Mastodawn

Mother Bones 5h ago

#Via Max Kennerly
@maxkennerly
June 29, 2025, 2:05 PM

"ICE *already* can't meet their detainment numbers without rounding up children, veterans, people born in the U.S., people with no criminal records, people at immigration hearings, plus academics and visitors with valid visas.

So who do they plan to detain with >10x the budget?

The answer is: you."

Christopher Kyba 🇨🇦🇪🇺3d ago

@knud No, it's a gradual thing. From what I understand, collisions are expected to start within about a decade. Starlink's maneuvering buys some time, but due to satellite failures and unpredictable drag events during solar outbursts, collisions are literally inevitable.

@planet4589.bsky.social also said on a panel discussion that he's increasingly seeing events in which trackable debris is appearing from a satellite which wasn't incapacitated. So presumably something quite small has hit it and knocked off bits that were big enough to track, but not big enough to destroy the satellite.

If you're interested in the topic, you'll also want to follow @sundogplanets and @ProfHughLewis

Tanya Janca | SheHacksPurple

2d ago

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captain acab

If you're looking for alternatives to "you guys" or "ladies and gentlemen" etc look no further

TheWholeTruthXX 🎨 ❤️ 🍁 🛡️3d ago

Reading the flood of news today about the new Auschwitzes and Buchenwalds being formed in the United States is horrifying me to my core.

Concentration camps are here, right next door to us now. Go read about the conditions at them. They are death camps, a few at first, then many.

Nothing can be normal again.

People don't seem to get this message but it's the single most important thing to know on this day.

There is no timeline where this ends well. This only ends in death, and more death.

Robert Stribley 3d ago

We need more depictions of ICE as an enemy force like this in popular culture to enable its speedy eradication. I hope the agency will become a shameful part of our past within my lifetime, but I'm not yet confident that will happen.

Andrea Junker

6d ago

Have you ever wondered why Germans didn’t do anything about Hitler? Well, the rest of the world is wondering exactly that about Americans and Trump.

Ben Gleason 6d ago

Here's a crowdsourced list from the #CrustianDaily of #ICE agents, which #google have been removing from search results. Just in case you're wondering who's behind the masks. (And remember to search with #DuckDuckGo instead, as they don't suppress stuff like this.) https://icelist.info/

Home - ICE List

The ICE List: Tracking Deportation Agents Across America Crowdsourced database of individuals involved in deportations, ICE operations, and associated abuses. The ICE List is an open journalistic project created by the Crustian Daily. Report an Agent What is the ICE List? The ICE List is a public, open-source effort to document the people responsible for […]

ICE List

Tim Bray 6d ago

If you add up the AI scrapers and the WordPress bug-probing bots, you probably get like 50% of all Web requests…

Highlands & Islands Greens 6d ago

Greenpeace knocking it out of the park 😁
https://www.greenpeace.org/international/press-release/75832/everyone-hates-elon-and-greenpeace-unfold-giant-banner-on-piazza-san-marco-ahead-of-bezos-wedding/

captain acab

If you're looking for alternatives to "you guys" or "ladies and gentlemen" etc look no further

Pinchy63 🇨🇦 ELBOWS UP!3d ago

@redsad
When I worked I used to use: “hello fellow fun seekers”.

Feral Aunt Nessie

@redsad I like - “hello fellow travelers” cause we’re all on a journey 🙄😳

Zalasur 🇺🇦3d ago

@redsad "Mother... has arrived!"

jonathankoren™3d ago

@zalasur @redsad

Every motherfucker in the house

Matilda Love 3d ago

@redsad tag yourself, i'm cheese bags

fellow mammals.

@redsad I've always been partial to "Hello friends!"

C.W. Williams 🇺🇦 🌊🇨🇦🦑3d ago

@redsad
"Ahoy, swabs!"

Moof! 🏳️‍🌈3d ago

@redsad shouldn’t it be “Guess what, parentf***er?” To be properly gender neutral?

esc key 3d ago

@moof @redsad gender isn’t sexual orientation

Moof! 🏳️‍🌈3d ago

@what @redsad but we are assuming the parent’s gender

esc key 3d ago

@moof @redsad no, we’re assuming the fucker’s sexual orientation

Miakoda 3d ago

@moof @redsad Since the person being addressed is the fucker of the mother, and a fucker can be anyone, it is a gender neutral greeting.

Moof! 🏳️‍🌈3d ago

@hellomiakoda @redsad yes, but that also assumes that the parent has a specific binary gender. Which is arguably impolite in this context

Miakoda 3d ago

@moof @redsad Fair point

Howard Chu @ Symas 2d ago

@moof @hellomiakoda @redsad every mammal on earth had one mother and one father, so that's really a rule, not an assumption.

Miakoda 2d ago

@hyc @moof @redsad Gender and sex are different things, and not all intersex persons are infertile.

Howard Chu @ Symas 2d ago

@hellomiakoda @moof @redsad even a fertile intersex person can only be either a mother or a father. They cannot be both. Every living mammal had a parent whose role was "mother". Thus the term "motherfucker" is all inclusive.

Miakoda 2d ago

@hyc @moof @redsad And times changed and we understand roles, sex, gender, etc are all nuanced things, and so the term, like many others, may change

Von Xylofon 2d ago

@moof @hellomiakoda @redsad Nobody specifically said it's their parent. The term merely assumes there is a mother (of unspecified gender) and that sex occurred.

esc key 3d ago

@redsad Foolish mortals… I could see me using that one. “Alright foolish mortals, listen up!”

Cassandrich 2d ago

@what @redsad Best of all it's Thiel-exclusive.

@redsad WORM!!

@redsad "Stay fresh, Cheese Bags!" 🤣️💀️

Sir Osis of Liver 🇨🇦 🇲🇽3d ago

@hellomiakoda @redsad

That one still makes me chuckle.

Have also used it at work to mixed reactions.

🙂

jonathankoren™3d ago

@hellomiakoda @redsad we do not refer to each other as “cheese bags” nearly enough, do we cheese bags?

n3wjack 2d ago

@hellomiakoda @redsad

Yesterday's Rose 3d ago

@redsad

"An Excellent Starter Pack"
[ 🎵 chime ]

#ashens #chefexcellence

Mark J. Blair 3d ago

@redsad Mashing up a couple recent threads involving our Deviant friend, how about “Pump on, grease buckets!”

Pixel Refresh 3d ago

@redsad "Greetings, humans" is my go to, human.

ceartas 3d ago

@redsad

Me, manning the local polling spot: “Greetings, Citizen/s!”

ROTOPE~1

@redsad @deviantollam

BenAveling 3d ago

@redsad may I ask for this, but in 3x3 dnd style LG through CE layout?

Draken BlackKnight 3d ago

@redsad
"You guys" is gender neutral.

Garret Polk (masked)3d ago

@draken @redsad I thought it was becoming gender neutral, but I was posed the question "How many guys have you slept with." I think it can be considered neutral under some very limited circumstances, but right not generally no, it's still dudes.

Draken BlackKnight 3d ago

@garretpolk @redsad
"Guy" refers to men/males. "You guys" is the gender neutral term.

Dave Pease ☑️3d ago

@draken @garretpolk @redsad I'd be careful with that assumption as it has not followed where I am. I know non-males who do not appreciate being lumped in to "guys" plural.

Jonah Gibberish 3d ago

@draken It's not. Guys/Gals is a gendered binary.

Sune Stolborg Vuorela 2d ago

@draken @redsad No it is not. If it was, then: "Which one of the guys from last night did you hook up with?" would also be perfectly fine to ask your straight male acquaintance who insists on "guys" being gender neutral.

Garret Polk (masked)3d ago

@redsad Attention Humans!

@saucerlost @redsad
Great alt text.

Thanks, Peeps. Theeps.

kali 3d ago

@redsad i would approve if from now on all #news hosts start their show with: "guess what, motherfuckers."

craignicol 3d ago

@redsad "oi you, fuck off" is gender neutral and has the advantage of not expecting a follow-up. And includes a pronoun, just to mess with them.

#linguistics #language #business #publicSpeaking

doboprobodyne 3d ago

@redsad
As gender neutral forms of address go, I have used "Esteemed colleagues, ..." with some modest success.

Full Metal Accountant 3d ago

@doboprobodyne @redsad
Steamed colleagues...

doboprobodyne 3d ago

@OrdRadical @redsad
🤣

sb arms & legs 3d ago

@redsad
I got tapped to introduce a comedian tonight at work, after seeing this post earlier. I have never been more tempted to just let loose with a "Guess what motherfuckers!? Here's a comedian!"

I chickened out and opted for "welcome everyone".

Dave bauer 3d ago

@sb @redsad hard to be less inclusive than "everyone"

gkrnours 3d ago

@redsad that's all, folks! is right there

qwazix 3d ago

@redsad I'm going with cheese bags

The Boxing Kangaroo 3d ago

@redsad just leaving this here..IYKYK...

marie 3d ago

@redsad High school teacher here: regularly refer to them as Cheese Curds (a play on cheese bags because…Canada) and “all my pretty chickens” which is how Macduff refers to his dead kids in Macbeth. Morbid, but only a handful get it even though we read the play, so 🤷🏼‍♀️.

Dave bauer 3d ago

@redsad Always surprised "Hello everyone" is never included in these! Although Guess what, is a pretty good one.

Rodolfo 3d ago

@redsad @RussSharek

I once heard an MC welcome our audience with “Ladies, gentlemen, and those who have transcended beyond the gender binary”.

On a related note, I’m really warming up to the idea of addressing my next group with “Hey, you fresh cheese bags!”

Russ Sharek 2d ago

@darkmirror @redsad

I have removed "Ladies and Gentleman" from my performing lexicon, except when actively lampooning normativity.

In the tail end of my L&G spouting days, we had a friend sitting in the front row of one of our shows.

I proudly took the mic and boomed...

"Ladies!"
"Gentleman!"
"..."
"Sean!"

The audience loved it, and it remained in the show for much of the run.

One night Sean didn't make it, and we did the same joke. Someone in the audience shouted that "Sean isn't here."

Jonas R. (er/ihm)2d ago

@RussSharek "Banquo!"

@darkmirror @redsad @RussSharek After coming across some notes of someone using "Ladles and Jellyspoons" for "Ladies and Gentlemen" I realised that extending to "Ladles, Jellyspoons, and other items of concave cutlery" is actually a pretty easy extension of that one :)