If you’re old enough not to need someone to cut your food up for you, you’re old enough to encounter things that confuse you and which you don’t immediately understand, and figure them out. This expectation that everything will be pre-sliced and perfectly digestible is just childish!

But when it comes to their own wives, children and, frequently, staff members, in the same way that they'd be outraged if vandals trashed a shed on their property but would feel wholly justified in trashing it themselves, their concerns re: sexual violence begin and end with Who Owns That Person.

It's vital to understand that the conservative obsession with calling their political adversaries groomers, rapists and pedophiles while simultaneously protecting sexual offenders in their own party isn't a contradiction, but the result of an ideology that views rape as a crime of property damage.

Ron Filipkowski@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · yesterday

Pure scum wrapped in fake piety.

the median midwestern voter loves two things: electing republicans and thwarting republican policy goals via ballot referendum

More and more, I agree with the brutal pragmatism of the commentators who point out that as long as the US's best athletes are all playing other sports and youth soccer remains a pay-to-play province of the upper middle class, no amount of great coaching will bridge the gap.

Backheeled@backheeled.com · yesterday

Mauricio Pochettino is back as USMNT manager. But should he be? Keeping Pochettino is a bet on redemption after a first cycle that failed to meet the moment, writes @jerryhinnen.bsky.social. Read ⤵️

in a sane world this gross motherfucker would just be a carnival geek www.mediaite.com/online/i-wil...

‘I Will Literally Eat Anything’: RFK Jr. Touts His Nonexistent ‘Gag Reflex’

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. again bragged about not having a "gag reflex" in a clip released on Monday, telling USA Today, "I will literally eat anything."

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Don't love the Times' eugenicist framing here.

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 2d ago

Breaking News: Two deaths in Michigan have been linked to cyclospora. Both people who had the parasite also had underlying health issues.

and i mean we all remember how this went. the people who are still most rabid and enraged by the pandemic measures also ignored them and lived in places that mostly ignored them too. the rage isn’t connected to actual harm. it’s rage about having been told what to do by ppl you think are uppity.

i wanna know which extremely online lawyer made sure to require the post be pinned. genius.

Susie "Nickname In Quotes" Beeca@susiebeeca.bsky.social · 4d ago

Ah, this warms the cockles of my cold, dead heart. Wait til you see the price a TERF had to pay for lying about a trans woman. "...also be required to publish a court-approved apology that must remain pinned on their social media channels for three months" www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/07/an-a...

allowing the media to call disease control measures by prison language like "lockdown" was a big fucking mistake

Relatedly, a reminder that "AI" will just make shit up about you

Like, I hear you! But we also can't kid ourselves that there are very specific, material reasons that most agricultural voting blocs love the GOP. And those reasons are straight up not compatible with democracy! Or even with a viable rural economy!

A very serious Rural Politico once told me "Dems have to go to farmer meetings! We gotta be where the people are!" I was in fact in a farmer meeting at that very moment! So I live-texted him the meeting. They were complaining that they want indentured workers that they don't have to pay or feed.

Lucas Tieman@lucastieman.bsky.social · 6d ago

There would be more pushback if folks left of center were more serious about outreach. But folks aren't despite the fact that our system does give disproportionate power to rural areas. But instead of taking that as the rules of the game as it exists, and actually organizing, we complain about it.

Circe turns Miss Piggy's crew from pigs into human.

Standplaats Kraków could really use some cash!@standplaatskrk.pl · 6d ago

Conversation with my brother, a guy who worked for DoD, NASA, and JPL. Went to MIT. Has been coding since the 80s. Helped get AOL off the ground and developed Google's original search algorithm. Was on the original Android development team. I bring up his CV because he knows his shit. And yet

a gentle reminder that your posts are public and you should not post things that will lead to a knock on your door.

Zack Snyder’s Gilgamesh

google rosemary kennedy and then you won’t feel the need to hedge about whether rfk jr is a straight up eugenicist (there’s more evidence but that’s all you need)

The actual harsh truth about MAHA is that it is an anti-vaxx, anti-science, pro-diarrhea conspiracy movement. It cloaks its arguments in abstractions about "big pharma" and "free speech" to generate *the exact op-ed The Atlantic keeps publishing*. Movements like this need to be fought, not placated.

The argument is always the same: Rather than judge MAHA supporters on what they do, we should judge them on what they say. This is dangerously uninformed about how conspiracy movements work.

IF YOU CAN ATTEMPT TO PURCHASE WARNER BROS YOU CAN MAKE A SECOND D&D MOVIE

‘Dungeons & Dragons’ Sequel Was Written but May Never Be Filmed Due to ‘Financial Reasons’

The "Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves" writers were hired to write a sequel, but it may never be filmed due to "financial reasons."

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neither of these extremes are correct. yes, certain competitive sports were gender-split after a woman won (shooting, especially) but most women's sports opportunities were set up not to "protect" women but to provide opportunities otherwise denied to them in a sexist world.

nude antifa goat@goat.sex · 2w ago

the whole "women's sports exist to protect women from men" framing is hilarious, given that a lot of these divisions were initially formed because men were deeply embarrassed any time a woman beat them at a sport olympic shooting was mixed gender right up until a woman won the gold

Ready for the SF Art Book Fair! 😅📚

The Man in the High Castle destroyed every swastika prop after filming, so nothing could end up as a souvenir or extremist symbol.

It is genuinely bizarre that we’ve become acclimatized to right wingers throwing a tantrum every time a black person (particularly a black woman) is cast in something, but are also supposed to pretend that this is not racism but related to some other substantive concern.

Taking away someone's food and medicine makes you responsible for their death

the only expansion of Ebenezer Scrooge’s backstory I wanna see is when I go on Disney Plus and click on the hidden extended cut of MUPPETS CHRISTMAS that has the song Caine acts his heart out of but they cut because stupid children were bored there were no puppets www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rbaw...

When Love Is Gone - The Muppet Christmas Carol - HD Widescreen

YouTube video by Shaun

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I can hear this image

There is a lot to say about the Nolan Odyssey movie. But one point that I think has not been emphasized enough is: this is a film about living in LA, as Nolan, my erstwhile British compatriot and age mate, has done for years. I gather it’s a strange place.

NEWS: WV GOP Assistant Majority Leader Elliott Pritt has been arrested and charged with enticing a minor after allegedly grooming a 15-year-old through Roblox and Snapchat, then having her meet him in his classroom. GOP leadership won't call for his resignation.