gone ➡️ Bluesky 🦋

Astrophysics, TV, film, otters, cats, and synthpop. Trans rights are human rights 🏳️‍⚧️. He/him. No longer here.

[gone ➡️ Bluesky 🦋 @Vanderdecken]

@NVIDIAGeForceUK @FalconNW GeForce PC Week #GeForceSummer

[gone ➡️ Bluesky 🦋 @Vanderdecken]

@NVIDIAGeForceUK GeForce PC Week #GeForceSummer

[gone ➡️ Bluesky 🦋 @Vanderdecken]

@NVIDIAGeForceUK @ZOTAC #GeForceSummer Darktide with full RT and G-Sync!

[gone ➡️ Bluesky 🦋 @Vanderdecken]

Goodbye forever, you factory reject dildos.

[gone ➡️ Bluesky 🦋 @Vanderdecken]

And with that I'm done with Twitter.

[onion person @CantEverDie]

as someone who has worked in FDA regulated industries, this is going to be incredibly bad. this administration is going to completely erode entire functions of the government, probably forever

[Michael A. Cohen (NOT TRUMP’S FORMER FIXER) @speechboy71]

The flip side is that Trump ran an awful campaign. He gave a terrible RNC speech, his VP was deeply unpopular, he lost the debate, he had no ground game to speak of, he offended key demographic groups ... and none of it mattered.

[Tamoor Hussain @tamoorh]

“The forest was shrinking but the trees kept voting for the axe, for the axe was clever and convinced the trees that because his handle was made of wood he was one of them.”

[James Raftery 🇮🇪🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ :flag-you-hate: @james_raftery]

The world looking at the USA #USAElection2024

[alex @aloomf]

the only thing america hates more than a rapist is a woman

[Jill Twiss @jilltwiss]

I have said this before, but it's weird when you realize that what you thought was rock bottom was actually somewhere around rock middle

[Machine Pun Kelly 🇺🇦 @KellyScaletta]

He was the worst President in history. And when he got voted out, he tried to stage a coup. Then he stole national secrets and sold the ones he didn't store in the bathroom.

He was convicted of fraud, found liable of sexual assault and convicted of 34 felonies. He is half a billion dollars in debt, owned by God only knows who, and the biggest national security risk the nation has ever had.

But at least he's not a Black woman.

[@eliothiggins.bsky.social @EliotHiggins]

Musk predicts a massive victory for Kamala Harris while calling half of Trump supporters idiots.

[Jessica Valenti @JessicaValenti]

Call me crazy but maybe decrying that gov't overreach killed a squirrel while ignoring women killed by abortion bans isn't a terrific move for your double digit gender gap

https://t.co/l0zOsXnpnG

[Parody Nigel Farage @Parody_PM]

Priti Patel has been made Shadow Foreign Secretary, which is a great excuse to remember that time Ian Hislop hilariously destroyed her argument in favour of the death penalty.

[Nick Knudsen 🇺🇸 @NickKnudsenUS]

I have a confession and a plea to folks who are flirting with voting Jill Stein.

When I was a 20 year old college student in 2000, I voted for Ralph Nader instead of Al Gore. I loved the progressive message Nader offered, and Bush and Gore seemed kinda the same to someone who was paying peripheral attention.

I've regretted that vote for my entire adult life.

Ultimately, George Bush won by a margin of 500+ votes in the state of Florida over Gore. And that was the ballgame. Ralph Nader peeled 97,000+ votes away from Gore. If only 600 of those 90,000 had voted for the major party candidate that more aligned with their values, things would have been very different.

When I was in my senior year of college, 9/11 happened. The country and western world rallied around Bush's resolute response to the traumatizing terror attacks. I was in NY at the time, and it was a terrifying moment for the nation.

But the consequences of Bush being in office at that moment were immense.

Bush's disdain for his dad's nemesis, Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, led him to invent a rationale to invade a country that literally had nothing to do with 9/11. End result? He killed hundreds of thousands of Iraqi people, thousands of American troops, and spent over a trillion dollars of taxpayer money in the process.

Beyond the completely immoral and indefensible Iraq War, Bush was a complete disaster as a president. His "No Child Left Behind" effort turned public schools into standardized testing centers. He tripled down on fossil fuels and ignored climate change. His tax cuts for the rich helped contribute to the 2008 economic downturn that led to the Great Recession.

He was a terrible president.

In an alternate reality, Al Gore would have been president in 2001 when terrorists attacked America. Would he have gone into Iraq? Absolutely not. Would he have ignored global warming? 100% no! Gore was perhaps the preeminent proponent of fighting climate change at that time. Would he have passed massive tax cuts for the wealthy? No way.

This is a sliding doors scenario. What would have happened? We can't be sure. But one thing is for sure: those votes for Ralph Nader (in Florida in particular) were EXCEPTIONALLY consequential for the lives of millions around the world. Gore would have offered a more forward-facing, environmentally conscious & peaceful presidency that wasn't so rooted in grievance and privilege.

My point is:

Either Kamala Harris or Donald Trump will win the election. That is a fact. You might feel the need to submit a "protest vote" as I did in 2000.

Just be ready to wear it when Donald Trump wins, strips away reproductive rights from all Americans, implements an economy-destroying tariff, dismantles the entire federal government, eliminates the Department of Education, prosecutes his perceived enemies, and devolves America into chaos.

There are no perfect choices. But rest assured, there are only two.

Trust me - I've been wearing my vote for a quarter century.

[Zack Bornstein @ZackBornstein]

until the day I die I will never understand why he was even still allowed to run after this

[Sacha Coward @sacha_coward]

When I was 16 I described myself as a 'normal' gay. I made a big deal out of it. I wanted everyone to know I was gay but not gaaaaaaaay.

You know why?
Because I was a child, insecure and naive and a bit thick!

Seeing gays in their 40s doing this?
The cringe goes so deep...

[Sacha Coward @sacha_coward]

This was one of the best things I've watched this year. INCREDIBLE. It deserves a sequel.

If you haven't already please watch the original.