Mr. Pleasantries

I don't use the other social media chanels. I know this site is a left leaning bubble but unlike other sites it doesn't push rancid opposing views in your face to provoke responses. Twitter became an absolute sewer following Musk's acquisition.

After the first round elections, Congressman André Janones created a WhatsApp channel titled “Lula’s Army.” It ballooned to 10 million people following his commands on how to behave online to counteract Meta’s far-right-favouring algorithms. The right knows how to use socials. We must learn, too.

I live in a rural town and, like, I don't know how to tell you this, but the girls play on the boys team and vice versa all the time because otherwise we don't have enough players for a game and it's literally always fine so stop being weirdos about kids sports and just let trans kids play.

I was going to vote for Democrats until Barack Obama made a joke about Sadaam Hussein decorating the restaurant I ate at before Whalefall

Love you El-Sayed but every politician needs to eliminate the phrase “let me be clear” from their vocabulary and instead just be clear

Saying he'd be cool with Iran nuking my home city is pretty bad but not quite as bad as when Hillary said some trump supporters were deplorable so I can see why the media turned the latter into a major scandal and not the former

@rob-sheridan.com t-shirt when

I bet plagiarists really love AI

Hello Bluesky. I have no idea what engagement is like on this platform, I have very few followers. But I am raising money for a documentary I directed & I’d love to get some reposts. Go to www.kickstarter.com/projects/jeffreydinsmore/any-way-the-wind-blows to learn more.

Some Dems are running away from trans people. Abdul El-Sayed, Dem Senate Candidate in Michigan, is running towards them. When asked, he fully and unequivocally support trans youth care as a matter between parents, patients, and doctors. Subscribe to support our journalism.

In Massachusetts, we have a responsibility to protect the vulnerable and stand up for those who need it. We don’t throw trans kids under the bus for political points. We protect them—and all of our neighbors—because trans rights are human rights.

can someone please teach politicians how to post, I'm begging you

Four! Thousand! Words! About! CAMP MIASMA!!! And none of them are paywalled, which I will regret: jude-doyle.ghost.io/notes-teenag...

Can everyone in the free world please stop misrepresenting the idea of "defund the police" in complete bad faith pls ok thx

It makes me sick to my stomach that I've seen Jason Arday referred to as a "serial fabulist" in almost every news piece I've read about him but none of those journalists ever bothered to lift a finger to figure out if it was true. He really did run 30 marathons in 35 days.

these people really want to make "racist" akin to a slur rather than what it is, a straightforward label for a set of beliefs and views. if you don't like the label because you, correctly, associate it with degenerate chuds, then get better beliefs

The real answer is option #3, rules don't apply to him. How the fuck are people still learning he's a hypocrite

At some point (hopefully) we will see a Dem speaker who knows how to do their job and makes it look easy and we will be aghast that we spent so many years tolerating Hakeem Jeffries

we're at the "they're arming unaccountable masked men with electric torture gloves" stage of fascism

Meanwhile, the right never meant any of it. They moaned about "cancellation" for a decade but embarked on mass firings as soon as they took power. They pretended to care about "free speech restrictions" and "educational indoctrination" while embarking on them every chance they got.

Personally, I think what needs reckoning with is how fake it all was. Centrists convinced themselves annoying leftists on twitter were an equivalent threat to Jan 6 insurrectionists. They wildly inflated the threat of left-wing authoritarianism while ignoring how it was taking hold on the right.

it’s pretty obvious that a lot of people remember that COVID lockdowns were unpleasant and from there just extrapolate that they were therefore bad policy

@ProudSocialist "This is barbaric. New video released of ICE agents kidnapping a teenage boy in Glendale, CA. The teen can be heard crying out for help and crying for his mother as ICE takes him away. 𝗔𝗕𝗢𝗟𝗜𝗦𝗛 𝗜𝗖𝗘. @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social

The actual harsh truth about MAHA is that it is an anti-vaxx, anti-science, pro-diarrhea conspiracy movement. It cloaks its arguments in abstractions about "big pharma" and "free speech" to generate *the exact op-ed The Atlantic keeps publishing*. Movements like this need to be fought, not placated.

I don't know why these two particular episodes (out of so many) stick out in my memory, but: the Biden withdrawal from Afghanistan & Claudine Gay "plagiarism" "scandal." *No* Trump scandal has received the quantity or intensity of mainstream press fury that those two attracted.

probably a real market opportunity for someone to open up a retail store chain that operates as they did 20 years ago.

Apologies if I sound angry, but it is a real problem that the 'smart' commentary on this war is trying hard to avoid the core lesson ("the president is a fucking moron") because it doesn't sound very clever when it is absolutely the most important takeaway from this debacle.

I mean yes this sucks but I bet right wingers are cackling over this the way we all cackled over Jon Ossoff yesterday

‘guy who died while we were waiting to hear if another guy died’ is a fitting and worthy epitaph

lib men go gaga for a walrus stache, they're powerless against it

Competitive high school sports are not about gladiatorial domination; they exist to teach kids teamwork, comradery, promote exercise, and give them a sense of accomplishment. I can think of no better way to accomplish those goals than to compete alongside our trans brothers, sisters, and siblings.

Kinda nuts that in 10+ years of sounding like a broken record I have never heard anyone tell Donald Trump he sounds like a broken record.

As horrifying as this campaign of premeditated murder is, what might be even more disturbing is the utter indifference of Congress, the public and our allies to such a shocking and unapologetic obliteration of the many laws and norms against targeting civilians. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/31/w...

POWER TO THE PEOPLE x FIGHT THE POWER ✊🏾

I’ve been saying this for a few years and I won’t stop - almost all of the gop shit is easily branded as a “war on kids.” Genital inspections. Abducting immigrant families. Cutting health care. Gutting education. It’s a War on Kids.

Hmmm I wonder how warm it is outside. Pull out phone See email notification Open email app Answer a different email Put phone away 5 minutes later: Hmmm I wonder how warm it is outside.