Reposted by GorgonGumptionAsha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 3hBut ice cream shops can’t give a free cone to someone with an “I voted” sticker 561271263
Reposted by GorgonGumptionLuke Ontario @coolhand.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Every time I see a serial killer tv show advertised I think of this 374431578
Reposted by GorgonGumptionKat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 22hNicole is a leading expert on the issue of campus sexual violence. I am floored that USA Today would do this to her. I find this kind of journalistic behavior unethical and morally reprehensible, twisting an interview with a renowned advocate for survivors into a hit piece against a survivor. 131575436
Reposted by GorgonGumptionMara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I love people who have Fuck ICE or Fuck Trump or Fuck the IDF or Fuck Billionaires in their bio who then defend AI companies 381746190
Reposted by GorgonGumptionAbdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 02/10/2026The kids are alright. It's our job to do everything we can to build an economy where every kid can grow up and thrive. 7846461054
Reposted by GorgonGumptionceej @ceej.online · 02/10/2026incredible news: we’re having the same arguments over and over for the rest of time 643028438
Reposted by GorgonGumptionmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 02/10/2026"I have a harem of dozens of women who are my employees to fuck and have my children as I please" is one of the ultimate goals of the billionaire class and one of the main reasons they are so keen to fuck the labor market (so desirable women are desperate enough to sign up for this) 12777154
Reposted by GorgonGumptionDominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026"The current level of political animosity is exactly what one would expect to see if an extremist faction attempted to rescind the hard-earned rights of the vast majority of the country’s citizens." There are not enough exclamation points to convey how I felt reading this paragraph 31149465
Reposted by GorgonGumptionAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/10/2026"I can go ramp, I can go stairs" -- Trump's audience in Texas gives him an extremely tepid round of applause as he brags about being able to go up stairs without falling 7433961769
Reposted by GorgonGumptionNicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 01/10/2026All of this. I also want to add that, in my research, I found that a lot of “inconsistencies” in a victim’s story actually came from gender bias affecting investigators’ record keeping and interview methods. 71500392
Reposted by GorgonGumptionDavid Gilbert @davidgilbert.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Hardly a surprise Hegseth is saying this stuff so publicly now, when one of the Pentagon influencers has: • Called women a "pestilence" • Praised dictators like Pinochet and Franco • Said only people with children should be allowed vote www.wired.com/story/a-pent...wired.comA Pentagon Influencer Called Liberal Women a ‘Pestilence’ Who Will End Western CivilizationKurt Schlichter was part of a task force rooting out so-called woke ideologies at the military’s war colleges. He has called to bar childless adults from voting. 48571193
Reposted by GorgonGumptionAndrea Grimes @andreagrimes.com · 01/10/2026i am having trouble articulating this but a system that excuses gang rape as a youthful error on behalf of college men with ~ bright futures ~ does so because it is served by producing older men who are comfortable with, even enthusiastic about, torturing people at the system's behest 302453528
Reposted by GorgonGumptionMelissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 01/10/2026This is incredibly hard to hear—grateful for those who bear witness. 05416
Reposted by GorgonGumptionWagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 28/09/2026at a certain point, there's nothing to gain by boosting the words of random rape apologists. you're just exposing more people—including survivors—to that harmful rhetoric 321832
GorgonGumption @gorgongumption.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Any survivor of a rape isn't surprised by the recent Cornell news. We know our rapists rarely face consequences, if any. Many of us don't bother to report because we saw how others were treated before us. Instead, we're questioned about every choice (including clothing) we made that day. 2242
Reposted by GorgonGumptionMicah @rincewind.run · 27/09/2026his list of crimes is so extensive and terrible that this is fairly low down on it but it is obscene that this man has built a massive campaign war chest and is so determined to steal it for himself that he’s using taxpayer money on these self-soothing ads 201061131
Reposted by GorgonGumptionSchooley @schooley.bsky.social · 27/09/2026It was so nice for that little time where he had no microphone. 912439308
Reposted by GorgonGumptionBrendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Oh no Gen Z is going to learn how fucked up tv was. They’re going to learn that we had psychics on the news like they were legitimate sources of information 1304907569
Reposted by GorgonGumptionCongresswoman Ayanna Pressley @pressley.house.gov · 27/09/2026Medical needs. Lost income. Mental health support. Housing. By no fault of their own, survivors of sexual violence can incur debilitating financial costs. Our Survivors’ Rights Restitution Act would help deliver the restitution survivors deserve. 211744
Reposted by GorgonGumptionSpencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Ha ha that’s gross and should make everyone uncomfortable, anyway, Rahm presided over a Chicago police black site, lied about what it was and then I sued the Chicago police for its records that proved it:theguardian.comHoman Square revealed: how Chicago police 'disappeared' 7,000 peopleExclusive: Lawsuit exposes scale of detention at off-the-books interrogation warehouse while attorneys describe find-your-client chase ‘from a Bond movie’ 9147781745
Reposted by GorgonGumptionNick Brumfield @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 27/09/2026A systematic, critical understanding of history, especially the long history of technically skilled people either being used by elites or being blinded by their own high modernist ideology to do incredible harm, should in my opinion be a requirement of any technocratic profession 918149
Reposted by GorgonGumptionGarth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 26/09/2026what in the fuck is going on 712967476
Reposted by GorgonGumptionQuinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 26/09/2026This seems fine, I can’t think of any reasons why we might need counterterrorism expertise right now 271213289
Reposted by GorgonGumptionMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 25/09/2026The kids these days will hardly believe it, but a mere two years ago, the mental & physical (lack of) acuity of Elderly Presidents was the Great Issue of Our Time. Someone should tell Jake Tapper & Alex Thompson, so they can write a book on it. 211420312
Reposted by GorgonGumptionPatrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 26/09/2026♫ Hello darkness, my old friend ♫ 2758978
Reposted by GorgonGumptionAbdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Here's how we get Medicare for All done: Make Medicare whole (no one can keep all the parts straight!) Include vision, dental, and hearing. Begin extending to more people, starting with children. We arrive at Medicare for All, which means great Medicare for everyone. 788178224784
Reposted by GorgonGumptionCongresswoman Ayanna Pressley @pressley.house.gov · 27/09/2026Hands off our press. Hands off our bodies. Hands off our museums. Hands off our healthcare. Hands off our democracy. Hands off our immigrant neighbors. Donald Trump is attacking everyone & everything EXCEPT the cost of living. 821556
Reposted by GorgonGumption𝔇𝔢𝔢𝔭 𝔇𝔢𝔩𝔳𝔢𝔯 - ℌ𝔬𝔴𝔩 𝔚𝔦𝔱𝔥 𝔐𝔢 @therunepony.bsky.social · 22/09/2026So this game called "Dverghold" came across my Steam homepage. Interesting retro vibes, apparently collabing with a dungeon synth artist for the OST. The art was kinda tickling my AI-dar though, so I scrolled down to look for any disclaimers. 421859979
Reposted by GorgonGumptionDom Ervolina @dominicervolina.com · 25/09/2026Holy forking shirt balls 21422111
Reposted by GorgonGumptionParis Marx @parismarx.com · 25/09/2026An individual in Canada used ChatGPT for eight months to plan one of the country’s worst mass shootings. Yet, if you listen to politicians and media, the real threat of AI is a fantastical scenario where it might wipe out humans in ten years. They need to stop getting fooled by tech deceivers.disconnect.blogThe media has the AI threat all wrongGenerative AI is harming people today. We don’t need to waste time fantasizing about science fictional scenarios. 271739590
Reposted by GorgonGumptionCoach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 25/09/2026If you really want to serve your country, I think compulsory work for a year in Retail/Hospitality would go a long way to fixing this country. It's a hard job, teamwork is essential, and you learn people skills that last a lifetime. Also it does more for the US economy than you sitting in Kuwait 1132940
GorgonGumption @gorgongumption.bsky.social · 25/09/2026If you are a survivor who was raped in college, this does not surprise you. Just reminds you that survivors matter only if it is politically expedient. 010
Reposted by GorgonGumptionRebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 25/09/2026So much of schools "responding to rape" is preventing the legal system from doing so. This is a report on seven adults who committed serious felonies for which there is a legal system to remind them and their pals that they are felonies. 251373408
Reposted by GorgonGumptionshauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 25/09/2026none of these words are in the bible 5942743
Reposted by GorgonGumption🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota. 122122705224
Reposted by GorgonGumptionNicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Greatest trick AI leaders have pulled is convincing many people—especially influential people in govt, media, and business—that their software is intelligent, independent, yet never culpable. Humans build it, humans deploy it, but no one bears responsibility for the things that happen when they do. 421664464
Reposted by GorgonGumptionJeff Yang @originalsp.in · 25/09/2026Our country has become the geometric fucking epicenter of a fascist typhoon of shit and blood, in part due to her repeated acts of partisan sabotage, and as expected, Jill Stein once again draws her guns and shoots the people marching next to her 127313
Reposted by GorgonGumptiondr. 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 12871151700
Reposted by GorgonGumptionAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/09/2026So this story is WAY wilder than I thought The Trump post I flagged this morning because it includes Natalie Harp is actually based on the Getty photo you can see below. But there is one key difference -- MONICA CROWLEY'S FACE HAS BEEN EDITED TO LOOK LIKE NATALIE HARP'S WTF is going on here? 53452841436
Reposted by GorgonGumptionMike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Girl dinner 6274871671
Reposted by GorgonGumptionHolly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026nice to see the GOP finally get around to addressing affordability www.usatoday.com/story/shoppi...usatoday.comTicket prices drop as Trump plans to attend Tennessee vs Texas footballTennessee vs. Texas football tickets are dropping in price even as President Trump plans to attend. See start time, prices and details. 439370
Reposted by GorgonGumptionAndrea Grimes @andreagrimes.com · 25/09/2026Okay this is actually sort of fascinating b/c Durant-proper (townies, blue-collar and low income mostly) is wildly different than Durant-destination (the casino) 3212