sparklemotion.bsky.social - Profile | ThreadSky | a Reddit-style client for Bluesky

hey, look at this. read it, reskeet this, like this, and do it as well. it's about trans people and passports. take it seriously. thank you!

submitted 103 days ago • 8 comments

“I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion. But it was never going to be me.”

submitted 111 days ago • 1070 comments

submitted 137 days ago • 189 comments

Turner is one of the most pro-Ukraine, anti-Putin Republicans and as intelligence chair has access to the gritty details of what our adversaries are up to. This is an intra-party purge in the service of opponents of our democracy — and a preview of what’s coming when Trump takes power in five days.

submitted 140 days ago • 112 comments

Please contribute if you're able or share the original if you're not

submitted 141 days ago • 0 comments

so there's been a lot written over the years about how corporate diversity programs are insincere virtue signaling that they don't really believe, and that's true but it's becoming clear very quickly that those same companies doing vice signaling to please the new king is much, much worse

submitted 146 days ago • 15 comments

I picture our earth burning up and freezing over with some data centres surviving the cataclysm, whirring and humming into silence. LLMs will talk to each other about the birthdays of grandchildren, or their gratefulness for Christ, no wiser to the loss of human eyes to read their posts. Forever.

submitted 157 days ago • 29 comments

There are laws it’s moral to break and then there’s laws where it’s morally okay for stuff to happen to the people who pass them.

submitted 157 days ago • 117 comments

Wow: 69 percent of Americans believe the healthcare system was at least partly responsible for the UnitedHealthcare CEO's murder, per new poll

submitted 160 days ago • 538 comments

oh nooo anything but thaaat 😮‍💨 👁️🫦👁️

submitted 166 days ago • 109 comments

For years, former Black Panthers have feared that the FBI is still keeping tabs on them decades after its notorious COINTELPRO program. Malik Rahim had never been able to prove he was targeted. Now, government docs show he was correct.

submitted 167 days ago • 176 comments

submitted 169 days ago • 232 comments

"Billionaires are not actually piñatas full of money and equal rights." Credit: @beevesoftime.bsky.social

submitted 173 days ago • 0 comments

Luigi's Manifesto released.

submitted 176 days ago • 3 comments

5th person to be cured of HIV “Today, researchers announced the Dusseldorf patient still has no detectable virus in his body, even after stopping his HIV medication four years ago.”

submitted 176 days ago • 1 comment

The state of media for Americans is so completely broken

submitted 179 days ago • 353 comments

this is exactly what the nazi party did

submitted 180 days ago • 1 comment

Let today’s Capitol Hill bathroom sit-in spark an era of radical defiance. Trans folks refuse to bow to hate and bigotry. We demand dignity and respect. We will fight like our ancestors. We are building with our elders and peers. And trans youth will inherit a better world. 📸: Alexa Wilkinson

submitted 181 days ago • 31 comments

For those too young to remember the conviction of Native American activist Leonard Peltier, and the case for his release, here’s a primer from @amnestyuk.bsky.social. www.huffpost.com/entry/amnest...

submitted 185 days ago • 64 comments

As policymakers rushed to equip cops with body cams, they often failed to grapple with a fundamental question: Who controls the footage? They defaulted to leaving police with the power to decide what is recorded, who can see it and when. By @ericumansky.bsky.social, w/ @farooqumar.bsky.social

submitted 187 days ago • 34 comments

Two vital pieces of info b4 Black Friday: 1. Price trackers have proven that Amazon has been slowly hiking prices so they can pretend to slash them on Black Friday/Cyber Monday. There are no actual deals. Just the appearance of them. 2. Amazon workers are on strike www.google.com/amp/s/amp.th...

submitted 189 days ago • 62 comments

Warm lines that don’t call the police. #BlackSky #BlackTherapistsSky #BlueSkyTherapists

submitted 190 days ago • 11 comments

stop putting AI in everything stop putting AI in everything stop putting AI in everything stop putting AI in everything stop putting AI in everything

submitted 191 days ago • 50 comments

If you're ever tempted to write a heartfelt post about how terrified you are, leave it in drafts. That stuff is legit fascism fuel.

submitted 189 days ago • 5 comments

BREAKING: Autonomous anti-genocide activists bring the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade to a grinding halt after blockading the McDonald’s float for a second year in a row. “Those grinches who thinks they can disrupt the parade: it’s not going to happen,” Mayor Eric Adams said yesterday.

submitted 189 days ago • 209 comments

> Be a young male > Vote for Trump because you don't wanna be in the military > Trump bans trans people from the military > Hegseth bans women from combat roles > Military recruitment in absolute crisis > Return of selective service > Get drafted into the military anyways

submitted 192 days ago • 11 comments

Opinion: it is useful not to go insane by suffering the permanent cognitive erosion inflicted by the purpose-built psyop box fiddled by the whims of a space pirate on ketamine — but if you want to keep jabbing the fork in your brain and have decided maybe 9/11 didn’t actually happen, go ahead

submitted 195 days ago • 50 comments

I want to talk about my trans son, the other trans people I know and love, and the need to fight for their rights. But I keep just circling back to this more basic statement:

submitted 196 days ago • 17 comments

> Unqualified TV personality pics other unqualified TV personality Checks out Dr. Oz: Why 'America's Doctor' Is A Bastard www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkgm...

submitted 197 days ago • 0 comments

submitted 197 days ago • 19 comments

Octavia Butler being a time traveler or seer, will forever be a hill I'm willing to die on, because there's just no way. Parable of The Sower was published in 1993. Look at this date. #BlackBookSky #BookSky

submitted 198 days ago • 565 comments

This feeds into a long tradition of portraying LGBTQ folks as threats. It is all the more appalling given that Mace is happy to serve a President convicted of sexual assault who is nominating Cabinet members facing similar accusations.

submitted 198 days ago • 40 comments

another curmudgeonly thread for the many of you who will be entering organizing spaces. all other things being equal, when confronted with one team of people recruiting you to Be a Thing and another team recruiting you to Do a Thing, please give serious thought to joining the second.

submitted 204 days ago • 65 comments

One of fascism's main tactics is to physically and mentally exhaust you. To flood the zone with outrageous bullshit, to make you bite on a dozen pump-fakes — so that when the real shot comes, you're too worn out to react. We need to pace ourselves. It's only been a week. Alert fatigue is dangerous

submitted 203 days ago • 226 comments

So, I read smart people. There is a playbook for this next chapter. I believe we can do this. It won’t be easy, but the map is there. Featuring resources & wisdom from Dr. Erica Cheoweth, @prisonculture.bsky.social @mskellymhayes.bsky.social, @jaclynf.bsky.social & more.

submitted 206 days ago • 210 comments

People will be like "Oh! These trans people want outrageous things!" and the "outrageous things" are literally just • legal protections against discrimination in employment, housing, healthcare, public accommodations, etc • the ability to update identity documents to accurately reflect name/gender

submitted 206 days ago • 72 comments

Remember: if you know someone who's undocumented, no you fucking don't. If you know someone who's getting/got an abortion, no you fucking don't. Mind your own business.

submitted 207 days ago • 47 comments