Sign in

Nickey (they/she) 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

@bestorb.bsky.social
509 followers 610 following 549 posts

Academic advisor for the College of Engineering at the University of Nevada, Reno. Recovering academic. PhD in Media Studies. They/she

PostsRepliesMedia
Reposted by Nickey (they/she) 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 2h
JD Vance’s not so subtle point is that the United States belongs to white Christian men, and the rest of us who don’t meet all three qualifications only belong here insofar as our betters choose to tolerate us.
41134214
Reposted by Nickey (they/she) 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
Morgan Johnson @poormojo.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
No joke. I think this is the most important video I have ever seen about mobile games. This guy breaks down how this game psychologically profiles you, and makes the game harder or easier in order to show you ads
178140245738
Reposted by Nickey (they/she) 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
Paul Crider @paulcrider.liberalcurrents.com · 13/10/2026
This bill would abolish ICE, DHS, and CBP, transferring legitimate customs duties to other departments. It would sunset Section 219 of the INA close the Guantánamo Bay detention facility and shutter all immigration detention centers. You have my sword, milady.
6142071205
Reposted by Nickey (they/she) 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
Rep. Zooey Zephyr @zoandbehold.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Let's go, Sam Forstag! That's how you stand up for trans people on the national stage. If congressional candidates in western Montana—one of the most competitive House races in the entire country—can stand up for trans folks in every aspect of our lives, democrats everywhere should take note.
432396573
Reposted by Nickey (they/she) 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
Jessie Gender @jessiegender.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Trans people get called extremists for saying “hey don’t watch a wizard tv show.” Meanwhile people out here literally calling for legislative bans on our existence are propped up as feminist icons. Really just shows how those who make people uncomfortable or disrupt consumption are vilified.
273194787
Reposted by Nickey (they/she) 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
i think that the best way the understand conservative legal philosophy is to know that, literally, it was constructed backward from the premise that a Republican president should be permitted to commit crimes against democracy
181453248
Reposted by Nickey (they/she) 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Read every word of this and share it.
252473756
Reposted by Nickey (they/she) 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 13/10/2026
in an alternate universe where storefront space remained cheap and wealthy people were taxed at a sane rate this man is a moderately successful trading card game store manager and outside the handful of shop regulars he subjects to his petty tyrannies he's leaving everyone else well enough alone
1184506531
Reposted by Nickey (they/she) 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
Stellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 12/10/2026
I got my brows done and got some makeup (and advice)at Sephora the night before I came out to everyone on Facebook and I will remember the kindness of those Sephora girlies until the day I die.
1178413
Reposted by Nickey (they/she) 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 12/10/2026
Getting into a PR war with a toy store in Brooklyn for not selling you a bird because you’re "only daytime TV famous" is a 30 Rock plotline that works for both Jenna and Tracy
41225134
Reposted by Nickey (they/she) 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Really unpopular things: -data centers -overt bigotry -CSAM -billionaires trying to buy elections -Hitler salutes -stealing people’s personal data -South African Apartheid -causing the deaths of hundreds of thousands, possibly millions, of children Fighting against Elon Musk is a political winner
251661400
Reposted by Nickey (they/she) 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
Ant @agramuglia.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
So Danny Trejo was manipulated and tricked into being in Ben Shapiro's newest film. Holy shit.
424124364599
Reposted by Nickey (they/she) 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
BeshearStan @beshearstan.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
D+15 Midterm indicator
1026753992
Reposted by Nickey (they/she) 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
One of the most disconcerting moments of living in this timeline of the world in the U.S. is that A LOT of people in this country keep acting like there's a special line that needs to be crossed for fascism to *arrive.* The reality is that we are CURRENTLY living under Federal fascism. NOW.
171995593
Reposted by Nickey (they/she) 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
The Humanist Report @humanistreport.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Democrats will never learn.
10649251077
Reposted by Nickey (they/she) 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
Patrick Monahan @pattymo.com · 10/10/2026
It’s cool, and not incredibly demoralizing, that the last ~25 years (? more?) have been an increasingly flagrant demonstration that The Rules, as we were brought up to understand them, just do not apply to a lot of people
352108299
Reposted by Nickey (they/she) 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
Tyler, from the Internet (Haunted) @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 09/10/2026
Because he's one of the only people standing next to a Republican going, "this person is a piece of shit, I don't respect him, neither should you, he's fucking evil and he needs to go, and I don't care if it makes me sound rude saying it" LIKE EVERY DEMOCRAT SHOULD BE DOING??? MAYBE???
222327387
Reposted by Nickey (they/she) 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Six months ago:
theonion.com
DOJ To Bring Back Firing Squad As Means Of Entertainment
WASHINGTON—In an effort to provide some joy to the nation and boost overall well-being, Justice Department officials announced plans Monday to bring back firing squads as a means of entertainment. “Fo...
19075521699
Reposted by Nickey (they/she) 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Repeating my sotto voce refrain that I think we are very soon going to have to deal with the plain (but seldom spoken) fact that police are simply not under the control of the political leadership who command them on paper.
191210222
Reposted by Nickey (they/she) 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 08/10/2026
the more Musk spends on the midterm elections, the more ubiquitous this image needs to be
331899555
Reposted by Nickey (they/she) 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 08/10/2026
I'm really sad y'all. I did not go into trans journalism to make "Dem capitulates on trans rights" my daily beat. It was a much better environment when I could count on everyone in our party, even the red state dems, to present a wall on this stuff. It just feels so bleak.
992355251
Reposted by Nickey (they/she) 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Man who won’t give his employees piss breaks claims many piss breaks on the horizon
810207384629
Reposted by Nickey (they/she) 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 05/10/2026
All prisoners should have the right to vote while in prison
Norman Rockwell's Freedom of Speech
7957031108
Reposted by Nickey (they/she) 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
you need to just pack the supreme court, man. they don't care about what arguments you make, the legal movement formed with an explicit objective of making Watergate legal isn't going to make Watergate illegal.
251660267
Reposted by Nickey (they/she) 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The BEST thing that true believers in AI could do is stop evangelizing to people, like me, who think it sucks. Do the hard, years-long work of detaching your beloved technology from the worst people in the world right now: shameless fascists driven by greed and domination. They’re YOUR partners.
212045382
Reposted by Nickey (they/she) 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The most honest post, the realest post. I'm SO FUCKING TIRED of dickheads telling me I need to show grace to a bunch of people who voted for a guy they KNOW is evil and a party that is trying to be Nazis. I'm not showing grace to people that voted for Nazis. I'm not an idiot. Maybe you are
1433235
Reposted by Nickey (they/she) 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Apropos of nothing, I get a lot of mileage out of this meme.
61161105
Reposted by Nickey (they/she) 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
Jason Concepcion @netw3rk.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I do think it's important to give grace to people who realize they made the wrong choice. I don't want to. but other nicer people def should do that. I dont give a shit.
1061968216
Reposted by Nickey (they/she) 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
So many of the same “intellectuals” who are obsessed with undermining the existence of trans people are also obsessed with undermining the Cornell rape victim’s testimony. It’s almost like they don’t believe people have a right to bodily autonomy
9723119
Reposted by Nickey (they/she) 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
geoffrey 💀 (scary now) @parsnip.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
there are moral arguments against the death penalty in its ideal form but in real life you never need to get there. the prior question is "can the state be trusted to end the life only of the rightly convicted without torture?" and the answer is no
413187772
Reposted by Nickey (they/she) 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 30/09/2026
I don't believe that every trans person in America should immediately be made aware of every single evil bill introduced by some podunk state rep in a random red state they don't live in I don't think that's healthy. I have always needed to see a likelihood of advancement before I would write it up
201471203
Reposted by Nickey (they/she) 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
Kath Barbadoro @kathbarbadoro.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Tbf it also exists to subject men to ritualized abuse in order to irreparably bond them to each other so that they won’t blow the whistle on all the raping
172043325
Reposted by Nickey (they/she) 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 30/09/2026
They're moving on from trans youth towards advocating banning care for trans adults, just like we said they would.
903017816
Reposted by Nickey (they/she) 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
One thing that’s interesting about this is that it shows that despite insisting the wokes overinterpet everything, conservatives are actually aware of and agree with their critics about how coded racist appeals work, they just like them bsky.app/profile/newr...
312882639
Reposted by Nickey (they/she) 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
samuelwa.de @samuelwa.de · 28/09/2026
My “Involved in Human Trafficking“ shirt has a lot of people asking questions that are making me want to stop wearing my shirt rather than reconsider my involvement in human trafficking
33894546
Reposted by Nickey (they/she) 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
i strongly suspect the reason that they are hiding this is not because cops are moonlighting for ICE contractors off duty but because many of them are working for ICE contractors *while clocked in*
18871203
Reposted by Nickey (they/she) 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
arr @arr.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This makes me hopeful. This number is aspirational but nowhere near out of reach: a working professional could realistically cash out their 401k and buy off a public official. Owning a senator is more attainable for most Americans than home ownership.
6246791035
Reposted by Nickey (they/she) 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
Nick Field @nickfield.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The State AGs were on pace to kill the Paramount/Warner Bros by litigation and delay until Gavin Newsom stepped in and turned the tide. Now the Trump loyalist Ellisons will control CNN and HBO. Don't ever, ever forget that Newsom stabbed us in the back www.wsj.com/business/med...
wsj.com
Exclusive | Newsom Expresses Concerns About State Antitrust Suit Against Paramount
The California governor has told people involved in the suit that blocking the $81 billion deal could harm Hollywood jobs.
24741431673
Reposted by Nickey (they/she) 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Outside the obvious timebomb of selling out trans kids to appeal to ~16 bigots in deep Ohio, an underplayed part of the whole "trans kids in youth sports" stuff is making the most psycho Little League parents the most important political demo in America. They're joy vampires for the kids themselves!
7866791028
Reposted by Nickey (they/she) 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 21/09/2026
For my newsletter, I wrote about Democrats coming out against "trans surgery for kids" (which do not happen) and how the myth took over our politics. www.burnsnotice.com/the-trans-ki...
burnsnotice.com
The "Trans Kid Surgery" Myth
The big lie worked because it played on your protective instincts
111299488
Nickey (they/she) 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @bestorb.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Maybe not permanent, but I am blocking Bluesky on my browser. Social media gives me more mental anguish than I can handle sometimes, and the world is full of more than enough of that all on its own, so why even bother.
media.tenor.com
a picture of a red airplane with the words goodbye chat above it
Alt: a picture of a red airplane with the words goodbye chat above it
000
Reposted by Nickey (they/she) 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
I keep thinking about the number of people that have to be involved to kidnap a small child, transport him to one facility or another, then an airport, then a plane, then another facility. Did no one on that chain stop and say hey what the fuck?
943744989
Reposted by Nickey (they/she) 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Another friend put it to me like this: "ICE has made the classic Nazi mistake. They've invaded a winter people in the winter."
68167303383
Reposted by Nickey (they/she) 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.
142153655715
Reposted by Nickey (they/she) 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
28 Days Lehner 🪦 @danlehner.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
people don't secretly yearn for Yarvin Thought if Blake Masters and Ron DeSantis ate shit. what happened is a guy who built a career over 40 years where his last name became a shorthand for "success" exploited America's weak party system and got lucky.
20935124
Reposted by Nickey (they/she) 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
28 Days Lehner 🪦 @danlehner.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
"sorry establishment libs you just can't handle the heart of darkness that lurks within America that won't be undone by your love of norms" is this fake savvy posture that is, ironically, just as much an act of self-soothing. the reality is both more complex and also dumber than that.
451970
Reposted by Nickey (they/she) 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
🎃GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE🎃 @golikehellmachine.com · 21/01/2026
they are actively trying to get these officers killed and have been for some time
1133558649
Reposted by Nickey (they/she) 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
AXEL LYCAN »» FC2027 @axellycan.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
This is why calling them weird creeps was so effective, not just to damage the leadership psychologically, but to make it extremely socially embarrassing to be a known supporter of them in the general public. The point is to make society at large view them as they are, not the force they wish to be.
81310415
Reposted by Nickey (they/she) 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Every Stephen Miller tantrum and DHS recruitment ad speaks in these existential terms about "defending your culture" to elide the fact that they need people with the courage to wear a mask while interrogating a sixth grader
Photographer 
@mostafabassim1
 photographed this boy walking home alone with a snack being "randomly" approached by DHS. "After he was unable to produce documentation proving his citizenship, agents informed him that he was under arrest." He said, "Can I just go home?" Answer: No.
14765952475
Reposted by Nickey (they/she) 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
Molly White @molly.wiki · 16/01/2026
If anyone was still pretending this isn’t just about excluding trans kids from public life, the Trump administration just opened a Title IX investigation into a Maine school district because a trans student is on a *co-ed* cheerleading squad.
pressherald.com
​Newport co-ed cheerleading team is at center of Trump transgender athlete crackdown​Trump admin focuses on swimming, cheerleading in Maine transgender athlete probes
The U.S. Department of Education announced a slew of Title IX-related investigations this week that include 2 school districts in Maine.
7662872480