The Columbine massacre was on this date in 1999. Instead of energizing our country to get gun violence under control, it kicked off a new normal. One of the best explanations ever of journalism's destructive impact on mass shootings came from Roger Ebert in his review of Gus Van Sant’s “Elephant.”
Did I just argue with a joke? Part of a Bluesky educational series
it’s a great day for transphobes to eat shit
Also TIL about “shamstep” which is a fusion of traditional dance music from the Levant (Balad Al Shams) with hip hop. Here’s a Palestinian group 47Soul performing “Dabke System”: youtu.be/uEaSgzRdSv0?...
This video is INCREDIBLE
Coachella is trying to wipe all of the footage of The Strokes protest set so I’m gonna post it here. The last images on the screen made me cry.
Peruvian politics summed up in a single headline
Screenshot of Peruvian presidential election (first round) results, with 93.48% of votes counted. Shows Keiko Fujimori in first place with 17.06% percent of the vote, followed by Roberto Sanchez at 12.01% and Rafael Lopez Aliaga at 11.92%. Only 13,000 votes separate Sanchez and Lopez Aliaga. I've added notes to indicate that Fujimori and Lopez Aliaga are fascists, and Sanchez is not.
"As of April 18, as the ONPE finalizes the count of the remaining ~400 tally sheets, it has become clear that the second runoff spot between Sánchez and López Aliaga will be decided by the JNE through the evaluation of approximately 6,000 observed records. The current pattern indicates a razor-thin margin, meaning the final result will only be determined once 100% of the challenges are resolved—a process estimated to take three weeks."
Watching the first-round Peruvian presidential election results trickle in is so nerve wracking.
Top two go to the second round. 🫣
Concentration camps
Ive heard that some communities still use them! Frank Salomon has a book about one of those communities iirc
I want a Rebbe who thinks it's terrible that "America" attacked Venezuela!
I want a Rebbe who criticizes the President of the United States!
I want a Rebbe who does not sit well with Trump!
I want a Rebbe who caters to the radical left!
I know everyone is having a lot of fun with "weak on crime," but I am wheezing with laughter/hung up on:
"I don't want a Pope who thinks it's terrible that America attacked Venezuela... And I don't want a Pope who criticizes the United States"
Yeah, we'll get right on that, then. 🤣🤣🤣
Are you also looking for a way to downregulate your nervous system? How about doing something fun and reading about an amazing South America-inspired TTRPG setting that is launching this month?
🎂 22岁 Iskay chunka iskayniyuq
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And if you haven't yet, you should read this spotlight from a few years back by @alyssavisscher.bsky.social
www.dndbeyond.com/posts/1597-c...
Follow @koboa.bsky.social for more about the incredible work done on this TTRPG project by a truly phenomenal all-South American creative team (including--ahem--yours truly).
It's almost here!!!!
Hey did everyone see Clavicular get his ass beat after he challenged a cancer survivor leftist to a jujitsu match, who said as he was choking him out ‘this is for all the bullshit I gotta watch on my fucking feed’… we need more of this not more podcasts
I got banned from twitter in 2023 for this drawing. They called it "violent speech". It had over 40K likes and too many comments for me to read before my ban, but I still see it floating around here and there. Save a copy, and use it freely. No attribution needed. Love u
#transdayofvisibility #tdov
This also explains why they were able to abruptly stop murdering people on camera after that—their orders actually changed.
Re-upping my latest as we head into Passover:
The Book of Joshua has been used to justify colonialist atrocities for centuries. We've been taught to read it as an assertion of the Divine right to land.
What if that's not how this story is meant to be read?
www.lifeisasacredtext.com/joshua/
So far from God, so close to the United States.
This comes after a bombing and coup of Venezuela and amidst military and FBI on the ground in Ecuador (in an operation that "accidentally" dropped a bomb across the border into Colombia), boats being blown up in the Caribbean, and an oil blockade of Cuba that is causing a humanitarian crisis.
USA plans to expand its military aggressions in Latin America with a campaign called -- wait for it ---
"Operation Total Extermination"
I am 100% not kidding.
theintercept.com/2026/03/23/t...
Archaeological Dig Uncovers Ancient Race Of Skeleton People
Archaeological Dig Uncovers Ancient Race Of Skeleton People theonion.com/archaeological-dig-uncov...
giving paras the evolution he deserves
Time to right his wrongs and call her FLO na don't MERCEDES
