Daniel A. Hoyt (@danhoyt.bsky.social) reposted
RFK Jr., driving away with Rudy Guliani tied to the roof of his car
Retired software engineer. I only eat plants. Unprofessional artist. Unreconstructed 1960’s leftist. They were fascists then too. Zero troll tolerance.
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view profile on Bluesky Daniel A. Hoyt (@danhoyt.bsky.social) reposted
RFK Jr., driving away with Rudy Guliani tied to the roof of his car
Mark Roddy (@markr51.bsky.social) reply parent
As an advanced auto complete it is fairly useful. Give it an actual task and it’s dubious at best.
Raider (@iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social) reposted
We won't stop until they stop ✊🏽 East LA
Christopher Webb (@cwebbonline.com) reposted
Republicans: “Stop making everything about race.” Really? White people enslaved Black people for generations, stole Native land, lynched and segregated us, burned down Black communities that thrived, and treated Mexican land & labor like property to be taken. America already made it about race.
Mark Roddy (@markr51.bsky.social) reply parent
Google search results were fully enshittified before the chatbot showed up.
Eric Blair (@protecttruth.bsky.social) reposted
""The people of DC deserve better than what the mayor said today. Our demand remains that all escalated federal forces leave DC immediately" 👀👀👀
Mark Roddy (@markr51.bsky.social)
Rudi Giuliani is a distraction from Trump Dying, which is a distraction from Release the Fucking Epstein Files. Also everything is a distraction from everything else.
Mark Roddy (@markr51.bsky.social)
WTF is going on in the UK?
Congresswoman Maggie Goodlander (@goodlander.house.gov) reposted
I’m so proud to be working for and alongside amazing moms across New Hampshire to tackle Trumpflation and make life affordable, safe, and free for everyone.
✨ A Goddess has NO KING ✨ (@the-goddess-speaks.bsky.social) reposted
We’ve seen this movie before. We know the plot points. We’ve learned how to distinguish the heroes from the villains. We know which side we’re on. And we know what it takes to win. Solidarity. Sacrifice. Courage.
CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 (@cajunblue.bsky.social) reposted
🚨 “The people united will never be divided!” Happening in OUR nation’s capital today. 1/2
Mark Roddy (@markr51.bsky.social) reply parent
The timeline was corrected to undo Trumps death, but as a consequence Giuliani had to go.
Mike Simmons for Congress (@mikesimmonsil.bsky.social) reposted
I’m about to hop on DuSable Lake Shore Drive for the annual Bike The Drive Event! I’m running for Congress as a passionate cyclist who will bring gusto to the fight for safer roads for those who bike! Let’s roll!
Mark Roddy (@markr51.bsky.social) reply parent
Weird. I must have imagined that maglev train.
Mark Roddy (@markr51.bsky.social) reply parent
China marxist authoritarian not fascist.
Robert Reich (@rbreich.bsky.social) reposted
Look at this graph. The share of national income going to the richest 10 percent was lowest (and share to lower 90 percent highest) when union membership was at its highest. As unions have weakened, inequality has widened. This is why we must build back union power.
Mark Roddy (@markr51.bsky.social) reply parent
Why does LA get an exemption from the interviewer? Our media is an f’ing joke.
Maple Mama (@maplemama20.bsky.social) reposted
@jollygoodginger.bsky.social is in DC with other vets right now standing up for democracy. He's playing General Milleys speech on repeat for them today 💜 #LoveTheVets!
Mark Roddy (@markr51.bsky.social) reply parent
Advertising pharmaceuticals is just corrupt.
Anna Kornbluh (@annakornbluh.bsky.social) reposted
“theorists in the 60s used term social factory to describe the relationship between capital+labor in the postwar era. Today we inhabit a social manor. Society isn’t oriented toward the production of workers+commodities. It’s now an order of personalized service privilege hierarchy+fealty.” Jodi Dean
Mark Roddy (@markr51.bsky.social) reply parent
Reading Capitalism’s Grave right now. Highly recommend we all read it.
Mark Roddy (@markr51.bsky.social) reply parent
The responsible news media like the NYT must sane wash the fascist regime while exaggerating every flaw in the opposition in order to achieve the balanced perspective from which the population can understand the world.
Mark Roddy (@markr51.bsky.social) reply parent
Dysentery is always a possibility.
Mark Roddy (@markr51.bsky.social) reply parent
I keep an explicitly local directory outside of OneDrive and use that for everything I don’t want backed up by MSFT.
Mark Roddy (@markr51.bsky.social) reply parent
My brother and I were tossed off the side of a small sailboat and told to swim to shore. We did. It really wasn’t very far. Half way in we could walk. But still….
Mariana Z (@mariana057.bsky.social) reposted
If you wait long enough to cook dinner, everyone will eat cereal. Follow me for more recipes.
Just Jack (@just-jack-1.bsky.social) reposted
He can pretend to be dead all he wants. I still want the Epstein files released.
Mark Roddy (@markr51.bsky.social)
No need to pray. Trump was killed by the tech-fascist oligarchs to prevent the release of the Epstein Files.
Mark Roddy (@markr51.bsky.social)
We should just continue to assume Trump is dead, regardless of their attempts to prove he isn't. Trump is dead. He died over labor day weekend. The 'going golfing' video was an obvious fake. You cannot golf when you are dead.
Mark Roddy (@markr51.bsky.social) reply parent
Our puritanical and pathetic welfare system just recycles various policy turds to keep the poors in line.
Mark Roddy (@markr51.bsky.social) reply parent
Consultants have advised timidity as the safest strategy. Don’t rock the boat, don’t tip the boat over.
Mark Roddy (@markr51.bsky.social) reply parent
It was commodity fetishism and is a major component of our cultural psychosis.
Patrick Briney 🔵 (@briney.org) reposted
I don't care if you want to read the Bible. Just stop reading it to the rest of us. Thank you... 👀
Hi, it's Abby. Yep. (@itsabbyyep.bsky.social) reposted
Dead Man Golfing
Mark Roddy (@markr51.bsky.social)
Murkowski is out collinsing Collins.
Mark Roddy (@markr51.bsky.social) reply parent
How is that not criminal?
Mark Roddy (@markr51.bsky.social) reply parent
Hundreds of millions spent on consultants telling them to ignore the fascist coup and act like everything is normal.
Mark Roddy (@markr51.bsky.social) reply parent
This reminds me of the temple of Artemis in Ephesus.
Mark Roddy (@markr51.bsky.social) reply parent
Maher, like lots of other Democrats centrists, thinks he can use his superior intelligence and quick wit to defeat any opponent. They show at best superficially prepared. The people on the right prepare, study their opponents, and have been taught modern rhetorical tactics.
Mark Roddy (@markr51.bsky.social) reply parent
Colbert just owned every obsequious toady in the entertainment industry.
Mark Roddy (@markr51.bsky.social) reply parent
AFAICT the camp consisted of large tents filled with chain link cages and metal bunk beds. WTF did they spend 235 of that 245M on, and I’m being generous on 10M.
City of Boston (@boston.gov) reposted
Vote early, Boston! Early voting starts NOW in the City of Boston. Registered Boston voters can vote at any early voting site. Choose a location, make a plan, and vote, Boston! boston.gov/vote-early
Mark Roddy (@markr51.bsky.social) reply parent
Indeed. Let’s imagine and then realize a sustainable society that works for all the people of this planet, that minimizes drudgery and maximizes the pursuit of happiness for all of us. There is a role for intelligent machines in that imaginary.
Mark Roddy (@markr51.bsky.social) reply parent
It is the advertising glut phase of the bubble.
Mark Roddy (@markr51.bsky.social) reply parent
That they do not care that ‘timidity and propriety’ is a crippling brand image is incomprehensible. Consequently I assume they are simply complicit, and prefer fascism over even the mildest of social democratic reforms.
Mark Roddy (@markr51.bsky.social) reply parent
You do understand that almost none of that is possible without also controlling the senate, and even then without a veto proof majority, right?
Street Art Utopia (@streetartutopia.com) reposted
Public art can transform even the simplest urban furniture into fascinating pieces. Today, I’m showing you some incredibly creative benches from around the globe... <3 26 Creative Benches That Make Me Want to Travel! 👉 streetartutopia.com/2025/06/13/c...
Mark Roddy (@markr51.bsky.social) reply parent
And predictably, the anti poor bigots abound in this thread.
Mark Roddy (@markr51.bsky.social) reply parent
This bench needs anti personnel additions to keep humans from using it comfortably. /s
Mark Roddy (@markr51.bsky.social) reply parent
Progressive income taxes with 90% top marginal rate combined with a progressive wealth tax that abolishes billionaires. Problem solved. And yes they can all move to Qatar, IDGAF.
Mark Roddy (@markr51.bsky.social) reply parent
Every cultural event is consumed by the spectacle. Nothing is an event for itself. The event is not the point, its placement in the spectacle stream is the point.
BERGΛMΛX (@bergamax.bsky.social) reposted
"The Cat Read the Emails First" (2025) acrylic painting By Ukrainian artist Nataliya Bagatskaya - n.bagatska [IG] #art #painting #illustration #caturday
Mark Roddy (@markr51.bsky.social) reply parent
Taking a person down by the neck is incredibly dangerous.
Mark Roddy (@markr51.bsky.social) reply parent
Beautiful
Mark Roddy (@markr51.bsky.social) reply parent
Mayor Dickens is a Democrat. He did go all in on Cop City, maybe that gets him a pass. But primarily the NY media has a lot more clout and mostly they hate Mamdani.
Mark Roddy (@markr51.bsky.social) reply parent
‘Gummint bad’ is a big part of how we got right where we are today. Reject their ideological perspective.
Mark Roddy (@markr51.bsky.social) reply parent
This condescending advice is only used against the left. The right can make any outrageous claim they like, and the media will just operate in stenography mode. Note that calling fascists fascist is not an outrageous claim.
Mark Roddy (@markr51.bsky.social)
being used, and being useless might seem to be contradictory, but they aren't.
Mark Roddy (@markr51.bsky.social) reply parent
Currently around 300B since 2020. And this is likely to reach 1T before anyone pulls the plug.
Mark Roddy (@markr51.bsky.social) reply parent
Just a stunningly beautiful public institution.
Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 (@minibubbly.bsky.social) reposted
Neil Young quits Facebook and Instagram over Meta's use of chatbots with children 'Meta's use of chatbots with children is unconscionable,' Young's team shared in a statement. www.cbc.ca/music/neil-y...
Mark Roddy (@markr51.bsky.social)
Fascism is a many headed monster and needs to be attacked appropriately.
Mark Roddy (@markr51.bsky.social)
Great Ad Great Candidate. This is a winning message!
Mark Roddy (@markr51.bsky.social) reply parent
Our Skynet is a statistical model generating symbolic tokens that provide an illusion of awareness. This is likely far worse than an actual self aware machine.
Mark Roddy (@markr51.bsky.social) reply parent
It’s capitalism driving both of these effects.
Mark Roddy (@markr51.bsky.social) reply parent
We have put monsters in power.
Mark Roddy (@markr51.bsky.social) reply parent
We need pictures. You took pictures, right?
Mark Roddy (@markr51.bsky.social)
Meanwhile the #NYT is diligently reporting all the arrests made by the illegal occupation forces, as if crime was the actual motive, as if the framing was objective reality.
Mark Roddy (@markr51.bsky.social) reply parent
This is a government concentration camp. Prisons, both privatized and public, are generally horrible.
Mark Roddy (@markr51.bsky.social) reply parent
The resources required will top off the destruction of the planet we live on.
Cllr Dr Alex Powell (@apowelllaw.bsky.social) reposted
If you accept the premise that "illegal Migration" is a serious issue, then you are part of the problem. This is a moral panic and every time you affirm it as an issue you play into the signification spiral. Progressives/left must reject the issue itself not just the "solutions" of the right.
Mark Roddy (@markr51.bsky.social) reply parent
Coincidentally BYD cannot sell cars in the US. Musk gets a safe zone free from serious competition.
Mark Roddy (@markr51.bsky.social) reply parent
It solved no problem. Instead it was a foot in the door to escalate identification requirements, which is where we are now.
Mark Roddy (@markr51.bsky.social) reply parent
Nobody else is gonna blow him.
Mark Roddy (@markr51.bsky.social) reply parent
I do sketches on canson to work out what I’m trying to do. The paper is not very good, and it will tear from tape and masking fluid. But also it’s not expensive.
Mark Roddy (@markr51.bsky.social) reply parent
So it was a dumpster fire?
Mark Roddy (@markr51.bsky.social) reply parent
Recalls are just repairs that the manufacturer has to offer free to owners.
Mark Roddy (@markr51.bsky.social) reply parent
When you’re paid to promote fascism you end up saying a lot of stupid shit.
Mark Roddy (@markr51.bsky.social) reply parent
What problem does that fix?
Mark Roddy (@markr51.bsky.social) reply parent
These same people were leaving their cars running with the ac on while they shop.
Mark Roddy (@markr51.bsky.social) reply parent
The firings and resignations will result in replacements by fascist clowns. The walkout is good, but unless they stay out, it does little to change the disaster that is the new CDC.
Mark Roddy (@markr51.bsky.social)
In the maga alternate reality that is now manifesting itself in our reality the maha cdc is the evil politicized organization they imagined it to be when it was earnestly trying to save lives.
Mark Roddy (@markr51.bsky.social) reply parent
That is now the CDC.
Mark Roddy (@markr51.bsky.social) reply parent
Without CDC approval use is not covered for liability. At least that is my understanding.
Hamilton Nolan (@hamiltonnolan.bsky.social) reposted
Thousands of DC residents chanting “fuck Jeff Bezos” outside of the P Street Whole Foods
Mark Roddy (@markr51.bsky.social)
Disobedience is the way.
Katelyn Jetelina (@kkjetelina.bsky.social) reposted
CDC employees standing up and walking out in light of the mass shootings, firings, and *waves hands in the air* everything else. #USAnotRFK Lets gooooo
Mark Roddy (@markr51.bsky.social) reply parent
The book report shall be in 5PE format, judged using the same stupid metrics as AP exams use. A grading system from 1 -10, with 10 being the highest possible grade, shall be used, and a grade of 9.0 or higher must be achieved.
Barack Obama (@barackobama.bsky.social) reposted
Here's some good news: Catelin Drey won a special election this week to flip a seat blue in the Iowa Senate and break Republicans' supermajority.
Mark Roddy (@markr51.bsky.social) reply parent
Only within the maga alternate reality.
Mark Roddy (@markr51.bsky.social) reply parent
Isn’t prioritizing social programs what governments ought to do?
Mark Roddy (@markr51.bsky.social) reply parent
Klein's objective is a restoration of the center right neoliberal order.
amanda moore 🐢 (@noturtlesoup17.bsky.social) reposted
Yesterday, HSI and MPD set up a checkpoint on Rhode Island Ave in DC. Neighbors stood on either end, holding signs saying “LA MIGRA ADELATE.” As HSI and MPD started to pack it up, residents told them, “we don’t think you’re good Americans” and “fuck you guys, go home.”
The Spirit of Lorenzo the Cat (@lorenzothecat.bsky.social) reposted
In many places in America, it's easier to buy a gun than it is to adopt a cat from a shelter.
Mark Roddy (@markr51.bsky.social) reply parent
Democratic leaders continuing to beg their 'friends' in the fascist party to join them is why people despise the brand.
Mark Roddy (@markr51.bsky.social) reply parent
Nadler accepting the framing to argue policy is why democrats are fucking idiots.
Mark Roddy (@markr51.bsky.social) reply parent
Maga emerged from gamer-gate/4chan/qanon live action role playing. A core subset basically believes they are characters in a simulation. Elon Musk, for example, apparently believes he is not only a playing character in a sim, but that he has won the game.
Mark Roddy (@markr51.bsky.social) reply parent
Chavez, at least initially, was very popular. He won the 1998 election wit 56% of the vote.