Captain Shinypants
@captainshinypants.bsky.social
This is why I cringe when I see armed "security" at protests.
The armed, yellow-vested "peacekeepers" at the Utah 50501 protest in Salt Lake City opened fire into a crowd, hitting two people:
A Sāmoan fashion designer with two young kids, who died.
A second-generation Venezuelan immigrant and antiracist protester who was legally carrying. Cops charged HIM.
A Sāmoan fashion designer with two young kids, who died.
A second-generation Venezuelan immigrant and antiracist protester who was legally carrying. Cops charged HIM.
June 17, 2025 at 12:32 AM
This is why I cringe when I see armed "security" at protests.
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"DO YOU OWN A SUIT!?"
March 28, 2025 at 7:40 PM
"DO YOU OWN A SUIT!?"
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So many sex workers (and other folks in the sex industry) are queer and/or trans. So many are BIPOC, are disabled, are poor. You gotta stick up for sex because the folks in this industry are the people the left is supposedly fighting for.
February 14, 2025 at 9:20 PM
So many sex workers (and other folks in the sex industry) are queer and/or trans. So many are BIPOC, are disabled, are poor. You gotta stick up for sex because the folks in this industry are the people the left is supposedly fighting for.
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Y'all gotta get comfortable talking about pornography and defending its right to exist and for people to look at it, even if you don't (but especially if you DO).
"Pornography" is a dog-whistle, same as "DEI" and "woke" — a pretext for broad censorship and repression of issues related sex and gender.
Unfortunately, too many on the left take it at face value ... and distance themselves from fights. We need much broader awareness and our allies to fight back.
Unfortunately, too many on the left take it at face value ... and distance themselves from fights. We need much broader awareness and our allies to fight back.
February 14, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Y'all gotta get comfortable talking about pornography and defending its right to exist and for people to look at it, even if you don't (but especially if you DO).
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The fact that Jasmine Crockett and AOC are the two prominent democrats speaking out, shows that society always relies on black and brown women to fix things.
February 5, 2025 at 3:49 PM
The fact that Jasmine Crockett and AOC are the two prominent democrats speaking out, shows that society always relies on black and brown women to fix things.
It’s really infuriating to watch #Democrats hem and haw about how Trump and Musk can’t do something, as we watch it happen with our own eyes.
They should be busting into these federal offices like Clark Grizwold storming fucking WallyWorld.
You’re still members of Congress, fucking act like it.
They should be busting into these federal offices like Clark Grizwold storming fucking WallyWorld.
You’re still members of Congress, fucking act like it.
February 4, 2025 at 3:59 AM
It’s really infuriating to watch #Democrats hem and haw about how Trump and Musk can’t do something, as we watch it happen with our own eyes.
They should be busting into these federal offices like Clark Grizwold storming fucking WallyWorld.
You’re still members of Congress, fucking act like it.
They should be busting into these federal offices like Clark Grizwold storming fucking WallyWorld.
You’re still members of Congress, fucking act like it.
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An update on the TikTok situation from our monitoring on Reddit. Now you get TOS'ed for saying negative comments about meta and Zuckerberg, left-wing politics get flagged as misinformation, and you can't tag #fucktrump #fuckelon or #fuckmeta but you CAN tag #fuckbiden and #fuckkamala
January 20, 2025 at 2:44 PM
An update on the TikTok situation from our monitoring on Reddit. Now you get TOS'ed for saying negative comments about meta and Zuckerberg, left-wing politics get flagged as misinformation, and you can't tag #fucktrump #fuckelon or #fuckmeta but you CAN tag #fuckbiden and #fuckkamala
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sent off a new sticker set to the printers today - this one's for the perverts (complimentary)
January 14, 2025 at 6:59 PM
sent off a new sticker set to the printers today - this one's for the perverts (complimentary)
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25 years later, after an off shore torture prison, illegal mass surveillance, rampant corruption, and an actual coup attempt, the opposite party has discovered a rhetorical commitment to democracy but still no substantive one and there have been no negative consequence for any of it
The formative political event for my generation was not actually (only) 9/11. It was Florida 2000. We learned that we, as a country, were perfectly fine with not counting everyone's votes, that the institutions (esp. SCOTUS) were not going to save us, & that one party didn't believe in democracy.
Normal, mainstream, pro-democracy political parties do not make restricting suffrage the central pillar of their policy platform.
My entire adult life has been one long episode of the Republican Party trying to keep people's votes from being counted. It's obscene. We shouldn't tolerate it anymore.
My entire adult life has been one long episode of the Republican Party trying to keep people's votes from being counted. It's obscene. We shouldn't tolerate it anymore.
January 5, 2025 at 6:58 PM
25 years later, after an off shore torture prison, illegal mass surveillance, rampant corruption, and an actual coup attempt, the opposite party has discovered a rhetorical commitment to democracy but still no substantive one and there have been no negative consequence for any of it
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December 22, 2024 at 11:20 PM
@jamesgunn.bsky.social is the JJ Abrams we were promised.
December 20, 2024 at 6:03 AM
@jamesgunn.bsky.social is the JJ Abrams we were promised.
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Because it’s definitely not domestic terrorism when it happens to school children.
December 18, 2024 at 5:10 AM
Because it’s definitely not domestic terrorism when it happens to school children.
We literally elected you *to* fight for us; Trump isn't even in office and Democrats are rolling over for him.
December 18, 2024 at 12:14 AM
We literally elected you *to* fight for us; Trump isn't even in office and Democrats are rolling over for him.
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Jan 6th was good but the people who did it were ANTIFA and they're bad but we're going to pardon them because they're good.
www.cnn.com/2024/12/17/p...
www.cnn.com/2024/12/17/p...
KFile: Pete Hegseth spread baseless conspiracy theories that January 6 attack was carried out by leftist groups | CNN Politics
President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for secretary of defense, Pete Hegseth, justified the January 6, 2021, US Capitol attack and spread baseless conspiracy theories claiming the initial break-in was a...
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December 17, 2024 at 5:57 PM
Jan 6th was good but the people who did it were ANTIFA and they're bad but we're going to pardon them because they're good.
www.cnn.com/2024/12/17/p...
www.cnn.com/2024/12/17/p...
April 8, 2024 at 7:45 PM