Cackling O'Brien, Chief Witch-gineer 🔵

I will make it legal for you to serve everywhere

Wait where's the sauce on this, I knew he dated a scientologist in the 00s but seemed adamant he was Catholic

Former Cubs pitcher Lee Smith on why he always walked so slowly out of the bullpen when he was called - he heard the grounds crew got time and a half of the game stretched past 4:30 pm.

This here’s a man of the people.

Christianity must have sounded insane to sun/nature worshippers.

Being told god is a long dead jew from somewhere they've never been.

When their god is a fiery ball in the sky that they see, feel, & get direct benefits/punishments from.

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I understand why people *want* the police to intervene--normies are like, 'I thought cops are supposed to arrest people doing crimes, ICE is right there doing crimes, go do your thing'

but police organizations take nearly every opportunity to be like, 'oh you misunderstood what our thing is'

A very small urinal

Behold: the smallest urinal

photo of Google News search results for Amazon Prime Day (the second this year)

twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross

“Now is our moment in time to fight for the change that we want to see, and fight for the future that we know we deserve," Pearson tells Rolling Stone.

More: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

For the uninitiated: The pope being this direct and explicit to U.S. bishops about how to respond to a domestic policy happening in real time is…unusual.

What I really wish universities and art schools would start thinking about is how their name could be like an Organic stamp of skill and quality-assurance; that any student associated with their name could say to an employer "I am properly trained and have real skills, and can do my job reliably"

the most delightful version of logging on to see what news you've missed

Can't believe I have to prep my phone tomorrow to go through US customs and security in case they search my phone without a warrant

a camel wearing a red and white checkered scarf around its neck ALT: a camel wearing a red and white checkered scarf around its neck

leaving for Egypt and Jordan tomorrow! So excited

the demand for short form video devours all

I hear and see your concerns. Over the weekend, a couple users hosted on Blacksky's PDS were banned from the Bluesky app and thus the Bluesky API servers. This was a weakness of our system I've been aware of and hoped we had more time to address before any kind of public incident. 1/11

So much of the angry discourse moments that riled up everyone on the site have been a direct result of tech-focused folks trying to explain tech to non-tech people. It’s a consistent lack of understanding of the
depth of knowledge that normies have. They’ve gotta pass the torch to an expert. 

A great way to turn the temp down here as @jay.bsky.team @pfrazee.com and @aaron.bsky.team want would be to stop communicating site policies and practices with individual users or on their timelines and hire a comms person who is a professional communicator to do all the front facing interaction.

Laura Rodriguez, on Twitter: A federal agent points a weapon at a woman who was recording them. Jess, a U.S. citizen and member of a neighborhood patrol team that documents and shares ICE activity across the city, was filming when the incident occurred earlier today in the Berwyn area.

I fear if things don’t change right now, this image is going to come back to haunt us

Me to every man who appears on Love Is Blind

im sorry am i supposed to know what an omega girl is

A modern example of the extent of sacrifice needed for nonviolent protest to have an impact:

Palestinians nonviolently protested near the Gaza wall in great numbers in 2018-2019. The IDF unjustifiably killed hundreds and maimed thousands of them anyway.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018%E2...

at the VERY LEAST Bluesky's automod Hive or whoever we're using now should have a database of famous art pieces that can be excluded from being labeled adult content. Like what are we doing here. We going to got the papal route and hack off Michelangelo's David's dong and put a fig leaf over it?

It's kind of cool how Japan swapped Shinzo Abe for gender swapped Super Abe

The FAA is delaying flights at Newark and Denver airports because they haven’t got enough air traffic control. Burbank has zero ATC from 4.30-10pm.

Lots of controllers who aren’t being paid during the government shutdown are calling in sick.

map for Trump projects in the proposed Gaza peace plan

this looks like a middle school social studies project

They're publishing plans that turn Gaza into a broligarch Riviera operating in Palestinian slave labor and letting Israel continue everything in the West Bank while absolving them of all crimes. Plus Trump is just going to be president of Gaza too? What kind of coked up plan is this

I cant begin to understand what living through a genocide is like and believe that stopping bga genocide is always better than continuing one, but this deal Palestine is apparently about to agree to is the absolute worst deal I've ever seen. It's giving Israel everything it wants and changes nothing

Stalling Adelita Grijalva’s swearing-in also delays vote on release of Epstein files Democrats say House Republicans are delaying the swearing-in of Adelita Grijalva – elected by landslide last week to replace her late father in Congress – to stall release of the Epstein files. The Tu...

“The Tucson Democrat stood on the House floor during a pro forma session that lasted less than three minutes, enough time for an opening prayer and the Pledge of Allegiance. Fellow Democrats chanted ‘Swear her in!’

But the Republican presiding over the House gaveled the session to an abrupt end.”

The fundamental question: are you moderating behavior or safety?

Because those aren’t always the same thing.