Katherine Alejandra Cross

I could not be more stoked to announce CONTINUE, a defiant, new games magazine that aims to celebrate and interrogate the culture, creativity and community of videogames. The Kickstarter is now live below. www.kickstarter.com/projects/con...

Not for nothing, but this broader dynamic of neither being able to safely discuss real organising, nor being able to silence doomers and other morale-destroyers, is exactly why social media is *not* generally a useful tool for activism, much less an indispensable one.

You cannot, nor *should you* say, "actually, at my org, we're [REDACTED]," so the despair-posting has even freer rein.

But there has been enough press coverage of real acts of resistance (for which people have literally died) to make clear that the American people are not going quietly.

One of the challenging dynamics about social media is that it is categorically stupid to talk openly about meaningful anti-government organising, but then that leaves a vast space for the doomers to fill up with "why isn't anyone doing anything!?"

A DOGE staffer assigned to the National Endowment for the Humanities to flag grants for "DEI" tries to explain what "DEI" is. This deposition is part of a lawsuit by the @acls1919.bsky.social, @historians.org and @modernlanguage.bsky.social.

The moment I recognised that this was I-5 and I saw the light-rail tracks, I did the DiCaprio pointing meme.

Senator, all due respect to Asian Carp haters, for whom I'm sure this is a big deal, I think the fact that he threatened to annex Canada again merits a mention.

Zeteo ran an interview with Graham Platner today (paywalled, unfortunately) and I can't get past the fact that someone who literally recommends people watch "Come and See" as the ultimate anti-war movie is trying to pretend he never knew what a Totenkopf was.

Everyone stop what you're doing, the Mariners are selling fries, nachos, and fish and chips in ferries now. www.mlb.com/mariners/bal...

Slowly, two shadowy figures come into focus, one behind the other with their hand on the other's neck. The Not Ready for Opsec Players present "Fucking hell! My blood doll is a LEFTIST!" Vampire: The Masquerade: Blood Doll (Dark Pack) https://blooddollpod.com

Imagine if you will, not one, not ten, but over twenty trans voice actors coming together for an audio drama written, directed, and edited by a trans woman!

Vampire: The Masquerade: Blood Doll is a Gormenghast-style epic romantic tragedy featuring a trans leftist & an enby Ventrue:
blooddollpod.com

INB4 the 46.7% of BlueSky users who lack a sense of humour "well actually" me on the use of 'Boomer' there.

I'm talking about the birth boom that happened after the liberalising economic laws of 1846.

IN YOUR FUCKING FACES, PUNKS.

200 years ago today, Alexander Graham Bell became the first Boomer to call someone younger than them for absolutely zero functional reason at all.

Guess What Moderate Democratic Voters Aren’t Anymore? Moderate. Two new polls suggest that moderate Democrats, too, want higher taxes on the rich and some measure of economic populism. Moderate isn’t what it was in 1992.

Moderate Democrats with columns in newspapers are constantly saying the Democratic Party is way too liberal on "social" issues. Moderate Democratic voters in real life do not feel this way. With some polling data from @gelliottmorris.com and @dataforprogress.org. newrepublic.com/article/2074...

Just saw someone say, basically, "this is your party, shitlib Democrats" with a quoted post by Lindsey Graham and it really makes me think a lot of the "both parties are the same" stuff comes from a place of even more profound ignorance than we suspect

Bluesky needs to figure out what it wants to be because IMO “one instance of the ATProto fediverse” is essentially not what like 98% of the users of text based social media are interested in.

this tinpot dictator shit doesn’t scare me and everyone ought to call it what it is

it’s not up to him, so fuck him

Envy, Greed, and Billionaires (Neon Liberalism #66, with David Lay Williams) Samantha Hancox-Li and guest David Lay Williams, author of The Greatest of All Plagues, discuss the nature of extreme wealth inequality in America and across history, from Plato to Occupy Wall Street....

"When you have this kind of distance between rich and poor, you don't even have one city or one polis. What you have are two cities. You have one city of the rich, one city of the poor. They can't meet in the middle. They have no commonalities that can that can help help them bond together"

Don't flee in advance, Tim.

Fanart of T'Lyn from Star Trek: Lower Decks. Left: T'Lyn on a Vulcan ship, with her Vulcan grey and white crew uniform. She is standing with her left arm behind her back and doing a Vulcan salute with her right hand. Top Right: T'Lyn rearranging the pieces on a 3D chess board and looking sideways conspiratorially. She is in the Cerritos' nar and in her Starfleet uniform. Bottom Right: T'Lyn wielding a Larpa while on Orion, wearing her yellow Orion outfit, looking hella angry.

Happy International Women's Day from my fav out of control Vulcan. 🖖
#StarTrek #StarTrekLowerDecks #lowerdecks #T'lyn

The painting "Night in the Steppe" shows a vast plain under a bright full moon, the light being distributed over the landscape and the water in an almost magical way.

This work is made by the renowned Ukrainian artist Ivan Marchuk, who invented the unique painting style called "plyontanism" (from the Ukrainian word plyontaty, meaning "to braid"). This technique consists of hundreds of fine, intertwined lines that create depth and an almost textile-like texture.

This sort of insight really amps up the "Children of Men" feel of this platform.

The world economy is imploding but we can take some solace in the fact that so is Pierre Poilievre.

I could be posting in the pit of despair bsky is currently, or I could be poasting about Star Wars

Chat, is this good?

winnie the pooh is sitting on the floor in a room ALT: winnie the pooh is sitting on the floor in a room

The belief in trans rights entering the median voters body as Trump makes gas cost $8/gallon

Americans have no idea how much the world is shook, folks. Here in Thailand they have a running tally of how many days' worth of fuel the country has left.

i have the video saved, but i don't have it hosted anywhere