Reposted by Astral GlizzyMayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 6hOne thing all New Yorkers can agree on? It’s time to get your flu shot! Go to nyc.gov/healthmap to find all the free locations. 804501756
Reposted by Astral GlizzyDavid Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026 29119003780
Reposted by Astral GlizzyJohn Ross @johnrossmd.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Plague epidemics were a regular thing in Europe for four centuries, but they haven't been since 1722. That's because most of us don't live in close proximity to rats, fleas, and lice anymore. Comparisons to Wuhan and COVID are grossly overblown. 132
Reposted by Astral GlizzyMike Eliason @holz-bau.bsky.social · 26/09/2026chat is this good? 11342871091
Reposted by Astral Glizzyleon @leyawn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026ceo of burger king: our burgers have gone rogue again and infected people with e coli 5356181274
Reposted by Astral Glizzydr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 24/09/2026we have control mechanisms for this. it's called The Law. these guys should be held personally liable for these harms. the suicides, the thefts, the intrusions into computer systems. they should be sued and prosecuted as appropriate. problem immediately solved 12771131698
Reposted by Astral GlizzyAnarcho-Crust Demon Hunter @jamesaskew.bsky.social · 23/09/2026The good news for Karen Bass is that this dropped the same day as the news about Susan Collins so the press isn’t able to pay attention to it. The bad news for Karen Bass is there are two more days of stories coming out.thecentersquare.comMayor Bass solicited companies with millions riding on City Hall decisions(The Center Square) - Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass has prompted donors to spend $38 million on her favorite charities and third-party organizations, in some cases from donor companies who 143
Reposted by Astral GlizzyDrH @drhaup.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Due by 9/20/26: Please consider commenting on this Federal Register notice. It could narrow access to vaccines and sow further confusion in the United States. HHS gave the public an unusually short window to weigh in. yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/p/two-days-l...yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.comTwo days left to comment on HHS's vaccine category proposalOkay, this one’s a bit in the weeds, but it’s worth your attention. 510594
Reposted by Astral GlizzySergio Perez @sergioperez.bsky.social · 17/09/2026We need to pump this majority UP: Talk to your friends & family & everybody else about why we need to get billionaires to pay more for to fund the communities that have allowed them to enrich themselves. 151
Astral Glizzy @cosmic-hotdog.bsky.social · 17/09/2026This story doesn't do enough to highlight the political forces at play here. Epi aid requests have to originate from the state. CDC apparently has political reasons for wanting to be involved in the outbreak investigation. PA apparently has leverage here, and they're using it. 163
Reposted by Astral Glizzyjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/09/2026the truly crazy making part of all of this is that voter fraud EFFECTIVELY DOES NOT EXIST. you have a better chance of finding an actual leprechaun at the end of the rainbow than of finding evidence of voter fraud that influences an election 20178311896
Reposted by Astral GlizzyOaf @languidoaf.bsky.social · 14/09/2026CEO of Taco Bell: we’re actually worried that some of our upcoming items could destroy humanity as well 362661514
Reposted by Astral GlizzyNaomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 13/09/2026First excerpt from End Times Fascism! So happy The Guardian went for the part of the book about the wonder of THIS world, and the people doing everything to commit to it. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...theguardian.comThe end times fascists are plotting their escape from our world. Our mission is clearAn unholy alliance is working toward an apocalyptic future from which only a chosen few will emerge unscathed. It’s becoming clear how we stop them 13524183
Reposted by Astral GlizzyBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 13/09/2026The Onion has created a machine that will kill everyone on Earth that is coincidentally running out of money and the only way to slow it down is if my staff and I take a six-week vacation to Cabo San Lucas. 230113191301
Astral Glizzy @cosmic-hotdog.bsky.social · 12/09/2026I think we should simply stop gender segregating sports 000
Reposted by Astral GlizzyAlycia the Artist 🪶 @alyciaart.bsky.social · 15/02/2025This is one of the funniest videos I've ever seen in my life 23107032669
Reposted by Astral GlizzyKristian G. Andersen @kgandersen.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Controversial, not so controversial, take - the dangers posed by AI are real, current, and well-documented. Those do not include human extinction within a decade, nor do they include AI-manufactured-printed-out-in-the-lab bioweapons, yet, those are the ones we chose to focus on. Good lord. 411018
Reposted by Astral GlizzyBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 10/09/2026If you made software not intended to kill everyone and now you think it might kill everyone that sounds like a product liability issue. You should go fix it and stop bothering me 365225746
Reposted by Astral GlizzyRobert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 10/09/2026ok but "the future" they are promising is "we destroy your jobs and maybe build a dark god of genocide" so perhaps winning these people back is not the wisest electoral move 963534568
Reposted by Astral GlizzyTaniel @taniel.bsky.social · 10/09/2026RESULT: David Morales, a socialist challenger, has ousted the mayor of Providence David Smiley. Add Providence to NYC, DC, and Ann Arbor as socialist wins in mayoral elections. 463003575
Astral Glizzy @cosmic-hotdog.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Who would win? A. Artificial super intelligence B. 200 middle-aged electricians 000
Reposted by Astral GlizzyChris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 09/09/2026AI BRO - “The tech future is coming! The godmachine is inevitable!!” <me, casually walking over to the wall socket> AI BRO - “The singularity is nigh!!! You don’t understand how powerful these models are!!!!” <me, slowly bending down> AI BRO - “IT WILL KILL US ALL!!!!!” <me, unplugging it> 31884106
Astral Glizzy @cosmic-hotdog.bsky.social · 05/09/2026I mean when do we start doing that same thing to the idiots trying to gamer gate academics? 000
Reposted by Astral GlizzyJoshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 04/09/2026The agreement "signed by Dr. Bhattacharya and Dr. Robert Kadlec at the Defense Department" ... "could allow the Defense Department to go around Congress and gain access to billions of dollars meant for infectious disease research" and involve ~$2 billion of NIAID's budget (!!!). 🎁nytimes.comPentagon Agreement With N.I.H. on Biodefense Draws Alarm From Democrats (Gift Article)Under a new partnership, the Defense Department would play a larger role in biodefense and pandemic preparedness. Democrats warned it could allow a Pentagon cash grab. 47565
Reposted by Astral Glizzyceej @ceej.online · 03/09/2026I do think “every rich person went insane during covid because it was the first time they’ve been inconvenienced in decades” felt a little reductive at first but damn if isn’t more and more compelling as the years drag on 193218934414
Reposted by Astral GlizzyBenn Jordan @bennjordan.bsky.social · 02/09/2026For years we've been screaming from the mountain tops about how insanely dangerous mandatory ID verification is. Now that half the country is doxxed, it would be a good time to take note of the politicians who didn't listen. 1224252
Astral Glizzy @cosmic-hotdog.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Unpopular opinion apparently, but I think British chocolate is oily, bland and kinda gross. Not a Hershey's Stan but Cadbury ain't it either. 020
Reposted by Astral Glizzydr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 01/09/2026could make the argument he is officially making it harder for the oligarchs to run off with public fisc now. maybe that's cope. they seem sweatier and a lot less thunderous these days tho 23573
Reposted by Astral Glizzydr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 01/09/2026he's fucking up so much stuff it's getting impossible to ignore all the gaping contradictions staring us all in the face. american prestige fully in the toilet, probably good for the world in the longer timeline 953411
Reposted by Astral Glizzydr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 01/09/2026nonzero chance his odious chicanery and exhausting narcissism are going to, eg, pull these tech assholes down off their pedestals if it hasn't happened already. if some bloodless technocrat was in there capably at the wheel and obediently taking direction, i dunno 74983
Reposted by Astral Glizzydr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 31/08/2026im developing a theory that trump may be actually the guy who saved us from an even worse fate 6867614
Reposted by Astral Glizzyceej @ceej.online · 31/08/2026I don’t go in much for generationalism but I do think being the right age to be double-fisting a red bull and american spirits in the front seat of your best friend’s shitty car while blasting midnight city on a moonlit highway in late summer 2011 is perhaps a specific moment unrepeatable in time 1968655
Reposted by Astral GlizzyAlex Arrelia @alexarrelia.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Generative AI power users accept the exploitation of artists and the environment as necessary preconditions for their own mere convenience. That is rapist logic. Sorry for being spicy. The power user privileges their autonomy over the humanity of those who produced the work they had to steal. 1163
Reposted by Astral GlizzyAlex Arrelia @alexarrelia.bsky.social · 30/08/2026I saw someone say today, and I couldn’t agree more, that LLM power users show the exact same kind of arrogant entitlement and disdain for consent as rapists. Idk. That hits. As an artist and a rape survivor, that rings absolutely true to me 🤷 Generative AI uses rape culture logic. 43710
Astral Glizzy @cosmic-hotdog.bsky.social · 29/08/2026The manosphere exists because men don't die of cholera on the war front anymore. Their yearning for scurvy is just nature attempting to find equilibrium. #bringbackswordduels 010
Astral Glizzy @cosmic-hotdog.bsky.social · 29/08/2026👏Give 👏Pete 👏Hegseth👏 and 👏Marco 👏 Rubio 👏 short 👏 swords 👏 010
Astral Glizzy @cosmic-hotdog.bsky.social · 29/08/2026The world would be better off if we brought back sword duelling to the death. We have so many fewer problems today if the second sons of the wealthy elite were running each other through with rapiers on the regular. 100
Astral Glizzy @cosmic-hotdog.bsky.social · 29/08/2026In 20 years, there will still be writers and artists and musicians and guys who build doodads for the fun of it, because the joy of creating things and developing skills exists outside of monetary value. There might be far fewer tech guys, however, and for that I tremendously grateful. 110
Reposted by Astral GlizzyBrendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Old guy down the block is just fucking blasting 9 to 5 and I’m considering giving him a that’s right brother nod 142470185
Reposted by Astral GlizzyClaire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 25/08/2026the thing is like public health child literacy civil rights social justice rural poverty once you personally have become rich and successful, those things only matter if you still have the capacity to care deeply about people outside your immediate circle and that is harder than becoming rich 44604834
Reposted by Astral GlizzyClaire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 25/08/2026her very existence was an indisputable reminder of how many things framed as inevitabilities were actually just someone’s choice. there actually is enough money for everything. the wealthy could fully fund literacy and public health and the arts and child welfare. they just won’t 159411800
Reposted by Astral GlizzyAlasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social · 24/08/2026OK, racism should be defeated by argument, but I think the one they had with Hitler was actually quite a big argument. 1456357
Reposted by Astral Glizzymaple cocaine @maplecocaine.bsky.social · 23/08/2026There are already plenty of stupid morons in academia but what the racists are demanding is that being a stupid moron should itself be a recognized academic discipline 101325211
Astral Glizzy @cosmic-hotdog.bsky.social · 22/08/2026The UK is nice but I do find not having light switches in the bathroom to be a personal affront and am not completely sure why 120
Reposted by Astral Glizzym @keptsimple.bsky.social · 18/08/2026the fact that you believe trump's weird penis prevents him from having an affair is, frankly, ableist 2052962
Reposted by Astral Glizzyflyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 18/08/2026I’d reiterate that the key incident that drove the Cancel Culture panic - a wholly elite project, imposed from the top down - was the sight of Harvey Weinstein being dragged sobbing from court to jail, unprotected by his wealth, and the internet-based movement for justice that went with it.theguardian.comHere is the news from the US: Woke 1.0 is over. But what did progressives do wrong? | Nesrine MalikA movement with safety, dignity and equality at its heart has been blamed for the rightwing backlash. But within it were principles worth carrying forwards, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik 121044240
