Reposted by the word is the birdRabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Apartheid: "a policy of political, social, and economic discrimination against the non [ethnic] majority in the" state Democracy: "political, social, or economic equality : the absence of hereditary or arbitrary class distinctions or privileges." 116558
Reposted by the word is the birdSaeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 23/09/2026We can’t allow this man to get within striking distance of a viable presidential candidacy. 12648691143
Reposted by the word is the birdweeder @weeder.bsky.social · 24/09/2026God, grant me the courage to change the things I can and incredible new powers to change the things I can't. 62107302533
Reposted by the word is the birdshaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 24/09/2026join the military, you get to starve on a rusting ship that repeatedly sails into and out of the range of enemy missiles in order to manipulate gambling websites where people bet on your death 3961981536
Reposted by the word is the birdRabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 24/09/2026. . . like we have the word chutzpah as well as an entire culture of extremely, extremely colorful and vivid curses . . . but I don't think there's an appropriately strong Yiddish word that covers this 1429771
Reposted by the word is the birdPookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Reminder that in Canada upon becoming an engineer you get an iron ring made of a collapsed bridge, purposely designed to be uncomfortable, to remind you that your ethics demand you give a fuck even about the boring grudgework of such as double-checking your math. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Ringen.wikipedia.orgIron Ring - Wikipedia 2074292327
Reposted by the word is the birdmerr-itt came from outer space @merrittk.com · 25/09/2026i heard woke is trying to do same-sex bathrooms now... they want our sons pissing next to each other to turn them gay 103553479
Reposted by the word is the birdRobert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 26/09/2026this is wrong for several reasons, chief among them the fact that at least one person is on record saying L. Ron Hubbard was good at sex 602973304
Reposted by the word is the birdRobert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 26/09/2026no they weren't very close to 0% of the SS were hanged the vast, vast seriously vast majority of people who carried out the Holocaust weren't ever punished. 924592861
Reposted by the word is the birdmolly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 20/09/2026it literally could not be easier to run against an opponent who is fixated on a microscopic minority that isn’t actually harming anyone! focusing on imaginary threats posed by trans people instead of the world burning down around us is bad politics! point that out! loudly! 142365458
Reposted by the word is the birdSam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Yet another example of "the politics sickos need to read more military theory" is the fact that so many politics sickos seem to be wedded to the idea that a decisive battle is the One Simple Trick that will result in eternal victory 391035113
Reposted by the word is the birdJerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 10/09/2026ok but once you think DSM stands for "da sanity manual" it's hard to remember what it really stands for 451489217
Reposted by the word is the birdRory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 11/09/2026One year one, what I am struck by is that on the day, and in the immediate aftermath, there was this palpable sense that this was going to be the big moment of final ultimate retribution where the right was going to seize total control with fire and fury- 332915
Reposted by the word is the birdlastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 11/09/2026The wealthy countries seem to have a core of 15-30% of their voting populations who *just fucking hate foreigners*. This section of the electorate are for various reasons disproportionately well represented among the ultra-wealthy and thus are able to secure some favourable media coverage. 371889440
Reposted by the word is the birdA.J. Wilden🏳️⚧️ @wcwit.bsky.social · 11/09/2026"They're not misunderstanding the film; they're co-opting a message" 52144965761
Reposted by the word is the birdEric Ravenscraft @lordravenscraft.bsky.social · 12/09/2026A24 is potentially doing something really fucked up here, but also they have the opportunity to do something extremely fucking cool and make the movie Creative Commons people would still pay to see it in theaters. but you want to benefit from a community project? then contribute to it 141159323
Reposted by the word is the birdSam “The Great Pumpkin” Thielman @samthielman.com · 12/09/2026A bunch of Israeli politicians said “we will destroy Gaza” and then the IDF blew up the hospitals and shot starving people with snipers and killed everybody in the NICU so all the preemies died but prominent people will still argue with you under their own names about whether or not that’s genocide 51575380
Reposted by the word is the birdⒶnarchohoodism 🐈⬛ 🏴 @161bklyn.myatproto.social · 05/09/2026Any nation that is not white and thinks the US will spare them if they just do as they say will find out the hard way that you can't appease fascists. They will exploit you, kill you, and laugh at how ignorant you were. Mark my words. 538475
Reposted by the word is the birdHemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 05/09/2026dumpster beef! "TRUMP IS GIVING YOU DUMPSTER BEEF THAT OTHER COUNTRIES THREW OUT" that's gotta be the message, man 501675491
Reposted by the word is the birdKat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 05/09/2026The right-wing organizing around the Lindsay Clancy trial is growing and it’s frightening. A lot of people overlook these culture wars revolving around women’s issues, because, well, they’re women’s issues. But the right doesn’t. It’s how they regained such a massive cultural foothold. 6344801091
Reposted by the word is the birdDr. Katherine Haenschen @drkath.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Eh. This strikes me as a very top-down Man-flavored response that doesn’t take into account how women (esp. Moms) wind up in MAHA spaces. Many MAHA-adjacent Moms are there because they have been talked down to & dismissed by medical establishment when they raise real concerns about their kids. 1/ 15062673
Reposted by the word is the birdGareth Watkins @garethwatkins.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Guy artist creating Albert: gotta give the ladies a little something-something, am I right fellas? Ladies: Zork could fuck me in half and I'm not even joking.(9,467 likes) 111144247
Reposted by the word is the birdRabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 23/08/2026“The sages said [of the creepy incel insisting he’d die if he didn’t shtup this woman,], ‘let him die.’”sefaria.orgSanhedrin 75a:2 | Sefaria Library§ Apropos the discussion of the obligation to allow oneself to be killed rather than engage in forbidden sexual intercourse, the Gemara notes that Rav Yehuda... 011427
Reposted by the word is the birdKevin @kevinmattick.bsky.social · 18/08/2026This is giving me flashbacks to when hbomberguy found a webpage listing nationwide police fatalities and then realized that basically all of the fatalities were police dogs and then realized that basically all of those police dogs were killed by police. 1888
Reposted by the word is the birdmolly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 18/08/2026no, you can't trick me into participating in your humiliation fetish. I'm not gonna insult your intelligence while you stroke yourself to climax & this is obviously a ploy to get me to do just that. you could only cook up an idea this dumb if you needed me to call you a moron in order to finish. 1765451
Reposted by the word is the birdMerriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 31/07/2026Find the 5 words from your birth year that perfectly describe YOUR vibe ⬇️ www.merriam-webster.com/time-traveler/ 3613347514
Reposted by the word is the birdShiro Sirius @shirosiri.us · 29/07/2026I don’t want to be too sensationalist about this but also I’m the least violent person in the world and I think if someone said this to my face I’d hit them 10731381323
Reposted by the word is the birdKAFUI 🇬🇭 @mykafuiohkafui.bsky.social · 17/03/2026Graduating high school before ChatGPT is like having a brain made of recovered steel from warships old enough to not have been weakened by atomic bomb isotopes. 89107292199
Reposted by the word is the birdJosephine Riesman @josie.zone · 30/07/2026The great thing about today's Nazis is that they burn books for both ideology AND profit 429476
Reposted by the word is the birdRobert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 29/07/2026The only responsible attitude for liberals and progressives to align on is that all right-wing grievances, claims and believes are not only false, but malicious lies. Nothing passes the mouth of an American conservative in public life that is not meant to harm and destroy the lives of millions. 5153101379
Reposted by the word is the birdRobert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 21/07/2026perhaps the most fitting memorial ever www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... 40960106
Reposted by the word is the birdPookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 21/07/2026We can take economists seriously if and only if they can identify whether a wildly unprofitable machine what keeps harming vulnerable people, is a good thing or a bad thing to base half your economy on 0343103
Reposted by the word is the bird⚸ Gingersnapped 🐺🌕🎃 @gingerspiced.bsky.social · 18/07/2026Pete Hegseth: "We need our warriors to embrace the Spartan mindset" U.S. Military: *suffers crushing defeat to the Persians* 316254876963
Reposted by the word is the birdRabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Bathrooms were never just abt bathrooms (but rather the ability to exist in public). Health care was always abt bodily autonomy the same as abortion. And at core, this is abt forced compliance + control for everyone. Anyone who thinks they're exempt is deluded. Even the boys with their T shots. 239969
Reposted by the word is the birdandré, but scarier @andre-carlisle.bsky.social · 17/07/2026when the cdc didn't care and the federal government attacked them, remember that taco bell stood with the people 3546341028
Reposted by the word is the birdSen. Pumpkin Gogurt @ugarles.bsky.social · 18/07/2026the future is here and it is picking images for news alerts 3468841205
Reposted by the word is the birdMENTALES @mentales.com.br · 17/07/2026excelente recauchutada parabens pelo divorcio 252808869
Reposted by the word is the birdFat Nixon is a Traitor 🇺🇦 🟦🟧🚩 @lbusdoor90.bsky.social · 15/07/2026I completely understand 1930-40s Germany now. 1429213546865
Reposted by the word is the birdMelissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 16/07/2026imagine thinking we get here w/o “normal police brutality” 213527
Reposted by the word is the birdrax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 15/07/2026if i were a man who was, you know, normal, well i'd be mad as hell every time some guy got on a microphone to talk about what a big stupid lunkheaded alcoholic rapist i am 591954333
Reposted by the word is the birdRabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Why I’m not a fan, this is amazing 418922
Reposted by the word is the birdmolly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 14/07/2026technically this is a close to useful as trump has ever been in terms of maintaining a healthy information landscape - he had the opportunity to fan the flames of conspiracy & chose not to - but it's incredibly funny that he couldn't remember "aortic dissection" and instead said the senator blew up. 1665248
Reposted by the word is the birdAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 13/07/2026Trump doesn’t force people to do bad things. All he did was show people they could get away with being horrible if they really wanted to, and a lot of powerful people decided they didn’t need to pretend anymore. Especially those in influential positions who could push back but did not. 14798902532
Reposted by the word is the birdRobert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 13/07/2026i will voluntarily pay extra taxes to any country that agrees to drag our cops and elected leaders before an international court 394421862
Reposted by the word is the birdLuke Baumgartner @lbaum94.bsky.social · 13/07/2026Again, the field of extremism studies will never advance unless we start openly talking and writing about violence inflicted by the state. Specifically how state violence is the direct result of the government’s official foreign and domestic policy being based on a racist conspiracy theory. 4525164
Reposted by the word is the birdClaire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 13/07/2026this is why "and you're surprised?" is one of the top 5 most infuriating online responses to sharing upsetting news. surprise is not the only emotion, and it's not the only factor that makes something worth drawing attention to. it's weird to pretend being blasé about horror equals moral superiority 41887416
Reposted by the word is the birdmolly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 25/05/2026thank god we have kelly. this is such a perfectly phrased reminder of something i’ve been ruminating on a lot lately. this hit me like a lightning bolt. stop inviting people to surrender. 10857180