What are we expected to do, how are we expected to act, when DHS sub-agencies show up at purple county polling stations this November? How are we to react as people are threatened with weapons and yanked out of voting lines?

If you are a resident of California, the state now has a portal where you can demand deletion of your personal data from 500+ registered data brokers with a single request form, for free.

consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov

The Capitol switchboard is (202) 224-3121. More or less effective than posting into the void? Hard to say, but -- in 2026 you're gonna have to work on manifesting your poster's rage in more direct, concrete, and physical ways. Calling your senator is a low stakes way to exercise that muscle group.

Welcome to the Public Domain, THE MALTESE FALCON (1930) 🦅💎

🕵️ Sam Spade is on the Case of the Disappearing Copyright as The Maltese Falcon novel joins the public domain.

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Weather dot com and Accuweather and all them guys are leaving billions on the table by not allowing comments on the weather. Threads on discreet days and maybe even hours. Comment on a sunny day in Milwaukee on March 17 1997: "whos still here in 2025?" Full on forum fights about barometric pressure.

around the corner from the enshittification department

the core mistake of the Q collaborative fiction is that its version of elite depravity is sieved through the operatic garment-rending conceits of end-times surrealism, whereas 2025 elite depravity is just a mildly annoying polycule comprising two failchildren and a wealthy meatloaf-complected lech

hey what if we took the first stanza of yeats the second coming and made it the government

me about to start up the natsec group chat

(Of course Mr. Peck worked for the EPA and would have already been RIFed, leaving Peter Venkman with no natural predators)

Walter Peck on shutting down the containment grid: “Really, I want to turn it off and let the courts figure out how they want to run a federal agency.” www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

18f.org

All this because in 2005 a puppet said the word "dog" in a kind of funny way.

Hey I'm doing a startup for polymarket-style prop betting on bluesky posts. Strategic Bitcoin Reserve meets detached engagement farming meets... Uber, I guess. Venmo open for seed funding.

welcome to bluesky. posts about baseball are not allowed here.

you might describe a "brave new world" as a place where everything is super all the time

Last time I was in upstate NY I got to hear Mandy Patinkin confirm the story that Samuel Beckett was Andre the Giant's babysitter, a story that I always assumed was apocryphal. Then ten million mosquitoes ate me alive. That's my first post on "the blue".