The MentyB of GracieD

Sums up the current state of the US politics

Meme with side by side pictures of Marco Rubio and RFK, Jr, labeled “Marco” and “Polio.”

Who made this? Ahahaha

Also, please, please, please turn on alt text as a default in accessibility settings to demonstrate inclusive posting. We have had a terrible time getting people to make their images accessible to low visibility and disabled users.

🙃🙃🙃 thanks I hate it

A Probably Incomplete List of Bluesky User Safety Mechanisms Protecting your posts • disabling replies on your posts • limiting replies on your posts to people you follow, mention, or include in specific lists • disabling quote posting on your posts • detaching your post from someone else's quote • changing the above interaction settings even after a post is sent hiding replies to your posts for yourself or for everyone • self-labeling your media for adult or graphic content to protect other users • limiting account visibility only to logged in users • note: this is not 100% enforceable but all major bluesky clients and apps support it Limiting your interaction • blocking users from seeing or interacting with your posts • if you block after an interaction, they vaporize • if they've replied already, the entire thread below their reply is cauterized for everyone, floating in space detached from your post • note: your blocks are publicly visible via 3rd party apps • muting users to remove them from your notis and feeds, and hide them in replies • note: your mutes are private • muting or blocking entire moderation lists of users • note: inclusion in a list is public via third party apps. muting a list is private, blocks via a list are public • subscribing to other people's mod lists • note: your subscription is private, muting & blocking work the same • subscribing to labelers (moderation services) from bluesky or third parties o decide whether to show, warn, or hide posts that have been labeled in each category • report content that should be labeled to bluesky and/or third parties labelers

one of the reasons bluesky works differently is because early users waged a successful fight to get the devs to prioritize safety features to protect communities at risk

as a result bluesky now has a suite of controls that i think are unmatched on social media

here’s the list, lmk what i’ve missed

Former Aurora cop charged with raping daughter remains free as mom is sent to jail A retired Aurora police sergeant is facing criminal charges for raping his daughter and sexually assaulting his two adopted daughters, but remains free from custody while his ex-wife is the

Denver cop rapes his daughter and SAs his two adopted daughters for YEARS. His sons want no relationship with him. Court orders them to go to ‘reunification therapy’ with Dad. Mom refuses to do that to her sons aaaaaand finds herself thrown in jail for it. America. 🇺🇸

monday mood

Happy Labor Day

Labor Day reminder:

Donald Trump’s labor agenda exploits workers and undermines unions to make corporations and billionaires, like him, more money.

He’s never worked a hard day in his life, but he’ll make sure every day you work gets a lot harder, and you get a lot less for it.

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CATHOLIC CHURCH: No meat on Fridays!

ME: Okay, so, no eggs for breakfast.

CATHOLIC CHURCH: No, eggs are okay.

ME: But eggs are chickens, right?

CATHOLIC CHURCH: No, not until they hatch.

ME: OH. So, a thing isn't a thing until it's born?

CATHOLIC CHURCH: Correct. No, WAIT -

If you steal from your employer, you can be fired and even arrested.

When employers steal up to $50 billion each year in wages from workers, nothing happens.

Ending wage theft and holding greedy CEOs accountable is a pro-labor policy that every politician should be supporting.

Hi Barbie! #C2E2 #Barbie #Cosplay #DayToNightBarbie

Let me save you the trouble. They’re all Red states.

1. Oklahoma
2. Louisiana
3. Mississippi
4. Alabama
5. Texas
6. Arkansas
7. West Virginia
8. Wyoming
9. Georgia
10. Missouri

You get what you vote for.

Here’s how much these companies gave to the RGA SuperPAC, which is helping to elect the homophobic, Holocaust-denying, conspiracy-theory spreading, misogynist, Mark Robinson as Governor in NC:

Microsoft $400k
Google $378k
CVS $300k
Pfizer $300k
Amazon $275k
Coke $259k

Lol the audacity

$650 MILLION SPENT ON VANITY SUPER BOWL COMMERCIALS THIS YEAR BY LOTS OF COMPANIES WHO SAY THEY DON’T HAVE ENOUGH MONEY TO PAY THEIR WORKERS A LIVING WAGE.

There are some like… dystopian AI company commercials and it’s freaking me out lol

I’m looking at you #Copilot

#SuperBowl

You realize that Bluesky owes Lil Jon an immense debt for popularizing the term “skeet”

Kennedy, Kennedy, Kennedy, Kennedy

He’d bring back polio

The first few notes of Yeah are like sleeper agent trigger words that activate older millennials

#Temu’s commercial looked like some AI nightmare topped with a late-stage capitalistic tagline:
“Shop like a billionaire”

💩

That #halftime show literally turned me back into a tween fangirl who memorized the entire #Usher #Confessions album

THAT is how a half-time show is done!!!

🤩🤩🤩
🔥🔥🔥
🥵🥵🥵

#Usher #HalftimeShow #SuperBowl

#superbowl #halftime

DAAAAAMN okay #Usher!!!

Everyone is looking so fly and fancy ✨💞💅🏻

For the amount of money being spent by corporations on advertisements on the Super Bowl, we could lift 30,000 families out of poverty. (Based on the estimates 700 million spent.)

How many people could He Gets Us have lifted out of poverty for the price of a Super Bowl commercial featuring AI-generated poverty?

And churches.

How much did that #Jesus ad cost, hmm?

#superbowl #commercials, continued…

- the secondhand embarrassment from #Bennifer’s #DunkinDonuts is STRONG 😳🫣
- LOL #Duolingo’s marketing is just great in general
- Arnold Swarzenegger always makes me laugh
- the Jesus ad was…. Really uncomfortable. How much did that cost, hmm?

To be continued

Super Bowl commercials, continued:

- The Poppi soda commercial was cute! Great branding & art design
- wtf in the propaganda was that Kennedy commercial?
- #Wicked looks like…. Too much AI animation, tbh.
- #Ghosts looks fun!

TBC…

#SuperBowl #commercials

So far, these commercials are… Interesting.

- Nerds was underwhelming
- LOVED the #MichaelCera #CeraVe commercial
- #AubreyPlaza was a #Blast
- #Temu was like an AI nightmare of late-stage capitalism

More to come…

#superbowl #commercials