usagibrian
@usagibrian.bsky.social
This place had great Tumblr energy.
No LGB without the T (and the QIA+).
With limited exceptions, I autoblock people with a "K" after their following count.
No LGB without the T (and the QIA+).
With limited exceptions, I autoblock people with a "K" after their following count.
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this guy is lib desantis - a complete loser who will 100% fizzle the moment he has to leave the protective reef of california politics for the wider ocean, and the only reason anyone's deluding themselves otherwise is cuz they're clinging to "I NEED A SAVIOR, ANY SAVIOR, AND I RECOGNIZE THAT NAME"
Ahh so he’s just openly admitting his absolutely abysmal and transphobic views on trans people in sports are just fully made without listening to any actual facts on the issues, just shit he’s made up based on fear mongering. Cool cool. But did you know he’s the best on trans? He said so!
December 15, 2025 at 4:56 AM
this guy is lib desantis - a complete loser who will 100% fizzle the moment he has to leave the protective reef of california politics for the wider ocean, and the only reason anyone's deluding themselves otherwise is cuz they're clinging to "I NEED A SAVIOR, ANY SAVIOR, AND I RECOGNIZE THAT NAME"
See also: Monetize your hobbies.
I grow more convinced every day that 80% plus of the "male loneliness epidemic" and cis straight guys feeling so put upon all the time is because they've all forgotten the joy of having a hobby. A real one. That you do because you enjoy it.
I grow more convinced every day that 80% plus of the "male loneliness epidemic" and cis straight guys feeling so put upon all the time is because they've all forgotten the joy of having a hobby. A real one. That you do because you enjoy it.
I think the fundamental gap here is that non-creative people think that creative people make things for the end product, when in fact it’s the act of creation and not the end point that makes it worthwhile.
I have grown to believe that excessive wealth does something to your brain that is analogous to a serious head injury
December 15, 2025 at 6:40 AM
See also: Monetize your hobbies.
I grow more convinced every day that 80% plus of the "male loneliness epidemic" and cis straight guys feeling so put upon all the time is because they've all forgotten the joy of having a hobby. A real one. That you do because you enjoy it.
I grow more convinced every day that 80% plus of the "male loneliness epidemic" and cis straight guys feeling so put upon all the time is because they've all forgotten the joy of having a hobby. A real one. That you do because you enjoy it.
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I think the fundamental gap here is that non-creative people think that creative people make things for the end product, when in fact it’s the act of creation and not the end point that makes it worthwhile.
I have grown to believe that excessive wealth does something to your brain that is analogous to a serious head injury
December 15, 2025 at 6:26 AM
I think the fundamental gap here is that non-creative people think that creative people make things for the end product, when in fact it’s the act of creation and not the end point that makes it worthwhile.
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To make art is to look within, something that no billionaire can bare to do
December 15, 2025 at 6:29 AM
To make art is to look within, something that no billionaire can bare to do
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Elon's little serfs are quite literally begging journalists to come back because every publicly available source of data shows people have fled the platform and young people won't use it.
They are literally begging regular people to come back. Don't do it! It is a website by and for actual Nazis!
They are literally begging regular people to come back. Don't do it! It is a website by and for actual Nazis!
December 15, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Elon's little serfs are quite literally begging journalists to come back because every publicly available source of data shows people have fled the platform and young people won't use it.
They are literally begging regular people to come back. Don't do it! It is a website by and for actual Nazis!
They are literally begging regular people to come back. Don't do it! It is a website by and for actual Nazis!
Calling it now. The word for 2026: Deskilling.
tesla owners admitting without shame they don’t know how to drive anymore
December 15, 2025 at 5:14 AM
Calling it now. The word for 2026: Deskilling.
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“If £1b were to suddenly appear in their bank account, would euthanasia still be necessary?
“If the answer is no, that's not euthanasia; it's social murder.”
“If the answer is no, that's not euthanasia; it's social murder.”
![Tweet by Nico Reznick, AT NicoReznick on 20 June 2025 reads:
“There is a simple test to see if someone should qualify for assisted dying:
If £1b were to suddenly appear in their bank account, would euthanasia still be necessary?
If the answer is no, that's not euthanasia; it's social murder.
[hashtag] AssistedDyingBill [hashtag] assistedsuicidebill”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:3ltsziuodekvpalwz7r6x44c/bafkreifb75ozlukb4tmji3stoy5rigxacp7obmzxfdaljpc4kns252e4uq@jpeg)
December 14, 2025 at 3:31 PM
“If £1b were to suddenly appear in their bank account, would euthanasia still be necessary?
“If the answer is no, that's not euthanasia; it's social murder.”
“If the answer is no, that's not euthanasia; it's social murder.”
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You guys really need to develop the capacity of simultaneously holding the truth that the colonialist occupation and genocide of Palestine is unacceptable AND violent antisemitism is real
Both are true
Both are true
December 14, 2025 at 8:09 PM
You guys really need to develop the capacity of simultaneously holding the truth that the colonialist occupation and genocide of Palestine is unacceptable AND violent antisemitism is real
Both are true
Both are true
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Zootopia 2 is the highest grossing Hollywood movie of the year & Kpop Demon Hunters was Netflix's most popular movie of all time, but fuck animators, am I right? I hate reading about how huge & beloved this stuff is while knowing how hard creators have it & how it still isn't broadly taken seriously
December 14, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Zootopia 2 is the highest grossing Hollywood movie of the year & Kpop Demon Hunters was Netflix's most popular movie of all time, but fuck animators, am I right? I hate reading about how huge & beloved this stuff is while knowing how hard creators have it & how it still isn't broadly taken seriously
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Update:
-I got Venmo to work!
-Then the checks arrived in the mail.
-Recipient duly trashed the checks, bc Venmo payments had been withdrawn from my account.
-Venmo locked his account for "suspicious activity" (new account getting paid too much I guess)
-Now he & I both don't have the money
-I got Venmo to work!
-Then the checks arrived in the mail.
-Recipient duly trashed the checks, bc Venmo payments had been withdrawn from my account.
-Venmo locked his account for "suspicious activity" (new account getting paid too much I guess)
-Now he & I both don't have the money
Today's Journey in Enshittification: I'm trying to pay a guy and NOTHING is working?
Sent the check through the mail: It didn't arrive.
Venmo: It worked! Once! Refuses a repeat performance with "technical error, try again later."
Setting up an ACH w my bank: "Technical error, try again later."
Sent the check through the mail: It didn't arrive.
Venmo: It worked! Once! Refuses a repeat performance with "technical error, try again later."
Setting up an ACH w my bank: "Technical error, try again later."
December 15, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Update:
-I got Venmo to work!
-Then the checks arrived in the mail.
-Recipient duly trashed the checks, bc Venmo payments had been withdrawn from my account.
-Venmo locked his account for "suspicious activity" (new account getting paid too much I guess)
-Now he & I both don't have the money
-I got Venmo to work!
-Then the checks arrived in the mail.
-Recipient duly trashed the checks, bc Venmo payments had been withdrawn from my account.
-Venmo locked his account for "suspicious activity" (new account getting paid too much I guess)
-Now he & I both don't have the money
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He can say the Sun Rises in the West, the Romanov's own Russia, and he never met Jeffery Epstein.
Doesn't change a thing.
He doesn't have the power.
www.axios.com/2025/12/12/t...
Doesn't change a thing.
He doesn't have the power.
www.axios.com/2025/12/12/t...
Trump says he's pardoned Tina Peters, but that may not save her from prison
Trump has no jurisdiction over state-level cases to offer the pardon.
www.axios.com
December 15, 2025 at 1:24 AM
He can say the Sun Rises in the West, the Romanov's own Russia, and he never met Jeffery Epstein.
Doesn't change a thing.
He doesn't have the power.
www.axios.com/2025/12/12/t...
Doesn't change a thing.
He doesn't have the power.
www.axios.com/2025/12/12/t...
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This does go a fair way to explain some of the startling traffic interactions I’ve had as both a driver and pedestrian in Berkeley.
tesla owners admitting without shame they don’t know how to drive anymore
December 15, 2025 at 2:11 AM
This does go a fair way to explain some of the startling traffic interactions I’ve had as both a driver and pedestrian in Berkeley.
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I just do not know why you’re all confused about why The Children aren’t alright. My 8 yr old thinks all the time about how he would save his classmates. Do you think that’s doing good and healthy things to developing brains because I think probably not!
"Weissman was in her dorm room at Brown when a friend called to warn her that a shooting was under way. Her initial feelings of panic soon turned to anger, she told NBC. “I’m angry that I thought I’d never have to deal with this again, and here I am eight years later,” Weissman told NBC News."
Two survivors of Brown University attack escaped other school shootings
Mia Tretta was shot in the abdomen in 2019 at a school near LA and Zoe Weissman witnessed a Florida shooting in 2018
www.theguardian.com
December 14, 2025 at 4:53 PM
I just do not know why you’re all confused about why The Children aren’t alright. My 8 yr old thinks all the time about how he would save his classmates. Do you think that’s doing good and healthy things to developing brains because I think probably not!
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Pro Tip: Instead of looking for an anime with a "90s aesthetic", just watch a 90s anime. HUGE time saver.
December 14, 2025 at 5:27 AM
Pro Tip: Instead of looking for an anime with a "90s aesthetic", just watch a 90s anime. HUGE time saver.
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It is almost certain that he has been paid more taxpayer money than every other living immigrant *combined*.
December 14, 2025 at 5:40 AM
It is almost certain that he has been paid more taxpayer money than every other living immigrant *combined*.
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Today I am once again making loads of new Bluesky friends by insisting on one of my most sincerely held beliefs that makes way too many people fucking furious: that teenagers are autonomous beings who are not their parents' property and who possess independent volition and interiority
December 14, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Today I am once again making loads of new Bluesky friends by insisting on one of my most sincerely held beliefs that makes way too many people fucking furious: that teenagers are autonomous beings who are not their parents' property and who possess independent volition and interiority
Sincerity.
Once you learn to fake that you've got it made.
They all need to be gone next year.
Once you learn to fake that you've got it made.
They all need to be gone next year.
In other news, scientists race to uncrack the mystery of why piss can’t be stapled to a wall
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Dems Struggle to Make Their Moderates Go Viral
Searching for a candidate who can be Mamdani in the streets and Manchin in the seats.
lnk.thebulwark.com
December 14, 2025 at 5:54 AM
Sincerity.
Once you learn to fake that you've got it made.
They all need to be gone next year.
Once you learn to fake that you've got it made.
They all need to be gone next year.
I'm reminded of two things I heard about after 1/6.
1) Congressional aides were building furniture barricades as they'd been drilled in school.
2) Every person under 25 responding to Congresspeople being upset by the events of the day with, "Boo-hoo. Welcome to the real world."
1) Congressional aides were building furniture barricades as they'd been drilled in school.
2) Every person under 25 responding to Congresspeople being upset by the events of the day with, "Boo-hoo. Welcome to the real world."
This was a dinner table conversation between my 2 kids in middle school--comparing notes on which room would be best to be in when the shooting started, how they would escape various rooms, etc. I've told them about my school, pre-Columbine/lockdown drills, and it's unfathomable to them.
I teach Sociology of Childhood, and when we talk about school shootings, my students tell me about how they also do these checks in their classes--noting locks on doors, thinking about how to escape and where to hide. I hate that they have to mind those risks while trying to learn.
December 14, 2025 at 4:28 AM
I'm reminded of two things I heard about after 1/6.
1) Congressional aides were building furniture barricades as they'd been drilled in school.
2) Every person under 25 responding to Congresspeople being upset by the events of the day with, "Boo-hoo. Welcome to the real world."
1) Congressional aides were building furniture barricades as they'd been drilled in school.
2) Every person under 25 responding to Congresspeople being upset by the events of the day with, "Boo-hoo. Welcome to the real world."
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global adoption of linux gets pushed back by 6 years every time a Linux Guy starts talking at me like max headroom
December 13, 2025 at 10:00 PM
global adoption of linux gets pushed back by 6 years every time a Linux Guy starts talking at me like max headroom
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hot tip for home renters and buyers alike! The electrical system and wiring: ask about it.
Ask about it a LOT.
Ask about it a LOT.
December 14, 2025 at 1:04 AM
hot tip for home renters and buyers alike! The electrical system and wiring: ask about it.
Ask about it a LOT.
Ask about it a LOT.
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*taps sign* www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?t...
December 11, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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If you're wondering what happened to Nate Silver, he was into the COVID lab leak theory and got negative feedback online, including from epidemiologists and virologists and (GASP!) posters, which added to his belief that The Woke are victimizing Nate Silver. It spiraled from there.
I'm not kidding.
I'm not kidding.
December 13, 2025 at 11:22 PM
If you're wondering what happened to Nate Silver, he was into the COVID lab leak theory and got negative feedback online, including from epidemiologists and virologists and (GASP!) posters, which added to his belief that The Woke are victimizing Nate Silver. It spiraled from there.
I'm not kidding.
I'm not kidding.
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epic will pay for every game that gets claimed this way so yes, you are still giving money to rowling (and by extension an international campaign against trans people) by claiming this
there are other, better franchises - let this one go
there are other, better franchises - let this one go
Epic Games partnered with The Game Awards to give away this week's free game on the Epic Games Store.
Hogwarts Legacy is now at the right price: $0
Epic Games partnered with The Game Awards to give away this week's free game on the Epic Games Store.
www.polygon.com
December 13, 2025 at 5:27 PM
epic will pay for every game that gets claimed this way so yes, you are still giving money to rowling (and by extension an international campaign against trans people) by claiming this
there are other, better franchises - let this one go
there are other, better franchises - let this one go
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There are already way too many cases of school employees abusing admin access to the webcam on kids' educational laptops to coerce them into creating sex abuse images under the excuse of "searching for contraband" or "evidence of cheating" or what have you. (Even one is too many, sigh.)
December 13, 2025 at 7:19 PM
There are already way too many cases of school employees abusing admin access to the webcam on kids' educational laptops to coerce them into creating sex abuse images under the excuse of "searching for contraband" or "evidence of cheating" or what have you. (Even one is too many, sigh.)