The angle.

I like big toots and I can not lie
You other posters can't deny
That when a toot scrolls in
at a itty bitty pace
And a long read in your face
You get sprung
Wanna scroll up tough
Cuz you notice that toot was stuffed
Deep in the feed she's posting
I'm hooked on the instance she’s hosting

do not fuck us
we are frigid stars
we were spitting
we were snapping
"cop out, cop out!"
as if from heaven

- mark e smith

#lyrics #thefall

No, actually, I don't think 'does that woman have a vagina or a penis' when I see women in the bathroom. I only think 'I really need to pee. I hope the stalls aren't all taken.'

If I were a starship captain I would have a standing order: keep the shields up 100% of the time unless we must turn them off to do something important.

Encountering an enemy? Shields up.
Rendezvous with an ally? Shields up.
Discover an unknown spacetime anomaly? Up would be the direction in which we would put the shields.

Normalize "shield status: up" as the default. It's self-care.

One of the most realistic parts of Lord of the Rings is that almost no one wanted to get involved, until it was very nearly too late.

I don't give a shit what Gavin Newsom's other policies are. Any candidate that specifically targets trans people in exchange for political clout is a nonstarter for Democratic federal office and we need to make that clear right the fuck now.

Just a reminder that we don't need confirmation whether Trump is a child rapist in some Epstein files. We know he's a rapist.

The UK will be teaching that women and men have different rights. I'm just a simple transgender journalist but that seems like really bad news for women's equality in the UK.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ujk32y4r4juj26d4murda4mf/post/3ltz2zuhpls2t

Steve the Scholar!

Congrats to #Badgers @steven_crowl@twitter.com on earning Big Ten Distinguished Scholar honors

tariffs for dummies #news #USnews #politics #USpolitics #Trump2 #project2025 #disaster #fascism #economy

It's the weekend, baby
#StarTrek

🧵 It would be so helpful if you could follow my brid.gy account so that my Bsky posts could be read by you here.

Nearly all my sources are there, and Bsky also has quote posting, which I use a LOT.

It's been impossible to copy/paste all the visuals etc. here, so I've mostly stopped.

I've been double posting (both platforms) when I can, but I'm losing patience with that.

Kthxbye 👇🏼 1/…

https://mstdn.social/@gottalaff.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy

"Well I'm given to understand that for an extremely limited time, members of our nation's political violence party are shocked—shocked!—to learn that we currently live in a world of normalized political violence, and would like very much to know who is to blame." www.the-reframe.com/gambling-in-...

Gambling In Casablanca

There are maybe 7 people who think Rahm is a viable candidate and they’re all beltway consultants and somehow each of the 7 of them are worse than the other 6 combined

Seriously. What’s your excuse for still being on X at this point. They’ve literally built HitlerBot.

Elite journalists wriggle & wriggle & try & try but they can not escape the fundamental dilemma: journalism is, by its nature, supposed to be on the side of accuracy, against lies & liars, but the GOP is lies & liars top to bottom. And for reasons of power & access, journalism can not say so.

1929-1939: the US "repatriated" somewhere between 300K and 2M Mexican Americans. No due process. The federal government removed them from the US to "stop them from competing with Americans for jobs."

About half of the deported people were US citizens.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_Repatriation

Patrick Healy is the guy who drove the great @pkrugman.bsky.social away from the NYT by killing his newsletter and trying to rewrite crucial passages: www.cjr.org/analysis/pau...

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:a5fwvpvub5e7mxaebuxn3tuu/post/3loqjxgbqwk2r

Israel Is Using Starvation To Commit Genocide In Gaza, New Amnesty Report Says

#GazaUnderSiege #AmnestyReport #PalestinianRights #AidBlockade #IsraelGenocideAccusation

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/israel-using-starvation-genocide-gaza-amnesty_n_6866fd56e4b0bde15485bff5