Reposted by Born to jest, forced to joust 🃏Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Seeing group of men (philosophers, engineers, cognitive scientists) finding each other in their shared hate of women experts who work and think outside the(ir) mainstream. Patting each other on the back for mysogynist dunks & mischaracterisations, while thinking they are smart and doing noble work. 934657 0
Reposted by Born to jest, forced to joust 🃏David Dark @daviddark.bsky.social · 08/08/2026"The ICE agent who drove his Expedition into a bunch of people who were peacefully protesting and then accused them of assaulting him also seems to have a time machine." @emptywheel.bsky.social emptywheel.net/2026/08/08/t...emptywheel.netThe Broadview ICE Agent's 7-Minute Gap - emptywheelAccording to the grand jury transcript for the ICE agent who drove his black Expedition into a group of people peacefully protesting at Broadview last year, the ICE goon also has a time machine he use... 420760 0
Born to jest, forced to joust 🃏 @cacoons.bsky.social · 09/08/2026Not beating the neo n*zi allegations 011 0
Reposted by Born to jest, forced to joust 🃏Andy Behrman @electroboyusa.bsky.social · 27/03/2026If you believe that Pete Hegseth is a piece of shit, please repost. www.npr.org/2026/03/27/n...npr.orgDefense Secretary Hegseth intervened to stop promotions of Black and female officersFour Army officers were on track to become one-star generals, NPR confirms. Defense secretary Pete Hegseth's involvement in the promotion process is highly unusual. 40668636 0
Reposted by Born to jest, forced to joust 🃏Lauren Fox @laurenfoxwrites.bsky.social · 09/08/2026actionnetwork.org/letters/no-t...actionnetwork.orgNo Troops at the PollsTroubling reporting indicates Trump is laying the groundwork for potential election interference with calls to “nationalize” voting in battleground states and has refused to rule out deploying the U.S... 012 0
Reposted by Born to jest, forced to joust 🃏Marie Ruiz-Vidal @ruizvidal7.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Ava Gardner © Clarence Sinclair Bull 0457 0
Reposted by Born to jest, forced to joust 🃏Partisan @partpartisan.bsky.social · 28/07/2026The market fundamentalist's refusal to acknowledge that the state is a component of the market (and is thus no more inherently "illegitimate" than the market) is just a rehash of the debates around Spinozan pantheism ("if G-d is all-encompassing, then how can there be anything that isn't G-d?") 131 0
Reposted by Born to jest, forced to joust 🃏Partisan @partpartisan.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Like, what's really funny about American "Capitalism" is that it's a religion, and basically all of its intellectual issues are just 20th century rehashes of classic theological discourses. 231 0
Reposted by Born to jest, forced to joust 🃏Partisan @partpartisan.bsky.social · 28/07/2026The thing that Market Fundamentalists just don't get is that "the market's" way of "naturally" achieving desireable results for society IS producing liberal/socdem regulatory states that implement corrections to market failures. 2117 0
Reposted by Born to jest, forced to joust 🃏Calliope @calliope5431.bsky.social · 28/07/2026This is standard-issue "I am farming outrage content for viewers, you are all just involuntary reality TV actors" and is one of the many ways that social media has demonstrably made the world worse. 1194 0
Reposted by Born to jest, forced to joust 🃏damniel spookradski @self.agency · 28/07/2026kick the uk labour party out of the s.i. alreadysocialistinternational.orgDeclaration on global migration and the plight of refugees - Socialist InternationalDeclaration on global migration and the plight of refugees- Socialist International - Progressive Politics For A Fairer World 0154 0
Reposted by Born to jest, forced to joust 🃏damniel spookradski @self.agency · 28/07/2026"It is extraordinary that the French Navy will fire live rounds to defend their waters against a visiting British politician but cannot bear to do anything about stopping illegal Channel crossings." shoulda shot him tbh 2416 0
Reposted by Born to jest, forced to joust 🃏mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Cops hate cities, hate the people living inside of them and are much more empathetic to someone trying to race through the city to enter and leave as quickly as possible than they are to like, a cyclist or pedestrian, who represent a class of people (city residents) the cop wished stopped existing 739074 0
Reposted by Born to jest, forced to joust 🃏Meta Resistance @metaresistance.bsky.social · 29/07/2026ICE agents used racial slurs to refer to Latinos, videos and texts appear to show ICE agents in Los Angeles used slurs to refer to Latinos, body camera footage released in court filings appears to show. abcnews.com/US/ice-agents-racial-sl…abcnews.com ICE agents used racial slurs to refer to Latinos, videos and texts appear to showICE agents in Los Angeles used slurs to refer to Latinos, body camera footage released in court filings appears to show. 813052 0
Reposted by Born to jest, forced to joust 🃏𝙶𝚎𝚎𝚔𝙶𝚢𝚛𝚕 @geekgyrl.bsky.social · 24/07/2026My father is autistic. His father? Oh, without a doubt was autistic. Both if my children are autistic. And I'm autistic. My father and his father sure AF didn't get vaccines as infants. It's genetic. 17515 0
Reposted by Born to jest, forced to joust 🃏CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 17/07/2026The Trump administration wants to conceal George Washington's role in the history of slavery. Here, you can read about how the people that Washington enslaved or indentured sought to escape from captivity, and about the Native Americans who defended themselves against his attacks:crimethinc.comEscaping Washington for FreedomRather than looking to George Washington as a model of resistance to tyranny, let’s remember the slaves who sought to escape him and the Native Americans who defended themselves against his attacks. 013759 0
Reposted by Born to jest, forced to joust 🃏Tom the Dancing Bug, by Ruben Bolling @rubenbolling.bsky.social · 17/07/2026I just saw The Odyssey on a giant IMAX screen. Excellent movie, but I was offended by the racially inaccurate casting. Not a single actor was an Ancient Greek. 1843221249 0
Reposted by Born to jest, forced to joust 🃏Gib 📷 @gibcurry.bsky.social · 18/07/2026Old Quebec City, 2026 #CameraObscura #Canada #OldQuebecCity #PhotographersUnited #PhotographersOfBluesky #HumansOfBluesky #streetphotography #urbanphotography #lensculture #streetpic #travelphotography #EastCoastKin 19110 0
Reposted by Born to jest, forced to joust 🃏eerie dickgirl @eigenvectrix.northsky.social · 18/07/2026Please consider helping me eat and pay 2 bills: $55.00 by end of today to clear Afterpay $180.00 by tomorrow (extended from Friday) for therapy Ko-fi: ko-fi.com/epistemophagy PayPal: paypal.me/epistemophagyko-fi.comBuy Isabelle a CoffeeBecome a supporter of Isabelle today! 15786 0
Reposted by Born to jest, forced to joust 🃏Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 13/05/2026"In an online milieu teeming with sycophants and reply guys, the rise of XFreeze from total unknown to the upper stratospheres of Musk fandom is a case study in how a savvy user can hack the incentive structure of X and the psychology of its billionaire owner."washingtonpost.comHow Elon Musk turned an online nobody into his biggest promoterThe Tesla CEO regularly amplifies a fan account called XFreeze that sings his praises and criticizes opponents in his lawsuit against OpenAI. 2195 0
Reposted by Born to jest, forced to joust 🃏I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 12/05/2026The entire “never satisfied” thing is only rolled out for communities that people insist shouldn’t be participating in public life in the first place. 6578153 0
Reposted by Born to jest, forced to joust 🃏cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 13/05/2026quit arguing and look at this 463858300 0
Reposted by Born to jest, forced to joust 🃏Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/05/2026Dr Oz: "One in three Americans are under-babied" 20362820705 0
Reposted by Born to jest, forced to joust 🃏Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 20/01/2026matter of time before it boils down to “well actually the Gestapo was in Germany, whereas…” 1382212 0
Reposted by Born to jest, forced to joust 🃏Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 20/01/2026“ICE isn’t the Gestapo. The Gestapo was…” (proceeds to describe qualities that apply to what ICE is currently doing) 1542225756053 0
Born to jest, forced to joust 🃏 @cacoons.bsky.social · 17/03/2026Poverty rates in Israel are still an issue to this day 040 0
Reposted by Born to jest, forced to joust 🃏Henry @henrythedog.bsky.social · 16/03/2026I'd like to just say that across the long long history of The Jews, the overwhelming majority of Jews have been unbelievably, incredibly, grindingly poor, levels of poverty and deportation that are hard for the 21st century American mind to really wrap our heads around 2035949 0
Reposted by Born to jest, forced to joust 🃏Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 16/03/2026X is a cesspool of antisemitism, and it’s not just right-wing accounts 2375 0
Reposted by Born to jest, forced to joust 🃏Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 16/03/2026A lot of Trump stuff becomes a lot clearer when you realize he thinks he became the sole proprietor of U.S.A., Inc. 264283 0
Reposted by Born to jest, forced to joust 🃏Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 15/09/2025Anti-Arab racism and Islamophobia are very real and powerful forms of bigotry in our modern world, and deserve to be talked about on their own terms. We can do that without taking away one of the words Jews have, rooted in the very particular Jewish experience in modern Europe. 829629 0
Reposted by Born to jest, forced to joust 🃏Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 15/09/2025Antisemitism is about Jews, because that's what the word means and where its history comes from. It isn't about "Semites," because no actual people are Semites at all. 227618 0
Reposted by Born to jest, forced to joust 🃏Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 15/09/2025So antisemitism refers to Jews, because that was how the term was invented. It was a way of inventing the racialization of the Jews, and it therefore differs from (while still borrowing from) earlier Christian anti-Judaism. 223420 0
Reposted by Born to jest, forced to joust 🃏Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 15/09/2025Referring to the Jews as "Semites," for the late 19th century German Orientalists, was a way of giving their anti-Jewish bigotry the sheen of modern science, implying that it was rooted in the then-modern field of race science and not in outdated Christian theological views. 222819 0
Reposted by Born to jest, forced to joust 🃏🐈⬛️כעלעמער קאַץ @orphanim.bsky.social · 05/03/2026there IS a fringe sect that wants to take control of the Temple Mount by force, and re-institute animal sacrifices, but most see them as insane extremist terrorists even in Israel. Most i know feel this scenario is undesirable, and LIKE that our sages decided to replace the sacrifices with prayer. 151 0
Reposted by Born to jest, forced to joust 🃏🐈⬛️כעלעמער קאַץ @orphanim.bsky.social · 05/03/2026again i am not particularly big on Chabad, but this is obviously insane and literally just hate and right-wing conspiracy driven by the utter ignorance most non-Jews have about Jewish sects and practice and culture. Chabad is very prolific and so are an easy scapegoat. forward.com/fast-forward...forward.comChabad on high alert after false Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens war claimsTwo leading right-wing anti-Israel influencers hurl accusations that the highly visible Hasidic sect is somehow behind the Iran conflict 1101 0
Reposted by Born to jest, forced to joust 🃏More like I-ACK @mumbly-joe.bsky.social · 03/03/2026funny story, liberals took the bait and condemned left-wing counters for the violence, meanwhile the right made instant celebrities of their own guys for rolling in with metal pipes to beat people with. 2017 was a super cool year 062 0
Reposted by Born to jest, forced to joust 🃏More like I-ACK @mumbly-joe.bsky.social · 03/03/2026the core premise was "hey Nazis are transparently using 'campus speech events' as pretext to show up and assault students, we should figure out how to protect our community from violence while balancing speech protections" anyway six months later Nazis rioted at Charlottesville and murdered someone 1113 0
Reposted by Born to jest, forced to joust 🃏More like I-ACK @mumbly-joe.bsky.social · 03/03/2026What If I Told You the "speech is violence" oped Haidt based his entire "campus left" crusade on was written in the immediate aftermath of neo-Nazis rolling into campus to beat students under the guise of "security" and was principally referring to literal violence-supporting speech like conspiracy. 2248 0
Reposted by Born to jest, forced to joust 🃏ben chambers 🏴 @benjaminchambers.bsky.social · 02/03/2026in the reactionary mind jew and trans are both personifications of fluidity, modernity, and dissolution of traditional boundaries and hierarchies twitter nazi zerohplovecraft called trans people "the jews of gender" and russian irredentist alexander dugin called ukrainians "collective transgenders" 12010 0
Reposted by Born to jest, forced to joust 🃏Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 03/03/2026Sometimes, when things are rough and the world feels heavy, it helps to imagine a future where we have crushed these sons of bitches and are left to the actual business of constructing a world that we deserve and is fundamentally kind and good. 12884218 0
Reposted by Born to jest, forced to joust 🃏Emily ✿ @gremlinpop.bsky.social · 25/01/2026 25134495495 0
Reposted by Born to jest, forced to joust 🃏Cosette @cosettepaneque.bsky.social · 31/01/2026In this blog, I look at meditation through a broad historical and spiritual lens: Greek philosophy, Hermetic thought, inner listening, and why these skills matter for modern occultists. #PaganSky #WitchSky #meditation cosettepaneque.comMeditation in Western practice and modern magicMeditation isn’t new or ‘Eastern’. Explore the history of meditation, Western contemplative practices, and why modern occultists still recommend it. 173 0
Reposted by Born to jest, forced to joust 🃏Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 26/02/2026But here's the thing: as much as everyone is acting shocked by this, it's really not all that surprising. Fascism always requires smaller and smaller in-groups and bigger and bigger out-groups. Israeli violence against marginalized people was never going to stay confined to Palestinians. 114123 0
Reposted by Born to jest, forced to joust 🃏Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social · 25/02/2026I'm late to this, but wow is it wild to see Bondi grin and laugh at the end of this. It's such a mask off moment in how Republicans use antisemitism claims purely for their own ends. She genuinely thought it was hilarious that she "triggered" a woman who lost her grandfather in the Holocaust. 724871 0
Reposted by Born to jest, forced to joust 🃏jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/02/2026these people treat being called racist like it is a slur, and treat slurs like they're mere differences of opinion 12798872116 0
Reposted by Born to jest, forced to joust 🃏ProPublica @propublica.org · 13/08/2025NEW: An investigation by ProPublica and @texastribune.org found more than 60 instances of nepotism, self-dealing and conflicts of interest among 27 private schools that likely would have violated state laws had the schools been public. By Lexi Churchill and @emsimani.bsky.socialpropublica.orgTexas Private Schools Hire Relatives and Enrich Insiders. Soon They Can Do It With Taxpayer Money.An investigation by ProPublica and The Texas Tribune found more than 60 instances of nepotism, self-dealing and conflicts of interest among 27 private schools that likely would have violated state law... 40095404341 0
Reposted by Born to jest, forced to joust 🃏Max Andrews @thatsjustlikeyouropinionman.com · 05/07/20251. A box a teenager checked on a form 20 years ago (that was accurate) isn’t newsworthy. 2. The source clearly had political motives and you hid that. 3. One the byline reporters on the “story” is an avid follower of an open white supremacist. 4. Pictures of tweets? Really? You that lazy? 189237 0