brynne ridley
@brynneridley.bsky.social
Writer with too many dogs. I always thought the future would have more flying cars and less fascism. She/her
created October 31, 2024
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Alexis (@alexispace.bsky.social) reposted
it is actually so damaging for them that "when it happens" is such a meme all over the internet now though I just feel like "grassroots conviction that you're about to fucking die any day now" isn't really conducive to projecting an aura of fascist inevitability
Dak (@dak.bsky.social) reposted
Every “once in a lifetime” event seems to happen weekly now. My lifetime is exhausted.
Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yasharali.bsky.social) reposted
It’s been 28 years since Diana, Princess of Wales, was killed in car accident in Paris. She would be 64 were she alive today.
brynne ridley (@brynneridley.bsky.social) reply parent
My best friend called me moments after midnight and I thought she was calling to wish me a happy birthday. Instead she was crying and telling me to turn on CNN. My 21st birthday.
brynne ridley (@brynneridley.bsky.social) reply parent
Not even a shout-out to the haters and losers? Pfft, that's not him
brynne ridley (@brynneridley.bsky.social)
Less than 3 hours left now The Rudy stuff is an intriguing diversion but...
mean things I say to myself (@meantomyself.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
He's been dead to me for a long time tbh
Frovo (@frovo.bsky.social) reposted
WHITE HOUSE AIDE: we need a distraction from the president being dead OTHER WHITE HOUSE AIDE: let’s kill Rudy
Jen Grünwald (@jengrunwald.bsky.social) reposted
This whole thing is great but the highlighted bit made me laugh out loud. 😂 Marlon on Snoop:
brynne ridley (@brynneridley.bsky.social) reply parent
Everything I Don't Like Is Woke
Schooley (@schooley.bsky.social) reposted
They’re radicalizing us all now.
brynne ridley (@brynneridley.bsky.social)
It is officially my birthday and the clock is ticking. Got 22.5 hours left to get the one gift I really want
brynne ridley (@brynneridley.bsky.social) reply parent
Still Vonnegut but Cat's Cradle for me
Mike Rothschild (@rothschildmd.bsky.social) reposted
White House story time is getting weird.
brynne ridley (@brynneridley.bsky.social) reply parent
Everything else aside it's... unsettling the way he talks almost amorously about the limestone
Tressie McMillan Cottom (@tressiemcphd.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
I sincerely believe we would understand him better were his surname Brown or Jackson. The Kennedy moniker still confers prestige (gag). But he is a basic male disordered-eating eugenics-pipeline health influencer promoted beyond all his abilities or sense.
A.R. Moxon (@juliusgoat.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
Everybody be cool, remember, you’ve never heard of Donald Trump before today, when you saw him get eaten by a shark full of dynamite that exploded
A.R. Moxon (@juliusgoat.bsky.social) reposted
we can just keep saying he's dead and refusing to credit or acknowledge anyone who refers to him being alive, this will work, trust me and just follow my lead
brynne ridley (@brynneridley.bsky.social) reply parent
The scourge of canine illiteracy
Alejandra Caraballo (@esqueer.net) reposted
I feel terrible for our country but this is incredible content.
brynne ridley (@brynneridley.bsky.social) reply parent
Oh, sending good vibes for finding necessary paperwork! If you use Reddit, r/ufyh is super supportive and people come up with really helpful ideas all the time
Michael Stipe (@michaelstipe.bsky.social) reposted
I can
brynne ridley (@brynneridley.bsky.social) reply parent
Trotting him out for the cameras in this condition is elder abuse
brynne ridley (@brynneridley.bsky.social) reply parent
Huge if true
onion person (@junlper.beer) reposted
streets are saying that donald trump is a clone
molly conger (@socialistdogmom.bsky.social) reposted
the haters and losers will say it's foolish to indulge in wild speculation but you can't deny it's extremely funny that they have to write headlines like this
brynne ridley (@brynneridley.bsky.social) reply parent
I like listening to music I love singing along to because it distracts me from how much I hate cleaning! You can do this! It looks like mostly just tidying things up and moving things around, it'll go quicker than you expect 🙂
Aparna Nair (@disabilitystor1.bsky.social) reposted
yes, microwaved for around 20 minutes
brynne ridley (@brynneridley.bsky.social) reply parent
He's burdened with mitochondrial challenges
brynne ridley (@brynneridley.bsky.social)
hope springs eternal
Alan Baxter (@alanbaxter.bsky.social) reposted
This isn't doomscrolling, it's schadenfeed.
brynne ridley (@brynneridley.bsky.social)
Oh shit I spent so long ghoulscrolling my whole timeline fell asleep
brynne ridley (@brynneridley.bsky.social) reply parent
LOL at the quotes around "ALIVE" 🤌💋
brynne ridley (@brynneridley.bsky.social) reply parent
These two assholes don't even have peace in their marriage
Mary Gillis (@marygillis.bsky.social) reposted
His next public appearance.
Uncle Waldorf (@unclewaldorf.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
The audacity of hope.
Marisa Kabas (@marisakabas.bsky.social) reposted
hot ghoul summer
brynne ridley (@brynneridley.bsky.social)
Note to self: ask husband in the morning if he'd like to be awakened if The Event occurs after he's gone to bed
s. e. smith 🌱 (@sesmith.lol) reposted
Scalia Day was a Saturday
Matt Novak (@paleofuture.bsky.social) reposted
I just checked Threads and even they’re getting in on the action. There are some ideas so beautiful that they manage to reach every corner of our balkanized internet.
brynne ridley (@brynneridley.bsky.social) reply parent
A post from X is on the front page of Reddit right now so there's speculation in both those places too
Grant Tanaka (@granttanaka.bsky.social) reposted
Me: God, I suck dog: no ur awesome Me: I'm just the worst dog: no ur the best Me: I hate myself dog: [puts head in my lap] good thing I love u enough for both of us
brynne ridley (@brynneridley.bsky.social)
Post a random picture, or else everything will go bad in September.
Helen Kennedy (@helenkennedy.bsky.social) reposted
Time to make a playlist
brynne ridley (@brynneridley.bsky.social) reply parent
brynne ridley (@brynneridley.bsky.social)
I'm just saying, it's my birthday this weekend and there's really only one thing I want this year
brynne ridley (@brynneridley.bsky.social) reply parent
It wasn't a gaffe. The Republican party is an accelerationist death cult.
brynne ridley (@brynneridley.bsky.social) reply parent
Make Cholera Great Again
Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1.bsky.social) reposted
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker: "The Trump administration has not contacted me at all whatsoever. Nobody in my administration. They're just looking to invade the city of Chicago, not coordinate with law enforcement … not coordinating with the state of Illinois, the Governor or the Mayor of the city."
brynne ridley (@brynneridley.bsky.social) reply parent
Can't even take personal responsibility for choosing, enthusiastically and of his own accord, to be a jackbooted thug, nah, it's all God's doing
Zach Rabiroff (@zachrabiroff.com) reposted
For 12 months, America had a limited proof of concept for universal healthcare, and it was so uniformly successful we had no choice but to obliterate our society
brynne ridley (@brynneridley.bsky.social) reply parent
I hope it's even more embarrassing than the first one
cait (and adonis) (@cait.bsky.social) reposted
oh. don't call it that
brynne ridley (@brynneridley.bsky.social) reply parent
oh no
David Roberts (@volts.wtf) reposted
I genuinely think one thing that trips up folks on the left is that they can't imagine not sharing certain core values. Lemme explain. Here's an intuition pump: Say you're in negotiations with counterparty X. And there are two possible deals on the table ...
The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social) reposted
Don’t look away
Willow (@rockshrimp.bsky.social) reposted
I would like the country not to be run by a bunch of cultists who are literally trying to bring about the rapture.
Joel S. (@joelhs.bsky.social) reposted
These are the same image.
Amadi Lovelace (@amaditalks.bsky.social) reposted
People really have no idea how bad things are about to get.
brynne ridley (@brynneridley.bsky.social) reply parent
These pieces of shit better hope there isn't a god
brynne ridley (@brynneridley.bsky.social)
I can't explain, you would not understand
brynne ridley (@brynneridley.bsky.social) reply parent
I know the feeling. Solidarity from Texas.
brynne ridley (@brynneridley.bsky.social) reply parent
If only
brynne ridley (@brynneridley.bsky.social)
Feels like pure pageantry tbh, just soft-launching President Vance
brynne ridley (@brynneridley.bsky.social) reply parent
Dozens of us! I got very into the Moody Blues as a teenager but in the 90s. I've even seen them in concert twice. Legend of a Band was the first album I ever bought for myself on CD.
brynne ridley (@brynneridley.bsky.social) reply parent
Newsom's increasingly weird efforts to out-Trump Trump put me in mind of a Vonnegut quote: "We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be."
andy™ (@andylevy.net) reposted
hey hey rfk how many kids did you kill today
Peter Butler (@peter-butler.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
AP livestream www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZ7Q...
Jeremy Faust, MD (@jeremyfaust.bsky.social) reposted
Massive walkout underway at CDC. RFK jr. must resign so that we can be safe.
brynne ridley (@brynneridley.bsky.social)
Unambiguous Nazism moving into mainstream discourse faster than the speed of light. These people have the president's ear and have successfully radicalized millions of Americans. Unfathomably dangerous, scary stuff There is no "debate" to be had here. Trans people are people and people have rights
brynne ridley (@brynneridley.bsky.social) reply parent
A massive collective trauma that seemingly everyone decided to ignore or deny can't be healthy
Oliver Willis (@owillis.bsky.social) reposted
seems weird how little we talk about the fact that over a million americans died from COVID
brynne ridley (@brynneridley.bsky.social) reply parent
The real tragedy is not her death but the fact that she was so disinformed and hateful that she committed herself to being a violent traitor to our nation
brynne ridley (@brynneridley.bsky.social)
More North Korea shit
Greg Sargent (@gregsargent.bsky.social) reposted
Trump's use of red state National Guards in DC is really about viciously turning Americans against each other, about stoking hate and violence *among Americans.* JB Pritzker's response is so good because it lays *this* bare. Me and @brianbeutler.bsky.social on this: newrepublic.com/article/1997...
Memento (Lasagna) Morty 🌙 (@mementomorty.bsky.social) reposted
No, you're not ineligible for the vaccine. Let me introduce you to the concept of lying.
Joshua Reed Eakle 🗽 (@joshuaeakle.com) reposted
It's impossible to overstate how big of a deal this is. In a normal world, there would be impeachments, investigations, and prison sentences.
brynne ridley (@brynneridley.bsky.social) reply parent
Staring at children in airports in order to analyze their "mitochondria" sounds like some big creepy weirdo shit
Beto O’Rourke (@betoorourke.bsky.social) reposted
Kashana (@kashana.bsky.social) reposted
Yes, unfortunately my four year old got fired from the coal mines.
Robert Henny (@heinoushenny.bsky.social) reposted
With all the money this fascist fuck has grifted, can he not find a makeup that matches his skin tone better? Also, fuck Donald Trump.
brynne ridley (@brynneridley.bsky.social) reply parent
Like this one looks like it came directly out of Karoline Leavitt's purse
brynne ridley (@brynneridley.bsky.social) reply parent
I can't get over this. Arguably the most powerful man alive and one of the wealthiest men in the world and it looks like he's asking random women in the administration if he can borrow their foundation every morning
Courtney Milan (@courtneymilan.com) reposted reply parent
In case you missed it in the comments:
Ars Technica (@arstechnica.com) reposted
AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.
brynne ridley (@brynneridley.bsky.social) reply parent
Oh no, ruining the hallucinating plagiarism machines? Whatever will we do? 😢
Sunny Moraine (@dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social) reposted
So I think a lot about the whole “we/they didn’t vote for THIS” thing. Because some people who voted for Trump will say they didn’t vote for whatever Horror is going on, and then the natural response is “but you fucking did, what are you talking about” And I think we may be framing this wrong
Thomas A. Nguyen DO (@tom.medsky.social) reposted
In honor of sandwich guy getting out of his legal pickle, here is the original video synced with Freedom - George Michael 1990.
Dimitra Rizou (@ahoyuniverse.bsky.social) reposted
My cartoon for issue 1640 of @privateeyenews.bsky.social, out now
brynne ridley (@brynneridley.bsky.social) reply parent
This is a nice bit of evidence that even people whose brains were already cooked have gotten further radicalized by sticking around on the MechaHitler app
Jonathan M. Katz (@katz.theracket.news) reposted
A 1955 writer casually dropping a “Germans tended to go along with Nazis just like your all-American wife goes along with segregation” is both the answer and the question for “how we got here”
Jonathan M. Katz (@katz.theracket.news) reposted
Hell of a passage to read in twenty twenty five
brynne ridley (@brynneridley.bsky.social) reply parent
Yeah, I read this earlier this year and that passage stopped me cold. I had to set the book aside for a little bit while I digested that.
brynne ridley (@brynneridley.bsky.social) reply parent
You love to see it
Selena Larson (@selenalarson.bsky.social) reposted
My councilwoman @janeese4dc.bsky.social put out a plea to neighbors to not order food delivery because of law enforcement targeting delivery drivers.
brynne ridley (@brynneridley.bsky.social) reply parent
lcannot express how much i hate this for you but on the bright (?) side you could probably write a whole series of Bad Roommate books
lauren (@lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com) reposted
the richest man in the world buying a presidential election, getting run out of the administration for being a weird diva, then pivoting to jerking it to anime cartoons full time is somehow more Roman than anything that ever happened in Rome
brynne ridley (@brynneridley.bsky.social) reply parent
I have never cared less about an inexplicably enormous news story and I hope I can now return to living my life without ever thinking about Cracker Barrel
brynne ridley (@brynneridley.bsky.social) reply parent
What