As a general rule and personal policy, I try not to comment on celebrity deaths. Making an exception for Dolly Parton. Dolly showed people how to be an ally, and it really wasn't all that complicated: love your people and care for them. Love them for who they are. That's it. Absolute legend. RIP.

Dude really is missing the point. Is 2 a small number of deaths? Sure, yes. BUT IT'S FROM A DISEASE WE HAD ALL BUT ERADICATED. If two idiots blow themselves up with fireworks, okay yeah sure. However, this is like dying of leprosy or Bubonic Plague in 2026. We shouldn't be seeing this, full stop.

Jonathan Howard@joho.bsky.social · 6h ago

Would be funny if it weren't so tragic.

How come Pop-Tarts are the only food that comes in a tiny emergency blanket?

It's honestly refreshing, seeing these progressive Democrat candidates hold their own while tired old tropes get trotted out about "illegals" and "bathrooms" and "women's sports." The right is running out of boogeymen. You love to see it. But no no, by all means, keep using 1991's best fear words.

Target vows to look into ways to celebrate diversity and inclusion, perhaps, in an equitable way, maybe

✨queer commie terrorist✨@britculpsapp.bsky.social · 17h ago

target what did you do…

School nurses can’t even give kids an aspirin.

The Volatile Mermaid@ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 21h ago

The teachers who can barely afford to buy school supplies for their students are performing free medical procedures on them.

Obviously no school has ever *medically* transitioned a student, with or without the parent’s knowledge. She’s talking about stuff like “using a student’s preferred name” and hoping the dimwitted base will imagine covert medical procedures.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterday

Linda McMahon: "After the Biden administration allowed schools to secretly transition students without parents' knowledge, President Trump is defending parental rights like never before"

The US Government has effectively killed CPT (Curricular Practical Training) for international students, using a creative interpretation (to put it kindly) of the existing regulation. This helps no one, to be blunt, and will harms hundreds of thousands of students while also harming their schools.

Presidents, even the popular ones, consistently see their party lose seats in midterm elections. Since the advent of our two-party system, there have only been two elections (1934 and 2002) when the president's party gained seats. If the Republican cave-in isn't SPECTACULAR, then fuckery is afoot.

Amanda Katz@katzish.bsky.social · yesterday

Incredible polling news for Donald Trump: his approval is still above water in 3 states (Idaho, West Virginia, Wyoming). Those states are real and almost 4.4 million people live in them He is underwater in every other state in the country, plus DC (where he is -83) www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

ME: Yeah you can actually put any kind of liquid in 'em. CASHIER: [ringing up water balloons] Okay but is lasagna a liquid?

Make a band bigger A BAND

Democratic Socialism: Myth Vs. Fact https://theonion.com/democratic-socialism-myth-vs-fact/

Take this doll, but beware it carries a terrible curse

As a child, I learned that the backwards R in the Toys R Us logo was not an error, but was, in fact, whimsy, and I have been chasing that feeling ever since.

So fuggin thirsty* *baked

Old Dirty Bastard implies the existence of Young Clean Legitimate Child

Curious: How many college students vote absentee, via US Mail?

Hansi Lo Wang (he/him)@hansilowang.bsky.social · 3d ago

NEW: The U.S. Postal Service — which a court has blocked for now from following President Trump's order to restrict mail-in voting for the midterm election — has released a final rule that would require states to turn over their absentee voter lists to USPS in order to have mail-in ballots delivered

Gettin caught up on my ULINE reading today

Yeah it's actually really confusing like, what is even going there

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5d ago

Bessent: "We've got a spike in oil prices today that I don't really understand"

Opened bsky and had 30+ notifications, which was a bit above my average of 0, but it was a glitch and I actually only had 0. Anyway here's wonderwall.

"Hello friend, I'm George," said the stranger as we crossed paths. "This is Kyle," he added, gesturing to the large falcon perched on his gauntlet. The falcon screeched loudly and flapped his wings. "Kyle wants to know who you are."

Finally tried this new AI fad, really powerful stuff

Hobbies? Oh yeah, I have hobbies. Sleeping for three hours and then waking up for the rest of the night, that's one. Sorry, what is a hobby again?

Please stop measuring things in units of Olympic swimming pools. I have never competed in swimming at the Olympics.

Sure, sex is great. So we agree.

LIST OF FOODS FOR WHICH "SUCKING ON" THEM IS SOCIALLY ACCEPTABLE - Chili dog - Sucker -

If you see people stampeding, and you ask them why they are all doing this, and none of them will answer you, it's almost always because there is a massive free cheese event and they don't want to share the cheese with you. BUT

Cats are coming in nice this season. #cats #outdoorcat #catsofbluesky #catsky #outdoors #nature #photography

I know what you're thinking: a foreign leader blackmailed him, but also made him an offer he can't refuse: You get loads of money, but in exchange, you have to systematically destroy the United States. If you really, REALLY weaken the US, then hey, you keep the money AND your secrets! But that's cr

Ron Sequitur ꙮ@ronsequitur.bsky.social · last wk.

So far the only two clear and obvious outcomes of the Trump presidencies has been: 1) The utter collapse of the United States; 2) Trump making a shit-fucking-ton of money. Unrelated, most certainly.