skryptical

@skryptical.bsky.social

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Mad about it.

A shitpost graphic signed by https://velvetshark.com/ with 18 circular logos of varying complexity, one of the splat-asterisk type being very similar to Kurt Vonnegut Jr's illustration about 60 years ago. Illustration is dated 2025 April 10.
wint @dril twitter post 10 Nov 2011 im not owned! im not owned!!", i continue to insist as i slowly shrink and transform into a corn cob 10.6k retweets 28.1k likes
Genocidal speech posted on X by the national security minister of Israel June 19 threatening Lebanon. Not worth repeating.
New statement from Scott Pelley: There has never been anything in America like 60 Minutes. The Sunday tradition is the most successful program of any kind in history. For more than a decade, its innovative growth on every major online platform has extended its reach to countless millions around the world. This spring, at the end of our 58thseason, 60 Minutes grew rapidly with an unheard-of 9% jump in viewers on CBS. "60" has been the number-one program in America for decades because our beloved audience finds integrity, quality, and humanity in our stories. When stewardship of the program passed to my colleagues and me, our responsibility was to expand energetically into a new age of media technology while preserving the values our audience expects. Now, the new owner of our network is casting this legend aside, apparently to curry a moment of favor with the Trump administration. The waste is heartbreaking. Last month, 60 Minutes lost its DNA when our entire senior leadership and two of our best on-air correspondents were cruelly fired without cause. Good people were silenced because they stood up for our audience. They stood for fairness against the forces of political bias; they stood for professionalism against chaos.
Chonky cat in siloutte profile on a flag with a lime green background. He's stomping on a snake. Text: "Oh Lawd He Treadin'"
A study published in Nature Communications this month by researchers in California went further. They compared dementia rates among nearly 66,000 people who received the Shingrix vaccine and over 260,000 unvaccinated matched controls. The researchers found that the vaccinated group had a 51 percent lower risk of dementia compared to the unvaccinated controls.
Screenshot of editor showing how the small black lozenges standing in for buttons disappear visually on black images. These flat ovals appear on the opposite side of the images from the explanation of why you want to add alt text descriptions, ensuring that people are looking in the wrong place for the action. More-familiar edit icons edit the photos instead, making it easy for people to struggle to find the alt-text editor entry point. Instead, Bluesky could simply display text fields or put an <add description> button above the informational text that opens the editor. Extra points for making that an edit-all so you don't have to pogo-stick in and out of editors for each photo in a post. A more elegant fix would be to use the edit pencil icon to lead to a combined ALT editor and photo editor, eliminating the HTML jargony and unfamilar (+ ALT) entirely.
Microsoft brings Xbox back, scraps Microsoft Gaming THEVERGE.COM • 3 SHARES • 14 SOURCES Microsoft offers voluntary retirement to long-serving employees THEVERGE.COM • 2 SHARES • 11 SOURCES Microsoft launches "vibe working" in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint THEVERGE.COM • 0 SHARES • 15 SOURCES Ex-Microsoft engineer blames Azure problems on talent exodus THEREGISTER.COM • 1 SHARES • 12 SOURCES
The disgusting "blasphemous" Trump Jesus image with suggested follows below, showing Robert Reich looking more like the guy on the deathbed than Jon Stewart.
Tim Pool @Timcast@birdsite After reading all the replies to my tweets I have come to realize that I have been wrong about everything Trump is demonic and a Mad King, I should have seen it sooner. Israel has been controlling everything the whole time, I was blind. I apologize and hope that moving forward you will still consider reposting me on X and buying my coffee 7:39 AM • 10 Apr 26 • 201K Views
MTN MeidasTouch@meidastouch@threads.net posted image of Pope in white clothing smirking into the camera, hands folded in front of his groin, with a large crucifix around his neck and a tiny white cap. 4/7/26, 12:21 PM "TRULY UNACCEPTABLE": Pope Leo XIV just delivered one of the clearest moral rebukes yet of Trump's dangerous and psychotic war rhetoric. And it couldn't come at a more important time. "Today as we all know there was this threat against all the people of Iran. This is truly unacceptable," the Pope said, warning that attacks on civilian infrastructure violate international law."
illustration of a tardigrade playing a microscopic violin.
A control panel showing eyebrow, moustache & beard, and lip color studio effects that you can apply to your video image.
Quit ChatGPT: right now! Your subscription is bankrolling authoritarianism | Rutger Bregman by Rutger Bregman • in 4 hours As a historian, l've studied the major consumer boycotts of history. We can take down ChatGPT and send a powerful signal to Silicon Valley, says author and historian Rutger Bregman
Screenshot of Twitter bio of Jonathan Karl @jonkarl ABC News Chief Washington Correspondent. Author of "RETRIBUTION: Donald Trump and the Campaign that Changed America" - Order here: bit.ly/43PjGNN Washington, DC jonathankarl.com Joined August 2008 Tweets 21,227 Following 1,196 Followers 310,422 Likes 5,869 Post: March 2: 'Pres Trump told me tonight the US had identified possible candidates to take over Iran, but they were killed in the initial attack. "The attack was so successful it knocked out most of the candidates," Trump told me. "It's not going to be anybody that we were thinking of because they are all dead. Second or third place is dead."' March 2: 'In another phone call this evening, President Trump told me this about the death of Ayatollah Khamenei: "I got him before he got me. They tried twice. Well I got him first." That’s a reference to what US intelligence believes was a plot to kill Trump in 2024.' RT @Khamenei_fa (Feb 28) Image: Illustration of bombs falling and a shadowy figure with a glowing sword, its tip like a snake's tongue. Words in Persian.
Massive Attack side-eye.
Pink panel truck as billboard with Melania movie poster image says "Make f*ck get green card"
When Fascism came to America, no one crawled on their bellies and kissed the boot more willingly than those who once defiantly shouted "Don't Tread On Me" @stonekettle.bsky.social [White men doing just that.]
Two other elite scions with the same uncanny, foreheady, vaguely vampirish look as the accused.
A container ship seen sideways with containers shown on end. The square ends spell rEnEE in red containers surrounded by green containers with 6 blue ones on the bottom where they ran out of green.
K. Chen@tznkai.bsky.social "parents linked arms to block the school entrance" QP: Brendan Nyhan •@brendannyhan.bsky.social • A teacher literally shaking as she describes the threat from her own government to the children she teaches www.theatlantic.com/ politics/202... Bauer, who is 49, struggled to maintain her composure as she described the day early this month when ICE showed up in force outside her school. Agent had been circling the school since December, seemingly learning its routines, and they arrested some parents just before the winter break. But this time, agents leapt out in riot gear and began entering the apartments just across from the school, where many students live. "We had to lock down and keep the kids inside, and parents linked arms to block the school entrance," Bauer said. "We had a student who was looking out the window and saw them break into his apartment and just sobbed, 'That's my house. That's my home.' And we shut the blinds, but it was too late." Bauer has been a teacher for 25 years, a period that has included a rise of school shootings and the drills that have become common to protect against them. "But I never thought it would be our own government we had to protect the kids from," she told me. "We kept them physically safe, but they saw what happened." As she spoke, Bauer's hands were trembling. She held them up and smiled weakly. "I don't think I've stopped shaking for two weeks," she said.
Image of tabular data about ICE approval by various slices of young US voters. Strongly disapprove runs from 41%-72%. See quoted skeet for NYTimes link to more accessible data from this poll.
Pie chart: US Presidential 2024 Voter Distribution. Non-voter 93,440,400 (38.1%); Trump 75,888,881 (31.0%); Harris 72,876,600 (29.8%); Third Party 2,614,009 (1.1%); Notes: Data from 11/14/24 Estimated 97.1% of the total vote counted 6 of the 7 swing states had increased voter turnout. Sources: Axios, Cook Political Report
Bluesky suggests "similar accounts" but it looks like it's matching avatar cartoony drawing styles.
Cartoon: "I just hate to do this. I feel bullied, really," said a man shaving his own head while getting a swastika tattoo from another man with nazi tats - Bors thenib.com
A line graph with 3 lines on it: Gartner Group Hype Cycle curve, Cumulative Consumer Adoption S-Curve and artistic use. The X-axis is not labeled, but it represents the relative number of users. Y-axis is time. The timeline is broken into 3 phases, first NEW MEDIAL PHASE (artists using technologies, companies discussing potentials), CONSUMER COMMODITY PHASE (engineering maturation of hardware and business model or content, artists less interested unless work dealing with the "everyday"), and the ZOMBIE PHASE (mainstream obsolescence, mature technologies available at no cost, reuse by counterculture)
2014 Tweet from @ActualPerson084 with a photo of two shopping carts outdoors with a little trash in them and crows sitting on top. "A stone clearing. Crows pick clean the bones of strange herd animals."
A photo appearing to show Donald Trump groping Bill Clinton when they were both a bit younger. Both are red-faced and laughing for the photographer. Post by Sean II @sdhaeus2.bsky.social Nov 14 2025: I didn't need ten to find out that this wasn't just a joke.
A comically lumpy green and brown frog perching on someone's fingertip
President Trump Job Approval graph shows him going negative in the polls in March and continuing downward. Disapproval graph shows a line of mountains ascending to the right with a near-vertical jump to 55% in early November. Approval is at 41%, down 15 points from January.
Autodeleted post: elias isquith •@eliasisquith.blog•4h one of the silliest things ppl do is mock elon for the twitter purchase just because he wanted out and it's financially a loser. he bought so much more than a company. it's been a total unqualified W for his theory of the downstream effects of the algo and therefore the power of whoever owns it.
One of the posters DHS showed is this one (theirs is cropped to just the family). Original poster shows a white family standing outdoors under a flag with the hand of Uncle Sam lifting the fabric edge. "Back Your Future with U.S. Savings Bonds." According to a poster on Mastodon, it was originally a 1942 war bonds Poster to get people to prop up the country in the fight against fascism.
Cartoon by Cavan 2020: Psychiatrist (chair), patient (couch). Patient is wearing police riot gear. Dr says, "Tell me, is antifa in the room right now?"
Screenshot showing Nazi Barbie's view from the PDX ICE HQ roof for her photo op. Below are a "dozen reporters and a guy in a chicken suit." as reported in the independent.uk
The now-defunct app was called "the shitty people follower tracker"
A diagram with 6 human figures showing their heights and the average (mean) of their heights, with a colored band showing the variation in heights for the group. Heights vary by 11.5cm above and below the average line, so 11.5 is the standard deviation.