Why should I write better when a machine can do it for me? Because actually no one can do it for you, because your voice is unique among all the people on earth. Siri never petted a horse's neck. Alexa has never been ghosted by the captain of the football team. But you have lived, your heart is beating, you have suffered, and you have something important to say. It's a human's job, to use words, and whatever job you give to a machine, that part of your brain goes dark. Maybe it's worth it when it comes to remembering phone numbers and directions, but when that part of your brain that uses words goes dark, that's a vast area that's very close to your soul. Don't let some internet platform convince you that what you have to say and create isn't worthwhile. Words are the echo of your soul. Honing that echo matters.

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

🇺🇦 Re-upping this one in the name of decency and democracy.

Slava Ukraini!

Jasmine Crockett delivers passionate call for Texans to come together

Just sayin’

Growing up in the US, I had no familiarity or nostalgia for this show.
I was dreading covering this low-budget silly kiddy show 90s adaptation.

Fortunately, @paulgcornish.bsky.social & @erroneousbosch.bsky.social help me discover what a delight this show is on ep 60 of Into the Greenwood! Out now!

You do not at any point have to treat fascists' hateful output and the output of marginalized people raging at fascists in the same way.

One of those things is actively harmful, while one of them is absolutely necessary expression, and makes spaces safer (by ensuring fascists aren't welcome).

Well, at least they are staying the course of feckless incompetence /s

"mediocre" is generous. I will still gobble those little drops of disappointment

WWUID?

What better way to observe the end of slavery than a rich old white man yelling to work harder.

Patriot Front crashed Springfield, MO Pride festival.

Driving a Penske truck. U-Haul banned Patriot Front from renting their vehicles. It’s time for people to tell Penske to do the same.

I love this Native woman’s spunk! However this should NEVER have happened.

“When they slaughtered Congress, we didn't wake up. When they blamed terrorists and suspended the constitution, we didn't wake up then, either. Nothing changes instantaneously. In a gradually heating bathtub, you'd be boiled to death before you knew it.”

—Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

UPDATE: Minnesota authorities have identified Vance Boelter (57) as the alleged murderer.

The kill list recovered from his car also targets Gov Tim Walz, Rep. Ilhan Omar, several Democratic lawmakers, & abortion-care providers.

If you know where Boelter is call MN state tip line at (651) 555-TIPS.

#NoKings Reno

Hey Trump Nobody paid us to be here we all hate you for free

Holy moly.

Suspect in Minnesota Shooting Linked to Security Company, Evangelical Ministry The alleged shooter is a 57-year-old white male; according to his ministry's website, he “sought out militant Islamists in order to share the gospel and tell them that violence wasn't the answer.”

1. Let's put this together. The assassin appears to be the follower of the New Apolostolic Reformation, which holds that American society is literally under demonic possessions. (And you, dear reader, are one of the demon.) www.wired.com/story/shooti...

law enforcement officials say they made a proactive check at Rep. Hortman's home after a lawmaker who lived nearby was shot and found a "police vehicle in the driveway with emergency lights and what appeared to be a police officer at the door coming out of the house." He was actually the gunman.

Happy Pride Month day 12 🌈

The "I'll lower costs and get us out of endless wars" candidate is now presiding over surging costs and brand new wars.

Seth gets it

Department of Defense Security for the Protection of Department of Homeland Security Functions MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE                THE ATTORNEY GENERAL

There is no bigger story right now than the White House asserting that California residents are in a state "of rebellion against the authority of the Government of the United States."

... Fully surrendered to the "King" ...

Meme: Drawing of a baby rabbit wearing an armoured helmet and leaf armour shawl, carrying a book under one arm, holding a spear with a teapot, hooked onto the metal spearhead that is trident shaped.

Good morning rebels...

Excellent question.

Time to start referring to vehicles with MAGA stickers as 'Taco Trucks'.
Go forth and sow chaos.

Who needs a $400 million “palace in the sky” when you can have two or three dolls and a couple of pencils instead.