I finally made a #SonicMe, wheee! Okay, I was bored. But it's cute, right? #SonicTheHedgehog #Sonic35thAnniversary #ForeverFast (You can make these at sonic-me.com)

Goodbye to this wonderful cat, Poe. 😿 You have made my life so much brighter by being in it, and I just hope I've made yours brighter as well. My lap will feel so empty without you on it. Sayonara, Poe the Cat 💔😭 It has been an honor to be your therapy human.

Good-faith concern on this issue would be going, "hmm, professional sports leagues should probably have some standards in place to ensure trans competitors aren't getting an unfair advantage," googling for 5 minutes, realizing every sports league already has those standards and dropping it.

Rodger Sherman@rodger.bsky.social · 7d ago

i don't believe anyone has "good-faith" concerns about trans women in sports in 2026. there's been too much time to hear the actual evidence, the actual people affected, and the role the debate plays in attempts to purge trans people from American life. anybody picking that side has made a choice

Just watched Pretty Woman (because it's leaving Netflix and, as probably the most mainstream portrayal of a sex worker in movies, I should probably have seen it by now). I don't know, it was kind of sweet. I know it's a big male fantasy of "rescuing" a sex worker, but hey, he's nice, doesn't look…

Please blow up the public comment (included below): BREAKING NEWS (7/15) — The administration wants to destroy Chaco Canyon without consulting Tribal Nations. It’s an irreplaceable historic & cultural site with 4,700 archeological sites that could be lost to the bulldozers of oil & gas development

Oooh, I just posted something new and the app didn't do this. Is this "feature" gone, now? (Let's hope posting this doesn't refresh the timeline…)

Tina Russell@tinarussell.bsky.social · 3mo ago

One new "feature" of the Bluesky app that I really hate is that it now auto-refreshes the Following timeline whenever you post something. Bitch, I don't always want to get sucked into a day of doomscrolling whenever I post something! Sometimes I just want to post! 😭

I've been playing Digimon Survive lately and man, it's a slog. If you've ever wanted Digimon but as a brutally depressing visual novel w/occasional turn-based tactical battles then this is the game for you. (some plot details follow, but you probably should be warned about what a dark game this is)

This is the kind of insight that could turn you into a more humble public servant or a nihilist, and I think we know which option Graham chose.

David Roberts@volts.wtf · 3w ago

An amazing quote from Lindsey Graham in this Atlantic story. It really captures an essential truth about politics that too few people ever really come to terms with. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

It's also available here. Please share and spread this report. Trans folks in the UK can't for fear of lawsuits by gender critical groups. drive.google.com/file/d/1UggI...

Amnesty International put out a major report documenting the influence of UK based anti trans gender critical organizations and their funding. Within hours, GC groups threatened defamation lawsuits and Amnesty was forced to pull it down. Proving the point they're anti rights. Anyways, here it is.

For folks asking why bother commenting because the OMB won't care: comments help build cases for the courts by explicitly laying out harms. That's why it's really important to have your comments be as specific as possible. Also, contact your senators and reps! They actually do care about this.

Jacquelyn Gill@jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 4w ago

Monday is the deadline for public comment! The Heritage Foundation has been mobilizing its members to leave comments in favor of the rule change, so every unique comment matters (don’t use a form letter or copy/paste—similar comments are batched and treated as one).

Monday is the deadline for public comment! The Heritage Foundation has been mobilizing its members to leave comments in favor of the rule change, so every unique comment matters (don’t use a form letter or copy/paste—similar comments are batched and treated as one).

Bethany Brookshire@beebrookshire.bsky.social · 4w ago

There's an OMB rule change that would require political oversight of scientific grants, and could pull any that don't "reflect presidential priorities" Another country has tried this before! It was the USSR and it was called Lysenkoism. By @thsaey.bsky.social www.sciencenews.org/article/omb-...

A third Sonic Storybook game (bonus if they remake the first two as well), for Switch or Switch 2, based on one of the concepts Sega once floated for a third Sonic Storybook game: Greek mythology. Call it "Sonic and the Gods of Olympus." Come on, you know it would be a hit.

Sophia_Nyx 🏳️‍⚧️@sophianyx.bsky.social · 4w ago

Name your dream videogame announcement.

Great post in a great thread 💯🇺🇸

Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li@sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 4w ago

but this country? the promise of this country? the promise of this country is that it doesn't matter where you're from. it doesn't matter what your blood is. it doesn't matter your race or color or creed or gender or sex. there is a life for you here.

Fruitcake is good

Thorne is working really hard to find engineering work after a series of really rough experiences with startups that, in my opinion, severely undervalued her and absolutely did not treat her well. She's a genuinely talented person who needs a bit of support to stay on her feet - help her if you can!

Thorne 🌸@ens0.me · last mo.

Probably should've done this ages ago, but I just setup a Ko-fi page. Extra support is deeply appreciated. I'm paying for hosting out of pocket, now a couple of months into being unemployed, and my birthday is in a couple of days. ko-fi.com/ens0dotme

Say what you want about consoles, at least they still have physical media. (touches earpiece) I'm sorry, what

Tina Russell@tinarussell.bsky.social · 2y ago

See, stuff like this is why people hate PC gaming.

Still looking for a remote senior/staff-level SWE role that can provide health/vision/dental. I'm so good at what I do, and this job search dragging on is taking such a toll on me. Any help deeply appreciated.

As a Hellenic Reconstructionist, I support this 😁🏛️

The Big Meowski@catovitch.bsky.social · last mo.

All sports now have to be performed naked.

This is so bad, you guys. If you don’t want to have to give your ID over to every website ever - including the really creepy ones - then you need to call your senators NOW. I made it easy for you 👇 www.senate.gov/senators/sen... DO 👏 IT 👏 NOW 👏

Mike Stabile@mikestabile.bsky.social · last mo.

The House has passed KOSA. It now heads to the Senate, where this version, at least, faces an uphill battle. That said, get on the horn and call your legislators. NOW.

I can't stress enough how rare it was to see ANY clouds in the Eastern Sierra over the summer, let alone having dramatic thunderstorm clouds on the only day I had a photoshoot there! Yes, the chroma of the sky was increased in post, but it did feel this dramatic in person 🌈 @clstudio.bsky.social

This is a great game, as to be expected from the ppl behind Sonic Mania. It’s a platformer w/a solid trick system (continuously tricking through the level is how you get high scores) &charming graphics w/a cute aesthetic that builds on the Genesis “limited color palette” look but in 3D. Recommended!

Nintendeal@nintendeal.com · last mo.

Penny’s Big Breakaway (Switch / Steam) digital release is 67% off on US eShop and Steam: bit.ly/3SPNNOY $9.99 lowest price ever on Switch

Happy #AutisticPrideDay 😊

Tina Russell@tinarussell.bsky.social · 7mo ago

YouTube keeps recommending me videos with titles like "Why Do So Many Autistic People Love Sonic?" and "The Sonic-Autism Link EXPLAINED" and all I have to say is that autistic people can't help it if we have exceptionally good taste 😤

I finally beat Mercenaries Blaze on Normal &Hard modes, &it's one of the finest tactical RPGs I've ever played. Also, apparently it's on sale on the Nintendo eShop for $10 (or, you can get games 1–5 in the Mercenaries series of tactical RPGs, including Blaze, for $21 w/the Mercenaries Series Bundle)

Still in need of a full-time remote senior/staff-level job! My strengths are TypeScript, Solidity, SQL, C#, and Swift. Decent with Rust. I'm a good team lead too and was once a CTO of a YC company. Boosts for visibility appreciated. Thanks SO much.

One part of this is that I think an opportunity for the left (though by NO means the like, electoral parts of it) might be to really make an effort to engage with sexuality, and give men opportunities to embrace theirs in healthy ways.

Adam Serwer@adamserwer.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The thing about the left needing a positive vision for masculinity to counter the right is … they don’t have one either. Their whole thing is “don’t be a woman” as arbitrarily defined by whatever they consider feminine. Apparently some people find this admirable and wish to imitate it

If you have nsfw set to "hide" I implore you to set it to "warn". You still won't see anything except for a blurred post Otherwise once they roll out account-wide adult content labeling a whole lot of people including me are going to disappear from your timelines, even our sfw text posts

Bob is a true friend. He has just given me, an autistic person, permission to infodump 😄

😳 And here I thought Aphrodite's last known location on this Earthly plane was her fabled hidden city in the mountains of Italy. Apparently in the 1980s, she was in Germany making Commodore 64 software 😉 archive.org/details/c64_...