Reposted by Unbecoming BugBrad Reed @bwreed.bsky.social · 8hJosh Johnson is not just a great comedian, but also a great educator. He shows you how far-right politics works: Start by stripping the least sympathetic of people of their humanity, then work down from there, until you're throwing transgender teens into concentration camps. 04217
Reposted by Unbecoming BugBoo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 15hI never thought I'd see the day 521119
Reposted by Unbecoming Bugdawnzr.bsky.social @dawnzr.bsky.social · 16hThis is a great resource. Please share 05933
Reposted by Unbecoming BugHyperallergic @hyperallergic.com · 16hMaterials for the Arts (MFTA) is launching a new free shopping program for artists who receive city-funded grants on October 19.hyperallergic.comNYC to Provide Free Art Supplies to GranteesWinners of the city's recently doubled grant for artists can also enjoy unlimited supplies from Materials for the Arts. 1154
Reposted by Unbecoming Buglottie "frog k" lovely ⚧️🏴☠️ @vaporlight.bsky.social · 15/08/2025when people looking at medieval europe perceive paganism they're mostly just looking at medieval merry-making with a specifically and inescapably catholic context whose cultural signifiers have been eroded without the merry-making going away 354229
Reposted by Unbecoming BugRev. Poppy Haze 𓅋 @poppyhaze.bsky.social · 15/08/2025every “ancient tradition” was invented between 1848-1870 and every “modern perversion” is so ancient as to predate writing 69131174909
Reposted by Unbecoming BugPrem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 12/10/2026America if the news covered it like those countries Over There 191164399
Reposted by Unbecoming BugDr. SkySkull @drskyskull.bsky.social · 19hWell they're not really trying hard to hide the fact that "AI" for them is primarily a tool of oppression, are they 1154
Reposted by Unbecoming BugJennifer Kretchmer @dreamwisp.bsky.social · 05/02/2025For so many reasons. (Reposting with alt text.) 273755333
Reposted by Unbecoming BugAstrid (yeehaw) 🤠🌈 ✨ @ansitru.bsky.social · 20h"My art isn't political", says the rich white cishet male artist, who's existence hasn't been subject to ever-increasing scrutiny and political control. 2388
Unbecoming Bug @unbecomingbugugh.bsky.social · 19hThe problem is finding clipart that is verifiably not AI generated 110
Reposted by Unbecoming BugPookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 26/09/2026AI detection software, made out of genAI by the same dipshits making genAI, is being targeted at Black writers so that an Arday can happen but with no human able to be held accountable. 3523217
Reposted by Unbecoming Bugjentrification ♎ @jentrification.com · 12/10/2026this is community 🪴 62717874
Reposted by Unbecoming BugAparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Also this might be the nicest thing anyone has said about Bluesky 041371
Reposted by Unbecoming BugTechCrunch @techcrunch.com · 25/07/2026At libraries around the country, "Avoiding AI" workshops have elicited unprecedented demand.techcrunch.comLibrarians are hosting viral 'Avoiding AI' workshops for people who are fed up with Big Tech | TechCrunchAt libraries around the country, "Avoiding AI" workshops have elicited unprecedented demand. 2043391770
Reposted by Unbecoming Bugsara warrior princess 💀🗡️ @sarafen.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Bring back the doorstop!!! 011
Reposted by Unbecoming BugPhillip Maciak @pjmaciak.bsky.social · 12/10/2026I appreciate that all of these guys' solutions to the mens' reading crisis is to walk up to vulnerable little boys and hand them footballs, but could we FOR ONE SINGLE SECOND stop to unpack the fact that the default definition of "masculine readers" for lots of these pundits is: "assholes"? 361263
Reposted by Unbecoming BugPhillip Maciak @pjmaciak.bsky.social · 12/10/2026...this striking recent study, for one, that samples EXACTLY THE DEMOGRAPHIC this author ventriloquizes, but shows that Gen Z men are desperate for more depictions of SOFT masculinity and emotional expressivity! www.scholarsandstorytellers.com/evolvingmasc...scholarsandstorytellers.comGen Alpha and Gen Z: Evolving Masculinity — Center for Scholars & Storytellers @ UCLAWhile we believed Gen Alpha and Gen Z cared about the representation of the men they were watching, no data existed to confirm what they preferred to see. Thus, informed by our youth advisors and prof... 247554
Reposted by Unbecoming BugPhillip Maciak @pjmaciak.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Eagle-eyed readers might note the almost total lack of hyperlinked evidence for this paragraph's many sweeping generalizations. Among them, that young readers want TOUGH GUY cultural objects that are cruelly being denied them by all these meddlesome women, when, in fact... 2545844
Reposted by Unbecoming BugAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 12/10/2026York also infamous for the York Count Prison, which housed detainees for ICE for multiple decades and was always known as a place with poor conditions. 515750
Reposted by Unbecoming BugMallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · 12/10/2026The Vatican did issue a statement a few years ago repudiating the Doctrine of Discovery and pleading for forgiveness over its role in supporting genocidal invasions and colonialism but while this shit carries on it's hard to really take it seriously. 0272
Reposted by Unbecoming BugMallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · 12/10/2026US Catholicism's most notorious cardinal celebrates a guy who hunted Caribbean indigenous people with dogs and subjected them to rape as a weapon of invasion as having towering virtue. 2539
Reposted by Unbecoming Bugashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 12/10/2026bbc is airing an interview of the head of signal and treating her like she is harboring criminals by holding a hard line on privacy they asked “what are you doing to protect women & children?” they don’t even think about how many of us are on signal to protect women, children, & families 844583
Reposted by Unbecoming BugClara Elena García, Author 🇵🇾 @claraelenadice.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Good morning 🪶 3637781006
Reposted by Unbecoming BugHaus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 11/10/2026As you get older, you realize the importance of having a large amount of shallow bowls in which to put small amounts of discrete objects 814956549
Reposted by Unbecoming BugMother Jones @motherjones.com · 11/10/2026The police said she lied about being raped. Then she hit record.motherjones.comPolice didn’t believe a 12-year-old who said she'd been raped. Then she hit record.“If I didn’t find the evidence for them, I wasn’t too sure they would find it.” 632009618
Unbecoming Bug @unbecomingbugugh.bsky.social · 11/10/2026They’re a strange beast. Their PR team is pretty right-wing (despite their objections that it’s just centrist🙄) but their lawyers have defended people like Mahmoud Khalil in court (in addition to “free speech” grifters though so🤷♀️) 060
Reposted by Unbecoming BugAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 11/10/2026After years of championing "free speech," Texas lawmakers have enabled a dramatic rise of censorship in Texas universities, banning concepts, canceling courses and closing departments seen as "woke," and even using AI bots as censors. All in the name of freedom. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1... 7333631168
Reposted by Unbecoming BugDr. Vaughn Joy @gvaughnjoy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026This week I started to show my Witches students Hocus Pocus (1993) and they were like "this is a bit violent for kids right?" when the witches are hanged, and I was like "no, no, it's just from the 90s." And then I watched the rest of it at home and was like "yowza" so I wrote about that feeling.blackwhiteandread.comIt's Not "F*cked Up", Kids, It's Just from the 90s – Black and White and Read All OverA Genre Approach to Hocus Pocus (1993) 2558
Reposted by Unbecoming BugAndy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 10/10/2026We rightly worry most about the core electoral machinery and that's holding up pretty well, but any election under Trump is still something less than free and fair. Even if it's not enough to flip the outcome, state resources and power are unambiguously being abused to favor the incumbent party. 3351119
Reposted by Unbecoming BugBucks County Beacon @buckscountybeacon.com · 10/10/2026Resistance Starts Locally: "If sufficiently connected with each other and backed up by labor unions, state governments, and major public, faith, business, and community institutions, municipalities offer our best hope for avoiding authoritarian takeover." #BucksCounty #PA01 11610
Reposted by Unbecoming BugGrudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 10/10/2026We have the most gun violence in the world and it’s a massive crisis that exists mostly in the background of all of he Trump-created crises 45816
Reposted by Unbecoming BugBouba's Delivery Service @fernmonkey.bsky.social · 12/09/2026One might think that with the rise of short form video and moral panics about attention span, there would be a market for short stories. I think the problem is that people are happy to write them, and read them, but not pay for them. 161
Reposted by Unbecoming BugNo More Deaths | No Más Muertes @nomoredeaths.bsky.social · 10/10/2026⚠️ Border wall contractors plan to remove thousands of sacred saguaros (ha:ṣañ) on sovereign O'odham land starting Monday — Indigenous People's Day. Tadai Me:i Camp calls supporters to join in prayer and protest on the Tohono O’odham Nation. 1158128
Reposted by Unbecoming BugKameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 10/10/2026YES. I was just thinking about how many useful ideas and real solutions AREN'T being funded - or even THOUGHT UP - because the money and attention is being sucked into tulip bulbs. You've got kids who might have figured out cold fusion spending all their time building AI video apps. 3345112
Reposted by Unbecoming BugBlack Phoenix Alchemy Lab @bpal.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Everyone who buys books and writes books deserves to know about the greed and cowardice of those we're entrusting with our IP and literary traditions 04224
Reposted by Unbecoming BugMᴇʟ Коваль 🇺🇦 @britishmotanka.bsky.social · 09/10/2026This means the US government and by default the American people will be funding the genocide of Ukrainians. Utterly horrific move. 033
Reposted by Unbecoming BugKhi @khimaera.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Here is one simple thing you can do for Indigenous People's Day: Call your representatives in Congress and tell them it is important to vote yes to recognize the Lipan Apache. 0146115
Reposted by Unbecoming BugPhiladelphia Inquirer @inquirer.com · 07/10/2026It's part of a deal between Google and Constellation Energy that aims to offset the increasing energy demands of AI data centers.inquirer.comTwo Philly-area nuclear plants are increasing power generation as part of a deal with Google 1116
Reposted by Unbecoming BugPhiladelphia Inquirer @inquirer.com · 07/10/2026Unionized journalists and product engineers at The Inquirer secured a new contract that includes AI protections, raises, and changes to healthcare coverage. inquirer.comPhiladelphia Inquirer employees secure new union contract with raises and AI protections 223538
Reposted by Unbecoming BugCrip Dyke @cripdyke.bsky.social · 07/10/20261980 GOP: "The 9 most terrifying words in the English language are 'I'm from the government & I'm here to help.'" 2026 GOP: "Of course as governor I'll outlaw freedom of association." 1269
Reposted by Unbecoming BugIan 👻 BOOwers 🎃 @iggdawg.com · 06/10/2026Zero concept of boundaries. When you hear magas talk about freedom of speech, what they mean is freedom of audience. They want everyone to have to shut up and listen to them, and not criticize them. They all want this experience Rowling no doubt gets all the time. 151
Reposted by Unbecoming BugRyan @gardenryan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026"this man did not want to talk to me about kinks but i insisted he listen to me anyway" seems like harassment? 021
Reposted by Unbecoming BugThe Marshall Project @themarshallproject.org · 05/10/2026From the archives: After reading a Marshall Project/NPR investigation, former foster youth asked what happened to their benefits — and the government wasn't helping. www.themarshallproject.org/2022/07/22/d...themarshallproject.orgWhere Are Their Benefits? Former Foster Youth Want AnswersAfter a Marshall Project/NPR investigation, dozens ask what happened to money owed to them — and say the government isn't helping. 094
