Reposted by luminiferous aetherMicah @rincewind.run · 03/03/2026abolish ICE is a majority position among INDEPENDENTS AND THE GENERAL PUBLIC you have 23% among REPUBLICANS we have at least three more years of this shit what I am saying is: the next Dem president had better be ready to walk into DHS with a chainsaw on Day 1 161541372 0
Reposted by luminiferous aetherK. Thor Jensen @kthorjensen.bsky.social · 03/03/2026oh my god this photo of ian miles tails cheong hanging out with his fellow paid to live in dubai social influencers i am DYING. smeagol glow up era. 1451115142 0
Reposted by luminiferous aetherMicah @rincewind.run · 03/03/2026when I graduated college with a CS degree and got my first job - and this was with a small company, before I entered big tech - I made more money than either of my parents had ever made in their careers as elementary school teachers I think about that a lot 1753583 0
Reposted by luminiferous aetherMicah @rincewind.run · 03/03/2026once again struck by the extent to which the damage in Trump's first term was - though extensive - limited by significant portions of his administration working extremely hard to contain his worst impulses and how much the second term is the exact polar opposite of that 1348939 0
Reposted by luminiferous aetherceej @ceej.online · 03/03/2026we appear to have four competing fascist movements jockeying for control: blood & soil nazism under miller and hegseth, darwinian ecofascism from rfk, technofascism under vance and musk, and one Big Wet Hitler who understands the true animating core of the american volk is a deep love for shopping 10380201910 0
Reposted by luminiferous aetherMicah @rincewind.run · 03/03/2026they really might have ridden the anti-woke train all the way to bankruptcy court, an all time brand fuckup that should be taught as a cautionary tale in business school for decades 724533741 0
Reposted by luminiferous aetherGarrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 03/03/2026When we talk about Baby Boomers not getting off the stage: In 1997, the US president was born in 1946. In 2007, the US president was born in 1946. In 2017, the US president was born in 1946. And next year in 2027? The US president will have been born in 1946. 193107003229 0
Reposted by luminiferous aetherFrederick Deknatel @freddydeknatel.bsky.social · 03/03/2026The reality of an actual diplomatic process, with extended talks in Geneva or Vienna or Muscat and god forbid a five-page memo from the Iranians, was so daunting to the Trump administration (probably because they have fired or let go every seasoned diplomat) that they started a regional war instead. 319472 0
Reposted by luminiferous aetherShoe @shoe.bsky.social · 03/03/2026There goes that. It had a good 2 hour run. 34810153 0
Reposted by luminiferous aetherAnna Kramer @annackramer.bsky.social · 03/03/2026NEWS: Americans were told to evacuate the Middle East — but the State Dept is not helping them do it. We called the State hotline. First thing you hear is an automated message: "Do not rely on the U.S. government for assisted departure or evacuation."notus.orgAmericans Stranded in the Middle East Aren’t Getting Help from the State Department“Please do not rely on the U.S. government for assisted departure or evacuation,” a State department hotline said when NOTUS called Tuesday afternoon. 43345432205 0
Reposted by luminiferous aetherGeorge Pearkes @peark.es · 03/03/2026Creating a civil war right next to the world's most vulnerable hydrocarbon shipping lane? I foresee no problems with this.wsj.comTrump Weighs Backing Militias to Dislodge Iran’s RegimeThe president, who hasn’t made a decision, also said “somebody from within” would be the best option to lead the country. 18648120 0
Reposted by luminiferous aethercalinicus.exe @cyberhaldane.bsky.social · 03/03/2026It's so funny when people say that you are a fake version of a thing they also think is bad 0805 0
Reposted by luminiferous aetherSpencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 03/03/2026By this logic, the US has been at war with Iran since 1953, when the CIA overthrew Mohammed Mossadegh to ensure that western oil companies, and not the Iranian people, controlled Iranian oil. It’s brutal puppet the Shah tortured & killed for 25 years. That’s why they chanted DEATH TO AMERICA in 1979 16589180 0
Reposted by luminiferous aetherBayliss Wagner @baylisswagner.bsky.social · 03/03/2026Just now: Texas Democratic Party says “hundreds of Dallas County voters are being turned away from the polls” because of new Republican-led requirements that they vote only in their precinct, rather than anywhere in the county #txlege 601107625 0
Reposted by luminiferous aetherMichael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 03/03/2026This is weirdly consistent for The Atlantic! Jesse Singal's 2018 article about kids being rushed into transition starts with an anecdote about someone *not* being rushed into transition. Literally nothing happened! There is no other issue in prestige media that has editorial standards this low. 111717188 0
Reposted by luminiferous aetherReturn of the Cmonstermacques @cmonmaque.bsky.social · 03/03/2026I love how that’s the plan now. After the war to topple their government. Which didn’t work. 5272 0
Reposted by luminiferous aetherCELEBRITY DIRT #4 out now @judedoyle.bsky.social · 02/03/2026The thing I need you to understand is that New York Media works almost exactly like this exchange between Elizabeth Warren and Larry Summers, and the thing I need New York Media to understand is that it shouldn't operate by *Larry Summers rules* 0254 0
Reposted by luminiferous aetherErin Cunningham @erinmcunningham.bsky.social · 02/03/2026As the laid off Middle East News Editor, I concur. Management eliminated the positions of every single staff correspondent and bureau chief in the Middle East. 11779892179 0
Reposted by luminiferous aetherIan Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 18/11/2025It's kind of hard to look away when you understand that everyone involved deserves to be miserable 51897 0
Reposted by luminiferous aetherDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 17/11/2025Absolutely no way to read this and not conclude that the Department of Justice has been deeply corrupted. And this is from a time when career lawyers were in place, pushing back against illegality. With firings and resignations, the politicization will just get worse. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...nytimes.com60 Attorneys on the Year of Chaos Inside Trump’s Justice Department (Gift Article)Sixty former staffers describe an environment of suspicion and intimidation within the nation’s most powerful law enforcement agency. 502272931 0
Reposted by luminiferous aetherDirt Dork. @dirtdork.bsky.social · 18/11/2025"average suburban democrat wants half the administration to rot in prison until the end of time" actualy just statistical error. Average dem wants them all to burn in unending fire. Bodhisattva Georg, who is filled with total compassion for all beings, is an outlier adn should not have been counted. 0419103 0
Reposted by luminiferous aetherCheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 18/11/2025It's not about her tone. It's about what she DOES. Switching from belligerent to the "nice nasty" of racist evangelicals doesn't change anything for the people she continues to hurt! Folks really think it's not bigotry or cruelty as long as a person stops screaming and takes the hood off. 213714 0
Reposted by luminiferous aetherCheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 18/11/2025One, MTG hasn't truly apologized. Two, unless that woman is a former Parkland student, Jewish, or the lightest ****ing Black person on earth, there's no apology for her to accept because nothing was done TO HER. Three, MTG has not moved away from any part of the current bigoted Republican platform. 9461121 0
Reposted by luminiferous aetherGhostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 18/11/2025I know a couple self-pub authors (not naming you but you know who you are lol) who diligently registered copyright on 50+ books and while I'm jealous of their foresight I can not wait for anthropic to have to cut them a six figure check. 41508 0
Reposted by luminiferous aetherGhostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 18/11/2025the way I am putting every single author I know in a headlock over the next few months. 10792170 0
Reposted by luminiferous aetherMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 18/11/2025revisiting my 2024 interview with @davidfolkenflik.bsky.social about ben smith/nuzzi/journalism ethics, which i think aged quite well: www.thehandbasket.co/p/david-folk... 534426 0
Reposted by luminiferous aetherScott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 18/11/2025Right up there with his assertion that Republicans are now the party of upper-class tax increases 0484 0
Reposted by luminiferous aetherwizardry variants kib @kib.bsky.social · 18/11/2025blog.kagi.com/slopstop Kagi believes that AI bullshit is bad, unless it's their AI bullshit, then the CEO yells at you personally for calling it bullshitblog.kagi.comIntroducing SlopStop: Community-driven AI slop detection in Kagi Search | Kagi Blog------------------------------------------------------------------- Your collective defense against AI-generated spam and content farms ----------------------------------------------------------------... 0103 0
Reposted by luminiferous aetherben chambers 🏴 @benjaminchambers.bsky.social · 12/11/2025this is all because actually-existing conservatism is utterly discredited and exhausted so that the only options for young conservatives are to assimilate into liberalism ie stop being conservative ie stop being wrong, or rejuvenate through fascism ie embrace being wrong and pursue brute domination 06016 0
Reposted by luminiferous aetherLiz @stayathomecommie.bsky.social · 12/11/2025Like maybe don’t make jokes about this online that you wouldn’t make in front of the survivors. It’s a big internet and you don’t know who is reading what you write. 031 0
Reposted by luminiferous aetherLiz @stayathomecommie.bsky.social · 12/11/2025news blitzes like this are rough on survivors, be mindful of how you talk about this stuff. and please remember that the victims exist and should be a part of these conversations and at the front of our minds when having them. 14517 0
Reposted by luminiferous aetherCELEBRITY DIRT #4 out now @judedoyle.bsky.social · 12/11/2025Chiming in, along with everyone else, to remind you to please talk about survivors as survivors, as people who experienced something horrible when they were very young and are still around to hear you talk about it, rather than as punchlines or points scored. 110933 0
Reposted by luminiferous aetherSage Deviant 🏳️⚧️ @trans.bsky.social · 12/11/2025i fear those other methods not working was the point 😔 1213 0
Reposted by luminiferous aethersarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 11/11/2025ok one last post -- oldheads are always going to "why is the web dying.... how can we get the kids invested in the free and open web" bro the kids can't read. that's why the web is dying. first things first 585795588 0
Reposted by luminiferous aethersarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 11/11/2025my patience has increased but I will say, it is ok to have trouble reading, it is not ok to scream at people for things you imagined they said because you can't read what they actually said 225559506 0
Reposted by luminiferous aethersarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 11/11/2025ever since I learned about three-cueing I've developed infinitely more patience for replies on social media. mfers literally do not know how to read. people are walking around conjuring random meanings into words they don't know, and they don't know a lot of words. it's crazy 31196451802 0
Reposted by luminiferous aethersarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 11/11/2025how did i go so long not knowing we were literally teaching people to read wrong. i knew something wasn't right but jesus christ www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...apmreports.orgHow a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readersFor decades, schools have taught children the strategies of struggling readers, using a theory about reading that cognitive scientists have repeatedly debunked. And many teachers and parents don't kno... 34767032092 0
Reposted by luminiferous aetherSandy Ernest Allen @sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 12/11/2025To spell a few things out, in terms of being a trans freelance journalist in 2025 ... 194 0
Reposted by luminiferous aetherCELEBRITY DIRT #4 out now @judedoyle.bsky.social · 12/11/2025Anyway, sexual violence is both a model for how power operates in the larger world and a privilege assumed to belong to those in power. Enjoy your dinner! 17514 0
Reposted by luminiferous aetherMore like I-ACK @mumbly-joe.bsky.social · 12/11/2025deranged pitch for a VTM game: a game set in Austin, a city whose new upstart Prince is an ersatz Joe Rogan who has set himself up as the warlord of the regional stand-up comedy scene 5206 0
Reposted by luminiferous aetherMaladroithe @maladroithe.bsky.social · 13/11/2025I hope they sue and win a million dollarswsaw.comGirl, 13, expelled for hitting classmate who made a deepfake porn image of her, lawyers sayA 13-year-old student was expelled from a Louisiana middle school after hitting a male classmate who she said created and shared a deepfake pornographic image of her, according to her family’s lawyers... 37611 0
Reposted by luminiferous aetherCELEBRITY DIRT #4 out now @judedoyle.bsky.social · 13/11/2025Honestly, until like the 1970s or 1980s, people have held the attitude that adult men having sex with teenagers is "normal" and "biologically wired." They still believe it, they just learned to stop talking about it openly at some point. 529164 0
Reposted by luminiferous aetherCELEBRITY DIRT #4 out now @judedoyle.bsky.social · 13/11/2025Like the entire "post-feminism" wave of the early 90s (Camille Paglia, Katie Roiphe) was just wretched old dudes finding women willing to say, in print, that date rape was no big deal and women were making it up 314426 0
Reposted by luminiferous aetherStacey Burns @wentrogue.bsky.social · 14/11/2025Anyone who’s ever used emergency contraception or gains peace of mind by even having it on hand owes Dr Camp a debt of gratitude. What a force. (Also, I just learned one reason the FDA rejected it at first was that they said the name Plan B was too glib!) Great obit—no paywall.nytimes.comSharon Camp, Mother of the ‘Plan B’ Contraceptive Pill, Dies at 81 91697604 0