Notices by M.S. Bellows, Jr. (msbellows@c.im)

@deborahelizabeth.bsky.social
The saddest thing that ever happened to my patriotic straight white privileged male self is realizing that not only doesn't my country stand for democracy, human rights, equality under the law, and decency, but for a huge number of people it never did.

@LPerry2 @MissConstrue @darwinwoodka @mcnado @ai6yr Yeah, I still believe that the lesser of two evils = less evil. Don't you wish all the people that sat out the last election because they didn't like Harris had instead voted for less evil? My rule remains: vote your principles in the primary, vote party in the general election.

@PhoenixSerenity @LPerry2 @MissConstrue @darwinwoodka @mcnado @ai6yr Except I don't care whether the Dems DESERVE to lose or win. The Democratic Party doesn't matter. What matters is the people whose lives are upended by this administration. Not voting for the Democrats in that election meant not voting for trans people, queer people, immigrants, children. And that's not okay. Because what the Democrats deserve isn't what matters; it's what the PEOPLE deserve that matters. (And why aren't people equally angry at the DSA and Greens for their inexcusable ineptitude in putting together a decent competitive party standing for better values?)

@chunshek @ai6yr @SunnJax @HumToTable For $10k? I'll take one!

@GrimmReality Initially I honestly thought this was a #monsterdon comment about the giant octopus destroying San Francisco in a bad horror film and was about to make an Elon Musk joke.

@steter Any new info?

@paleofuture.bsky.social Dammit, people. We can do better. Let's get to 1,000%!

@ferrata @skinnylatte Add cream cheese.

@skinnylatte Have you gotten into all the different moles yet?

I'd estimate as many as 1,500 people turned out in the mostly-conservative Portland suburb of Tigard, and hundreds or even thousands of cars honked or gave a thumbs-up compared to only half a dozen birds or thumbs-down that I saw.

In Tigard. That's a BFD. At least half the Teslas that drove by gave us honks and waves (including the one driven by two women in hijab). #HandsOff

1/2 Today's inspiration: Louis Gossett Jr. and Isaac Hayes walk into a Nazi bar... #TheRockfordFiles

Wow. The “Luigi Mangione Access to Health Care Act":
https://sfist.com/2025/03/28/latest-proposed-california-ballot-measure-named-after-luigi-mangione/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

"Major League Baseball ha[s] altered what was once its 'Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion' webpage, removing that title, and scrubbing the word "diversity" from it... [and] has almost completely eliminated the webpage for its Diversity Pipeline Program. And it's not even clear if the program itself exists any longer."

This wouldn't be a bad time for all offended ballplayers to strike. Let's see how well the owners do without minority and minority-ally players.

^@anirvan

So hey, if anyone hasn't blocked and reported enough people today and feels like flushing an assferret, may I suggest you do so to
@ chanon @noauthority.social ?

Dear #Canada:
I'm so fucking sorry. Really.
Your friend,
Scott
P.S.: Please boycott us massively, and also get your defenses buffed. We need you to win this thing no matter how much it hurts us along the way.

The weather forecast for Western Oregon calls for extremely unusual and heavy thunderstorms, with heavy intermittent downpours.

Also, the hose bib in our front yard has been broken for a year so I haven't washed our cars in forever.

So I just ran out and soaped them up, trusting the rain will rinse them off for me shortly. Fingers crossed!

(And when I say I haven't washed the cars in a long time, I mean I haven't washed the cars in GEOLOGIC time.)

Also, ping @skinnylatte .

Dammit, Audubon, STOP COMPLYING IN ADVANCE!

@Remittancegirl @CartyBoston Okay, but putting ketchup on eggs remains a dealbreaker no matter how allied we are on policy.