Reposted by HandOfCrystalMicah @rincewind.run · 1hsomething we have learned is that the criminal justice system, even when you’re not dragging your feet, is pretty slow - especially for complicated financial crimes, of which there are A Lot you’d better be ready to hit the ground running if you want resolution before the next election cycle 628037
Reposted by HandOfCrystalA.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 5hOur long national nightmare of minimizing toxic chemicals in our food is finally over. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...theguardian.comFDA may allow some toxic chemicals to be added to food without safety review. Experts are alarmedRegulator looks to expand loophole to allow dangerous compounds in food as long as they’re not carcinogenic 1001019485
Reposted by HandOfCrystallauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 3hWell at least the crimes are becoming sufficiently cyberpunk 1022516
Reposted by HandOfCrystalCorey Brickley * Blight's Hollow Dot Com @coreybrickley.bsky.social · 21hlmao that's actually so funny?? It's just an app that makes you immediately stupid, incredible 142367665
Reposted by HandOfCrystalEric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 4hThis entire piece is worth your time thespacecoastrocket.com/robert-burns... 57733
Reposted by HandOfCrystalMicah @rincewind.run · 21hOssoff is one of the very few people adequately channeling Evelyn Normielib these days the base doesn't want to hear entreaties to our better natures, they don't want to go high while the other side goes low, they want someone to come on the TV and go "these people are garbage" he's good at it 573816534
Reposted by HandOfCrystalDragon Cobolt @dragoncobolt.bsky.social · 09/10/2026and, like, ontop of being morally reprehensible, can we just underline how staggeringly, stupidly bad a call this is? transphobia is BROADLY UNPOPULAR! Just go, "Hey, Elon Musk and Trump loves transphobia" and most normal people will go, "ew, gross" because most people hate those guys 319243
Reposted by HandOfCrystalShellraiser B Woke - Living Saint of Purity🏳️⚧️🖤💜🤍 💛 @shelleybwoke.bsky.social · 09/10/2026If there's nothing at the table for us but segregation and dehumanization, why are you expecting us to sit at your table? 3516104
Reposted by HandOfCrystalRobert Dallas Gray @robertdallasgray.com · 08/10/2026one of the advantages of having tried to understand marxist theories about capital is that it’s always immediately bleedin obvious that capital will never ever allow economies of automation to result in increased leisure 9501120
Reposted by HandOfCrystalPlague Poems @plaguepoems.bsky.social · 09/10/2026I know, my friend, it is tempting to declare that this is not who we are in response to the news that they are planning to livestream an execution, but know, my friend, even if this is not who we are it is time to admit that this is who many of our neighbors are. 08926
Reposted by HandOfCrystalMicah @rincewind.run · 09/10/2026the supreme court: good news, donald!you are the untouchable god-king you always dreamed of being only one condition: you may not fuck with The Money donald trump: I will fuck with The Money if it’s the last thing I do 755470
Reposted by HandOfCrystalJake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 09/10/2026New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854 114115124924
Reposted by HandOfCrystalKatie Tightpussy, Editor-In-Chief @katie.bzky.team · 08/10/2026happy international lesbian day. thinking about two of the greats 151098210
Reposted by HandOfCrystalKatie Mack @astrokatie.com · 09/10/2026Productivity as an adult is just an endless process of applying new psychological tricks and operant conditioning to yourself until an acceptable number of tasks are completed. 663561590
Reposted by HandOfCrystalFinding Facility @music-tax.bsky.social · 09/10/2026If excoriation and investigation is all we'll have for two years we better have a lot of both, top shelf 0641
HandOfCrystal @handofcrystal.bsky.social · 09/10/2026FIVE POINTS FROM MY FAVORITE INTERNET LINGUIST 120
HandOfCrystal @handofcrystal.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Is it by any chance this? youtu.be/K4KhZeVosMM 010
Reposted by HandOfCrystalescapedexplorer.bsky.social @escapedexplorer.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Democratic candidates up and down the ballot take note: when your central thesis is "i have scraped dogshit off my shoe that has more moral fiber and respect than my opponent" you can land some real body blows on the other guy across a VARIETY of topics 114531
Reposted by HandOfCrystalepic trinket: vulpera seed 💄💦 @shugoshame.bsky.social · 07/10/2026I can't torture the normal bsky dude who posted this by quote posting on this account so here 751749387
HandOfCrystal @handofcrystal.bsky.social · 08/10/2026If you're using remdesivir or GS-441524, there is hope. Apparently FIP treated with that has an over 80% recovery rate, which is *so* much better than untreated. 140
Reposted by HandOfCrystalOliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 08/10/2026these people would say it was "unclear" why more people in germany didnt openly identify as jewish in 1942 4141941204
Reposted by HandOfCrystalJacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026I remember a decade-long panic about undergraduates, activists, or Tumblr pages declaring new language rules and denouncing people for violating them. 571082196
Reposted by HandOfCrystalSetz @setzeri.bsky.social · 08/10/2026A commission of a "little" story told in three pages. 343342930
Reposted by HandOfCrystalMicah @rincewind.run · 08/10/2026the reason “AI will create so much abundance we will have a utopian society” rhetoric falls so flat is that the people building it will never, ever share their bounty unless it is taken from them and we all know it 96114472659
Reposted by HandOfCrystalAndrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 08/10/2026they did the thing 253161743700
Reposted by HandOfCrystalSilby @silby.bsky.social · 08/10/2026jackboot descending upon unprotected face over, & again 1162
Reposted by HandOfCrystalMona Burns @monaburns.bsky.social · 08/10/2026"Should November 3 be the disaster for Republicans that analysts are predicting, Trump will morph overnight into something less than a lame duck president with a ticking, two-year expiration clock: he will become politically bankrupt in ways all-too-familiar to him as a businessman." Excellent read: 1145897
Reposted by HandOfCrystaljamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/10/2026“we call this flavor ‘the shoggoth.’ it opens the mind to non-euclidian geometry. it drove three of our top technicians to madness.” 782297160
Reposted by HandOfCrystalTom Schaller @schaller67.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Guess who is going bankrupt again? Except this time he’s burning through his remaining *political* capital. My latest for @atrupar.com Public Notice. Please read, like, share—and subscribe to PN. Thanks, Tom open.substack.com/pub/aaronrup...open.substack.comTrump faces his worst bankruptcy yetHis political capital is gone and the repo man is on the way. 1743891
Reposted by HandOfCrystaljamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/10/2026who knows if jackson can win this thing but i am glad that he is making clear that susan collins's whole scam is to do everything she can to make life worse for mainers and then take credit for mitigating it in the slightest way possible 107106191804
Reposted by HandOfCrystalMicah @rincewind.run · 07/10/2026the supreme court: "stop saying we declared trump a god-king, presidential immunity was a limited and reasonable ruling" trump, constantly: "I am absolutely a god-king and I can do anything I want at any time" 272992668
Reposted by HandOfCrystalTrill #StopKIDSact #callyourrep #savespeech @trilicon.moe.observer · 06/10/2026Go pirate-radiostationing the Human Domestication Guide by writing fics that explicitly violate the fucked up, childist, and colonialist rules of what the setting can and can't talk about, and prepare a numbers filed off version calling it the People Raising Manual if they press it. Fuck the rules. 0102
HandOfCrystal @handofcrystal.bsky.social · 07/10/2026on a similar vein, we know the knight is a villain because it's the roaring knight you know what they say, "silent knight, holy knight" 020
Reposted by HandOfCrystalMarcy Nabors @shadolith.bsky.social · 07/10/2026working on deltarune is hard sometimes because i can’t make jokes like “noelle being into girls was based on the phrase ‘don we now our gay apparel’” without worrying people will assume it’s true unless i wrap it in a disclaimer like this 17965201
Reposted by HandOfCrystalBelle - The wicked witch of atproto @torrentempress.neocities.org · 07/10/2026BONUS FROM THE DEV: 2544249
Reposted by HandOfCrystalIGN @ign.com · 07/10/2026The Dungeons & Dragons and Magic: The Gathering teams at Wizards of the Coast have just announced they're unionizing. In a letter of demands, the union has urged Hasbro and Wizards of the Coast leaders to stop pushing generative AI. bit.ly/4hMhPzG 6673942271
Reposted by HandOfCrystalThomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 07/10/2026If you're willing to sell out trans kids for theoretical votes I have to assume you'd sell out anyone for theoretical votes, so, yes, I do think supporting sports bans means you get not a fucking thing from me. 81182322
Reposted by HandOfCrystalChuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 07/10/2026whoa. plot twist for the very nature of your existence 241080162
Reposted by HandOfCrystalBrooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 07/10/2026In the past month, I've started waking once a week at 1am--involuntarily--& being so wired that I can't get back to sleep all night. Couldn't figure out why. Wasn't doing anything different. Just realized: I'm scared by what I'm seeing in my research. Nihilistic billionaires toying with our lives. 920356
Reposted by HandOfCrystalThe Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Sometimes my wife and I like to send each other text messages as though they’re democratic fundraising messages, and I believe she has produced the jewel of the form. 185110301840
Reposted by HandOfCrystalQuest 64 Official @quest64official.bsky.social · 06/10/2026#SpookyMonth64 3741341083
Reposted by HandOfCrystalMatt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 07/10/2026the tech industry is about to invent books 572215204192
Reposted by HandOfCrystalStephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 06/10/2026One thing I find endlessly funny about the rise of AI is that it has revealed that there is a large number of people who believe that the reason they wrote essays at school or university is their teachers were desperately waiting for them to provide a definite answer to “Lear: what’s up with him?” 6857841249
Reposted by HandOfCrystalFuck You I Quit @fuckyouiquit.bsky.social · 06/10/2026The inequality line goes straight up and still these people will tell you they don't have enough and cant afford to pay more in wages or taxes. 015257
Reposted by HandOfCrystalRude Law Dog @esghound.com · 06/10/2026i think we have to consider the possibility that Trumpism as implemented in v2.0 effectively did a CA prop 187 self own, but nationwide this time 1236330