starmer is doing all the anti-immigrant and anti-trans "popularism" stuff the centrists are demanding US dems do and this is the predictable result:
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starmer is doing all the anti-immigrant and anti-trans "popularism" stuff the centrists are demanding US dems do and this is the predictable result:
A lot of the big complainers about Bluesky are basically describing Threads but their real issue with Bluesky is that they specifically dislike around 12 people who they could ratio on Twitter if it still existed. Itâs basically niche influencer drama pretending to be about policy
If the concern is that we will no longer live in a consensus reality, then I honestly double-dog-dare you to look me in the eyes and tell me that mass-scale platforms like Facebook, TikTok, and X were meeting that concern in a positive way
For most of humanityâs existence we were not required to receive a push notification every time somebody on the other side of the planet did something cruel or used a word you donât like. I am pretty sure that NOT knowing these things is what the emotional centers in our brains prefer
Honestly the development of broken-up non-centralized platforms with their own identities is probably a healthy step for the world. It brings down the temperature a tad on the idea of being constantly exposed to shit you hate, which has been degrading to the human experience.
Any time I see their complaints about Bluesky filtering back here it's striking that nobody seems to think it's worth noting that Twitter exists entirely to promulgate Elon Musk's personal politics
If you donât think most of the people on here are worth talking to, then why hang an âask me anythingâ sign on your every word? Use this tool to talk to people you want to talk to, and ignore the others!
If you donât like the way people respond to your posts on Bluesky, you can turn off quotes and replies from people you donât follow. I do it all the time. People who complain about Bluesky never do this, because the notion of not getting lots of attention is anathema
You absolutely crushed it
Original art by @cleanlined.bsky.social from Absolute Wonder Woman on sale tomorrow @kellythompson.bsky.social Felix Comic Art
I donât wanna discount the right-wing anti-city noise machine, itâs real and itâs very loud and persuasive, and it deeply sucks and Iâd personally love to dismantle it. But even if Fox News went off the air tomorrow, that doesnât solve homelessness. Home prices would solve homelessness.
Homelessness has been on the rise ever since the US abandoned the premise of funding public housing. Basically every nation on Earth to tackle this problem did it via public housing, yet Dems are still beholden to the 1990s anti-public-housing worldview. Market solutions failed, tho, so now what?
The Republican policy is clear, but inhuman: put them in prison or let them die. One wing of the left is advocating for major financial realignments to resolve this problem the humane way, but theyâre fighting the corporate wing (Newsom etc) who donât want that level of economic transformation.
This is 100% factually true but the problem is, every single person saying âcrimeâ is a problem actually means âhomelessness.â And this actually IS a Democratic problem, bc the party is at war with itself over how to respond, and the problem is worst in our cities.
Once you start talking about âbody doublesâ you have left harmless fantasizing behind
I know you all had fun pretending that maybe It Happened last week, but I am truly begging all of you to let it go and not become QAnon for In This House We Believe liberals
It feels like Mamdani is running for mayor against three competing Tim & Eric sketches
Honestly we can probably retire this whole format after this 10/10 killshot
HIGH AND LOW is fantastic and K-POP DEMON HUNTERS is, well, gowns, beautiful gowns,
I feel like we are all ready for Gagaâs Criterion Closet video and Iâm a little shocked it didnât happen during the MAYHEM press campaign
Do we think Britney Spears has seen PERFECT BLUE
Somehow the last three movies Iâve watched have been KPOP DEMON HUNTERS, HIGH AND LOW, and PERFECT BLUE, and hilariously enough, PERFECT BLUE is basically the fucked-up child of the first two
this is why I pay for photoshop
They pulled down the Orgy Dome when they saw him coming, the windstorm was a cover story www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
"Newsom is following a pipeline transgender people have seen time and again⌠Transphobia rarely stays confined to one small corner⌠Those who embrace it⌠almost always end up sliding further into opposition to nearly every facet of transgender existenceâŚ" www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/08/acti...
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Remarkable lineup of films commemorating the 20th anniversary of the opening of IFC Film Center in New York. I interviewed the people who chose movies about the selection process. And I learned a lot about the specific kind of movie that tends to succeed there. www.rogerebert.com/mzs/moviehou...
Remember how if a kid choked on a little plastic toy they used to stop selling the toy
Every time I get a "We're updating our terms and policies" email I think of Venkman telling the dean "I trust we're being moved to better quarters on campus."
This reminds me of the night during the pandemic when That Guy had COVID and I drove down to the IKEA in Orange County and on the way back suddenly there were fireworks going off everywhere all around me and I was like âHOLY SHIT DID IT HAPPENâ but no the Lakers had just won the championship
Good Devils: Don't Play Fair With Evil from Absolute Batman's @nickdragotta.bsky.social & me is a 64-page slugfest made to honor faves like Tetsuo Hara (Fist of the North Star) & George Morikawa (Hajime no Ippo). @sievish.bsky.social designed our cover/logo. Out 10/1. Preorder by 9/8. Square up.
unless it's Scrabble, in which case I definitely want to play because I am going to win
you're right and you should say it
Constructing the amount of housing we'd need for this would bring down the overall price of housing, and many fortunes (including the average middle-to-upper-class American's net worth) are predicated on that absolutely never happening. So we'll literally kill people instead of doing it.
What's our economy set up to spend that amount of money on instead? A.I. data centers, it seems, and police. Both of those things are important to building the walled cities of the future that will keep The Undesirables out. That's the plan that's been made and it seems we're sticking to it.
What we would have to do is spend a ton of money recreating our nonexistent mental health system and our substance-abuse-disorder care networks, and -- most critically -- constructing an absolute fuckton of housing, everywhere, in every neighborhood, in all its sizes and forms and qualities.
There are many aspects of the modern world to be depressed about, but one of the ones that really gets me is that it's not like we don't KNOW what we'd have to do to prevent our cities from having large and disruptive homeless populations, we just don't wanna do it, so we brutalize them instead.
Loving MY LITTLE WARLORD on DCU Infinite, easily my favorite webcomic from the Big Two. Nina Geeâs script does a great job highlighting the survival element, @soundofm0ss.bsky.social and Chi Ngoâs art is super charming and full of personality. Free to read! www.dcuniverseinfinite.com/comics/serie...
Or, you know, build houses?
Ironically, the people saying "mostly for adults" are probably the people most deeply familiar with English-language comic book periodicals
This is one of the few current major use cases for AI: as a machine to do something immoral on a mass scale, while pushing off accountability with a thin pretense of the AI tool âcarefully selectingâ cases in a targeted and reasonable way
Only concert Iâve ever walked out on was late-period Tricky. MAXINQUAYE still goes, though! (I also had to leave an Underworld concert early but that was bc a friend got sick; the show was great.)
Oh, wait, also: David Bowie at the Beacon Theatre on his Five Boroughs tour of NYC. Small venue for him, unbelievable show, maybe my best concert ever.
I assume this is to the tune of Death Grips. (Also, jealous.)
She jumped into the room without warning at the precise moment that Clemonsâ solo hit on âThe Edge Of Gloryâ and did air-sax along with it. I had just had an appendectomy four days earlier and was hopped up on painkillers. It was like seeing God.
The first-ever American concerts for Robyn, MIA, and The Knife; BeyoncĂŠ at Roseland doing her career-overview show for the release of 4; accompanying a journalist friend backstage at Lady Gaga to hear pre-release tracks from BORN THIS WAY (and getting to say hello and chat with her)
Really inconvenient for this post to arrive one minute after Iâd closed tab on the resale site because the good seats were $400 (Iâve seen them three times before but⌠is that enoughâŚ?)
Personally I have really been struggling with my midi-chlorian count, I can barely lift things with my mind anymore, probably because of the flu shot
I will never forgive that man for making me see a phrase as demented as âmitochondrial challengesâ
How long are we going to have to put up with mush like this? Frowns? Muttering? The humanity! Also, what do you mean ad hominem attacks were "just as harmful?" Surely they were more? Dreck elevated in the discourse so readily, you're not even expected to make the strongest version of the argument.
These are really insane numbers. Even if we only look at formal political offices, billionaires are more than 10,000x more likely to hold a national political position than the average person.
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remember folks, we cant have gun restrictions because if we do the federal government will occupy our streets, imprison people without due process, ship dissidents to foreign gulags and things of that nature
Yes yes swimming alongside sea turtles and forming a profound and wordless bond with them but also⌠CINEMA
I wanna go to this screening so badly that I am almost angry that the reason I canât see it is because I will literally be vacationing on the beach in an island paradise on that day
I already own it but almost made a reckless decision today when I saw that real nice hardcover
A pleasure to talk to Susana about these books; weâre very proud! All three first collected editions are now on sale.
77% of registered Democrats say Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. But only 6% of congressional Democrats (13) have called it a genocide. 75% of registered Democrats oppose military aid to Israel. But only 19% of congressional Democrats (40) are co-sponsoring the Block the Bombs Act.
I guess thatâs kinda THE TERROR, parable of the violence of Victorian colonialism, etc etc
Absolutely desperate for someone to create Folk Horror Captain Crunch
MIDBREKKFAAST dir. Ari Aster
Since @seantcollins.com was asking about ridiculous things we've dreamt, here's a greeting card I was handed a few years ago in a dream.
My first concert, and my first difficult conversation with my parents about the lyrics in music lol. 10 confirmed.
Anyway, if you'd like a history of the concept of bipartisanship in American politics, I wrote one a few years ago. Politicians didn't start talking this way until fairly recently. newrepublic.com/article/1635...
The BBC won't tell you the real truth that it also contained a polybagged X-Force#1 with the Sunspot and Gideon card
âThey claim to read the same booksâ is such a multilayered burn, I LOVE it
people have been prosecuted for coercing someone into suicide. creating a machine to do that at scale doesnât reduce the culpability
an appropriate response to your product killing a child after months of psychological manipulation and torture is to take the product off the market before it kills again and the fact that this isnât universally accepted right now is incredibly frightening
Making them wear high-visibility vests over camo is such a good joke you couldnât write it
I include myself in this
What is the point of even asking the question when, in any possible formulation of the subject of that âwe,â the answer is unequivocally âyesâ
The absolute chutzpah of the New York Times sending a push notification with the headline âAre We Becoming Jerks?â
this pointâthat this era is not forever and accountability can come in many formsâhas for some reason proved bizarrely elusive for democrats
Reading an article titled "Why didn't Brazilian democracy die?" and a key part of the story is a Supreme Court that actually did its job
i think mamdani should do other things that the mayor of stardew valley does since the scavenger hunt went so well. i think he should start sneaking onto your property and picking up your mail at 4am. i think the people of new york should have to sneak vegetables into his fridge
I am honestly curious why everybody is so certain that someone is dying because of a picture of his hand, when the obvious explanation is that he got a bruise there, as elderly people do, and he did a bad job covering it, as vain and incompetent people do
Hey - Image creators. You likely have received a mail from someone claiming they're at image. This very much feels like a phishing scam. Don't click the link, and spread word to collaborators.
one very real, concrete way to help feed Gaza right now is through donating to World Central Kitchen
i'm the guy who invented the spike traps that pop out of temple walls. i hate my job. every day my boss says "why haven't we killed any archeologists" and i say "they haven't invented that yet." they pay me in tomb juice. i hate tomb juice. honestly i might just start working on my big boulder idea
I can't believe he basically got people to Pokemon Go To The Polls.
Can folks do me a favor? I was on Bluesky early & it was great. Mostly. I hit the eject button in January. I came back, many colleagues are here, but still donât know I am. I co-created Halt and Catch Fire. I write TV & comics. Hereâs two favorite set photos. Repost? I am in the wilderness.
the actual communication problem democrats have is this: their most prominent national figures filter everything through focus grouped lines and are incapable of plain speech
The other thing is that it is impossible to sanitize your own official language to satisfy right wingers, because their goal is to be upset by language. So they will just dig up an old Tumblr or fabricate something to get upset about
The patterns of behavior we all exhibit on social media are just SO bad and SO easily exploited and I gotta just wish and pray that someone will come up with a substantive alternative, I guess?
Who would do the latter? Who WOULDNâT. Republicans, foreign states, another Dem trying to keep their lane open long-term⌠Bluesky is a target-rich environment for this sort of campaigning because people here have already established they can be swayed into making choices by polarizing rhetoric.
All this Newsom shit youâre seeing here for the last few weeks? Itâs intentional. The Blue Wave âwe must unite behind Gavinâ shit is driven by bots, and itâs either Newsom himself doing brand awareness, or itâs an actor who knows Newsom is divisive and is leaning into splitting Dem voters.
Was just thinking about exactly this as I opened this app (lol busted), specifically on the subject of how few people on here seem to understand that the same ideological manipulation campaigns that make Twitter unbearable are happening here too, trying to cause left-wing fractures.
no love for John Bolton but the fact that the home of a cable news green roomer got raided seems to have finally alerted a great many people to the fact that Trump just might be a dangerous authoritarian in a way that sending a occupying army to the nation's capital didn't
should we be on twitter? do pollsters get enough respect? are we using the wrong words in political emails? meanwhile
You know who DIDN'T have trouble registering voters or raising money this summer? @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social. Whom the clowns in this photo haven't yet endorsed. The answer is RIGHT THERE but party leaders are pretending they can't see it.
I know there's a lot of controversy about the Cracker Barrel logo, so I worked up a new option that should be good with everyone... The barrel is back, but it's now guarded by Scubble, The Cracker Goblin. I also worked up a new slogan for the company!
The thing about Mamdani in this moment is that he is telling people that they do not have to simply accept what's on offer [and you see how much powerful interests HATE that]. He is doing this in just a couple of areas. Others could do the same focusing on the areas of life that most speak to them.
Good thread on the language actually used by Democrats in official communications.
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