These are the moments where social media redeems itself
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These are the moments where social media redeems itself
I’m old enough to remember that the MS stood for MicroSoft… and yet young enough to know that cable news is all garbage.
QAnon is awfully quiet these days….
Surprised he didn’t add “if you cut back on avocado toast, you can even buy your own planet”
What’s the over/under on how long that lasts after it’s built?
If he wanted to hide bad job numbers, he should have just put them in the Epstein files.
Fixed it for them: “Scientists overwhelmingly recognize the value of sharing null results, but Journals rarely publish them”
That won’t solve his problems, I’m sure there are electricians who think he’s an idiot too
NEW from me — FEMA staffers say the response to the Texas floods is horrifyingly slow, and it may be because of DHS Secretary Kristi Noem's recent increased control over how the agency spends money. "If this is how they are going to do a major hurricane response, people are fucked.”
And there is so much more than enough that we can give everyone enough without making a dent in the top 1% standard of living. They’d likely not even notice
the core idea that can radicalize people is so simple: there is enough. there is enough food to feed everyone. enough resources to house everyone. money and technology and medicine to stop the suffering of people around the globe. once you accept that there's only one question: why don't we?
Let alone how character limits work 🤣
Pay attention 🤬
I saw how he uses his olive oil, not getting any invites from me 🤣
Happy 4th, I’m celebrating the freedom I’ll have in a few days when I visit Canada. Hope y’all sort this mess out while I’m gone. Stop giving money to billionaires, duh 🙄
House Republicans just betrayed our generation and sold out our futures to pay for tax cuts for billionaires. They're gonna realize they pissed off the wrong generation. secure.actblue.com/donate/votho...
Almost twice as many people ride the New York City bus every day as live in Wyoming. The bus should have two senators
As a dad of four, I don’t want AI to replace graphics artists, I want AI to replace me filling in the same info on four different forms anytime anything has to happen for anyone 😆
“On Tyranny” by Timothy Snyder
The sun is underutilized, I vote for them to go prospecting for new resources!
I am Jack’s complete lack of surprise… www.npr.org/2025/06/02/n...
Nothing says America more than a guy with a cart full of Diet Coke buying a lottery ticket
We’re led by warmongers & cowards. They have no intention of stopping our civilisation slamming into a wall because they were put in place by the forces profiting from it. None of our children get to survive unless we take the money out of politics & end this relentless ascent of psychopaths.
New Jersey 🤣
100% this
Ask your doctor what treatment the supreme court decided is right for you.
Here for it! Artists should sell prints, musicians should press vinyl or tapes (bring back tape trading!) and of course typewriters, always the typewriters
Looks like eliminating waste and fraud to me!
Bravo this sign.
🏆 to whoever came up with and coordinated the No Kings protest at Ocean Beach, San Francisco. Don’t miss it…absolute fire.
Love to see more people in _one_ city protest than at the actual us capital for the “parade”
Jesus Christ... the *entire Fulbright Board* at the State Department just resigned rather than cooperate for a second longer with this monster and his patently illegal schemes.
What is needed is tech that fights back. An AR app that marks where ICE or deployed troops are, pins them with time/location, and overlays “Unlawful Presence” or “Fear Theater” in real-time. Like Pokémon GO, but for defending the Constitution.
There's a lot to unpack here. But the "why do people in the developed world die from chronic diseases at higher rates than in poorer countries" is because we survive long enough to die from chronic rather than infectious disease. This is epidemiology 101. It's not a mystery.
Here is a drawing in my sketchbook of a skateboard kid standing in resistance with the community to fascist ICE raids today in Paramount California giving the middle finger to the agents who fired dozens of munitions at them. Pen and ink on paper.
That alone earns a follow from me! ✅
Wow, who ever could have predicted this?!
Yeah, free speech has a pretty big asterisk next to it these days. Sad
A fun side project to set up AI Agent control for my ham radio rig (TS-570D). Something amusing and satisfying about having an AI Agent send Morse code over HF 😃 talk about different generations of technology! youtu.be/k9SJyy7z7y0
Are these first class deals as good as all the other deals we got so far? Cause I’ll pass, thanks.
ICE tried to snatch up a bunch of kids and parents at Somerville High, but guess what? The community showed up in force, and ICE bailed. Remember, you hold power in your community. If you show up with people you trust and act fast, you can protect families.
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This is brilliant and it illuminates that slop, hallucination, and reading and copying others' stuff (just like the attention economy) is not an invention of AI or the internet but old media. My $55 adventure in internet factchecking spiky Chinese benches youtu.be/aSZ4RUFA7VQ?...
In only two sentences, demonstrate that you know absolutely nothing about the US space program or where the major players were from.
Woohoo! Made the list!
Meltdown on Truth Social in 3, 2, 1...
On Memorial Day, we remember the sacrifices that our men and women in uniform and their families have made to preserve our freedom. May we always strive to honor the strength and resolve they’ve shown our country.
You can’t, it’s locked
100% Half of those counties have more cows than people
All airlines are shitty. But Southwest Airlines, for a time, was the least shitty, and I liked it for that. Then, private equity ruined it, like it ruins everything else. My column for @chron.com: www.chron.com/culture/arti...
Morbidly curious about his take on zero point energy. As a quantum mechanics professor I don’t have high hopes 😆
I realize posting this here is preaching to the choir. But after the Grok White Genocide thing & Ye essentially launching an exclusive Neo Nazi single on the platform... I felt motivated to write about X and how bizarre it is that so many people (news outlets, celebrities, politicians) use it
It's crazy that The Declaration of Independence is basically just "You created ICE so it's time to revolt."
End of an era… 😢
If wealth were evenly distributed in the US, every two-person household would have almost $1M in net worth. #taxtherich #nokings
It’s a fascinating area, my favorite of the cascade peaks, and despite being only 6 months old at the time, the eruption has a strong presence in my childhood lore.
Nice! I just finished a QMX+ build too
Sunrise from the summit of Mt St Helens. Today is the 45th anniversary of the eruption. Still my favorite volcano to climb. #MSH45 #mountsthelens
A reminder that if the minimum wage had kept pace with worker productivity gains since the 1960s, it would now be nearly $26 an hour.
still maddening how many geriatric Dem senators have run or are running for re-election instead of setting up an orderly transition to a successor or permitting turnover
Chicago is on to something.
Next do Gangnam Style 😆
To honor Ann Telnaes for winning the Pulitzer and embarrassing Bezos, I’ve taken down the paywall from my interview with her so everyone can watch it.
Can’t wait to see which billionaires benefit most from “winning” these new contracts 🙄 "We're going to build a brand new air traffic control system, from new telecom to new radars to new infrastructure," he told Fox News. www.bbc.com/news/article...
More GOP Cowards who can’t hear from constituents… keep the pressure, good trouble!
Sure, Trump has seen the Declaration of Independence, but does he know what it stands for?
Amazon= the new Tesla You know what to do! Never Amazon
Primary everyone, blank slate, no one is safe. If they earn a spot they will keep it, out with everyone else
Ya sure bud
Haven’t been to Target and I deleted the Amazon app from my phone. Companies will continue to find out shortly after they fuck around.
That does it, I’m moving to Canada. If any country could break this trend, it would be them. Well done y’all
You can’t say criminals don’t deserve due process when due process is the thing that decides if they're criminals. Otherwise you're just kidnapping people you don't like.
Movie you’ve watched more than six times using gifs. (“Hard mode” no Star Wars, Star Trek, or LOTR)
ICE = SS… prove me wrong
Not sure telling people you are going back to work at Tesla is the good news you think it is 🤣
Secretary Hegseth “could preserve some of his dwindling dignity, and spare the president he serves from having to fire him in public, by making the honorable choice and resigning—today,” @radiofreetom.bsky.social writes:
I did a double take at who posted this… real enough for me 🤣
Which surprises absolutely no one who left the platform
With all due respect, Comer can fuck right off with that loaded bullshit reply. Slice your own cherries Comer
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Elected Dems: do not let up on due process and do not let up on Hegseth’s security violations. The admin thinks it can get away with anything. Change that.
Remember the 6 men who forcibly removed Dr. Teresa Borrenphol from the Coeur d'Alene town hall? They’ve been arrested and charged! www.kivitv.com/news/six-men...
🤣🤣🤣 ok sure dude. “A solid few rounds”
So, if we’re all in agreement here, can we fix it?
I invented a new phone to help save time in the morning
Starbucks: hires CEO that wants to commute via personal jet 4 days a week. Also Starbucks: sales are down, everyone has to wear black shirts!
The tariffs driving consumers to shop direct via TikTok is awesome, if only to illustrate the ridiculous markups that are added along the way. www.axios.com/2025/04/17/t...
When you stop measuring things you can say “everything is great” without any counter-argument. The GOP is so tired of being proven wrong by the data that they simply want to abolish it. www.propublica.org/article/trum...
That usually means it’s time to go outside and look at the ocean
He will always be more focused on the issues that matter to donors vs issues that matter to voters. And that isn’t unique to him among Dems, unfortunately. I like a good stock market but only after we all have human rights and healthcare.
So true! I can put Bay leaf in myself and still be surprised when it ends up in my bowl… absolute stealth mode
Found this on a very old forum, but had to laugh at the conclusion… clearly not a boat owner #sailing #bluewater
Ok fine, I’ll learn about decorators… sheesh
I've been clear: if President Bukele doesn't want to meet here in D.C., then I intend to go to El Salvador this week to check on Kilmar Abrego Garcia's condition and discuss his release. Kilmar was illegally ABDUCTED and deported by the Trump Admin. He must be brought home NOW.
How do billionaires dodge taxes better than a toddler dodges bedtime? 👉 They pay lobbyists to write loopholes into the tax code 👉 Pressure politicians to defund the IRS It’s a rigged system. Time to un-rig it. Tax the rich. It’s just that simple.
Harvard has set an example for other higher-ed institutions - rejecting an unlawful and ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom, while taking steps to make sure students can benefit from an environment of intellectual inquiry, rigorous debate and mutual respect. Let’s hope others follow suit.