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@melissaks.bsky.social

Wasting my potential since 1969

created October 10, 2023

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Profile picture Ygrene (@ygrene.bsky.social) reposted

if you send four cap’n crunch box tops to cap’n crunch headquarters as proof of purchase they will send you a new roof for your mouth

3/9/2025, 5:56:15 PM | 106 14 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture ProPublica (@propublica.org) reposted

Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, voted for cuts to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, but he’s also routed more than 800 of his constituents’ complaints to the agency — the most of any current lawmaker from either party, ProPublica found.

3/9/2025, 4:08:09 PM | 517 222 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture ertruitt.bsky.social (@ertruitt.bsky.social) reposted

Give people money.

3/9/2025, 12:47:10 PM | 87 24 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tom Scocca (@tomscocca.bsky.social) reposted

Don't feel like doing a repost that puts the murder video on the timeline yet again but do feel like repeating the point that the president just straight-up assassinated 11 people for supposedly doing something that wouldn't be a death-penalty crime if they were caught and convicted

3/9/2025, 2:55:56 AM | 11794 3493 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture melissa (@melissaks.bsky.social) reply parent

SO excited!!

3/9/2025, 2:13:34 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture melissa (@melissaks.bsky.social)

It’s not enough that he knew we all thought he was dead. I want him to know how happy it made us

3/9/2025, 1:15:59 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture melissa (@melissaks.bsky.social)

You know what word I like? Inauspicious

3/9/2025, 1:14:09 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tristan Lee (@tristanl.ee) reposted

Literally indistinguishable from the manifesto of neo-fascist group Patriot Front

3/9/2025, 12:33:16 AM | 1037 246 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Boudreau (@ianboudreau.com) reposted

America heartbroken to discover president somehow still alive

2/9/2025, 6:55:28 PM | 11819 2017 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Peter (@notalawyer.bsky.social) reposted

one of the great conservative moves over the past decade has been to make themselves so unpleasant that their own family members are forced to cut them off, and then use that fact to argue that *liberals* are too uncivil

29/8/2025, 11:34:06 PM | 4408 791 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Lux ”Queen of the Bisexuals” Alptraum (@luxalptraum.com) reposted

I hope when Kevin Costner dies his obituary identifies him as “American Actor Who Portrayed White Characters”

Graham Greene, Canadian Actor Who Portrayed Indigenous Characters, Dies at 73 The First Nations actor, who appeared in
2/9/2025, 12:03:59 PM | 8773 1175 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture muscular baby jeb lund (@mobute.bsky.social) reposted

you'd think the governor of illinois basically going "we're being invaded by an authoritarian" would be something you'd see real easy on the front page of most everything an hour later

2/9/2025, 10:02:50 PM | 12570 2746 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Max Kennerly (@maxkennerly.bsky.social) reposted

Seems Trump might be trying an end-run in which Texas mobilizes its National Guard. That would be Texas invading Illinois, which as you can imagine is unconstitutional. One wonders about potential remedies, such as IL seizing assets of TX corporations like X, xAI, and SpaceX. Just a thought. 🤔

2/9/2025, 9:30:01 PM | 1703 495 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tina Smith (@smith.senate.gov) reposted

Robert F. Kennedy Jr @RobertKennedyJr Parkland students are right; the NRA is a terror group 6:46 PM • 2/17/18
2/9/2025, 7:28:17 PM | 435 84 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Garrett M. Graff (@vermontgmg.bsky.social) reposted

Oof. The Dems need to stop pretending, based on some imaginary focus group, that there’s some common ground with Trump. The key is to fight everywhere. You should go study Neville Chamberlain’s attempt at “common ground.” It didn’t end well for his historical reputation. Or the world.

2/9/2025, 7:14:24 PM | 3627 772 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture melissa (@melissaks.bsky.social)

I maintain it’s harder to return to work from a staycation than a vacation. With a vacation, you’re away. You know this isn’t “real life.” But a staycation—that’s the life you could be living were it not for this pesky job. Anyway, I *really* don’t want to go back to work tomorrow

2/9/2025, 12:54:01 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Iain (@iainnd.bsky.social) reposted

The bank app is telling me to "tap & pay like a boss😏" and "rally my crew". I am 37 years old and you are the bank. Don't talk to me this way.

1/9/2025, 9:09:50 PM | 12652 1896 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dane 🔜 DragonCon Comic and Pop Artist Alley A11 (@monkeyminion.com) reposted

I love the smell of consequences in the morning. Thank you, @dragoncon.org

An empty booth with a sign that says “vendor removed for selling AI art #ArtBYHumans”
1/9/2025, 6:01:24 PM | 31039 7673 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture melissa (@melissaks.bsky.social) reply parent

Lolol entirely possible!!

1/9/2025, 6:03:22 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture melissa (@melissaks.bsky.social) reply parent

Pretty much exactly my mom’s thought.

1/9/2025, 5:45:29 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture melissa (@melissaks.bsky.social) reply parent

Debate in my family about the casting of Ron! I thought Pierce Brosnan was perfect, my mom disagrees.

1/9/2025, 5:33:38 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Leah Litman (@leahlitman.bsky.social) reposted

Just an astonishing, powerful op-ed that drives home what we are losing and what's already been lost. We are so incredibly fortunate to live with the advances modern medicine and health science. Destroying and stymieing it is just unforgivable. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...

1/9/2025, 2:57:44 PM | 1307 473 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture melissa (@melissaks.bsky.social)

Someone was giving an AI presentation at my husband’s job and said how AI would take over all the junior programmer roles. My husband asked “Then where will senior programmers come from?” and the presenter had no answer. Keep calling this out

1/9/2025, 1:49:42 PM | 5 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Brian Goldstone (@brian-goldstone.bsky.social) reposted

A Labor Day reminder: today there isn't a single city, metro area, or state in the U.S. where a full-time minimum-wage worker can afford a modest 2-bedroom apartment. Millions of people with jobs—even multiple jobs—aren't safe from homelessness in this country.

1/9/2025, 11:54:28 AM | 4185 1977 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture lauren (@lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com) reposted

with trump and giuliani edging right up to the border of death, the comedic rule of threes now screams for blood

31/8/2025, 10:01:37 PM | 3103 360 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Phil Lewis (@phillewis.bsky.social) reposted

Rudy Giuliani suffered severe injuries in a car accident last night, according to his spokesperson

Rudy Giuliani suffered severe injuries in a car accident last night, according to his spokesperson
31/8/2025, 7:45:58 PM | 3443 541 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Max Berger (@maxberger.bsky.social) reposted

The DeSantis regime will do more to protect sidewalks from chalk than children from bullets.

31/8/2025, 2:03:16 AM | 2048 574 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Coates (@oddthisday.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

And, of course, it’s the 28th anniversary of the greatest of all newspaper corrections (with apologies to @seamas.bsky.social who traditionally posts this, but it’s 10.39, and I can only wait so long)

“We apologise for the Princess Diana page one headine DI GOES SEX MAD, which is still on the stands at some locations. It is currently being replaced with a special 72-page tribute issue: A FAREWELL TO THE PRINCESS WE ALL LOVED.” Statement published by the National Enquirer, August 31, 1997
31/8/2025, 9:39:46 AM | 394 159 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rebo is back? (@rebochan.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

Alt Text:

31/8/2025, 5:32:54 AM | 867 205 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture melissa (@melissaks.bsky.social)

Orange is an underrated color

A beautiful orange monarch butterfly sits atop some vibrant orange lantana
30/8/2025, 11:34:25 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture melissa (@melissaks.bsky.social) reply parent

Michael Jay, have you tried the Regime des Fleurs discovery set because it is amazing and I think you would love it

30/8/2025, 11:18:27 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture melissa (@melissaks.bsky.social) reply parent

She moved to Florida and registered as a Republican in the year of our lord 2024. This is who she is

30/8/2025, 11:15:37 PM | 14 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture melissa (@melissaks.bsky.social) reply parent

Summer is the worst fashion season it can’t end soon enough

30/8/2025, 11:13:09 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture melissa (@melissaks.bsky.social)

News from the local coffee shop: Saw the young woman who works at the pet supply shop wearing a tank top with “I have rabies” printed on it, and I got a pretzel bagel that I toasted and absolutely slathered in butter. 10/10 for both.

30/8/2025, 6:12:01 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture melissa (@melissaks.bsky.social) reply parent

Was literally just wondering if they still made Hydrox!

30/8/2025, 4:36:24 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture LadyBusiness (@ladybusiness.bsky.social) reposted

That feeling when you suspect someone is dead but don't have any evidence yet

Jimmy Stewart and Grace Kelly in Rear Window
30/8/2025, 11:14:23 AM | 121 17 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Melanie Baker (@melle.ca) reposted

I have been laughing at this joke all day. 🦉

Screenshot of a magnificent joke that says: me: i heard you do a terrible owl impression him: when me: holy shit that is bad
29/8/2025, 11:48:07 PM | 2662 700 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture melissa (@melissaks.bsky.social) reply parent

That’s right!

30/8/2025, 11:52:18 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture melissa (@melissaks.bsky.social) reply parent

ty!!

30/8/2025, 1:33:34 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture melissa (@melissaks.bsky.social)

Shout out to Tip Top Cocktails whiskey sour. That’s a nice little cocktail right there

30/8/2025, 1:32:08 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture melissa (@melissaks.bsky.social)

My actual birthday was Wednesday and I’m celebrating all weekend and the universe already gifted me lovely weather BUT

30/8/2025, 1:30:36 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture melissa (@melissaks.bsky.social) reply parent

Jesus Christ

30/8/2025, 1:29:09 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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29/8/2025, 11:42:40 PM | 1 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture melissa (@melissaks.bsky.social)

Niche post/perfume: So I got the Regime des Fleurs discovery set for my birthday (highly recommended) and holy shit am I in love with Fleur Eclair. This is not a cupcake-y gourmand but very luscious regimedesfleurs.com/products/fle...

29/8/2025, 10:52:15 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture melissa (@melissaks.bsky.social) reply parent

And also

A long wooden boardwalk over a marshy lake. There are trees all around and the sky is blue A record player in the ground with a doll’s hand in the center 🤟🏼 A sticker on another old record player. It has a picture of a raccoon wearing a knit hat and the message, “love raccoons, hate fascism” A headless doll holding the sole of a shoe. On the sole is the message, “it’s not easy to keep the child in our soles”
29/8/2025, 3:26:01 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture melissa (@melissaks.bsky.social)

Doll’s Head Trail, Atlanta

A doll’s head, painted yellow, atop some sort of rusted pipe poking out of a tree A dirty-faced doll’s head with an awful toupee glued to a brick A creepy doll’s head poking out the side of a moss-covered tree A doll’s head on a stick inside a bike tire along with a dinosaur and a sign with an upside-down US flag and the message, “save the USA”
29/8/2025, 3:20:04 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Katelyn Jetelina (@kkjetelina.bsky.social) reposted

CDC employees standing up and walking out in light of the mass shootings, firings, and *waves hands in the air* everything else. #USAnotRFK Lets gooooo

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28/8/2025, 6:59:50 PM | 13465 3407 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Anna Merlan (@annamerlan.bsky.social) reposted

I love to email communications professionals at the current version of the U.S. government

Thanks for any guidance you can provide and I look forward to what I'm sure will be a very normal response.
26/8/2025, 5:08:10 PM | 283 19 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture David Corn (@davidcorn.bsky.social) reposted

Vance has taken eight vacations during those 200 days

28/8/2025, 4:40:37 PM | 596 164 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture melissa (@melissaks.bsky.social) reply parent

Hasn’t grown up yet lol

28/8/2025, 2:46:01 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture melissa (@melissaks.bsky.social) reply parent

I was so anxious!!! “Will she like me?” (Her foster mom was playing with her on one screen while the shelter director interviewed me and had me give a home tour on the other.)

28/8/2025, 1:56:42 PM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Phil Lewis (@phillewis.bsky.social) reposted

70 years ago, on this date, Emmett Till was kidnapped and brutally murdered by white men. His family, including his cousin who was with him at the time, is repeating the train ride he took from Chicago to Mississippi in 1955 to mark the anniversary

28/8/2025, 1:14:31 PM | 13493 4761 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture melissa (@melissaks.bsky.social) reply parent

I had to have a Zoom interview with my kitten 😭

28/8/2025, 1:53:09 PM | 29 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture melissa (@melissaks.bsky.social)

This is the only messaging we need to counter the dipshit faux-outrage bullshit machine

28/8/2025, 12:32:09 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture melissa (@melissaks.bsky.social)

Sorry to be all Tony Soprano up in here but gentlemen if you are dining in any restaurant above fast food/pub level, take your goddamned ball cap off

28/8/2025, 1:15:17 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture melissa (@melissaks.bsky.social) reply parent

Just realize auto corrected rocky mountain in the alt text to cap it. This is not in the Rocky Mountains lol it’s just a rocky mountain

27/8/2025, 5:33:13 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture melissa (@melissaks.bsky.social) reply parent

I actually *prefer* that it was a drunk white guy in a pink golf shirt.

27/8/2025, 5:28:50 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture melissa (@melissaks.bsky.social)

Greetings from the base and the top of Amicalola Falls

Looking up a waterfall. It’s tumbling down a Rocky Mountain wall with green trees and moss around. It goes higher than what shows in the photo At the top of the same waterfall looking down. There are soft mountains ahead in the distance and everything is very green. The sky is clear blue with two small clouds
27/8/2025, 5:21:15 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1.bsky.social) reposted

Breaking: According to Minneapolis police, two children — ages 8 and 10 — have been killed in the church shooting. 14 children and three adults injured. Minneapolis mayor Frey: "Don't just say this is about thoughts and prayers right now. These kids were literally praying."

27/8/2025, 4:10:31 PM | 8250 2234 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Eric Geller (@ericjgeller.com) reposted

Anthropic says a hacker used its Claude chatbot "to an unprecedented degree": Claude identified vulnerable companies, wrote infostealer malware, analyzed stolen files for extortion purposes, calculated extortion amounts, and wrote extortion messages. www.nbcnews.com/tech/securit...

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27/8/2025, 2:30:08 PM | 670 237 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture melissa (@melissaks.bsky.social) reply parent

Thank you!!

27/8/2025, 5:01:32 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture melissa (@melissaks.bsky.social)

Happy birthday to me

It’s 58 degrees in Atlanta, GA in the dog days of summer, a miracle
27/8/2025, 12:06:32 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture ryan cooper (@ryanlcooper.com) reposted

well well well www.the-downballot.com/p/iowa-democ...

27/8/2025, 1:32:02 AM | 1511 228 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture melissa (@melissaks.bsky.social)

We’re watching Old School and 1. Still funny 2. *Extremely* 2003

27/8/2025, 1:51:14 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture melissa (@melissaks.bsky.social) reply parent

🙂

27/8/2025, 1:50:12 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture melissa (@melissaks.bsky.social)

Me in a fight with a VP at work

Monty Burns from the Simpsons saying “You’ve made a powerful enemy today, my friend” but it’s been edited to say “powerless”
27/8/2025, 1:17:56 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture melissa (@melissaks.bsky.social) reply parent

I hope he’s okay

27/8/2025, 1:08:24 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture melissa (@melissaks.bsky.social)

Ditto writers. I lead a team of copywriters at a tech company and literally every one of us is neurodivergent. Autism, ADHD, anxiety, bipolar, depression—you name it, we’ve got it.

27/8/2025, 1:05:44 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture melissa (@melissaks.bsky.social) reply parent

Please tell Maude I love her

27/8/2025, 1:02:14 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mr. Tyler Crook (@mrtylercrook.bsky.social) reposted

I don't want to repost the awful stuff in that Chat GPT suicide case. But I will say that Chat GPT should be destroyed, financially and legally. The data centers should be disassembled and recycled. Sam Altman should go to prison.

26/8/2025, 8:40:14 PM | 3386 970 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Slacks (@jayslacks.bsky.social) reposted

This is what happens when you order delivery in DC right now.

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26/8/2025, 10:09:08 PM | 4370 1097 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture melissa (@melissaks.bsky.social) reply parent

It’s possible to care about more than one thing at a time. Hope this helps ❤️

26/8/2025, 5:34:30 PM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike Okuda (@mikeokuda.bsky.social) reposted

Retailers warned that raising wages would "force" them to raise prices and to use automated checkout. Fed min wage remained flat, but they raised prices & used automated checkout anyway. Result: Workers got even poorer as customer service plummeted while prices & profits soared.

25/8/2025, 4:23:45 PM | 5256 1260 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social) reposted

Pritzker: To the members of the press who are assembled here today and listening across the country, I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story.

25/8/2025, 8:55:07 PM | 56283 17782 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Phillip Anderson (@phillipanderson.bsky.social) reposted

This dude was indicted for dozens of felonies in multiple jurisdictions and never once had to post bail

25/8/2025, 2:30:15 PM | 488 138 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jacob T. Levy (@jacobtlevy.bsky.social) reposted

So, like, even if there hadn't been two Supreme Court decisons in living memory directly holding that flag burning is protected under the First Amendment, *new criminal laws cannot be created by executive order.*

25/8/2025, 3:25:49 PM | 3484 938 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture melissa (@melissaks.bsky.social) reply parent

I actually got it slightly wrong and the correct is even better (posher): Sir Waddles Von Wigglebottom

25/8/2025, 3:36:32 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture melissa (@melissaks.bsky.social) reply parent

Haha sure thing

25/8/2025, 4:49:59 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture melissa (@melissaks.bsky.social) reply parent

*its

24/8/2025, 10:13:35 PM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture MrsBundrige (@mrsbundrige.bsky.social) reposted

I’m sure he’d have no problem explaining this to his grandson ….

24/8/2025, 9:01:52 PM | 614 149 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Brandon Friedman (@brandonfriedman.bsky.social) reposted

On a personal level, I've already made this transition. When I look for leadership, I immediately look to see what Pritzker, Walz, Beshear, Wu, Mamdani, etc., are saying before anyone in Congress. More Democrats should do the same until Schumer and Jeffries are gone.

24/8/2025, 3:45:06 PM | 1689 394 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Maladroithe (@maladroithe.bsky.social) reposted

You are at your grandmas house. She is making you wash your hands before dinner. She made a jello salad for dessert. Your hands smell like Jergens cherry blossom hand soap. There is a dust covered crystal seashell shaped dish of bath oil beads on the counter. You are at peace.

A nineties style teardrop knob faucet
24/8/2025, 3:17:53 AM | 390 48 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy Craig (@andycraig.bsky.social) reposted

The median voter isn't a pureed balance of elite centrist takes, they're somebody who has a passionate opinion about vehicle registration fees but couldn't name the current vice president.

24/8/2025, 12:06:08 AM | 2277 387 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture frinkenstick the alt (@frinkenstick.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

If you took 99 percent of Cuban’s 6 billion dollars, he’d have 60 million dollars left. If you look 99.9% of his money, he’d still have 6 million, almost three times as much as the average American makes in a lifetime.

24/8/2025, 3:00:32 PM | 75 13 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Max Kennerly (@maxkennerly.bsky.social) reposted

Words/phrases Democrats should never use: * bipartisan * my Republican friends * real, valid, legitimate, serious, important (to describe issue raised by Republicans) * yea (when voting on Republican bills) * distraction (to describe bad thing Republicans did) * woke (in derogatory sense)

24/8/2025, 1:33:18 PM | 10604 2858 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture melissa (@melissaks.bsky.social)

Met a corgi today named Sir Waddles Von Wigglebutt so I got that going for me

24/8/2025, 12:08:07 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture melissa (@melissaks.bsky.social)

Hell yeah, motherfuckers

I got Queen Bee on today’s Spelling Bee
23/8/2025, 9:05:14 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tina Smith (@smith.senate.gov) reposted

To whoever screamed “LOOK! IT’S SENATOR WHAT’S HER FACE!” at the State Fair, I hope you have an incredible day 😂

23/8/2025, 4:47:52 PM | 11188 837 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture melissa (@melissaks.bsky.social) reply parent

Oooo is it good?

23/8/2025, 2:52:44 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) (@axidentaliberal.bsky.social) reposted

There are still good, kind, decent people in the world You just need to know where to look www.newsweek.com/florida-loca...

23/8/2025, 3:24:15 AM | 5309 1362 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture melissa (@melissaks.bsky.social) reply parent

Or middle of the ocean tbh

23/8/2025, 12:16:08 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture melissa (@melissaks.bsky.social)

Nothing more terrifying than a space movie where someone goes out in space and gets stuck there.

23/8/2025, 2:10:43 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jess Calarco (@jessicacalarco.com) reposted

Trump doesn't seem to see that some people are still immune to his threats. Jack White criticized Trump's Oval Office decor. The White House then called White a "washed-up, has-been loser... masquerading as a real artist." And White, undeterred, posted an absolutely blistering takedown in response.

officialjackwhite officialjackwhite He's masquerading as a christian, as a leader, as a person with actual empathy. He's been masquerading as a businessman for decades as nothing he's involved in has prospered except by using other people's money to find loophole after loophole and grift after grift. His staff of professional liar toadies like Steven Cheung and Karoline Leavitt have been covering up and masking his fascism as patriotism and
22/8/2025, 5:56:35 PM | 9444 2771 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture melissa (@melissaks.bsky.social)

We truly need to go back to calling them weird. They’re weird!!!

22/8/2025, 7:08:10 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture ryan cooper (@ryanlcooper.com) reposted

the state governments of Indiana and Tennessee rejected free federal money to literally feed poor children prospect.org/health/2025-...

22/8/2025, 6:42:39 PM | 86 31 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Marisa Kabas (@marisakabas.bsky.social) reposted

a memo from a dumbass centrist group does not a scoop make

22/8/2025, 2:03:20 PM | 634 40 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John Holbein (@johnholbein1.bsky.social) reposted

BREAKING: A new experiment in Philly shows cash rental assistance slashed homelessness rates by 57–67%.

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21/8/2025, 11:35:30 PM | 4332 1216 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture amy brown (@amybrown.xyz) reposted

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

Why should I write better when a machine can do it for me? Because actually no one can do it for you, because your voice is unique among all the people on earth. Siri never petted a horse's neck. Alexa has never been ghosted by the captain of the football team. But you have lived, your heart is beating, you have suffered, and you have something important to say. It's a human's job, to use words, and whatever job you give to a machine, that part of your brain goes dark. Maybe it's worth it when it comes to remembering phone numbers and directions, but when that part of your brain that uses words goes dark, that's a vast area that's very close to your soul. Don't let some internet platform convince you that what you have to say and create isn't worthwhile. Words are the echo of your soul. Honing that echo matters.
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Anecdotal: my mom lives in a retirement community. The residents had a baby shower for a staff member. She couldn’t read the cards because they were in cursive

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