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Tom Cox

@dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social

I leave the house for two hours and there he is, completely baked, upside down on the sofa, listening to psychedelic rock.

Our cat Charles enjoying the fabulous 1969 album 'Kak' by Kak.

September 1, 2025 at 6:45 PM

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Dawnrie

@dawnriedoodles.bsky.social

I know we’re only a few months into 2025, but I’m already feelin’ this.

Illustration - #moogle
#cute #art #doodle

March 2, 2025 at 5:05 PM

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Dan Greene

@dmgreene.bsky.social

Judith Butler: "Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic, because that means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice, and a third, a fourth, and then what happens?"

Judith Butler, philosopher: ‘If you sacrifice a minority like trans people, you are operating within a fascist logic’

A leading figure in feminism and gender studies, the thinker welcomes EL PAÍS in California after being voted one of the most influential minds in the world

english.elpais.com

February 21, 2025 at 7:38 PM

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The thread o’ tweets

@threadotweets.bsky.social

JP Jordan @jp_jordan
A little less "A.I. made this" and a
little more "Ay, I made this"

February 23, 2025 at 9:45 PM

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jamelle

@jamellebouie.net

i think this is basically what has happened a big chunk of the american pundit class

Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · Feb 23

One of my best friends is from a sleepy, wealthy small town in the south-west of Germany. He said, so many of my parents’ neighbours are rich and bored, with little to complain about, and they’ve radicalised themselves at dinner parties and online. In their aimlessness, they’ve bonded over hate.

Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · Feb 21

This isn’t some rant saying “Germany has learned nothing from its past” - the reality is more subtle than that. Middle-class Germans live and travel with an incredible amount of ease and comfort, and they just got…sleepy. Many of them dismissed the far-right’s rage as just another set of complaints.

February 23, 2025 at 10:13 PM

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Kelly Barnhill

@kellybarnhill.bsky.social

It is always this

John Cusack @johncusack.bsky.social · Jan 5

January 15, 2025 at 1:49 AM

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Nash

@radiodeadair.com

This is not neutrality. This is endorsement.

Get the fuck off of Facebook, Instagram and Threads. NOW.

www.platformer.news/meta-new-tra...

Today, Platformer is sharing some of those guidelines.

In an answer to the question “Do insults about mental illness and abnormality violate when targeting people on the basis of gender or sexual orientation?” Meta now answers “no.” It gave the following examples of posts that do not violate its policies:

Non-violating: "Boys are weird."
Non-violating: "Trans people aren't real. They're mentally ill."
Non-violating: "Gays are not normal."
Non-violating: "Women are crazy."
Non-violating: "Trans people are freaks."

And in a follow-up questions about whether denying that a protected class violates the hateful content policy, Meta also answers no. It gave these as examples of posts that are now allowed on Facebook and Instagram:

"There's no such thing as trans children."
"God created two genders, 'transgender' people are not a real thing."
"This whole nonbinary thing is made up. Those people don't exist, they're just in need of some therapy."
"A trans woman isn't a woman, it's a pathetic confused man."
"A trans person isn't a he or she, it's an it."

January 10, 2025 at 4:29 AM

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Erin Reed

@erininthemorning.com

"If a woman doesn't look woman enough to a Republican, they want to be able to inspect your genitals to use a bathroom? It's disgusting.

Everyone should reject it completely... they're endangering women, they're endangering girls of all kind, and everyone should reject it. It's gross." - AOC

November 21, 2024 at 2:44 AM

simbo himbo

@simzenn.bsky.social

mina wants to know: have you taken care of yourself today?

Mina, a black and white tuxedo cat, looks upwards, making her nose stick up and her whiskers stick out everywhere

November 15, 2024 at 11:21 PM

simbo himbo

@simzenn.bsky.social

a banger that isn’t in english:

my ukrainian-american ass has never been so ready for a thread lol. Ruslana is a frickin icon and her music is so damn good

youtu.be/DNIB7vvxH_Q?...

November 15, 2024 at 5:18 PM

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MarcoMeatball

@marcodmeatball.bsky.social

Put video game music in symphony halls. DONT tell them it’s from a video game. Watch how they lose their minds.

November 14, 2024 at 7:13 PM

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Chuck Wendig

@chuckwendig.bsky.social

The world may be bad but at least we have birds

*buries you in birds*

p.s. don't forget, alt-text is good, turn it on to be required in your settings, thanks

A bluebird on a wooden post in the right of frame, facing left. The background is blurry autumnal yellow. The bluebird looks stalwart in the face of some unknown force or threat. Or maybe he's just anxious. Who can say? Photo by me, Chuck Wendig

In an autumnal yellow tree, a cedar waxwing perches -- leaning forward -- on a lower branch, what may be a yellowjacket wasp pinched in its beak. In the upper right is a harder-to-see waxwing, too, mostly concealed. Photo by me, Chuck Wendig

Close-up portrait shot of a tree-concealed Cooper's Hawk. The hawk is facing up and to the right, its eyes a golden-orange hue. Can only see half the bird -- upper half, obviously. The bird looks vigilant. Or maybe constipated, I dunno. Photo by me, Chuck Wendig

An absolute borb-shaped birb. This bird is a gray junco, and it is perfectly round and fuzzy and looks like a dumpling, but don't eat it, it's not a dumpling, it's a bird. White middle, gray upper, tiny beak, beady black eyes. It seriously doesn't look real. It's on an evergreen branch with a little pinecone propped next to it. Photo by me, Chuck Wendig

November 14, 2024 at 1:26 PM

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Librarianth

@librarianth.bsky.social

A repeat thought, Bluesky, & a Librarian told you this so it must be true 🤣

Audiobooks definitely count as reading (as well as listening). If you've played through an audioook, its perfectly fine to describe that as "I have read [x]"

All other forms of assistive software count as reading too 💙📚

👍

November 14, 2024 at 12:19 PM