happy birthday to the pokémon game with probably the best out of context scene

Republicans continue to postpone the swearing-in of Adelita Grijalva, the newest Democrat elected to Congress, for a ninth day.

Her day one promise is to be the tie-breaking vote to release the Epstein files.

Chiitan has a dream.
I hope that one day the term LGBT will become a thing of the past.
I will continue to spread my message until we live in a world where everyone can love freely and is free from persecution and discrimination.
Until then, let's all support each other🤍

Anyway, evergreen

if you have democrat rep/senators i recommend calling and reminding them you will never vote for them again if they bend the knee on this. shutting down the government is the correct choice. that is the exact phrasing in my 3 calls and it took 5 min total

bsky.app/profile/pink...

happy first of pumpkin season!! i drew this in 2021, but it kinda makes me want to make a new version :)

Houndour 💀

currently the mood rn

if you needed another reason to stop using spotify:

Happiest of birthdays to our founding band members Isabella and David Bennett! 🥳🎂🎈

WHAT ARE YOU DOING MAN

The CEO of Bluesky is craven and evil. The only people that build these platforms are infected with the self-reproducing moral rot of capitalism. They have no sense of duty or stewardship. They see their monetary reward as a cleansing justification for their actions.

i hope all my reposts about the current "waffles" bullshit gets the point across well enough that if a single person who sees this is queerphobic, kindly fornicate with a railroad spike. to all my queer darlings you deserve a space as welcoming to you as our community has always been to everyone 💜🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

This entire thread explains one of the REAL reasons I'm so pissed about this whole Bluesky CEO Waffles mess.

I liked that meme. That was a good meme. The waffles tweet from years ago was a *good tweet*, and they are DRASTICALLY misusing it and turning it into a freakin' dogwhistle for their ingroup

So I'd like to show a demonstration of what this "waffles" thing is. Here's a conversation between *this site's* CEO, some random guy, and the cofounder of "Tangled", a GitHub clone built on top of Bluesky's protocol.

Please take a moment to really think, about the shape of this thoughtlessness.

"Hey so about Singal's TOS violati-"

"WaFfLeS! lol u did a waffles everyone take a shot"

"Look man I just wanna feel safe on this websit-"

"'OOOH, I wAnNa fEeL sAfE, OOOH, pLz HeLp mE mOdS!!' lol get a life and let me eat the $30 breakfast plate I ordered specifically to post and spite you."

watching waffles turn from a light-hearted joke about social media dynamics into a right-wing dog whistle in a few days on here has been wild.

it sucks to be one social media these days as someone who really likes waffles

So then we come to step three, Jesse Singal stepping in and making decontextualized "Waffles" references. There's no apparent reason to this except Singal understands site staff are using "waffles" as a meme to dismiss trans people, a thing Singal wants to do. "Waffles" are now a floating signifier.

eating waffles = good

saying “waffles” to taunt the transgender community on the website = bad

bringing this one back bc google/youtube is pulling Even More Shit