Reposted by Courtney | a prime example of social decaySean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 12/08/2026The push for Harry Potter the TV show is going to be completely enormous—they're debuting it on fucking Christmas—and it is the responsibility of TV critics to contextualize this as rewarding the world's most transphobic billionaire (which is saying something) in everything we write about it. 5546921361
Reposted by Courtney | a prime example of social decayMo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 10/08/2026As the PR for the new show putting money in the pockets of the shitty wizard lady heats up, just remember: Everything every person has been coached by PR to say is total bullshit and we can call it that. Will tap the sign again, and will do so many more times this fall: bsky.app/profile/mory... 11392461
Courtney | a prime example of social decay @stormqueens.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Wife is at a writing event so I banged on Red, White and Royal Blue. It's quite sweet. 000
Reposted by Courtney | a prime example of social decayMark Grimshaw @markgrimshawtism.bsky.social · 11/08/2026This post just popped up on my Facebook from a page with tens of thousands of followers. Behind the black box are the names of 10 children the OP is alleging to be trans. The post also include photos of all 10 children, and the name of the schools they attend. They’re now doxxing minors. 1032134565
Reposted by Courtney | a prime example of social decayMark Grimshaw @markgrimshawtism.bsky.social · 11/08/2026I cannot stress this enough - the side claiming to “protect children” are now posting the names of children they claim to be trans, photos of those children to help people identify them, and the name of the school they attend. It is impossible to overstate the level of danger for these children. 122225477
Reposted by Courtney | a prime example of social decayOku ΘΔ @oku.mow.haus · 10/08/2026So I’ve sifted through that whole “Dobby Grave Powerline” story going around and this is what I’ve pieced together: 1. The area was already a conservation site they could put the line anyway. 2. An internal joke about Potter fans got reported as true. 3. Potter fans are defacing protected land. 151198648
Reposted by Courtney | a prime example of social decayMoira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Domestic abuse and rape represent the rejection of camaraderie, love, principle, and human dignity in favor of brute domination of the weak by the strong, and in that sense it is the paradigm of the MAGA ethos. 17854208
Reposted by Courtney | a prime example of social decayNPR @npr.org · 18/07/2026A T-rex fossil billed as one of the world's largest specimens was sold for a record $50.1 million to a mystery bidder. But many aren't happy about it.n.prMystery bidder buys T. rex nicknamed 'Gus' for a record $50 millionA T-rex fossil billed as one of the world's largest specimens was sold for a record $50.1 million Tuesday to a mystery bidder. But many aren't happy about it. 2419651
Reposted by Courtney | a prime example of social decayJustin Ling @justinling.ca · 18/07/2026only possible explanation is that the buyer is going to have sex with it 10485
Reposted by Courtney | a prime example of social decaymothcub @mothcub.bsky.social · 18/07/2026Do it for them. 592162360
Reposted by Courtney | a prime example of social decayKayleigh Donaldson @ceilidhann.bsky.social · 17/07/2026In the late '90s, Time Magazine wondered if Ally McBeal killed feminism. It didn't, but the popular and divisive show did inspire a ton of Discourse. Let's talk about it! gossip-reading-club.ghost.io/single-femal...gossip-reading-club.ghost.ioSingle Female Lawyer: Ally McBeal, Body Wars, and the Death of FeminismIt was one of the most talked-about shows of the late '90s. Did it set women back an era? No, but wow, the discourse was a lot. 2144
Reposted by Courtney | a prime example of social decayLex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 24/06/2026the DOJ's counterterrorism messaging named "Antifa", "Anarchists" and "pro-trans extremists" as major threats. nearly a third of the 22 Prairieland defendants are trans. Autumn Hill and Meagan Morris, sentenced to 50 yrs each, have been held in men's prisons, even denied hormones in the last year.theguardian.com‘This is injustice’: how leftist zines were used to sentence anti-ICE protesters to decades in prisonAdvocates sound alarm after zines were used as evidence to convict protesters of terrorism charges tied to 2025 protest at Texas ICE facility 6738382
Courtney | a prime example of social decay @stormqueens.bsky.social · 24/06/2026Just took an extremely tiny bite of my son's cracker and that was a HUGE mistake. He went ballistic. Complete meltdown. P'tit Patate is very eepy but refuses to go to eepytown. We often have this problem after a fun day out. He wants to stay up with Mummy and Daddy. 000
Reposted by Courtney | a prime example of social decayJulie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 22/06/2026A feminist movement that tells women to decenter the male gaze is not a movement that tells women to be ashamed of being sexually attracted to men. It's a movement that says shoot the patriarch in your mind and stop making every decision based on whether men will approve. Two different things. 26315
Reposted by Courtney | a prime example of social decayJessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 22/06/2026But again, it's young women who are the most pro-choice demographic. That's why conservatives are pushing so hard on the tradwife bullshit, why they're stripping sex ed from schools, and why they're passing 'Baby Olivia' laws that mandate anti-abortion propaganda videos in elementary schools 213431
Courtney | a prime example of social decay @stormqueens.bsky.social · 22/06/2026My wife and I have watched Star Trek: Voyager many times over the past 30 years, both together and apart. Yet there are half a dozen episodes that we can't remember at all. I say this a lot but it's always true: the biggest crime a piece of media can commit is being boring. 010
Courtney | a prime example of social decay @stormqueens.bsky.social · 20/06/2026You gotta thank your wife for marrying you every night. 000
Courtney | a prime example of social decay @stormqueens.bsky.social · 15/06/2026There was just enough light in the bedroom to take a quick photo of my wife, wearing one of her 'Dad' shirts, cuddled up in bed with the baby, both sleeping. 🥰🥰😍😍😭😭 000
Reposted by Courtney | a prime example of social decayRuss @pappyparki.bsky.social · 02/06/2026Our government will give sports teams billions of your tax dollars for stadiums, billions to build fossil fuel plants, billions to corporations to improve profits. Our government will not give taxpayers solar panels to reduce utility costs or build great public transit. Our priorities are against us 17739391158
Reposted by Courtney | a prime example of social decayNPR @npr.org · 31/05/2026Aid workers in Uganda are watching the Ebola crisis unfold in the neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo. They're doing what they can to prepare for an uptick in cases, but foreign aid cuts aren't helping. n.pr/4o2YoVUn.prHow aid cuts are hampering the frontline response to the Ebola crisisAid workers in Uganda are watching the Ebola crisis unfold in the neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo. They're doing what they can to prepare for an uptick in cases, but foreign aid cuts aren't helping. 729489
Courtney | a prime example of social decay @stormqueens.bsky.social · 20/05/2026I can't tell you how excited I am to visit the zoo splash pad. It's looked so fun and refreshing for years but I've never been able to visit due to, you know, being an adult with no toddler. 010
Reposted by Courtney | a prime example of social decayDevin Elle Kurtz @devinellekurtz.bsky.social · 13/05/2026Mama and baby dragon 4482142154
Reposted by Courtney | a prime example of social decayElizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · 13/05/2026frankly I have come to believe techies are illiterate. science fiction isn't about the future, stupid. it's about the current political situation but set in space so no one gets mad. duh! 122641457
Reposted by Courtney | a prime example of social decayMark J. Nelson @mm-jj-nn.bsky.social · 13/05/2026interesting rationale from a prospective juror in the Elon Musk Twitter stock manipulation case 126135332868
Reposted by Courtney | a prime example of social decayJ. L. Westover @mrlovenstein.bsky.social · 08/05/2026 1248521310
Reposted by Courtney | a prime example of social decayFREE NOVEL IN PINNED 🇵🇸✍🏻🏴🤠📸🦌🦭🌹 @serialciara.bsky.social · 05/05/2026The rich people ruining your life aren't famous actors and popstars. Only the very top A-listers are banking millions, the average netflix star in a borrowed Versace isn't making fuck you money. The real class enemies are sat in offices and you've never heard of them, they're not charting rappers. 011
Reposted by Courtney | a prime example of social decayFREE NOVEL IN PINNED 🇵🇸✍🏻🏴🤠📸🦌🦭🌹 @serialciara.bsky.social · 05/05/2026The Met Gala is the only time where rich people have the decency to actually dress rich and it pisses me offff when the wealthiest of them show up in a fucking boring dress you'd wear to a local business awards ceremony. Put a fucking giant golden bird on your head or something you basic bitch. 241
Reposted by Courtney | a prime example of social decayJamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social · 01/05/2026Jokes on you, I can't remember enough of anything I love to populate a top ten list off the top of my head. The second you ask I will forget I ever even watched a tv show or listened to a song 211444675
Courtney | a prime example of social decay @stormqueens.bsky.social · 01/05/2026Every time Robby Hoffman shows up on Hacks, the comedy just screams to a halt. 100
Reposted by Courtney | a prime example of social decayACAB Rave @screw-reality.bsky.social · 30/04/2026making this claim requires believing that all pregnancies across the described time span were the result of consensual sex. considering that recognizing marital rape only became commonplace within my lifetime, I think this man might be full of shit 010422
Reposted by Courtney | a prime example of social decayBillie Jean Sweeney @billiejsweeney.bsky.social · 30/04/20267 “Whether the fight is over abortion rights or gender affirming care, it is the exact same fight," podcaster Jennie Wetter said. "It is the fight over our ability to control our own bodies and to access life-saving and life-changing health care. We must stand firm together or we will all lose.” 24815
Reposted by Courtney | a prime example of social decayRebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/04/2026To be a person of no consequence, to speak without power, is a bewilderingly awful condition, as though you were a ghost, a beast, as though words died in your mouth, as though sound no longer traveled. It is almost worse to say something and have it not matter than to be silent. 126460
Reposted by Courtney | a prime example of social decayMatthew Hodson @matthewhodson.bsky.social · 30/04/2026On this day in 1999, the Admiral Duncan gay bar in London’s Soho was hit by a nail bomb, planted by a far right terrorist, It followed similar attacks in Brixton and Brick Lane. Three people were killed and more than 70 injured. The fight against homophobia is a fight for our safety. 116160
Reposted by Courtney | a prime example of social decayMo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 28/04/2026When doing research for Burn It Down, my book on patterns of exploitation & abuse in entertainment, it was sobering--no, demoralizing--to read, every few years (for *decades*) a "Scott Rudin in a changed man" feature. Relying on Rudin & people who wanted to do business with him for that narrative. 333299
Reposted by Courtney | a prime example of social decayCitizen X @mayoubhappy.bsky.social · 29/04/2026This👇🏽 deserves to be posted 100 times but I’d be labeled spam. 3462852210858
Reposted by Courtney | a prime example of social decayKat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 29/04/2026They’re basically admitting that creating nonconsensual deepfakes of women is not an unintended outcome of this technology but rather its main selling point, which some of us recognized all along 5640951269
Reposted by Courtney | a prime example of social decayLiz Climo @lizclimo.bsky.social · 29/04/2026#wbw 625541858
Reposted by Courtney | a prime example of social decayReuters Legal @legal.reuters.com · 29/04/2026The Trump administration rejected all four women farmers chosen by their peers to represent them in an industry group called the United Soybean Board earlier this year, a rare intervention by the U.S. Department of Agriculture that three of the women suspected was because of their gender.reut.rsTrump administration rejects women picked for soybean board, appoints men insteadThe Trump administration rejected all four women farmers chosen by their peers to represent them in an industry group called the United Soybean Board earlier this year, a rare intervention by the U.S. Department of Agriculture that three of the women suspected was because of their gender. 8219821002
Reposted by Courtney | a prime example of social decayTrekkie Bill 🔜 Trek to Philadelphia @trekkiebill.bsky.social · 29/04/2026You cannot reform this. 3264
Reposted by Courtney | a prime example of social decayElizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 29/04/2026I can't stop thinking about Justin and Cerina Fairfax, and how her death could have been prevented. I wrote about colleges and sexual assault, family courts forcing divorcing women to live with their abusers, and the entitlement of men who are cancelled by #MeToo www.vanityfair.com/news/story/j...vanityfair.comI Went to Duke With Justin Fairfax and Cerina Fairfax. Decades Later, He Killed HerFormer Virginia lieutenant governor Justin Fairfax killed his wife, Cerina, months after she filed for divorce. The news about my old friend evokes the patterns that emerge in stories that end this wa... 16348111
Reposted by Courtney | a prime example of social decayWillow @rockshrimp.bsky.social · 28/04/2026Every time I see someone talk about Claude I think about how they switched from female to male names as soon as they wanted the robots to seem like experts vs personal assistants. 11106983142
Reposted by Courtney | a prime example of social decayRothaí @rothaiocht.bsky.social · 29/04/2026My cohort in Ireland is full of friends who were taken as babies in the 1970s. They reunited as adults with mothers who were often wrecked by it. It’s traumatic. More so because adopters who qualified as “good Catholic families” often weren’t happy households to land in, either… 1537
Reposted by Courtney | a prime example of social decayselfcaregamer @selfcaregamer.bsky.social · 28/04/2026people should outright own their video games and be able to play them without unnecessary online connection at any point in time 793227663
Reposted by Courtney | a prime example of social decayderek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 28/04/2026 418106601983
Courtney | a prime example of social decay @stormqueens.bsky.social · 28/04/2026What's so interesting about the recent online smear campaigns against Megan Thee Stallion, Amber Heard, Angelina Jolie (all bisexual women, pls note) is that when you look into history you see that the campaigns of now are waged in a different way, but they deeply resemble the ones of the past. 120
Reposted by Courtney | a prime example of social decayGood Trailcams @goodtrailcams.bsky.social · 28/04/2026 122364520
Reposted by Courtney | a prime example of social decayDevin Elle Kurtz @devinellekurtz.bsky.social · 27/04/2026My very first tiger drawing and my latest 18597731605
Reposted by Courtney | a prime example of social decayKat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 27/04/2026The original concept of DARVO relates to sexual violence, but it’s extremely helpful for understanding the Trump administration. They kill and harm people and then they blame those who correctly identified their violence as the ones inciting violence. Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim and Offender 12972254
Reposted by Courtney | a prime example of social decayHenry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 27/04/2026Absolutely incredible 712105377