There is not one thing on this historically accurate list (which Laurence Britt created in 2001 after studying seven fascist regimes) that Trump and his political and media acolytes and enablers have not done, condoned, or expressed support for. We’re here, folks. All the red lights are flashing.

Just a heads up, looks like some Gamergate shitstirrers are starting to infest this place so block early and block often

How I arrived at BlueSky

The more I talk about the election the more shocked I am by how many people memory holed 2016-2020. Every day was a new horror. New emergencies popped up constantly. I fundamentally don’t understand how people seemingly forgot about all of it.

They make a note that this trend started before the pandemic, and OF COURSE IT DID. We have literally systematically eliminated gathering places that aren't bars. So anyone under 21 or who doesn't/can't drink is just shit out of luck when it comes to congregation.

MNmargarita.bsky.socialOct 7, 2024 12:12am

Have you seen the outside?? www.nytimes.com/2024/10/05/u...

A Nation of Homebodies

A recent study shows Americans are spending notably more time at home, a trend that started long before the pandemic.

reminder that conservatives *like* making public schools unpleasant and unsafe because they want to destroy public education entirely, replacing it with homeschooling, religious schools, private academies for the rich, and a prison-esque rump of public schools to discipline the poor into servitude

PLphillewis.bsky.socialOct 3, 2024 3:29pm

A school district in Pennsylvania approved nearly $9,000 ‘to cut windows into the ‘gender-identity’ student bathrooms so passerby can look inside’

Bathrooms with a view: Cutting windows into student restrooms is a new level of weird

These adults want to make it easier for other people to watch your children while they’re in the bathroom. It’s absolutely mind-boggling.

Is it ethical? No. But does it produce reliable results? Also no. Ahh! But does it make an obscene profit? Again, absolutely not.

NKnathankalmoe.bsky.socialSep 28, 2024 3:20am

Friends, I can promise you zero return on your investment, which is $5B better than these clowns. www.cnbc.com/2024/09/27/o...

OpenAI sees roughly $5 billion loss this year on $3.7 billion in revenue

CNBC has confirmed that OpenAI expects about $5 billion in losses on $3.7 billion in revenue this year — figures first reported by The New York Times.

Post a meme made by you

One thing that micro-transactions in video games have proven irrefutably is that men also want to spend a bunch of money on little outfits, and society had failed them in finding a way to express it.

Countless studies: Social media makes people feel isolated and alone. Social media companies: What if we polluted the environment so that you talk to fewer real people and only talked to chat bots?

TWwashingtonpost.comSep 25, 2024 5:45pm

Its chatbot, Meta AI, will respond to queries in a menu of famous voices, including Awkwafina, Keegan Michael Key and Kristen Bell, the social media giant announced Wednesday at its annual developers conference.

Meta’s answer to ChatGPT is AI that sounds like John Cena or Judi Dench

Meta is adding celebrity voices to it conversational chatbot, part of a bet that users will connect with AI tools that surprise, delight and entertain.