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I don't remember the last time I was this emotionally invested

submitted 1 day ago • 82 comments

It’s worth noting that JK Rowling is not only funding meritless legal challenges against trans people until they can appeal up to the court that will back them, she openly gloats about how this is where her money is going. This is what the Harry Potter TV show is bankrolling.

submitted 4 hours ago • 14 comments

Some would say "sneaky tactic" others would observe that odometer fraud is a federal felony. A creative prosecutor could probably tack on some conspiracy and mail or wire fraud charges too.

submitted 7 hours ago • 57 comments

I’m sure he had a martini, but I suspect he was “emboldened” by his mother-in-law’s early-onset Alzheimer’s and the advocacy he and his wife have done in that area.

submitted 2 hours ago • 5 comments

Billionaires are evil and should never have been allowed to exist.

submitted 3 hours ago • 1 comment

trying to imagine the level of vanity required to look at the existence of offshore blacksites and think "they're actually using these to trick me into making a mistake"

submitted 2 hours ago • 15 comments

Thinking about the extremely funny contrast between early G1 Transformers bios that tell you all about the crippling anxiety disorder your new toy has, and the late G2 bios that are just like "Gearshredder is the fastest thing on the streets! Decepticons had better watch out!"

submitted 2 hours ago • 2 comments

The thing that pisses me off the most about all this anti trans stuff the UK is adamant is necessary, is that it's presented as protection from cis men, while doing fuck all to actually address cis men being a problem in society. Literally just an excuse to be bigoted and nothing more.

submitted 5 hours ago • 0 comments

jk rowling funded a case going before the supreme court that argues it should be legal to discriminate against and persecute trans ppl. yet still we have to listen to ‘centrists’ claiming she isn’t bigoted she just has ‘a difference of opinion’. no trans ppl have a voice in these proceedings.

submitted 141 days ago • 57 comments

This is where your Harry Potter money goes

submitted 4 hours ago • 8 comments

Just had a moment I hadn't experienced since TRU: A kid was holding the last of something I wanted, and I briefly considered kicking it out of his hand, grabbing it, and running. Glad to know I've still got my instincts!

submitted 23 hours ago • 7 comments

Reminder that Francie is in a photo contest! It's a fundraiser for our local animal shelter and $1 = 1 vote. If she wins she will get a little plaque in their lobby for one year - a great chance to represent FIV+ kitties! www.gogophotocontest.com/hsccfabfelin...

submitted 21 hours ago • 7 comments

The White House cites an NPR feature that states "banana slugs are hermaphrodites" as a reason to cease public funding of the network. But banana slugs literally are hermaphrodites! Like that is just a scientific fact! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_...

submitted 1 day ago • 257 comments

Why is NPR facing losing funding? Because banana slugs became too woke. No, really.

submitted 1 day ago • 26 comments

Hey Chicago friends, didn't manage to get a photo of his face but we've got a Nazi defacing Andersonville

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

I've been surprised and impressed by how long this has gone on. All the people I know who stopped shopping at Target have literally shopped there their whole lives and it was their favorite store or right up there. They were devoted. And now they're furious. (I'm among them.)

submitted 1 day ago • 11 comments

The President of El Salvador is another little nazi who looks like a Pez dispenser of himself.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

its harder and harder to see what the value proposition of a new console for most consumers will be, compared to sticking with the previous generation, or abandoning consoles and using their mobile devices. one way or another we're going to look at the 2020s as a major inflection point for gaming

submitted 1 day ago • 37 comments

important context about the concentration camps in el salvador:

submitted 1 day ago • 326 comments

“How can I return an innocent man to the United States when I don’t have the ability to feel empathy or compassion?” said Nayib Bukele theonion.com/salvado...

submitted 1 day ago • 119 comments

I cannot articulate my contempt for Jesse Singal. Dude really believes that keyfabe neoliberalism is a way to get away with being a cowardly worm who helps hurt people. Like as long as someone else is executing on the ideas he reports he's completely innocent. It's not just hateful, it's craven.

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

Jesse did not ‘question an aspect of the progressive message.’ He dedicated his entire career to popularizing the idea that progressives are unhinged, anti-science freaks who are foisting permanent surgeries on kids without assessment.

submitted 1 day ago • 126 comments

Gotta love a long bad faith conversation with someone on Bluesky only to check their Twitter account and see plenty of hashtag “standing with Vic”

submitted 1 day ago • 26 comments

in America being a “criminal” has very little to do with whether you have actually committed a crime, it actually means you are a “degenerate” or “undesirable” it’s an intrinsic status that marks you as deserving no civil rights

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

Certainly worth repeating in the times we are in..

submitted 1 day ago • 62 comments

I am sorry to say it, but this is probably one of the most important things you can repost today.

submitted 1 day ago • 12 comments

Throughout history there have been attempts, both legal and murderous, to erase LGBTQ+ people. All failed. We have always been here. We will always be here.

submitted 2 days ago • 25 comments

I said this as a joke but 1000% I think we need a revival of Adam West Style Batman and have rotating character actors and comedians as guest villains

submitted 2 days ago • 13 comments

"transition won't solve all your problems" yeah and neither will changing out that faucet that keeps leaking, but they will both solve the specific problems they are solutions to

submitted 3 days ago • 25 comments

The U.S. is no longer subject to the rule of law, and Americans are discovering that living in countries that aren’t subject to the rule of law is terrifying.

submitted 2 days ago • 11 comments

We cannot tolerate Dems who want to just “turn the page” and “focus on the future”. Merrick Garland is how we fucking got here. Swift, hard legal accountability for all these people is absolutely the only way forward Also ICE must be abolished, that is not an extreme fringe position

submitted 2 days ago • 11 comments

on my knees begging Target to reinstate the DEI policies. please. Costco is too crowded now 😭

submitted 2 days ago • 9 comments

Life finds a way—this tree pushed through pavement and even wrapped itself around a stop sign in L.A. #Nature doesn’t ask for permission. [Marika Sparrow]

submitted 2 days ago • 239 comments

🧵 I just want to clear up some misconceptions about what Social Security actually is and how it works. You, as an individual, do not have an "account" with SSA where your FICA contributions have been saved for when you retire. It's not at all comparable to an investment account.

submitted 2 days ago • 44 comments

"bluesky needs more ideological diversity" bluesky needs more people who have watched robot anime made before the year 2000

submitted 2 days ago • 13 comments

Are Muslims really banning dogs in parks? 🤔 Let’s look at this perfect example of how rage baiting works, and how disinformation spreads, sticks, and fuels division, even years after being debunked… 🧵1/22 (1/1)

submitted 3 days ago • 46 comments

NEW: Andrew Cuomo used ChatGPT to help write the housing plan he released this weekend, which included several nonsensical passages. The plan even cites to ChatGPT on a section about the Rent Guidelines Board. hellgatenyc.com/andrew-cuomo...

submitted 2 days ago • 250 comments

The bipartisan belief that America would be a better place if other people worked in a factory. www.ft.com/content/8459...

submitted 2 days ago • 251 comments

this is such a fantastic illustration of the weird caste system that the american dream is made from, that there's always a bigger fish and how if you 'rise up', get paid more and do less, you deserve it, and those at the bottom therefore deserve their lot for not trying harder to advance #political

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

Neil banging out the tunes #art

submitted 3 days ago • 90 comments

A lot of people - especially these last few weeks - will refer to what Shady did to me, usually not understanding the actual scope of things. Shady didn't just target me. He took steps to target others, including the TeamFourStar guys. Whenever you say "poor Martin" - it was not just me.

submitted 3 days ago • 9 comments

what they said ⬇️

submitted 3 days ago • 45 comments

El Salvador is a "proud and sovereign nation" but Canada is not.

submitted 3 days ago • 77 comments

It is a campaign of erasure: the systematic extermination of an occupied people, not for defense, but annihilation. Every man woman & child is marked for death or exile, every home, school, hospital reduced to ash. Now, even shedding a tear for this horror has become a crime in the land of the free.

submitted 3 days ago • 6 comments