Bitterness and cynicism are a form of surrender, when anger at injustice remains but the will to confront it is dulled by resignation. As true warriors, let anger at injustice be bright and righteous, and let it drive us to confront its cause, stand in its way, and cast it down.

One thing that has been interesting returning to finish my college degree in the AI era has been a new focus on ongoing projects that build across a course versus a series of stand-alone assignments. This was not a thing the first time I was in college, and I think it’s amazing.

It’s always the person with “anarchist” in their bio who is the most dyed in the wool complying in advance fascist lackey. It’s not illegal to resist fascism. If you immediately assume all resistance is illegal and should be approached with extreme caution, it is you who are the fascist.

If we're at the point where the government can arrest me for announcing my intention to participate in a protest, I have much bigger things to worry about than them knowing my email address.

There is a movie adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut’s “Harrison Bergeron”, it came out in 2009, it features a cast of only white people, and has a bitchy looking lady president who literally shoots Harrison Bergeron to death with a gun on live TV. It’s exactly as good a film as you think it is.

The American Dream adage of "you can be rich if you work hard" serves only to convince the rich that they have worked hard.

Some Masshole circa 1770, "And ye find this massacre shocking, sir?"

If you want to know how Minneapolis is affecting the rest of the country, I’m at an ICE rapid response training where 400 people showed up on a Saturday morning.

My 3 year old is reading Foucault and asked me, tears in his eyes, "why is power in society only reified through force and surveillance?" I told him to read more Fanon

Fascism in America will manifest as a series of atrocities viewed through phones with footage that gets closer and closer to where you live until there's a pounding on your door.

The wisdom of Mr. Rogers is eternal:

Hi, I’m my blood pressure in the 9th month of my pregnancy, and also missing the turn for the bike lane on the Queensboro bridge.

Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them)@bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Hi, I'm a semi-truck, a pistachio, and a guy who decided to not tell me he had just taken his friend to the hospital with the flu and kissed me on a date thus sending me to the ER a day later

2026

One of the more ridiculous things I’ve seen on Al Gore’s internet

Dave Chappelle at the end of a special: And I knew that duck. He was my friend. He just wanted grapes…but the man at the lemonade stand refused. Just think about that. Damn.

So I’m reading a book on the history of the Chinese in America, and I’m at the Chinese Exclusion Act part. The Trump administration is currently being *MORE RACIST* than the people who enacted Chinese Exclusion in the 1880s, in terms of stuff like respecting people’s citizenship.

Gabe Ortíz@tusk81.bsky.social · 10mo ago

“The thing that’s been the most difficult so far is that, in all of our interactions with the government, they’re denying that any of her birth certificates, which are from Laurel, Maryland, her records of immunization, medical records — they’re denying the authenticity of them.”

Had to explain Ea-Nasir to my therapist

“Nine months later, God became man” ICONIC: god is a trans masc

should be bigger news that ICE raided a taco shop in Tucson and when a sitting member of Congress, on her way to lunch, stepped into a protest to ask ICE what they were doing they pepper sprayed her and tear gassed everyone on the block

I really wanna start something like this in my area but my neighborhood is called Valley Glen. Guess I’m going to have to start learning about different valleys and glens.

Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D.@sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 10mo ago

One of my neighbors has been putting up these fish facts posters. All kinds of different fish, marine, freshwater, deep, shallow, all kinds. This is a good one. “Stg this real fish” took me out. Good work, neighbor.

Started reading a random comedy memoir that was published in 2017 and likely written in the pre-Trump era. Y’all, everything was so much better then. It was truly a different time. It felt like I was reading the 1913 society pages from the trenches at the Somme.

Gender is a spectrum from just wanting have fun to being back in town, and to varying degrees, each of us contains attributes of both, which is a beautiful thing

The best thing about watching the Ken Burns American Revolution documentary is learning that, yes, George Washington was specifically and individually racist as fuck.

I was just about to brag that my Congressional Rep didn't vote for that roll call denouncing socialism, only to find out she is cosponsoring a bill called "AI For All". You win some, you lose some. Or at least that's what Gemini tells me in between attempts at spelling blueebberrry.

"We're activists" "What's your activism" "Harassing transfems online"

"both sides are bad" is a thought-terminating cliche that doesn't actually provide any solution to the democrats being worthless when it comes to making actual good changes (because they dont want to) But its hard to properly fight them when the republicans are planning to do another holocaust.

I know it's cliché to say this, but if you're thinking about transitioning, just fucking do it already. You can always stop if you don't like it, but if you wait years and years and then do it and realize it was the best decision you ever made, you'll bitterly regret not having done it sooner.

Conservative people do not think systemically. When something bad happens to them or someone they view sympathetically, they do not then extend that experience to "... and therefore this is wrong and we should stop it." They believe their experience is the exception.