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It is incredibly funny how the Bluesky team thinks that everyone is here because of their cool new coding system and framework to build your own siloed communities meanwhile 99% of their user base has no clue about any of that shit and is only here because it is like Twitter before Elon bought it

I remember that one, but the version I heard also involved Moira Stewart.

Enid the cat on top of the Soul & Funk section in (the old, smaller) Sound Records in Stroud.

Enid, the surprising and eccentric owner of the brilliant Sound Records in Stroud, UK, has an encyclopaedic knowledge of jazz, soul, funk, ocean fish and wool.

Really looks good.

Those are great! I've got some bases to do soon and I may take yours as inspiration. I do hate working with those bastard grass clumps!

There is a key moral distinction between immigration policy on new arrivals, no matter how draconian, and on people who have already been granted status, on set conditions. It is about being a country that keeps its word. If we're not that, we might as well fucking give up now.

Very (and suspiciously) innocent-looking cat on an orange chair. She's fluffy with big eyes and a little heart-shaped ID tag is just peeking out of her white fur. She's a chair thief, but also the greatest cat ever.

She has just stolen my chair, so don't be fooled.

Well don't I feel stupid

I would have really liked to have seen any UK party defend people with Indefinite Leave to Remain unreservedly. Instead we got a mealy-mouthed complaint that Reform's numbers didn't work.

my sweet friend gene who cuts my hair has died :( please go to a drag show in his honor, and appreciate this story about him being banned from the salem oregon petco :(

I went to the Grayson Perry exhibition at the Wallace Collection in London and it made me want to create things. That feels like the opposite of destruction. It helped.

Was he auditioning for Renfield? The posture here is wild!

Saw it this week and I agree. It's the kind of exhibition that makes you want to make art.

Who knows what team trump has in store for him next, if anything, but for now: the most powerful people in the world were not able to completely get away with it, or to do exactly what they wanted — only because enough people did not give up on their friend or neighbor, Ayman.

That is not nothing

Matthew McConaughey says he wants a private LLM, fed only with his books, notes, journals, and aspirations, so he can ask it questions and get answers based solely on that information, without any outside influence.

this exists it is called thinking

Just in case:

If people gathered outside someone's house, being loud and intimidating, we would all recognise the violence inherent in that, even if no one was physically harmed. But somehow if people do that with places where asylum seekers live we are supposed to treat it as expression of "legitimate concerns".

🧵*9/8/2025 noncooperation thread*

A daily thread of acts of noncooperation, noncompliance, defiance, & whatnot by individuals, communities, &/or institutions.

(Friends I have so many examples piling up rn, LFG!)

*

Native peoples have been doing this this for a long, long, long, long time.

The fridge died. A new one arrives today, but I am very annoyed about the upheaval and cost. The cat is taking it even worse because I'm moving her litter box.

I am so emotional thinking about the person inside that church pulling with all their might on some huge fucking rope (or idk maybe it’s a button now but the point still stands) because today this was the small thing they could do that made a huge difference. I am a little teary-eyed for real

So, Chicago, thwart. Thwart like lives depend on it because they do.

This was long and nobody'll read the whole thing, but man it felt good to write because, for the time being, LA fucking won.

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if i had the opportunity to ask a question of anyone in the administration, given this "war in chicago" messaging, i would ask them how many americans the president intends to kill in his war

Timeline cleanse

Trans people have been around your whole life. You’ve been sharing bathrooms with them your whole life. They’ve been in your communities your whole life. They’ve even been playing sport your whole life.

And you didn’t care *at all* till a few years ago when every right wing org decided you should

"Be loud for America."

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