Reposted by Disaster Catnappingcapybara.bsky.social @nappingcapybara.bsky.social · 9hI love how these moral panics about family estrangement always bring up children refusing to talk to their parents, never the long history of parents disowning children. It's fine if dad wants to kick out his gay kid, not if his gay kid doesn't want to talk to his homophobic dad. 579469
Reposted by Disaster CatDave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I'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. 7737601082
Reposted by Disaster CatCourtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 05/10/2026Sorry I’m not gonna do idea landlords discourse today. You want authors to not get paid? Cool go totally rework society so that we also don’t have to pay for things. 656783
Reposted by Disaster CatCourtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 02/10/2026“If I’m racist about noticing you, you haven’t assimilated” has always been the standard. 526242
Reposted by Disaster CatThe Disaster 👻 HAUNTist 🎃 @beerz4yearz.bsky.social · 01/10/2026🎯 yup, Yud and the rationalists proceed from first principles that most would not agree with or would frankly just find silly. At that point it's apologetics rather than reasoning. 1181
Reposted by Disaster CatCourtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 01/10/2026That's because they disagree with the entire chain that gets you to thinking that the end could be nigh. Nobody's going to argue about the details of the rapture, if it will happen swiftly or slowly, what the criteria are, etc etc, if they don't think the rapture is going to happen. 21107
Reposted by Disaster CatCourtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 01/10/2026Look, I'm not trying to dunk on this guy, but I think more people need to understand that AI is functioning as a religion right now. "There would be actual counterarguments against Jesus" is a thing you see logicians arguing in medieval times. 630855
Reposted by Disaster CatCourtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 01/10/2026That literally is how we treat unfalsifiable statements: to ignore and/or laugh at the ones that we think are weird. If someone believes the rapture will come at some point (any point in the future), we don't have to "disprove" it or make "counterarguments." 11496
Reposted by Disaster CatKaren K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I see people victim-blame and try to logic-out the Cornell 7 rape case. "Why would she go into the frat house? Why would she drink?" etc. It's easier than thinking about how many men have done similar things to women, and whether men *they personally know* have harassed or assaulted women. 2461086
Reposted by Disaster CatCourtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 01/10/2026I do not think we should have a death penalty. I don't think it is any kind of deterrent. I think it's barbaric. I think it makes us all worse people. All of us. And we just don't have to do this to ourselves. We could abolish it, and we should. 101401244
Disaster Cat @disaster-eli.bsky.social · 30/09/2026It was the first Kingfisher book I read and made me a fan for life. It's still the one I find spookiest. The scene with the rocks and the twisting smile gets me so good every time 120
Disaster Cat @disaster-eli.bsky.social · 29/09/2026My first dog (as an adult) was a rescue. I loved her so much I structured my life around her: she didn't like other dogs so I didn't take her out. She always got in the garbage so I kept the garbage outside. When she was old she found a place to pee on the floor so I put a mat down there. It's a lot 000
Reposted by Disaster CatTrung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 28/09/2026Social media is weird because if you give people a good feeling they will be overfamiliar with you, and if you do not do that they treat you like a human yelp page 141937327
Reposted by Disaster CatI Suggest The Wicker Man @isuggestwickerman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Terfism was always going to become a more broad fascist current. People that have made policing the bodies of others their entire reason for being were never going to stop at one group. 213213
Disaster Cat @disaster-eli.bsky.social · 28/09/2026It's so hard now while you're in the trenches, but as an adult diagnosis, I'm so glad your kids are able to work out the worst of the kinks while they're safe at home and have your help. 010
Reposted by Disaster CatFights🏳️⚧️4🇵🇸Love @hyenagirl64.bsky.social · 19/09/2026People usually resort to “it’s a complicated issue” about this sort of thing when they know what’s happening is wrong but feel afraid to stand up against it because doing so is hard So they start trying to rationalize doing nothing, saying “it’s complicated” 1362
Reposted by Disaster CatPeter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026a lot of people act like there's a trade being offered where we give up trans athletes in sports and in exchange fascism is defeated forever 188136512899
Reposted by Disaster CatCourtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 18/09/2026If your goal is to combat voter apathy, GO MAKE PEOPLE EXCITED. Don't make them hate you more! 111920
Reposted by Disaster CatCourtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 18/09/2026You can't cancel someone NOT VOTING by yelling at them here. All you're going to do is make them mad, and make yourself effort. If you're being strategic, why don't you put your effort where it would make a difference? 1764
Reposted by Disaster CatDilek Sayedahmed @dileksayedahmed.bsky.social · 19/09/2026I truly, deeply, sincerely do think the guy flipping burgers at McDonalds should be able to afford rent, bills, and groceries with his paycheck alone. That's kind of the whole point of having a job and I can't believe this is considered a radical position.🤷🏽♀️ 159167344688
Disaster Cat @disaster-eli.bsky.social · 19/09/2026For anyone confused about the HP fanfic aspect: youtu.be/TKMzmOYcEUE?... 010
Reposted by Disaster CatKaren K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I already own an ebike and can avoid owning a car. But lots of people drive gas cars daily out of necessity. Only the rich can problem-solve their ways out of everything driving up prices (climate disasters, oil prices, trade war). And it's astonishing to see Democrats do almost nothing in response. 629415
Reposted by Disaster Cat🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 17/09/2026Cishet people proudly proclaiming they’re not a single issue voter. *dismissive wanking gesture* 1024726
Reposted by Disaster Catรℓσαɳε ℓყรɓεƭɦ @sloanelysbeth.northsky.social · 14/09/2026libs aren't on here harassing and abusing trans ppl bcos they want us to support transphobic dems. they're on here harassing and abusing trans ppl bcos they want us to give them permission to support transphobic dems. it's the same shit they do with harry potter trying to seek our permission. 6498123
Reposted by Disaster Cat🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 16/09/2026They're the ones fighting for their lives. They're the ones listening to Dem politicians slag them off in the name of chasing the votes of Republicans who will never vote for them. They're the ones faced with choosing between glass ice cream and a shit sundae. You have nothing valuable to add. 342436
Reposted by Disaster Cat🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 16/09/2026Now you've got Blue No Matter Who numpties yelling about how the time to criticize Democrats was before the primary. What if the Democrat flip flops on trans rights after the primary? What then? Politicians are not your friends. They work for you. We don't work for them. Fuck.static.klipy.comShoresy: So DumbALT: Shoresy: So Dumb 1062187
Reposted by Disaster CatPeter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 16/09/2026My latest newsletter is a friendly bit of political advice for Democrats.stringinamaze.netDon't Surrender On Trans RightsMany Democrats are running scared on trans issues. They shouldn't be. 383842881
Reposted by Disaster CatJay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 16/09/2026"people need to know who Jesus is!!" No they don't!!! They already heard and decided it wasn't for them! 761039
Reposted by Disaster CatR. Blaylock Art @meanderingunicorns.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Many fantasy and sci-fi authors have created compelling fictional religions, but @tkingfisher.com has written the only one I actually want to join. Let me be be useful. Let me be practical. Let me find ways my skills can serve others in the Temple of the White Rat. 934659
Reposted by Disaster CatMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 15/09/2026i'm not sure if robert kraft quite grasps what he started 23086351532
Reposted by Disaster CatCourtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 15/09/2026My personal belief is that the BEST WAY that we protect all future generations of humanity is to have the ethos today, and every day hereafter, that we should protect humans as valuable today. 223325
Reposted by Disaster CatCourtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 15/09/2026Longtermerists view AI like a gigantic trolley problem: Because it will be so beneficial for future generations of the human race (who dwarf the current living beings in number), it is worth sacrificing an arbitrarily large number of currently living humans in order to achieve it. 417228
Reposted by Disaster Catjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14/09/2026crypto, car dealerships and MLMs. ripe targets for political and policy reasons. 1025974950
Reposted by Disaster CatCourtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 14/09/2026We should have taken a stand back then. We should have. We should have defended TPS. We should have spent the time to explain that people seeking asylum are not "illegals" and they're not "circumventing" the system. We should have fought harder for them. 31229101
Reposted by Disaster Catelias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 12/09/2026you may think i am joking but i am not. they’re talking about AI the way protestant zealots talked about the end times. in both cases we are hearing people talk about themselves — their desires, their lust for destruction, their yearning to trample their rivals underfoot. 51168208
Reposted by Disaster CatKatie Mack @astrokatie.com · 10/09/2026FWIW I don’t think that AI is an existential threat, nor on track to become one. I do however think that the leaders of the biggest AI companies, AI’s strongest boosters, and some of the folks who are most adept at using it to exploit others are actively hastening along OTHER existential threats. 492154416
Disaster Cat @disaster-eli.bsky.social · 10/09/2026So what's the alternative? Never push back on our "allies" when they throw us under the bus? Sit back and let them be pushed right because a couple of bigots are screaming at them? 140
Reposted by Disaster CatAaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 09/09/2026If you tell me this is necessary to win in Texas you are wrong. It alienates supporters who become less likely to talk positively to friends and family about your campaign, even if they still hold their nose and vote for you. 757665
Reposted by Disaster CatAndy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 07/09/2026If she followed through with this "outreach" campaign and showed up at a rally with or eagerly takes the endorsement of some D-list RFK-style health woo grifters, it will cost her many more votes in the Democratic primary than it could ever plausibly gain her either there or in the general election. 3815
Reposted by Disaster CatMichael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 07/09/2026MAHA has been in power for two years. They have decimated basic science, gutted food safety surveillance and kicked millions of people off food stamps. *That* is their ideology, not their polite platitudes about corporate control of the food supply. 212429516
Reposted by Disaster CatNicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Unpopular opinion: When someone is factually wrong about something important—eg vaccination—telling them that they’re wrong is treating them with respect. The condescending thing to do is indulge them, act like they have a point, as if the thing you know to be wrong might be at least somewhat right. 561925302
Reposted by Disaster CatA Macabrely Spooktacular BOOnny 🎃🐇 @vonlenska.bsky.social · 06/09/2026The thing is, handling eugenicists with compassion and gentleness only emboldens them to force their eugenicist program into public health, where it has absolutely no business being. They are *DANGEROUS*. The goal should be disempowering them, not "bringing them into the fold." 1416
Reposted by Disaster Catrot economy critic @rotonomics.bsky.social · 06/09/2026I am deeply tired of the smol beanification of these people when like 80% of them are either abusive parents or people who are good friends with abusive parents. 21744
Reposted by Disaster CatMichael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 06/09/2026I know this is a common belief, but it’s not true. If people went anti-vaxx/MAHA because they were excluded from the medical establishment, we would see sky-high rates among poor people, minorities and the uninsured. We don’t. 1255629899
Reposted by Disaster CatDmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 02/09/2026The bar for progressive policies is: "did this unilaterally solve the entire gigantic systemic issue without making a single person sad?" The bar for conservative policies is: "did the people pushing this yell out the name of a real problem before doing something unrelated, cruel and ineffective?" 111094234
Reposted by Disaster Cat𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 31/08/2026"Eggs expensive under Biden" was a story for six months. "Trump made everything expensive on purpose" is apparently just a Trump personality quirk we're all supposed to get used to. 522314525
Reposted by Disaster CatMichael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 27/08/2026AOC just mildly disavowed "woke 1" and it sparked a weeks-long, ongoing discourse cycle about radicalism on the left. The idea that prominent Dems "disavowing" far-left figures will stop the right from talking about them is laughable. 241452133
Reposted by Disaster CatCourtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 25/08/2026The US has built a mythology internally that relies on the entire world to sustain, but to admit this would be to shatter the narrative we have that We Are The Greatest and The Rest Of the World Needs Us And Sometimes We Deign To Help Them. 7797164