Ook
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Still figuring out how active I want to be here. I make no apologies for liking both current events discourse and weird fandom stuff, as well as gardening and cute animals.
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Just also want to note that trans people and advocates for the unhoused have told people for years that Gavin Newsom is trash. If this is what makes people realize how awful he is, great, but I really hope this is also a wake-up call to listen the first time someone tells you who they really are.
The State AGs were on pace to kill the Paramount/Warner Bros by litigation and delay until Gavin Newsom stepped in and turned the tide. Now the Trump loyalist Ellisons will control CNN and HBO. Don't ever, ever forget that Newsom stabbed us in the back
www.wsj.com/business/med...
www.wsj.com/business/med...
Exclusive | Newsom Expresses Concerns About State Antitrust Suit Against Paramount
The California governor has told people involved in the suit that blocking the $81 billion deal could harm Hollywood jobs.
www.wsj.com
September 21, 2026 at 6:37 PM
Just also want to note that trans people and advocates for the unhoused have told people for years that Gavin Newsom is trash. If this is what makes people realize how awful he is, great, but I really hope this is also a wake-up call to listen the first time someone tells you who they really are.
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Pray they do not alter it further
Disney+ has altered its user agreement to clarify that ads will be allowed on all subscription tiers. https://bit.ly/4hhOjBo
September 21, 2026 at 2:19 AM
Pray they do not alter it further
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Hey its fucking wierd more of the dems platform isnt "we will give you abortion rights back"
September 19, 2026 at 10:21 PM
Hey its fucking wierd more of the dems platform isnt "we will give you abortion rights back"
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'No Way to Prevent This,' Says Nation That Set It Up So That This Regularly Happens
ICE agent shoots and wounds person in North Austin, officials say
ICE agent shoots and wounds person in North Austin, officials say
An ICE agent shot and wounded a person Sunday in North Austin, according to three state and local officials.
www.statesman.com
September 20, 2026 at 8:06 PM
'No Way to Prevent This,' Says Nation That Set It Up So That This Regularly Happens
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THE SEGWICK COUNTY ZOO PRINTED OUT MY DRAWING OF THE BABY TAWNY FROGMOUTH AND GAVE IT TO THE KEEPERS AND SHOWED IT TO THE FROGMOUTH ITSELF!!!
HOLY FUCKING SHIT!!!!! 💕💕💕💕
HOLY FUCKING SHIT!!!!! 💕💕💕💕
September 18, 2026 at 1:01 AM
THE SEGWICK COUNTY ZOO PRINTED OUT MY DRAWING OF THE BABY TAWNY FROGMOUTH AND GAVE IT TO THE KEEPERS AND SHOWED IT TO THE FROGMOUTH ITSELF!!!
HOLY FUCKING SHIT!!!!! 💕💕💕💕
HOLY FUCKING SHIT!!!!! 💕💕💕💕
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i pledge my sword to the politician who just says: let’s leave trans people alone, i don’t know or care what a hasan piker is, and i condemn the genocide in gaza. stop hiring consultants that make you say weird stuff that nobody likes.
September 20, 2026 at 10:31 PM
i pledge my sword to the politician who just says: let’s leave trans people alone, i don’t know or care what a hasan piker is, and i condemn the genocide in gaza. stop hiring consultants that make you say weird stuff that nobody likes.
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I've said multiple times: When Kennedy drops the Foghorn Leghorn thing, he's actually a darn good cross-examiner. He actually wrote legal books before he became a senator.
Sen. Kennedy: "Why would you even get into bestiality?"
Patel: "We are not into bestiality, but a lot of these individuals…"
Sen. Kennedy: "But you changed the qualifications and mentioned bestiality!"
Patel: "We are not into bestiality, but a lot of these individuals…"
Sen. Kennedy: "But you changed the qualifications and mentioned bestiality!"
September 21, 2026 at 1:03 AM
I've said multiple times: When Kennedy drops the Foghorn Leghorn thing, he's actually a darn good cross-examiner. He actually wrote legal books before he became a senator.
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Okay this jogged loose something I've had half-written for a while now: Despite decades of effort, scientists have still not found a substitute for reading the paper
denimandtweed.jbyoder.org/2026/09/desp...
denimandtweed.jbyoder.org/2026/09/desp...
September 20, 2026 at 7:44 PM
Okay this jogged loose something I've had half-written for a while now: Despite decades of effort, scientists have still not found a substitute for reading the paper
denimandtweed.jbyoder.org/2026/09/desp...
denimandtweed.jbyoder.org/2026/09/desp...
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step 2: "oh, look, a systematic issue that I cannot solve individually, no matter what I do."
"That means solving it is impossible! Time to feel paralyzed. I am very good at understanding what 'systematic issue' & 'collective action' mean"
"That means solving it is impossible! Time to feel paralyzed. I am very good at understanding what 'systematic issue' & 'collective action' mean"
Americans: oh, look, a systemic issue. I will solve it individually
September 21, 2026 at 12:43 AM
step 2: "oh, look, a systematic issue that I cannot solve individually, no matter what I do."
"That means solving it is impossible! Time to feel paralyzed. I am very good at understanding what 'systematic issue' & 'collective action' mean"
"That means solving it is impossible! Time to feel paralyzed. I am very good at understanding what 'systematic issue' & 'collective action' mean"
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REPUBLICANS: We will kill you and your children
DEMOCRATS: We don't know how to run against this
REPUBLICANS: We will kill five specific children for being gay at sports. This is the biggest problem we face today
DEMS: They make good points, we must kill these children
BOTH: And Gaza obviously
DEMOCRATS: We don't know how to run against this
REPUBLICANS: We will kill five specific children for being gay at sports. This is the biggest problem we face today
DEMS: They make good points, we must kill these children
BOTH: And Gaza obviously
September 20, 2026 at 11:53 PM
REPUBLICANS: We will kill you and your children
DEMOCRATS: We don't know how to run against this
REPUBLICANS: We will kill five specific children for being gay at sports. This is the biggest problem we face today
DEMS: They make good points, we must kill these children
BOTH: And Gaza obviously
DEMOCRATS: We don't know how to run against this
REPUBLICANS: We will kill five specific children for being gay at sports. This is the biggest problem we face today
DEMS: They make good points, we must kill these children
BOTH: And Gaza obviously
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They are just so committed to the sanctity of women’s sports.
ICE abducted a WBB player while she was traveling with her Kentucky State team in early August at Louisville airport.
She has been imprisoned for 1.5 months and denied care for a serious ACL injury.
It is the responsibility of universities and the NCAA to protect their players.
They have failed.
She has been imprisoned for 1.5 months and denied care for a serious ACL injury.
It is the responsibility of universities and the NCAA to protect their players.
They have failed.
September 20, 2026 at 11:55 PM
They are just so committed to the sanctity of women’s sports.
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I hate doing the "a rollback of trans rights is the gateway for a rollback of women's rights" thing because trans rights are human rights in and of themselves, whatever the impact on cis women.
But goddamn I wish more cis women had a sense of history and self preservation.
But goddamn I wish more cis women had a sense of history and self preservation.
September 20, 2026 at 4:03 PM
I hate doing the "a rollback of trans rights is the gateway for a rollback of women's rights" thing because trans rights are human rights in and of themselves, whatever the impact on cis women.
But goddamn I wish more cis women had a sense of history and self preservation.
But goddamn I wish more cis women had a sense of history and self preservation.
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not enough people boschposting on this website. get out of your bubble already
September 19, 2026 at 10:47 PM
not enough people boschposting on this website. get out of your bubble already
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LMAO if it destroys the world why the fuck should it be protected from lawsuits??????
Alex Karp of Palantir says the AI industry must be nationalized to protect it from lawsuits if it accidentally destroys the world. More likely, he sees the bubble about to burst and he wants to be bought out with our tax dollars before that happens.
September 19, 2026 at 2:40 AM
LMAO if it destroys the world why the fuck should it be protected from lawsuits??????
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You can’t have it both ways. You can’t be “It’s simple math, vote blue no matter who, grow up” and ALSO believe you are fighting fascism by making calculations as to who’s expendable. The world we’re in now demands more from us. More from everyone.
September 19, 2026 at 4:45 AM
You can’t have it both ways. You can’t be “It’s simple math, vote blue no matter who, grow up” and ALSO believe you are fighting fascism by making calculations as to who’s expendable. The world we’re in now demands more from us. More from everyone.
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Narnia books as Isekai Manga
September 19, 2026 at 1:18 PM
Narnia books as Isekai Manga
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Based upon their documented behavior over the past few years, the tech industry is less afraid of the potential ramifications of Artificial Superintelligence than they are of Lina Khan.
September 18, 2026 at 10:05 PM
Based upon their documented behavior over the past few years, the tech industry is less afraid of the potential ramifications of Artificial Superintelligence than they are of Lina Khan.
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Oh to be a little Tardigrade walking around a microscopic volvox algae colony. 🫧🐻🧪
September 18, 2026 at 4:00 PM
Oh to be a little Tardigrade walking around a microscopic volvox algae colony. 🫧🐻🧪
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Well done to the picture editor who captioned this delightful snap of a black pig swimming off the west coast of Greece “swine-dark sea” www.theguardian.com/environment/...
September 18, 2026 at 10:52 AM
Well done to the picture editor who captioned this delightful snap of a black pig swimming off the west coast of Greece “swine-dark sea” www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Car dealers are a reliable and influential power bloc for Republicans. Today on Assigned, @emarcadia.bsky.social writes that Democrats should politicize them and pursue them and other bastions of Republican power as relentlessly as Republicans have pursued the Democratic coalition.
Consider the Car Dealerships - Assigned Media
Republicans have long waged war against Democratic constituencies. What if we turned the tables?
assignedmedia.org
September 17, 2026 at 1:25 PM
Car dealers are a reliable and influential power bloc for Republicans. Today on Assigned, @emarcadia.bsky.social writes that Democrats should politicize them and pursue them and other bastions of Republican power as relentlessly as Republicans have pursued the Democratic coalition.
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New — I wrote about this weird thing where people within the Republican party keep being exposed as Nazis and the party then tries to claim each one is an aberration. The facts, as I lay out here, indicate otherwise:
Republicans don’t have a Nazi problem—they are the Nazi problem
A spate of recent revelations have shown the ideologies and their adherents are one and the same.
www.thehandbasket.co
September 16, 2026 at 11:26 PM
New — I wrote about this weird thing where people within the Republican party keep being exposed as Nazis and the party then tries to claim each one is an aberration. The facts, as I lay out here, indicate otherwise:
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I keep seeing videos of a guy who catches crabs and lobsters, cracks all the barnacles off them, puts a shrimp in their claws and throws them back. can you imagine. abducted by aliens but they just give you a spa day and hand you two hot dogs and let you go
September 16, 2026 at 9:33 PM
I keep seeing videos of a guy who catches crabs and lobsters, cracks all the barnacles off them, puts a shrimp in their claws and throws them back. can you imagine. abducted by aliens but they just give you a spa day and hand you two hot dogs and let you go
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rip annie dillard
September 16, 2026 at 3:29 PM
rip annie dillard
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NEW ESSAY on last week's deluge of Dems embracing anti-trans positions. let's stop fixating on trans ppl & instead recognize that Dems have a cisgender problem. pls share!
Medium (friend link): juliaserano.medium.com/on-democrats...
& Substack (no paywall): juliaserano.substack.com/p/on-democra...
Medium (friend link): juliaserano.medium.com/on-democrats...
& Substack (no paywall): juliaserano.substack.com/p/on-democra...
On Democrats Who Cave in Response to Anti-Trans Attack Ads
and more importantly: a response to all the cis people responding to the way that trans people are responding to said Democrats’ responses
juliaserano.medium.com
September 15, 2026 at 4:52 PM
NEW ESSAY on last week's deluge of Dems embracing anti-trans positions. let's stop fixating on trans ppl & instead recognize that Dems have a cisgender problem. pls share!
Medium (friend link): juliaserano.medium.com/on-democrats...
& Substack (no paywall): juliaserano.substack.com/p/on-democra...
Medium (friend link): juliaserano.medium.com/on-democrats...
& Substack (no paywall): juliaserano.substack.com/p/on-democra...
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this thread does not go where you think
Side note: a random priest was once like "You have friends who aren't Christians, what'd you say if they asked you "who is this Jesus guy?""
And I had to be like "dude, weird evangelism implications aside, nobody in twenty first century England has ever asked that question. What is wrong with you?"
And I had to be like "dude, weird evangelism implications aside, nobody in twenty first century England has ever asked that question. What is wrong with you?"
Here's my thing with evangelizing: do they think we don't know? That Christianity exists??? That we somehow missed it??????
September 16, 2026 at 7:04 PM
this thread does not go where you think