kitharding.bsky.social @kitharding.bsky.social · 13/07/2026Paper maps are indeed great! Now if only anyone was still *making* them; I had to go to quite a bit of effort just to get a single foldable map of my general vicinity. 000
kitharding.bsky.social @kitharding.bsky.social · 12/07/2026I mean. We don't actually *know* that McConnell is alive. 020
Reposted by @kitharding.bsky.socialBill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 14/09/2025Murder is wrong. Pogroms are wrong. Using a murder to incite a pogrom against a small and vulnerable group in society is wrong. (If I’m not mistaken, an assassination was the excuse for the wave of mob but state-sanctioned violence in Russia in 1881 that gave us the term “pogrom.”) 20385671658
Reposted by @kitharding.bsky.socialPopehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 14/09/2025I think this point is far more important than we realize. The fact that we consume completely different media showing us completely different things is a huge driver of division. 1114400920
Reposted by @kitharding.bsky.socialnsqe @nsqe.bsky.social · 14/09/2025Hi! I was homeless. That's me he wants to kill. If you don't know me, hi, I am pretty nice, I think. I'm a privacy lawyer. I drive a cute yellow Bronco. I do art. I have two really fluffy Maine coon cats. I volunteer at food banks when I can. This guy would have killed me for being homeless. 782968694
Reposted by @kitharding.bsky.socialLiz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 13/09/2025Jay, you all owe an explanation of how it came to be that the exact list of users blamed by The Federalist were banned even if they did not break the ToS, and were not unsuspended until more than a day later. 132223430
Reposted by @kitharding.bsky.socialNicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 13/09/2025Possibly ignorant question here, but… why is saying “that shooting is awful, and also the victim said toxic things” a lot worse for our politics than telling people at a political rally to “choose violence”? Because at least according to levels of attention and criticism, the former is much worse. 26851175
Reposted by @kitharding.bsky.socialDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 13/09/2025Yes. What Kirk did is a simulacrum of discussion & debate, constructed without any of the good faith that might give it meaning or impact. It was a show -- humiliating liberals &, by invoking liberal values like "civil discourse" -- fooling them into playing along with it. 29800169
Reposted by @kitharding.bsky.socialSanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 13/09/2025The Nazi extermination programs didn’t begin with Jews. It began in September 1939 with the involuntary euthanasia of people with disabilities and the mentally ill under the Aktion T4 program. That’s how they developed their techniques of mass extermination. 401836755
Reposted by @kitharding.bsky.socialJulia Rose Kraut @juliarosekraut.bsky.social · 13/09/2025Hi folks. We've seen this before during the Cold War. Check out Ch. 5 in "Threat of Dissent" to learn more. 🗃️ And, remember, in Kent v. Dulles (1958), the U.S. Supreme Court held that American citizens have a fundamental right to travel. supreme.justia.com/cases/federa...supreme.justia.comKent v. Dulles, 357 U.S. 116 (1958)Kent v. Dulles 2356151
Reposted by @kitharding.bsky.socialPopehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 13/09/2025But don’t call them Nazis. 1103894912
Reposted by @kitharding.bsky.socialPopehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 13/09/2025Ah Matt Forney. The answer to ”what would it look like if Hitler’s thumb took a suspicious number of brief trips to Thailand.” 1183191
Reposted by @kitharding.bsky.socialMichael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 13/09/2025From an Atlantic editor. I cannot get over how the entire centrist hivemind is attempting to wish into existence a person, and a movement, that does not exist. You are journalists, you are supposed to describe things as they are, not how you want them to be! 34984481489
Reposted by @kitharding.bsky.socialAndy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 13/09/2025It absolutely matters here that Pritzker was effective at sounding the alarm and plainly stating this would be unconstitutional in a profoundly radical and fundamental way, and showing he could rally practical popular opposition, which then gets spun as backing out over "legal headaches." 8946731116
Reposted by @kitharding.bsky.socialGeorge Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 12/09/2025Everyone should be held to the same standards. 622212226667
Reposted by @kitharding.bsky.socialElizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 13/09/2025Another thing: the people lining up to say “but he was nice to *me*” are to a person white guys in powerful positions. I got news for you: he did not respect your ideas, he respected your power and enjoyed proximity to it. Of course he was nice to you. 12262541056
Reposted by @kitharding.bsky.socialCorey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 12/09/2025Media discovering groypers for the first time reminds me of when they first encountered incels. Those of us who study misogyny or followed Gamergate had been screaming about incel culture and violence for years. Coverage of hate groups is far too reactive. 503794793
Reposted by @kitharding.bsky.socialHillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 12/09/2025Verify information please. Memes are not information. People's lives may very well depend on this narrative. Let's get facts right. 311623
Reposted by @kitharding.bsky.socialgophergrad צדק צדק תרדף @gophergrad.bsky.social · 12/09/2025Why is the media afraid to say it out loud? 9399101
Reposted by @kitharding.bsky.socialNicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 12/09/2025An antisemite shot two kids in Colorado, at least one of whom is Jewish. The White House “fighting antisemitism” doesn’t care, because the shooter was a student radicalized online into far right beliefs, which the regime is cool with, rather than a student verbally criticizing Israeli govt policy.denverpost.com‘Radicalized’ Evergreen High School shooter appeared to hold antisemitic, violent views in online accountsSocial media accounts that appear to be connected to the 16-year-old shooter are littered with references to mass shootings and antisemitic views, The Denver Post found. 6156992223
kitharding.bsky.social @kitharding.bsky.social · 12/09/2025It's very "human life is conditional." Political assassination is bad as a concept; it's not suddenly *more* bad because the victim had a family. But they can't just come out against assassination in general because of how often they're committing it. 010
Reposted by @kitharding.bsky.socialHillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 12/09/2025I'm never more autistic than when the BUT HE WAS A HUSBAND AND FATHER line comes out because the mental rolodex of absolutely horrible fucking people who were husbands and fathers just starts rolling. 1430733
Reposted by @kitharding.bsky.socialJohn Scalzi @scalzi.com · 26/07/2025As @gregpak.net has noted, unless there was a specific clause in all the contracts that allows for this, they can't go back and retroactively amend contracts without the author's consent. This is a class action suit waiting to happen. 311349445
kitharding.bsky.social @kitharding.bsky.social · 11/09/2025Regularly interrupting and talking over your female guest while talking about issues experienced by women does nothing to convince me you understand any of the issues you were talking about. 000
Reposted by @kitharding.bsky.socialPopehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 11/09/2025I have a couple of comments about the "free speech hero" narrative about Charlie Kirk. First, was Charlie Kirk really notable for supporting the free speech of people he disagreed with? I haven't noticed that, though I could have missed it. /1 19679151383
Reposted by @kitharding.bsky.socialChris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 10/09/2025As stated earlier by others, it does not matter what you post or do not post here. The right wing has their narrative they’re going to push, because they understand they are at war with democracy and that propaganda *works.* 14056121287
Reposted by @kitharding.bsky.socialMiranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 05/09/2025Democrats need to knock it off with this self-serving bullshit. We have a deep bench, enough with the gerontocracy. 1623248
kitharding.bsky.social @kitharding.bsky.social · 27/08/2025As a writer of primarily short stories, this is hopeful news! 000
Reposted by @kitharding.bsky.socialHillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 25/08/2025Yep. Look, I wanna see diversity in the White House as much as any of us. I do. But this administration has set us back so far I'll take the two dudes who'll fix your car AND boost marginalized people and women for success to come after them. 1117228
kitharding.bsky.social @kitharding.bsky.social · 25/08/2025Why Arisia is my only SF convention at the moment. The universal masking is required and will remain required because there's a huge proportion of immunocompromised among the attendees. And there are also people who have Dramatically Flounced because of the mask requirement. 010
kitharding.bsky.social @kitharding.bsky.social · 23/08/2025A curfew on... the internet? Is that even technologically possible? 240
Reposted by @kitharding.bsky.socialPopehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 23/08/2025A lawless and illegitimate regime and its minions are not entitled to the protection of the rule of law. 532576523
Reposted by @kitharding.bsky.socialKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 22/08/2025You should be mad about the FBI raiding John Bolton’s house not because you love John Bolton but because you’re opposed to Trump using the FBI to intimidate his critics 14658751250
Reposted by @kitharding.bsky.socialSbooks @bemorelikeharper.bsky.social · 21/08/2025The CDC fired 600 people this week. During a covid surge. Restricted covid boosters this fall. School just started and measles herd immunity is lacking in many states. Vector borne diseases are attempting to gain stream. Bird flu isn’t being monitored properly. 516489
kitharding.bsky.social @kitharding.bsky.social · 22/08/2025It's not even just business; there are a ton of people in fanfiction land who are Like That and the lack of comments/interaction directly leads to people not keeping the momentum up and finishing their series. 000
Reposted by @kitharding.bsky.socialDae Storm @daestormauthor.com · 19/08/2025What happened at Sinners & Stardust was without consent, it was SA, and that's all that matters. "but they write-" doesn't matter. "but were wearing-" doesn't matter. Keep your fucking hands off people and don't bring sex toys to to an event where people haven't consented to that. 1105
kitharding.bsky.social @kitharding.bsky.social · 27/07/2025My point being that there are enough of them with post-secondary education that if it were going to make a difference in their behavior we'd have seen it by now, especially in jurisdictions that do require it. 000
Reposted by @kitharding.bsky.socialPopehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 26/07/2025I wish this were true but it’s not. A substantial number of Americans will believe any goddamned ridiculous facially fraudulent thing the Trumpists tell them, including this. And another large segment will PRETEND they believe it for the sake of power, which is indistinguishable. 1152544382
Reposted by @kitharding.bsky.socialPookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 03/07/2024Rules creepypasta where the protagonist is describing all these weird and spooky rules but the rules are obviously his boss selling drugs, and the protagonist just doesn't understand. "Never look at the security footage from midnight to 12:14" etc "Never open the box under the desk" 214936
kitharding.bsky.social @kitharding.bsky.social · 27/07/2025You'd think that, but a lot of cops do have four-year degrees. Getting a degree gets them higher pay in a lot of places, and some locales do require at least some sort of degree. 100
Reposted by @kitharding.bsky.socialemptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 26/07/2025Maryland can't have flood relief because Stephen Miller demands concentration camps. 24787380
kitharding.bsky.social @kitharding.bsky.social · 26/07/2025The gaming news outlets got silenced by the payment processors: aftermath.site/waypoint-qui...aftermath.siteWaypoint Writers Quit Over Removal Of Articles Related To New Steam Policy [Update] - AftermathTwo articles by writer Ana Valens were removed at the demand of Vice owner Savage Ventures, the latest in multiple deletions at the site 042
Reposted by @kitharding.bsky.socialBuy Mass Effect The Board Game! @ithayla.bsky.social · 25/07/2025visa and mastercard deciding what games are allowed to be sold is an apocalyptic level threat to the games industry. phone calls are the highest impact way to help. this is an all hands on deck situation. the enemy got results with 1000 phone calls. we can beat them phone numbers and a script: 3893214782
Reposted by @kitharding.bsky.socialCoach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 24/07/2025I think it was @chadstanton.bsky.social who just said that not every decision the administration is making is about pocketing cash, some of it is much darker. and here you go. They're willing to forego taxpayer money in the till in exchange for fucking with immigrants just because they can 17438119
Reposted by @kitharding.bsky.socialMadam Airlock @madamairlock.bsky.social · 25/07/2025As with most fascist regimes, disabled and homeless people get hospitalized first, then when they run out of beds they get jailed, then when the fascists get tired of constantly failing at it they start getting sterilized, killed, or both. 5261110
Reposted by @kitharding.bsky.socialPopehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 25/07/2025In America, the people most enthusiastic about institutionalizing more people are usually the people most opposed to funding or regulating institutions or providing due process to the involuntarily institutionalized. So, business as usual. 711930411
Reposted by @kitharding.bsky.socialThe Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 24/07/2025I cannot fucking believe that they are rehashing the Vagrancy Act in 2025.whitehouse.govEnding Crime and Disorder on America's StreetsBy the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Purpose and 17428138
