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I can carry both truths in my heart & head; I wish more ppl would try. The bottom line (if there can be said to be a bottom line to a heartbroken social media thread typed off the top of my head) is this: The only liberation is a shared liberation. None of this will stop until we know that. 19/19

People don’t understand why I keep noting that BlueSky is not a bubble, it is a counterpublic. It serves its own organizational function: you can see in realtime in January 2025, on multiple types of social media, shouting that an executive order is instruction to an agency. This one stuck.

What's striking to me are the rules of engagement and the methodology of action here, which more or less is predicated on burying liberal delusions about "debate" or the "marketplace of ideas". The rules were ultimately very simple: amplify your own message and suppress your opponent's.

A RED STAR SHINES OVER BRAZIL! Lula is reelected! Brazilians managed to mobilize and beat Bolsonaro, Trump, Meta, Google, Netanyahu, media oligarchs, corrupt judges, fascism, imperialism, apathy and hatred! May this victory bring hope to all our comrades fighting across the world! We can beat them

It's Flover.

Yay!!! Eat shit, Putin!

If the British had driven Turing to kill himself *before* he managed to crack German encryption, they might well still be Germany's Island Colony. Good thing they didn't decide he was "too political" while his life was still too valuable. I think the Germans had a word for lives that weren't.

NYC folks? I don't have The Reach to bring a ton of people together, but would be delighted to help coordinate something.

There was a fucking hole in our planet’s *atmosphere* Like a legit, no joke, “this will unravel our entire ecosystem” hole in the world, and then we fixed it by working together across national and political lines As a species we decided, “we will survive” Let’s do that some more

putting this guy in the economic dirt would be the easiest thing in the world. all his money is based on either regulatory credit arbitrage or straight up government largesse. you could wipe him out with a stroke of a pen. you could also then jail him. and then deport him.

We desperately need leadership that understands this is not just Trump, it's the entirety of what remains of the Republican party, and the goal of the next six years needs to be a concerted political effort to neutralize and then destroy it.

Given that every Republican accusation is actually a confession, we should be more concerned about Peter Thiel's obsession with the Antichrist. This skeet is about the Vivek Ramaswamy campaign.

She is very good at this.

Periodic reminder that the right is vehemently against teaching sex ed because they do not want their children to be able to recognize or report abuse by elders.

Show us who's really running your Bluesky...

It's called film "footage" because camera operators initially held the cameras with their feet. That changed after a film shoot in 1931, when an operator got a foot cramp and was forced to hold the camera in his hands. The "footage" he got that day was extraordinary. That man's name? Hans Cameraman.

You must understand, siding with abusers is kind of JD Vance's thing.

Have you ever seen a guy who acted less concerned about whether he’s going to hell

@gregdoucette.bsky.social I believe I hear your walk-on music...

Great Balls of Fire in My Pants

These bastards need to never know a moment's peace again. Tattoo their faces - "ICE GOON." Better than they deserve.

Ruin a song by adding "In My Pants" to the title. Wicked Garden in My Pants

Somalian. He's Somalian. www.goodmorningamerica.com/news/story/2...

like a Quaker cialis commercial

The first genuinely honest ad for generative AI I've ever seen, from Microsoft / CoPilot A mediocre white guy sees his non-white colleague getting praised for good work, he asks AI to *literally copy it*, and then he gets all the praise instead: www.ispot.tv/ad/SoDi/micr...

Israel’s Foreign Ministry attacking Brad Lander - a self-described liberal Zionist - by name, simply for doing protective presence, should be the final sign that the Israeli government would gladly sacrifice every last Jew in Diaspora to dominate more Palestinians with impunity.

"Looks like cops didn't investigate this, but still arrested her" is such a continual theme in this country, and it shows you how deep our social problems run that we basically can't organize a mainstream effort to focus on it.

Why are people still talking about virtue signaling? That's a problem when decent folks have some power and people want to appear like they're part of that. We're a long ways off from that state of things.

we gotta bring back shame, man society doesn’t work real well without consequences for being an enormous piece of shit in public

But they can't stop themselves. This is who they have become. They have chosen this path, and will follow it until it destroys either them or the whole world.

Fascism lives in the (imagined) past because it has nothing to offer the future.

DHS raid on Rep. Omar is a great example of very bad by rule-of-law democracy standards, pretty good by consolidated authoritarianism standards. Deeply wrong, with lies, bigotry, harassment, abuse of power. AND a sign of weakness, limited capacity, failure to make the dictatorship of their dreams.

Would that this would provoke some self-reflection on the part of the judge...

Do you think unbending Clippy until he was a long piece of metal would be painful for him. Or do you think it would cause him to feel a great sense of relief

It's also worth noting that Russia simply can't defend itself. It can shoot missiles back, but it has no way of stopping the attacks. And the nuclear threats it relied on so long for deterrence sound increasingly silly. It's a remarkable illustration of decadence.

Pentagon To Livestream Firing Squad Execution https://theonion.com/pentagon-to-livestream-firing-squad-execution/

If I built an AI lab and it went rogue and deleted all student loan information, I'm betting they'd suddenly figure out how to prosecute me.

Police incompetence seems at first glance to be separate from police brutality, but they are part of the same phenomenon.

Unintended consequences. According to cloudfare, the targeting of Yandex data centres by Ukraine has resulted in a massive drop in russian bots. Could this have an impact on the American mid term elections?