Reposted by Snitty 🎃ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 10hI suppose that’s one way of putting it, Wikipedia 3383
Reposted by Snitty 🎃ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 10hJohn Bellairs wrote horror for children, and if you’re unfamiliar you’re thinking like Goosebumps and what he did is not very much like Goosebumps at all. Goosebumps took horror tropes and made them child-friendly; Bellairs took horror, as in the sensation, and made it child accessible 7682
Reposted by Snitty 🎃ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 10hI didn’t scan the whole thread but did you know that they just put John Bellairs books in elementary school libraries? 14978
Reposted by Snitty 🎃Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 10hfor reference, in the Dobbs opinion, Alito was like, women generally don't _plan_ to get an abortion, so how could they have a reliance interest in abortion? which is kind of an extension of 'you want health insurance? what, you plan on being sick?' 22605143
Snitty 🎃 @clofsnitville.bsky.social · 21mI get up early so it's not like I haven't been awake for a while but I still think it's unbelievably out of line for spammers to place calls before 8 AM 190
Reposted by Snitty 🎃Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 16/07/2026I basically posted this so I can pin it and point to it whenever I encounter someone making some bad faith argument about what urbanists believe 0322
Reposted by Snitty 🎃Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 16/07/2026We need a range of solutions to address car dependency and create safer streets. It's a toolkit that involves: Redesigning roads to slow speeds and impose consequences for dangerous driving, improved infrastructure, expanded public transit, better driver education, and enforcement. 121134
Reposted by Snitty 🎃Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 36mThe guy sneering at "your precious liberal arts degree" majored in Philosophy at Harvard 3351988
Reposted by Snitty 🎃GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 4hno, no, no, mister dracula, please, just listen to me for a moment — no, they aren’t spirits, sir, that’s called a CAPTCHA. you just need to select the — okay, well, describe what you’re seeing. it has red, yellow and green lights? that’s a traffic light, mister dracula. how many of them do you see? 1744
Reposted by Snitty 🎃GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 4hAS I HAVE TOLD YOU BEFORE, mister dracula, face ID isn’t going to work for you, you are going to need to memorize a passcode. do you need me to help you set it up again? no, i definitely can’t come over there to help. no, remember, we tried video chat before, i just see the back of your chair. 1134255
Reposted by Snitty 🎃Malaclypse the Middle @malaclypse.bsky.social · 1hMatt, who perfectly exemplifies the value of a Harvard education, thinks that people who use sharp blades near the throats of other people don't need any licensing. 1261
Snitty 🎃 @clofsnitville.bsky.social · 1hThe Wizard of Oz. Not so much the witch but the witch putting that hourglass in front of Dorothy and saying that was how much longer she had to be alive. Scared the beejeebers out of me! 1160
Reposted by Snitty 🎃Innsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 13hDanny Trejo being in the Ben Shapiro pro-ICE movie after being in a movie about how it’s moral to kill Joe Arpaio is a real bummer, there’s no way the money’s that good 08013
Reposted by Snitty 🎃jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 13hand honestly, losing either statewide race in texas is something close to a strategic defeat. it completely upsets the political map going forward. it would be similar to trump winning new jersey in 2024 (where he came close). 18162768
Reposted by Snitty 🎃jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 13hyeah, the reason republicans are just not going to budge from texas is the reason why armies try not to abandon their capitals. it isn’t necessarily a strategic defeat to lose the seat of power, but it is a profound blow to morale. 1254042489
Reposted by Snitty 🎃jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 20hthese fucking ghouls should never know a day of peace for the rest of their lives 213187229
Reposted by Snitty 🎃jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 20halso thanks jd vance and christopher rufo 131612122
Reposted by Snitty 🎃ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 13hok yeah this is it then, that makes more sense 819613
Reposted by Snitty 🎃Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 13hMy friend @melissaryan.bsky.social loaned me her platform today to talk about the frenzy on X around the Cornell case — and how it shows that the current policy climate's answer to #MeToo, nine years later, is more like "so what." (* content warnings apply, of course)altrightdelete.newsNine Years After #MeToo, One Answer for Survivors Is ‘So What?’‘Maybe she was assaulted, maybe not’: from federal agencies to online platforms, people with power and audiences take pains to show they don’t care 715452
Reposted by Snitty 🎃GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 15hwe are going to have to find an alternative to meta products for local communities and advertising, right now, it’s almost impossible to do any kind of local business or art project without it, but both their rules and support are so arbitrary and capricious that you can’t rely on them 26861235
Reposted by Snitty 🎃Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 14hdarkly funny that Alliance Defending Freedom says things like this when it's responsible for forcing people to fund religious schools in violation of the First Amendmentadflegal.orgThe Hyde Amendment Turns 50: No One Should Be Forced to Fund AbortionSince 1976, Congress has renewed one simple principle every year: Americans shouldn't be forced to pay for abortions. 46613
Reposted by Snitty 🎃Mr. Spookytime Grift @djdunclive.bsky.social · 14hI, for one, think it's a *great* idea to remind folks who can't vote for him that the GOP is the party of Ken Paxton as much as it is Trump. 24210
Reposted by Snitty 🎃Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 04/10/2026There are new and specific numbers in this story, so it’s worth reading. I continue to resent the lack of credit to Nick Schwellenbach at @pogo.org, Dan Friedman at @motherjones.com, and me, who have previously reported every other aspect of this story, including that the sale prices were very high. 81811484
Reposted by Snitty 🎃public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 22hGEORGIA: THIS IS TOMORROW 05037
Reposted by Snitty 🎃tweety fish oh wow like a chimera or something spoooky @sifu.tweety.fish · 14hI wonder what's going to be the last major piece of "hey guys we heard racism and sexism is back and we are THERE FOR IT" piece of major commercial art to actually get released. Like I feel like we're in the prime moment for projects conceived in fall '24 right now but there'll be a pretty long tail 2262
Reposted by Snitty 🎃Shimmersoft @shimmersoft.bsky.social · 17hIt's really easy to be like "suicide? Sure jan" in situations like this, but as the guy himself is quoted, being a whistleblower came at considerable cost to himself and his family. We often ask why courage is so rare and it's because it's often very expensive, financially and emotionally. 314624
Reposted by Snitty 🎃Dag. @3fecta.bsky.social · 15hListening to Kate Bush, Natalie Merchant, Tracy Chapman, and Nanci Griffith songs from the late 80's would blow the kids minds. 072
Snitty 🎃 @clofsnitville.bsky.social · 15hI don't know why it popped into my head yesterday but for some reason I had the old Kate Bush song Deeper Understanding in my head and realized that she was a freaking prophet when she wrote it. 131
Reposted by Snitty 🎃Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · 15hZiggy with his new little sister, Ruby 51085
Snitty 🎃 @clofsnitville.bsky.social · 15hThere was never a single reason to believe it would produce one and the implication that it could is racist and sexist 1275
Snitty 🎃 @clofsnitville.bsky.social · 15hwhy are people talking about the douchey looking hats today 020
Snitty 🎃 @clofsnitville.bsky.social · 15hWatched the first two episodes of this season of GBBO last night and I am still thinking through how I think Nigella is working out as a host. 290
Reposted by Snitty 🎃Dan Seitz @dseitz.bsky.social · 16hAs a Somerville resident, I want to point out that part of this was the simple realization that the people who were most inconvenienced by this (and whined about it most vocally) don't live here. Once that came into focus a lot of these changes were pretty straightforward. 19519
Reposted by Snitty 🎃Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social · 16hI don’t think I’m ever going to get the appeal of pivoting to video for podcasts. I’ve been listening to podcasts for 20 years, and never once have I thought, my God, I need to SEE these people! I’m on a walk or doing the dishes, I don’t need video.  1314576467
Reposted by Snitty 🎃Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 15hNixon's instincts about Polymarket are absolutely correct: it has been paying off the Presidents son and offering free pro-Republican ads in exchange for protection from actual regulation from its (mostly) sports gambling business donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-polyma...donmoynihan.substack.comThe (Poly)Market Nobody Knows How to GovernPrediction markets or gambling websites? Inside the regulatory wild west 414836
Reposted by Snitty 🎃Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 16hI don't think working class people are inherently more virtuous than others, but they have life experiences that other legislators do not. Our political and media culture fetishizes them, but not to the point they are represented in meaningful ways. 512215
Reposted by Snitty 🎃Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 16hLess than 1% of major party nominees for Congress are working class. It is one of the most fundamental ways that Congress is not representative. And their views, e.g. on unregulated gambling websites, are apt to be different. www.bloomberg.com/features/202...bloomberg.comWhy Working-Class Candidates Are Almost Never on the BallotLess than 1% of major-party candidates competing for a seat in the US Congress have a background in manual trades or service industries. 8751192
Reposted by Snitty 🎃Doug Mack @douglasmack.bsky.social · 16hStray thought: A lot of USA political/pundit discourse seems like it's based on a second-ring suburban point of view. It's based on inaccurate stereotypes about demographics and everyday life in cities AND small towns AND the working-class, first-ring suburbs found in many metro areas. 623640
Snitty 🎃 @clofsnitville.bsky.social · 16hI deleted an earlier snarky thread about this because I've seen the case for how it may apply differently to disagreements over specific policy vs. broader disagreements about world view - but I think it's critical to understand that a lot of men simply *do not engage* with women on this level. 2186
Reposted by Snitty 🎃Scott Stein @sstein.bsky.social · 18hDisagree about what? Other side of what? Without knowing that, I can't say I agree or disagree with the original post. 1232
Reposted by Snitty 🎃Scott Stein @sstein.bsky.social · 19hOkay, I actually read it and "like and respect" rules out bigots and Trumpers automatically, so I'm not sure that this "other side" I would have lunch with is *the* other side. "Find people you like and respect on the other side. Go to lunch with them. Try to understand how they see the world." 2431
Reposted by Snitty 🎃Scott Stein @sstein.bsky.social · 19hI am not going to lunch at a Jewish delicatessen with Nick Fuentes to talk over our disagreement about values. But if my reasonably sane neighbor and I disagree about the minimum wage or the speed limit, I might have a good-faith discussion over a sandwich. 31046
Reposted by Snitty 🎃public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 22hyou're the saddest bunch i ever met but you can bet before we're through 0395
Reposted by Snitty 🎃public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 22hdid they send me daughters when i asked for puns 2818
Reposted by Snitty 🎃Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 19hThe Branch Manager takes the lane 1909
