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Beyond threat--they are being damaged every damn day now.

This is what you're actually buying when you use generative AI for pretend therapy or to make an image of Trump in diapers. It's like a pump-and-dump for oil and gas, and you're saying yes to the end of a world as we know it. #AI

Wrong. Bad take. Bluesky should be for whatever an individual needs or wants, and if that is a place to retreat to and watch cat videos, that's completely fine.

Smart piece by @ryanlcooper.com prospect.org/politics/202...

They own enough super yachts, islands, and politicians. TAX THE FUCKING BILLIONAIRES.

I encourage folks who have some level of privilege—like my fellow straight white guys— to act when you see an opportunity to stand up to jerks who are being anti-trans, racist, anti-semitic, or homophobic. Sometimes it’s as simple as saying: “Stop that. You’re being a jerk.”

I’m going to start writing Boiling Frog Skeets: BFS #1: It is not normal for a President to fire an FBI Director who hasn’t done anything wrong #BoilingFrogSkeets

There are a lot of things I don't like. Types of books, genres of movies, kinds of music. So... I don't read, watch, or listen to them. No one is forcing anyone to ingest Things they don't like. People need to stop thinking everyone should create Things for their specific temperament.

to all trans folx: the torrential onslaught of transphobic hate that we are facing is a storm of reaction. it will eventually pass over us. you have to survive the maelstrom. if you do nothing else for the next four years, you have to live.

@safety.bsky.app @moderation.bsky.app here is jesse singal openly skirting around blocks here, on *this platform* not just on twitter. once again asking his followers to harass another user on his behalf this makes at least 3 examples. (✨, alejandra, cortland)

People check out "Inazama Delivery". It is about a package courier pig trying to help a shark-costumed alien get back home. youtu.be/6dYI75Pik0M?...

I don’t want anyone in government to be my “daddy.”

Read this comic if you ever feel lost in this world. Also, @reimenayee.com, you are going into my list of artists to contact in the event that I ever start work on my dream projects.

I mean Jesus Christ if you fight people notice. Even if you have some short term losses, it creates momentum. It changes things. People with any degree of awareness and any desire for improvement don’t want norms or bipartisanship. They want to fight. Give us some fucking fighters.

Support for Trump’s tariffs means higher prices on everything. Gas, food, housing, everything. Every politician should be asked if they support higher prices on everything due to Trump’s tariffs.

If you’re not worried about Russ Vought you’re not paying attention www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

From the mind of the animator #LollypopMan comes a short story about clients with vague requirements. youtu.be/WAvchbP2kXM?...

Biden & Harris should not go to his inauguration. He’s refusing FBI background checks. He’ll use the military to carry out mass deportations. He’s trying to bypass Senate confirmations. He’s declared war on the DOJ & FBI. That’s just the start. Biden & Harris shouldn’t go. Do not normalize him.

Trump’s pick to chair the FCC signals willingness to revoke broadcasting licenses that the Trump admin deems as not operating “in the public interest.” By doing so, he’s also implicitly coercing outlets to engage in self-censorship. Controlling the media is a way authoritarians consolidate power.

This is my basic social contract for social media. Don’t try to force others to post according to your personal sensibilities if you CHOSE to follow them. Unless it’s an obviously reportable offense, simply unfollow, mute, block, or move on. You control your timeline and I control mine.

Look, we all know how toxic twitter is, but can people stop screenshotting those tweets and putting them here as evidence. The whole point of coming here is so I don't have to see that crap anymore. Thank you for listening 👍 #xodus #bluesky

NEW YORK: Make sure Majority Leader Schumer hears from you! Tell Sen. Schumer you’re disappointed by his deal that will let Trump fill 4 critical judicial vacancies instead of filling them now with pro-democracy judges. We expect Democrats to fight back on GOP obstruction efforts, not reward them!

the fact that anyone credulously reported the disavowal is deeply embarrassing for them tbh but those people probably think they were doing their jobs, as if being a unbiased and neutral reporter means pretending you are a naive idiot born yesterday

bro, so to run a program, i "execute" it, but to stop it i "kill" it? computers are barbaric, bro

The "bluesky is an echo chamber" think pieces that keep popping up really tickle me because they show how certain people genuinely believe social media should be for debating and arguing and not talking about the things that make you happy and sharing art with the world.

One can't lift things up without kneeling down first.

Shouting into the void here. Should I cut back on my trips to my local tea shop for the next 4 years as part of a "vow of austerity"? Or should I help them through this as well?

@cathyyoung63.bsky.social Cathy. Please share the otters here. I miss them very much.

Hegseth was removed from the National Guard for white supremacist tattoos after being accused of drugging and raping a woman. This tells you a lot about Senate Republicans.

Who here likes books?

despite the world becoming scary i still have a perhaps niave but unwaivering belief that a better world is possible

This is the “brain drain” that occurs when right wing autocrats take over. It won’t just be Ellen, soon we will see an exodus of our best and brightest leaving this nation to deteriorate into third world conditions. www.thepinknews.com/2024/11/21/e...