Oliver Willis

owillis.bsky.social

23 October 2026 03:28

I don’t believe in mindlessly shitting on everything Democrats do. But they haven’t done enough and they haven’t tried hard enough and the goddamn complacency is fucking killing us. It’s killing us. It’s god damned killing us.

Oliver Willis

owillis.bsky.social

23 October 2026 03:28

Change your mindset from “you should be happy because it could be worse” to “demand more because more is absolutely fucking possible.” If I’ve learned nothing from over 25 years of writing about politics, I have learned this.

Oliver Willis

owillis.bsky.social

23 October 2026 03:28

I think Clinton, Obama and Biden did good things when they had Democratic majorities but if you compare it to what Reagan, Bush and Trump have done you can comprehend why we need to change this culture where we simply dont demand enough of the Democratic Party.

Andrea James

jokestress.bsky.social

23 October 2026 03:26

As an example of how vital Internet Archive is, I spent several hours today using it to recreate the Yale Integrity Project on trans healthcare. The original url & contents were scrubbed & replaced with a page listing just a few of the original publications. www.transgendermap.com/issues/group...

Movies Silently

moviessilently.bsky.social

23 October 2026 02:16

People tend to associate stage melodrama and melodrama tropes with the silent era but the movies were spoofing these cliches from the start. AND THE VILLAIN STILL PURSUED HER (1906) is a wonderfully weird and surreal sendup of the old stage warhorses.