@scolby.bsky.social
Cannot emphasize this enough.
On the whole, police don’t solve crimes for shit, and they don’t prevent crimes for shit. They are actively bad at both. The average Law & Order fan would be stunned to tears after following around real cops for a day.
being an indie bookseller in the helltimes has felt both very stable and very stabilizing, and part of me wishes everyone could be on my side of the counter for a little while, because I think it would help some of you be a little less cynical and doomy right now. so here is my VERY anecdotal data:
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Snoop and Tom Brady: say no to hate
Kendrick: actually
Helpful!
21.01.2025 04:30 — 👍 66276 🔁 15036 💬 775 📌 697Americans:
20.01.2025 23:45 — 👍 1612 🔁 285 💬 69 📌 18Make sure you buy banned books. Get a library card and borrow banned books. Read banned books.
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Trending topics: WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION, President musk, Nazis
We are so back.
21.01.2025 01:33 — 👍 2745 🔁 180 💬 49 📌 9Google is free.
Library got plenty of books.
And still yall dumb.
That’s crazy.
FOR NOW
20.01.2025 21:07 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0It is, once again, the dumbest day in American history
20.01.2025 14:18 — 👍 655 🔁 42 💬 24 📌 3Trump on Elon Musk: "He knows those computers better than anybody. All those computers. Those vote-counting computers. And we ended up winning Pennsylvania like in a landslide."
19.01.2025 22:50 — 👍 6793 🔁 2272 💬 995 📌 1106The real gaslighting was all the gay anthems they danced to along the way.
20.01.2025 00:00 — 👍 808 🔁 94 💬 44 📌 4Also can anyone explain how someone who isn’t even inaugurated yet is controlling things like this?
19.01.2025 19:14 — 👍 455 🔁 19 💬 24 📌 3Blue sky is awesome because a bunch of people who like to make jokes and a bunch of people who are incapable of identifying a joke are forced to share space
19.01.2025 07:00 — 👍 30675 🔁 3584 💬 542 📌 269Trump: "As of today, TikTok is back! ... we won the youth vote by 36 points. So I like TikTok." (The number Trump cites here is made up)
Reading books about dystopian societies in order to distract me from the one I’ve been living in 🤓
19.01.2025 17:21 — 👍 47 🔁 8 💬 4 📌 1Clipping its wings and putting it in a cage… 💔
19.01.2025 17:38 — 👍 253 🔁 16 💬 9 📌 0Same and I can watch the last few posts in the friends section.
19.01.2025 17:24 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0Says I have no internet connection
19.01.2025 17:15 — 👍 21 🔁 0 💬 4 📌 0"My Shaylaaaa" was really the perfect last trending sound for the death of Tiktok 😭
19.01.2025 04:52 — 👍 472 🔁 70 💬 3 📌 3TikTok helped millions of disabled people learn about conditions they might have, learn how to navigate medical care and billing bullshit, and find beauty in disability culture. It also was a source of income for many. This is an enormous loss, especially for those who are homebound. 1/3
19.01.2025 07:28 — 👍 135 🔁 40 💬 1 📌 0Fucking TikTok saved Barnes and Noble.
They were headed outta here and #booktok saved them.
Do you realize how much power that is?
I hand wrote all the recs I had saved on Tik tok I can fax it to you like it’s 1995.
19.01.2025 15:16 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Meanwhile Chuck Schumer told Biden that signing the legislation to ban the app would cost Democrats politically WHILE SIMULTANEOUSLY VOTING FOR THE APP TO BE BANNED.
Fork-tongued fiends
Hey, it’s really good to be self aware! I know my role on the internet is to be in the audience and to pass out likes and occasionally leave an amazing comment that I regret bc then I get too many notifications 😂 without us tik tok would be nothing!
19.01.2025 14:52 — 👍 59 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1Absolutely and that’s a hill I’ll die on.
19.01.2025 14:24 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0As a Canadian I still have access to TikTok and will describe what's happening there for the low low price of $10.00CAD per minute.
19.01.2025 03:37 — 👍 2594 🔁 223 💬 100 📌 26This is amazing thank you for bringing it to my attention 💖
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