Mockingbird Nation

“In other words, there hasn’t been an organic shift in public opinion on trans people but rather a massive astroturfing campaign against us.” — @juliaserano.bsky.social

Remember: The right wing want you malnourished, physically incompetent, sick, injured, under- or un-educated, frightened, anxious and obedient to male authority.

I am ‘watching’ (it’s on in the background) a forensics show from France and the translation voice overs are DERANGED. You can make out what they mean in context only about half the time. It was made in 2013 so it’s not AI, I think someone literally just ran an old translate program on the audio.

I think the thing that enrages me the most about Musk is that he presents himself as some sci-fi nerd hero doing everything possible to save humanity by going to new planets.

If your plan for saving humanity doesn’t include the people already on earth, you’re just a racist piece of shit.

are we sure this isn't satire

I’ve only been an attorney for about 5 years but my experience so far and purely anecdotal opinion is that conservative attorneys are generally not as talented. I know some that are very good at formulaic drafting and prose, but don’t have a lick of creativity or insight

Almost felt bad about this one.

The truth is especially important for leftists now more than ever. Material conditions & reality are what shape actual politics, not idealism & wishcasting.

As conservatives continue to sink into conspiracy, this contradiction will heighten as will the temptation to practice a politics of delusion.

I love that particular genre of bad driver that’s into doing pathologically aggressive stupid shit like passing on the right at high speed …

… so they can accelerate up to a stop sign

… and stop at it.

If you’re gonna be a reckless anti social moron don’t be a pussy about it.

It’s Big Way hot pot. We should go there next time you are in town.

I’ve been thinking of this bowl of malayang style broth for days

A bowl of malatang style noodle soup, red with spices and shiny with chili oil, packed with spinach and chicken and lobster balls.

I am so grateful to live in a city full of diversity where I can get the delicious food of immigrant ancestors.

Heated Rivalry: Framing het female fandom as being about wanting emotional connections smacks of that old misogynist trope that ‘women don’t like sex’.

It’s possible to long for both deep emotional bonding with a lover AND a hot athlete with a hard cock who wants your orgasm more than his own.

If you have a network with a decently large following, please consider adopting a Minneapolis family to pay their rent this month.

This is being done in a decentralized fashion because a lot of the groups getting $ are having their Venmo frozen and it's hard to send mutual aid.

Broke an algorithm today.

Added a bunch of Hildegard Von Blingin’ music (medieval harp covers of modern pop) to my playlist and now the app won’t recommend anything to me.

‘There’s death metal, musicals, classic rock and a bunch of Hazbin Hotel shit in here. Do YOU even know what you like?’

Just heard a story of a guy who left his dog to die in a car on a collapsing bridge.

They would find my floating corpse wrapped around a living Chihuahua like armour, so I trust one of you will look after him.

New YouTube short story: The Face of the King by Adrian Tchaikovsky The latest in our YouTube short story project is a reading of legendary sci-fi and fantasy author Adrian Tchaikovsky's The Face of the King.

The latest in our YouTube short story project is a reading of legendary sci-fi and fantasy author @aptshadow.bsky.social ’s The Face of the King. Al Barclay (Slow Horses, Deep Cover, The Crown) breathes new creative life into this brilliant dark fantasy story.

Just boosting this again. Please do have a listen - leave a comment / like if you can.

Hey if you’re gonna watch Wonder Man - and if you’re not I DON’T CARE and I don’t want to hear about it, I’m gonna start blocking people for ragging on superhero stuff — it’s a sweet, goofy, emotional love letter to acting and Hollywood not a big action show.

An underappreciated export of Epstein Island is rakes for these fuckers to step on.

my recent miniseries on the connections between the american far right & the apartheid regime started back in february - the first episode opens with a series of rallies in american cities organized by a white south african woman who moved to the US and joined the aryan nations

The Insurrectionist: Tyler Dykes, Part Two — Weird Little Guys In 2017, Tyler Dykes marched in Charlottesville. In 2021, he breached the capitol. In 2026, he hopes to win a congressional election.Sources:https://www.postandcourier.com/beaufort-county/politics/tyl...

@socialistdogmom.bsky.social I know it’s a hard time for levity but you reading out the list of banned terms for this episode has me choking

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Tweet from Batya Ungar-Sargon: "Beyond disgusting. Gov. Walz is comparing the innocent Jews that the Gestapo were hunting for extermination—who were citizens—to the illegal migrant murderers, rapists, sex offenders, and child abusers that ICE is seeking to deport because they broke our laws again and again."

It is literally false that the Jews being hunted by Nazis were citizens, because the first step toward genocide was stripping them of citizenship and making them stateless. As Arendt reminds us, citizenship is a legal category created to facilitate a machinery of exclusion of the out-group.

A woman, dressed in the white cap and blood red robes of a Handmaid from the Margaret Atwood book ‘A Handmaid’s Tale’ — a fictional story about the fascist usurpation of women’s bodily autonomy and human rights in a fallen America now called Gilead — stands alone, facing away from the camera. In her hand she holds a flag pole with an American flag hung upside down.

Hanging a flag upside down is a sign of dire distress, a request for aid in extreme danger.

ashtablunt: “My dog got into a 500mg edible a few weeks ago while I wasn’t home. I came home and he couldn’t sit up without peeing himself and he couldn’t walk straight. Obviously I took him to the emergency vet because at that moment I had no clue what was wrong with him. Anyway, I paid $900 for them to tell me my dog was stoned. Dog tax in the comments” mockingbird55: “You ever really LOOKED at your paws, man?”

I enjoy that I have lived long enough that this absolutely antediluvian joke I just regurgitated is funny to a different generation.

This is great!

Vancouver firm Hootsuite provides services to ICE U.S. procurement records show that Vancouver tech firm Hootsuite is providing social media services to the Department of Homeland Security.

It's a good day to stop using Hootsuite and tell them why.

I keep thinking about the number of people that have to be involved to kidnap a small child, transport him to one facility or another, then an airport, then a plane, then another facility. Did no one on that chain stop and say hey what the fuck?