Profile banner
Profile picture

Shmack

@shmack.bsky.social

Lizard. Trans rights are human rights. twitch.tv/theshmackattack she/they

created August 1, 2023

85 followers 150 following 203 posts

view profile on Bluesky

Posts

Profile picture K.B. Spangler (@kbspangler.com) reposted

Tried to water the baby asparagus but the spout was blocked so I tried to shove the blockage down into the can but the thing inside shoved back. Computer…enhance. #garden #gardening #oopsfrog

A green watering can with its spout blocked by something beige. It’s blocked by a frog! A frog’s face is glaring at me from inside the green watering can.
22/9/2025, 1:33:38 PM | 2375 589 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture NanoKim 柯金宝丽 (@nanosounds.bsky.social) reposted

Don’t understand what Indefinite Leave to Remain means? Let me explain from a personal POV If Reform get in, my Mum will be deported. Taking out the emotion: she has lived in the U.K. for 50+ years, paid taxes, worked as a midwife in the NHS. She has contributed more to the UK than these racists.

22/9/2025, 2:06:55 PM | 179 53 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Basil 🌿 (@basil-mage.bsky.social) reposted

Bruh

Drawing if a tired puppy with the caption;
18/9/2025, 12:12:15 PM | 30362 11039 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture steven monacelli (@stevanzetti.bsky.social) reposted

Isn't it crazy that the leader of our country is able to get comedians fired for their jokes? Pic unrelated

A headline from a 1939 New York Times article: Goebbels Ends Careers of Five 'Aryan'Actors Who Made Witticisms About the Nazi Regime
18/9/2025, 11:47:47 PM | 1050 288 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture ari velazquez 🌯 (@arivelazquez.com) reposted

debatable but everyone wants to fuckin talk to you about trump when they find out you're american so this is still worth doing lmao

18/9/2025, 12:09:22 PM | 22 5 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Racheline Maltese (@racheline.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

Trans rights are not the rights of a tiny minority, trans rights are everyone’s rights to self-determination, control of our bodies, and a society where opportunity and aesthetics are not restricted by sex assigned at birth You should support and defend trans people because trans people are people

17/9/2025, 2:31:29 PM | 6999 3006 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Shmack (@shmack.bsky.social)

This creature really only wants bugs, but she will tell you whatever she can to convince you to give them to her. She thinks you're fabulous. Even if she's just trying to butter you up, she's not lying.

A yellow and white leopard gecko with light brown spotting stands at extreme attention at the front of her closed vivarium. She is smiling and wide-eyed and definitely trying to butter you up.
16/9/2025, 2:27:07 PM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Miles, knitting screaming agony werewolf (@queermedieval.bsky.social) reposted

shoutout to tumblr user kleinergeist for this post which is going straight into my powerpoint for Grendel day in my monster class this week

A screenshot of a tumblr post from user kleinergeist, reading
14/9/2025, 2:40:53 PM | 2386 607 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Shmack (@shmack.bsky.social)

One of Swift's budgies is very upset that they are getting ready to go out and not letting her out to play at this exact moment. I just hear her doing her call/alarm chirp at the top of her 100db voice over and over, with Swift's exasperated "LIIIIIM STOOOOOP" and I know they understand parenthood.

14/9/2025, 12:08:50 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jon Cooper (@joncooper-us.bsky.social) reposted

"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”

image
13/9/2025, 3:27:04 PM | 53505 17962 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Shmack (@shmack.bsky.social) reply parent

big big hugs.

13/9/2025, 4:54:13 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Manhattan Bird Alert (@birdcpk.bsky.social) reposted

Central Park's lost Budgerigar showed up on the field immediately west of the Pinetum. She ate plenty of grass seeds and briefly rested on a tree. 🦜 💛

image
10/9/2025, 6:28:06 PM | 64 9 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Harlot🔞 (@harlotprincess.bsky.social) reposted

Liberals are starting to say shit like, "trans people asked for too much too fast," and I'll remind your souless asses that we actually didn't ask for anything. we were minding our own business and quietly improving our healthcare and you (cis) decided to do a pogrom against us for no reason.

3/9/2025, 9:49:51 AM | 8778 3017 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 (@danifroom.bsky.social) reposted

Not only do all these people know exactly what they're helping to fund, you can't even argue they're trapped in some sort of insular actor world when arguably *more famous* British actors like David Tennant, Katherine Waterston and Stephen Fry have all publicly condemned Rowling's hate campaign.

10/9/2025, 5:12:15 PM | 207 58 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mugen (@mugen003.bsky.social) reposted

After months of work, I finally finished this illustration... this is how I died, from insomnia. #ProjectZomboid

image
8/9/2025, 4:46:57 PM | 61 15 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Shmack (@shmack.bsky.social) reply parent

7/9/2025, 7:51:01 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Shmack (@shmack.bsky.social)

I read Parable of the Sower and it felt a bit too real. But then I started Parable of the Talents and I had to stop when it got to a certain point. It just made me sick to my stomach. Written in 1998. Ugh.

7/9/2025, 6:48:35 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Iron Spike (@ironspike.bsky.social) reposted

Do it. Search your name. Take their money. It’s yours anyway.

6/9/2025, 8:21:48 PM | 3654 2770 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Caræsten 🇵🇸 (@cara.city) reposted

as per usual, fuck Gavin Newsom for leaving constituents out to dry while he hangs out on right wing podcasts. if you think this guy is a 2028 contender, you just look at how he acts towards Californians to know *he's not your guy*

6/9/2025, 7:45:20 PM | 546 174 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rachael Talibart (@rachaeltalibart.bsky.social) reposted

Found this little fellow outside peering into our house tonight. 😂

A snap of a frog appearing to stand on its hind legs to peer into a lit room from outside in the dark.
25/8/2025, 9:45:35 PM | 1141 229 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Shmack (@shmack.bsky.social)

three baby snapping turtle posts in my feed today - it must be snapping turtle day!!! It's better than the UK flying ants day for sure

5/9/2025, 11:11:04 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bene & the Jesserits (@kellylink.bsky.social) reposted

Today is one of my favorite days in North Amherst, when someone has to slowly walk around my friends’ yard, carefully collecting all the baby snapping turtles so the crows don’t eat them.

The bottom of a white bucket with eight teeny tiny snapping turtles in an inch of water. Each would fit in your palm.
5/9/2025, 7:39:08 PM | 872 134 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture dandelion daddy (@dandelionqueer.bsky.social) reposted

Today after my dog training session, I got visited by two little chaos demons.

A white person holding two baby snapping turtles, each smaller around than an Oreo cookie.
5/9/2025, 3:40:55 PM | 199 14 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Marilyn Monroe v Wade (@katyrex.meatjacker.social) reposted

I'M LOSING MY MIND, THE BEST AND MOST EXCITING YHING JUST HAPPENED, BABY SNAPPING TURTLES HATCHED IN MY YARD, HOLY FUCKING SHIT WOW HOLY FUCK

A baby snapping turtle in my hand. A baby snapping turtle craning their neck in the grass and weeds. A grumpy baby snapping turtle looking at me over the creeping charlie. 6 baby snapping turtles on a stone paver.
5/9/2025, 9:17:33 PM | 6506 1187 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Shmack (@shmack.bsky.social) reply parent

@dandelionqueer.bsky.social this is me dying of cute overload by the way

5/9/2025, 5:04:21 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Shmack (@shmack.bsky.social) reply parent

oh my gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooood

5/9/2025, 5:03:27 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture ꜱ ᴛ ᴀ ʀ ʙ ʟ ᴏ ᴏ ᴅ (@yurei.bsky.social) reposted

A collage image of a piebald cat sitting upright looking up and to the left in one image with second image of the cat featuring the cat with large eyes and its mouth pursed in a sort of grimace with the text
2/9/2025, 4:55:04 PM | 2525 906 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dr Panti Bliss-Cabrera (@pantibliss.bsky.social) reposted

Trans people have been around your whole life. You’ve been sharing bathrooms with them your whole life. They’ve been in your communities your whole life. They’ve even been playing sport your whole life. And you didn’t care *at all* till a few years ago when every right wing org decided you should

2/9/2025, 7:23:35 PM | 4884 1743 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) reposted

The president is sending the military to control American cities and if you're a reporter who's framing that illegal power grab as "pushing the boundaries of constitutionality" or "acting boldly to fight crime" or whatever, please go find another line of work where you won't get us all killed.

2/9/2025, 8:56:43 PM | 33996 9385 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 (@chanda.bsky.social) reposted

I refuse to give em dashes to the AI

3/9/2025, 12:56:07 AM | 1598 342 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Programmable Animal (hiatus til 26th at least) (@snackiejack.bsky.social) reposted

COMMENT ON THIS NOW IT IS SUPREMELY IMPORTANT

2/9/2025, 5:33:32 PM | 192 236 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Halcyon Ember (@halcyonember.bsky.social) reposted

image
27/8/2025, 8:11:10 PM | 3616 1727 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Shmack (@shmack.bsky.social)

The cream cake craving has been growing in my soul, especially this week as I've been sick. What I really want is the old style Pat Val chocolate mousse cake. Went to Sainsbury's to investigate only to discover they don't sell Pat Val anymore! Gutted!!! Costco Tuxedo cake next month, I guess?

30/8/2025, 12:20:41 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Aaron Radney Commissions Closed (For Now) (@aaronradney.bsky.social) reposted

I will remind folks those images of Nazi book burnings aren't burning just any books. They're burning the library of Magnus Hirschfeld; a gay, Jewish doctor who created an institute dedicated to LGBTQ sex education and healthcare. And a man who pioneered gender affirming care surgeries.

29/8/2025, 1:21:36 AM | 7073 4081 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Shmack (@shmack.bsky.social)

The cold that was festering was angered by the clouds of dust at Reading Festival and I am now properly ill. However I am working today because reasons, though stayed home. I had my emergency campbells chicken noodle to revive me and it was glorious. Slight revival, enough to get some admin done.

26/8/2025, 2:03:40 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jessica Ellis (@baddestmamajama.bsky.social) reposted

If he was going around saying 25 year old women are too young to make decisions about abortion, I wonder if he’d have such diehard lib support. Bodily autonomy is bodily autonomy.

23/8/2025, 3:45:41 PM | 2715 737 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Shmack (@shmack.bsky.social)

Reading was absolutely amazing yesterday and we saw almost everyone we wanted to see - at least partially! I'm sad that the Hozier set hasn't been streamed because it was absolutely incredible.

23/8/2025, 1:28:44 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Shmack (@shmack.bsky.social)

Chronic illness is flaring and I'm at work with my colleagues telling me to go home but also the hour drive is so daunting. Would just like to take a little nap first.

20/8/2025, 12:20:14 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture headfallsoff (@headfallsoff.com) reposted

so the only legislative victories of labour, the uk's "centre-left" party are thus far 1. legal to kill grandma 2. all trans people banned 3. like 65% of all adults are now technically terrorists 4. do you have a loicense to read wikipedia

12/8/2025, 5:34:05 PM | 2386 772 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Alejandra Caraballo (@esqueer.net) reposted

This is legitimately insane. It's not an exaggeration to say this is actually a full on bathroom ban for trans people because they're banned from using spaces of their sex assigned at birth too!

8/8/2025, 1:39:59 PM | 3450 1190 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture bmcarthur17 (@bmcarthur17.bsky.social) reposted

This Brit nails it. #Immigration

16/8/2025, 4:26:11 AM | 1244 522 | View on Bluesky | view

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

Cop : i was hit in the face by a club Lawyer : u mean a club sandwich right Cop (through tears) : still a club

13/8/2025, 10:37:05 PM | 2140 403 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Randall Munroe (@xkcd.com) reposted

Disclaimer xkcd.com/3126/

Comic. [long message with unreadable text that includes lots of punctuation marks like semi colons and em dashes as well as citations.] Highlighted line at the bottom zoomed in reads: Not ChatGPT output—I’m just like this. [caption] I’ve had to start adding this disclaimer to my messages.
12/8/2025, 2:34:41 AM | 5183 923 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Shmack (@shmack.bsky.social) reply parent

My work laptop was nearly dead so I plugged in my charger and the charger shorted. New fuse did nothing and IT said I have to order my own replacement. Work phone cried at having to Teams, now out of battery after full charge this AM. Laptop dead so can't access clinical systems. Whatever man.

11/8/2025, 3:25:19 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Shmack (@shmack.bsky.social)

I need to find a new job. Can't sleep because the stress of the coming week is overwhelming. Fuck the cuts to the NHS which making working there an impossible task.

11/8/2025, 2:02:53 AM | 9 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mel (@thegatesofmel.blacksky.app) reposted

I am fascinated by the number of people using ChatGPT to ask it a question that they know it will get wrong, while also knowing the environmental harms.

8/8/2025, 5:01:21 PM | 146 78 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Zoe Tunnell (@zoewithasword.bsky.social) reposted

Here's the truth. You can't stand with trans people and take a gig with Rowling. It is impossible. You can make donations, you can issue statements of support, but at the end of the day you are choosing to work with the single most prominent transphobe who uses her money and platform to harm us.

7/8/2025, 3:46:01 PM | 2073 828 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Matthew Hodson (@matthewhodson.bsky.social) reposted

6/8/2025, 10:58:46 AM | 3901 1646 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Janel Comeau 🍁 (@verybadllama.bsky.social) reposted

obsessed with this vague notice from the government of Nova Scotia. Like it’s definitely about the new fire restrictions, but it also looks like a poster you’d find yellowed and curled on the bulletin board of a diner in a town where locals won’t talk about their missing kids

Instagram post from the nsgov Instagram account. Black and red text reads “STAY OUT OF THE WOODS”; the foreground is a black silhouette of trees
5/8/2025, 8:16:33 PM | 3427 1033 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The Fair Play Collective (@fairplaycollective.org) reposted

Make your weird, uncomfortable, sexy, political, gross, naked, violent, video games. They deserve to exist. Art deserves to exist.

29/7/2025, 1:35:20 PM | 179 46 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Suzanne ✨🌑 (@tendermiasma.com) reposted

Visa says they're still drowning today! Payment processors think that we're not organized enough to keep this up but it's we either prove them wrong or submit to global censorship so it's. not much of a contest. Keep calling all 4!!

image
31/7/2025, 4:14:37 PM | 4514 3523 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Shmack (@shmack.bsky.social) reply parent

tbf my comfort movies tend to be ones that make me sob because then at least i understand why i feel awful and emotional

3/8/2025, 1:49:39 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Matt 'Wib' Ward (@wib.bsky.social) reposted

I think some people have trouble seeing fascism as anything other than 1940s Germany. But I think 'people going to a comic convention needing to have a plan in case the government's goons show up to disappear people' is a pretty good demonstration of what it can look like in 2025.

24/7/2025, 6:44:27 PM | 14576 6950 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Shmack (@shmack.bsky.social)

I finally got my parcel (it arrived on time to its destination, I did not) but my lil guy dropped his tail in transit. Classic leopard gecko. @derptiles.art - best adhesive to fix this? Is poly cement / model glue safe to use?

An absolutely adorable hand painted figure of a leopard gecko by Derptiles. He is being held carefully. The figure again from behind, showing a white tail separate from the main figure.
21/7/2025, 6:00:53 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Marty Davies (@smartypantsmarty.com) reposted

If you’re contributing to the commercial success of the Harry Potter franchise then you’re funding the removal of Trans+ rights. There is a very transparent funnelling of money toward that. So you don’t get to say you don’t wish to ‘add to the trans debate’. www.radiotimes.com/tv/fantasy/k...

16/7/2025, 12:33:37 PM | 729 213 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 🌸 // ꌗ꓄ꋬꉧ // 🌸 commissions closed (@staxdeadempress.bsky.social) reposted

this is what you look like as a Harry Potter fan in 2025

guy handing money to JK Rowling
16/7/2025, 1:30:06 PM | 16709 6972 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dr Naomi Jacobs (@handle.invalid) reposted

Please do complete this survey if you qualify, or share if you don't! I'm involved in this project, which is ultimately going to be thinking about the design of more inclusive future hospitals.

14/7/2025, 1:19:46 PM | 3 12 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture SimplySnaps (@simplysnaps.bsky.social) reposted

Wanting an AI to write for you is like paying a robot to fuck your wife. I don't just "want it done," I want to DO it. You might respond "but not everyone wants to write!" Then don't have a robot do it? Just don't do it at all. Some of us LIKE fucking our wives, though.

12/7/2025, 4:09:24 AM | 83 20 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Hillary Monahan (@hillarymonahan.bsky.social) reposted

I want to talk about my friend. I met him at a summer camp for nerds when I was 12, pre-transition. We hit it off immediately, became SUPER close, and our parents would drive us back and forth for sleepovers for the next five years. He was the first trans person I met. He transitioned in the 90s.

12/7/2025, 2:06:59 PM | 842 211 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture sarah jeong (@sarahjeong.bsky.social) reposted

I would call myself a professional pessimist and "extremely depressed about the future" but god, please stop going into people's mentions to tell them that the law/courts no longer matter or post "AND YOU'RE SURPRISED???" at them, especially so if they are actively engaged in making the world better

12/7/2025, 1:38:18 AM | 7417 842 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Shmack (@shmack.bsky.social)

I am already nervous about what I post because I'm sure my identity could be easily traced but with the new act that means we have to upload ID to use socials? I guess I'm cooked.

11/7/2025, 10:57:08 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Buggy gay simping 🏳️‍⚧️🍉 (@beetlebuggyboy.bsky.social) reposted

Also as an addition; sign this petition ASAP if you're someone in the UK. Rather than just sitting around and doing fuck all, we need to make it clear that this Bullshit OSA won't work. Ever. Nor do folk fucking want it. Contact your MPs about the bill too. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...

10/7/2025, 8:48:04 PM | 3129 4140 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Shmack (@shmack.bsky.social)

strawberry shortcake for dinner tonight i still won't put milk on it pennsylvania dutch roots be damned

4/7/2025, 7:40:10 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Zohran Kwame Mamdani (@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social) reposted

America is beautiful, contradictory, unfinished. I am proud of our country even as we constantly strive to make it better, to protect and deepen our democracy, to fulfill its promise for each and every person who calls it home. Happy Independence Day. No Kings in America.

4/7/2025, 4:14:13 PM | 59087 10018 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture shauna (@goldengateblond.bsky.social) reposted

happy 8th anniversary to this unintentional bit of improv comedy

tweet of mine from july 4, 2017: The MAGAs saw this and were outraged that @NPR was tweeting shade at Trump. It wasn't. It was tweeting the Declaration of Independence. quoted tweet from NPR: A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
4/7/2025, 6:44:53 PM | 1832 366 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mousie (@mousie.yogscast.com) reposted

A reminder that gen AI is a massive theft machine and that there is no ethical use of it. It is destroying the environment and people’s lives. I have no fucking respect for you if you use it at all.

3/7/2025, 10:31:39 PM | 154 32 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Win98 Tech Support (@win98tech.bsky.social) reposted

Stop Killing Games EU petition is now at NINETY PERCENT if you're in the EU or know people in the EU they still have a month to vote! eci.ec.europa.eu/045/public/#...

image
2/7/2025, 8:48:07 PM | 2190 1869 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Shmack (@shmack.bsky.social) reply parent

mr tab tab with a delicious fab fab

1/7/2025, 6:49:24 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Alex Graudins (@toonyballoony.bsky.social) reposted

Ending pride month with some post-op reflection! 🌈 It’s been five weeks since my surgery and I’m so so happy I went through with it. (1/4) 🎨✨

Grayscale comic panel. Alex grins, hands on her hips, with top surgery scars on her bare chest. Confetti rains down. Behind her are two angel personas saying, “Bye bye, boobies!” “Ta-ta, tiddies!” “It’s officially been one month since I got TOP SURGERY!” Grayscale comic panel. Alex casually lounges across large letters reading ALEX (SHE/THEY) “For the record, I still go by Alex…still use she/her* pronouns…My body just feels more like me!” *they is fine, too! Grayscale comic panel (with a little bit of green thrown in for the agender flag). An x-ray version of Alex, with brain and nerve endings visible, gestures. Below her is a headshot of the muppet Gonzo. “Truthfully, in recent years, I’ve considered myself AGENDER. Genders just not a big deal for me. As Gonzo puts it, I’m more of a “Whatever.” At the end of the day, Im just a brain piloting a meat suit, yknow?” Two grayscale comic panels. A recreation of the Heavy Boobs music video from CExGf: Rachel Bloom holds up two big bags. Backup dancers bounce their cleavage. “I never wanted my boobs. Where some saw signs of womanhood, I saw only (as they sing in Crazy Ex-Girlfriend) SACKS OF YELLOW FAT” Alex pushes her way through two dark blobs. “Once I knew top surgery was a thing, that I didn’t have to live like this, I couldn’t stop thinking about it…”
30/6/2025, 5:58:15 PM | 1281 344 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture key-lime pie (@keymonster.bsky.social) reposted

Stop using generative AI. There is no legitimate use of generative AI. There is no “I hate AI but this is ok”. Not everyone is using it. We do not have to “get used to it or be left behind.” Just don’t. Just stop. Delete the app. Close your account. Save some money. Take the first step. #noai

27/6/2025, 2:21:40 PM | 5319 2428 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Matthewせいじ (@matthewseiji.com) reposted

*beededededoop* Sam. It’s me, Die-Hardman. Wanted to let you know there’s banana bread in the kitchen. You can take a portion of this sweet cake bread anytime. Use the knife to cut off part of the loaf. You can take a full piece or a small piece depending on how hungry you are.

5/12/2024, 5:09:07 PM | 3827 1459 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Shmack (@shmack.bsky.social) reply parent

Big big hugs. I hope you have some time to rest soon. It sucks that it all falls to you.

28/6/2025, 4:57:20 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dave W (@dave.io) reposted reply parent

And more than that. PIP saves the Government money. It gives us support in paying for the things that the NHS no longer provides & we have to source privately. It gets us to and from work. If we can't work, we have no income, and the Government is on the hook for everything.

26/6/2025, 7:25:55 PM | 5 4 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dave W (@dave.io) reposted

People beating the drum for PIP cuts always call it “PIP”. If they gave it its full name, Personal Independence Payment, it would be clear that cutting it will result in MORE unemployment and reliance on welfare. PIP is unrelated to employment. It helps pay the financial cost of being disabled.

26/6/2025, 7:16:41 PM | 34 14 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Shmack (@shmack.bsky.social) reply parent

Jesus fucking Christ. Are they going to explain how plug and play works next or something

26/6/2025, 12:33:41 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andrew Neal | Added Value Books (@wanderlane.bsky.social) reposted

It's OK to talk about the stuff that's going on in real life, and you don't have to prove that you're doing that to the internet. It's OK to not know what to say at this time. It's entirely possible to enjoy an activity without being dismissive of the evil that's happening, in fact, it's essential.

22/6/2025, 11:34:13 AM | 62 11 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Osita Nwanevu (@ositanwanevu.com) reposted

Donald Trump is an extremely stupid man with very few real policy preferences who has simply done what mainstream conservatives have wanted 80-90% of the time since he has entered politics. They have wanted to bomb Iran. He bombed Iran. Pretty straightforward.

22/6/2025, 12:21:55 AM | 7003 1220 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Shmack (@shmack.bsky.social)

Twiggy hasn't had his usual crested gecko diet for a few weeks and has only really picked at the offering I have given him. Today I had his favourite flavour back and the way he chowed down on the taste I offered made me feel so bad! Hopefully he feasts tonight.

22/6/2025, 1:23:41 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture pork, cheese, broccoli rabe (@garlicbuffalo.gobirds.biz) reposted

amtrak’s marketing team gets it

21/6/2025, 12:21:42 PM | 30825 10099 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jeff Brutlag 👻🏳️‍🌈 (@jeffbrutlag.bsky.social) reposted

“I asked ChatGPT” “I asked grok” well, it appears you’re stupid

Post from the Telegraph saying that AI makes you stupid, according to a study by researchers at MIT on people who relied on ChatGPT to write essays, citing they had lower brain activity than those who use their brain alone
20/6/2025, 7:04:44 PM | 528 155 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jason, ex Inferis (@benedictsred.bsky.social) reposted

“i asked chat gpt” “i asked grok” Jeeves would kill you where you stand

17/6/2025, 2:22:06 PM | 15547 3722 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jeff Lazarus (@jlazarus.bsky.social) reposted

Not an original point but worth saying again - there is not a single element in this picture that identifies any of these folks as law enforcement agents. No badges, no uniforms, no vests. Out of context it just looks like a bunch of random guys are kidnapping a mayoral candidate.

17/6/2025, 6:21:14 PM | 23760 7364 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Shmack (@shmack.bsky.social)

had a dirty cheap pub roast fresh from the best industrial microwaves today and it was somehow so good. The calorie counting is getting to me

15/6/2025, 7:21:24 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Shmack (@shmack.bsky.social) reply parent

Right there with you. Big big hugs.

15/6/2025, 7:15:27 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Shmack (@shmack.bsky.social) reply parent

They did this to me once, and we ordered the big 2 chicken platter thing so they were 2 portions of 'large' chips e.g. 4 regular. The people from customer service refused to recognise this and refunded me like £4 and I was so furious 😂

11/6/2025, 10:39:44 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Melissa Stewart (@lissajostewart.bsky.social) reposted

I need y’all to come to terms with the fact that this isn’t going to be pretty. It’s not going to be permitted protests and pussy hats. This is a war against a violent fascist regime. And if everyone’s biggest concern is the property damage, we’re going to lose.

10/6/2025, 12:18:46 AM | 506 127 | View on Bluesky | view

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

the democrats should invite Elon to meet with them. tell him that the meeting is on a patch of sticks and leaves that APPEARS to be sitting atop solid ground. but here is the twist,

5/6/2025, 8:16:22 PM | 4590 587 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Shmack (@shmack.bsky.social) reply parent

the roadhouse rolls are apparently amazing, and i did love the olive garden breadsticks which are glazed with garlic butter, but yah

5/6/2025, 9:15:51 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Shmack (@shmack.bsky.social)

this steakhouse near where i grew up had these cinnimon rolls that were just... amazing. and they were just part of the salad bar that was with every meal? they still do prime rib dinners for CHEAP, maybe that's a plan for the next time i'm back

5/6/2025, 12:19:01 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Shmack (@shmack.bsky.social) reply parent

nevermind i'm just silly i got one i just had to ship to my mom's house and now to wait for 2 months for my baby

5/6/2025, 12:16:04 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Shmack (@shmack.bsky.social)

oh my days i missed the derptiles leopard gecko figures because i was distracted by supernatural what is wrong with me

4/6/2025, 9:16:29 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jon Bois (@jonbois.bsky.social) reposted

those of us who were born in 1982 grew up in a unique time and have had some really interesting life experiences, but what really makes me laugh is when people born before or after 1982 claim that they’ve also had life experiences. get serious. no you haven’t

4/6/2025, 2:59:26 PM | 2765 268 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Shmack (@shmack.bsky.social) reply parent

i feel like the single-syllabic (probably) saxon origin words are the silliest. but this one particularly for sure for sure

4/6/2025, 5:42:14 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Shmack (@shmack.bsky.social) reply parent

Right back at you. <3

3/6/2025, 10:30:12 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Shmack (@shmack.bsky.social)

Trying to decide where to draw the line for burnout and time off to recover. There's no one to delegate to so the stress that the work will just be waiting for me with more work beside doesn't really make the idea of rest an ideal one. However, I'm struggling to work as is anyway.

3/6/2025, 11:58:41 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Aubrey Jones (@aubreyjones.bsky.social) reposted

Jonathan Joss--voice actor of John Redcorn from King of the Hill, and Ken Hotate from Parks and Rec--was killed in a homophobic hate crime today. I'm so angry.

Statement from Tristan Kern de Gonzales Husband of Jonathan Joss My husband Jonathan Joss and I were involved in a shooting while checking the mail at the site of our former home. That home was burned down after over two years of threats from people in the area who repeatedly told us they would set it on fire. We reported these threats to law enforcement multiple times and nothing was done. Throughout that time we were harassed regularly by individuals who made it clear they did not accept our relationship. Much of the harassment was openly homophobic. When we returned to the site to check our mail we discovered the skull of one of our dogs and its harness placed in clear view. This caused both of us severe emotional distress. We began yelling and crying in response to the pain of what we saw. While we were doing this a man approached us. He started yelling violent homophobic slurs at us. He then raised a gun from his lap and fired. Jonathan and I had no weapons. We were not threatening anyone. We were grieving. We were standing side by side. When the man fired Jonathan pushed me out of the way. He saved my life. Jonathan is my husband. He gave me more love in our time together than most people ever get. We were newlyweds. We picked Valentines Day. We were in the process of looking for a trailer and planning our future. He was murdered by someone who could not stand the sight of two men loving each other. I was with him when he passed. I told him how much he was loved. To everyone who supported him, his fans, his friends, know that he valued you deeply. He saw you as family. My focus now is on protecting Jonathan’s legacy and honoring the life we built together. If your concern is how someone coped with trauma or how loudly they speak when recounting injustice and being ignored by authorities then you never truly cared about my husband. Jonathan saved my life. I will carry that forward. I will protect what he built. Tristan Kern de Gonzales
2/6/2025, 7:10:31 PM | 34436 13901 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Palea 🦖 (@palearaptor.bsky.social) reposted

I've had actual arguments with people about "Separating art from the artist." There's no separating this. Like Idk what to tell you, but trans people should be more important to you than like dobby the elf or whatever

29/5/2025, 3:16:00 AM | 4212 1855 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Gwen Snyder is uncivil (@gwensnyder.bsky.social) reposted

Someone else said something very similar to this the other day, but. It really burns me that our (millennials') generation was legally terrorized for like, downloading Radiohead discographies But we're supposed to be ok with billionaires stealing human intellectual output in its entirety bc AI

31/5/2025, 2:52:49 AM | 13403 4455 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Shisui Glam Enjoyer | @ Dawntrail 7.3 (@st4rd1ver.bsky.social) reposted

Taps the sign

image
30/5/2025, 5:21:22 PM | 579 327 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Shmack (@shmack.bsky.social)

t/w weight loss / dieting I'm doing better on my current counting / healthy choices attempt than I have since my counting heyday a decade ago, but I really would love to see a little bit of progress somewhere. Will be three weeks Monday and I haven't seen any change yet either scale or non-scale.

29/5/2025, 5:25:53 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view