Reposted by @susansears.bsky.socialJorts (and Jean) @jortsthecat.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I “got stuck” behind the drawers today. Everyone had to come help me so I felt awkward telling them I wasn’t stuck, I was just being a little shit 683546267
Reposted by @susansears.bsky.socialJocelyn Anderson Photography @jocelynanderson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I rarely see Tennessee Warblers in the Spring but happily see quite a few of them in the Fall. Most of them fly across the Gulf of Mexico to get to their wintering grounds. Safe travel little birdies! 648954
Reposted by @susansears.bsky.socialAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026“Between the Christianity of this land and the Christianity of Christ, I recognize the widest possible difference.” — Frederick Douglass bsky.app/profile/atru... 382240482
Reposted by @susansears.bsky.socialWilliam Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 01/10/2026O barbarous and bloody spectacle! 641372
Reposted by @susansears.bsky.socialJorts (and Jean) @jortsthecat.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Imagine being a healthcare provider and a botched “death penalty” victim is brought into your ER. This is so depraved 671588318
Reposted by @susansears.bsky.socialArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Circus Performers, by Walt Kuhn, 1978, 📸 via @marisakabas.bsky.social 177124182659
Reposted by @susansears.bsky.socialPoorly Drawn Lines @poorlydrawnlines.bsky.social · 29/09/2026In life 3505125
Reposted by @susansears.bsky.socialderek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Tweed is such a beautiful fabric to wear this time of year because it produces, in Dolly Parton's phrasing, a coat of many colors. Even a solid-colored brown is not just brown, but bits of red, blue, and yellow to produce something that looks lifted off the Scottish landscape. 1017367702
Reposted by @susansears.bsky.socialWilliam Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 29/09/2026I am but mad north-north-west. When the wind is southerly I know a hawk from a hand-saw. 1639469
Reposted by @susansears.bsky.socialderek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 27/09/2026This is true. In 2016, I got into an argument with a gay man on a menswear forum. I've since made it my mission to make every man dress gay, thereby destroying his ability to tell who is actually gay and, ultimately, his chances of finding love. I built my social media following to achieve that goal 337153201281
Reposted by @susansears.bsky.socialRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 27/09/2026The response when progressive policies that help millions of people are proposed... "How will you pay for it?" The response when the richest 1% ask for tax cuts, or banks ask for bailouts, or defense contractors ask for more contracts... "How much do you need?" It doesn't have to be this way. 210122523887
Reposted by @susansears.bsky.socialAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I like that in becoming a nazi, you get glowing coverage as a brave iconoclast, and then when you stop being a nazi, you’re get glowing coverage as a brave dissident. Money coming and going. Only way you lose is having normal opinions like “racism bad” bsky.app/profile/trac... 4954131200
Reposted by @susansears.bsky.socialRichard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Isabel Bishop moved to New York in 1918 to study art. Inspired by the bustle of Union Square, she became especially interested in depicting the city’s young women as they entered the workforce in growing numbers. 09916
Reposted by @susansears.bsky.socialMoby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I’m quite certain that he’s no more fit to command a whale-ship than a St. Jago monkey. In fact, tell him from me he’s a baboon. 427743
Reposted by @susansears.bsky.socialJocelyn Anderson Photography @jocelynanderson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026A Great Blue Heron standing on water lily roots in the rain. This bird had just had a huge fish for a meal; the fish looked like a Bowfin and was around 2 feet long. No photos of that action as the heron flew back into the bushes to eat (wanted to dine privately.) 12112892
Reposted by @susansears.bsky.socialProfessa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 26/09/2026What Theodore Roosevelt understood and Franklin Delano Roosevelt perfected is that the President is a creature of the modern media. The attempt by the oligarch to control modern media through CBS and CNN is a product here. This is why a denial to give the SOTU on camera would be a disruption. 530462
Reposted by @susansears.bsky.socialAndrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026The Friday roundup is here, with links to the podcast! Also, god help me, I wrote about recent discourse. "You do not help your own cause when you show up to an argument with little or nothing in the way of receipts."degenerateart.beehiiv.comSeptember 25 Friday roundupLinks to the podcast! Also: what we talk about when we talk about Mao. 13913
Reposted by @susansears.bsky.socialSpencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Ha ha that’s gross and should make everyone uncomfortable, anyway, Rahm presided over a Chicago police black site, lied about what it was and then I sued the Chicago police for its records that proved it:theguardian.comHoman Square revealed: how Chicago police 'disappeared' 7,000 peopleExclusive: Lawsuit exposes scale of detention at off-the-books interrogation warehouse while attorneys describe find-your-client chase ‘from a Bond movie’ 9047351726
Reposted by @susansears.bsky.socialMayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 24/09/2026Never been to the opera before? Now’s your chance. We’re giving away 70,000 free tickets to the @metopera at the iconic Lincoln Center. Go to on.nyc.gov/opera to enter the lottery. There’s not a bad seat in the house. 684249065521
Reposted by @susansears.bsky.socialWilliam Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 24/09/2026’tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish’d. 837461
Reposted by @susansears.bsky.socialEmma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 23/09/2026There’s still some space on my 2 upcoming zoom w’shops:bird illustr’n & mental health,10 Oct & botanical illustr’n & mental health,7 Nov.I teach you how to draw birds/plants & how creative activity alters 🧠 biochemistry to lift mood.Incl 10% off materials & full recording: workshops.emmamitchell.uk 114273
Reposted by @susansears.bsky.socialAndrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I wrote about solitary confinement, penal isolators, and "the box."degenerateart.beehiiv.comThere is always a boxAnd authoritarians will put everyone they can inside it. 011641
Reposted by @susansears.bsky.socialDrew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 23/09/2026Five cops in Indianapolis were just criminally charged with abusing Flock to spy on their ex-wives, their wives' ex-partners and women they met on duty. Audit was triggered by us at the @washingtonpost.com, the prosecutor said. From last month: wapo.st/4yfNHng 12552551588
Reposted by @susansears.bsky.socialWilliam Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 20/09/2026he is (For so I know he is, they know he is) A most arch-heretic, a pestilence That does infect the land 12463126
Reposted by @susansears.bsky.socialDan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 20/09/2026I asked the White House, the Pentagon and other officials this morning — is this real? A military complex in the middle of a traffic roundabout? Really? 2623320783
Reposted by @susansears.bsky.socialDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 20/09/2026International criminals preparing to punish International Criminal Court 25735244
Reposted by @susansears.bsky.socialDemocracy Now! @democracynow.org · 18/09/2026“If we don’t connect those dots between the struggles, we’re never going to get anywhere,” says acclaimed multi-instrumentalist Rhiannon Giddens. “That’s what music is for."democracynow.org“Hope Is the Thing with Feathers”: Rhiannon Giddens on New Album, AI, Ed Sheeran, Macklemore & Trump“If we don’t connect those dots between the struggles, we’re never going to get anywhere,” says Pulitzer Prize- and Grammy-winning multi-instrumentalist Rhiannon Giddens. “That’s what music is for. … ... 415255
Reposted by @susansears.bsky.socialMartin Bourne 🏳️🌈 @astromartin.bsky.social · 18/09/2026This cutie spent a year as someone's house cat, and nine more in a sanctuary before anyone worked out it was a new species. You could say it was purr-fectly disguised for a decade 🤭nationalgeographic.comMeet the First New Cat Species Discovered in 100 YearsA small, spotted tiger cat from Bolivia may just be the beginning of a wave of new small cat species. 3429
Reposted by @susansears.bsky.socialWilliam Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 18/09/2026Foolery, sir, does walk about the orb like the sun, it shines everywhere. 339096
Reposted by @susansears.bsky.socialdarth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 18/09/2026fine i will do it i will eat the massive green orb sitting on the bed of refried beans 61120683
Reposted by @susansears.bsky.socialJulia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 17/09/2026For @motherjones.com, I looked into how Meta could be using disabled people to promote its Meta glasses to the masses. As one expert told me, “companies have used accessibility...as a Trojan horse for a tool that poses significant privacy and security threats.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...motherjones.comIs Meta using disabled people to promote its glasses?AI glasses are a double-edged sword for disabled people, who face unique risks from surveillance. 10580285
Reposted by @susansears.bsky.socialJocelyn Anderson Photography @jocelynanderson.bsky.social · 17/09/2026A Solitary Sandpiper chasing around and voicing displeasure at another Solitary Sandpiper for getting too close. I guess they really do like to be by themselves. 666955
Reposted by @susansears.bsky.socialKarl Bode @karlbode.com · 18/09/2026honestly some of the most apocalyptic impacts of "AI" will be shit like this, and most of the doomsday dipshits predicting SkyNet can't be bothered to notice or carearstechnica.comUnitedHealth uses AI model with 90% error rate to deny care, lawsuit allegesFor the largest health insurer in the US, AI's error rate is like a feature, not a bug. 7944661583
Reposted by @susansears.bsky.socialNaomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 18/09/2026What is the tech industry truly afraid of? Is it the AI they have unleashed, as they want us to believe? Or is it…all of us, standing up to them? Thanks to Chris Hayes for having us on. 526073
Reposted by @susansears.bsky.social𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 18/09/2026He fucked it up so badly they had to explain it with crayons. 31686473613
Reposted by @susansears.bsky.socialPoPville @popville.bsky.social · 17/09/2026“These are dark times, everything feels urgent, and we’re exhausted but we just cannot let them do this.” - Rally at the Kennedy Center Friday www.popville.com/2026/09/kenn...popville.com“These are dark times, everything feels urgent, and we’re exhausted but we just cannot let them do this.” Rally at the Kennedy Center Friday - PoPvillephoto by Olaf Zerbock "Dear PoPville, We are watching as Donald Trump destroys the most treasured and historic parts of our city. We couldn't stop the destruction of the East Wing but we have to stop ... 16127
Reposted by @susansears.bsky.socialJocelyn Anderson Photography @jocelynanderson.bsky.social · 15/09/2026A Sharp-shinned Hawk gives me a look after getting bopped on the noggin by Blue Jays. 683292
Reposted by @susansears.bsky.socialBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 15/09/2026That's gonna be an lol from me dawg. 1475535579
Reposted by @susansears.bsky.socialProPublica @propublica.org · 15/09/2026NEW: Rep. Robert Garcia, the top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, has launched an investigation into Donald Trump Jr.’s relationship with a Russian oligarch who paid for much of the president’s son’s Bahamas wedding earlier this year.propublica.orgTop Oversight Dem Opens Investigation of Donald Trump Jr.’s Russian Oligarch-Funded WeddingRep. Robert Garcia said the revelations that Umar Kremlev had bankrolled the wedding raise “serious national security and public corruption concerns” and requested the president’s son provide financia... 12528811065
Reposted by @susansears.bsky.socialDemocracy Now! @democracynow.org · 15/09/2026Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor discuss their new book, "End Times Fascism: And the Fight for the Living World." democracynow.org“End Times Fascism”: Naomi Klein & Astra Taylor on Billionaires, Bunkers, AI, Gaza & the Far RightNaomi Klein and Astra Taylor launch their new book, End Times Fascism: And the Fight for the Living World on Democracy Now! It examines how wealthy elites are preparing for “the end of the world,” eve... 113972
Reposted by @susansears.bsky.socialDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 15/09/2026This is very cool. NYC chose this company to put curbside chargers in. They use power from the buildings they are adjacent to, run beneath the sidewalk, which avoids the need to dig up the street & connect to the main power line. They are also BYOC -- bring your own cable. Light, fast, unobtrusive. 1237574
Reposted by @susansears.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/09/2026pleasant surprise. i would like to read whatever deranged dissent alito and thomas have written. i’m sure it will be some version of “MAIL FRAUD IS REAL AND I SAW IT IN THE CLOSET MAKING A BABY AND THE BABY LOOKED AT ME” 1065269682
Reposted by @susansears.bsky.socialChris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 15/09/2026BREAKING: SCOTUS denies the Trump administration’s request to enforce the new U.S. Postal Service rule for the 2026 elections. Justices Alito and Thomas dissent. More to come at Law Dork. www.lawdork.com 532655753
Reposted by @susansears.bsky.socialAnne Louise Avery @annelouiseavery.bsky.social · 13/09/2026As we made our way home along a Dorset seaside bramble-way after a very long walk, this magnificent fellow suddenly greeted us from the ferns! Such an honour! 🦌 1525329
Reposted by @susansears.bsky.socialThomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 13/09/2026A Far-Right International Is Assaulting Democracy MAGA and the AfD are united in a struggle against democratic pluralism that transcends national borders. It is an alliance of extremists defined by aggrieved revanchism. Some thoughts from my new piece: 🧵steady.pageA Far-Right International Is Assaulting DemocracyMAGA and the AfD are united in a struggle against democratic pluralism that transcends national borders. It is an alliance of extremists defined by aggrieved revanchism 7611284
Reposted by @susansears.bsky.socialGil Durán @gilduran.com · 13/09/2026Peter Thiel—the Palantir billionaire who created JD Vance from a bag of Cheetos and a bucket of eyeliner—is giving his Antichrist lectures in #Nashville. I just bought a ticket… What would Dolly do? 57708166