Reposted by joy-o-lantern meadsBlue sky nice ghost @rajandelman.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Do you ever read a series of words 1084060568
Reposted by joy-o-lantern meadsBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Yes, computers do everything at our company but don't worry, there's always a human reviewer. Nothing goes out the door without one of our highly trained shruggers briefly glancing at it and clicking Approve 405075689
Reposted by joy-o-lantern meadstoilet bones @toiletbones.bsky.social · 09/11/2024someone bought a new car and accidentally used my email address for it, so now i regularly get like 30-45 minute long surveys for which i write elaborate nonsense 07012
Reposted by joy-o-lantern meadstoilet bones @toiletbones.bsky.social · 18hFound the email I sent when I got accidentally added to the faculty listserv of an orthopedic surgery clinic and nobody would remove me so I sent this email to all faculty/staff/med students and they removed me almost immediately 14681972240
Reposted by joy-o-lantern meadsSusan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 17mYou also can’t be pro-choice and vote to confirm Brett Kavanaugh, simple as ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics... 0211
Reposted by joy-o-lantern meads"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 1hIn a sense, this has been a fairly comprehensive test of the MAGA theory of politics: maximum cruelty with maximum visibility on social media, combined by obvious efforts at electoral bribery and relentlessly protectionist trade policies and it just...failed. Americans on the net hate all of it. 317619
Reposted by joy-o-lantern meads"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 1hI am struck that the political theory of MAGA in Trump 2.0 is the GOP can win without sound or moral government if everyone throws red meat to the cameras as the occasional bribe. You see it with Trump, Patel, Hegseth, all of them. Anyway, Trump's approval is at, like, -23, so...no luck on that. 328135
Reposted by joy-o-lantern meadsBrian Lyman @brianlyman.bsky.social · 4hDoug Jones winning in Alabama in 2017 without downplaying or amending his support for abortion rights should have been a sign. 1618
joy-o-lantern meads @capnjoy.bsky.social · 8hBut look how the lil tentacles are raised! This just looks like a squid cheering the engineers on 180
Reposted by joy-o-lantern meadsgamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 8hI've been reacting a rocket emoji every time the engineering team posts an update in slack, but I am also terribly nearsighted, so for weeks I've been reacting with 🦑. 1316814
joy-o-lantern meads @capnjoy.bsky.social · 8h“They took over your vet and jacked up prices so you can’t afford to save your dog’s life, all so they can buy that second yacht. But I’m gonna do something about it.” Seems like a winning message to me. 020
joy-o-lantern meads @capnjoy.bsky.social · 8hWhere is the political leader who will channel the alllllllll the pent up fury over this and surf into a massive electoral victory? 120
joy-o-lantern meads @capnjoy.bsky.social · 8hPrivate equity firms are leeches that extract everything good from our society, fat themselves on the riches, and slither on leaving the husks for us. 240
Reposted by joy-o-lantern meadsBlake E. Reid @chup.blakereid.org · 10hThe courts have done a lot of "we're going to ignore the government's public, illegal rationales and focus narrowly on the after-the-fact pretext" but with the ABC early renewal show trial the FCC put the illegal rationale in the formal paperwork along with the pretext 🤡 293
Reposted by joy-o-lantern meadsMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 12hwith each passing day it feels more surreal to be an independent journalist. like playing with a toy train while vanderbilt owns the railways. 231034144
Reposted by joy-o-lantern meadsMatthew J Kuiper @matthewjkuiper.bsky.social · 11/05/2026This line about sums up the whole “private equity” youth sports strategy: “one company is consolidating power over a sport long rooted in local nonprofits, turning youth hockey into a pay-to-play pipeline where families must spend hundreds more each year or risk being shut out.” 121
Reposted by joy-o-lantern meadsMatthew J Kuiper @matthewjkuiper.bsky.social · 11/05/2026Everything “private investment equity” touches goes to crap. Everything. FWIW, this is happening to most youth sports programs. It’s not good. 2239
Reposted by joy-o-lantern meadsMatthew J Kuiper @matthewjkuiper.bsky.social · 13hDown with the data-harvesting-edtech-private-equitization of education. 2163
Reposted by joy-o-lantern meadsBrad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 12hA new Reuters poll makes pretty clear that Republicans aren't willing to follow President Trump on some of his vanity projects. 80% of Republicans don't like his taxpayer-funded political ads. Only a quarter approved of Trump adding his name to the Kennedy Center. www.reuters.com/world/americ... 108423
Reposted by joy-o-lantern meadsDave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 12hI'm just gonna bookmark this for future reference when Dem pundits complain about how the party has trouble communicating its message to voters. The reason you keep running into trouble with your branding isn't campus radicals. The reason is that your opponents purchased all the media outlets. 7436121050
Reposted by joy-o-lantern meadsDominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 12hAww this is so wholesome 1468
Reposted by joy-o-lantern meadsGillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 12hI LOVE how @propublica.org dealt with official comment here, editorially and stylistically. 1133731244
Reposted by joy-o-lantern meadsDanielle H @danielleceltics.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Gabby Williams is LIT right now #WNBA 0276
joy-o-lantern meads @capnjoy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026The Valkyries just made me tear up. Crying over sports over here. Who even am I? #Valkyriesstatic.klipy.comRide of the ValkyriesAlt: Ride of the Valkyries 170
Reposted by joy-o-lantern meadsC-gak @cgak.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Hoping the @wgoldenstate.bsky.social do like the golden state warriors and come up from behind and dominate in the 4th to win. I’ve seen em do it before. Go Valkyries! #wnba #valkyries 011
joy-o-lantern meads @capnjoy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026She’s a force of nature and I resent/admire her 010
Reposted by joy-o-lantern meadsChise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 02/10/2026GOOD NEWS! A new cancer treatment has demonstrated unprecedented results in a large trial for cancer patients whose disease has become resistant to chemotherapy AND immunotherapy. Tumors shrank in OVER a third of participants, with 15 patients experiencing COMPLETE eradication of their tumors. 443225902
Reposted by joy-o-lantern meadsWaggtoon (Commissions Open) @waggtoon.bsky.social · 02/10/2026This feels like the meme I edited ages ago. 927287
Reposted by joy-o-lantern meadsjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 02/10/2026not that you should expect anything more than rank idiocy from this pair of racists, but the idea that whiteness means a "high trust" society of "social cohesion" is some of the stupidest shit i have ever heard. these people live in a fantasy land that you could dispel by simply opening a book.talkingpointsmemo.comChris Rufo — Known For ‘DEI’ and ‘CRT’ Panics — Tries to Make ‘the Indian Question’ a ThingTo the degree that a “respectable” or “moderate” right exists today in... 25561381143
Reposted by joy-o-lantern meadssascha benjamin cohen @saschaben.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I have many gripes and differences with the SF Dem leadership, but man oh man I never thought one of them would be "you've gotten too rapey” but here we are.missionlocal.orgAn ugly day for San Francisco — and not just for Manny YekutielDistrict 8 front-runner pulls the plug on his campaign after more on-the-record sexual assault allegations. And, today, misery loves company. 021
Reposted by joy-o-lantern meadsJhoira's Bizarre Adventure: Sax Ball Run @saximus.bsky.social · 02/10/2026On a related note, 1439391145
Reposted by joy-o-lantern meadsKitty WH 🚺 @kittywashere.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I’m grateful there is a serious, experienced prosecutor on this case for the sake of Jane Doe and for the sake of women at colleges across the nation. 0138
joy-o-lantern meads @capnjoy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026There’s a reason the pivot to center typically happens after you’ve won the primary, Gavin 000
joy-o-lantern meads @capnjoy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Third waying himself right out of an actual voter base. Idiot. 100
Reposted by joy-o-lantern meadsThe Bi of Hormuz @joshstein.bsky.social · 02/10/2026If you want to understand why I'm not remotely worried about Newsom winning a Democratic primary, it's because he's about shoulder deep in these kinds of idiotic vetoes. 26414
Reposted by joy-o-lantern meadsGwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Things Gavin Newsom has vetoed this week: -A ban on secretly recording people with smart glasses -A ban on ICE agents working for the state government -A ban on websites selling your data -A bill giving native tribes more say over water rights -A bill protecting transgender healthcare providers 293112704095
Reposted by joy-o-lantern meadsmound-city.bsky.social @mound-city.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Pretty ironic for the current Republican US government, which “misplaced” billions during the occupation of Iraq, to cut off American University over accusations of financial mismanagement. Not that I would expect this admin to support the education of women, in Iraq or anywhere else.nytimes.comAmerican University of Afghanistan at Risk of Closure Amid Funding Cuts 011
Reposted by joy-o-lantern meadsKen Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Everyone involved with this, except a dozen or so already very wealthy people, will lose. 22956212
Reposted by joy-o-lantern meadsMolly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 01/10/2026When white nationalist are a part of your voting base 24362491245
Reposted by joy-o-lantern meadsMusicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 01/10/2026this doesn’t actually make any sense 6575105
Reposted by joy-o-lantern meadsdepths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 02/10/2026 4852801253
Reposted by joy-o-lantern meads Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 02/10/2026Newsom took it as a challenge to make every new action shittier than the previous. bsky.app/profile/tech... 19922
joy-o-lantern meads @capnjoy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026It’s a despicable thing to say regardless, but imagine saying something like that when the same logic applies to your own children? To your wife? What a despicable human being that he chose his own ambition over his family 020