am I gonna sleep in a basement (with cotillion lights and that is ambiently slightly cooler than other floors) or on a guest room couch (that is slightly depressing but is ACTUALLY cooler with AC)

There is no version of yourself you could become that would satisfy the people who hate you. So you might as well be who you are.

Sophie Cunningham is getting booed every time she touches the ball here in Minneapolis

Of course we all know what would happen if this person wasn’t a white Christian, but also, this kind of proselytizing is not about converting or even delivering a message to anyone. It’s a self-aggrandizing act of domination. It’s an actual sin of vanity.

Hemant Mehta@friendlyatheist.com · last wk.

Evangelist Whitney Lynn says she preaches on planes because she loves “a captive audience.” She's not alone. It's becoming a trend. If spreading your message requires listeners who can't escape, maybe it's not as compelling as you think. www.friendlyatheist.com/p/christian-...

There are three specific albums that, whenever I see a copy, I buy and give to someone I know who I’d like to hear and have one/them; but I’m gonna gatekeep them for a little longer because the supply is limited.

Sophia_Nyx 🏳️‍⚧️@sophianyx.bsky.social · 2w ago

Name physical media you purchased more than once.

prrrrrrrrromo post: last chance for tickets for RI and Woodstock! NJ’s sold out; Tompkins Sq. Park is a free matinée, but get there early - starts at 2, we go on at 5. tickets at tedleo.com/tour

Cannot get over how electable just drifting away from a constituent who asked you a challenging question makes you.

Would assume everyone knows it by now, but just in case "First the traitors, then the invaders" is an explicit reference to The Turner Diaries, where a white supremacist revolution overruns "The System" and kills all their enemy during the evocatively named "Day of the Rope".

The Turner Diaries - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · last mo.

X owner Elon Musk indicates he would prioritise political violence (assassination of pro-migration politicians is the common sense meaning) over violence against "invaders" (refugees, asylum seekers, maybe ethnic minorities generally) while endorsing call for violence (killing) against both groups

Remembering Silas Soule, born OTD in 1838. American abolitionist, conductor on the Underground Railroad, military officer, and hero for disobeying orders to participate in Sand Creek Massacre and then giving evidence against his commander. Murdered 1865. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silas_S...

I couldn’t get a pic, but someone just flew a plane over this beach I’m at with a sign that said “SOCIALISM SUCKS.” The crashout happening is incredible.

I have previously written about one reason that billionaires find the AI story so compelling: at root, many billionaires just don't believe most other people are actually, fully real. How could they? Achieving billionairehood requires that you inflict pain on vast numbers of people. 13/

This is a great thread

By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net · 2w ago

As *tech*, AI isn't exceptional. It's not exceptionally wicked. It's not exceptionally good. Take away the accompanying, galactic-scale stock-swindle, and we'd call AI's apps "plug-ins" and we'd use them and abuse them in the same way that we've used every other technology: www.normaltech.ai 1/

new political axis just dropped

The continuation of the genocide in Gaza does not manifest in the almost-daily killing of civilians, which while horrible is not evidence for genocide. Rather, it is Israel's refusal to allow the recovery of the most basic conditions of life, which shows the attempt to destroy an entire society. 1/

Madison continues to gather all weekend at the site of Corey Ruiz’s murder. It has been very peaceful & emotional. Last night after 1am a car attempted to drive through the barricade and hit people. Please be careful if you are there after dark.

This honestly I’m - If you know me - Our Mutual Friend… please…

Eric Fell@ericfell.com · 2w ago

The post-credits scene of EBENEZER reveals the "what day is it" boy to be Oliver Twist, launching Phase 1 of the Dickensverse.

The post-credits scene of EBENEZER reveals the "what day is it" boy to be Oliver Twist, launching Phase 1 of the Dickensverse.

If only we could see the man who goes through all his character development in one night just being a fucking asshole for 134 minutes or so.

Is this going to be more a fleshed out trilogy of the three ghosts (would watch, btw); because this was covered with the Ghost of Christmas Past. Oh, and fuck Johnny Depp.

Bloody Disgusting@bloody-disgusting.com · 2w ago

OFFICIAL POSTER - Johnny Depp is Scrooge in director Ti West's A Christmas Carol movie EBENEZER, in theaters November 13, 2026 from Paramount. Andrea Riseborough, Ian McKellen, Sam Claflin, Rupert Grint, Daisy Ridley and Tramell Tillman also star.

For God’s sake, be economical with your lamps and candles! not a gallon you burn, but at least one drop of man’s blood was spilled for it.

I wrote on @boingboing.net about @rachellichtman.bsky.social's polyester turtlenecked, easy listening world of Golden Sands. Surreal television and radio from an imagined town stuck in the groovy '70s. boingboing.net/2026/07/22/e... cc. @franksantopadre.bsky.social @tedleo.bsky.social

Enter Rachel Lichtman's groovy, shag-carpeted world of Golden Sands

I just discovered, through Frank Santopadre's podcast Fun for All Ages, the radio and television universe of artist Rachel Lichtman's imagined 1960s/1970s town of Golden Sands. It's a surreal town…

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I haven’t even listened to it yet, but on principle, I’m here to concur, new Protomartyr single 👍👍👍

pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky”@pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 2w ago

new Protomartyr single 👍👍👍

Magnets - how do they work?

Secret Drug Addict@scrtdrugaddict.bsky.social · 2w ago

Tomorrow, the House will vote on the NDAA, which includes a provision to merge parts of our military with the IDF. This amendment is an existential threat to American sovereignty and democracy. Every member of Congress must vote NO.

It will never stop feeling weird to see previously kind of normal organizations turn into the Association for Scowling at Black Women in Particular While Ogling Everyone’s Genitals

Kent Parkstreet@kentparkskeet.bsky.social · 2w ago

I guess this is what so many angry people have been demanding. I imagine it will reveal zero to one men over the next decade.

This is the playbook to destroy families across culture and community, around the globe. Go after their children. Residential schools. Enslaved families. The Yemenite “children affair.” Indigenous Mayan families in Guatemala. Literally Pharaoh shit.

regular meghan 나영지 🇵🇸@ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social · 3w ago

children of deported migrants are being stolen from their parents this is child trafficking apnews.com/article/97b0...

Entering the “The Odyssey” discourse, by saying “The Odyssey,” the first movie I’ve seen in a theater since covid (I think?), had some good moments and some bad ones. Score was good except when it was really bad. You know what I loved, though? 2024’s “The Return.”

It's true before 1995 they were just called "PJ Harvey fans"

shawn@mulchy.bsky.social · 3w ago

on this day in 1995, scientists discovered bisexuality. happy 31st birthday to all my fellow bs

Talking of consequences, I don’t know if there’s a scholarly direct line to be drawn here (I am but a song guy), but allowing Confederates back into Congress (and later ending reconstruction) seem like inflection points for *cementing* this culture of authoritarian white American impunity.