Shivam Bhatt

@shivambhatt.bsky.social

Reader, Writer, Hindu Pandit, magic the gathering enthusiast. Super passionate about games, gods, and good stories. he/him.Indo-American email- shbhatt at gmail podcasts- Casual Magic, Shivam and Wheeler Love Magic, and Chronicles of Dragonlance

i think 50 days out from the election would be a good time to acknowledge it's making all of us insane and put a moratorium on getting mad at other frustrated forum posters who in less insanity-inducing times we could have reasonable conversations with. i understand, of course, this will not happen

One lovely thing about Bluesky: by the end of Twitter, anybody who shared a story about the amazing things kids say — which they do every day, around the world! it’s beautiful! — would have a swarm of “yeah, that never happened” dudes in the mentions immediately

Dan Hon@danhon.com · 20h ago

Fourth grader was saying how in class they were learning about how you know where you are; they said their answer was "well first I think about all the places I'm not, and then I subtract that from everywhere" and hi have you met my kid

MSNOW aired the part of the Talarico interview that Fox isn’t showing: REPORTER: …you said ‘there are 6 biological sexes.’ Do you still believe that? TALARICO: I think the reason that politicians… across the street want to talk about 6 sexes is because they don’t want to talk about $6 diesel.

How far we've fallen that the reaction to a President of the United States straight up bribing voters is "Well, he probably won't pay it" instead of "Holy shit, a President of the United States is straight up bribing voters!"

All i remember was every indian person I know scrambling to get an american flag to put in their car window as if it were a talisman of protection, and a dude throwing a rock at me in downtown San Jose on sept 12th. I remember 9/11 as the last day I got to be an unqualified full status american.

Jared Yates Sexton@jysexton.bsky.social · yesterday

There are already articles circulating trying to rewrite history and say America was great after 9/11 and united and thoughtful and just a reminder that that period was marked by intense and insanely racist hatred, paranoia, and a frothing desire for unhinged violence and oppression.

And this was BOTH parties, not just Republicans. I'd bet dollars to donuts if Twitter had existed back then you'd find the liberal folks joining in. I'm part of a web forum that existed at that time period and I bet I'd find some really fucked up stuff from the 9/11 thread from people there.

Jared Yates Sexton@jysexton.bsky.social · yesterday

There are already articles circulating trying to rewrite history and say America was great after 9/11 and united and thoughtful and just a reminder that that period was marked by intense and insanely racist hatred, paranoia, and a frothing desire for unhinged violence and oppression.

it's funny because in the pre-internet days as an artist you could use basically anything as a reference and be pretty assured that no one would ever find out, or even if they did find out, they wouldn't really be able to tell anyone about it.

✪ Gray Skies Ahead ✪@jongraywb.blacksky.app · 2y ago

A friend of mine showed me this a long time ago and once in a blue moon “Bishop is alternate universe Gary Coleman with a hella massive glow up” pops back into my very accursed brain.

Gary Coleman from an Electric Company Magazine cover and Bishop from the X-Men wearing the exact same outfit