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I live in Colorado, have mad fits of creativity followed by periods of somnolence, and am charmed by snakes. She/her, or whatever.
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whetstone
@whetstone.bsky.social
· Nov 14
solidarity that doesn’t include disabled and vulnerable people is not, in fact, solidarity
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“It’s not the honors and the prizes and the fancy outsides of life which ultimately nourish our souls. It’s the knowing that we can be trusted, that we never have to fear the truth, that the bedrock of our very being is good stuff.” - Fred Rogers
Corporation for Public Broadcasting Votes to Shut Down
www.nytimes.com
January 6, 2026 at 4:45 AM
“It’s not the honors and the prizes and the fancy outsides of life which ultimately nourish our souls. It’s the knowing that we can be trusted, that we never have to fear the truth, that the bedrock of our very being is good stuff.” - Fred Rogers
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The purpose of pushing impeachment articles through the House, via a fucking discharge petition if necessary, is to make Trump have to spend resources defending himself in the Senate.
And if new impeachment articles come through every two weeks, you force the motherfucker on defense.
And if new impeachment articles come through every two weeks, you force the motherfucker on defense.
IMO the argument is that you can make things into big enough deals that it matters. Khanna found Massey and found survivors and made the Epstein Files the gigantic story it should be. Only then did establishment Dems come along. You can, in fact, make things into big hairy deals if you do it right.
if you want the Senate to do something, Senate Republicans must do something.
People are dunking on this but I'm not really sure what plays Schumer has other than to try to peel off Rs.
People are dunking on this but I'm not really sure what plays Schumer has other than to try to peel off Rs.
January 6, 2026 at 2:06 AM
The purpose of pushing impeachment articles through the House, via a fucking discharge petition if necessary, is to make Trump have to spend resources defending himself in the Senate.
And if new impeachment articles come through every two weeks, you force the motherfucker on defense.
And if new impeachment articles come through every two weeks, you force the motherfucker on defense.
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three bylines, six months late, almost zero new information we hadn't reported months ago. lowercased our name and mentioned deep in the story. no link to us. said they couldnt find the govt privacy document (we did). good job wall street journal
One of the WSJ's A1 stories today was reported *6 months ago* by @404media.co, a team of just four journalists.
January 5, 2026 at 10:10 PM
three bylines, six months late, almost zero new information we hadn't reported months ago. lowercased our name and mentioned deep in the story. no link to us. said they couldnt find the govt privacy document (we did). good job wall street journal
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neither pro-Stancil nor anti-Stancil, but a secret pro-third thing (going outside)
January 5, 2026 at 8:33 PM
neither pro-Stancil nor anti-Stancil, but a secret pro-third thing (going outside)
I see that ranchers also require their own special pain scale.
January 5, 2026 at 8:48 PM
I see that ranchers also require their own special pain scale.
o that this too too solid earth would melt
Landslide; a ghost story
On March 27, 1964, a converted liberty ship named the SS Chena brought a shipment of supplies to the port of Valdez, Alaska. Valdez, which I need you to know is pronounced “valDEEZ,” sits at the end o...
www.wrecka.ge
January 5, 2026 at 7:07 PM
o that this too too solid earth would melt
@psabortionfund.bsky.social Hi there. I'm a monthly donor who's been trying to get in touch to change my payment method, but I haven't gotten replies to emails. How can I fix it? I don't want it going onto that card anymore and I don't want to stop payment!
January 5, 2026 at 5:03 PM
@psabortionfund.bsky.social Hi there. I'm a monthly donor who's been trying to get in touch to change my payment method, but I haven't gotten replies to emails. How can I fix it? I don't want it going onto that card anymore and I don't want to stop payment!
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second degree murder, and specifically depraved heart murder, wherein the accused doesn't actively plan to kill a specific person or people but acts with callous disregard for human life - like firing a gun into a crowd or driving drunk - should apply to decisions made by CEOs and heads of industry
Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?
January 5, 2026 at 6:30 AM
second degree murder, and specifically depraved heart murder, wherein the accused doesn't actively plan to kill a specific person or people but acts with callous disregard for human life - like firing a gun into a crowd or driving drunk - should apply to decisions made by CEOs and heads of industry
What an incredible idea for a volunteer organization, and a real inspiration to get in good enough shape to do this for others. We don't have a really local chapter so I'd have to found one! It's a global organization, so if it appeals it's worth checking out your area for chapters.
'The Right to Wind in Your Hair'
Tens of thousands of Cycling Without Age volunteers help combat loneliness with the simple act of a bike ride.
reasonstobecheerful.world
January 4, 2026 at 9:21 PM
What an incredible idea for a volunteer organization, and a real inspiration to get in good enough shape to do this for others. We don't have a really local chapter so I'd have to found one! It's a global organization, so if it appeals it's worth checking out your area for chapters.
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the reason people sometimes act madder at democrats than republicans when republicans do impossibly evil shit is the same reason why, if you hired an exterminator to handle a roach infestation and he showed up to feed and play with them instead, your first instinct wouldn’t be to yell at the roaches
January 3, 2026 at 9:19 PM
the reason people sometimes act madder at democrats than republicans when republicans do impossibly evil shit is the same reason why, if you hired an exterminator to handle a roach infestation and he showed up to feed and play with them instead, your first instinct wouldn’t be to yell at the roaches
This does seem likely. Such a travesty. Even though Maduro is, by all accounts, a dictator and a plague on his people, this lawless American action makes any conviction the fruit of a poisonous tree — a process so corrupt as to invalidate the result that it seeks.
Can I just say the absolute most chaos outcome is that the Trump DOJ, which is comically bad at securing convictions, manages to completely bungle Maduro's trial.
January 4, 2026 at 4:20 AM
This does seem likely. Such a travesty. Even though Maduro is, by all accounts, a dictator and a plague on his people, this lawless American action makes any conviction the fruit of a poisonous tree — a process so corrupt as to invalidate the result that it seeks.
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Best thing I’ve read this morning, from a human rights lawyer in Mexico. Translation is in the ALT-text.
January 3, 2026 at 2:16 PM
Best thing I’ve read this morning, from a human rights lawyer in Mexico. Translation is in the ALT-text.
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If there's anything this regime/party/movement does not give a fuck about, it's consent
Entering our Too Lazy to Manufacture Consent era
I feel like I haven’t even been properly lied to about the purposes of this war
January 3, 2026 at 4:27 PM
If there's anything this regime/party/movement does not give a fuck about, it's consent
![Screen shot from the show Andor. Someone says to Mon Mothma “They [meaning the Empire] don’t even bother to lie badly anymore.” Mon replies “I suppose that’s the final humiliation.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ny5w2k6brb2kdubxnevke6li/bafkreibrxbmhwrnkwo2ztnczubpnzpup3uf6dpyhs7mk2uxpeoeynhjo2q@jpeg)
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Shoutout to the lady yelling "COME UP OUT THE HOUSE BITCH" at the white house. The most coherent and compelling speaker here by far
January 3, 2026 at 7:13 PM
Shoutout to the lady yelling "COME UP OUT THE HOUSE BITCH" at the white house. The most coherent and compelling speaker here by far
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Some people are responding to criticisms of this as if people were saying “impeachment is obviously the right strategy.” No. The point is that “impeachment isn’t the right strategy because the GOP may start to be responsible” is an unfathomably stupid and insulting lie.
Asked about the possibility of impeachment, Schumer says "we hope that we can have support from our Republican colleagues to put a brake on this long before it gets that far"
January 3, 2026 at 8:53 PM
Some people are responding to criticisms of this as if people were saying “impeachment is obviously the right strategy.” No. The point is that “impeachment isn’t the right strategy because the GOP may start to be responsible” is an unfathomably stupid and insulting lie.
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what the fuck did I just wake up to
January 3, 2026 at 1:03 PM
what the fuck did I just wake up to
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Bluesky might have people I don't know lecturing me about leftist issues i am already fully aware of, but at least they are not asking an evil AI chatbot to photoshop pictures of me crying in a bikini, so I think I made the right choice to leave X tbh
January 3, 2026 at 2:44 AM
Bluesky might have people I don't know lecturing me about leftist issues i am already fully aware of, but at least they are not asking an evil AI chatbot to photoshop pictures of me crying in a bikini, so I think I made the right choice to leave X tbh
"This makes me think of fascism’s first form of forgetting. Before fascism erases the other, it must purify the self. It must cut off the dissident, cosmopolitan, and solidaristic parts of its own people’s history, to foreclose other futures that might be."
The War on Memory: Learning from the Jewish Labor Bund
At a time when many Jewish people of the Diaspora are organizing against the Israeli state and its settler colonial mass murders against Palestinians committed in a claimed unalienable relationship…
thefunambulist.net
January 2, 2026 at 10:55 PM
"This makes me think of fascism’s first form of forgetting. Before fascism erases the other, it must purify the self. It must cut off the dissident, cosmopolitan, and solidaristic parts of its own people’s history, to foreclose other futures that might be."
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This thing doesn't "know" what safeguards are, if you tell it to make CSAM it'll make CSAM & if you tell it to apologize for making CSAM it'll apologize for making CSAM. The story is not what "grok" "says," it's what musk & co are doing
January 2, 2026 at 8:31 PM
This thing doesn't "know" what safeguards are, if you tell it to make CSAM it'll make CSAM & if you tell it to apologize for making CSAM it'll apologize for making CSAM. The story is not what "grok" "says," it's what musk & co are doing
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THREAD. Every year, I tell the story of Ezell Gilbert. It's the story of one of the most remarkable cases in U.S. history, and you’ve probably never heard of it. The story of what the U.S. government did to him is vital for understanding the current moment we are in.
January 2, 2026 at 6:36 PM
THREAD. Every year, I tell the story of Ezell Gilbert. It's the story of one of the most remarkable cases in U.S. history, and you’ve probably never heard of it. The story of what the U.S. government did to him is vital for understanding the current moment we are in.
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Truly the epitome of the dog / cat hetero couple
January 2, 2026 at 3:20 AM
Truly the epitome of the dog / cat hetero couple
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a Warrenite with Bernie's message discipline and Obama's charisma is a hell of a thing to watch in action
Mamdani’s best trait so far is that he’s the first DSA elected who seems to understand that Liz Warrenism is correct w/r/t staffing and planning
January 2, 2026 at 12:20 AM
a Warrenite with Bernie's message discipline and Obama's charisma is a hell of a thing to watch in action
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Up all night because a little stray cat followed us home and absolutely will not leave. Happy new year
January 1, 2026 at 11:34 AM
Up all night because a little stray cat followed us home and absolutely will not leave. Happy new year
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One of the most unforgettable images capturing the vibrant promise of the new year, by the great Bauhaus artist László Moholy-Nagy: 7 A.M. (New Year's Morning), c. 1930 www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
January 1, 2026 at 11:59 AM
One of the most unforgettable images capturing the vibrant promise of the new year, by the great Bauhaus artist László Moholy-Nagy: 7 A.M. (New Year's Morning), c. 1930 www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...