S.M. Lundberg

I don’t like living in a country where violence and death are normalized, but it didn’t start today. It built to this point over a long time. Gabby Giffords in 2011, Sandy Hook in 2012, Kyle Rittenhouse, Jan. 6, it’s all the same thing. Melissa Hortman and John Hoffman were killed THREE MONTHS AGO.

At least 2 students shot at a Denver-area high school, authorities say | CNN At least two students have been shot at Evergreen High School in Evergreen, Colorado, according to the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office.

The shooting of Charlie Kirk was the 46th school shooting of the year. The 47th one happened moments afterwards. www.cnn.com/2025/09/10/u...

To be clear for those of you chomping for the American Years of Lead, this greatly increases your personal chances of dying in random political violence.

It will not be a heroic, meaningful death.

It will be meaningless, forgotten, and fade into the background noise of a society in free fall.

All of these tips are derived from the psychological protections developed for content moderators, and if you want more detail and citations, crowd.cs.vt.edu/wp-content/u... is the paper that has the best collection of citations that I've found .

Supreme Court won’t block transgender student’s use of school bathroom The high court left standing a lower-court order allowing a 14-year-old transgender student to use a school bathroom that aligns with his gender identity, turning aside an emergency appeal from South ...

The Supreme Court left a lower court order standing, allowing a 14-year-old transgender student to use a school bathroom that aligns with his gender identity and turning aside an emergency appeal from South Carolina to lift the ruling.

United States moves to restrict visa length for foreign students, reporters Trump administration has proposed restricting student visas to a four-year period rather than the duration of programme.

Journalists, it seems to be flying under the radar that Trump wants to limit I (journalist) visas to U.S. to 240 days and 90 days for Chinese journalists. Don’t let it!
www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/202...
And credit to @lavanguardia.com, 1st place I saw report it www.lavanguardia.com/internaciona...

YouTube’s Deal With the Devil Google once declared OAN too toxic for its platform—now Sundar Pichai and Neal Mohan are breathing new life into the conspiracy network as they negotiate a high-stakes agreement with Rupert Murdoch's ...

Back in 2020, YouTube suspended OAN's channel, demonetized it, and noted it was not an "authoritative" source.

Now, five years later, the Google-owned platform has inked a deal to put the MAGA propaganda network in millions of living rooms.

Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/youtube-oa...

A progressive Democrat flipped a staunchly Republican seat in *Iowa*— won it by 10 points, in fact— by running *As A Progressive* focusing on issues of education, and making housing, child care, and health care affordable.

Stop running to the right. Stay left, and fight.

Let's be generous, here, and assume that by the solar system Altman wants to put the sphere outside the orbit of Neptune, and we'll just exclude the kuiper belt entirely.

That would be a sphere with a diameter of 6 billion miles.

Let's assume that it has the thickness of an eggshell: .3mm thick.

For non-Texans, Sen. Molly Cook's bio: "emergency room nurse and grassroots organizer." She's a white woman.

This is the energy I'm talking about. You cannot allow one person alone to shoulder the burden of opposing the govt or police.

tough to face that we live in a world now where “i put on my robe and wizard hat” unlocks billions of dollars and gets you hailed as a genius

That is not her choosing to remain in protest — that is the state limiting her freedom of movement until she does so. I think we should be clear and frank about what this is.

I understand why you might think this is quibbling over terminology, but framing here is very important. They are trying to force a black woman - a representative- in Texas to agree to being placed under what is essentially police custody. That is forcing her to take an action under coercion.

This headline is wildly misleading — she is not refusing to leave, she’s been locked in by security on order of the Speaker until she signs.

I said WTF so often in one job it lost all meaning.
www.newsletter.supporthuman.cx/p/06apr25-ba...

30Mar25 Bad Job Bingo On free speech and economic engines.

In which I yell a lot about Substack.
www.newsletter.supporthuman.cx/p/30mar25-ba...

23Mar25 Bad Job Bingo Work, monkey, work.

A light issue, but under the universal law that something is better than nothing, we’re trying our best.

www.newsletter.supporthuman.cx/p/23mar25-ba...

Whenever I see the American discussion of healthcare reform it's always the status quo vs the British or Canadian system. There are other systems in the world. Every other wealthy country has achieved universal coverage, often without a single-payer system. A hybrid model would make sense for us.

The Year Without Sunshine - Uncanny Magazine During one of the much smaller disasters that preceded the really big disaster, I met a lot of my neighbors online. I can’t remember if we set up the WhatsApp group because of the pandemic or the civi...

A really lovely, needed short story for the moment we’re in. www.uncannymagazine.com/article/the-...

What they said. I hate it for real work, but I can’t deny it’s easier on my back.

Hello all: It is with a heavy heart that I remove my Starter Pack of "Trustworthy Mesopotamian Copper Ingot Merchants Within the City-State of Ur."

I have been informed about some pretty unfortunate oversights on my part and ultimately platformed some creators who should not have been platformed.

"Fuck your feelings" but also please come to thanksgiving, we miss you and our vote had nothing to do with you, honey.

👇🏽👇🏽

I heard there was a sensual hog
that bsky made to displease the mods
but you don't really care for Alf lore, do ya

just a reminder that john oliver did better in a condensed 60 seconds to defend trans rights and trans people than the entire democratic party in a 6 month campaign.

a little boy is walking down a sidewalk while holding a cell phone in his hand . ALT: a little boy is walking down a sidewalk while holding a cell phone in his hand .

Finding each other on BlueSky

Would you consider adding me as well?

Put A Record On: Music For Fighting Back Songs we love by artists who aren't afraid to tell it like it is (and who you should give your money to).

If you've never read Don't Rock The Inbox, I really hope today changes that: a special Friday free post jam-packed with more than 50 great songs by indie artists who fearlessly speak truth to power (complete with bandcamp links so you can give them money) open.substack.com/pub/dontrock...

Trans people are gonna keep being born, and at least some of our current trans folks need to survive in order to be there for future generations to learn from. We need some of us to survive so we don't have to start from scratch when the dust settles.