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Ed @notdred.bsky.social · 14m

Stands up to fascism and changes its gender at will, what better symbol for the moment

Ed @notdred.bsky.social · 8h

Jesus what a bad play, shitty way for the Phillies to go out. Dodgers have made some kind of deal with the devil I guess

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Ed @notdred.bsky.social · 9h

I guess the closest Dem analogy is Carter, who also left as an unpopular one termer. And they didn’t want anything to do with him for a long time

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 15h

these people are actually out of their fucking minds and im so sick of being told we need to pretend otherwise

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 17h

Besides linking Tylenol in pregnant women to autism, RFK Jr. now says circumcision is part of the reason why kids are autistic.

"Children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it's highly likely because they're given Tylenol. None of this is positive..."

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Ed @notdred.bsky.social · 1d

Ok surely you appreciate the irony here

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Ed @notdred.bsky.social · 1d

Holy shit it’s a combat exoskeleton

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Ed @notdred.bsky.social · 1d

That’s because fuck the dodgers

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Ed @notdred.bsky.social · 1d

Me watching the playoffs tonight

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Ed @notdred.bsky.social · 1d

Torn between hating the Yankees and not wanting all my Yankee fan friends to feel sad, good luck out there I just hope everybody has a good game

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Ed @notdred.bsky.social · 1d

Coldplay 2016 (because why even bother complaining about that)

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 1d

Horrific reporting from the AP on the Myanmar families watching their kids starve to death from Trump and Musk’s aid cuts apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

apnews.com

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Ed @notdred.bsky.social · 2d

My interpretation of this saying was always “perform your reproductive duty for your country” tbh

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Ed @notdred.bsky.social · 2d

*quietly* yeah me too

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Ed @notdred.bsky.social · 2d

Oh so you’re afraid you’ll stumble upon a faerie ring in the moonless darkened wood and the fey folk will imprison you for all eternity and wed you to a prancing faun???

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David S. Bernstein @dbernstein.bsky.social · 2d

LOL the Boston Globe gets its hands on Pete Hegseth’s 2013 Master’s thesis at Harvard KSG, in which he was a bit of a woke DEI lover.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/07/m...

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Ed @notdred.bsky.social · 3d

That gambling story is still hilarious, yeah man you had no idea because you’re such a warm trusting soul

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Ed @notdred.bsky.social · 3d

As a Mets fan I’m telling you it’s completely fine to boo players from other teams especially if they change teams for a huge paycheck

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Ed @notdred.bsky.social · 3d

Posting at a mod always carries a risk of banning, it’s been the iron law of posting since the dialup BBS era

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S(cary)W(rath) 👻 @toasterposey.art · 3d

Shohei Ohtani smiles and shakes Donald Trump’s hand at the Oval Office in front of a World Series trophy.

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Ed @notdred.bsky.social · 3d

This is probably how gonorrhea became resistant to cipro

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m @keptsimple.bsky.social · 3d

Zach Bryan wrote an anti ICE song. officially declaring Woke 2 in full effect.

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Ed @notdred.bsky.social · 3d

Man this is a bummer because despite his football ineptitude he generally seemed like a good guy and surely he’s got some bad stuff going on now

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Ed @notdred.bsky.social · 3d

He even ran for KY Senate once! Lmao

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Ed @notdred.bsky.social · 3d

Optimistically, time is against him too, right now it’s hard for a lot of people/orgs to imagine a 3.5 year fight against Trump but boldness is gonna grow as that gets closer to the end

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Ed @notdred.bsky.social · 3d

Wehraboo detected, these guys simply love to imagine that the Nazis had the better military and lost for other reasons that we’re not gonna mention

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