Ivy, Queen Lady of Pigeons (she/her) 🕊💠

I don't think I actually enjoy using Bluesky tbh. It feels more like a time-sync, a reassurance I'm doing something.

Climate Trotsky?

I'm pretty sure they use this exact image in police textbooks to explain sex crimes involving spying on people in private.

"Local pervert looks over garden fences at sunbathing teenagers"

Incredible. Paying federal workers is literally the only card the GOP had going into negotiations, and they're throwing it away. Most workers cannot just lose a paycheck like that. If the workers are fucked regardless of what the Democrats do, why should they negotiate with the GOP at all?

They're starting to stack up because the media wants to fracture Mamdani's support, and they know there are rubes like you who will get mad at Mamdani if they get him to admit inconveniences for leftists in geopolitics.

The media knows there's a certain type of leftist, the BadEmpanada, who will start screaming "FELL FOR IT AGAIN AWARD, ANYONE WHO TOUCHES A PARTY IS A SHILL" if they can get left-wing candidates to say anything slightly inconvenient. It makes it incredibly easy for them to manufacture controversy.

Paul Blart was competent, human, and held actual values. ICE are more like the mercenaries from the first Paul Blart (yes, there is a sequel); they act tough, try to attack a seemingly easy target, but in the end one guy with courage is more than a match for a whole group of them.

Good riddance. They've been an utter pox on the country.

This can also be seen as a positive thing. Apparently an incompetent woman can fail upwards like her male moron counterparts! Still didn't end sexism, though.

Brexiters are somehow still mad that they got what they wanted.

It's not just this and the union episode, Rom's entire destiny is to end Ferengi capitalism!

Have we learned nothing? We can't fight fascism with nuanced statistical debate. All this does is say, "Well maybe leaving the ECHR would be okay if the statistics indicated it was getting in our way." In other words, it quietly concedes that human rights are not a red line.

Grok moment

Thatcher supported Pinochet, too. Her support for the ECHR was almost certainly based on political pragmatism, and if her zombie corpse wasn't currently trying to claw its way out of a reinforced coffin to kill more poor children, she'd be fully in line with the other conservatives right now.

There's some legitimate criticism, like people saying things like "Rosa Sparks" and generally going out of their way to make it obvious they're just role-playing antiblack racism, but afaict a lot of it is the intended target (AI cultists) getting butthurt about how they're actually seen.

Okay, skip the therapy, straight to jail.

Probably best to request an export from the robo-junkies now and back up on other platforms going forward, just in case.

A power-hungry bothumper would probably try to build a backdoor into the protocol to allow unilateral bans.

I feel like it should be called "getting Stancilled" when this happens.

Ezra Klein exposed his gums the right way

This also applies to Bluesky. Don't think they're not feeding your words to their pet router-weilers, the owners are LLM addicts.

I'm going to start using slurs for AI, just to see if doing that gets me banned from this absolute clankyard of a website.

Do you think Save The Children want their adverts placed next to this?

Did they report on the Epstein incident with "Young women accused of campaign of abuse" as well?

I mean, when you seem to believe that predictive text is the only component of intelligence, it makes sense that you'd find any assemblage of words that resembles a different and offensive set of words to be equally offensive.

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The main thing Bluesky is accelerating is my mobile data usage! Seriously, why does a microblogging app need several gigabytes a month?

Whenever I check my mobile data usage, Bluesky is always the heaviest usage. My partner has noticed the same thing.

It tells me one crucial thing. They care about AI which tells me they're using our data to train models without telling anyone.