Reposted by 🎃OctoberCryptid🎃Micah @rincewind.run · 06/10/2026there’s one true answer but it’s the correct one five minutes after game of thrones - the last true monoculture show - ended, we all collectively agreed not to talk about it again, and house of the dragon/knight of the seven kingdoms haven’t recaptured a fraction of that cultural presence 942387235
Reposted by 🎃OctoberCryptid🎃Micah @rincewind.run · 06/10/2026damnatio memoriae is the right thing to do with trump for many reasons and at the top of the list is the fact that it will make him so, so angry 391972392
Reposted by 🎃OctoberCryptid🎃Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Trump and his allies have spent most of the past decade doing the administrative equivalent of ripping bundles of wiring out of the walls. When everything's trundling along, you don't necessarily notice the missing wiring. When something goes very wrong, suddenly the damage becomes apparent. 537582
Reposted by 🎃OctoberCryptid🎃Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 17hFUCK YES. This is the energy, morality, and courage that I expect from leaders. Unbelievably brave. 504901870
Reposted by 🎃OctoberCryptid🎃gg @ggold328.bsky.social · 17hi will help yakko, wakko, and dot in any way i can to get their vengeance 5830262
Reposted by 🎃OctoberCryptid🎃Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 02/10/2026So my wonderful wife, @tekla.bsky.social, is one of the workers who was laid off Wednesday. The article is honestly too fair to A4TE leadership, who have handled this with a baffling level of hostility and callousness. And yes, they were notified with a one-sentence email starting “Dear Employee”advocate.comWorkers fought to save jobs at a national trans rights group. Then came a one-sentence layoff emailAdvocates for Trans Equality says a $2.4 million deficit forced painful cuts. Its union says management rejected alternatives that could have saved jobs. 1711741
Reposted by 🎃OctoberCryptid🎃Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 03/10/2026@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Oct LGBTQnation Update on that A4TE story-- among the employees fired with a one-sentence email were nearly HALF of all its union members. A coincidence, surely. www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/10/lead...lgbtqnation.comLeading US trans rights org cuts nearly half its union membership - LGBTQ NationStaff at Advocates for Trans Equality say management led with "cruelty and threats." 26032
Reposted by 🎃OctoberCryptid🎃onion person @junlper.beer · 06/10/2026one of the deepest sicknesses in the world are the people who feel personally attacked over other people getting the same rights as them 8684941682
Reposted by 🎃OctoberCryptid🎃Sydney Bauer @sydney-bauer.com · 23hTurning your phone into an unlimited two deck chute blackjack table without physical chips and a direct credit line to *your bank account* should not have been allowed, no. 333461
Reposted by 🎃OctoberCryptid🎃mcc @dryad.technology · 23hSo like I keep wanting to float the idea that there's a major unspoken current in American politics where like nine different things are coded versions of "people are angry that they can't control their kids/grandkids' thoughts and lives" but then here it seems to have broken out into being explicit 11370107
Reposted by 🎃OctoberCryptid🎃Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/10/2026SUSAN COLLINS: I was successful in getting road salt removed from the Canada tariff list TROY JACKSON: What about everything else? We can't eat road salt 1368211984941
Reposted by 🎃OctoberCryptid🎃It's Going Down @igd.bsky.social · 06/10/2026"The defendants union may be the first effort of its kind in the modern history of political protest in the US..." Follow, boost, and support the folks at @nspm7union.bsky.social. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...theguardian.comTrump 2.0 is targeting US protesters with ‘antifa’ charges. Activists started a union to fight backNSPM-7 Defendants Union plans to offer legal clinics, media training and more to people facing prosecution for protest 3515254
Reposted by 🎃OctoberCryptid🎃Tina-Desiree Berg @tinadesireeberg.com · 06/10/2026The LAPD union is spending millions to defeat a half cent sales tax that would fund firefighters www.latimes.com/california/s... 641107355
Reposted by 🎃OctoberCryptid🎃Alex @purplechrain.bsky.social · 06/10/2026A crowd of Republicans loudly and enthusiastically cheering and laughing at Trump’s suggestion that Iran launching a nuclear attack on the United States would be fine as long as they bombed liberal cities in California. 261
Reposted by 🎃OctoberCryptid🎃Nash @radiodeadair.com · 06/10/2026Fuck this man for swindling my mother out of a significant amount of our family finances at a time we couldn't afford it, using her faith against her. Fuck him forever, and I'm glad he's dead. 10457153
Reposted by 🎃OctoberCryptid🎃Casey S. Pumpkins 🎃 @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 06/10/2026If I want one thing from my intermittent fame, it is to be as fondly remembered as Peter Lorre was; a staunchly pro-union actor who animators kept putting in cartoons as way of middle finger to their bosses. I can think of no greater honour. 372590542
Reposted by 🎃OctoberCryptid🎃Éibhear Ó hAnluain @eibhear.gibiris.org · 05/10/2026Pleeeeeeeaaaaaaase tell me that all those "you should need a government ID to access the internet" people are rethinking this position now. [We know they aren't. Ed.] 7527338
Reposted by 🎃OctoberCryptid🎃Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Why is the EU refusing to help the International Criminal Court? 34631
Reposted by 🎃OctoberCryptid🎃Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026H.E. Tomoko Akane President of the International Criminal Court outlined the effects of US sanctions on her and her colleagues to a meeting of judges and practitioners at the Four Courts, Dublin today in the presence of the Chief Justice of Ireland Donal O'Donnell. 112274
Reposted by 🎃OctoberCryptid🎃Micah @rincewind.run · 05/10/2026the reason these people need to be stripped of almost all of their money is so that they stop thinking that it gives them the right to nominate themselves for the "benevolent dictator" position 412684560
Reposted by 🎃OctoberCryptid🎃Alex @purplechrain.bsky.social · 06/10/2026The latest Threads threads promoted to me by the Insta algorithm is people pearlclutching about predatory grooming because a 63-year-old gay guy is dating a 27-year-old gay guy, saying it’s related to pedophilia, calling the 27yo a “kid” & that it’s “normalizing old men having access to young boys” 5432
Reposted by 🎃OctoberCryptid🎃Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 05/10/2026Do you know why I think every prisoner should get to vote in prison? Not only are prisoners counted in the census and are most affected by policies (check out prison gerrymandering), but also if you don't, regimes could simply round up 1,000s of dissidents and minorities to reshape the electorate 11891139
Reposted by 🎃OctoberCryptid🎃Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 05/10/2026All prisoners should have the right to vote while in prison 7856731102
Reposted by 🎃OctoberCryptid🎃Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 03/10/2026Killed. NSF’s SBE was killed, in violation of law. The President does not have the power to choose to kill programs at a whim by defunding them. The imperial presidency was a mistake and we are in a separation of powers constitutional crisis. 151450529
Reposted by 🎃OctoberCryptid🎃Journal of Democracy @jodemocracy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Americans have never been angrier with one another. But polarization is not the disease—it is the response to a revanchist movement seeking to roll back sixty years of social progress. 🆕 by @lilymasonphd.bsky.social muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/a... 13480165
Reposted by 🎃OctoberCryptid🎃Tyler, from the Internet (Haunted) @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 04/10/2026What it feels like to finally have all your ducks in a row 317827
Reposted by 🎃OctoberCryptid🎃Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 03/10/2026JRR Tolkien: You paint that picture of the key scene from the Two Towers where Frodo and Sam fight Gollum? Donato Giancola: Sure did, Ron, real fuckin' sexy just like you asked. JRRT: What. 5486042706
Reposted by 🎃OctoberCryptid🎃held steady @heldsteady.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Not very libertarian to be this bad at picking up an 8 year old. 251134142
🎃OctoberCryptid🎃 @octobercryptid.bsky.social · 02/10/2026www.newsweek.com/trucker-firm...newsweek.comMass layoffs, trucking bankruptcies mount amid diesel price shockDiesel has inched down from its recent record highs, but the freight economy continues to feel the effects of elevated fuel. 200
Reposted by 🎃OctoberCryptid🎃The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 02/10/2026How I did a genocide but didn't want to 1322929
Reposted by 🎃OctoberCryptid🎃hammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Yall wanna see a 2 hour old highland cow 358208315023
Reposted by 🎃OctoberCryptid🎃jam @socialistboat.dad · 01/10/2026Caffeine doesn't replace lost hours of sleep, it only masks the fatigue signals to your brain so you don't realize how tired you actually are. You still suffer the cognitive and physiological deficits from the sleep deficiency, you just can't tell. Which is good actually and fine I've decided 7919151
Reposted by 🎃OctoberCryptid🎃Arc @arcbreak.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I think that’s the problem with Bluesky is where yes we’re all mentally ill, but we are aware of it . You need the people who are incredibly unhinged and believe they are the protagonist. 1435
Reposted by 🎃OctoberCryptid🎃Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026GoFundMe, the largest crowdfunding site, has seen an over 20 percent increase in fundraisers for tuition and related expenses over the past yearinsidehighered.comGoFundMes for College Tuition Are Up This YearStudents facing acute challenges affording their tuition are increasingly turning to crowdfunding. Experts warn it’s a temporary fix to systemic affordability issues. 4361146
Reposted by 🎃OctoberCryptid🎃Jennifer X. Pumpkins 🎃 @jenyetagain.bsky.social · 30/09/2026some useful context here is that all the tariffs trump has declared are collected by CBP, who then just keep them and don't turn them over to the irs or any agency where congress might assert the power of the purse. that's all trump's money now, to do with as he pleases. 22312
Reposted by 🎃OctoberCryptid🎃 Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 30/09/2026How is this not the Onion headline 1415619
Reposted by 🎃OctoberCryptid🎃Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 01/10/2026it would change nothing but it would still be stunning and important to see someone brave enough to withhold communion to certain justices over this 863282
Reposted by 🎃OctoberCryptid🎃ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 01/10/2026"Jessica Cantu Vuittonet, who runs a coffee shop in San Benito, Texas, cast her first ballot in 2024 — for Donald Trump. Two years later, after her brother was deported, she feels angry and betrayed." www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/u...nytimes.comHispanic Voters on the Texas Border Have Soured on Trump (Gift Article)In 2024, these voters were an essential part of the winning Republican coalition. Now, many feel abandoned and furious, complicating the party’s chances in November. 108815
Reposted by 🎃OctoberCryptid🎃ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 01/10/2026turns out it's pretty easy to trick America's vast population of ignorant rubes, you just buy up all the media companies and stuff them full of propaganda. Trump's problem is that he then immediately stabbed them in the back, repeatedly 816112
Reposted by 🎃OctoberCryptid🎃Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 01/10/2026So, we are putting the equivalent of Flock cameras on Postal Trucks to create “valuable data”? Valuable to whom? Will it be sold? 12314116
Reposted by 🎃OctoberCryptid🎃Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 01/10/2026On Twitter, many years ago, I suggested that the GOP had to be completely destroyed as a U.S. political party. This was PRE-TRUMP. This led to SEVERAL days of a pile on by LIBERALS who tried to run my off the site, lol. Good times... [turns out I probably should have left the site, LOLOLOL] 738532
Reposted by 🎃OctoberCryptid🎃Authors Against Book Bans @authorsabb.bsky.social · 01/10/2026So many different people, groups, and organizations have come together to push back against the attack on the freedom to read, including students themselves. Read more about what students in Florida are doing here:theguardian.comNo more book bans: how Florida students are pushing rightwingers out of school boardsLocal communities are fighting back against the influence of conservative groups like Moms for Liberty in education 4487188
Reposted by 🎃OctoberCryptid🎃Liliana Segura @lilianasegura.bsky.social · 01/10/2026The tortuous, botched execution of Christa Pike is truly horrifying. And while it feels unique in some ways, in reality it is also only the latest in a history of botched executions going back years — YEARS — in numerous states. Please know: this is the reality of the death penalty in this country. 111283376
Reposted by 🎃OctoberCryptid🎃THEE Mabel Spookytits @mabelsmalltits.bsky.social · 01/10/2026She's communing w/ the fridge 112516
Reposted by 🎃OctoberCryptid🎃Asinus Pervicax @knownagitator.lol · 30/09/2026and this is with the World Cup during the summer, too. 0125
Reposted by 🎃OctoberCryptid🎃Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 30/09/2026There's a real and important dividing line between people who want to write, and people who want to be A Writer. AI is a gift from heaven for the latter, letting them skip the part where they have to think thoughts and write sentences and go (they hope) directly to the book tour. 915827
Reposted by 🎃OctoberCryptid🎃A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026To people who don’t believe that Kermit the Frog is real: What is the basis for your morality? Where does your moral standard come from? 963633664
Reposted by 🎃OctoberCryptid🎃more mr. spice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · 30/09/2026man, everybody knows who you are and we know that you know what's gonna happen after you publish her identity, cause you're in group chats with people who are gonna do it. the ship has sailed on your Intrepid Reporter act. you're a scumbag just like all your friends. stop being a coward and admit it 578583