Reposted by @plaguetongue.bsky.socialLittleKuriboh @littlekuriboh.bsky.social · 27/06/2026"Are you concerned about working with a predator?" "I'm more concerned about working." This is what it all too often boils down to. 627163
Reposted by @plaguetongue.bsky.socialGale Sinatra @galesinatra.bsky.social · 27/06/2026I think we just passed oops. 451173235800
plaguetongue.bsky.social @plaguetongue.bsky.social · 27/06/2026“Nuclear family” is an apt name for the concept, actually. We all thought it was great and used it everywhere before we understood it, it creates vast destructive energy by splitting apart important fundamental bonds, and it poisons everything it touches for a couple hundred years. 000
Reposted by @plaguetongue.bsky.socialMatthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 29/05/2026I haven't tested this, but my intuition is: "They're trying to turn us into North Korea. When scientists are replaced by political hacks, instead of iPhones you get famines, instead of cancer cures you get contagion, instead of stealth fighters you get wreckage..." 815561
plaguetongue.bsky.social @plaguetongue.bsky.social · 17/04/2026… new, from Movies That Don’t Exist (TM): A budding craft influencer travels to New York City to document her stay at a trendy hotel with her adorable felted finger puppets. (Con’t) 100
plaguetongue.bsky.social @plaguetongue.bsky.social · 16/04/2026Ok, I realize this is my most prescriptivist opinion, but: “ASK” IS NOT A NOUN. The word you want is “request.” Corporate-speak continues apace to dumb itself down. 000
plaguetongue.bsky.social @plaguetongue.bsky.social · 13/04/2026Still weirds me out that people would rather inhale your virus cloud than have to hear it. Sniffling is rude and gross, but blowing your nose, expelling droplets for all to partake in? An obviously superior solution. Joke’s on them. Post nasal drip means the nose blow stops zero sniffles. 000
Reposted by @plaguetongue.bsky.sociallukelukeluke @lukelukeluke.bsky.social · 08/03/2026Here are some nice mushrooms 2188884
Reposted by @plaguetongue.bsky.socialCynthia Rose @stillcham.blacksky.app · 08/03/2026This is THE core belief of the political class. 0219
Reposted by @plaguetongue.bsky.socialCharlotte. @charlotteirene.bsky.social · 08/03/2026This is deeply evil and anti-Christ. You can't reform this. Burn down ICE and scatter the ashes to the four winds 011
plaguetongue.bsky.social @plaguetongue.bsky.social · 08/03/2026 I have counted my limbs a few thousand times since that day And always I have two legs, two arms Ten fingers, ten toes But that cannot be right. Something is missing, Something more than just “a person who is not me.” 100
Reposted by @plaguetongue.bsky.socialJay Willis @jaywillis.net · 06/03/2026As far as concessions go, “the people for whom I am advocating are objectively unable to do the jobs I want them to have, and also have a nasty history of disqualifying themselves with their own rank bigotry” is an incredible thing to have to write 518634
Reposted by @plaguetongue.bsky.socialOrphan Source @orphan-source-0.bsky.social · 06/03/2026I dare any other public health expert to bring doing the kind of work Matt just gives away on a daily basis. 0399
plaguetongue.bsky.social @plaguetongue.bsky.social · 06/03/2026Dear work: if you want me to believe in Employee Appreciation Day, I don’t need a mass “thanks” email from the head of Ops, I need a mass apology email from the guy in charge of AI development. 000
Reposted by @plaguetongue.bsky.socialMekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 04/03/2026There are *more* innocent Black people unfairly incarcerated today than there were in 1960. Hundreds of thousands more. 🤦🏿♂️ The racist gap in wealth *widened* between 1960 and 2013. 🤦🏿♂️ Segregation is *increasing* rather than decreasing in over 100 US cities. 🤦🏿♂️pbs.orgToday's racial wealth gap is wider than in the 1960sAverage wealth in America has grown over the past 50 years, but not at the same rate for everyone. Wealth gaps, especially between whites and non-whites, are growing. In 2013, the average white family... 212341
plaguetongue.bsky.social @plaguetongue.bsky.social · 03/03/2026Bad things no one tells you about weight loss: your cat can now stand FAR more directly on your kidney or spleen. 000
Reposted by @plaguetongue.bsky.socialIan Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 25/02/2026It’s not just Medicaid funding they’re withholding to MN. It’s food assistance, child care assistance, social services, job training, safety testing, public health, disaster relief. SNAP. Free lunch for kids in school. They hate us for loving our neighbors, and are collectively punishing us for it. 23083534090
Reposted by @plaguetongue.bsky.socialShimanti | Human Consequences @humanconsequences.com · 10/02/2026I hear from people who are surprised I'm still talking about ICE, they thought they'd withdrawn from MN. No, they have not. In some respects they've escalated. Some asked why MN is a target. Are there are there a lot more illegals or criminals here? No, it's not about that. It's about a grudge. 18347931375
plaguetongue.bsky.social @plaguetongue.bsky.social · 11/02/2026My estimate of US Conservative media literacy is heavily influenced by exposure to my parents, who think “Hallelujah” is a religious song and walked out of “Chicago” because it was glorifying deception and immorality. 000
Reposted by @plaguetongue.bsky.socialDr. DaShanne Stokes @dashannestokes.com · 07/02/2026ICE is not broken. It's agents murdering people, taking trophies of victims, using illegal tactics, breaking laws, spreading terror, exploiting children, and leaving death cards are not isolated events, outliers, or accidents. ICE is operating exactly as intended. 24866742291
plaguetongue.bsky.social @plaguetongue.bsky.social · 08/02/2026I wish to God I had not been raised to believe that accepting help means accepting debt and control. 000
Reposted by @plaguetongue.bsky.socialThis is NOT ok!!! @donewiththisshit.bsky.social · 06/02/2026🚨Status Coup News just ended their Livestream in Minneapolis. They said that the ICE raids have NOT slowed down at all. They are documenting them daily. We cannot listen to Tom Homan when he feeds us the illusion that they are stepping back at all. We must keep the pressure HIGH on ICE. #FUCKICE 12753752007
Reposted by @plaguetongue.bsky.socialRabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 06/02/2026This is what public service is supposed to be about. 238577
Reposted by @plaguetongue.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 28/01/2026ICE activity has not noticeably tapered off yet here and in fact this week they seem to be focused on terrorizing kids at bus stops and schools. 250102923618
Reposted by @plaguetongue.bsky.socialChristopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 28/01/2026Stephen Miller acknowledges a “possible breach of protocol” before Alex Pretti’s shooting. Come on! That’s not it. The agency is performing exactly as designed. Miller set a quota for ICE arrests and impossible hiring targets. Kristi Noem set low standards for qualifications to meet the quota. 1/2 27333921112
Reposted by @plaguetongue.bsky.socialMatthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 28/01/2026The first time I remember praying for death I was 7 or 8 years old. The nuns said to offer my suffering up to Jesus. I had Crohn’s disease. Pediatric treatments existed, I never got them Part 1 of a series on why “parental choice” framing on vaccines is dead wrong 🔗 www.patreon.com/posts/149300... 19449133
Reposted by @plaguetongue.bsky.socialDecolonize Myself @decolonizemyself.bsky.social · 28/01/2026 0132
Reposted by @plaguetongue.bsky.socialRon Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 26/01/2026Naming someone is not doxxing. They aren’t undercover. They aren’t intelligence agents overseas. This is outrageous - we are supposed to be a free Republic and these people want an authoritarian police state. Lawsuits should be filed & ranking Dems in Congress should act. 28653209711594
plaguetongue.bsky.social @plaguetongue.bsky.social · 27/01/2026“You have to step out of your comfort zone to grow” bold of you to assume I have a comfort zone, my dude. 000
Reposted by @plaguetongue.bsky.socialDecolonize Myself @decolonizemyself.bsky.social · 19/01/2026ms.nowOpinion | I'm a Minneapolis sociologist who studies violence. Here's how ICE observers are helping.Research into how violence occurs shows that disapproval from the people around you can help reduce it. 0135
Reposted by @plaguetongue.bsky.socialMrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 18/01/2026Pew Research Institute (2023): • Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants • Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants • Blue State Minnesota has 130,000. And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration." It's *not* about immigration. 14874765420438
Reposted by @plaguetongue.bsky.socialmolly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 03/01/2026babe wake up, they're doing insider trading on war crimes 211163365490
Reposted by @plaguetongue.bsky.socialKingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 03/01/2026Called it. 121820
Reposted by @plaguetongue.bsky.socialRabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 14/12/2025This is the choice that those with power have made— This is the life they want for our children and us. It will continue until we change who is in power or how power functions here. 636691
plaguetongue.bsky.social @plaguetongue.bsky.social · 09/12/2025I am genuinely offended? That absolutely NONE of the manmade horrors we face are beyond my comprehension. The technologies erupting are a little outré but none of the technologies themselves are inherently horrific. All of the horrors themselves are predictable and from like 1950 at the *latest.* 000
Reposted by @plaguetongue.bsky.socialAuskeleton @arsarcantum.bsky.social · 28/11/2025100% This clip is really bad. Absolutely hollow. But important to remember also that as this tech becomes "better" and more advanced, simply it being "bad" isn't going to cut it as a rhetorical argument. Slop like this must be opposed because it's fundamentally anti-human, regardless of "quality" 5431200
Reposted by @plaguetongue.bsky.socialIain Bancarz 🇨🇦 @iainrb.bsky.social · 26/11/2025This. Whenever local government reviews the library budget and asks, "Why should we give you money?" We want the library to be able to say, "Because we provide a valuable service used by many people!" Libraries are like muscles, using them more makes them stronger. 💪 3523193
Reposted by @plaguetongue.bsky.socialLittleKuriboh @littlekuriboh.bsky.social · 26/11/2025If nearly everyone had an STD, I’d still want people to disclose that shit. 262632913
Reposted by @plaguetongue.bsky.socialHypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 22/11/2025“AI workers said they distrust the models they work on because of a consistent emphasis on rapid turnaround time at the expense of quality.”theguardian.comMeet the AI workers who tell their friends and family to stay away from AIWhen the people making AI seem trustworthy are the ones who trust it the least, it shows that incentives for speed are overtaking safety, experts say 201267522
Reposted by @plaguetongue.bsky.socialShepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 22/11/2025I'm one of the "Lost Girls" - girls whose ADHD is clear in retrospect but never got diagnosed because we weren't running around the classroom being disruptive. We just couldn't function as soon as we were expected to make our own structure to do homework/projects. 41332
Reposted by @plaguetongue.bsky.socialDr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 22/11/2025Using audio from fucking fifteen years ago like it's new, like the person chose it, like they endorse it. That is fucked. 313840
plaguetongue.bsky.social @plaguetongue.bsky.social · 22/11/2025We have reached a point in time where a large number of people in power have decided the truth makes them so uncomfortable that, since the truth itself cannot be eradicated, they will destroy everyone’s means to learn truth. 010
plaguetongue.bsky.social @plaguetongue.bsky.social · 20/11/2025Not “queer” as in “anti-LGBTQIA+ slur,” “queer” as in “the words for what I am only existed deep underground till I was 25 and also I don’t wanna explain the labels every. Single. Time.” 000
Reposted by @plaguetongue.bsky.socialShepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 20/11/2025To be honest given the climate in the US and my increasing conviction that I am not going to be one of the ones who makes it through this is my feeling as well. Then again the only people on my timeline talking about TDOR are trans so yknow. 320632
Reposted by @plaguetongue.bsky.socialMatthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 20/11/2025know how I've been saying that some in public health will embrace MAHA? treat it like a legitimate public health project instead of the fascist, eugenicist purge to 'MAGA-ify the gene pool' that it is? Others, like JHU, will point out the lies: publichealth.jhu.edu/2025/the-evi...publichealth.jhu.eduThe Evidence on Vaccines and Autism | Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public HealthHow a retracted study from the 1990s led to a persistent myth about vaccines. 29929
Reposted by @plaguetongue.bsky.socialAnna Phylaxis @quatoria.bsky.social · 19/11/2025Another name for this would be "pre-existing conditions," a way used to exclude disabled people from health care for decades in the US. Understand, when you hear people talk about "rewarding the healthy" - these are policies that have a body count. 9522258
plaguetongue.bsky.social @plaguetongue.bsky.social · 19/11/2025Every so often a random detail about the world around me catches my attention and delights me. Today it is a close look at the structure of my long-haired cat’s coat. Even her paws have a light sprinkling of longer hairs. 000
Reposted by @plaguetongue.bsky.socialRabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 29/10/2025 91047243
