J.S. Aughtnik

i'm tempted to make some joke about being a maoist now but honestly this is just what liberal capitalist regimes would be doing if they weren't completely fucking captured and also shitting themselves about how to delay the social/ideological upheaval of climate change

Oh huh just like trans people have been saying for a decade

In case anyone is curious as to what a real witch-hunt looks like, this is it:

thanks! Basically no idea what I’m doing, but I didn’t have that before either so “doing it anyway” is a 100% improvement!

read this as “prime age emo-pop” and was like “actually feels like I & the other elder millennials still out here spinning Dashboard Confessional mix CDs are showing plenty of cause for concern, but okay”

this is a disgrace and a national shame

Government's just a complete joke

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) announced today that it will begin an orderly wind-down of its operations following the passage of a federal rescissions package and the release of the Senate Appropriations Committee’s FY 2026 Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies (Labor-H) appropriations bill, which excludes funding for CPB for the first time in more than five decades. For nearly 60 years, CPB has carried out its Congressional mission to build and sustain a trusted public media system that informs, educates, and serves communities across the country. Through partnerships with local stations and producers, CPB has supported educational content, locally relevant journalism, emergency communications, cultural programming, and essential services for Americans in every community. “Despite the extraordinary efforts of millions of Americans who called, wrote, and petitioned Congress to preserve federal funding for CPB, we now face the difficult reality of closing our operations,” said CPB President and CEO Patricia Harrison. “CPB remains committed to fulfilling its fiduciary responsibilities and supporting our partners through this transition with transparency and care.”

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting is shutting down operations after loss of federal funding:

the intro page to The Anarchis Spider-Man. its 4 panels display a dystopian world, in shades of pink and purple, with propaganda on the TV, the cops beating civilians and spraying them with water cannons, and finally spider-man, standing with his back to the page wearing a variant suit that features a denim battle jacket and guitar. his introductory caption reads "with great power, comes no future"

was so happy that Spider-Verse did him as much justice as a major studio animated children's film could get away with... but if you've never read the comics... read the comics.

Hobie fucking rules, and has one of the best intros ever put to page

a page from Spider-Punks introductory run that depicts the final fight between spider-man and Osborne, with the final panel being an image of Osborne's head being splattered against the floor by a guitar, with spider-man saying "is that all you got"

we don't talk nearly enough about there being a spider-man who smashed reagan's head into pulp with a guitar.

that's what heroism looks like.

Black activists compare anti-trans bathroom ban to Jim Crow laws at Texas Capitol Black activists have drawn parallels with Jim Crow-era segregation laws as they opposed an anti-trans bathroom bill in the state of Texas.

Black activists compare anti-trans bathroom ban to Jim Crow-era segregation laws at Texas Capitol www.thepinknews.com/2025/07/31/b...

I wish a very happy “fuck you” to everyone who thought throwing trans people under the bus was going to stop these lunatics

Their goal has *always* been the eradication of the entire LGBTQ+ community, and they’re not gonna stop at Obergefell either

This is why we fight for *everyone*

YES IT FUCKING SHOULD BE

Jesus FUCK, @democrats.org. When the policy position of “one side” is “bad things,” your policy position should be “good things”! When their policy position is “shit,” yours should be “ice cream,” not fucking “ice cream sandwiches with shit for the cookie part”!!

I’m not 100% sure you meant that to sound appealing, but that does kinda sound a little bit appealing 🤔🤷🏻‍♀️

Another prominent Democrat every single day

A riff on the famous Mike Primavera (@primawesome) tweet about shelter cats and coyotes, with substitutions in brackets My neighbor told me [Republicans] keep eating his [vulnerable minority groups] so I asked how many [minorities] he has and he said he just [Votes Blue, No Matter Who] and gets a new [minority] afterwards so I said it sounds like he's just feeding [vulnerable minorities] to Republicans and then his daughter started crying.

It’s funny how this is NIMBY in the literal sense but also almost diametrically opposed to what I typically mean, or think of, with the term “NIMBY”

There is absolutely no excuse for any Democrat asked about trans athletes to ever respond with anything but “why are you wasting my time asking about FEWER THAN FIFTEEN CHILDREN AND YOUNG ADULTS IN THE ENTIRE COUNTRY WHO WANT TO PLAY GAMES WITH THEIR FRIENDS. What is wrong with you?”

you can say this about quite a lot of political cartoons and I think it really speaks more to the fruits of gerontocracy than anything

If you're worried about your daughter losing at sports to a trans kid just wait until you hear about "tall kids" or "rich kids"!!! There's a thousand reasons why one kid might win over another and gender identity is like not even on the list

I think the really important thing about the "trans sports debate" is that it's NOT REAL, the things that people are fearmongering about are NOT REAL and are NOT HAPPENING. Cis women are not competing at a disadvantage against trans women, cis men aren't transitioning to win at sports, IT'S NOT REAL

I am making a sincere effort to reach out to AI skeptics, and in that interest, I will suggest that what if the problem in society is not “too many robots” but rather “insufficient kaiju”

...the world-building possibilities here might be the thing that breaks my writing block and gets me back into writing Stability again.

"In the fallout from Kamala Harris' 2024 loss to Donald Trump, the centrist Democrats and the consultant class were eager to find a scapegoat for their loss to point to besides their anemic campaign failures, and most agreed that no, it was the trans peoples' fault." - Katelyn Burns

holy shit, how many layers of social satire is this on

the tldr is that the anti-trans voters who care enough about the issue to change votes will only change votes if Dems promise to eliminate trans people from society. But showing weakness on protecting trans rights could potentially lose millions of Dem base votes.

Anxiety is great for when you're an adult but you wanna remember what it feels like to be in big trouble when you get home

Hey @markwarner.bsky.social @kaine.senate.gov looking at y’all here

Humanities and STEM people love to fight with each other while funding for both is gutted to give a tax break to rent seeking car dealership owners who barely graduated high school.

After through investigation I have concluded that water parks are actually just walkable communities with micro public transportation