Reposted by corpjesterManisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 05/03/2026Historian here history first time as tragedy the second time as farce. 12060632156
corpjester @ghostreadin.bsky.social · 06/03/2026society feels particularly built to grind us down into labor paste these days eh 000
Reposted by corpjesterJessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 10/12/2025I’m going to keep saying it: both the “male loneliness epidemic” and the techbro obsession with AI are, at their core, about a complete lack of distress tolerance for the messy business of relating to other people and a terror of vulnerability/interdependence. 525164
Reposted by corpjesterEric Ravenscraft @lordravenscraft.bsky.social · 09/12/2025I don't believe for a second that this is true, but even if it were ...what's the fucking point, then? there's nothing in this ad that isn't bog-standard, stock footage shots what is the point of boiling the earth—and stealing from everyone—if it still means burning people out to make mediocre ads 1142
Reposted by corpjesterRadical Graffiti @radicalgraffiti.bsky.social · 09/12/2025Anti-Bezos poster spotted in San Francisco, California 3703122
Reposted by corpjesterKarl Bode @karlbode.com · 02/12/2025how about we make rich people pay taxes and use the proceeds to nationalize the healthcare system 815732
Reposted by corpjesterRich Burroughs @somewhattolerable.com · 02/12/2025What the fuck are we even doing? 511635
Reposted by corpjesterwhat was I made for? @jjbbllkk.bsky.social · 02/12/2025Another day Another: Fuck Spotify www.avclub.com/spotify-stan...avclub.comSpotify stands by ICE recruitment ads despite artist backlashSpotify stands by ICE recruitment ads despite artist backlash 361463862
Reposted by corpjesterJohn Scalzi @scalzi.com · 02/12/2025The real question is not "Why is Bluesky so left-coded," the real question is "Why can't the right exist in a social media environment without algorithmic assistance, where people can ignore them" 588367907978
Reposted by corpjesterDaniel José Older @djolder.bsky.social · 02/12/2025Genuinely want people to understand how deeply they undercut their own arguments, especially about wealth and inequality, when they use genAI graphics. You are feeding the machine you critique, and for what? Clicks? To save a few bucks? Please stop. 612027
Reposted by corpjesterTania J. Spencer @taniaspencer.bsky.social · 17/11/2025The bad news: #H3N2 is new flu strain, "generally thought to cause more illness & be worse for older adults than other strains". * This, on top of 5+ years of #COVID reinfections, a virus known to dysregulate the immune system. The good news: It's PREVENTABLE with an #N95 mask & #CleanAir. 12819
Reposted by corpjesterzinā' warrior princess @melifonos.bsky.social · 18/11/2025throughout this decade-long war of attrition against sesta, fosta, osa, etc. moral panic over sex work has been manufactured as cover for risk-management, more or less, for investment firms. the issue is ideological, but not in the obvious way; an open internet can't be totally financialized 014776
Reposted by corpjesterKarl Bode @karlbode.com · 17/11/2025you were either willfully complicit or duped into supporting a deal to offload TikTok to Trump's billionaire buddies under the pretense of national security, hope that helps clarify things for youtheverge.comThe TikTok ban’s architects are in the darkTikTok was supposed to be banned from the US 10 months ago. 212634
Reposted by corpjesterItsJustZip @itsjustzip.com · 17/11/2025I cannot express how important it is for anyone going through a secured checkpoint like TSA to make sure thier phone is in BFU (Before First Unlock) mode. To enter this state: reboot your phone and don't unlock it. In BFU mode all data is encrypted and your phone requires a passcode to unlock. 5349188
Reposted by corpjesterKaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com · 16/11/2025MTG is an experiment in how little it will take for white voters to ignore red flags they’ve already clocked 722800393
Reposted by corpjesterElias Eells- Bar Cart Bookshelf @eliaseells.bsky.social · 17/11/2025Tapping the sign again for brainless political reporters who carry water for fascists 0124
Reposted by corpjesterErin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 17/11/2025In somewhat good news, today the state department website has changed the answer to this question to defer to ICAO policy. Sources still tell me that there is some appetite for invalidation/reversion of passports issued under the injunction, but this message will be welcome to many trans people. 16944258
Reposted by corpjesterJess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 16/11/2025If women are underrepresented in STEM, it's at least partly because men like this offer mentoring, then embarrass themselves by assuming their mentees must be into them, then decide the best solution is to cut ties, which sends the signal to other faculty that the mentee must not be good enough. 4544711156
Reposted by corpjesterRachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 16/11/2025“Maybe somebody thought ‘Oh it’s a small place, it’s rural, they’re probably quiet, we can overpower them,” said City Councilor Steve Hickman. “We’ve been underestimated.” www.newsfromthestates.com/article/fede...newsfromthestates.comFederal defense contractor backs out of potential Oregon Coast ICE facilityA defense contractor with a history of providing housing for military operations withdrew its inquiry seeking land at the Newport Municipal Airport, a city official said Wednesday, as growing evidence... 12553901598
Reposted by corpjesterEd Zitron @edzitron.com · 16/11/2025[seeing literally anything of any kind] probably nothing 428817
Reposted by corpjesterEileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 16/11/2025Always remember that Tarrio was an informant for the feds and local law enforcement too. Calling him a "prolific" informer, his own lawyer said in court that Tarrio's information led to the prosecution of 13 people on federal charges. 25829
Reposted by corpjesteratreides nuts @afivegantenna.bsky.social · 14/11/2025(Premium users can also converse with Satan.) 29711190
Reposted by corpjesterCoach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 09/11/2025I hope everyone who still thinks a deal can be done with Rs in Congress wakes up one of these days. Look at this. Do you think Trump is gonna allow ANY tax money to go to anything other than what he personally deems acceptable? Doesn't matter what Mike or anyone says. Trump knows it's HIS money 117634
Reposted by corpjesterSK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️⚧️ @skwinnicki.bsky.social · 09/11/2025And even *if* standing with trans people is a liability, do it anyway. Invest in changing hearts and minds if you must. We’re worth fighting for. Our rights and lives and wellness and joy are worth it 411521
Reposted by corpjesterLiving in a neoliberal dystopian hellscape @breakify.bsky.social · 01/11/2025NVIDIA is becoming an increasingly dangerous corporation, and when the AI bubble bursts, the next scam that they're likely to pivot to is robotics.gizmodo.comNvidia Bets the Future on a Robot WorkforceFrom surgical robots to humanoid robot fleets for household chores, here's what Nvidia announced about its robots at GTC. 0155
Reposted by corpjesterGillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 27/10/2025If a Democrat speaks in the woods and there's no focus group around to hear them to do they still underperform the generic ballot 324640
Reposted by corpjesterJason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 28/10/2025This is so bleak: www.404media.co/a16z-is-fund... 61817273
Reposted by corpjesterJordan Harper @jordanharper.bsky.social · 23/10/2025What I think a lot of people don't grasp is that hypocrisy is a display of power. The sovereign is he who makes the exception and all that. 25516
Reposted by corpjesterAlt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 23/10/2025Thank you, Senator Jeff Merkley, for your incredible 22-hour and 37-minute marathon speech on the Senate floor! 89103711782
Reposted by corpjesterKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 16/10/2025If you think that professors exist as repositories of knowledge that students ask for answers, you’re missing the entire point of a college education. We’re here to teach students how to do research, how to analyze and argue, how to think for themselves — how to find the answers on their own. 2644053967
Reposted by corpjesterBarred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 16/10/2025‼️ this is one of the reasons why the Musk shutdown of USAID broke me, like Congress said 'we're allocating these funds to save lives' a random asshole with too much money and unresolved bitterness about the end of Apartheid said 'no you're not' so the funding disappeared?? and people are dying?? 142204599
Reposted by corpjesterErin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 16/10/2025Lots of people with money who want to make more are telling you this is a tool you have to learn or you'll be Left Behind but as with all tools, you can use your own brain and experience to decide if it's a thing that helps you do your job better and a thing you think is ethical. 228453
corpjester @ghostreadin.bsky.social · 16/10/2025So deeply detached from reality and human connection not based on animosity and conflict; truly pathetic beings. 110
Reposted by corpjesteryonahtheundead.bsky.social @yonahtheundead.bsky.social · 16/10/2025“We want every person making the move to experience what it means to have a PC that’s not just a tool, but a true partner” no, thank you, my PC is just a tool, and so is my phone, and so is my other tech, and it'll stay this way. It's incredible how out of touch and out of reality tech bros are 01059150
Reposted by corpjesterMother Jones @motherjones.com · 07/10/2025Under the Third Reich, most Germans generally lived in the law-bound normative state, while Jews and other disfavored people were victims of the arbitrary and violent prerogative state. The dual state is characterized by the facade of normalcy obscuring the fact of an authoritarian state.motherjones.comThe “dual state” theory was invented to describe Nazis. The Supreme Court could take us there.Authoritarianism—but make it look like the rule of law. 27664303
Reposted by corpjesterLaura Sell @laurasell.bsky.social · 19/09/2025"More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history." www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...insidehighered.comCensorship Is the Authoritarian’s DreamThe right to free expression must include the right to say horrible and evil things. 7240091872
Reposted by corpjesterBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 17/09/2025Sorry I was late to your wedding, my flight was canceled because my pilot posted a Charlie Kirk quote verbatim in the comments of an Instagram Reel. 14978511647
Reposted by corpjesterGretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 17/09/2025One thing I'll say about DC not only canceling Red Hood, but recalling the first issue and refunding stores for buying it, is that you can still get Neil Gaiman's work through them. They still work with Otto Schmidt. Eddie Berganza worked there for years AFTER the formation of a policy that no women 4465992506
Reposted by corpjesterChris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 18/07/2025Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions. 14567312518642
Reposted by corpjestere.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 18/09/2025if Jimmy Kimmel's political humor is too hot for you to handle, I'm not sure "snowflake" even cuts it as a term of derision for the level of fragility you've achieved 300298926116
Reposted by corpjesterAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 18/09/2025We're 7 months in and Trump and the oligarchs have completely seized control of the media. If you criticize them, your show will be pulled from the air. This is what dictators do. Fascism isn't coming, it's here. 402933788
Reposted by corpjestergeoffrey 💀 (scary now) @parsnip.bsky.social · 13/09/2025contemporary conservatives don't do sustained protest, they do terrorism. because to sustain protest you need to care about things, and to do terrorism it is sufficient merely to hate things 222846
Reposted by corpjesterBrandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 13/09/2025That's 10% of Gaza's population. In ancient Rome, "decimatio," meaning "destruction of a tenth," was a form of military discipline in which every tenth man in a group was executed to punish units. Today we call it decimation. The IDF has literally decimated Gaza, combatants and civilians alike.theguardian.com‘We took the gloves off’: ex-IDF chief confirms Gaza casualties over 200,000Retired general Herzi Halevi says ‘not once’ had legal advice constrained Israel’s military decisions in the strip 411053
Reposted by corpjesterMy Password is Louvre @bmceuen.bsky.social · 13/09/2025The whole idea that we can’t speak ill of the dead is ridiculous. I speak ill of Hitler and Robert E. Lee all the time, fuck them and I wish they both died sooner 513633
