SlacktivistFred @slacktivistfred.bsky.social · 22hJim Bakker, Dennis Hastert ... Never believed in rule of 3s superstitions, but still. 2251
SlacktivistFred @slacktivistfred.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Theory: Trump resembles a movie/TV villain because generations of writers based villainous characters on him (at least in part). Elon et. al. resemble movie/TV villains because they do not understand stories and thus have deliberately chosen to emulate those villainous characters. 37112
SlacktivistFred @slacktivistfred.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Always wear a helmet when skateboarding. 2029638
SlacktivistFred @slacktivistfred.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Trades. crafts, apprenticeships all gaining in respect as alternatives to absurdly expensive college ... unless the trade in question is perceived as women's work. Cosmetology doesn't pay as a craft/trade because it is licensed & regulated in a way that ensures it doesn't. 34211
SlacktivistFred @slacktivistfred.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Bluesky's "trending" blurbs seem written in a desperate attempt to counter criticism of the platform as some kind of progressive bubble, but it winds up giving us bland pudding like "Fans react to baseball game." Who talks like that? 2163
SlacktivistFred @slacktivistfred.bsky.social · 30/09/2026More evidence from Sen. Eric Schmitt that conspirators were conspiring at a Hawks game in Atlanta.static.klipy.comAlan Alda as Hawkeye Pierce in M*A*S*HAlt: Alan Alda as Hawkeye Pierce in M*A*S*H 17925106
Reposted by SlacktivistFredMolly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 29/09/2026The kicker is you can tell it would never even dawn on this Republican senator or his staff that a man might want to go to a women’s sporting event. But protect women’s sports or something! 21633100
SlacktivistFred @slacktivistfred.bsky.social · 29/09/2026It smells a bit like if the big banks had gotten together in early 2008 to call for a “slowdown” in subprime derivatives. Smells a bit bubblicious. 1211
SlacktivistFred @slacktivistfred.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I don't think you get to just decide to call yourselves "Rationalists" and say you're advocating "Rationalism" and expect that everybody else is supposed to just swallow that uncritically and defer to your superior rationality. That's not how that works, even apart from the orgies and whatnot. 3605
SlacktivistFred @slacktivistfred.bsky.social · 27/09/2026If Boston Dynamics had set tens of thousands of its robot dogs loose, just to see what happens, I would think they'd be in some kind of legal and/or financial trouble. 2337
SlacktivistFred @slacktivistfred.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Great reporting and honest language here from Bob Smietana. No "racially tinged" mush mouth talk. No caviling with "critics say" hedging. Self-evident evils are discussed as such, not as "controversies." He gives words and sinners the dignity of meaning what they mean. 03312
Reposted by SlacktivistFredMcSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 24/09/2026It's both their birthdays this week, so we must share this classic from our archives... buff.ly/F7QhXVLbuff.lyBruce Springsteen or Stephen King?1. You take Mary out for a nice drive. Disaster ensues. 2. Bit by bit, this town is killing you. 3. Two remorseless killers careen across a deser... 011149
Reposted by SlacktivistFredJP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026it's important to arrive at sturdy ethical principles that you can't be annoyed out of. people are annoying as shit 3460331484
Reposted by SlacktivistFredgrayson @graysond.bsky.social · 23/09/2026more and more reasons why it is important to subscribe to outlets you like and trust and follow them directly. Reading with intention will make you better informed and produce a more sustainable ecosystem. Bookmarks and RSS are way way better than search results and news aggregators 02810
Reposted by SlacktivistFredHedgerow Bustler @joelcreese.bsky.social · 22/09/2026I knocked on doors for Susan Crawford, the progressive Wisconsin Supreme Court justice candidate. Every time I mentioned that Musk supported her opponent, they said, “I’ll support her.” It’s an absolute gimme. 1739
Reposted by SlacktivistFredGreg Pak @gregpak.net · 20/09/2026"My opponent wants to hire creeps to inspect your daughter's genitals if she wants to play soccer. I wouldn't trust him or any hired weirdo from his pedophile-protecting party alone in a room with any kid." Go on the offensive, you cowards! It's not that hard! 1347881234
SlacktivistFred @slacktivistfred.bsky.social · 20/09/2026The current tendency to hype every decades-old computerized function -- a searchable database -- as "A.I." or "powered by A.I." winds up casting doubt on useful programs that actually work fairly well (even if it's still faster to just, you know, ask the freight team where stuff is). 0768
SlacktivistFred @slacktivistfred.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Younger associates at the Big Box don't trust the new database for locating overstock inventory because even though it's just a database -- a glorified spreadsheet fed by OCR of digital photos of our overheads -- it keeps getting described as "A.I." and those Gen Z associates don't trust "A.I." 1759
Reposted by SlacktivistFredMcBoo-lie @mcjulie.bsky.social · 20/09/2026I haven’t read the book or the “my faith isn’t a cancer” Washington Post essay, but, based on the coverage in this Friendly Atheist essay, it’s exactly what I would have guessed based on the title: www.friendlyatheist.com?utm_source=n...friendlyatheist.comFriendly Atheist | Hemant Mehta | SubstackCommentary about religion and politics, centered around atheism. Click to read Friendly Atheist, by Hemant Mehta, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers. 2184
SlacktivistFred @slacktivistfred.bsky.social · 19/09/2026I still recite the names of that trade like I'm Arya Stark. 2151
Reposted by SlacktivistFredBlake C. Stacey @blakestacey.myatproto.social · 19/09/2026And the Stephilim were on the Earth in those days 0263
SlacktivistFred @slacktivistfred.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Every reference to "Adam and Steve" has profound theological implications that these folks have not fully thought through. Steve, neither begotten nor made, is present and not forbidden in Eden. Steve, neither begotten nor made, remains, unfallen, ageless, and unexpelled from the garden. ... 5243
SlacktivistFred @slacktivistfred.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Me, in elementary school, re-reading the Narnia series for the umpteenth time: "But aren't the sons of Adam and daughters of Eve also the sons of Eve and the daughters of Adam? Isn't my mother also MY mother?" My fundie teachers: [Evasive and unsatisfying in a way that planted an important seed] 2502
SlacktivistFred @slacktivistfred.bsky.social · 18/09/2026The Telmarines aren't happy about this, but the Telmarines are never happy about anything. 3421
SlacktivistFred @slacktivistfred.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Kurt Vonnegut, speaking of Cinderella, said, "People LOVE this story. Every decade or so somebody retells this story and makes a million dollars. You're welcome to try it." The same is true of Bo Diddley. 050
SlacktivistFred @slacktivistfred.bsky.social · 13/09/2026The biblical faith of white evangelicals is under attack from state legislatures mandating that a NON-BIBLICAL corruption of the Ten Commandments be posted in classrooms and public spaces. This is wrong! Revelation 22:18 (taken extremely out of context, as evangelical tradition holds)! 0271
SlacktivistFred @slacktivistfred.bsky.social · 13/09/2026The top 1% of America's economy owns and controls more than a third of the nation's wealth -- more than all the money held by every white evangelical COMBINED. And yet the American tax code is rigged in favor of that 1%, while white evangelicals pay the bills. 1272
SlacktivistFred @slacktivistfred.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Unlike religious believers in other countries, white evangelicals in America are denied access to health care unless they can afford to pay for it. White evangelical families in America can lose everything from a single illness or injury. White evangelicals deserve better than that! 1331
SlacktivistFred @slacktivistfred.bsky.social · 13/09/2026For more than 150 years, the Reconstruction Amendments have guaranteed equal protection, due process, and an absolute right to vote for every white evangelical, but the Supreme Court refuses to uphold the black letter law of the Constitution when it comes to those amendments. That is wrong. 1291
SlacktivistFred @slacktivistfred.bsky.social · 13/09/2026"Kavanaugh Stops" are an abomination. U.S. citizens should never be confronted, beaten, handcuffed, and detained for days without access to attorneys simply because they appear to be white evangelicals. 1403
SlacktivistFred @slacktivistfred.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Furthermore, no qualified officer in the United States military should be denied promotion or have their career ended by the defense secretary just because that decorated officer happens to be a white evangelical. 1321
SlacktivistFred @slacktivistfred.bsky.social · 13/09/2026I can't promise to stop criticizing the blasphemies of white theology and the heresies manufactured by white slave-owner-apologist, concordance-driven hermeneutics. But I will defend white evangelicals by stating that evangelical kids should not be banned from youth sports because of who they are. 1395
SlacktivistFred @slacktivistfred.bsky.social · 13/09/2026"Evangelical Lives Matter?" Ahem. ALL lives matter, ma'am. 1311
SlacktivistFred @slacktivistfred.bsky.social · 13/09/2026In a time when antisemitism is increasing on the far left and the mainstream right, and when Islamophobia is at a fever pitch in the US and the UK, Bonnie Kristian keeps an eye on what's really important: Defending white evangelicalism. 9797
SlacktivistFred @slacktivistfred.bsky.social · 12/09/2026A friend told me “Just think of George Michael” and so now whenever I read about Irish politics, my brain says “🎵 Taoiseach there are things that I still have to learn 🎵” 180
SlacktivistFred @slacktivistfred.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Got to admire the way Ireland forced the Brits (and the rest of us) to have to learn to spell and say Taoiseach. My first attempt at pronouncing that had way too many syllables. 2294
SlacktivistFred @slacktivistfred.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Lifeguards have to be certified by the Red Cross but, like, did Florence Nightingale even know how to swim? 0120
SlacktivistFred @slacktivistfred.bsky.social · 09/09/2026“Mr. President, a second big, burly firefighter is dragging Donald Trump to safety …” 2379
SlacktivistFred @slacktivistfred.bsky.social · 08/09/2026“12 Angry Men” is a great illustration of this. 2421
SlacktivistFred @slacktivistfred.bsky.social · 06/09/2026I probably am one of those "thinks about the Roman Empire every day" guys, but mainly in the sense of, at some point most days, reading the New Testament and realizing again how I'm not adequately appreciating the full breadth and depth of the impact of the destruction of Jerusalem in CE 70. 2383
SlacktivistFred @slacktivistfred.bsky.social · 05/09/2026That most influential thing has yearbook superlatives vibes. "Voted Most Likely to Care Deeply About Being Named in a Yearbook Superlative" "Voted Most Likely to Still Base Self-Esteem & Self-Image on Yearbook Superlatives 15 Years After Graduating" 1253
SlacktivistFred @slacktivistfred.bsky.social · 04/09/2026I wore sneakers when I was running around on Mischief Night, so I don't need to take the regional dialect quiz. Tramps like us, baby we were born to be easily pinpointed by linguists. 2270
SlacktivistFred @slacktivistfred.bsky.social · 04/09/2026🎵 Young man, there's no need to feel down, I said Young man, pick yourself off the ground, I said Young man, 'cause you're in a new town There's no need to be un-hap -py .... 🎵 0142
SlacktivistFred @slacktivistfred.bsky.social · 04/09/2026"Incredulous" kind of sounds like it could mean what that guy thinks it means. 110
SlacktivistFred @slacktivistfred.bsky.social · 04/09/2026"Beef-related" sounds like a school cafeteria server avoiding a straight answer. 010
Reposted by SlacktivistFredAlissa Wilkinson @alissawilkinson.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Jesus Christ, famously stingy about giving fish to people 1234888851
