Forgive the dilettante question, but how much can we trust these numbers, given the firing of the BLS commissioner and politicization of the data?
Let's get drunk and watch Star Trek.
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Forgive the dilettante question, but how much can we trust these numbers, given the firing of the BLS commissioner and politicization of the data?
The private prison companies who support Trump have been spending millions building out huge new prison complexes for exactly this moment. :/
More than 300k Black women being pushed out of the labor market while white men gained 365k more jobs is what we mean when we refer to racism as systemic.
That's the moment that killed me. The astonishment at the idea of being responsible for something he's literally doing. Astounding.
And if they did the same number of shots in fewer doses, they'd wring their hands about how awful the dosage size was.
Drop an old person you're going to turn into in the future
This is the best one. Mad I didnāt think of it.
![God: I have made [mankind] (I replaced that with AI) angels: you fucked up a perfectly good [monkey] (I have replaced that with computer) is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2kpgkv4xcyduvylimyapgcj7/bafkreigfiipwnipl6526rqanlfcgsuztyzl2vqfz2kwypum3nhdvsjrgjq@jpeg "Click to view full size")
Thatās where the demolition of reproductive rights comes in! Plus P2025/Thiel want to use HHS and all the data DOGE stole to go full on Big Brother of the uterus. A la all those poor women prosecuted in TX for miscarriages. I realize this makes me sound completely unhinged. And yet.
Their commitment to incompetence at every level is TRULY amazing.
I hate when someone leaves us open and we lose all the fizz.
Yet they keep forgetting to thank me for my attention to this matter.
Oh, itās 100% going to be Ivanka.
Exactly. Civic life should not feel like college football.
Unclear at this point how itās going to play out state by state (and provider by provider) given the new recommendations + new qualifying exceptions list + revocation of EUA. VERY much want my kids boosted but am not ready to breathe a sigh of relief based on this reading of the NM memo.
What? Which ones?
Huge if true, but Iām not seeing anything in this letter that indicates kids without an underlying risk factor would be able to get it.
āfor cultural reasonsā is superb.
The way it seems to stop and go out of its way to shove the shopping cart, like a drunk guy spoiling for a fight.
Robot doing the Lucy Ricardo assembly line bit with the number of bās in blueberry
Probably this? www.rutgers.edu/news/trackin...
I got told off for making the same observation! Because that would imply the earth was millions of years old when it was of course actually created by God in 6 days. š
I understood that reference!
1. I saw 3(!) other ppl also masking at the grocery store today! 2. I was so intrigued by your tattoo that I googled it and found you in that Bookriot article and am going to find both Red or Dead and Dancer b/c I now need to read them.
My body is a temple: an attention-grabbing surprise on the DC beltway
Weekend at Donnieās.
Once wore this outfit to an Arrested Development costume party! Stuffed animals included, ofc.
It's one of the only punchlines I know in Spanish! "Ay dios mio, une magdalena que habla!"
I had the thought recently that a villain in a book was too one-dimensional, nobody is just entirely evil... and then I thought about this administration.
If nothing else, we have GOT to get past the End of History-flavored apathy of saying nothing will ever REALLY change. If nothing else, the last 10 months should have disproven that.
āItās all on our vests.ā
YES, scrolled a million replies to see if anyone else thought of this.
It is remarkably frustrating to me to watch a system break down against a kind of threat its systems were *designed* - reasonably well designed! - to defeat because everyone whose job it is to actually *do* that is busy hiding under their desks hoping against hope someone else will bell the cat.
IANAL either, but I think part of it is just that he's such a vindictive asshole and his followers are so unhinged that people got scared. Especially when they knew he'd be back in power. Remember his 'day 1' revenge fantasy? (Which has turned out to be every day, ofc.)
Which, given that it's Washington, DC in August, is 100% of the time.
this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like
Unless you worked in the aid sector, in which case the unemployment rate is about a katrillion percent. (Not to bean soup this.)
Somewhere, Electric Six perks up.
And of course, because of how our whole system works, many people who are homeless are not whiteā¦ā¦ which is the real reason these folks instantly think ācrimeā. Just vicious, inexhaustible racism all the way down.
Believe it or not heās only 39! An ugly soul ages you like nothing else.
Will never forget that he lost his shit over being asked to sign a card for the janitor of his college dorm and wrote an op-ed against socializing with āthe helpā. What a truly insecure, terrible person.
It's like someone put googly eyes on a spoon and suddenly all these supposedly rational people believe it has feelings and thoughts and ideas. The human tendency to anthropomorphize has *really* backfired.
There was a HUGE budget increase just authorized for DHS/ICE, so the manpower thing won't be an issue (assuming enough people are desperate enough for work).
The first time I heard the words ādo I look like a trash can?!ā emerging from my mouth, my transformation into my own mother was complete.
20yo barista wearing a brand new-looking Postal Service/Death Cab tour shirt. Itās because itās retro, isnāt it? My bones crumble into dust.
The Established Pornographers
Scantily Clad Ladies
My Chemical Friendship
Yep! āI saw homeless peopleā = time for a federal crackdown. š bsky.app/profile/kept...
Kickass! Do you find the Vyvanse worsens your time blindness? (It does for me, and that's one of my worst symptoms to begin with.)
Whoa, this sheds fascinating light on how my kids act every evening.
In the forlorn wastes of the far future . . . the economy has expanded to fill the galaxy and the government has burgeoned to grow fat of the ever increasing graft and corruption. In this, last of all choices, alone and apart from happier destinies, Marco Rubio holds every job in the universe.
Legit super sad for that kid now.
Science is whatever we want it to be!
If Drunk History were an image.
afaik the propaganda machine in WWII Germany was par excellence in terms of distorting reality. But yeah weāre in the shit.
His post literally says that.
I feel like the phrase "Overton Window" is just in some sense topologically inadequate to describe the geometry of whatever the hell is happening
I'm not sure where everyone is getting their information from, but men need to have sex once every seven years or alternatively fight to the death in ritualistic combat with their best friend. Today, the biggest problem is that they don't have a friend to battle.
One way to reduce stress is to meditate. Another way is to not live under a fascist government. This has been wellness tips!
It was still required reading in my poli sci grad program circa 2012! Maybe if fewer people had believed it, we wouldn't have handwaved away the last 10 years of rising fascism, comfortably believing things would never REALLY change. But what do I know.
It would be nothing, like NOTHING, for a handful of lefty donors to fund a pipeline for truly leftist media that could rival the fascist apparatus and give hundreds of fact-oriented journalists jobs and set up dozens, maybe hundreds, of local news outfits, fully staffed, for 5+ years or more
lol that the amazing use case is a suggestion to not wear leather when it's 100 degrees and rainy. Thank god, we were all just about to do that.
And for funsies it can be crossreferenced with all the private Social Security data now at Palantir!
Oh "Beer before candy, Hurricane Sandy" is never getting out of my head
Also the LA/ICE protests surfer dude: "Tasted a little tear gas. Tasted like fascism."
In the ancient times, on ye olde Usenet message boards, there was one (1) board for fans of Q and you couldnāt just go and make another one. Was it for Q the Star Trek character or Q the James Bond character? Well, the fandoms shrugged and just decided to share. Posts about both, all intermingled.
I'm looking for an outfit that says "knows how to have a good time" but also "lives in a haunted grandfather clock with an origami swan"
And review of programs for incorrect thought!
Sometimes I want mine to make noises and it wonāt????
Good lord, I hope a winning lawsuit arises from this.
No, no, this is where I sit and stare at my hats and pots.
Putting the yay in bolenyaysay.
Thereās a great bit in one of the Discworld books where all these hero types are talking about their line of work and one says he cut off a monster's arm: "And then its mum came round and complained! Its actual mum!"
IT IS GLORY TO BATHE IN THE BLOOD OF YOUR ENEMIES BUT TO ALSO BATHE IN THE SHOWER.
Broke: TERF cop Harry Potter Woke: Ursula K. Le Guin's Sparrowhawk
The YIYBY agenda.
Sell shit on Mercari/Facebook Marketplace? ĀÆ\_(ć)_/ĀÆ
I blame Adele Dazeem.
I used to do comms at an AIDS nonprofit, so I basically got paid to claw my own face off about this.
Please please let it be because the photos of each person were taken separately and photoshopped together. Or because even requesting that someone pass the salt was too much of an interruption to the perpetual icy silence. The only other explanation is that the table was set by an AI.
Or slingshot around the sun.
Had a friend once say they were surprised how many people were RSVPing yes to their destination wedding. Honey, youāre having it in Tuscany, of course weāre all coming.
I was about to say that with fundamental contradictions like this, no wonder AI spits out garbage.
And button his shirt.
Oh, youāre sick? How unforgivably unpatriotic. To the salt mines for you.
Schmidt.
Duo act with drag king Mr. Homm.
USC students have started a hotline to inform immigrants how to change in-person court dates to video.
That penultimate sentence is a crime against language. Break! It! Up!
Iām-a just treasure the mind that came up with āI grok Spockā bumper stickers and pretend nothingās happened since then.
ā¦reward mechanisms?
Iām not running late. Iām arriving in dramatic fashion.
People hate being confronted with the visible reality of how the system they support is truly fucked.
I feel like @dieworkwear.bsky.social would have some great things to point out here. (Karl Marx, Charlie Chaplin, Ellsworth Vines, and Fred Perry.)
You guys go on, I'm just going to lay down for a couple years.
Seen leaving cafeteria with cookie wrapped in napkin, DAMNING EVIDENCE.
This & the 2nd point dovetail so well with what PDA advocates have been saying about the nervous system panic response (in kids especially).
