Watching Viggo Mortensen in the LotR films was a gender awakening for me as a young confused teenager

Dawn@502eire.bsky.social · 2w ago

there is a recurring prompt around what’s the best that anyone has ever looked on camera and I never have an answer but I’m watching right now and I think it’s gotta be George Clooney in Ocean’s 11

if you just went by the headline you might think the author was rehabilitating an egomaniacal white supremacist for no reason other than shock value. not so! it's actually to rewrite the "dems should moderate on wealth taxes and trans rights" article for the 1000th time

Gilad Edelman@giladedelman.bsky.social · 2w ago

“I fucking hate him; I think he’s a scumbag, and you can quote me on that,” one progressive said about Richard Hanania. And yet, “I think, bizarrely enough, that he and I probably share the same broad overall analysis of the American right.” Read my piece here: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

My room temp and correct take on tipping is that if you make a comfortable living you tip servers always and you tip them well because who the fuck do you think you are

Fuck off. If anything is "millennial", it's those cool transparent colors our iMacs, Gameboys, and Tamagotchis came in. No fucking millennial likes the house flipper grey. Call it a millennial paint job when I can see through the exterior of a car because it's Glacier Purple like my GBA.

Jack Saint@lackingsaint.bsky.social · 3w ago

No fuck off we're not calling this "Millennial grey" this shit was dictated completely by boomer retiree house flippers we absolutely had NO say in this

15 years ago Musk told the world that we were 5 years away from fairies being real if everyone clapped and now everyone is terrified to stop clapping because they gambled the entire world economy on this cheap maniac's white supremacist drug-addled grandiosity.

It's the fraud economy. A bubble made of bubbles. A puff pastry of whipped bullshit with a nothing filling, held up with stilts that are resting on a plummeting grand piano.

Serial Experiments Abigail@popeguilty.bsky.social · 3w ago

Musk's immense wealth has for years been based mostly in investors believing that he's a genius who will, someday, do something that generates an incredible amount of value and the dissonance between this belief and his ongoing failure to do so can only go so long before it must be resolved

Rather sick of hearing from that disgusting bigoted hatemonger, how about we try and raise up some trans folks instead? If you are trans and are an artist, writer, gamedev, musician, or creative of some variety? Reply below with links to your work(s)! Only one rule - strictly no generative AI.

Breaking Bad Saul Goodman with Trans Flag

Alt: Breaking Bad Saul Goodman with Trans Flag

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The reason young people vibe with liminal horror is that the wealthy have spent the last half century destroying all anthropological spaces they can exist in, leaving *only* non-places en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-place

Non-place - Wikipedia

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Pookleblinky@pookleblinky.bsky.social · 3w ago

Foucault's heterotopia is an interesting idea, considering how frenzied every single billionaire pedophile nazi is to destroy the heterotopia that was once the internet. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heterot...

Every time.

James Goodwin@jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 3w ago

My god. The Heritage Foundation, which mercilessly attacked transgender kids in order to protect the "integrity of women's sports," is now attacking the legal basis for women's sports. The transgender student decision is barely 2 weeks old.

correct you if you’re wrong?? bitch this is the internet i’ll correct you even if youre right

This article is a breath of fresh air, and brings substance and citations to something I’ve come to believe for several years. Treating a radicalization problem as polarization leads to inappropriate or even harmful solutions, and also dips into victims-blaming. 🧵

Petter Törnberg@pettertornberg.com · 4w ago

‘Polarization’ has become the master concept for diagnosing our current democratic crisis. But this is not polarization. It is the radicalization of the political right. By misdiagnosing it, we risk becoming complicit in the crisis. 🧵 Just out in Perspectives on Politics doi.org/10.1017/S153...

In conclusion, there's a LOT to unpack with the idea that chronic health problems are a "modern" or "urban" problem. And that farm life will fix them. I worked on farms with undiagnosed, untreated POTS & ADHD for years. Yeah, it sucked. You know what fixed the POTS & ADHD? Not farm work! Adderall!

this doesn't even have the full context which makes it funnier

fangy@jeannesfangs.bsky.social · last mo.

witnessing the birth of a new all timer post is such a beautiful thing

Being realistic doesn't also equal dooming. Dooming kills pushback efforts by encouraging you to give up. Everyone is entitled to their private thoughts but you need to think about it before you just start brain dumping on people's posts designed to encourage action

Honestly I’m all about this attitude in any context

Suzanne ✨🌑@tendermiasma.com · last mo.

if you doom on my posts you get hidden, idc. It's extremely unhelpful

The White House is openly saying they want to eliminate a minority group and people still want to say this is about sports.

incredible of playstation to announce the end of physical disc production the week after they deleted all the movies you bought digitally from your account

Also, you're going to see a lot of statements from organizations about "the safety and fairness of America's female athletes" (APP press release, image 1), but have a stated goal of criminalizing all transition-related healthcare for all ages (NYT, image 2) www.nytimes.com/2023/01/25/u...

Fix your hearts or die. You know how many of us joke that Pride month should be followed by Wrath? This year I feel a deep, burning fury towards all who use transgender lives as political propaganda. We are human beings. You cannot erase us. Happy Pride. Trans liberation at any cost. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Okay. What are the alternatives? I closed Dropbox when they first announced AI integration but reactivated it because it seemed less invasive than Google. I’d still like something that’s not using AI at all.

Alex M-O | Wishlist Rune Fencer Illyia!@amodev.bsky.social · last mo.

I was reading the new google TOS email and I almost gasped when I saw this they really just said 'You don't want everything you have scraped by ai? then fuck off'

How is DSA pumping out such great candidates? I'll tell you how: they're forging them in fire. If you can sit through a thousand boring DSA meetings and survive the extremely inane Leftist infighting then you're prepared to take on anything the regular world has to throw at you

this whole story is great but the quote post with further context from the dad made me cackle I’m obsessed with this kid

Kathryn VanArendonk@kvanaren.bsky.social · last mo.

my husband is doing fantasy baseball for the first time. he does not follow baseball. his team is run entirely by our 10yo neighbor, who gets a split of his winnings if she helps my husband defeat the rest of the league. they’re in 1st place! but now, a problem: today she left for sleepaway camp

my husband is doing fantasy baseball for the first time. he does not follow baseball. his team is run entirely by our 10yo neighbor, who gets a split of his winnings if she helps my husband defeat the rest of the league. they’re in 1st place! but now, a problem: today she left for sleepaway camp

Shareholders.

Best Indie Games@clemmygames.bsky.social · 8mo ago

A billionaire has no business owning a company that is laying off thousands of people

GamesIndustry.biz@gibiz.bsky.social · last mo.

The CEO of Epic Games, Tim Sweeney, has said that Valve's decision to have disclosure labels for projects on Steam that make use of AI is "really irresponsible". www.gamesindustry.biz/epics-sweene...

if you're dealing with heat and you dont have AC: 1. keep your windows open at night, let the cool night air in. 2. in the morning close the windows and draw the curtains if you have them, if not, use a blanket and thumb tack it to block the sunlight 3. keep the windows closed until the sun sets

Got through: job hunt, 2 cross country trips to interview and start new job, tech week and an entire run of the Baltimore Rock Opera Society’s newest show, hosted friends and family to see the closing Strike two days ago Jury duty yesterday And finally I’m free to get a fucking head cold

“This isn’t about any individual story,” civil rights attorney Alejandra Caraballo, who said the project took her two months to complete, told me. “This is about the whole corpus of how they’ve covered trans issues over time.” www.advocate.com/politics/nat...

The New York Times helped turn trans rights into political controversy, analysis finds

A new data investigation says the paper of record increasingly framed transgender rights as a debate instead of a lived reality.

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learn how to talk about art sincerely. read art theory, study the fundamentals, engage with art critically. eradicate the shame around taking art seriously and then do it. engage in conversations with your peers, ask "can you tell me more about this," and know how to answer when its your turn.

🦎Galileo🍉@galileogb.bsky.social · 7mo ago

ARTISTS: quote with some random art advice!!

Point blank in broad daylight

Isaac Chotiner@ichotiner.bsky.social · 2mo ago

New Interview: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...