Reposted by Gwyan Rhabytjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/10/2026huh, interesting that vance thinks this is the worst terrorist attack and not oklahoma city 1755471788
Gwyan Rhabyt @rhabyt.bsky.social · 09/10/2026This could just be Latinos deciding that it's better to vote early than be harassed by ICE on election day. That would mean the early vote is just cannibalizing the election day vote 010
Reposted by Gwyan RhabytJamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 09/10/2026this, by the way, should be table stakes for any Democrat seeking office from now until the Republican Party has been completely destroyed and our political, government, and media ecosystems rebuilt and reformed so they no longer advantage far-right fascists 219150
Reposted by Gwyan RhabytErica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social · 07/10/2026The mayor of Saint-Denis, Bally Bagayoko, literally used himself as a human shield to protect students from police violence 5556791752
Gwyan Rhabyt @rhabyt.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I'm guessing that roughly translates as "I preferred the time when it was the tooth fairy that took our teeth, not the riot police", is that right? 280
Reposted by Gwyan RhabytAdam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 06/10/2026The utter shamelessness of Kemi Badenoch boasting at Conservative party conference about 'defending press freedom' and berating Reform for banning critical journalists from their conference, just days after banning Byline Times journalists from her own 451382567
Reposted by Gwyan Rhabytspooky rachel @introspectre.online · 06/10/2026this is one of the best headlines i have ever seen www.washingtonpost.com/gender-ident...washingtonpost.com‘Katy Perry, please stop,’ begged a nun. Then she collapsed and died. 8607113
Reposted by Gwyan RhabytTim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 02/10/2026This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever 41120523123
Reposted by Gwyan RhabytJonathan Bernstein @jonathanbernstein.bsky.social · 02/10/2026There are a *lot* of top priorities for Dems in the next Congress but forcing the administration to follow the law on spending is probably the top of the top priorities. 23436103
Reposted by Gwyan RhabytSamperson @samperson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026the IP rush was driven by faith that a culture is just a pile of Stuff, and if you own that stuff, you own culture. the AI rush is driven by faith that if you can automate the creation of stuff, you can automate culture. 113434
Reposted by Gwyan RhabytAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/09/2026I for one think it’s bad that the president can just say crazy stuff all day every day and 99% of it doesn’t make the news because we’ve normalized having an insane president 902257326105
Reposted by Gwyan RhabytRebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Magical creatures don’t exist, eh? Roughly 400 million years ago, before the birth of trees, there were giant mystery cones called “Prototaxites,” which grew nearly 30 feet tall. We literally have no idea what they were. Plant: no Mushroom: no Animal: no Tell me this isn’t a little bit magic 47840221
Reposted by Gwyan RhabytMrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 29/09/2026This is like a fucking SNL skit where studios keep making hockey shows instead of gay shows 553122572
Reposted by Gwyan Rhabytevacide @evacide.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Meta Muse appears to read your Apple messages and upload them to the cloud even if you explicitly tell it not to: appleinsider.com/articles/26/...appleinsider.com 10320341030
Gwyan Rhabyt @rhabyt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Why only part of Oxford St? Why not the full length from Tottenham Ct Rd to Marble Arch? 100
Reposted by Gwyan RhabytMark Wallace @wallaceme.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Ok don’t let’s get carried away but I found something genuinely good on Threads. 540916163
Reposted by Gwyan RhabytGeek Native @geeknative.bsky.social · 24/09/2026UK Games Expo has banned generative AI art, text, and merchandise across all NEC exhibition halls, bringing the convention in line with broader British tabletop standards. Standholders face removal or bans if their products aren't made by humans. #UKGEgeeknative.comUK Games Expo bans generative AI art and text across all trade hallsUK Games Expo has introduced a mandatory policy prohibiting generative AI art and text across all NEC trade halls, requiring exhibitors to sell only human-made games. 181528488
Reposted by Gwyan RhabytDepravity Pike @gravity-pike.bsky.social · 23/09/2026The tragedy of late capitalism is that it's not enough to be a profitable investment. You need to be more profitable than literally any other use of capital, including speculation on magic beans. 051
Gwyan Rhabyt @rhabyt.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Bullshit headline. It should read "Cybersecurity firm employees use Gemini to hack three firms". Gemini has no more personhood than a runaway truck. 1150
Reposted by Gwyan RhabytCharles Gaba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 21/09/2026This is the 28th time I’ve posted this Doonesbury since 2015. 18124
Reposted by Gwyan RhabytCount Trashula @trashmobminis.bsky.social · 19/09/2026What the actual hell are you talking about?! 1641849192
Gwyan Rhabyt @rhabyt.bsky.social · 21/09/2026He wants to expand the private sector wherever it can be done rationally. Ultimately, good governance supports stable capitalism. The problem is that none of this actually supports increasing fairness or the general welfare 000
Gwyan Rhabyt @rhabyt.bsky.social · 21/09/2026I agree, he's not a right-wing, libertarian neoliberal. He's got the qualities of an Eisenhower Republican - his policies work to promote the long term success of capitalism. Because he sees that climate science is real, he supports NetZero as economically sensible for the rich in the long term. 000
Reposted by Gwyan RhabytDmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 20/09/2026I don't think we disdain the center-right enough. First, they rode nativist populist tigers to power to get their tax cuts and deregulation; Then, they lost control of their own parties to those tigers; Now, they sit in lucrative jobs as columnists writing about how it's all the left's fault. 433126790
Reposted by Gwyan RhabytSmooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026when ai leaves u behind 75262549843
Reposted by Gwyan RhabytCourtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 20/09/2026I hate doing the "a rollback of trans rights is the gateway for a rollback of women's rights" thing because trans rights are human rights in and of themselves, whatever the impact on cis women. But goddamn I wish more cis women had a sense of history and self preservation. 2742251002
Reposted by Gwyan RhabytBy Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 20/09/2026Hugo Steiner-Prag (1880–1945), “The City in the Sea” www.tumblr.com/charnel-grou... 181
Gwyan Rhabyt @rhabyt.bsky.social · 19/09/2026This won't last. He's a banker. In Europe, his politics would be called centre-right. He is looking out for capitalism. It's just in this weird present moment, that standing up to Trump, not being a kleptocrat, and looking to the rational long term, can make a politician like him look great. 110
Reposted by Gwyan RhabytTalespinner @talespinner.bsky.social · 18/09/2026it just says so much that they think making literal Jesus a woman takes away from his essence more than making him ... y'know ... a fucking lion. 17224
Gwyan Rhabyt @rhabyt.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Carter wasn't to blame for the Iranian Revolution causing the 1979 oil crisis. Biden wasn't to blame for the invasion of Ukraine. Only some people blame the president for everything; many look at actual causes. Trump is personally responsible for current inflation, so he gets a worse approval rating 000
Reposted by Gwyan RhabytTrumpsTaxes @trumpstaxes.com · 17/09/2026He’s not looking at a placard about lowering grocery prices. He’s not looking at a placard about end the Iran War. He’s not looking at a placard about reining in AI or ending the Canadian Trade War or expanding healthcare. He’s focused on what he thinks matters most: His grievances. 271317340
Reposted by Gwyan RhabytTommasinaResist⚜️🦋🐈⬛ @tommasinaresist.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Skipping the 2026 vote because of cynicism is a luxury belief. It is the view of those who do not face ICE vans, dying lakes, or surveillance cameras tracking family to clinics. Your apathy is a comfort they cannot afford. #GetReadyToVote #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory 13280155
Reposted by Gwyan RhabytCapn Borscht @capnborscht.bsky.social · 22/03/2024The best thing about this planet is that every few days I'll learn about an animal I've literally never seen or heard of before, like the Nilgai which is just a stupidly massive antelope 2334183787
Reposted by Gwyan RhabytBrian PJ Cronin @brianpjcronin.bsky.social · 16/09/2026"Seeing a partial eclipse bears the same relation to seeing a total eclipse as kissing a man does to marrying him, or as flying in an airplane does to falling out of an airplane. Although the one experience precedes the other, it in no way prepares you for it." 073
Reposted by Gwyan RhabytCaroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 12/09/2026The way British democracy is being bought by crypto billionaires is simply obscene - and a direct result of Labour’s unforgivable inactiontheguardian.comBurnham drops support for political funding cap aimed at curbing mega-donorsPM said he would set bar at £500k, but trade unions say funding reforms could undermine their ability to donate to Labour 641266474
Reposted by Gwyan RhabytI Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 12/09/2026The Republican Party is chock full of open race scientists and Hitler apologists, so naturally our political press is laser focused on reckoning with “wokeness” and trans kids playing sports. 252570561
Reposted by Gwyan Rhabyteb99 @eb99.bsky.social · 11/09/2026I think it's more comforting for some people to think of OBL as some evil genius or tragic victim of imperialism rather than a bog standard delusional ideologically extremist billionaire failson who thought he could accellerationism his way to a theocratic utopia 323274493
Reposted by Gwyan RhabytPaul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Why do all these Nazis keep showing up on Republican campaigns, it's a real mystery washingtonsun.com/senate/huste...washingtonsun.comHusted Fires Political Director Over Past Nazi PostsThe former staffer had posted profile photos featuring Nazi officers and wore the attire in a group photo in 2018. 471509339
Reposted by Gwyan RhabytBy Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 07/09/2026Centuries ahead of its time, Giovanni Battista Bracelli's "Bizzarie di Varie Figure" (1624) depicts figures made from a range of objects, mostly abstract — cubes, rings, squares — but also such things as rackets, screws, and braided hair. www.tumblr.com/publicdomain... 1566
Reposted by Gwyan RhabytElle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Rough Draft vs Final Draft 254116923321
Gwyan Rhabyt @rhabyt.bsky.social · 03/09/2026This feels connected to first-past-the-post voting. The Brits (and the rest of the anglophone world) rarely have coalition governments, so they get in the habit of blaming people rather than blaming the value of policies 110
Reposted by Gwyan RhabytWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 03/09/2026guns are what turn small horrors into big horrors 41414
Gwyan Rhabyt @rhabyt.bsky.social · 01/09/2026As a department chair at a four year state uni in California this happened a couple of times in the last 20 years, mostly when the legislature passed the budget late. Everyone got paid. That said, we have a strong faculty union. 000