Reposted by SammyMerriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 15hThe SPEAKER implies. The LISTENER infers. The DUDE abides. 6143151008
Sammy @autistichalsin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Dare I say that the word "derailing" needs to go on the high shelf for a while 020
Reposted by SammyThe SubScribe @thesubscribe.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I hate what a huge percentage of the Halsin feed is negative. I just want to see cute art or read good fics or learn people's headcanons about my favorite character, not see how many people intentionally make Orin kill him because he dared to speak to them 3102
Reposted by SammyKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Just a reminder that these Haitian immigrants in Springfield -- who came here legally, did everything they were asked to do and more -- became a target of federal crackdowns because the white nationalist vice president shamelessly spread racist lies about them.rollingstone.comJ.D. Vance Defends False Claims Against Haitians: 'If I Have to Create Stories… That's What I'm Going to Do'J.D. Vance defended his debunked claims that Haitian immigrants are eating pets in Springfield, Ohio. 10041741454
Sammy @autistichalsin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Doing Whumptober with a focus on Halsin because there's not enough Halsin whump in the world. Day one: "I'm Fine" archiveofourown.org/works/93958466archiveofourown.org 020
Sammy @autistichalsin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I am super not happy with the increasing hostility to nonbinary people from binary trans people on this site and others. 250
Reposted by SammyCouncil of Geeks @councilofgeeks.bsky.social · 04/10/2026It’s going to leave theaters soon because it’s bombing but truly cannot recommend going out and seeing Forgotten Island enough. Y’all are missing out so badly right now.static.klipy.comRaissa and Jo DancingAlt: Raissa and Jo Dancing 115615
Reposted by SammyNY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I have never been a supporter of Donald Trump, but if lesbian bars in towns I've never been to don't ease their mask mandates, I will have no choice but to hold my nose and for him for the fourth time in 2028. 853956
Reposted by SammyNY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 23/09/2026My kids have measles, I can't afford gas, my country has been humiliated by Iran, and our senile rapist president is going to allow unregulated AI to destroy our civilization. But a lesbian bar in a town I've never heard of still has a mask mandate. I have never felt more politically homeless. 352571394
Sammy @autistichalsin.bsky.social · 04/10/2026"Iran could get nukes!" worked to scare me until I learned the history of the people in charge of nuclear-armed countries. How is a hypothetical future leader of nuclear-armed Iran any different from the Trump or Putin of today? Nukes shouldn't exist, but if they do, there is no country capable of 110
Reposted by Sammy404 Media @404media.co · 03/10/2026The estimated lifespan of the outer solar system has been downgraded from 100 billion years to just a few billion years, according to a study that probed “terminal instability” during the Sun’s death.404media.coOur Solar System Is Terminally Unstable and Will Be Completely Destroyed, Study FindsThe estimated lifespan of the outer solar system has been downgraded from 100 billion years to just a few billion years, according to a study that probed “terminal instability” during the Sun’s... 6136973
Reposted by Sammymaura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun. 168186644685
Reposted by SammyA Tea Walks Home Alone at Night @teaberryblue.net · 01/10/2026I once had a job where the men would literally ~make the women leave the room~ so they could tell misogynistic jokes. Like, they thought the solution was to exclude us completely, that there wasn’t anything wrong with the jokes if they didn’t tell them in front of us. 09218
Reposted by SammyChris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I've included the witness update into my story at Law Dork, but this is just horrifying — and cannot be in fitting with the state's execution protocol.tennessean.comChrista Pike's status unclear after execution attempt: UpdatesChrista Pike was sentenced to death for the 1995 killing of 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer. She is scheduled to be executed Sept. 30. 636648
Sammy @autistichalsin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026It's been a hot minute since TV made me cry, but JFC if Ted Lasso didn't just succeed. 010
Sammy @autistichalsin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026WARNING: SPOILERS FOR TED LASSO Did Ted Lasso really just kill off Mae???? WTF??!? WHY?!!?!? I don't like that at all. It's just so... they didn't need to do that. I just don't get it. Why go there? 120
Reposted by Sammyali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · 30/09/2026shutting down frat houses won't end rape culture, but it will disorganize a lot of rapists, and i think that's probably worth doing if only to destabilize what is apparently an ecology of organizations that functionally exist to rape women per the whole "purpose of a system is what it does" insight. 84002761
Reposted by SammyKate Hagen's House of Horrors 👻 @thathagengrrl.bsky.social · 30/09/2026"Meanwhile, Jane Doe dropped out of Cornell and was denied her request to get her tuition refunded so that she could transfer to a different college. She hence faced more severe consequences than most of the men who she alleges gang-raped her." www.thecut.com/article/what...thecut.comWhat It Feels Like at Cornell Right NowAs a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big. 653018987
Reposted by SammyThe Onion @theonion.com · 29/09/2026Cornell Vows That Rapists Will Be Forced To Write Much Longer Essays In The Future theonion.com/cornell-vows... 195112592148
Reposted by Sammyjazz mickle @queenjazz.gay · 27/09/2026the negative effects AI is having on software is gonna be something we have to deal with for a very long time, even if it stops today. you can already see the effects in well-known vibe coded sites like bluesky and github that run like shit nowadays, but its incredibly pervasive throughout tech 647390
Reposted by Sammysiobhan sunderland's virtual horror land illbleed @kabehchet.bsky.social · 26/09/2026the ways in which people try to demonize everything halsin does while woobying astarion is fucking incredible to watch. people doing insane gymnastics to justify shoving their entire heads up their asses 181
Reposted by Sammysiobhan sunderland's virtual horror land illbleed @kabehchet.bsky.social · 26/09/2026the misinfo that astarion isn't truly okay with the halsin polycule is so ingrained in the fandom when i encounter it in the wild i briefly go blind with rage and have to physically hold myself out from pulling out the dialogue annotation that clearly marks his agreement to it as sincere 181
Reposted by Sammysiobhan sunderland's virtual horror land illbleed @kabehchet.bsky.social · 26/09/2026thinking about it more its like people take the momentary discomfort astarion has at the thought of transitioning from monogamy to polyamory as indication that the whole thing is evil and hurting him, rather than just a very normal reaction for someone in his position to have. 191
Reposted by SammyMike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 25/09/2026VPN bans are a direct response to age-verification. Legislators are frustrated that people are getting around their surveillance, but rather than rethink their strategy, they're doubling down and banning VPNs. Fight the Flock-ing of the internet. 515361172
Reposted by SammyBryce? @dirtcupart.bsky.social · 26/09/2026a lot of people are not willing to understand trans men as both trans and men. many people may be able to get halfway there and internalize either "trans" or "men" but cannot put it together at the same time 2408141
Reposted by SammyChris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 25/09/2026BREAKING: SCOTUS allows DHS to use its Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) database with Social Security info, staying a district court order that had vacated the new policy. Justice Jackson dissents for the three Dem appointees. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p... 32917405
Reposted by SammyMayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 25/09/2026New Yorkers, a storm is arriving today. Don't travel if you don't have to. Never drive or walk through floodwater. Call 911 if you are in danger, and report nonemergency issues to 311. Look out for one another and stay safe. 17595291974
Reposted by Sammybird 🔞 \(☉д⊙)/ ! @emrynbird.bsky.social · 23/09/2026god I love getting into discussions that are just like... 1036191534
Reposted by SammyRev. Poppy Haze 𓅋 @poppyhaze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026there are posts claiming KFC or McDonalds is people meat, that's because Americans are so uneducated they are reverting to a pre-literate peasant mindset. If they did not personally see it, it is not real they cannot believe words about battery farms because they didn't see it with their eyes 926623
Sammy @autistichalsin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I have a ship I've never talked about off anon just because I just know it would start sexuality discourse despite this character not having been canonically said to not be into the other's gender, and they already are bad enough with characters who have even LESS evidence of being monosexual... 141
Reposted by SammyLiana Brooks @lianabrooks.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Writers used to be able to live comfortably off the sale of a short story or two a month. Authors like Terry Pratchett made enough money selling silly fantasy books in the 80's that they quit their day jobs. That doesn't happen any more. 9344110
Reposted by SammyErin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 23/09/2026So many people are blocking me right now. People hate having their ableism held up in front of them. I haven’t said anything other than be more empathetic to the disabled and chronically ill. I desperately wish people understood the hostility we get from all of society, including “allies.” 570251
Reposted by SammyErin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Y’all call yourselves allies and then point and laugh at people who have been TRAUMATIZED by society as a whole. Where do you want us to go? We can’t even try to exist together outside the borders of your majority? This is why I say American society is eugenicist. 4979114
Reposted by SammyErin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Hey so uhhhhh that Boston Globe story about the lesbian bar relaxing its covid rules is an *absolute fucking hit piece* targeting the disabled, chronically ill, and covid-conscious and it would be great if folks sharing and joking about it could recognize that framing. 332940909
Reposted by SammyPrem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 24/09/2026The polls are so bad that a pro-ICE Kansas Republican is now preemptively begging ICE to not shoot one of his constituents now that they're active in his state 301749401
Sammy @autistichalsin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026@discord.com Ever since your ridiculous age verification update, I can view nsfw on browser since I’m marked as 18, but the app tells me I’m too young to view nsfw channels. Since you marked me as 18, I can’t verify manually. Why did you not test this “feature” in advance? 062
Sammy @autistichalsin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I say this never, but can AO3 please introduce some kind of captcha? 000
Sammy @autistichalsin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026My favorite genre of anti post has got to be when they go "omg you liar your therapist did not tell you to write problematic fic lol they would have called you a freak too! Source: I'm a senior in college majoring in psych" then they get to grad school to be a therapist and they're like "omg why do 393
Reposted by SammyRodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Tough competition of course, but the Trump admin deciding that white South Africans are the only group of people on earth currently worthy of refugee status has to be the most overtly racist thing any administration has done in decades 554902878
Reposted by SammyJennifer X. Pumpkins 🎃 @jenyetagain.bsky.social · 21/09/2026"trans people require medical care for the rest of their lives" is the craziest anti-trans talking point because everyone requires medical care for the rest of our lives. 16931249
Reposted by SammyEvan Sutton @evansutton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026lol at all the people who've been going "Why isn't Dubya speaking out about Trump??" folks, he's committed to the same fucking project. 181062176
Reposted by SammyAnneWith 🐝 @indigoace.bsky.social · 22/09/2026I have this saved from November 2024: 23316
Reposted by SammyTibet Action Institute @tibetaction.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Tibet Action Institute's Dr Gyal Lo and @lhadon.bsky.social Lhadon Tethong will be in Geneva on Thursday to take part in this Side-Event focusing on CHILD RIGHTS IN TIBET. 011
Sammy @autistichalsin.bsky.social · 22/09/2026We are sleeping on so many delicious plants in our foods, man. Sumac? Sorrel? Rose? We need them all 040
Reposted by SammyAndrew Quemere @andrewqmr.bsky.social · 21/09/2026A couple went on a Fox News podcast and claimed the state of #Massachusetts took away their teen because they won't help the teen transition. But it's actually because the father was charged with beating and threatening to kill the teen and the mother was charged with witness intimidation.wbur.orgMass. parents' story about child's gender transition complicated by court recordsJoseph Kutzko was charged with assaulting the child in January 2025, not long before the child was removed from the family’s home. Mother Arlene Kutzko was charged with witness intimidation in connect... 10460371982
Reposted by SammyAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026NEW: @apnews.com confirms that ICE has begun electronically "disappearing" people in the agency's custody who have final orders of removal. As of last week, anyone jailed by ICE with a final order of removal will NOT appear in the ICE Online Detainee Locator System, making them effectively vanish.apnews.comAP Exclusive: ICE hides locations of thousands of detainees with final removal ordersU.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has stopped publicly revealing where it is holding most detainees who are subject to final deportation orders, in a move that has made it harder for lawyers an... 18845972952
Reposted by SammyStarbucks Workers United @sbworkersunited.org · 21/09/2026It's official: Starbucks is gutting DEI policies company-wide to curry favor with Florida politicians as our union's call for a boycott grows. Vote with your dollar. BOYCOTT STARBUCKS. 3417071154
Sammy @autistichalsin.bsky.social · 20/09/2026A lot of fanfics bring up Halsin's former alcoholism, but I feel like a really underexplored avenue for angst is Halsin relapsing hard due to the stresses of fighting the Absolute, doubly so if he's the one kidnapped by Orin 030