RugbyRebels

Which Tyler wrote: ↑Thu Mar 27, 2025 8:04 am Apparently, this is how you go about arresting small female students who think that genocide is bad - if you're the secret police
https://bsky.app/profile/pplscitycounci ... ccrxc6nk2v

Secret police is right. The US is no longer a safe place.

morepork wrote: ↑Wed Mar 26, 2025 11:02 pm Good job USandA. You've got the idiots you voted for in charge, and how well that is going. Fuck you for shitting on a generation of social and scientific innovation in the course of a few months. Fuck you Troglodytes and may you reap what you sow. I've given everything I have to science, health, community, and camaraderie, but I'm all out of fucks to give. I hope the real Americans that were here before you will laugh at your pathetic mewlings in years to come and you do harm only to yourselves. Fuck right off.


Peace

We hear you buddy. Grim times.

It’s actually at the point I’m not comfortable with critique via social media. I’m getting all my brilliant diverse students to turn the wagons on their sides and defend their right to study and contribute to research from the righteous pilgrims bearing down on them. It’s totally FUBAR. These kids have contributed so much to disease treatments in at least two clinical contexts. Now they sleep with one eye open. Any biologist will tell you inbreeding is a recipe for an evolutionary dead end. The US has/had the most productively supportive R&D environment on the planet. Wave your self-righteous agenda at disease and let’s compare data you utter thundercunts. You want solutions to unmet need in health, my kids are on it. Fuck this pantomime Luddite shit. Way to destroy innovation. France should take back the Statue of Liberty and put it somewhere that lives the sentiment embodied within. I’m so fucked off right now.

morepork wrote: ↑Thu Mar 27, 2025 7:07 pmWave your self-righteous agenda at disease and let’s compare data you utter thundercunts.

Like this, you mean?

Funding to fight measles outbreak in Texas hit by DOGE cuts


We feel your pain, we really do.
As a legal immigrant to the States - do what you need to do to keep safe - which probably means scrubbing any and all of your social media accounts - and start panning an exit strategy.

Or say "fuck it" and take a stand, accepting that unpleasant things may well happen.

Which Tyler wrote: ↑Thu Mar 27, 2025 7:14 pm

morepork wrote: ↑Thu Mar 27, 2025 7:07 pmWave your self-righteous agenda at disease and let’s compare data you utter thundercunts.

Like this, you mean?

Funding to fight measles outbreak in Texas hit by DOGE cuts


We feel your pain, we really do.
As a legal immigrant to the States - do what you need to do to keep safe - which probably means scrubbing any and all of your social media accounts - and start panning an exit strategy.

Or say "fuck it" and take a stand, accepting that unpleasant things may well happen.

That’s a big call and one that Morepork needs to co wider carefully. This situation is disgraceful; the right to free speech should not be constrained in such a way.

Good luck to you Morepork.

Sandydragon wrote: ↑Fri Mar 28, 2025 12:46 pm That’s a big call and one that Morepork needs to consider carefully.

I've a uni friend I was actively trying to convince to move to Canada, or... somewhere, yesterday.
Immigrant with citizenship
Coloured
Trans woman
University lecturer

She's in Chicago, so it could be worse, but... USA just doesn't feel safe for her.

The kids are getting punched down on. I spend as much time on VISA support as I do research support.


Wolves in sheeps clothing patrol our streets. Massive shout out to advocacy on the ground here , which is off the scale.

Sandydragon wrote: ↑Fri Mar 28, 2025 12:46 pm

Which Tyler wrote: ↑Thu Mar 27, 2025 7:14 pm

morepork wrote: ↑Thu Mar 27, 2025 7:07 pmWave your self-righteous agenda at disease and let’s compare data you utter thundercunts.

Like this, you mean?

Funding to fight measles outbreak in Texas hit by DOGE cuts


We feel your pain, we really do.
As a legal immigrant to the States - do what you need to do to keep safe - which probably means scrubbing any and all of your social media accounts - and start panning an exit strategy.

Or say "fuck it" and take a stand, accepting that unpleasant things may well happen.

That’s a big call and one that Morepork needs to co wider carefully. This situation is disgraceful; the right to free speech should not be constrained in such a way.

Good luck to you Morepork.

It's not free speech, it's civil rights.

Is America great yet?

Meanwhile, in the least surprising news about this shitshow of a shit-ass shitministration yet, the fash oompaloompa isn't being told shit about shit, ensuring he knows shit about fuck.

https://newrepublic.com/post/193235/don ... -lithuania


Meanwhile meanwhile, former senator for North Dakota, Ray Holmberg, has been handed a 10 year sentence for being a massive nonce. Care to guess which party he's affiliated with?

Meanwhile meanwhile meanwhile

Which Tyler wrote: ↑Fri Mar 28, 2025 1:07 pm

Sandydragon wrote: ↑Fri Mar 28, 2025 12:46 pm That’s a big call and one that Morepork needs to consider carefully.

I've a uni friend I was actively trying to convince to move to Canada, or... somewhere, yesterday.
Immigrant with citizenship
Coloured
Trans woman
University lecturer

She's in Chicago, so it could be worse, but... USA just doesn't feel safe for her.

Yeah, you're probably right. Unfortunately.

cashead wrote: ↑Fri Mar 28, 2025 9:34 pm Is America great yet?

Meanwhile, in the least surprising news about this shitshow of a shit-ass shitministration yet, the fash oompaloompa isn't being told shit about shit, ensuring he knows shit about fuck.

https://newrepublic.com/post/193235/don ... -lithuania


Meanwhile meanwhile, former senator for North Dakota, Ray Holmberg, has been handed a 10 year sentence for being a massive nonce. Care to guess which party he's affiliated with?

Meanwhile meanwhile meanwhile

Trump's apparent ignorance of important events might just be him feigning ignorance in order to avoid difficult questions. His initial reaction to the Signal chat was surely this - as it was all over the news and Trump loves his news.

Child labour, yay!

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... hild-labor

I hope the newly sworn-in Greenland government are decent and strong people, because I can see a lot of bribes and/or threats coming their way.

Son of Mathonwy wrote: ↑Sat Mar 29, 2025 12:01 pm Child labour, yay!

Well someone's got to do the shit-work the immigrants did before being kicked out or pushed into hiding

Son of Mathonwy wrote: ↑Sat Mar 29, 2025 12:02 pm I hope the newly sworn-in Greenland government are decent and strong people, because I can see a lot more bribes and/or threats coming their way.

FTFY

cashead wrote: ↑Fri Mar 28, 2025 9:34 pm Is America great yet?

Meanwhile, in the least surprising news about this shitshow of a shit-ass shitministration yet, the fash oompaloompa isn't being told shit about shit, ensuring he knows shit about fuck.

https://newrepublic.com/post/193235/don ... -lithuania


Meanwhile meanwhile, former senator for North Dakota, Ray Holmberg, has been handed a 10 year sentence for being a massive nonce. Care to guess which party he's affiliated with?

Meanwhile meanwhile meanwhile

Have Nact killed the treaty of Waitangi yet? Smaller bully pulpit, but smells the same.

morepork wrote: ↑Sun Mar 30, 2025 8:45 am

cashead wrote: ↑Fri Mar 28, 2025 9:34 pm Is America great yet?

Meanwhile, in the least surprising news about this shitshow of a shit-ass shitministration yet, the fash oompaloompa isn't being told shit about shit, ensuring he knows shit about fuck.

https://newrepublic.com/post/193235/don ... -lithuania


Meanwhile meanwhile, former senator for North Dakota, Ray Holmberg, has been handed a 10 year sentence for being a massive nonce. Care to guess which party he's affiliated with?

Meanwhile meanwhile meanwhile

Have Nact killed the treaty of Waitangi yet? Smaller bully pulpit, but smells the same.

It's set to die at second reading, but Maori are fucking pissed that it even got to the first fucking reading to begin with. The three-headed coalition of chaos is on track to be voted out next year as well, so there's that silver lining.

Virginia Guiffre in critical or terminal condition after collision. She worked at Mar-A-Lago before coming to the attention of Epstein and Maxwell.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... nce-andrew

It seems slightly crazy to us in the UK but this record-breaking 25 hour senate speech is at least a visible sign of resistance, and hopefully an inspirational one:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... eech-trump

Slightly crazy? Even with those big pauses I can’t even comprehend it.

It’s seriously saying he stood there and spoke for a solid day? Did he take breaks? Why are they applauding the achievement in this way? Was he just pissing and shitting in his pants the whole time?

It certainly shows some incredible determination, but who is this effort actually reaching? I don’t get this at all.

Mikey Brown wrote: ↑Wed Apr 02, 2025 9:43 am Slightly crazy? Even with those big pauses I can’t even comprehend it.

It’s seriously saying he stood there and spoke for a solid day? Did he take breaks? Why are they applauding the achievement in this way? Was he just pissing and shitting in his pants the whole time?

It certainly shows some incredible determination, but who is this effort actually reaching? I don’t get this at all.

American politics...this is what's called a filibuster, and it's basically just talking so long that the bill cannot be passed. It's appalling. But then again, most of American politics is appalling, so...

Stom wrote: ↑Wed Apr 02, 2025 9:49 am

Mikey Brown wrote: ↑Wed Apr 02, 2025 9:43 am Slightly crazy? Even with those big pauses I can’t even comprehend it.

It’s seriously saying he stood there and spoke for a solid day? Did he take breaks? Why are they applauding the achievement in this way? Was he just pissing and shitting in his pants the whole time?

It certainly shows some incredible determination, but who is this effort actually reaching? I don’t get this at all.

American politics...this is what's called a filibuster, and it's basically just talking so long that the bill cannot be passed. It's appalling. But then again, most of American politics is appalling, so...

I guess I hadn’t considered that would be done for anything approaching this sort of time. Like many things in the US, the scale of it just seems to completely out of sync with the world.

All the “checks and balances” just seem to lead to even more insane behaviour.

As I understand it, this wasn't a Filibuster as there is no bill involved. Hisintention is to let Democrats in the US knwo there are still folk willing to stand up for their views. But definitely insane means of generating media coverage.