I'm Margaret! I'm the best! Blah Blah Blah!

FUCK ME, Bluesky's vibe coded pile of shit just switched off "require alt text". Go check yours.

Happened to mine as well:

A woman in a mask Headline: Why Do Some People Still Wear Masks In 2026 And On A Completely Unrelated Note Why Is Everyone In The Office Sick Right Now Apart From The Guy In The Mask? Story from Jerk Wingley and Terramin Defishunsee Photo from Adobe

Why Do Some People Still Wear Masks In 2026 And On A Completely Unrelated Note Why Is Everyone In The Office Sick Right Now Apart From The Guy In The Mask?

Punishing student protestors only to get mad at them for not protesting anymore reminds me of how survivors are sued and harassed for coming forward only to then be blamed for not wanting to name and report their perpetrators anymore

can’t make it, i’ve got big plans to be bedmaxxing later

obviously they're willing to harm other people on his whims and obviously they don't have shame or a conscience to hold themselves back, but when people who would rather kill you than mildly inconvenience themselves choose to majorly inconvenience themselves, it's alarming

Facebook post by Nekima Levy Armstrong: "Friends, A Breaking News headline just appeared in the Star Tribune, claiming that the national Target boycott ended today. This is false. The writer of the story, Carson Hartzog, is fully aware that the Target boycott was launched in Minneapolis on February 1, 2025. I have spoken to her several times since then, yet she failed to reach out to me, Jaylani Hussein, or Monique Cullars Doty, the three founders of the national Target boycott for the story. Carson even used the photo from our press conference that includes my daughter, Assata Joy and Ms. Rosemary Nevils, an elder in our community, to try to add legitimacy to a bogus story. I am once again disgusted by the Star Tribune and their attempts to minimize and erase the voices of our community. The nationwide Target Boycott is not over, unless and until Target reverses its decision to rollback Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, as we said from the beginning. “Pastor” Jamal Bryant does not speak for us or our community and has zero authority to end the nationwide boycott of Target, a company that is headquartered in Minneapolis. Please don’t believe the hype and these attempts to rescue Target from the effects of capitulating to the Trump Administration. Target rolled back DEI because of Donald Trump. They donated $1 million to the Trump/Vance inauguration committee. Target also allowed ICE to stage in its parking lots during Operation Metro Surge. The nationwide boycott of Target is successful and it will continue. Please continue to shop elsewhere."

Nekima on the Target boycott.

Every day of life under Trump is waking up to a headline like, “Wyoming is missing”

This is my FAVORITE part, hands down. Even better than the song and dance, which is tough to top!

Came to recommend the same! Occasionally dry, but so good!

This is super interesting and confusing!

A Brit/Kiwi friend was heading to NYC on short notice and asked if I wanted to meet up for a few hours in the afternoon.

I also lived in Minneapolis at the time.

for me “doom scrolling” is actually just the pathological hunt for the first piece of news that indicates this whole unbearable moment is about to unravel

You know how there are Thai restaurants everywhere because the Thai government was doing culinary diplomacy?

Cuba was doing that only for healthcare, not least in Carribean countries that are struggling from brain drains to the US and the UK

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Ruben Ray Martinez: Footage shows US citizen shot by ICE agent in Texas traffic stop The Department of Homeland Security did not disclose Martinez was shot by one of its agents until almost a year later.

Newly released footage shows an ICE agent killing Rubin Ray Martinez, 23, in his car in Texas.

"He was shot at point-blank range through his side window by an ICE agent who was in no danger."
www.bbc.com/news/article...

A picture of PEW poll on global attitude survey, saying the % who rate the morality and ethics of people in their country as good vs bad, where the US has the worst rankings and Canada the best

Americans: we live in a fallen state—embroiled by sin, cheating, lying, and evil. You cannot trust anyone, not even those who claim to know you best

Canadians: I love my neighbors and my friends!

I always wanted a Philip Seymour Hoffman Confederacy of Dunces, and this idea presents an extraordinarily similar loss:

Abolish ICE.

If the government gets to decide if you have them, they're not human rights.

They are torturing and killing people in our concentration camps, and I wish more people were actively bothered by that

Sorry I'm not more open-minded about LLMs, it's just some fucking maniacs shoveled out a bunch of useless bloatware featuring that technology, did not give me any chance to opt out, reorganized the entire economy around it, zeroed out gains made by green energy, and made it impossible to buy RAM

AND, how many times have you found out that the paper *everyone* cites as evidence doesn’t actually support it at all, it’s just one big game of telephone! LLMs will make that pre-existing problem infinitely worse!

New England cherishes its local elections—but many disabled voters are locked out “It's a really heartbreaking example of who gets left behind in systems that are not built for everyone.”

For a few hundred years, towns across New England have conducted Town Meeting Days via floor votes, which can be inaccessible to disabled people. This situation shows how accessibility and tradition can go head-to-head. My latest for @motherjones.com.

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Throw in the disintegrating healthcare - and insurance! Education! - systems, and the increases in childhood mortality (and disability) that I expect we’ll see as horrific diseases come roaring back?

So many disabled kids, no infrastructure to support them, and rising eugenics?

I’m terrified.

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I’m genuinely frightened about the confluence of:

- The facts presented in this reel about the developmental risks & outcomes of COVID infection during pregnancy
- The eugenicist sentiments openly espoused by our current government and rapidly gaining traction in households nationwide

“The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.”

James Baldwin

sure the pedophile felon president just illegally bombed a country that may have nukes while federal forces under his command murder and harass people in america and immigrants are tortured and he moves forward with plans to build concentration camps and sorry idk where i was going fuck all of this