In a normal democracy, a total collapse of party leadership would result in an no-confidence vote and immediate snap elections to find leaders who can lead

it's pretty funny the sheer number of people who, seconds into the second trump administration, decided the time was ripe to go full fash instead of waiting a little bit to see if people were actually cool with nazis now. every major company was like, we need to court the burgeoning nazi demographic

ceej

@ceej.online

I think what happened is basically that a bunch of consultants misread the rightward swing among Gen Z last election as a permanent vibe shift which is why the weaseliest Dems sprinted to do podcasts with hitlerites instead of waiting three months for trump to fuck everything up like he always does

turns out milking 9/11 for 25 years to justify insane bigotry doesn’t really work anymore

ℳatt

@matttomic.bsky.social

Checking in on Rudy Giuliani, I see he's having an insane one

𝗪𝗵𝘆 𝗱𝗼𝗻'𝘁 𝗽𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲 𝗯𝗶𝗸𝗲 𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝘃𝗲𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗯𝗶𝗸𝗲 𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗲𝘀?
𝘞𝘦𝘵 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘷𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘴 𝘴𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘰𝘶𝘴 𝘢𝘴 𝘪𝘤𝘦 𝘢𝘴 𝘢 𝘴𝘭𝘪𝘱 𝘩𝘢𝘻𝘢𝘳𝘥 +🍁𝘩𝘪𝘥𝘦 𝘱𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘦𝘴 & 𝘥𝘦𝘣𝘳𝘪𝘴.

BikeLoud volunteers keep busy with our THREE bike-powered lane-cleaners but we can only do a fraction of what's needed.

@pbotinfo.bsky.social Please prioritize bike lanes!

1 million Portlanders by 2045 🌲🌧️🦫🚲🚇

@bradleybondy.com

It's the season of bike lanes being unusable, and drivers getting pissed off if you aren't using them.

someone invited people magazine to the kitchen and they brought their own knives

interior design where you're just randomly pressing buttons for yellow gold, white marble, and crystal chandelier to remind everyone you're very rich

AI companies: The future of humanoid robots is here

Humanoid robot:

I had set the wrong date range for my last vacation because all my OTHER calendars already have Monday start 😂

This was specifically for changing the calendar in the Gmail vacation message- seems the only way to update that was via locale, according to the Internet

I changed my gmail localization to UK so I could get weeks to start on Mondays, and got very confused when 'Trash' was renamed to 'Bin'.

If someone with a name I don't recognize is gonna randomly reach out (on bluesky, signal, discord, tumblr, carrier pigeon, whatever), they really have to do better than "hey" as a first message if they don't want to be immediately blocked and reported for spam

Check out Groucho here pissing himself while firing a grenade launcher in a priest's face in Oakland (source: www.reddit.com/r/Accidental...)

Scrolling through the Major Events Timeline at the bottom of Trump’s attempt to justify his destruction of the East Wing.

www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-wh...

"Man goes scorched earth on ICE agents kidnapping people in his hometown."

Source:
old.reddit.com/r/PublicFrea...

Some of these are pretty funny

bluesky needs an information security officer who can spot assign users a training course on social engineering attacks before they can resume posting

Tim Carmody

@tcarmody.bsky.social

What’s the closest you ever got to a “Nazi phase”?

Mine was my “Nietzsche is great, besides, he hated Christians, not Jews” moment in college

Either that or my Nation of Islam/Malcolm X fascination. Either way, specifically anti-Nazi!

I'm not sure you can get more marie antoinette than taking away food stamps before thanksgiving while you build a gold and marble dance hall so the other crooks can bring bribe you over a badly-cooked (argentinian) steak

Hey, come back here!

Sunday President diarrheas on the country, Monday President bulldozes White House, Tuesday President steals $230 million, Wednesday President... fucks a horse? Let's see if he fucks a horse.

Good lord police you're looking for someone who robbed an art museum the guy is RIGHT THERE

Carrie Tait

@carrietait.bsky.social

This photo accompanying a news story about the heist at the Louvre is perfection.

I've been playing Dying Light the Beast and it's a lot of fun EXCEPT every time the main character talks

He's the whiniest, most petulant, male protagonist I can remember; sounds like some people I've met in real life but this is my first time noticing it in a game

Also Alexander

in 20 years, the most extreme, reactionary, "return to tradition" masculinity influencer is going to adopt this uniform and you'll have to calmly explain that this was once considered non-traditional

TECH EXEC IN 2005: We believe the world is a better place when people are able to communicate online
THAT SAME TECH EXEC IN 2025: The greatest existential threat to humanity is the ability for women to talk back to me

I'm so proud of us 🥹
the city, the councilors, the community

I believe very strongly that the answer to federal fascism is municipalism: safeguarding our local sovereignty and protecting our communities 👏🏾

Thank you to everyone who came to testify in support of PPI today — it passed unanimously! 💖

Councilor Candace Avalos

@counciloravalos.bsky.social

This diagram shows the full framework of the Protect Portland Initiative — the coordinated framework structure our City will use to respond to threats of federal overreach and militarization.

Capitol Police called to investigate swastika in GOP congressional office

An American flag altered to include an image of a swastika was found in Rep. Dave Taylor’s office.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Capitol Police called to investigate swastika in GOP congressional office

An American flag altered to include an image of a swastika was found in Rep. Dave Taylor’s office.

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/15/capitol-police-investigating-swastika-in-gop-congressional-office-00609704

youtu.be/bw5zxdSObso?...

A Message From The Frog Resistance

YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

https://youtu.be/bw5zxdSObso?si=HryFwVNqqiIf1Gzh

I can't believe how much this headline reads like an Onion article

Mike is so very serious in this absurdity that it's obvious that Portland has a winning strategy in demonstrating how ridiculous these goobers are

www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

U.S. House Speaker calls Portland naked bike ride ‘most threatening thing I’ve seen yet’

"The most threatening thing I’ve seen yet was the naked bicyclers in Portland who were protesting...

https://www.oregonlive.com/portland/2025/10/us-house-speaker-calls-portland-naked-bike-ride-most-threatening-thing-ive-seen-yet.html

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

Today I saw a Tesla with the vanity plate "86 ELON" and,

1) I'm amazed that went through approval

and

2) There is at least one way simpler way I know of to not support Elon/Tesla (hint: it entirely consists of not buying a Tesla)

To be fair I saw it once in like 2003 and only remembered it existed after seeing a collection of screenshots with one explicitly saying "Frogtown"

Someone in one of my discords just reminded me that the movie Hell Comes to Frogtown exists and this movie must not be that well known/remembered because otherwise I'd be seeing memes about it everywhere, right?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell_Co...

Hell Comes to Frogtown - Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell_Comes_to_Frogtown

I like how the news will be like “while the President claiming Portland was ruled by a giant skeleton named Mr Nibbles is not strictly true, it does speak to the anxiety of many Americans”

This man is being Gorilla Channel'd with a rotating selection of AI slop riot porn by several known white supremacists who are secretly running the government.

Aaron Rupar

@atrupar.com

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."