Reposted by artisanrox (Progressive Animal)geoffrey @parsnip.bsky.social · 8hmuted the post but i'm aware it's still moving around so just want to register that if you read "there is a deep moral and social rot in rural and red state america" and see the imaginary words "and that means everyone living there" and/or "so we should abandon it" you need to log off 622010
Reposted by artisanrox (Progressive Animal)Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8hIt’s really remarkable to me that 10 years into this people feel compelled to “clarify” Trump’s homicidal and often genocidal fantasies. It is deranged for the president to daydream about American cities in states he hates getting blown up. Full stop. 21069511628
artisanrox (Progressive Animal) @artisanrox.bsky.social · 20hThis is amazing and so perfectly put. If you see ONE SINGLE socmedia video this entire year, it should be this one. 030
Reposted by artisanrox (Progressive Animal)The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 21hI think it's important to note that the Republicans used to empower vigilantes to censor their enemies with threats of violence. I explain that here. They don't need such indirect means now. They believe they can do it directly. www.editorialboard.com/for-the-repu...editorialboard.comFor the Republicans, shooting massacres have practical useIf the party can’t dominate democratically, it can attempt to by empowering white vigilantes to take “the law” into their own hands. 12811
Reposted by artisanrox (Progressive Animal)NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 04/10/2026What the hell has happened to BlueSky? Not one comment calling me ableist 194506
Reposted by artisanrox (Progressive Animal)Jeff, formerly of MN and MA, still God of Cookies @diasporaminnesotan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026So many of us are refugees from rural America. Don't tell us we need to understand them. We do. It's why we fled. 121117
artisanrox (Progressive Animal) @artisanrox.bsky.social · 06/10/2026i love every single issue of this, it's SO beautiful! 🤩 I'd love physical copies too. Have to do some catching up on it. 110
artisanrox (Progressive Animal) @artisanrox.bsky.social · 05/10/2026We can and will find the bunker-people 110
Reposted by artisanrox (Progressive Animal)Ryan McTague @piscadork.bsky.social · 04/10/2026We are not a serious species 1301
artisanrox (Progressive Animal) @artisanrox.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Humans are just gonna nuke ourselves right off the planet with these horrible decisions and this total incapacity to make good decisions. They can go and yell "doomer!" at me. 🤷♂️ 110
artisanrox (Progressive Animal) @artisanrox.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Lula is at 45% and Bolsonaro at 47% with 99.6% of votes tallied in Brazil, almost 10PM EST. Good lord, a not-insignificant portion of human beings are just...so fffkin' stupid. 🤦🤦🤦🤦🤦🤦🤦🤦🤦🤦🤦🤦 000
artisanrox (Progressive Animal) @artisanrox.bsky.social · 04/10/2026And a lot of it is internal between Dems, too. Way too much language policing and not enough actually confronting awful people for their awful goals. 000
Reposted by artisanrox (Progressive Animal)Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Again, <only Republicans> ever get to talk like this. If a single municipal level Democrat ever did, it would be a national outrage &spark a wave of “civility” discourse, & op-eds about how Dems must Respect Real Folkz & talk across difference. Democracy is incompatible with this double standard. 582241581
artisanrox (Progressive Animal) @artisanrox.bsky.social · 04/10/2026oh my gosh this exact premise was actually written pretty darn well into the "Lost in Austen" Pride and Prejudice isakai lolololololol @trungles.com 000
artisanrox (Progressive Animal) @artisanrox.bsky.social · 04/10/2026JFC, Brazil. Come the fuck on. 100
artisanrox (Progressive Animal) @artisanrox.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Nomad 1941 here homosexualitysplaining how being Testosteronely™️ Gay works 010
artisanrox (Progressive Animal) @artisanrox.bsky.social · 04/10/2026This 👇 is the only proper way to respond to these horrific chuds. 000
artisanrox (Progressive Animal) @artisanrox.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Frickin' yikes on bikes, the cosmic, hand-tailored irony of this story. 🥶 000
artisanrox (Progressive Animal) @artisanrox.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Yep. In Ruralsville and I'm sure everywhere else lots of conservatvie whites, ESPECIALLY the women, will smile until you turn away, and they can shoot you in the back 010
Reposted by artisanrox (Progressive Animal)Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 04/10/2026His best friend's brother. Best friend. It would have been easy to prove the man's innocence, because the case was based on flimsy made-up testimony by a crooked cop and a dirty witness. The dirty witness was in jail🤦🏿♂️ in another county🤦🏿♂️🤦🏿♂️ at the time that she claimed to have witnessed the crime. 613631
Reposted by artisanrox (Progressive Animal)Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 04/10/2026You guys want to hear a short but adorable story that happened right in front of me at the baggage claim in NYC yesterday? I wasn't part of it and there are bits I didn't catch but holy crap, I can't stop thinking about it. 5440421211
Reposted by artisanrox (Progressive Animal)Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 04/10/2026My man looks like a beluga whale pitching Bitcoin 6677159753
Reposted by artisanrox (Progressive Animal)Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 04/10/2026Black women are ALWAYS early. Coded Bias by the brilliant Dr. Joy Buolamwini, who @rajiinio.bsky.social also helped with, called out the weaponization of facial recognition technology years ago and predicted this outcome to a T.nytimes.com‘Coded Bias’ Review: When the Bots Are Racist (Published 2020)This cleareyed documentary explores how machine-learning algorithms can perpetuate society’s existing class-, race- and gender-based inequities. 25315
artisanrox (Progressive Animal) @artisanrox.bsky.social · 04/10/2026💯 I've been "behind" for what, how many years now, and I'm doin' A-OK 😔👌 020
Reposted by artisanrox (Progressive Animal)Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Part of why I don't like the AI-or-bust economy is the constant flopsweat of people on the news who say this HAS to work. Quit making everyone so anxious. Goddamn. If this is the next Google then why are you acting like this? I don't remember being told to buy an iPhone at gunpoint. 308122232241
artisanrox (Progressive Animal) @artisanrox.bsky.social · 04/10/2026"I think I spend more pixels On Here yelling at NormieLibs than at the Auth-Right lol 🤪" bsky.app/profile/arti... 000
artisanrox (Progressive Animal) @artisanrox.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I have personally done that here. I've given the "🤷♂️Whelp, people here clearly wanted Camps and prisons and didn't care about fuel!" mini-micro speech to people and it cuts deeper than any of you realize. NOT coddling these people HELPS. Maybe not all of them, but then again, maybe enough. /fin 000
artisanrox (Progressive Animal) @artisanrox.bsky.social · 04/10/2026(And whoa, typos here but oh well. 🤷♂️ This isn't an APA-style paper.) What's better than "But Not Every [sector completely overrun by bigots and self-immolating xenophobes]!" is going to your local Reds and throwing up your hands, with a wistful "Whelp, ppl wanted Camps over fiscal responsibility!" 100
artisanrox (Progressive Animal) @artisanrox.bsky.social · 04/10/2026But we are all INTERTWINED. We are not islands. We are never totally independent of one another. This sector affects that one; the destruction of this resource affects things that you cannot fathom without having a degree in the supply chain before Finding Out the wrong way that they're related. 100
artisanrox (Progressive Animal) @artisanrox.bsky.social · 04/10/2026But I am TELLING YOU that most of the reason they're getting burned is the exactly this: They voted for pain, suffering, humiliation, disease, destitution, camps, etc. for **everyone else** thinking that the way they look or the god they worship will be able to give them Paramount-buying money. 100
artisanrox (Progressive Animal) @artisanrox.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I like to think that part of the reason Auth-Right voters in essential sectors are starting to feel burned on 47 at all now is because of those of use using social media to jackhammer into skulls that YOUR DIRECT ACTION CAUSED THIS and IF YOU CHOSE DIFFERENTLY, THIS WOULD NOT BE. 100
artisanrox (Progressive Animal) @artisanrox.bsky.social · 04/10/2026And as a Not Every Rural!, I guarantee that YOU, White Gary NormieLib, ARE NOT HELPING defending this behavior, by ignoring my efforts to overcome my own very white learned toxicity, by blanket defending the people who are actually out to destroy everyone else, by not tempering mercy with justice. 120
artisanrox (Progressive Animal) @artisanrox.bsky.social · 04/10/2026"But but Not Every Trucker/Military/Farmer!" YES, GARY NORMIELIB, WE KNOW. I am personally Not Every Rural! myself, and I write about this a lot. And I am floored by this Lib talking point defending toxicity out of some desire to feel bad for people who despise my existence for [x, y, z] reason. 120
artisanrox (Progressive Animal) @artisanrox.bsky.social · 04/10/2026"But thee people provide us food!" YES, Gary NormieLib. YES they provide/ grow/ transport the food/ defend. AND they were untouched by their own decisions for fifty+ years UNTIL NOW with the cost of living spiraling out of control. This is the rare occasion Auth-Right votes HAVE consequences. 101
artisanrox (Progressive Animal) @artisanrox.bsky.social · 04/10/2026They voted constantly for Auth-Right Admins, and every single Pub Admin creeped further and further Auth-Right until what we have now. Do y'all scolders NOT understand that YOU WERE GOING DOWN TOO. These people voted against YOUR existence. YOU were part of the casualties of their alignment, too. 111
artisanrox (Progressive Animal) @artisanrox.bsky.social · 04/10/2026The people more wiling to scold fellow libs/ lefties (who have decided that toxic behavior is indeed toxic and should be shunned out of society) and defend such behavior, y'all need to understand that THEY POINTED THE THING AT YOU, TOO. YOU were going down with this ship all along. 110
artisanrox (Progressive Animal) @artisanrox.bsky.social · 04/10/2026If you consistently vote to have the gun fired at everyone else because your plot armor is just slightly better, and you do not have enough money to buy out something like Paramount, you are eventually GOING to face the consequences of your own bad decisions. 110
artisanrox (Progressive Animal) @artisanrox.bsky.social · 04/10/2026These ppl should NOT skirt social consequences of believing they have entitlement to God-given plot armor. These ppl handcuffed us to them to fall into the sun. (My favorite Outlaw Star scene I reference often in this political climate, even though it was edited for Murrikah.) 100
artisanrox (Progressive Animal) @artisanrox.bsky.social · 04/10/2026OK folks, for the 10,000th time: -YES we know truckers are why food is stocked in stores -YES we know the military is an important branch of government that provides things that civilian life does not -YES we know farmers grow our shit However... 143
Reposted by artisanrox (Progressive Animal)Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 03/10/2026If the Democrats win, I will buy all Adult Citizens, a Hello Kitty popcorn bucket/helmet at Dodger stadium 614815
artisanrox (Progressive Animal) @artisanrox.bsky.social · 03/10/2026i dropped off a mail-in ballot 😏📬 000
Reposted by artisanrox (Progressive Animal)David Forbes @davidforbes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I do not care what Leo says into a mic until it's "all the total trans healthcare bans in the Catholic Church's massive hospital networks are immediately repealed." 5570200
Reposted by artisanrox (Progressive Animal)Sigrid Ellis @sigridellis.bsky.social · 03/10/2026This is the jacket I was wearing at the BroTex raid last fall. Federal paramilitaries kidnapped people from work; teargassed me, @naomikritzer.bsky.social, and everyone there; and a masked man slowly and deliberately hit me with the car he was driving. I mended the tear in MN flag colors. #FuckICE 313514
Reposted by artisanrox (Progressive Animal)Doctor Science ❌👑 @doctorscience.bsky.social · 03/10/2026& you haven't even *gotten* to what enrages so many of the people I know: that it is built on theft of their work. @theradr.bsky.social has a great argument for why LLMs are against Jewish values, starting: "1) It's forbidden to benefit from theft." www.lifeisasacredtext.com/the-jewish-c...lifeisasacredtext.comA Jewish Case for AI work exemptionsor: why should CHICAGO POPE have all the fun 16011