Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

jfoy.bsky.social @jfoy.bsky.social · 16h

We could have effective mass transit, universal healthcare, living stipends for authors and scientists and artists, free school meals, beautifully maintained national parks, environmental cleanup, a functional press and public media, and an ambitious space program!

That choice is available to us!

Aidan Moher @aidanmoher.com · 19h

Authors shouldn’t need day jobs

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

3 9

jfoy.bsky.social @jfoy.bsky.social · 16h

Dear Diary. I moved to coastal Western Washington and it rains all the time, but the statues and wolves are Hawt and live by the book of Mormon.

21

jfoy.bsky.social @jfoy.bsky.social · 16h

I world absolutely watch this anime.

1 1

jfoy.bsky.social @jfoy.bsky.social · 19h

bsky.app/profile/jfoy...

Ewamore, Quoth the Raven @ewacat.bsky.social · 1d

i need a 'magneto was right' t-shirt but i can never find one satisfying enough

sexy ludovician @beardynoise.bsky.social · Aug 24

Not gay as in "I empathise with the plight of the X-men" but queer as in "Magneto was right"

jfoy.bsky.social @jfoy.bsky.social · 19h

What were your childhood headcanons that Just Made Sense?

Watching the 1980 production of 3-2-1 Contact in reruns, it was totally obvious that "the Workshop" set the hosts interacted in must in fact be the eponymous Children's Television Workshop.

(Also, that season had the best outro music.)

1 1

jfoy.bsky.social @jfoy.bsky.social · 21h

The world would be a better place with more use of the verb "hoik".

George The Station Cat @george-station-cat.bsky.social · 1d

That moment when you see the lint sticky roller being deployed and are more than aware you will hoiked off your comfy chair for defluffing purposes

1

Reposted

C. E. Aubin @ceaubin.bsky.social · 1d

What The Hell Is Going On, a thread:

I’ve seen some thinkpieces and posts about Portland protests that fail to understand the long-term hyperspecificity of Portland culture/humor, and frame it as a sort of shitposting meme-pilled ironic thing. Which is wrong.

So I’m gonna give you my breakdown.

39 590 1.7K

jfoy.bsky.social @jfoy.bsky.social · 22h

Oatmeal that's halfway to chocolate chip cookie dough. *nods* This is the way.

jfoy.bsky.social @jfoy.bsky.social · 2d

Maybe with the "To Cogitate and to Solve" shield on the front, and the back reading THE FOLLOWING IS A FIB, BUT IT'S SHORT

1 2 13

Reposted

Holodeck Four @holodeckfour.bsky.social · 2d

5 18 130

jfoy.bsky.social @jfoy.bsky.social · 2d

Seriously, the whole thread.

👻SAAAAAAAAHHHHHHvik Ford 🎃 @saavikford.bsky.social · 2d

You really should check out the whole thread…

Bevis Musson @bevismusson.bsky.social · 2d

Mr Sri Lanka. This is a rare case where I think the outfit would be better without the giant gold snakes around his head. Maybe add a cape, but I think the rest of the outfit (what little of it there is) is so great that he doesn't need the snakes.

1

Reposted

Melissa Ryan @melissaryan.bsky.social · 2d

I love what Portland is doing so much. Joy is resistance. Dancing animals are resistance. ✊🏻✊🏻✊🏻

Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com · 3d

PORTLAND, Ore. — A small group of federal agents in camouflage and face masks watched from atop the immigration processing center Thursday night as a unicorn, peacock, dinosaur and raccoon danced to Cher’s “If I Could Turn Back Time.” www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Costumed protesters in Portland defy description of the city as a 'war zone'

Dancing frogs, peacocks and unicorns outside the federal immigration building present a joyful contrast to the Trump administration's portrait of the Oregon city, they say.

www.nbcnews.com

22 60

jfoy.bsky.social @jfoy.bsky.social · 2d

"You expect me to go on Fox News and just put the truth in front of those human rabies cases?"

"No, Mr. Bond... I expect you to lie."

4 37

jfoy.bsky.social @jfoy.bsky.social · 2d

Rick Astley is ready when we are

1