Reposted by @westoftravis.bsky.socialKevin Moore @kevinwmoore.bsky.social · 9hFrom this day on 2012: probably the most popular thing I’ve ever drawn. 7725171
Reposted by @westoftravis.bsky.sociallastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 19hThe raw visceral hatred some men have for women, at least women who step out of line, is shocking. I know it sounds like some sorta "one of the good ones" ploy but I am genuinely taken aback when I see it because I think: I had a fairly normal socialisation as a man in the west, how did I miss this? 571724231
Reposted by @westoftravis.bsky.socialMusa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 20hCannot get over the beauty of this GIF: it’s Zidane celebrating last night after Olise scored a last minute winner for France. It looks like something from a movie or a high-end fashion advert. Probably the most elegant footballer of all time. 2239868
Reposted by @westoftravis.bsky.socialToday in Pokémon History by Serebii.net @serebiiotd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026On this day in 1998, 28 years ago, Pokémon Red & Blue were first released in the US These games were adaptations of Pokémon Red & Green based on the Pokémon Blue engine and brought the franchise to the west! www.serebii.net/rb 13638258
Reposted by @westoftravis.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/09/2026“i woke up every morning and name searched myself on twitter. i am normal by the way” 704245288
Reposted by @westoftravis.bsky.socialSnowden St. @snowden.st · 02/08/2024I think most professions don’t read, but scientists can be spectacular examples 513023
Reposted by @westoftravis.bsky.socialJW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 25/09/2026This is the master key to deciphering contemporary debates about free speech. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/se... 3233541237
Reposted by @westoftravis.bsky.socialAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I think the main issue here really is that lots of nice polite mainstream figures in media think quietly agree with him about this stuff or find it unobjectionable bsky.app/profile/asel... 13697149
Reposted by @westoftravis.bsky.socialJay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026One of my favorite cases of someone being Wrong on the Internet was a very earnest, very confused vegan who was telling people how cruel honey is; and it eventually turned out they thought honey was made by putting bees in a centrifuge and spinning them around until they threw up. 26482531353
Reposted by @westoftravis.bsky.socialKarl Bode @karlbode.com · 23/09/2026when Democrats were in charge of this broadband grant program (BEAD), Ezra Klein and the "abundance" people had no shortage of complaints now that Republicans are in charge and there's endless chaos, cronyism and delays, Klein hasn't made a single solitary peeplightreading.comNearly one-third of electric co-ops declined BEAD awards – NRECAOf 63 electric co-ops that won BEAD awards, 20 have dropped from the program so far, said NRECA in a letter asking NTIA to 'correct course' on the program. 826669
Reposted by @westoftravis.bsky.socialNate Schenkkan @nateschenkkan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026 1646031168
Reposted by @westoftravis.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/09/2026i think you can fairly say that the second trump administration is the most racist federal administration since woodrow wilson and honestly i'm not sure that it isn't more racist than wilson's 164113092101
Reposted by @westoftravis.bsky.socialAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026If the awards are all white, it's because white people are better. But if they're not all white, that's racist. bsky.app/profile/mari... 421306176
Reposted by @westoftravis.bsky.socialRebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Stories like this have, for ages, treated men's desire to harm women as a sort of background noise, a weather we just normalize and accept and try to work around. Feminism is among other things a process of denormalization. 292393729
Reposted by @westoftravis.bsky.socialRuss @russ41.bsky.social · 19/09/2026The coverage of Piker made so much more sense once I realized they see him as a business competitor. 192352315
Reposted by @westoftravis.bsky.socialRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 19/09/2026From 2021 to 2025, Stephen Miller was making $567K/year as head of his America First "think tank." He owns $100K-$250K in Palantir stock alone. His estimated net worth: ~$2 million. The immigrants he's deporting to third-party countries to be tortured and disappeared don't get an attorney at all. 21892279
Reposted by @westoftravis.bsky.socialShepseskare in Love @upfromsumdirt.blacksky.app · 18/09/2026keith haring, grace jones, fela kuti, and jean-michel basquiat photographed by andy warhol. at mr. chow, nyc (june 1986) 62901632
Reposted by @westoftravis.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/09/2026some chud interviewing for patel’s FBI: “if anything the goat fucked *me*” 2345470806
Reposted by @westoftravis.bsky.socialevacide @evacide.bsky.social · 14/09/2026"More than anything, what stood out to me about the process of photographing these devices was geography: they exist at the boundaries of rich neighborhoods like Piedmont to track who enters; they exist embedded in poor neighborhoods to track the people who live there. Place exposes their purpose."recordsofenemysurveillance.comcara esten hurtle 2639274
Reposted by @westoftravis.bsky.socialCorinne Green @ket.bsky.social · 14/09/2026can those of you mad because you think trans whining on microblogs will depress support for dem politicians please imagine for one second how dem politicians spouting transphobia on enormous mainstream platforms depresses support for trans people 152189591
Reposted by @westoftravis.bsky.socialJulian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 09/09/2026I really wish more Dems would go meta on this and ask whose interests it serves that candidates for the United States Senate are being asked about how they would micromanage the eligibility rules for local youth sports leagues. 101237260
westoftravis.bsky.social @westoftravis.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Such a great console. I recently found mine from when I was a kid. 000
Reposted by @westoftravis.bsky.socialJulian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 08/09/2026(I’ll just note, less we get numb to this, how utterly insane it is that we can now take for granted that an official US government account routinely traffics in overtly white supremacist memes—not as rhetoric or hyperbole, but as a simple and indisputable description.) 335860
Reposted by @westoftravis.bsky.socialOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Not being a mark is praxis 6919150
Reposted by @westoftravis.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 03/09/2026the literal position of the trump administration is that any school that has any more than a smattering of black students is engaged in illegal racial discrimination against whites www.nytimes.com/2026/09/03/b...nytimes.comTrump Moves to Strip Tax Exemption From Schools That Aid Minority Students (Gift Article)The Treasury Department released rules that would prevent schools with race-based programs from qualifying for tax-exempt status, a threat to both higher education and other private schools. 9041651392
Reposted by @westoftravis.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 02/09/2026so unfair that you might be attacked for just wanting a white ethnostate anyway after like a decade plus of usage i canceled my @1password.bsky.social subscription and switched to apple passwords. took 15 minutes. 773091536
Reposted by @westoftravis.bsky.socialSisyphus, but for reducing tail latency @bluespacecanary.bsky.social · 03/09/2026incredible work by 1PW leadership fucking up bad enough that a fight over Arch Linux for Racists escaped containment so completely that now Jamelle Bouie's telling 750k very online millennials, almost certainly the demographic most likely to pay for 1PW, to go cancel their 1PW subscription tonight 5571115
Reposted by @westoftravis.bsky.socialEric Segall @espinsegall.bsky.social · 02/09/2026So, the 1801 Congress cancelled the Supreme Court for a year. Really. If the Dems again control the two real branches of government, they should threaten closing the Court, because originalism, and then let’s talk “reform.” 12915149
Reposted by @westoftravis.bsky.socialbobo tucci @no-flashlight.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Average MLB player Wikipedia page 202713320
Reposted by @westoftravis.bsky.socialJoshua Eaton @joshuaeaton.bsky.social · 02/09/2026“There’s a new Mr. Beast book.” You bolt awake in your workshop in Mainz. It’s 1450. You’re Johannes Gutenberg, and you’ve changed your mind. The future cannot come to pass. Your printing press must burn. 6979601451
Reposted by @westoftravis.bsky.socialNathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 02/09/2026One of the global hallmarks of the anti-trans movement is that it's pushing people to reject levels of gender integration that were completely uncontroversial as recently as a few years ago. 152816631
Reposted by @westoftravis.bsky.socialGeesBees🐝♀️💪🌻🦋 @geesbees.bsky.social · 01/09/2026RIP Wendell Berry 📖💔🕊️ 011
Reposted by @westoftravis.bsky.socialShiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 30/08/2026it's always very funny watching Bouie vs any of these pundits because about 2 sentences in it becomes so obvious that he's running circles around them intellectually purely because unlike them, he reads. I don't think this lady has read a thing that wasn't an email to her for at least a decade. 16986105
Reposted by @westoftravis.bsky.socialMelissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 29/08/2026(this is exactly the analysis sex workers have advanced for more than thirty years—the law doesn’t work by enforcement, but through fear of liability and guilt by association) 26213
Reposted by @westoftravis.bsky.socialDanielle Ryan (Lestat Era) @danirat.bsky.social · 26/08/2026I think another lesson to take from the loss of both Dolly and Tim Curry is that neither of them took themselves seriously but they took the work dead serious that's the most important thing pour all of yourself into the craft but have fun and don't get an ego. 37108312304
Reposted by @westoftravis.bsky.socialRicardo Autobahn @ricardoautobahn.co.uk · 26/08/2026The best tribute to Dolly Parton is that she regularly and repeatedly refused to have anything to do with Piers Morgan 182204653052
Reposted by @westoftravis.bsky.socialPavel @spavel.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Me, through tears: you can't just say everything is a prison...please... Michel Foucault: *pointing at a drone flying past* prison 39319
Reposted by @westoftravis.bsky.socialJess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them) @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social · 23/08/2026I think we can safely say the history department had the best stickers today 171837421
Reposted by @westoftravis.bsky.socialI Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 23/08/2026Again, the scholarship which does this is being banned on campuses around the country. That’s the funny part of this stance, you’re pushing a movement to silence scholars who have pushed back against his claims under the auspices of “academic freedom” 333464
Reposted by @westoftravis.bsky.socialPeter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 23/08/2026“if we don’t stand up for the free speech of racists, it puts everyone’s free speech in danger.” - guy who only ever talks about free speech when it’s racism 7280491680
Reposted by @westoftravis.bsky.socialTom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Anime NYC and U.S. Open fan fest both happening at once, huge weekend for cosplay on the subway 3677
Reposted by @westoftravis.bsky.socialChris Sprigman @cjsprigman.bsky.social · 22/08/2026For all the people anxious about the destruction of books used for AI training, this thread is a helpful dose of perspective. 194
Reposted by @westoftravis.bsky.socialBrandon Butler @bb.usefairuse.com · 28/07/2026If you want to preserve old books for public access, fund libraries. If you want to make the contents of out of print books more widely available, shorten the term of copyright. Do those two things and there is no reason to stress about destructive scanning. 12611
Reposted by @westoftravis.bsky.socialBrandon Butler @bb.usefairuse.com · 28/07/2026If you think it's OK for publishers to force libraries to rent e-books rather than owning a preservation copy, you cannot complain when the last physical copy is in the hands of a company you dislike rather than a research institution you trust. 0121
Reposted by @westoftravis.bsky.socialBrandon Butler @bb.usefairuse.com · 28/07/2026If you're OK with a copyright system that lets five multinational corporations control the printing and circulation of 90% of books for ~150 years after they are written, you are in no place to whine about what happens to the last few copies of the books that these corporations refuse to re-print. 1132
Reposted by @westoftravis.bsky.socialPeter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 22/08/2026these guys take it as a given that they would survive and thrive in a world of heightened academic scrutiny despite practicing warmed over pseudoscience 302300222
