Sounds like a good way to have another Challenger or Columbia Disaster.
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Sounds like a good way to have another Challenger or Columbia Disaster.
Same. I find it's easiest just to not think about where I actually am...
If I was going to live in a city (and that city was London), I could see myself in a place like this. (If I was wealthy.)
I love the smell of lawsuits in the morning. Donald Trump about to find out why they call it the Judicial Branch.
That's very strange. Glad you at least got the tip though!
There are lots of cool, fun, and educational things to go see and do in San Diego. That's definitely not one of them!
How wonderful. The romance scammers have arrived on Bluesky. 😒
Gov. Pritzker enlists the public's help: "What we've asked is that people pull out their iPhone or their Android phone and film what they're seeing. Take a video of everything so see so that we can know if, in fact, laws are being broken by these federal officials coming into our state."
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Well said. Just think, we could have had this guy as VP instead of Captain Couchfucker.
I've been researching the idea of Unconditional Universal Basic Income since 2013. Here's a collection of findings I've compiled from various UBI experiments and studies of cash transfer programs around the world. This will be a VERY LONG and ongoing thread focused entirely on empirical evidence. 🧵
That actually sounds pretty fun. Maybe I should check that out.
Let me guess... "People don't actually want to work while on UBI! It will cause mass unemployment!" What was actually going on: covid restrictions that kept those people quarantining or in lockdown at home, and forbid them from returning to their non-essential jobs whether they wanted to or not.
Ok, that's not a good time and those should NOT be in the house.
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Lol @ all the pro 2A single-issue voters, who helped vote in an administration that is more serious than any other about stripping US citizens' Second Amendment rights. Way to go, guys!
And to anyone who says, "Too bad, who cares?" Authoritarian governments never stop at stripping rights from just one group. Who's next? Where will it end? Do you really think it will? Historically, authoritarians aren't satisfied until they've removed ALL potential threats. Yes, even you.
Denial is a river in Egypt. Denali is a mountain in Alaska. And when the emperor has no clothes, the mountain knows. portugaltheman.ffm.to/denali
Based on other cities' experiences, that's probably gonna be a no...
I'm also going with "Nope!"
My grandfather who fought in Europe was at a checkpoint where Germans surrendered themselves at the end of the war. One was a General, my gramps took him to a special camp for high ranking officers. He said - "If this happens again, don't wait so long. All we did was destroy lives, for nothing."
Good news. Now we need more states willing to stand up for science and the health of their residents.
Hopefully I'll be able to catch it on the way to work in the morning (I go in at about 3 am.) If it's not too cloudy.
The milky way viewed from along the Resurrection River just outside of Seward. Skies are darker before the snow arrives. So, I enjoy this small window of time when it gets dark at night before the snow arrives. Sadly this is a very cloudy time of the year and opportunities are limited.
Very odd. Sounds like something someone terrified of the truth getting out would say.
I'm pretty sure that even in this case, it's still murder.
He's not serious about following through with actions that'd actually earn him one. He just thinks he should be handed it, like everything else he's ever "accomplished" in his life.
— ALT+0151 4EVR
I love Em Dash. www.youtube.com/shorts/XKsPa...
Whoa! What’s happening?! They didn’t have eyeballs a minute ago. I really need to stop eating every mushroom I find #MushroomMonday
"Purporting to assess candidates’ moral character was a way to keep out candidates that legal elites deemed undesirable—which included people of color, women, immigrants, Catholics, Jews, and those with progressive politics."
If she was duped that easily, she needs to step down and hand off the reins to someone younger, more progressive, more perceptive, and better qualified.
This is exactly why we need the EPA.
I'm no expert on giraffes.. but that's shocking.
Fri night I stood next to a small creek on the beach in Resurrection Bay and admired the stars as pink salmon flopped around. If there were bears nearby they left me alone. So many satellites!
A vision of beauty in Colorado on the Yampa River. Thank you @itsmtning.bsky.social Such talent!
If you ever get the feeling there's something #malignant growing in this country's dark heart, you're not wrong. It may be wrapped in a flag and carrying a cross, but it's still rot. #vss365
Less than 24 hours before - and I can't stress this enough - these books will be delisted and some will not be purchasable or downloadable. One day. Last chance.
Books are all packed for next Saturday. Are you coming? INDIE HORROR CHAPTER 3 Saturday 6th September, The Royal Hotel, Weston-super-Mare. 11am-4:30pm. Free entry. 💙📚🩸📚😱
I'm not even remotely surprised. It explains so much.
Anybody know how to stop backing up photos to Google from an Android phone? It looks like I already have it turned off but it keeps doing it anyway, and if I delete from Google it deletes from my phone too 😡
Are we slouching into fascism? Yes. 100% yes. We've been headed that way for years, and as a result a large portion of the population barely even blinked when we elevated a would-be dictator to the highest elected office in the land.
It really is. I probably should not have seen that movie at 7 years old.
Dead Calm. That shit gave me a lasting fear of finding dead bodies in confined, semi-underwater spaces.
I haven't heard it confirmed, so... no. Not yet. Sadly. :(
Same
For any of my outside-of-Alaska friends wondering: yes, this photo is current. It's from 6:30 this morning.
Accurate. The hypocrisy never fails to turn up.
We can hope!!
AI is fundamentally predicated on the violation of consent
of pungent logic the gun barrel breathes but the child doesn't #vss365 #poetry
Roses are red, blowjobs are great
Welp. At least we're paying them to do something that's actually useful.
"Look," I snarl at my gathered mob of henchmen. "You smile when it might be dangerous. That's it! That's when you get to smile!" "But maybe, like, one of his guys drops his gun and then bends over and splits his pants? I mean, we can smile at that right?" "Shut up!" I yell with clinched fists.
Some of them probably are J6 terrorists.
This is a freaking terrible idea. As usual.
As someone who has considered unaliving myself in the past, I agree that you don't owe anyone survival. But this is basically that friend who thinks its entertaining to encourage you to actually do it. "Hey, I'll even help you write the note!"
I second this. ChatGPT is on par with possibly the worst friend ever.
Congratulations, you've just made yourself a solid contender for my vote!
Yup. It's not about helping people or making people safe. It's about boots on necks. Always has been.
I donated. The world is better with unbiased public media.
100% agree with this.
I agree, but this brings up a good point: employers trying to say that they can pay poorly because UBI will bridge the gap, the way some do now with tips. This cannot be deemed acceptable.
Thank you for sharing!
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Pleased I decided to pop some small California Poppy seedlings at the edge of some of our paving. I wasn't sure they'd take at all.
I miss those days.
No one gave a shit if a gay man was lonely navigating a homophobic society. No one gave a shit if a woman was lonely in an abusive marriage. No one ever gave a shit if the Black kid in a white school was lonely. But we all need to care about straight white men being lonely. Miss me with this bs.
People need to start understanding that cruelty is the point. They aren't even satisfied with LGBTQ+ being killed, they have to erase any solidarity the world might have with the victims
And nothing of value was lost.
I felt it! Just a tiny tremor. But I actually notice earthquakes so rarely that it's kind of an event to feel one at all. earthquake.alaska.edu/event/025ao0...
Now that he's the VP, you'd think he be able to afford a better tailor.
Yeah, that suit is going nowhere. She might have a case against the sales person (?) who told her the "not for human consumption" label was just a "legal technicality" so that stores could sell raw milk. If she can prove they actually said that (good luck.)
I don't have recs, but the one consensus I've heard is "don't call Altrol." $400 for diagnostics is BS, unless they're coming back to finish fixing the issue for free.
And if you try this, please film it and post it online. For educational purposes, of course.
I've been in some pretty crazy situations (former USAF SOWT). If it takes more than two guys to safely bring in a average joe delivery driver in an American city.. then the issue isn't manpower, it's training.
Yup. I'm amazed he can't see it, and appalled. But not surprised anymore.
Stonelands is now an Ingram Spark bestseller. Ingram Spark is the indie distributor for Ingram, which is a distributor for Big 5 publishers. This is pretty cool, y'all. Thanks to everyone who's bought a copy.
Case in point: bsky.app/profile/whst... We've already passed the point where most of the media gives up being fair, unbiased, and reporting what's actually happening.
That too 😬
Like every MAGA douchebro out there with racist tattoos and a failed military career, Hegseth is a useless gym wimp carved out of marshmallows, with zero functional strength. He talks shit but if someone punched him, he'd cry. I know the type.
I'm 100% here for this. It's time.
He lawyered so hard, he stopped making sense. WTF
And speaking of electing our representatives... if gerrymandering and voter suppression don't put the right people in positions of power, get ready for the next step: putting popular opposition figures in jail. Putin did it, and we know how much Trump wants to be like him.
We're getting real damn close to the point where our elected representatives rubber stamp the regime's whims -no matter how they feel about it, no matter how many of their constituents it hurts- because the alternative is winding up in jail or having a fatal "accident."
In case anyone was wondering where we are on the downward spiral: we're at the point of holding legislators hostage because they refused to aid the passing of the regime's legislation. www.youtube.com/shorts/LzI-X...
Hasn't taken long for book pirates to start screaming at me for only releasing in print, now. Received a legit threatening email this morning, angry that *I'm* depriving them of *their* "livelyhood" (sic). Every author should be doing this. Fuck piracy. #booksky
I want a campaign promise from next Dem running for office that they'll instruct Congress to create federal law that all police will either wear a button up collared shirt with a tie or a suit. No more tactical gear unless it's a special teams unit not engaged in standard police work. No more masks.
Lol... wtf was that?!
“Didn’t vote” wins every election in America. The “didn’t vote” demographic is far larger than the vanishingly small sliver of “moderate republicans” that democrats pander to claiming it’s the only way for them to win elections Populism and progressivism are the way to reach out to “didn’t votes”
Social media should be safe for trans people Pass it on
Her expression turned even more grim. “Corporate slave labor camps.” I said, “Yes, but if we call them that, Marketing and Branding gets angry and we get a power surge through our brains that fries little pieces of our neural tissue.” Indah winced.
This is going to be their approach to technological unemployment too, and we can't let that happen. We have to decouple both medical care and survival income from employment with universal basic income and healthcare. We can't just let people die because the rich don't want to pay weath taxes.
Disappointing.
That's really sad. :(
Hey Everyone, my account has been hacked I guess because everyone is getting this stupid message. It’s a phishing scam. It’s not from me! It somehow impersonates the user. It seems to have gone to at least everyone I’ve chatted with. Maybe more? Please see this explainer:
Yikes! That's not cool.
I'm disappointed but not surprised.
Man, it feels like the entire world is on fire right now. (And not in a good way.)
Oof. Nothing bad could POSSIBLY come of this. 🙄