punished dropkick @altkick.bsky.social · 18/09/2026"below the fold" stuff used to be more details of the story the headline made you aware of. now you have to go below the fold to even understand what the headlines are referring to in the fucking first place 000 0
punished dropkick @altkick.bsky.social · 18/09/2026it was pointed out leading up to the 2016 election that the "fake news" (as that was being used at the time, by democrats) wanted very much for you to click it and read it and every legitimate mainstream outlet shoved you behind a paywall, and that this was going to be Very Bad for the truth 110 1
Reposted by punished dropkickCoach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Congressman, when you find a media outlet with self-respect that covers the White House, let us know. 316113 161
punished dropkick @altkick.bsky.social · 18/09/2026i wish aaron rupar would be more diligent about quotes. often things he puts inside quotation marks are accurate, but they're paraphrased. which is very much not how quoting someone works 100 1
Reposted by punished dropkickLauren Harper @laurenleharper.bsky.social · 18/09/2026And this is why chat prompts should be FOIA-able.cnn.comExclusive: US military had close call after using AI for false intelligence report, sources say | CNN PoliticsThe episode shows the risks of using this new, relatively poorly understood technology in the middle of the Iran war 22710 27
punished dropkick @altkick.bsky.social · 18/09/2026"trump is violating the first amendment by banning news outlets from the white house" and what is anyone, anyone at all, going to do about it, pray tell 120 2
punished dropkick @altkick.bsky.social · 18/09/2026it's the fuckin wuckend baby i'm about to have of some fun 000 0
Reposted by punished dropkickEvan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 18/09/2026This point, from my recent interview with @perrybaconjr.bsky.social for TNR, is so crucial. Trans people are desperate for relief from the relentless Republican attacks impacting all of us. When Democrats move right, they signal relief may not be coming, and that engenders a lot of despair. 161251291 1.3K
Reposted by punished dropkickboo!burdsandwurds @burdsandwurds.bsky.social · 18/09/2026what we allow to happen to the most vulnerable is what we give permission to happen to us. this is literally core to protecting human rights. why people need to be reminded of this again and again and again, i’ll never know. 1255 25
Reposted by punished dropkickHell Frasier: Bloodline @babadooknukem.bsky.social · 18/09/2026"your family will be persecuted unless you vote for someone who will persecute your family" No Thanks! try bringing me something that doesn't suck 214314 143
Reposted by punished dropkickJP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 18/09/2026hello from Portugal! I wrote about The End of the World. johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/the-end-of... 017315 173
punished dropkick @altkick.bsky.social · 18/09/2026it suddenly occurred to me, "does toshiro mifune's surname mean 'three boats' or is it written with some other kanji" and folks i was not disappointed. mfer named toshiro threeboats 251 5
punished dropkick @altkick.bsky.social · 18/09/2026"the world will end in my lifetime and i'll get to shoot an unhoused person because of it" is basically the american religion 010 1
punished dropkick @altkick.bsky.social · 18/09/2026it's still absurd that companies aren't suing the everloving fuck out of the DHS for constantly infringing on copyright and trademark and using their characters and logos etc to make racist propaganda 000 0
Reposted by punished dropkickdr. hazel 🕸️🕷️ @hazelmonforton.com · 18/09/2026Steinbeck, John. (1939.) The Grapes of Wrath. 39617 96
punished dropkick @altkick.bsky.social · 18/09/2026other account has been suspended for a full week now with no timeline given for when the suspension will be lifted. moderation hasn't responded to my email in four days 000 0
Reposted by punished dropkickHenry S. Wallace @henryswallace.bsky.social · 18/09/2026"approaching European prices." But without European social safety net. Win-win! 1518 51
Reposted by punished dropkickChiitan🌈ちぃたん☆ @chiitan.love · 18/09/2026LGBT souls exist🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 No special permission is needed. Not understanding is no right to harm. Show courtesy, then step back. They want ordinary human things: laughter, love, and growth beside those they choose. To trans families — let’s keep smiling. Let’s fill the world with Love🌈 5346611181 4.7K
Reposted by punished dropkickjosh boo-erman 👻 @bosh.worstpossible.world · 17/09/2026under the current electoral system it’s not possible to create a government that would prevent the united states from killing people all over the world at will. you can make the harm reduction argument but it doesn’t engage noah’s central point here 314816 148
Reposted by punished dropkickJane @jane.meangirls.online · 17/09/2026this is probably the worst language i've seen a democrat use. saying "transgender ideology" is straight out of the right wing playbook. this is looking more and more like Labour, so I don't want to hear any more shit about how even the transphobic democrats broadly support our rights. 92035376 2K
Reposted by punished dropkickGarth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 17/09/2026great art articulates eternal truths 1048481480 4.8K
Reposted by punished dropkickMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 17/09/2026The most important medium-term consequence of Texas turning blue will be the rapid dismantling of the Electoral College, precisely because Republicans know this. 627133 271
Reposted by punished dropkickChris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Hasan is correct lol just google “civilian deaths Iraq war” sorry if that offends. 271544159 1.5K
punished dropkick @altkick.bsky.social · 17/09/2026basically every insane right wing policy right now started out with people going "who's this asshole talking about this insane shit" when someone was given a platform so yeah i think we should let hasan go on the television and say that the US has been worse than al-qaeda for the world 100 1
punished dropkick @altkick.bsky.social · 17/09/2026wait a minute, hold on Hasan, you can't say that even though you have a very strong case for it, because it's Controversial anyway here's a democrat talking about how they have "legitimate concerns" about a woman using the bathroom she wants to use 021 2
Reposted by punished dropkickStellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 16/09/2026Hey everyone. Things have been tough around here and they are about to get worse. I’ll probably need to make a bigger ask soon, but right now I’m asking for some help covering essentials. Next post has what I’m trying to cover. PP: @StellaSacco CA: $sacc No Venmo 14584462 584
Reposted by punished dropkickbimbo baggins @strongbadegirl.bsky.social · 17/09/2026as far back as I can remember I always wanted to Place the items in the bagging area 04717 47
Reposted by punished dropkickcoward @coward.bsky.social · 17/09/2026r/smallbusinessowners My employee Amelia Bedelia is fucking everything up how can i legally fire her 1204 20
Reposted by punished dropkickjab lung @mobute.bsky.social · 17/09/2026and everybody knows that if trans posters encourage the moderators to "enjoy" being rounded up, starved, beaten, raped, tortured and exterminated, there'll be a 100% hit rate on banning them, because the nicest thing you can say about those who run this site is they're indistinguishable from bigots 119832 198
Reposted by punished dropkickChris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 16/09/2026it's coming home lads 2696 69
punished dropkick @altkick.bsky.social · 17/09/2026if an event occurs in which someone gets hurt, and you're happy that it happened, you're not allowed to say on here that you're happy about it. only if you're sad. unless it's a hypothetical about something bad happening to a protected minority if they don't vote hard enough. that's okay. 010 1
punished dropkick @altkick.bsky.social · 17/09/2026yeah putting replies like "fuck yeah dude that's awesome" or "fuck i'm so sorry you're going through that" below the fold because they contain the word "fuck" has really been a great boost to the community man 000 0
punished dropkick @altkick.bsky.social · 17/09/2026it's not a direct threat. it's just a very fucking obvious indirect one/wish for violence which is nominally a big violation on here for example if you say something like "if [a bad person] does [a very evil action], i think [bad thing] deserves to happen to them" you will be immediately suspended 000 0
Reposted by punished dropkickKatie Tightpussy, Editor-In-Chief @katie.bzky.team · 17/09/2026so the official bluesky policy position is that you can't tell someone to kill themselves but you can tell a protected minority category that you hope that state kills them. Am i getting that right. 964090947 4.1K
punished dropkick @altkick.bsky.social · 16/09/2026[testing a take] macklemore should... run for office...? 000 0
Reposted by punished dropkickK. Thor Jensen @kthorjensen.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Lmao zionists on Threads leaving their ChatGPT response headers in their slop revealing they asked it to make them sound like Andrew Tate, scum attracts scum 492699394 2.7K
Reposted by punished dropkickthe hills have vrunt @vrunt.social · 16/09/2026Can gambling be addictive? @taylorlorenz.bsky.social says no. “You wanting to hit the jackpot and win lots of money every day is not an addiction,” says Lorenz. “And to frame it that way is incredibly harmful and anti-science.” 1704 70
Reposted by punished dropkickmerr-itt came from outer space @merrittk.com · 16/09/2026obviously trying to stake out social problems as "addiction" is part of a process of medicalization that's not always helpful but fucking come on taylor, these are products explicitly designed to be compulsive and they haven't been about "chatting with your friends" for years 1642526 425
punished dropkick @altkick.bsky.social · 16/09/2026why do i remember the "sit, ubu, sit" production company stinger so distinctly despite never watching family ties and only having seen spin city incidentally probably like 3 times when it used to be on tv 000 0
punished dropkick @altkick.bsky.social · 16/09/2026for all intents and purposes congress may as well not exist 011 1
Reposted by punished dropkickIt's Pipes, Mum! Pipes is here! @scriblit.bsky.social · 15/09/2026The person with the music written on their arse from Hieronymus Bosch's Garden of Earthly Delights has pulled out of Ed Sheeran's tour 3257521530 5.8K
punished dropkick @altkick.bsky.social · 16/09/2026i'm glad fortune's weave is another good fire emblem game but i have to admit i am extremely turned off by any story where the premise is "there's gonna be a big tournament to see who's the best in all the land" so it's really hard for me to care about the game out of the gate 000 0
punished dropkick @altkick.bsky.social · 16/09/2026what? they're right. Quest 64 came out in 1998 010 1
Reposted by punished dropkickJanel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social · 16/09/2026I mean if you really want to hear Ed Sheeran without any opening acts you can simply get put on hold with your bank 127115771940 11.6K
Reposted by punished dropkickCheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Steve Bannon is a white supremacist war criminal and anyone who aligns with him is antiblack. Would you pair up with David Duke if he announced he was anti-AI? 11376332 1.4K