if elected president, i will dissolve the Department of the Navy and hand their funding, and nuclear fleet over to the Internet Archive. They'll know what to do.

Jason Scott@textfiles.com · last wk.

That said, let us take a moment to thank our Bluesky Trans and Furry Elders for freaking out Jack Dorsey so much he bolted and left us this nice social media playground, taking most of his crypto chuds with him. We thank you for your service.

sure we may have slaughtered the journalism industry & now live in a disinformation hellscape but at least it made a few tech executives so unfathomably wealthy that they could pour trillions of dollars into the computers that will wreck the environment & take away the rest of our jobs

ryan cooper@ryanlcooper.com · 2d ago

oh yeah the broader newspaper industry is turbo fucked. down ~80 percent since 1990

"removing my adhd diagnosis was a relief (because of ablest policies that discriminate against a significant proportion of the population)" is the new "I'm happier after detransitioning (despite my ongoing dysphoria, because I'm not being actively transphobically abused every day by my society)"

Nate O@nateo.bsky.social · 3d ago

You'd have to read to the thirteenth paragraph to discover the pull quote for the title was from Marcus Siding, a 23-year-old Swedish man living in Sweden that wanted to become a cop, but his ADHD diagnosis at the age of 12 barred him by law from becoming a Swedish cop Seems relevant

lmao, this guy thinks Abdul El-Sayed is destroying the democratic party because he campaigned on popular policies and is on track to beat the candidate endorsed by dem leadership with $60 million in outside funding

Santiago Mayer@santiagomayer.com · 3d ago

Both the center and left have decided that their path to victory means destroying, not pursuing, Democrats in the middle of their conflict. In my view — that’s not a recipe for victory. It’s a perfect way to tear the party apart.

turns out Gillibrand isn't *just* bigoted against Muslims (remember that screed she went on last year where she accused Mamdani of supporting global jihad?) Gillibrand also attends a church which endorses the blood libel that Jews killed Jesus oh btw Gillibrand is Senate Dem's main fundraiser

Jonathan Larsen@jonathanlarsen.bsky.social · 4d ago

In June 2025, Capitol Ministries leader Ralph Drollinger taught his Senate Bible study that Israel, the Jews, killed Jesus. The smear of deicide is the historic basis for antisemitism. Drollinger's statement wasn't a one-off impulsive remark. It was published in the pamphlet for that lesson.

i'm sorry what the fuck. gillibrand attends a church which teaches that COVID was God's punishment for permitting gay marriage?

Jonathan Larsen@jonathanlarsen.bsky.social · 4d ago

NEW: Corporate media zero in signs of antisemitism on the left. Meanwhile, one of Rep. Haley Stevens's most powerful backers in her Senate race attends a Bible study that teaches that the Jews killed Jesus...

I got two: Trump is ineligible to be president under the 14th amendment thus all his pardons and executive orders are null and void. also, it cannot possibly be the case that the Founders intended the pardon power to be a viable criminal conspiracy tool. pardons in service of crime are void as well

karl rove knausgård@uhactually.bsky.social · 5d ago

This is why the number one thing liberal con law people should be working on is arguments that Trump’s pardons are not valid. Obviously none of this can happen without court packing but once the new liberal court is in place, there need to be arguments ready to hand them.

worth remembering that our current crisis of absurd prices for computer components is an extremely recent development inflicted on the public by a small cabal of billionaires (man, i wish i had bought a new computer back when i posted this)

Concept art by Mary Blair for Cinderella (1950), dir. Hamilton Luske, Clyde Geronimi and Wilfred Jackson, Walt Disney Productions

staring god dead in the eye and saying you’re locked in here with me

Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · 5d ago

Wait does this mean you can leave hell?

“if you are even tangentially a part of a retro video game community, it is your civic duty to push back against this company and shun anyone who doesn't. This is fascism tapping gently at the door and as soon as you let it in, it's going to invite its friends.”

Chris Person@papapishu.bsky.social · 6d ago

Blogged it. Happy Hater Week. aftermath.site/war-crime-n6...

i will stay home on election day rather than vote for an American version of Starmer all Starmer achieved in 2 yrs in office was to enact some of the worst anti-trans policies anywhere while also pivoting Labour so far to the right that it emboldened Reform to be full bore white supremacist

the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist)@merovingians.bsky.social · 7d ago

if this doesn't matter to you because she's up against Vivek, well, that's between you and your god, but I won't tolerate American Starmerism, a thing with an actual constituency in Dem elites, getting a foothold in this party.

Ben Sasse wasn't the only person looting university coffers to enrich himself and his friends

Anil Kalhan@akalhan.bsky.social · last wk.

Some impressively obscene grifts here

Once again begging Dems to build a Tough On Crime campaign around imprisoning the wealthy criminals stealing from us

Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · last wk.

This is exactly what Alex Jones is doing. It's part of why we're doing this. Corrupt people have found an end-around for paying out in the American court system by hiding assets in shell companies and just continuing onto the next scam.

She was Hayao Miyazaki's "right-hand" collaborator from the '70s onward. Her name was Michiyo Yasuda -- the best color designer in animation. Yasuda's eye for color gave Ghibli's work a totally different look. We explore her methods: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/the-artist...

sometimes you just have to sit back, relax, and admire how much Dudes Rock

ずーいち.Zooich🍄@zooich.bsky.social · last mo.

Wild Drummer Zooich and Shamisenist jaqoo session! #drummer #drums #drumlife #drum #percussion

remembering that time when Tony Hawk did an ESPN ad where he posed as a fugitive on the run

Michael@fleerultra.bsky.social · last wk.

here are some commercials from my youth that have permanently etched themselves in my brain. feel free to QT or repy with your own faves. this one ran during my saturday morning cartoons and i think ended up on a vhs of transformers the movie or the duck tales movie www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVzZ...

the ad that burned itself into my mind as a kid is the one where the hockey goalie loses so badly that he has to start a new life as a gardener

Michael@fleerultra.bsky.social · last wk.

here are some commercials from my youth that have permanently etched themselves in my brain. feel free to QT or repy with your own faves. this one ran during my saturday morning cartoons and i think ended up on a vhs of transformers the movie or the duck tales movie www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVzZ...

shout out to all the rapidly decaying millennials like myself who still use a Playstation 3 for watching Blu-Rays

the worst thing about the name "laserdisc" is that we didn't keep it around for all the subsequent optical formats. CDs, DVDs, and Blu-rays are all discs read by a laser too, so why don't they have names as awesome as "laserdisc"?

A few years ago I made this as a gift for a friend after we learned that Weller, in full RoboDrag, would play the trumpet between takes. Maybe the best gift I’ve ever given.

still think about how kirsten gillibrand, chair of the DSCC, went on an insanely islamaphobic rant against zohran mamdani where she called him a global jihadist did she face any consequences for that? lol, no. of course not

#StupidSuez@diplomatofnight.com · 2w ago

I'll go one step further than Omar. Has anyone in Democratic Party leadership ever, even once, publicly reprimanded someone in their own caucus for not "listening to Arab/Muslim constituents"? Has Gottheimer ever been reprimanded? Fetterman? Did anyone ever say Cuomo needed to address Arab concerns?

tell me you've never actually gambled for large sums of money without saying you've never actually gambled for large sums of money

dem senators are deep into a race to see who can cast the most votes for trump's fascist judges

Fascist Dem Tracker@fascistdemtracker.bsky.social · 2w ago

This is Durbin's 28th yea vote for a Trump nominee, Fetterman's 52nd, Heinrich's 24th, Hirono's 6th, Kaine's 43rd, King's 49th, Peters' 24th, Rosen's 36th, Shaheen's 60th, Slotkin's 29th, and Whitehouse's 22nd.

Fun fact: @equality.house.gov member Terri Sewell voted yea for this bill.

Congressional Equality Caucus@equality.house.gov · 2w ago

🚨BAD NDAA AMENDMENT ADOPTED🚨 The House just adopted a Republican amendment to ban TRICARE from covering healthcare for trans troops & trans dependents, including mental healthcare for trans kids, which will cause real harm & lead troops to leave the service.

[movie trailer announcer voice] "the year is 2026. fresh produce is now poison. there is only one remaining food you can trust: Jack Link's MR BEAST Teriyaki Beef Sticks"

the low-info/apathetic voter bloc is also the group w/ the lowest voting propensity (there were ~3m fewer voters in the '24 election than in '20) there are an awful lot of votes to be earned in that group for any politician willing to broaden their appeal beyond the narrow lanes of beltway punditry

mtsw@mtsw.bsky.social · 2w ago

that non-ideological, low-information and apathetic 20% is the key swing voting bloc and why really the only thing that matters for the midterms and beyond is gas prices and grocery prices (and to a lesser extent vibes around 'the economy')

this isn't a new observation but it really can't be overstated the extent to which "the cruelty is the point" is the animating function of the modern conservative movement

Assigned Media@assignedmedia.org · 2w ago

The story of a trans girl who tried to fight Idaho's anti-trans laws, and died to suicide earlier this year, is only now coming to light. Our hearts are broken, but we need to tell these stories and mourn our dead, because the media is barely bothering to look for the victims of trans genocide.