Reposted by @patcific.bsky.socialMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Oh, and Pete Hegseth announced a live-streamed execution by firing squad. 2763894
Reposted by @patcific.bsky.socialMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 09/10/2026In the span of one week, Tennessee tried and failed to execute Christa Pike, Texas carried out the execution of Jamaal Howard, and Curtis Flowers—a man who spent 22+ years on Mississippi's death row for a wrongful conviction and was finally released in 2019—passed away at 56. This country, man. 652870
Reposted by @patcific.bsky.socialJohn Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 07/10/2026It's a smoldering shame upon this nation that we came out of the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic without deciding national healthcare was a necessity. 411119
Reposted by @patcific.bsky.socialMaria BOO!stillos @mariabustillos.com · 03/10/2026In fact @timnitgebru.blacksky.app has a solid track record of having been right again and again about artificial intelligence, for years, and that's why she's worth listening to today. Musk, Altman, Karp, Zuckerberg, et al.??? not so much 0133
Reposted by @patcific.bsky.socialChaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Measuringe the value of educacioun by returne on ynvestment onlye ys lyke measuringe the value of a garden by the weight of the floweres 7419121
Reposted by @patcific.bsky.socialEm Fleming 🍁 @emilyflemily.bsky.social · 29/09/2026If I were a billionaire, I would put on so many free concerts. Everyone deserves to hear beautiful things. 021
Reposted by @patcific.bsky.socialChaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Some authores trye to wryte lengthye frame-tale narratyves thei get called assholes That nevir happenid to Giovanni Boccaccio 3673
Reposted by @patcific.bsky.socialChaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Bene Gesserit: "Put your righte hande yn the box" Me [figuringe out wher to put my iced coffee] 1461393
Reposted by @patcific.bsky.socialJohn Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 25/09/2026things to bring to a job interview: iced coffee, music without headphones, a bag of disgruntled hornets things to take from a job interview: the means of production 56411
Reposted by @patcific.bsky.socialAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Incredible. First Secretary Mullin claimed that DHS had identified 15,903 noncitizens on Nevada’s voter roll. Then DHS officials told a skeptical Nevada, no no no, that’s just people we flagged. Here are the names of 185 people we KNOW aren’t citizens. All 185 were citizens. DHS got 100% wrong. 21088203854
Reposted by @patcific.bsky.socialMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 24/09/2026At the Texas Tribune Festival and @repcasar.bsky.social is speaking. Gets a round of applause when he says a Democratic majority congress needs to immediately pass @repsummerlee.bsky.social’a bill to cap ALL political donations at $5k. 128146
Reposted by @patcific.bsky.social"Steve" @sssparkers.bsky.social · 24/09/2026when the grid collapses under the strain of data center demands and climate change in a couple of years, those of us who can read maps and remember phone numbers will truly be God Kings 092
Reposted by @patcific.bsky.socialaudreyii_fic @audreyii.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I think we underestimate how much of the GOP *also* thought he'd be dead by now 022
Reposted by @patcific.bsky.socialMaria BOO!stillos @mariabustillos.com · 22/09/2026George W. Bush is an author of the fascist takeover and we knew it back then but he has better manners than Trump and hoodwinked a lot of people that way 56512
Reposted by @patcific.bsky.socialNed Raggett @nedraggett.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Lou Gramm voice: "HOT BLOODED/Check it and seeeeeee SAME BODY TEMP/as a human babyyyyy" 1154
Reposted by @patcific.bsky.socialJosh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 15/09/2026A modest proposal. The current people building the future are fucking it up. We want some better people to build the future. Perhaps even a future not built by pedophiles and oligarchs and fans of autocracy. 19769151
Reposted by @patcific.bsky.socialNed Raggett @nedraggett.bsky.social · 15/09/2026So my latest piece for #Shfl is live -- an overview of a little band out of the UK called the Fall. Trying to sum up their whole deal was its own challenge, of course! There's also links to various albums and new reviews from me for _Fall In A Hole_, the Peel comp and _50,000 Fall Fans..._theshfl.comThe FallRead Ned Raggett on The Fall 0319
Reposted by @patcific.bsky.socialKyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Rep. Thomas Massie has introduced a resolution to impeach Pete Hegseth — accusing him of defying Congress and illegally continuing the U.S. war in Iran. 824614942
Reposted by @patcific.bsky.socialMaria BOO!stillos @mariabustillos.com · 14/09/2026It is not even hard to say Everyone Means Everyone. Every person has rights, every person deserves safety, a clean place to sleep, enough to eat Any politician no matter what can easily say: Everyone's rights must be protected. Nobody can argue with this! Just keep repeating the one thing! 1246
Reposted by @patcific.bsky.socialJosh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 08/09/2026www.404media.co/a-secretive-...404media.coA Secretive DHS ‘Predictive Policing’ Unit is Analyzing Americans’ Financial Habits and Pulling Them Over404 Media is revealing the name of Border Patrol's predictive policing units, which analyze financial data and have local cops pull people over. The people are not suspected of any particular crime. 1013362
Reposted by @patcific.bsky.socialMari Ness, writer of things @mariness.bsky.social · 05/09/2026(yes, yes, yes, more tree pictures. as I warned you earlier this week, the trees are coming. The trees are coming.) 141
Reposted by @patcific.bsky.socialLaura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 05/09/2026The same stuff that would have made me susceptible to AI as a teen eventually made me into someone who's very uncomfortable with compliments and actively contemptuous of sycophancy in any form. AI makes my skin crawl, I viscerally despise it But good lord. Loneliness epidemic + AI = nothing good 21266
Reposted by @patcific.bsky.socialShiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 04/09/2026still can't get over how everyone in public office just decided that letting spammers make all cellphones unusable is just how life has to be 693297463
Reposted by @patcific.bsky.socialMaria BOO!stillos @mariabustillos.com · 02/09/2026The hard thing for me to fathom is that Republicans are seeing the devastation of the United States and somehow they want it to continue. They aren't resigning from the party, they aren't repenting. They want more 4318
Reposted by @patcific.bsky.socialMaria BOO!stillos @mariabustillos.com · 30/08/2026My youngest is going to be doing the Time Warp shortly 1172
Reposted by @patcific.bsky.socialMaria BOO!stillos @mariabustillos.com · 29/08/2026This is the actual for real president of the United States, and Republicans could oust him tomorrow, but they won't 4214
Reposted by @patcific.bsky.socialaudreyii_fic @audreyii.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Lost sight in all of *gestures* is that we absolutely, positively must reform our immigration system. Leaving people in legal limbo for years - sometimes decades - makes them easy prey to ethnic cleansers. We should invest billions in clearing case backlog and never let it get so bad again. 111
Reposted by @patcific.bsky.socialPatrick Murray @nprpatrick.bsky.social · 26/08/2026This needs to be a thing. 16960314
Reposted by @patcific.bsky.socialLaura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 24/08/2026I do understand that paying $5/month to every journalist is completely unsustainable. Everyone knows we have to find another way to sponsor people writing about what's happening If you can't pay, we get it. But do not yell at journalists for having paywalls please. Many need the money to live 3786
Reposted by @patcific.bsky.socialKaren Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 24/08/2026BREAKING: After the Washington Post fired me last year for speaking the truth in the wake of the Charlie Kirk killing, I fought back. And I'm happy to announce: I won my case against the Washington Post. They have been ordered to reinstate me immediately. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/b...nytimes.comWashington Post Ordered to Rehire Fired Columnist Karen AttiahAn arbitrator ordered the newspaper to reinstate Karen Attiah, who was fired after posting about “white men who espouse hatred and violence” following Charlie Kirk’s killing. 1193326736244
Reposted by @patcific.bsky.socialLaura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Brilliant: “I want to be very clear: I had no involvement whatsoever,” said Alderman, who had previously described the paper as “the culmination of our lab’s vision” and “a reflection of the research program I have built over 20 years.” “This was entirely the work of a junior trainee acting alone.”inpreparation.substack.comPI Who Took Credit For Paper Clarifies Fraud Was Student’s Independent WorkBOSTON, MA—In a statement released Monday following the retraction of a high-profile Nature paper, Whitehead Institute principal investigator Dr. 2649
Reposted by @patcific.bsky.socialJosh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 20/08/2026For all the GOPs who actually think Dems are saying Harp & Trump are fucking, they're not. We can clear that up. They're saying she's his emotional support blanket. He's a praise & sycophancy junkie on his last legs. And he needs the heroin of fangirls 24/7. And that's Natalie. 741031177
Reposted by @patcific.bsky.socialJared Pechaček @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Little Women III: The Battle of Five Marmees 27421
Reposted by @patcific.bsky.socialPearly Sweetgrave @sugarblind.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Footloose is such an annoying song that i refuse to ever watch the movie 011
Reposted by @patcific.bsky.socialLaura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Many articles/think pieces/interviews about the Democrats pushing back against the scourge of the DSA. I am a DSA member but will, out of the kindness of my heart, offer some advice to the establishment re: pushing back Do something Do literally goddamn anything 1330761
Reposted by @patcific.bsky.socialShiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 17/08/2026There is literally only one response to all these fraud CEOs trying to scam ppl with moon and mars colonies which is- do you believe in your company enough to be the first person to go and how do you intend to keep this commitment 855379
Reposted by @patcific.bsky.socialDiabolical Plots @diabolicalplots.com · 13/08/2026Hell yeah, bruv! ALL brownies are best brownies 031
Reposted by @patcific.bsky.socialaudreyii_fic @audreyii.bsky.social · 07/08/2026This is what you point to when people say "there's no difference between Democrats and Republicans." Democrats kicked Platner to the curb -- not as early as they should have, but they did. The GOP, by contrast, is clasping a child abuser to their evil bosom. 142
Reposted by @patcific.bsky.socialaudreyii_fic @audreyii.bsky.social · 04/08/2026“Today is August 4, 2026, the city of Allendale, California.” short-stories.co/@raybradbury...short-stories.coThere Will Come Soft Rains by Ray BradburyThe voice-clock sang, breakfast was ejected, but no doors slammed. The garage chimed and lifted its door to reveal the waiting car. The house sat alone in a city of rubble and… 011
Reposted by @patcific.bsky.socialryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 29/07/2026lots of pointlessly huge parking lots come in useful for once 21058
Reposted by @patcific.bsky.socialDr Danny Bate @dannybate.com · 29/07/2026Dave the pub joker, London, c. 1400: 'lads, whY dOn't wE prOnOUnce OUr vOWels all wEIrd' The lads: 'hahaha, whY not' 3444
patcific.bsky.social @patcific.bsky.social · 18/07/2026@wiswell.bsky.social "How dare those humans put herbs and seasoning on him!" 110
Reposted by @patcific.bsky.socialAnna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Fetal Position Friday 410710
Reposted by @patcific.bsky.socialLaura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Babies have more callouses on their hands than Jesse Watters. His job consists of hitting hair and makeup before sitting under stage lights and whining into a microphone for an hour Watters cannot imagine anyone reacting to him with anything other than scorn or vague disgust, and neither can I 417815
Reposted by @patcific.bsky.socialTom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 17/07/2026OK but imagine the teleprompter guy white-knuckling through a speech he's got a big bet down on while Trump spends 25 minutes freestyling off script 745535
Reposted by @patcific.bsky.socialEm Fleming 🍁 @emilyflemily.bsky.social · 16/07/2026I love when I go to return a book I have finished and the app says 7 people are waiting and I just think "heck yes, someone's gonna get a happy notification and then they're gonna get to read this great book." 011
Reposted by @patcific.bsky.socialJared Pechaček @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social · 13/07/2026actually no. I wouldn't retire. what's the point in getting that big if you can't spend your time making the worst jokes possible at everyone 1121
Reposted by @patcific.bsky.socialChaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 13/07/2026TrebuchetBurger will see your "smashburger" and rayse you a "burger we throwe hundredes of yardes wyth a trebuchet and thenne it doth hitte the walle of a castle." A TrebuchetBurger franchyse ys openinge near thee, anon! 718425
Reposted by @patcific.bsky.socialChristina Henderson @chenderson.bsky.social · 13/07/2026I wish more journalists would point out that Sen. McConnell and Rep. Tom Kean (missed 4 months of work) are/were essentially on paid sick & medical leave. The same employment protection they’ve spent their careers blocking other Americans from having. 7086042966
