Reposted by @kaitlingossett.bsky.socialJulia Is Waving, Not Drowning @booktweeting.bsky.social · 25/01/2026the entire carceral apparatus must be razed to the ground 1204
Reposted by @kaitlingossett.bsky.socialMax Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 25/01/2026The past few days have confirmed for me something I’ve long believed: the American political system is terminally fucked, but the American people are not. Most Americans want to live in a democracy in which everyone has a decent life—the fascists in this regime represent a dying minority. 621486242
Reposted by @kaitlingossett.bsky.socialDon Dechert @dondechert.bsky.social · 25/01/2026Trump v. Anderson was wrongly decided. And that should indict the Court. 5583110
Reposted by @kaitlingossett.bsky.socialLeor Galil @imleor.bsky.social · 25/01/2026“Tyranny is execution followed by a press release” 120765
Reposted by @kaitlingossett.bsky.socialc0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 22/01/2026Pratap Gurung captured this shot of the FABULOUS 🌈 Himalayan Monal (Lophophorus impejanus) or 'danphe,' the national bird of Nepal. The amazing coloration is structural: photonic crystals act like a diffraction grating, turning sunlight into shimmering blues, reds, greens. 6327106
Reposted by @kaitlingossett.bsky.socialceej @ceej.online · 22/01/2026I guess I do think if you participated in the arrest of a five-year-old you are probably just fundamentally incompatible with society. That you are not a safe person for humanity to be around, generally 291274886169
Reposted by @kaitlingossett.bsky.socialAndrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 19/01/2026the rest of the world deferred to us not because they needed to but because it was easy, all to great benefit of us, and we destroyed that to get out of having to watch one hour diversity training videos once a year 9730151
Reposted by @kaitlingossett.bsky.socialSam “The Great Pumpkin” Thielman @samthielman.com · 17/01/2026If you work for ice please understand that your kids will laugh at a character based on you dying in an action movie before the end of the decade. They’ll be in movies for really little kids. Like Phineas and Ferb shit. There will be an action figure of you with a detachable head 36136382556
Reposted by @kaitlingossett.bsky.socialmolly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 17/01/2026damn what is wrong with me, i am having the hardest time concentrating on work, i lament as i compulsively refresh live feeds of unspeakable horrors 825105972
Reposted by @kaitlingossett.bsky.socialC.M. Lewis 🦬⚔️ @thehousered.bsky.social · 16/01/2026every single successful general strike in US history has had union backing through the local AFL-CIO this is the first time it’s been called for since the 1940s 4593043111243
Reposted by @kaitlingossett.bsky.socialNathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 15/01/2026People in Minneapolis don't like it when secret police come into their city to kill and brutalize them, people in rural areas think it's great. Somehow, this is a problem that Minneapolis is supposed to make amends for. 7941172
Reposted by @kaitlingossett.bsky.socialAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 13/01/2026I cannot emphasize how much “be the news” is the opposite of what I was taught about how to be a good journalist and strikes me as an excellent way to churn out elite solipsism that has nothing to do with the public interest and everything to do with self promotion www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/b...nytimes.com‘We Need to Be the News’: Inside Bari Weiss’s Bumpy Revamp at CBS 1673791679
Reposted by @kaitlingossett.bsky.socialbrie skull emoji @brie-skull-emoji.bsky.social · 07/01/2026'abolish ice' isn't so radical of a position now is it you fucking liberal scum 226652
kaitlingossett.bsky.social @kaitlingossett.bsky.social · 06/01/2026I don't know why but it makes me really happy that the oldboi ammonia sharks are not in fact blinded by the copeopods 160
Reposted by @kaitlingossett.bsky.socialOn This Day in Simpsons History @dailysimpsons.bsky.social · 05/01/202629 years ago today, Homer Simpson had an epic chili pepper-induced hallucination. “El Viaje Misterioso de Nuestro Jomer” first aired January 5, 1997. Most of the sequence was animated completely by David Silverman as he wanted it to look exactly as he had imagined it. 251421404
Reposted by @kaitlingossett.bsky.socialJohn Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 05/01/2026I have a hunch that if you or I were running a website doing this the "urgent contact" would involve door rams and handcuffs so I struggle to see why it can't be slightly more pugnacious than this. 381208302
Reposted by @kaitlingossett.bsky.socialKat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 05/01/2026The end goal of Grok sexual harassment is to make women afraid to be visible. It’s a punishment for daring to exist in a way the perpetrators can’t control. There’s no one solution to this, because the problem isn’t just technological. It’s cultural. It’s misogyny. This is just one expression of it. 301202895139
Reposted by @kaitlingossett.bsky.socialGarth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 03/01/2026I feel like letting every president of my lifetime get away with Unlimited War Crimes was a serious mistake 93324683
kaitlingossett.bsky.social @kaitlingossett.bsky.social · 01/01/2026James Gurney's 'Gigantosaurus', 1997. This image is built into the source code of my brain, I'm sure. The unbelievably rich daylight spectrum of color, the movment, the sharp afternoon shadows.. to me as a child it seemed like a camera had focused through layers of time. 031
Reposted by @kaitlingossett.bsky.socialgary’s anatomy @sablaah.bsky.social · 24/12/2025the grinch literally stole christmas. and of course Dr. Seuss, who’s always been desperate for eyeballs and clicks and ad dollars, platforms him. 🙄 71345196
Reposted by @kaitlingossett.bsky.socialHemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 21/12/2025The rate of return here is crazy: for a few hundred thousand dollars, this lab produces literally billions of oysters and supports a seafood industry worth hundreds of millions. And the Trump administration is just like "fuck all that, it's wasteful spending, you're fired" 422239823
Reposted by @kaitlingossett.bsky.socialEli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 22/12/2025State media doing the bidding of Nazi criminals. CBS News is gone. 332449
Reposted by @kaitlingossett.bsky.socialEvan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 21/12/2025i can't believe the number of people in my life who are enthusiastically using Chat GPT for therapy, to analyze text conversations with partners, get advice on disputes with neighbors etc. it's just autocomplete! it doesn't "know" anything and can't give you advice! please please don't do this 10405104
Reposted by @kaitlingossett.bsky.socialRobert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 21/12/2025new policy proposal: registered organ donors each get one free kill 4490661
Reposted by @kaitlingossett.bsky.socialAsh G. @kilomonster.bsky.social · 19/12/2025Funny animal videos no longer being trustworthy just fucking sucks all around. I love the wonder of animal behavior and what it says about the experience of being alive. It's because it happened in reality that it's so fun. It's not fun if it was just made up. There's no wonder there. 475301929
Reposted by @kaitlingossett.bsky.socialBran 9 From Outer Space @bransonreese.bsky.social · 18/12/2025Keep going. Be meaner. Aim whatever lizard-brain impulse you have towards cruelty and violence in this direction. 3357502001
Reposted by @kaitlingossett.bsky.socialRyan Boyd @ryanboyd.bsky.social · 12/12/2025There isn't a single problem "solved" by edtech that couldn't be fixed with smaller classes led by well-paid teachers given real academic freedom 1055651586
Reposted by @kaitlingossett.bsky.socialBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 10/12/2025People keep wondering why they're going after Venezuela. It's because they want to do regime change and control its oil, then use a big tract of land there to keep a tax free "network state" that looks like Dubai but operates like Rhodesia. They are saying this out loud! Believe them! 647252667671
Reposted by @kaitlingossett.bsky.socialonion person @junlper.beer · 09/12/2025the way that ai is being advertised now is that everyone has to pretend to be incompetent and incredibly incapable and useless at everything 1554944771
Reposted by @kaitlingossett.bsky.socialAnthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 09/12/2025this is similar to what I've come to think of as the "reverse turing test" when people find synthetic text is "good enough" to complete a task (homework, business report, email) it doesn't mean the machine is smart. it means they were asked to produce something that didn't matter it's diagnostic 311332337
Reposted by @kaitlingossett.bsky.socialCincinnati CityBeat @citybeatcincy.bsky.social · 06/12/2025This time of year, Louisville nonprofit publishing house Sarabande Books would typically learn how much federal grant money it could rely on for the next publishing cycle. This year, that money isn’t coming.buff.lyKY Publishing House ‘Proud to be Misaligned’ with Trump’s Orders on Diversity, GenderSarabande Books refused to sign a compliance agreement promising to not promote “gender ideology” — the nonprofit lost tens of thousands in grant dollars. 011
Reposted by @kaitlingossett.bsky.socialc0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 05/12/2025Relatable. 512120
Reposted by @kaitlingossett.bsky.socialc0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 02/12/2025Frogs drink most of their dietary water through their butts. Kermit could not be reached for comment. 511124
Reposted by @kaitlingossett.bsky.socialPuff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 01/12/2025Wrecking young people's reading, writing & analytical skills during their formative years is an economic imperative for AI companies. For many of us who learned these things without AI, slop can't pass for news or entertainment. Destroying standards is essential to the industry's growth & survival. 9729264
Reposted by @kaitlingossett.bsky.socialKim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · 29/11/2025very cool to see Freddy Lim keeping the faith, I profiled him back in 2016 :) www.vice.com/en/article/h...vice.comHeavy Metal Politician Freddy Lim Is Fighting for Taiwanese IndependenceThe parliamentarian and Chthonic frontman talks rebellion, Trump, China, and why the Dalai Lama called him "a demon." 325154
Reposted by @kaitlingossett.bsky.socialSean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 29/11/2025Another one for the "we are ruled by hollowed-out husks who believe in nothing but their own untouchability" files 15769143
Reposted by @kaitlingossett.bsky.socialhannah gais @hannahgais.bsky.social · 29/11/2025BREAKING: The majority of executives and upper management are totally talentless hacks. 542380
Reposted by @kaitlingossett.bsky.socialJake_Vig @jakevig.bsky.social · 28/11/2025Keep in mind that white American males shot and killed countless Americans including many children, and no one ever did a thing but protect their right to do it again. 242861421
Reposted by @kaitlingossett.bsky.socialPeter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 27/11/2025on top of everything else, nuzzi has the sensibilities of your most embarrassing friend. a guy alternates between saying he wants her to have his children and ghosting her, and she's wringing her hands trying to figure out if they're really in love 37133179
kaitlingossett.bsky.social @kaitlingossett.bsky.social · 26/11/2025"The beauty of books is how internal and subjective the experience is. I got so used to hanging my entire intellectual life out on the internet laundry line, Googling every object I encountered... Reading books has been restorative to my sense of my own experience." 🔥🔥🔥🔥 Very worthwhile read! 0212
Reposted by @kaitlingossett.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 26/11/2025you're telling me a right-wing catholic convert is just a protestant in disguise? shocked 21863321158
Reposted by @kaitlingossett.bsky.socialc0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 26/11/2025Here's a fiddler crab, Uca vocans, showing a pseudopupil that reflects the long vertical arrangement of facets in the eye. My advice: Do not stare too long into the ommatidia, lest the ommatidia stare... nope, it's too late. You've been crabbed. 🦀 (📷: Chris Lukhaup) 3757
Reposted by @kaitlingossett.bsky.socialBrian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 25/11/2025Trump just ended a rule limiting a type of pollution that causes heart and lung disease. The rule was expected to save thousands of American lives every year. 2852170955
