David Robson
@houseofsparrows.bsky.social
50s. San Francisco based. Cinephile at large. Very, very angry these days (but loves the pictures of your cats). He/him/his. Free Palestine.
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this is a subject that's near and dear to my heart
1. no you didn't, you retconning fucks
2. your decades of anti-governance "free market" "government never functions" propaganda paved the way for the complete authoritarian decimation of labor, consumer, environmental protections
1. no you didn't, you retconning fucks
2. your decades of anti-governance "free market" "government never functions" propaganda paved the way for the complete authoritarian decimation of labor, consumer, environmental protections
February 9, 2026 at 6:06 PM
this is a subject that's near and dear to my heart
1. no you didn't, you retconning fucks
2. your decades of anti-governance "free market" "government never functions" propaganda paved the way for the complete authoritarian decimation of labor, consumer, environmental protections
1. no you didn't, you retconning fucks
2. your decades of anti-governance "free market" "government never functions" propaganda paved the way for the complete authoritarian decimation of labor, consumer, environmental protections
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USian trans people aren't telling you they won't vote for Gavin Newsom to cause you distress and despair.
USian trans people are telling you they won't vote for Gavin Newsom so you don't vote for his transphobic ass in the primaries.
They are giving you actionable information.
USian trans people are telling you they won't vote for Gavin Newsom so you don't vote for his transphobic ass in the primaries.
They are giving you actionable information.
July 19, 2025 at 7:44 PM
USian trans people aren't telling you they won't vote for Gavin Newsom to cause you distress and despair.
USian trans people are telling you they won't vote for Gavin Newsom so you don't vote for his transphobic ass in the primaries.
They are giving you actionable information.
USian trans people are telling you they won't vote for Gavin Newsom so you don't vote for his transphobic ass in the primaries.
They are giving you actionable information.
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Democratizing the arts looks like universal income, low-barrier grants for both emerging and working artists, well-funded municipal arts & recreation programs, vibrant third spaces, and a well-funded public school system with progressive curriculum.
Not a free pass for corporate-owned slop engines.
Not a free pass for corporate-owned slop engines.
Every instance of "AI democratizes the arts, you're classist and ableist and a gatekeeper for trying to stop it" is a slap in the face to the literally centuries of poor, disabled people making art on the margins and a crass lie in service of a machine that strips down and regurgitates dreams
February 7, 2026 at 12:58 AM
Democratizing the arts looks like universal income, low-barrier grants for both emerging and working artists, well-funded municipal arts & recreation programs, vibrant third spaces, and a well-funded public school system with progressive curriculum.
Not a free pass for corporate-owned slop engines.
Not a free pass for corporate-owned slop engines.
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Every instance of "AI democratizes the arts, you're classist and ableist and a gatekeeper for trying to stop it" is a slap in the face to the literally centuries of poor, disabled people making art on the margins and a crass lie in service of a machine that strips down and regurgitates dreams
February 6, 2026 at 5:36 PM
Every instance of "AI democratizes the arts, you're classist and ableist and a gatekeeper for trying to stop it" is a slap in the face to the literally centuries of poor, disabled people making art on the margins and a crass lie in service of a machine that strips down and regurgitates dreams
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ME: I need a molded plywood splint to reduce injuries suffered by wounded servicemembers in transit
CHARLES & RAY EAMES: here you go
ME: I also need an educational film illustrating the powers of ten and the nicest chair anyone has ever seen
CHARLES & RAY EAMES: you're not going to believe this
CHARLES & RAY EAMES: here you go
ME: I also need an educational film illustrating the powers of ten and the nicest chair anyone has ever seen
CHARLES & RAY EAMES: you're not going to believe this
February 6, 2026 at 8:51 PM
ME: I need a molded plywood splint to reduce injuries suffered by wounded servicemembers in transit
CHARLES & RAY EAMES: here you go
ME: I also need an educational film illustrating the powers of ten and the nicest chair anyone has ever seen
CHARLES & RAY EAMES: you're not going to believe this
CHARLES & RAY EAMES: here you go
ME: I also need an educational film illustrating the powers of ten and the nicest chair anyone has ever seen
CHARLES & RAY EAMES: you're not going to believe this
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i am trying not to joke about the Epstein stuff because it's so horrible but there's also this ridiculous element where it's like... discovering Dracula is real, he's taken over human society at the highest levels, he's involved in tons of evil and also he's a huge dipshit
February 5, 2026 at 3:43 AM
i am trying not to joke about the Epstein stuff because it's so horrible but there's also this ridiculous element where it's like... discovering Dracula is real, he's taken over human society at the highest levels, he's involved in tons of evil and also he's a huge dipshit
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sorry but if you're going to scold the left for not voting enthusiastically enough for your milquetoast dems, they really don't have a reason to vote for the next ones, if their goal is avoiding being scolded, since you do it whether or not they vote at all
February 3, 2026 at 1:58 AM
sorry but if you're going to scold the left for not voting enthusiastically enough for your milquetoast dems, they really don't have a reason to vote for the next ones, if their goal is avoiding being scolded, since you do it whether or not they vote at all
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The Washington City Paper lives! It's one of the only places in the DC area where you can find local news and arts coverage that The Post just decimated.
Follow @wcp.bsky.social nerds.
Follow @wcp.bsky.social nerds.
We need to find a way to tell the youths about alt-weeklies so they restart them
February 4, 2026 at 3:27 PM
The Washington City Paper lives! It's one of the only places in the DC area where you can find local news and arts coverage that The Post just decimated.
Follow @wcp.bsky.social nerds.
Follow @wcp.bsky.social nerds.
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Let a thousand @hellgatenyc.com s bloom.
I still think the best idea for progressive donors is to just revive every alt-weekly in the country and staff them with 10 reporters each.
I wrote a bit about the misguided effort by Democrats to replicate Joe Rogan the right-wing podcast ecosystem.
February 4, 2026 at 3:43 PM
Let a thousand @hellgatenyc.com s bloom.
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You have 3 years. PIck a candidate that is not a transphobic sadist.
February 2, 2026 at 9:21 PM
You have 3 years. PIck a candidate that is not a transphobic sadist.
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CBS censored Billie Eilish saying “Fuck ICE” at the Grammys. Here’s the uncensored version:
February 2, 2026 at 4:12 AM
CBS censored Billie Eilish saying “Fuck ICE” at the Grammys. Here’s the uncensored version:
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Zapooder film
The comments on this video are all over it lmao. It happens at 0:33 seconds, you can hear it, the woman in green immediately notices, and they end this event in an EMERGENCY.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_6k...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_6k...
Trump Does Not Take Reporters' Questions After Signing Executive Order In The Oval Office
YouTube video by Forbes Breaking News
www.youtube.com
February 1, 2026 at 9:50 PM
Zapooder film
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The lives of sex workers keep getting worse while the lives of pedophiles and sexual abusers keep getting easier. Every piece of evidence shows the superstructure loves sexual abuse and hates sexual agency. Destroy it or forever be Protestant.
Me: If I post any NSFW art I might lose job opportunities or even have my payment methods or bank accounts frozen
Every third dude in politics and tech: Hello Mister Pedophile may I request passage to Nubile Redhead Beach it seemed ever so interesting. Best Regards
Jeffrey Epstein: yea h / .,
Every third dude in politics and tech: Hello Mister Pedophile may I request passage to Nubile Redhead Beach it seemed ever so interesting. Best Regards
Jeffrey Epstein: yea h / .,
January 31, 2026 at 5:22 AM
The lives of sex workers keep getting worse while the lives of pedophiles and sexual abusers keep getting easier. Every piece of evidence shows the superstructure loves sexual abuse and hates sexual agency. Destroy it or forever be Protestant.
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The funny thing about a certain type of angry conspiracy guy is that they’re literally being confronted with an elite paedophile ring and a tyrannical government at the same time right now, and because it isn't being done by the people they wanted it to be done by they’re all being pussies about it
January 31, 2026 at 9:20 AM
The funny thing about a certain type of angry conspiracy guy is that they’re literally being confronted with an elite paedophile ring and a tyrannical government at the same time right now, and because it isn't being done by the people they wanted it to be done by they’re all being pussies about it
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For decades the Right has daydreamed about saving their country from monsters, they finally got the chance and it turns out they love the monsters. The monsters are even monstrous in the exact ways they fantasized about! You never have to listen to these guys about anything again
January 30, 2026 at 9:52 PM
For decades the Right has daydreamed about saving their country from monsters, they finally got the chance and it turns out they love the monsters. The monsters are even monstrous in the exact ways they fantasized about! You never have to listen to these guys about anything again
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how the fuck you gonna reform a children’s concentration camp asshole
Anadith Danay Reyes Álvarez died in government custody.
She had sickle cell and congenital heart disease but couldn’t access timely and adequate medical care.
We need to reform immigration detention.
She had sickle cell and congenital heart disease but couldn’t access timely and adequate medical care.
We need to reform immigration detention.
January 28, 2026 at 5:30 AM
how the fuck you gonna reform a children’s concentration camp asshole
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Chuck Schumer is what MLK warned about, the white moderate more devoted to order than justice.
What the Senate is proposing is more retrained terrorizing of communities. Not an end to it.
Schumer does not damage to resistance than any MAGA ever could.
What the Senate is proposing is more retrained terrorizing of communities. Not an end to it.
Schumer does not damage to resistance than any MAGA ever could.
January 29, 2026 at 12:32 AM
Chuck Schumer is what MLK warned about, the white moderate more devoted to order than justice.
What the Senate is proposing is more retrained terrorizing of communities. Not an end to it.
Schumer does not damage to resistance than any MAGA ever could.
What the Senate is proposing is more retrained terrorizing of communities. Not an end to it.
Schumer does not damage to resistance than any MAGA ever could.
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There MUST be accountability.
January 26, 2026 at 11:46 AM
There MUST be accountability.
Hey @schumer.senate.gov - if you can not find the guts to push for the defunding and dismantling of ICE you are complicit in their crimes against Americans. will you FOR ONCE do the right thing here
Majority of the country now wants to abolish and/or dismantle ICE and yet Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y. told the caucus the message had to be to “restrain, reform and restrict ICE.”
Once again it looks like Schumer is about to choke after getting a massive opportunity.
So pathetic and weak.
Once again it looks like Schumer is about to choke after getting a massive opportunity.
So pathetic and weak.
Senate Democrats plot strategy as DHS standoff deepens heading into shutdown week
Two sources who were on a Democratic caucus strategy call Sunday said Minority Leader Chuck Schumer told the group the message must be to “restrain, reform and restrict ICE.”
www.nbcnews.com
January 27, 2026 at 10:52 AM
Hey @schumer.senate.gov - if you can not find the guts to push for the defunding and dismantling of ICE you are complicit in their crimes against Americans. will you FOR ONCE do the right thing here
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Absolute 🔥 thread
Got an email from the reactionary centrists at Searchlight Institute urging Democrats to avoid calling to #AbolishICE and pushing instead the message of “reform and retrain.” 🤯
This is such bad advice and an invitation to let America slide further into fascism I had to write a quick rant 🧵 1/
This is such bad advice and an invitation to let America slide further into fascism I had to write a quick rant 🧵 1/
January 27, 2026 at 4:25 AM
Absolute 🔥 thread
If he has a conscience he knows that criminal charges are coming. Not tomorrow, but soon.
If he (more likely) has no conscience, then he's been canned for having done exactly what he was ordered to do, and is both stripped of immunity/position and feeling the pain of exile.
Get fucked, Bovino.
If he (more likely) has no conscience, then he's been canned for having done exactly what he was ordered to do, and is both stripped of immunity/position and feeling the pain of exile.
Get fucked, Bovino.
January 27, 2026 at 3:36 AM
If he has a conscience he knows that criminal charges are coming. Not tomorrow, but soon.
If he (more likely) has no conscience, then he's been canned for having done exactly what he was ordered to do, and is both stripped of immunity/position and feeling the pain of exile.
Get fucked, Bovino.
If he (more likely) has no conscience, then he's been canned for having done exactly what he was ordered to do, and is both stripped of immunity/position and feeling the pain of exile.
Get fucked, Bovino.
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It doesn't matter.
It's not good enough.
It won't change things.
It's just cosmetic.
It should have happened years ago.
It doesn't mean anything.
It's too late.
It doesn't make up for the fact that...
Pissing on glimmers of hopefulness isn't tough-minded. It's just wallowing in a comfort zone.
It's not good enough.
It won't change things.
It's just cosmetic.
It should have happened years ago.
It doesn't mean anything.
It's too late.
It doesn't make up for the fact that...
Pissing on glimmers of hopefulness isn't tough-minded. It's just wallowing in a comfort zone.
January 27, 2026 at 2:41 AM
It doesn't matter.
It's not good enough.
It won't change things.
It's just cosmetic.
It should have happened years ago.
It doesn't mean anything.
It's too late.
It doesn't make up for the fact that...
Pissing on glimmers of hopefulness isn't tough-minded. It's just wallowing in a comfort zone.
It's not good enough.
It won't change things.
It's just cosmetic.
It should have happened years ago.
It doesn't mean anything.
It's too late.
It doesn't make up for the fact that...
Pissing on glimmers of hopefulness isn't tough-minded. It's just wallowing in a comfort zone.
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Hollywood, I'm BEGGING you at this point.
PLEASE use professional voice actors for animated movies, not the celebrity ones (least of all ones who aren't even that good in live-action stuff).
PLEASE use professional voice actors for animated movies, not the celebrity ones (least of all ones who aren't even that good in live-action stuff).
Wow this cast is STACKED
January 23, 2026 at 2:32 PM
Hollywood, I'm BEGGING you at this point.
PLEASE use professional voice actors for animated movies, not the celebrity ones (least of all ones who aren't even that good in live-action stuff).
PLEASE use professional voice actors for animated movies, not the celebrity ones (least of all ones who aren't even that good in live-action stuff).
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I wish I could remember who said they wish they had cultural power but they're trying to use political power in its place. They can remove the signs. They cannot remove all the histories, primary documents, and collective knowledge of the past, and their attacks underscore why these things matter.
Signs about the history of slavery in the U.S. and the 9 people George Washington enslaved are being removed right now at the President’s House Site in Philadelphia, across from Independence Hall, months after the Trump administration threatend to do so.
How far we have not come in 250 years.
How far we have not come in 250 years.
January 22, 2026 at 11:15 PM
I wish I could remember who said they wish they had cultural power but they're trying to use political power in its place. They can remove the signs. They cannot remove all the histories, primary documents, and collective knowledge of the past, and their attacks underscore why these things matter.