Reposted by FerrixianAnna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 4hPeople are in here telling me their particular phone does not work when they hold it to to their ear. I assure you it does. I'm so sorry to be a stickler on this point but yes it does 361101123
Reposted by FerrixianElizabeth Alsop @elizabethalsop.bsky.social · 2hThis is such a fantastic resource for NYC parents! Providing families with meaningful ways to assess a school's quality is a real material public good in a city where for years parents who can afford to have paid private consultants $$ for this kind of info 1176
Reposted by FerrixianPrisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 6hthe speed at which human beings move from "this terrible thing exists" to "everyone just has to learn to live with it" is truly alarming and illuminating. Immediately moving to compliance. Watching this in real time is incredible. 191099257
Reposted by FerrixianPrisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 6hif the parties were reversed this would become a weeks long story. As it stands, people will move on by today. 720039
Reposted by FerrixianMatt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 18hthe tech industry is about to invent books 539198563904
Ferrixian @ferrixian.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Population of greater LA: 18.5 million Population of greater SD: 3.5 million He says the most odious, truly evil shit every day but I gotta say I’m stunned that he just said that the deaths of 22 million people is a “very small price to pay” 000
Reposted by FerrixianPrisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Is it safe for me to say on here that I do not believe the polls about the Midterms? I don't trust white voters to be honest about their voting intentions with pollsters. 871596202
Reposted by FerrixianCoach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Elden Ring boss Cursed Shellgina 6715
Reposted by FerrixianAndy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 05/10/2026The Constitution allows it. South Korea has proven it works. If you want to make impeachment viable—and so much else is pointless if you don't—then it can be done by a simple majority adopting a simple rules change: vote on the verdict by secret ballot.theunpopulist.netA Democratic Senate Should Adopt Secret Impeachment Ballots on a Priority BasisSuch a change, requiring no constitutional amendment, would free senators to vote their judgment instead of their fears 221454387
Reposted by FerrixianJessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 05/10/2026This should be so obvious that it doesn’t need to be said, but given what kind of weekend it’s been on here, apparently it does: If you don’t want old rapists running the world, in office, in the board room, making decisions for all of us get comfortable with “ruining” young rapists’ lives 1851651375
Ferrixian @ferrixian.bsky.social · 05/10/2026It’s pretty upsetting that the motivation behind switching to EVs isn’t because the world is heating up faster than we can deal with but because fuel is too expensive Glad it’s happening, hate how we got here 010
Reposted by FerrixianBog Witch @georgiabogwitch.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Every time a kid is diagnosed there should be a screening for the parents. My kid's diagnostician even asked me if my kid reminded me of anyone in the family. 1204
Reposted by FerrixianMicah @rincewind.run · 02/10/2026getting mad at the pope for not thinking the chatbot has a soul is easily the funniest thing I've read all week 624429881
Reposted by FerrixianProfessa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Abortion is reproductive healthcare, because sometimes having a child can literally kill you. And I cannot tell you how it angers me that at the same time, Black women like Tierra Walker dying, RFK cut funding for research into infant and mother mortality, to fund his security detail. 323483
Reposted by Ferrixiandarth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 02/10/2026trump going on an emergency 17 state media tour to support republican candidates before the midterms and he is going with “nobody knows that dumb has a b on the end” 1773658596
Reposted by FerrixianKevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026This is not a thing judges have to write in free countries. 2344109
Reposted by FerrixianMindy Weisberger @laminda.bsky.social · 02/10/2026September 30th October 1st 0394
Reposted by FerrixianKathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 02/10/2026This is quite the graph from a new retrospective cohort study in Neurology: “In conclusion, football is the leading cause of sports-related traumatic brain injury in children and young adults, and its risks are amplified by institutional promotion despite decades of accumulating evidence of harm.” 611657
Reposted by FerrixianBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Finally a president who solved our age old problem of being a country where people wanted to be 353360414
Reposted by Ferrixianmore mr. spice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · 01/10/2026after the guy who wrote the Alphabet Song died they were cleaning out his place and found more than ten thousand handwritten pages of an unfinished Numbers Song 559581
Reposted by FerrixianMemento (spooky) Morty 🌙 @mementomorty.bsky.social · 01/10/2026a lot of heavy stuff in the news right now, take care of yourselves. we weren't made for this much horror. 8497102
Reposted by Ferrixianrax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 01/10/2026do the men in the group chat like each other, i wonder flaminghydra.com/gentlemen-an... 1647983
Reposted by FerrixianBrandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Pete is lost in terms of modern war. I use the example of this outgunned Ukrainian army officer who successfully terrorized a Russian unit for weeks because she "did the math." At the time, someone commented, "yeah, in combat, 'I did the math' beats 'I can do 100 pushups' every time." 2349841157
Reposted by FerrixianA.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 01/10/2026At the leadership level anyway the two parties are "represents billionaires with openly racist beliefs" and "represents billionaires who have mostly submerged their racist and genocidal beliefs." Which is why you can't get any party leadership to sign up for transformative change the people want. 7687156
Reposted by FerrixianAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/09/2026I for one think it’s bad that the president can just say crazy stuff all day every day and 99% of it doesn’t make the news because we’ve normalized having an insane president 895254936032
Reposted by Ferrixianemptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I really wouldn't mind if Pope Bob excommunicated all the fascist Catholics on SCOTUS. 281387198
Reposted by Ferrixianc0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Omigod, this is the most heartwarming story possible! Backpack (bear 89) is the son of the 2019 winner of Fat Bear Week, Holly (bear 435). In 2007, he injured his foot & a practice of riding on momma's Holly's back had a new meaning: he was mobility-restricted while it healed. So Holly moved him. 2847631604
Reposted by FerrixianAda Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Delightful also to hear real eagle noises. In movies eagles are always dubbed with hawks, since hawks found fierce and eagles sound like adorable squeakers. 221226277
Reposted by FerrixianBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Reading about Socrates, apparently he was horrific to look at and was still having kids in his 60s. Unbelievable game. Imagine you're at the bar and a man who looks like a beluga whale hits you with "The only thing I know is I know nothing" and you're just powerless to resist 441864153
Ferrixian @ferrixian.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Any Dem who isn’t for expanding the court needs to be excluded from leadership 000
Reposted by FerrixianHelen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 29/09/2026Trump’s new AI website is kinda fun, it turns out. 5441371126
Reposted by Ferrixian@GottaLaff @gottalaff.bsky.social · 29/09/2026"USS Fort Lauderdale was in the Caribbean, part of the Trump admin's operation around Venezuela.. "It was constantly like getting texts like, 'Guys, you'll never f***ing believe it. We just got extended again,' & I think it happened 4x. It's just that uncertainty & promises unfulfilled": Calderon 18626
Ferrixian @ferrixian.bsky.social · 29/09/202699% of the time the stupid they perpetrate is infuriating but there’s always that 1% of the stupid that is really really funny 000
Reposted by FerrixianSahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 29/09/2026A phenomenal moment in the Senate. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., claims he has evidence Jack Smith went to a HAWKS game in Atlanta. Smith denies it. Schmitt declares he has busted Jack Smith for perjury. Smith, vexed, says he went to HAWKEYES game in Maryland. WATCH IN FULL, UNINTERRUPTED 62169631570
Reposted by FerrixianCoach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 29/09/202657. 57 men didn't do shit or try to help. 515830
Ferrixian @ferrixian.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I am never going to get over that he got away with all of it At some point, others are going to pay for abetting his crimes, but it will never be him 100
Reposted by FerrixianChanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026If you like me are a survivor of rape who is maybe losing her mind a bit this week, I recommend a few movies about surviving men/holding them accountable: “Sorry, Baby” “Is God Is” and “Supergirl” Supergirl was, in a way, about fraternity rape culture I discuss them here:news.chanda.scienceYou should go see SupergirlIt's pop art that is unapologetically political. 14423101
Reposted by FerrixianJeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I give up. I’m moving into a cave. 743489677
Ferrixian @ferrixian.bsky.social · 28/09/2026The frames of figs and flowers placed intentionally in the back make me irrationally angry to the point at which I flip back into laughter Everything else is BS Insta I-am-miserably-hobbyless-and-rich-and-BORED theatre 110
Reposted by FerrixianZoë @artistzoe.bsky.social · 28/09/2026See here for supporting evidence: bsky.app/profile/band... 041
Reposted by FerrixianZoë @artistzoe.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Yep. Autistic/ND women are at a much higher risk of sexual assault etc. than almost any other group of people. I'm completely unsurprised. We live in hell. 14712
Reposted by FerrixianCoach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 28/09/2026My Dog Is A True Asshole meet up group is incredibly funny 37810
Ferrixian @ferrixian.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Unpopular opinion: Sanders never got anywhere because while he has good, even great, ideas, but his judgment on how to best carry out those ideas is and always has been terrible 010
Ferrixian @ferrixian.bsky.social · 28/09/2026The Poseidon Adventure rules It's my metric for the amount of screaming in any context "Oh, they were freaking out? Like how much, on a scale of one to the Poseidon Adventure?" 010
Reposted by FerrixianJessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I don’t think banning (traditional) frats will magically “fix” anything overnight—and there’s a lot it doesn’t address. But when so much SA is centered around one specific area of campus life, it’s worth taking about #cornell 615535
