Ooooh, I finally have my elevator pitch
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Ooooh, I finally have my elevator pitch
Somebody is throwing things out of a window of the White House wtaf
I love processing my thoughts verbally! Super helpful.
That's the fun part! It can mean whatever you want it to mean. It can inspire countless posts and vast amounts of time thinking about and arguing about what it actually means. And once that slows down, some other VIP (very important pundit) will have made some other vague post to dissect.
99% of all issues on here are solved by 1) follow at least 500-600 people 2) block annoying people Once you do it it’s a wonderful experience
Many of these micro-movements rarely make the evening news, but they have become the core of mobilization efforts.
Oh for chrissakes, take some pride in your work. If you're going to pretend to be trump, you have to *at the very least* capitalize random words throughout. Pitiful.
Today, in #MyWildlife: If you’re missing your chipmunks or Pine Siskins, don’t worry. I’ve got ‘em. #nature #birds #bird #chipmunks #colorado #happy
It makes me emotional to see Judge Sooknanan showing that she values each individual child’s life at a moment when this administration is doing exactly the opposite
People are melting down at a Tribune article about CHSD 230 considering adding Arabic to its language learning electives. I wasted time in the comments, which I normally avoid doing since it's useless and awful, but it led to possibly the funniest thing anybody's ever said to me about France.
I'm extremely tired of the "schools were closed!" The physical building, yeah, but people were still working and trying to teach your kids. You just had to deal with it more directly for like, two months.
Immokalee farmworker dies a week after collapsing in the Florida heat www.wusf.org/local-state/...
area man incapable of separating the Roma vs the Romanians
It goes without any goddamn fucking saying that a right to asylum that does not include the right to bring your family here is not a real right to asylum.
People literally bled & died fighting against corporate interests, robber barons, corrupt local & state politicians, cops & hired killers, & the federal government & US military for better working conditions for the rest of us so reflect on that today for just a bit while you're doing whatever else.
In 1981, Mr. Katz ran the daycare I attended out of his own home. I still have fond memories of his daughter Mikayla and a field trip to the beach. I found out he had to close down his daycare soon after I left, because a side effect of the satanic panic was mistrusting men in daycare. 🤬🖕
i am almost 40 and i literally do not have any point in my life where the right wing has not been doing moral panics about imaginary child abuse while institutionally working to enable real abuse of real children. if it's not the satanic panic it's fucking pronouns.
Live each day as if it’s your last chance to sit around and do nothing #MondayMotivation
It is insane to me that the richest man in the world is using his global megaphone to call for millions of British people to be rounded up and deported (including my family) and somehow this isn’t even news.
White Americans were fine with government—loved it wholeheartedly—until they were told they would have to share it equally. That’s when they decided it should be destroyed. Every advocate for small government is an advocate for resegregation.
I don't know what the tipping point will be or when we can bring it into being, but I rest with absolute certainty today knowing that the bosses & billionaires need us desperately, that we remain infinitely powerful, & that their wildest fantasies pine for a world that will never exist.
Who's the worst cartoon character? I vote Henry, the dad from Dennis the Menace. He's a mask deliberately invented to whitewash the identity of his creator, Hank Ketcham, one of the worst men to ever make comics. It's gonna take a thread.
He died. He died on the toilet but “not the way you think,” a White House spokesperson said in a brief statement before declining follow-up questions.
There are around 18,000 law enforcement agencies in the USA. Everything is carceral. You cannot interact with the government without interacting with police; this includes walking outside.
Yes.
"No, Mr. Bond. I expect you to tell me if this looks normal to you? Do yours look like this??"
Wait, so 'orchid' means testicle?? The lady slipper orchid is a vulva testicle…
I think 182 year old research articles should be free I want to read about the man
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Can't believe Tim Onion, Rudy Giuliani, and Donald Trump all died on the same day. 😢
WHITE HOUSE AIDE: we need a distraction from the president being dead OTHER WHITE HOUSE AIDE: let’s kill Rudy
Pass me a brewski and let's do karaoke! Pretty cool that text message, upload, and at sign are listed for the year I was born. Less cool about IBS, strip malls, cringeworthy, and food insecure.
Me: “I think A.I. is stupid and embarassing.” Somehow the most confident stranger in the world, every time: “Yes, which is why I only use it for the following reasons—“
Ok we sent our energies to the wrong spirits and hit Giuliani but it’s working guys keep going
Just a normal night in DC, sitting on the couch watching Netflix and then having to go outside because 11 cops (FBI, HSI, “police” and MPD) stopped a car on my corner.
We didn't design it intentionally to lure people into it, who told you we did it on purpose because we think it's funny, I won't listen to these lies.
*had
btw, you can upload a gif file from your computer (in Bluesky web app) and it will be animated. The trick is upload it via video button.
Dos-ritos
"choose your preferred candidate" betch I'm a writer I'm not doing any work till the deadline is so close I can see the whites of its eyes
Dreams really do come true!
Be careful! That's often an early symptom of an impending car crash.
Several SCOTUS justices
"they were asking for it"?
It's true. It is fun.
LAPD has shot 30 people this year, and last year at this time we were at 19, according to Chief McDonnell. One of his explanations to commission last week was “an uptick on the willingness of criminals within the community to assault officers head on.” Let’s break this down using internal docs:
As I make the jump to hyperspace, I realize I left the baby on top of the ship.
By the time DOJ files this status report, Judge Sooknanan will have been awake for nearly 20 hours.
film flubs: in the movie spartacus (1960), several different characters identify themselves as spartacus. this scene was mistakenly left in the final cut of the film
Due to a booking error Rudy Giuliani has been laid to rest in the parking lot at Woodlawn Mulch & Chip Depot
I blocked him too for the same reason.
that seems like a MUCH better message than the current one, which I believe is "doctors providing gender affirming care is going too far, but gym teachers looking down kids' pants to decide what team they can play on is a-ok"
why can't the democrat messaging on trans people be "no, we are not going to force children to undergo genital inspections in order to play sports"
Premee: I have this really upsetting situation. I'm going to do something about it! Premee's body: You're upset? I'll upset your stomach in solidarity. That will help! *Bodies. Simultaneously so smart and so dumb.*
Right! People have fucked up families. People have fucked up memories. People's homes burn down, or they get evicted, or they flee DV situations. There are so many reasons not to know or have information that another person might think is as basic as knowing your own birthdate.
I never could. I have peed my pants on multiple continents lol.
Just search for news reports from Los Angeles if you want to know how deadly car chases are.
eeewwww
As someone who has been relearning shit or filling in the gaps for the past decade plus -- and that's after already being a great big nerd! -- fucking THANK YOU! don't do your own research, but do go friggin read a book or six
EXACTLY!!! bsky.app/profile/gabb...
Seriously though. I have all sorts of intellectual paradigms for understanding why and how there are people like that, but still I really can't imagine BEING like that.
*I also work part time at the combination pizza hut and taco bell
*your sister in pee* lol
Yes it is! I'm much better about it here, where I can discard or delete replies after further consideration. I'm getting better at it IRL, but… it's a journey.
It sure is! This strain is VERY contagious, too, I think.
Well that's horrifying. I'm sorry. I know what trans people confront is much bigger than bathrooms, but as a person with IBS and a bladder the size of a 12-year-old's (literally), I'll still shout: Stop gatekeeping bathrooms! Make MORE bathrooms! Let everyone and anyone use them! FFS!!!
I always choose my preferred economic system based on how cool the cars are.
Oh, I read that as all being one person!
rip to the Russian mafia if *he* owns them lol
This statement feels like a fever dream. I don't just mean unreal, I mean *surreal*.
Well that would require me to know when they're available. 😂 I'll have to start. My last shot was a year ago. I've got covid right now. 🥲
Newsom is pretty much the Democrat Elon Musk. they’ve been acting like this for the past month
a bunch of you really believe that trump is the unstoppable god king who can do whatever he declares and it is dumb as hell
I need to look up whether kaiser permanente socal has made any changes to their schedule of telling me to go get my covid (and flu) boosters. Because up until now, I've just done it when they tell me to. But I probably shouldn't count on that anymore. 😢
Bad news, everyone. Until you're actually dead, the world hasn't ended. Even in a walking dead scenario, the world hasn't ended. We still need to figure out how to deal with the same basic challenges we've always had. The details change. Our responsibilities and limitations don't.
I think a lot of people would prefer the literal end of the world to a life of risk, uncertainty, and grave responsibility.
rip to everyone whos become delusional after talking to chatgpt but im built different. like actually different. according to chatgpt im some kind of god. the one who decides
now? 3) do they want it *from you*?
This is great advice in general. I'm an info gatherer and a helper. My default reaction to distress is to offer possible solutions. That's not inherently bad! But maturity is pausing to check 1st: 1) are there clues they already know/tried that solution? 2) do they even want a solution right
Regardless of your handwaving, it actually is an undue burden to require voters to have ID. That's not merely my opinion. It's the position of the majority of voting rights experts. Just because some people can overcome those barriers doesn't mean they're not real.
Admirable. In my case, it's completely selfish and non-woke. I strongly dislike standing idle while a cashier checks me out, and I actually enjoy scanning things.
And if you want to see John Oliver's take on it (as well as tasers): youtu.be/7Yd9nLQx3qQ
They better not touch curbside. I get as little at Walmart as I can, but I'd rather go there than Walmart or Target, and I don't have many other options for the kinds of things I get there. But I never go in the store. I would switch to Costco if I could do curbside.
Lol. I would almost pay extra NOT to have a human cashier 🫠
It’s a real shame that Montessori has developed a (mostly) undeserved reputation as bougie kindergarten because in proper practice it’s a genuinely radical pedagogy that treats children as active and involved participants in their own education. I will forever be grateful for my Montessori education
I agree, and as long as everyone is doing it with that in mind, I also think continuing to speculate that he's actually dead is both enjoyable and good for our collective mental health.
I first read 'megaevent' as 'malevolent', and I think my subconscious has that right.
"everyone does it" Fuck them. I don't fucking do that, and I'm someone. I have ADHD. I'm chronically online. If I can manage not to do this, so can anyone.
Every paragraph of this book is as if it were written to perfectly summarize all of the issues we are facing with LLMs fifty years later
omg what bliss for a cat to be able to jam both sets of paws into sensitive areas
I should probably disable comments and quotes on this, so as not to make this site totally unusable for myself, but I actually think it's more illustrative to leave them open so people can see the response to this point.
Oh, so easy! To do that, 1) I need to know it's an option 2) I need to know how to request it 3) I need to have sufficient executive function, emotional stability, literacy, time, and energy 4) at least for MA, *I need to have some form of ID* 5) I need to have fee $ 6) I need a mailing address
“We never know how our small activities will affect others through the invisible fabric of our connectedness. In this exquisitely connected world, it’s never a question of “critical mass. It’s always about critical connections.” - Grace Lee Boggs
Judge: I got a call at 2:36 a.m. because the govt chose this time on a holiday weekend to execute this plan. I have been up since then. I haven't been able to reach anyone from govt until this morning at 9:30 a.m. So absent this intervention, all children would already have been sent to Guatemala!
Definitely one of the hardest parts of learning my IBS triggers is having to limit my stone fruit consumption. 😭
bank canned chicken into a souffle. I don't mean to romanticize stay-at-home parenting or unemployment, but it's not necessarily all bad.
I was unemployed for most of my kid's first year, and I've gotta say, I didn't hate it. I couldn't be tempted into buying a million baby accessories. I didn't have to go back to work before I was ready. I read Joy of Cooking cover to cover and learned how to transform WIC eggs and cheese plus food
Private equity, ugh. I'm sorry.
Saw this post just before yours, and I feel like they belong together 😂 bsky.app/profile/data...