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Folks, I'm going to be deactivating my bsky account for a little bit. I'm struggling with the news recently and need to figure out healthier ways to stay connected. Have really appreciated this space, and you all, but just need a break.

submitted 47 days ago • 23 comments

A man in Indiana made an AT-AT costume for his horse, intending to only get a few pictures before removing it. When he took off the headpiece the horse got upset and insisted that he put it back on, which made the horse happy again. Now the horse isn't allowing him to remove any piece of the costume

submitted 47 days ago • 163 comments

Cannot stop thinking about how Octavia Butler wrote a book in 1993 about climate change. It opens with deadly fires in LA in 2025. In the story, a fascist President has just won office with the campaign slogan "Make America Great Again." She was a modern day Nostradamus. If only we'd listened.

submitted 48 days ago • 430 comments

NEW: I've obtained internal Meta docs revealing an array of sample posts that are now allowed under new hate speech rules. Examples include calling children "trannies," “Jews are flat out greedier than Christians," and “immigrants are grubby, filthy pieces of shit” theintercept.com/2025/01/09/f...

submitted 47 days ago • 373 comments

I always find it interesting when someone criticizes the Dem Party and their partisans yell 'well YOU RUN FOR OFFICE THEN!' #1 - NO #2 - We just saw Cori Bush, a working class Black woman, who is progressive get ousted & receive almost no help from the party leadership.

submitted 47 days ago • 45 comments

It's so unbelievably weird that neocons like @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social have a better sense of what's at stake and how to respond to Trump than many Democrats in Congress.

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NEW: A study by Yale University and other institutions has found that the Gaza war death toll is likely 41% HIGHER than Palestinian health officials reported. It also found that over 59% of those killed were women, children and people over the age of 65. www.reuters.com/world/middle...

submitted 47 days ago • 26 comments

How is everyone managing their fascism related anxiety? I feel like I'm doing quite a bad job.

submitted 47 days ago • 277 comments

Compared to Canada, the United States has: - Lower life expectancy - Lower literacy rate - Higher poverty rate - Higher income inequality - Higher infant mortality rate - More expensive health care, education, and child care - Less vacation time + paid time off - Less worker and consumer rights

submitted 48 days ago • 20 comments

As a Blue Stater, I'd much rather join Canada or Denmark.

submitted 48 days ago • 21 comments

Still wild to me that so many "savvy" folks on left and right have bought into the idea that online misinformation is overblown and doesn't really matter. From lies about migrants to transgender people to crime to election denial to climate denial, it's literally driving our country's politics.

submitted 48 days ago • 808 comments

And this organization is helping animals who have been displaced by these fires. Donate if you have the desire or means to donate. pasadenahumane.org/eaton-canyon...

submitted 48 days ago • 31 comments

[Billionaires and big corporations push the global ecosystem to the brink of collapse and hoard the vast majority of the earth's resources] Billionaires: Woke did this.

submitted 48 days ago • 3 comments

low-key one of the most insidious dumb guy beliefs of the last few decades to gain widespread purchase has been this notion that demonstrating pro-social behavior in the hope that others would notice and mirror it, one of the fucking building blocks of any kind of society, is somehow ‘fake’.

submitted 48 days ago • 488 comments

DEI has replaced "woke" because it's the perfect way to blame every disaster caused by billionaires on the &^$$#^s or the &%%^$s, and the press reports it as if were some sincere concern and not just a chant that would break out at a Klan rally.

submitted 48 days ago • 25 comments

it's just so insulting how stupid they think we are. they're so desperate to blame the most vulnerable for crises created by the most powerful, they so badly want a culture war to stave off any consciousness of how oil execs/billionaires/defunding everything for police are killing us all

submitted 48 days ago • 0 comments

At least Nero knew how to play a fucking violin.

submitted 48 days ago • 7 comments

If the United States had an opposition party, I'm sure this is the kind of thing they could make a big deal about.

submitted 48 days ago • 17 comments

Jesus Christ, what are you people doing?

submitted 49 days ago • 141 comments

I heard @leahgreenberg.bsky.social on Why Is This Happening and I recommend the episode. She reminded everyone that Democrats were pushed by regular people after 45 won the last time not to capitulate to him immediately which is their default posture.

submitted 49 days ago • 7 comments

Some Dems have this visceral urge to respond to batshit GOP ideas with "Of course I'll consider that!" They think it makes them sound reasonable. But it actually just makes MAGA sound reasonable. It's a strategic self own. Don't overthink this. Call out stupid shit and say no. It's not that hard.

submitted 49 days ago • 122 comments

It's funny how the "it's not fascism" arguers told us Trump was isolationist, not expansionist. Not hearing a lot of that argument these days!

submitted 49 days ago • 11 comments

Congratulations to Exxon Mobil, Chevron, ConocoPhillips for all the work they did on the LA fires! Without their hard work, it's unlikely so much of LA would be on fire. Thank you to everyone who works in the fossil fuel industry for everything you do to destroy human civilization.

submitted 49 days ago • 26 comments

I would love for us to have an actual opposition party. www.politico.com/live-updates...

submitted 49 days ago • 15 comments

fellas, is it gay to want a global ecological system capable of sustaining human civilization?

submitted 49 days ago • 7 comments