A simple question

Sharing my morning with this tiny person. She was too cold to move! When the wind blows, she shivers 🥹.

She was on the porch floor and couldn't fly away. She desperately wiggled her little butt so we'd know she was a person. Got her to safety. Now she's eating frosting 🤣 happy Easter buzzing ones!

Here it comes. Trump’s $1.5 trillion dollar grift to end all grifts.

And… scene.

Even if total user count is technically still growing, slowly, about a third of *active* users left over the last 12 months. That's a dying social network, not a growing one. If it doesn't change, bluesky won't survive. I think that would be a bad thing tbh. I mostly like it here.

But let's be honest: there's a large cadre that basically cheers on chasing off any lib/centrist/academic who's the punchbag of the day. There's a culture of saying "fuck off back to X, then". And the anti- bedtime leftists set too much of the culture.

I don't know if it's fixable, especially as I think quite a lot of the people here don't *want* to fix it. But at the rate users are quitting they'll run out of targets soon enough, and the rest of us will lose what is – for a fair few of us I suspect – the last fun/useful social network. Sigh.

Who’s pulling Trump’s strings? Do you really have to ask?

Who’s pulling Trump’s strings? Do you really have to ask?

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell has been named a 2026 recipient of the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award, to be presented in May, honoring his defense of the Fed’s independence amid intense political pressure and personal attacks.👇

Washington State’s 9.9% ‘Millionaires Tax’ Signed Into Law The law applies a 9.9% income tax on income over $1 million.

The law applies a 9.9% income tax on income over $1 million.

BREAKING: GENERAL STRIKE

The economy only works if we do.

Friday, May 1
🚫No work
🚫No school
🚫No shopping

You in? 🤚🏽

AI industry taps January 6 operative to run $100 million campaign to boost MAGA candidates The AI industry has tapped Taylor Budowich, a key operative in the effort to undermine the outcome of the 2020 presidential election, to lead a new group dedicated to boosting Republican candidates in the 2026 midterms.

AI industry taps January 6 operative to run $100 million campaign to boost MAGA candidates
#Trump

Ms. Rachel is helping kids get out of ICE detention—one video at a time The wildly popular children's educator is taking on ICE's notorious family detention center.

Two young boys were locked up inside ICE's notorious detention center in Texas. Then Ms. Rachel shared their stories.

This is an excellent summary of current circumstances

Kyle Kulinski: “A sundowning president with Alzheimer’s who’s a malignant narcissist is dragging us into WWIII, committing war crimes on a daily basis and crashing the global economy, and nobody is actually grabbing the steering wheel.”

In what world is it okay for the Defense Secretary to make multi-million dollar investments in defense companies:
a) Ever;
b) In the run-up to starting a war in the Middle East

FT has the scoop: www.ft.com/content/744e...

In a functional democracy, he would offer his resignation tonight.

Trump is funding Russia who is providing targeting support to Iran for hitting U.S. bases.

Just sayin’

I really like the work of men like @remakingmanhood.bsky.social - sociologically based.

So too @jacksonkatz.bsky.social - both educators who speak about systemic masculine toxicity - but also offer something better for men.

Each has their own websites.

Are White Men Missing Out?: Differences in Friendship Closeness by Gender and Ethnoracial Identity - Sex Roles Sex Roles - Research has consistently found that boys’ and men’s friendships are less close, intimate, supportive, and satisfying than girls’ and women’s...

The gender friendship gap turns out to be driven almost entirely by white men's uniquely low levels of friendship closeness. And among white men, higher socioeconomic class predicted even lower closeness. The most privileged group has the least close friendships. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Are White Men Missing Out?: Differences in Friendship Closeness by Gender and Ethnoracial Identity - Sex Roles Sex Roles - Research has consistently found that boys’ and men’s friendships are less close, intimate, supportive, and satisfying than girls’ and women’s...

Fox used nationally representative data (NLSY97) to compare friendship closeness across Black, Latino, and white men and women. Black men and Latino men reported friendship closeness similar to women of all groups. So... the gap is not universal. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Are White Men Missing Out?: Differences in Friendship Closeness by Gender and Ethnoracial Identity - Sex Roles Sex Roles - Research has consistently found that boys’ and men’s friendships are less close, intimate, supportive, and satisfying than girls’ and women’s...

For decades, research has found that men's friendships are less close, intimate, and satisfying than women's. This has been called the "gender friendship gap." But most of that research was based on predominantly white samples. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Are White Men Missing Out?: Differences in Friendship Closeness by Gender and Ethnoracial Identity - Sex Roles Sex Roles - Research has consistently found that boys’ and men’s friendships are less close, intimate, supportive, and satisfying than girls’ and women’s...

New research challenges what we thought we knew about men's friendships. A new study by @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social Sociology grad student, Emily Fox (@emilycfox.bsky.social), asks: is the "gender friendship gap" really about gender? Spoiler: not exactly. 🧵 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Republicans control all three branches of government. Not paying TSA is a choice.

Super needed this war for what again?

I know. Brutally compelling, that show.

Stupid. Fucking. Trumpsters.

Exclusive: U.S. dismissed Ukraine deal for anti-Iran drone tech last year Snubbing Ukraine's offer ranks as one of the U.S.'s biggest tactical miscalculations before the war, officials say.

EXCLUSIVE: 7 months ago, Ukraine tried to sell the U.S. their battle-proven technology for downing Iranian-made drones.

The Trump administration dismissed the Ukrainians, only to reverse course last week after more-than-expected Iranian drone strikes.

quite the brain-trust we have in the Pentagon...Still no cards but they are well fed - lobster tails and sushi and bottomless ice cream machines....and too head up your ### to get help from our ally who knows more about a problem than you do.

There is absomuteky nothing Jack Dorsey has to say that's remotely unique or interesting and it's embarrassing when editors and people of prominence pretend otherwise