The Vatican's polling numbers in the key demographic of "people who fundamentally reject their ecclesiastical authority" are absolutely tanking right now. Because of woke.

*Seeing a streamer play Grand Theft Auto* these are the politics on the left now? Stealing cars?

“This can’t be real” I mutter to myself as flubber does the Macarena

Man encounters joke for the first time, shakes his head in disgust so everyone knows he doesn’t approve.

Tons of great developments on blusky this week:
Images post sideways
Skeets are now florps
You have been blocked by the devs

more ideas for Bluesky staff/claudebots along the lines of "swipeable image gallery on desktop"

- typing indicators for writing posts to followers

- editing posts, but only alt text for some reason

- remove post button (actually good idea)

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also iran going "let me solo her" about the taliban and the international community being like "no, these guys will never be a problem. lets continue trusting pakistan rather than any of these international sponsors of terror"

[anthony bourdain voice] once youve learned about the 6+2 contact group you will never stop wanting to beat your own forehead to death with the flat of your palm

one of the great ironies of history is pre-2001 iran continuously and desperately trying to warn the US about the taliban and al quaeda and the US continuously going "shut up terrorist, im wise to your tricks"

everything about Hasan clicks into place when you realize that everyone in politics/media is a lifelong nerd, while Hasan looks, to them, like a big strong scary jock who might shove them into the lockers of their youth

I hate doing this but

Caves of Qud

Good news: the devs at Bluesky have fixed unloadable images by changing them all to a layout you won't want to look at anyway.

so you prefer your salad without dressing?

GOOD POST

Scott was running for reelection

One of the five Democrats in the country who seems to understand, intuitively, where the public is and what the right things to say are.

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right. this exactly.

your constituents are like, "we need to water the tree of liberty" and your response is, "how about middle class tax cuts and I chastise the left?"

like, I think there's a disconnect there.

like buddy, you published a hateful screed about a tiny trans news website because you didn't like what your former employee said lol

it is very ironic for the New York Times to be upset about retaliatory investigations considering they do the exact same thing to queer organizations that criticize them lol

didn't you put your phone in the pool because it was too hot or something?

isn't it so cool that like once a week now the president just says the war is over and the press fall all over themselves to report that and say how great it is that the markets are rallying and then like several hours later someone thinks to ask iran and then it's all shocked pikachu faces?

Lebanese journalist Amal Khalil is confirmed to have been killed by the IDF.

Al Akhbar, her outlet, as well as LBCI and Al Jadeed, have confirmed it.

The IDF, the world’s leading killer of journalists, was blocking rescue operations.

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it's really interesting how all they would have to do to prevent things like this is Operate Like a Business Does

yeah, the breaking point was kairi getting outed.

between standing back and letting her be the de facto mod for the site, her semi-official merch line, to running the nearly-official moderation service. her detonation made them look like absolute clowns, and everything since has felt like spite

It's just odd how bluesky team did everything they could to recruit the top trans shitposters to the early site but then immediately started pointing at us and going "ick! ew! weird!"

You will live to see the end of Israel. Unless you’re very very old in which case try to become a ghost for just a few years

Once they invent the e-bike rocket presumably