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My favorite genre of fiction

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FEDERAL RESEARCH LAB SCIENTIST IN 1965: After five years and seventy million dollars we have invented a new type of plastic that prevents communists from being able to climb ladders too fast FEDERAL RESEARCH LAB SCIENTIST IN 2025: My cure for cancer was shelved because it might benefit Hispanics

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The sacred is everywhere. I wish we treated the world as something sacred, as something to respect and and ask permission from instead of just taking. I wish we recognized the sacred in each other and treated others with care and reverence. With dignity. With kindness. The sacred is everywhere.

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@joereid.bsky.social Tootsie doesn’t count as a character name? 😫 😫

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Look at what they target. Support it. Look at what they support. Target it.

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Tyranny requires your fear, your silence, and your compliance. Democracy requires your courage.

submitted 4 days ago • 1935 comments

I bought this off the spinner rack at my local 7-11. I was eleven years old and allowed to stay up and watch SNL if I really wanted to. And I tried. But I usually fell asleep before the first musical guest.

submitted 8 days ago • 6 comments

Vaccines are good. That's not an opinion, it's a fact. Gender affirming care is good. That's not an opinion, it's a fact. "But big pharma!" misses the forest for the trees. The problem with big pharma isn't the medicines. Medicines and vaccines are good! It's the price they charge for them.

submitted 13 days ago • 88 comments

opens envelope “It was DJ Mustard, in the parlor, with the diss track”

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Kendrick Lamar deserves to win the very first Nobel Hate Prize

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It’s become clear to me that the real reason the NYTimes wanted a second Trump term is because it would provide the maximum amount of opportunity to use the pedantic phrase “attorneys general”

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This concise and informative excerpt from the New Republic’s Alex Shephard should get everybody caught up on the government coup currently in progress. Required reading.

submitted 17 days ago • 32 comments

In honor of Black History Month, here’s an article I wrote a while back about that time 20 years ago when Marvel’s Black Panther was Jewish www.jta.org/2023/06/07/c...

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MORE OF THIS FOR THE LOVE OF GOD

submitted 20 days ago • 1038 comments

if I understand American politics correctly, progressivism is something that requires 60 senate votes to work, while national conservatism doesn’t require any votes at all

submitted 20 days ago • 745 comments

there’s no way to say this without sounding like a bowl of extra useless crunchy granola i realize that but my god is it ever important to turn that panic energy into caring-for-your-communities energy

submitted 21 days ago • 43 comments

Scrolling BlueSky gives me all negative dopamine hits now (Mope-amine?)

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

What the US is experiencing right now is fascism. There's no other word for it and pretending that it's verboten to say so diminishes the truth as much as they are diminishing the truth. It's fascism. It's arrived.

submitted 21 days ago • 372 comments

I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world. Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO

submitted 23 days ago • 4419 comments

Fourteen hours before the crash. 👇

submitted 24 days ago • 742 comments

Yes, this administration is dangerous and cruel, but they are also shockingly dim and incompetent. Opportunities are everywhere. Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉

submitted 25 days ago • 3793 comments

If you’re a straight, cis person who has ever posted some version of a rainbow with “you’re safe with me” or similar, it’s time to back up the words with action— contact your reps and ask them what they’re going to do to protect trans people from this administration, particularly trans kids.

submitted 25 days ago • 50 comments

No cheating. Your last saved celebrity pic is your therapist

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He kinda looks like it Pizza The Hutt from Spaceballs took Ozempic.

submitted 25 days ago • 13 comments

@joereid.bsky.social what good is reading People Magazine if Cinematrix won’t accept the obscure answer I saw in an article there? Shouldn’t Frankenstein and Me count for Ryan Gosling under Based on a Book? people.com/ryan-gosling...

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

If you see this, post a fictional artist/band you would love to see live

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

My weekend read as we come up on the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. Thank you @gregpak.net for this amazing book.

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As soon as I saw the headline I knew this must be a new @caity.bsky.social banger and it did not disappoint! God, what a talent www.nytimes.com/2025/01/25/m...

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It'd be funny if there was a slightly worse actor named Scottie B. Pippen.

submitted 32 days ago • 21 comments

DO YOU HEAR THE PEOPLE SING…

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Trump just pardoned the one guy who didn’t vote for Ichiro on his HOF ballot

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Jonathan Greenblatt having a real Pagliacci moment rn, except replace clown with n@zi apologist (or you know what? Why not both?).

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It seems like ADL forgot to unfollow us.

submitted 34 days ago • 24 comments

Thinking of trans people today, the attacks and bigotry they'll endure over these years, and the failure of mainstream media and greater society to behave with decency and offer support to the marginalized. We must be brave, take action, and listen to those who ask for help, for the good of us all.

submitted 34 days ago • 172 comments

Without Mel Brooks hiring Lynch to make THE ELEPHANT MAN — on the strength of ERASERHEAD alone — he is very likely just a guy who made a weird film at AFI. That whole filmography you love doesn’t happen. We all need sponsors and mentors and patrons. We need people who believe in us.

submitted 37 days ago • 70 comments