 4d ago

It’s so funny when people are like “sure you’re an abolitionist now but wait until you’re the victim of a property crime.” Buddy, the most useful thing the police have ever done for property crime is put the form you need to submit to your insurance online.

I'm genuinely not going to feel bad for anyone that falls for this. You will only get " you knew better and you're stupid"

The Verge@theverge.com · last wk.

X Money is launching in the US starting today

Me knowing im forklift certified

Standplaats Kraków could really use some cash!@standplaatskrk.pl · 2w ago

JKR and her new org apparently helped get the new Amnesty International report on how TERF organizations destroy lives taken down from their site. Well, guess what? The Streisand Effect is real. Here's the entire report in a thread. Read it. Share it.

Alejandra Caraballo@esqueer.net · 3w ago

Amnesty International put out a major report documenting the influence of UK based anti trans gender critical organizations and their funding. Within hours, GC groups threatened defamation lawsuits and Amnesty was forced to pull it down. Proving the point they're anti rights. Anyways, here it is.

ICYMI: A Tokyo court ordered a lawyer to pay damages to Akutagawa Prize-winning author Li Kotomi for outing her as transgender on X. Li's legal team says it's believed to be the first such ruling in Japan to compensate a sexual minority for being outed.

Tokyo Court Awards Damages to Outed Transgender Author

Award-winning author Li Kotomi won a small by symbolic ruling against a lawyer who had been involved in the Aum Shinrikyo trials.

unseen-japan.com

i want to go to bouncing bubble world

people need to go to jail over this, its the only thing the democratic party should be saying right now. all of them, in unison, no matter the question or topic, needs to be saying “insider trading is against the law”

NBC News@nbcnews.com · last mo.

Investment accounts owned by President Trump engaged in more than 300 previously undisclosed stock purchases on April 8, 2025, one day before his surprise announcement that he would pause a number of his “Liberation Day” tariffs, his financial disclosure report says.

KILL SIX BILLION DEMONS killsixbilliondemons.com

it turns out this ps2 game is not actually about giant robots but is entirely focused on the unfortunately incredibly funny suffering of this specific teenager. like look at this shit

"AI cannot take responsibility, and we can't trust heavy users of AI to understand their code enough to fix it." @godotengine.org gets it. 👍

Open source game engine Godot will no longer accept AI-authored code contributions: 'We can't trust heavy users of AI to understand their code enough to fix it'

At risk of drowning in AI slop code, Godot is firming up its contribution requirements.

pcgamer.com

have you heard this sort of urgency from Democrats about anything Trump has done

Axios@axios.com · last mo.

"There's going to be a war": Centrist House Democrats plot Mamdani Caucus counterattack

“restoring faith that better is possible” is maybe the most important thing in politics right now outside of imposing consequences on the bad people (and imposing consequences would help restore faith) we have seen what cynical, “lol nothing matters” politics leads to and it leads to Donald Trump

kyle tear down that highway lucas 🏳️‍🌈@itskylelucas.com · last mo.

My not-so-hot take is that what Mamdani is doing *IS* incrementalism, and the bar is so deeply in hell that a politician just doing *anything* good consistently is a total anomaly for people. And I think for now that is good and fine, because it is restoring people’s faith that better is possible.

imagining a grizzled hardboiled detective saying this while gripping some guy's lapels at a shady bar

NBC News@nbcnews.com · last mo.

She has a neck the size of an adult human, legs that are just as long and an unforgettable coat. And she’s missing.

While you're cooking in the heat this week, do bear this in mind.

fandoms treat trans characters exactly like my parents when I came out. "there were no signs" "are you sure?" "you'll always be our son :)" fucking incredible

"death of the audience" is genuinely unironically good advice for anyone who wants to make anything

nige 'dear ratboy'@niall.codes · 2mo ago

That's enough Death of the Author. It's time for Death of the Audience. Start running fools

when I posted this five years ago I was really kind of hoping it wasn't going to be reflective of an actual future we would be entering welp

These guys are called FLORADINN. You can think of them like the “Rudinn” of Chapter 5. Their favorite thing is FLOWERS. They usually don’t get what’s going on, but they are chill and don’t care. I like these guys.

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani said it is time for the Democrats to ignore party leaders, embrace a “new vision,” and call for the abolishment of U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement.

This is the message. Any Democrat willing to sacrifice trans folks—especially kids—will sacrifice anything.

Paul@pawlbologna.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Ed Markey tears into Seth Moulton: "Massachusetts deserves better than a senator who scapegoats trans kids." The crowd goes fucking wild.

wizard

Evelyndroid's Aperture Science and Bugge-Finding 🏳️‍⚧️🕷️@apsciencebylyn.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Baby Scolops (silly planthopper with a snoot) 🥹

one of the cool things about this documentary is that it gives more insight into the fact that people sell some really niche shit at this event lol. like it's not all fanfiction and shit. it's literally Whatever some weirdo wants to sell if they can find a way to do it. god speed, minecraft man.

If I'd done this bad a job at parenting I'd be shopping around for a kaishakunin

The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv)@theserfstv.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Gavin Newsome has said his son is a fan of Charlie Kirk Andrew Tate and now Clavicular. You should probably stop running for office and spend time with your son

USERS: you're alienating the people who actually use your product BLUESKY: likes are now florps USERS: what BLUESKY: images goes sideways

absolutely none of this introspection is authentic he's either running for office himself (which I suspect he's too lazy to do) or opportunistically retconning before supporting another, younger, even shittier fascist with better hair

Headquarters@headquartersnews.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Tucker Carlson: I’ll be tormented for a long time by the fact that I played a role in getting Donald Trump elected. We’re implicated in this. I misled people.