@monteg.bsky.social
You guys are in America now, and there's a lot of prejudism here.
These people are deranged, evil savages. No law they pass can have any moral weight on free people; violating such laws, or assisting others to violate them, is an intrinsically virtuous act.
22.02.2026 08:42 — 👍 8 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 1
Hacktivists tried to find a workaround to Discord’s age-verification software, Persona. Instead, they found its frontend exposed to the open internet, and that was just the beginning.
www.therage.co/persona-age-...
two days? this kid is getting to play video games for a couple days and walking back in to a standing ovation
22.02.2026 06:55 — 👍 630 🔁 87 💬 16 📌 2rice is life, and I got a thread to share about rice: Park Chung-hee's obsession to make South Korea rice self-sufficient in the 1970s changed everything about the country, including your favorite Korean foods and the urban environment 🧵
22.02.2026 00:03 — 👍 961 🔁 255 💬 1 📌 34something abled people don't get is you can have just one day a week where you are too sick to work, and that's enough to disqualify you from nearly all full-time jobs. it doesn't take a lot
22.02.2026 00:20 — 👍 2824 🔁 1093 💬 33 📌 44I say this to you with absolute seriousness: DO NOT READ THIS THREAD.
Just don't. Do not. Don't. I'm not kidding.
I AM NOT KIDDING.
“It isn’t clear why the people of Greenland need the hospital ship. Greenland’s government provides free healthcare to the population. The White House didn’t respond to a request for more information.”
22.02.2026 03:14 — 👍 128 🔁 31 💬 16 📌 10
A can of Libby's Corned Beef Hash
I do one of these with two eggs on top like once a week.
22.02.2026 06:04 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
What's infuriating about the Martinez case is that the feds *continue to lie* about the case even after all their claims turned out to be BS. Alito even wrote an opinion based on their lies. youtu.be/ZRZoGc3Wdpo?...
22.02.2026 01:33 — 👍 8 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
I foolishly assumed that this Trump post tonight made no sense to me because there is some medical situation in Greenland of which I am uninformed. But so far all the news reports I’ve seen are saying that it is unclear what he is talking about.
22.02.2026 02:00 — 👍 972 🔁 151 💬 165 📌 154I ran the numbers in my newsletter two weeks ago. The $100 mill the Post lost in 2024 was equal to about two days of the increase in his net worth since he bought the paper.
www.howtoreadthisch.art/lets-conside...
Oops. Turns out Persona, Discord’s age-verification service, was secretly screening selfies against government watchlists AND accessible by the feds. It's backed by Peter Thiel.
“The state wants to see everything. The corporations want to see everything. And they've learned to work together.”
You know this is a completely deliberate choice that is not required, because there was JUST another shutdown and they didn’t do it then.
Anyway, not good that the admin is deliberately making air travel more annoying to try to win a political fight. Lot of people will miss flights.
People born in the 2000s will never understand a nation once so innocent that an ice skater kneecapping another ice skater sent us into an existential crisis.
22.02.2026 04:29 — 👍 2018 🔁 239 💬 18 📌 23"Drop on the deck and flop like a fish, motherfucker."
22.02.2026 03:14 — 👍 2646 🔁 247 💬 56 📌 4
a poorly drawn cat sitting in a loaf position, connected by a cord to a wall outlet as if charging. above the cat, handwritten text reads: “zoomies are loading”
a cat sitting in a loaf position on beige carpet near a wall outlet. a white phone charger is plugged into the wall, and the cord curves across the floor toward the cat, creating the illusion that the cat is plugged in and charging
21.02.2026 12:50 — 👍 3181 🔁 845 💬 13 📌 11Fuck him up, Gary!
22.02.2026 01:23 — 👍 143 🔁 37 💬 5 📌 7This one could make you cry. (For years international adoptees became U.S. citizens only when their adoptive parents took the needed steps to get them naturalized; a 2000 law automatically naturalizes legal adoptees on arrival, but that came too late for this woman).
21.02.2026 18:25 — 👍 497 🔁 208 💬 17 📌 5
SURPRISE MOTHER F*CKR!
The MemCard PRO GC's are back in stock 💃
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Little blond dude to a girl with cool blue hair: "I just find it unattractive when women-" To which she replies by biting his head clean off and smiling serenely.
22.02.2026 00:06 — 👍 190 🔁 49 💬 1 📌 3Dayum. Just heard a minister say, as perhaps only Black ministers can, “We will fight until hell freezes over, and then we will fight on the ice.”
I’m stealing that!!
Allowing the least cool people in America to think they matter to real culture is one of the biggest reasons you can't trust the media. Bill Maher is pitching to like 8 people but the execs who make shows agree with him so he gets a show. Epstein Class shit.
21.02.2026 20:57 — 👍 1799 🔁 267 💬 62 📌 11
So NJ lawmakers wrote a bill to rein in ICE.
And this is what they called it.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/21/n...
Another instance showing that Donald Trump is the whiniest, saddest, most petulant little crybaby ever to hold high office.
I'd tell him to cry harder but I'm not sure it's possible.
Guys being Dudes
21.02.2026 03:20 — 👍 4954 🔁 1072 💬 89 📌 176this is fucking vile
discord “age verification” is a total panopticon
screenshot of wired post on their cover story. It's an image of two men, pictured only at the waist. Their flies are open and two hands are coming out of the flies and shaking hands. Text reads "Gay men have long been rumored to run Sillicon Valley. WIRED investigates. Inside the Gay Tech Mafia."
An image of a muscular man lying on his back. He is wearing tiny short shorts and his chest and legs are exposed. The San Fransciso Salesforce Tower is coming out of his crotch like a giant erect penis.
screenshot of the first paragraph of the story No one can say exactly when, or if, gay men started running Silicon Valley. They seem to have dominated its upper ranks at oleast the past five years, maybe more. On platforms like X, the clues are there: whispers of private-island retreats, tech exectuives going "gay for clout," and the suggestion that a "seed round" is not, strictly speaking, a financial term. It is an idea so taken for gratned, in fact, that when I called up a well-connected hedgefund mamager to ask his thoughts about what is someties referred to in industry circles as the "gay tech mafia," he audibly yawns. "Of course," he says. "This has always been the case."
Holy shit @wired.com story written by a woman positioning gay men as insidious and suggesting this marginalized group is suppressing the success of straight men in the industry. They've got tons of anonymous sources (what's their agenda?) and in the first graph they even say this might not be true!
22.02.2026 00:04 — 👍 721 🔁 179 💬 45 📌 63
Perdue banning all Chinese students just for national origin. No other reason. The Harper's Letter crowd must be crafting a humdinger of a new letter over this one.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
A MN protester accused of assaulting ICE officer had case dropped after vids showed no assault.
LA protester accused of assaulting ICE w/ “hat” had case dropped; judge said govt acted in “bad faith”
In Chicago, 92 ppl were arrested for assault/impeding ICE; 0 convicted
DOJ keeps lying and losing:
Incredible opinion. It holds that the common ICE tactic of jumping out of an unidentified rental vehicle and seizing suspected noncitizens while masked violates the Fourth Amendment because the *manner* of the seizure is incompatible with a free society governed by the rule of law.
21.02.2026 00:51 — 👍 11443 🔁 3829 💬 107 📌 124
