PDF 24 looks very good but I’m a mac person. Is there anything like this for macs?
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PDF 24 looks very good but I’m a mac person. Is there anything like this for macs?
For good reason!
“Let every dirty, lousy tramp arm himself with a revolver or a knife, and lay in wait on the steps of the palaces of the rich and stab or shoot the owners as they come out. Let us kill them without mercy, and let it be a war of extermination.” Lucy Parsons, statement in the Chicago Tribune, 1885
Oh I should probably re-watch this show but it will give me wicked nostalgia for watching this with my oldest child who defeated my stubborn ‘TV comedy shows almost always annoy me’ with this show.
Sun chips reveals the essence of a chip by merely being a crunchy thing covered in a tasty dust.
He shows his humanity that he is thinking about the next generation. This is something all of us older people should do. Everyone must care for one another and we should all stand together.
The infallible free market has allocated all its eggs into one basket, historically the safest and most profitable way to store eggs
if your answer isn’t an unequivocal “yes” then you’re a shit journalist
Sure, I was RAISED Blueskyist, but these days I'm lucky if I log on for the High Bluidays
This ‘blue states closed schools too long’ narrative is becoming increasingly entrenched in the Polite Center but it’s arguable at best. Republican states had far more deaths during COVID and their students have roughly comparable learning loss.
I always thought that was BS as a kid. And still believe that. You must make an argument for your view but what’s being lost in society now is reciprocity. People are exploiting one another.
Please talk to some Black people before dismissing the psychological impact of having Feds running around the neighborhood hemming people up en masse.
You’d think they’d be happy. Everyone they would clash with gone from their fave platform? All clustered on a site they can ignore?
Now it’s going to be WORSE? Are they serious? We’re not just not fixing things we’re making them 10x worse?!? FOR REAL? WHY????
❤️ It’s just so much HARDER for people now! Growing up teachers, janitors, line workers, etc. could support a whole family, have a house, then retirement. People will write things about this change and then everyone will say ‘oh that’s how it is.’ As if this makes sense. Nobody will change it.
Yeah, we could take a school bus if we got up at 4 AM so my kid takes the city bus.
I don’t know if they have buses though? We do. My kid takes the city bus all the time.
i think his head got noticeably bigger overnight
Getting yelled at on the internet is not what turns people into fascists.
This is literally the largest act of union busting in American history. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/u...
I feel like I’m whining. Everyone is (sort of) OK. But the last 10 or so years have been very tough on my extended family. Everyone went from hopeful, bopping along, some slight improvements along the way to basically hanging on for dear life. Not all from politics but it has played a role.
After many years, I have a thing with the leftier now where I say—people leftier than me that annoy me are banging on about something. Ah, shit I better check it out as they have been right sometimes. (I guess I also do this with liberals depending on topic? Maybe this is just something I do.)
So he really IS missing? I thought we were just pretending he was missing.
VERY adolescent. I remember when I was a teen I was a MASTER at the ‘everything that annoys me is an indicator of great social and political import.’ I was way better at it than these guys—I could truly spin a convincing tale! Then I grew up and realized I am not the center of the world?
This is one of the most explicit examples you'll ever see of "the people who annoy me the most, personally, also happen to be the nation's biggest political problem." The quintessential reactionary centrist maneuver.
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Oh, he was truly once in a lifetime talent. I loved him.
RIP Graham Greene. Every time he popped up on screen when I was a kid, my mom would excitedly point him out for being an actual Native on the screen. Able to be deadly serious and infinitely hilarious (even in smaller roles like Last of Us), he ate up the screen. Nʌki’wah brother.
What the…what?
Yeah. My poor parents get no retirement. I understand it’s a luxury now but my dad will be 80 years old, still working and not making enough.
Remember when they lied the kids were killing themselves and then it turned out suicides dipped to a record low? Do they care about youth mental health NOW? Not at all. It’s all grist for their mill. They went back to blaming teens for having problems.
it is underdiscussed how "learning loss" can also be attributed to the fact that millions of people were dying and the kids were fucking terrified all the time - not just that they were on Zoom
Results so stunningly clear they inspired this classic xkcd (xkcd.com/2400/):
I have never seen a single news article about whether or not Hakeem Jeffries, Chuck Schumer or Kristen Gillibrand need to assure Muslim New Yorkers that they're against Islamophobia and anti-Arab / anti-Asian bigotry
That’s right. It’s like we’ve been dragging a 100 pound sack behind us for 10 years while someone is screaming in our ears.
Not everything —obviously. But per capita more people on Bluesky have read more things by the people that hate us than anyone ever does on Twitter. It could potentially be very good for a writer to have an informed audience—you step up your game— but this is not what people want these days.
The funniest part of all these people getting mad at us is—WE READ WHAT THEY WRITE. And we’ve been doing. it for years and years. It’s very funny that the. fact we read what they write very carefully is so irksome to them. Isn’t that what you want? People who do that? I GUESS NOT.
My haters have unionized
Oh RIGHT. Yeah, we got the goods on people. We are also always trading notes. While I know ‘Revenge of the Nerds’ is supposed to be a problematic movie—I would say that’s probably the main common denominator here. The nerdiness. Like. swapping baseball cards but instead it is magazine articles.
Yeah —you’d think we’d all want to bone way more because tomorrow we die or whatnot. Supposedly fear of loss and grief is an aphrodisiac but birthrates go way down when there is uncertainty/disruption/fear/war, etc. so I guess that’s all nonsense.
BREAKING: the conditions in the world around us are making people less horny; also “sexcession” was right there
Ditto.
A terrible suspicion I have is that people who fall for these BS takes. might even be more successful in life. They are more conformist in their thinking and there’s an advantage in being like that in US society. If ‘important person X’ tells them something it goes in a ‘probably true’ slot.
I experience this nonsense with a sinking lurch in my stomach. I want to say ‘hah who would believe this’ but I spend a lot of time with other college professors and there’s just a cohort of white people that do. From ‘Iraq has weapons of mass destruction’ to ‘trans students will burn you in a mob.’
As an antidote, here's a gift link to nine former CDC directors warning about the immense dangers of RFK Jr. replacing medical science with literally medieval superstition, with no false equivalences between apples and rat poison www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
One reason that there's so much sanewashing and downplaying of RFK Jr. is that his focus on sickness and health as an issue of individual responsibility appeals to the class prejudices of a lot of elite reporters/editors www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/09/the-...
What do you call the thing that comes after you jump the shark?
A standard we can (almost) all agree on.
I don’t think they ever did overall but they were able to keep our viewing of their thoughts to the snippets that made sense.
Oh is THAT where the ‘blueskyism’ discourse came from?
When/why did I sign up for ‘notifications’ on my phone with the AP? Always rattling with stupid bullshit [Often it is things that are occurring in the world, which it is certainly their job to tell me but some bullshit about those.] This reaction is another way I’m turning into my mother. Oh no!
YES. And Trump never cared to learn. Biden is no genius but at least he took his role seriously—and of had experience —and in the course of things learned a great deal about how the freaking government and the world works. For some people this is irrelevant, which will aways be incredible to me.
Post a random picture or else everything will go bad in September.
One of my sisters is a teacher, a single mom and covid fucked up her health big time—she has to work and support a whole family on her own STILL. Now she has uncontrolled high blood pressure and diabetes —she got immediately after covid. Yes, she lives in a red state. NO TIME OFF WITH COVID.
*likely*
True but very like he also would have lost…it was a gamble but it was a rational gamble. We are like the people in the Walking Dead fighting over strategy because we’re surrounded by zombie hordes. Our fucked up situation is creating all of it! But we can’t stop hitting each other with sticks.
Oh, I know! I find their disregard for any both the truth and the effects of their words grotesque —but what I said was too blithe. I want to call it out as that though—just attention-seeking. They BELIEVE this trolling makes them cool but it’s merely weenies saying repulsive shit for attention.
Just to add—I wasn’t concerned about antivax. I used to believe ‘oh, well there are just going to be some people who have strange beliefs.’ It was a student who really got me to see the issue. I was sort of blithe like ‘oh, sure, you want to do an independent study on that?’ They opened my eyes.
Joe Biden was too old. He has cancer now. The problem is when one side does a reasonable thing it may look like ‘why did we do that?’ when the unreasonable thing happens. However—the answer is not for everyone to be unconcerned about facts. (I do not know if we HAVE an answer but it’s not that.)
It’s wild how they keep getting direct evidence he’s not running things and doesn’t know what’s going on and they don’t even bother to inquire. Everything is always ‘here’s how Trump can fix Trump policies.’ As if he’s an amazing mastermind they must address directly.
Of course covid was an accelerant to lies. But this is because different far right actors made it one, not because of desires of MOST PEOPLE to protect our family from covid. The public WANTED protection. I don’t understand why people are forgetting something so recent! www.bbc.com/news/health-...
Here’s an article about the antivax movement in 2015. We already had a problem even earlier than this! What is wrong with people’s memories FFS? www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...
LMAO here’s one (about Russian propaganda) from the Heritage Foundation in 2014 www.heritage.org/europe/repor...
I actually read articles about Russian anti-vax propaganda BEFORE TRUMP WON THE PRIMARY. So way before covid!
Yes, exactly. What good would it serve ‘the public’ to make all workers desperately ill? Everything closes. Even if they recover, we’ve then got HUGE waves of illness to deal with, insufficient hospital beds, a shortage of care. Medical workers getting PTSD from watching so many people die.
It’s very frustrating to me that working people with EXACTLY the same difficult conditions as the people throwing hissy fits (often with MUCH LESS MONEY) are supposed to be ‘blamed’ for anything that upsets a certain segment of richer white people when they go off the deep end.
Important to note people in the US with cooperative local culture, sufficiently concerned about each other who understood the basics of disease ALSO had the same stressors but not act out in the same way. If you had a modicum of responsibility you don’t take frustration out on others.
It was rich far right white people who got spontaneously furious first. But misinformation started to spread among the uneducated about how you could just ‘get covid, mild disease, herd immunity’ because of stupid idiots like Tegnell and other liars. A LOT more people died this way.
It was very similar to some of the other reactions—malign people are most likely to act out—do sexual harassment, ignore common sense about a plague. So they got criticized, e.g., for throwing big parties in their town for their kids, getting everyone sick with covid. Then they go rabid with hate.
One person I spoke with at this 2009 Tea Party event in Salem was a rich industrialist (who claimed to be a descendant of arch-Federalist Fisher Ames) named William Ames Curtwright. He ran an annual event for right wingers in Oregon called the "Gathering of the Eagles." bsky.app/profile/seth...
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Historian Jefferson Cowie's book, Freedom's Dominion, is an extended meditation on the deeply rooted American anti-democratic tradition he's called "racialized anti-statism." White people have long decried "federal tyranny" while promoting racist systems of state power. bsky.app/profile/seth...
They also get MONEY to do it. Rich people fund their ‘movement.’ Yes, it does attract people but like the Tea Party it is bankrolled, not spontaneous. In prior years, some supposed spontaneous protests would vanish like a mist in the sun right after the midterms, never to be heard from again.
This is "the one big trick" that the right has mastered. They present their movement as just "the authentic voice of the volk outraged by Democratic overreach," when really what they're doing is just old fashioned political mobilization. Organize a passle of pissed off people & call it a movement.
YES! During the ‘lockdown protests’ (we had no lockdown) there were like 120 people and the local far right watch spotted all the far right influencers at them. Someone showed that there were people doing actions that were hired by a PR firm! It was paid for and organized.
What these Schatz posts say to me is that Dem elected officials like him seem incapable of perceiving the right as a *political movement.* The response to Covid mitigation and the Floyd protests was not a spontaneous reaction...it was a right wing backlash organized by a reactionary movement.
It made sense to close schools. Covid spread through schools. We had no vaccines. People talk like over a million people didn’t die and millions more weren’t disabled. Or like we had all this knowledge in advance. Or it wouldn’t have had a big effect on society if we’d ignored it. My kids are OK?
That’s another thing that just guts me. Some schools around the country used the time and money to put in the preventative HVAC. It made a huge difference when the kids went back. So much could have been done! If not for the finger-pointing nut cases.
A lot of people where I live were willing to do it though! For a couple years at least. Exhaustion and confusion set in.
Why is he so stupid? Do people like it there?
It was complicated, which that asshole refuses to acknowledge. At first we did not know what the death rate was or who was at risk. The US government was run by crazy people. Different states tried different things. After a bunch of people died from events, different things closed.
It’s unbelievable. HE was antivax and America had a problem from this before covid. The world had a (smaller) problem with this. But it didn’t become a consolidated thing until Trump and covid. WHY do people always blame anyone with fucking common sense for EXTREMISM. Extremism just happens!
They needed to make alcohol easily available during covid in part because people are addicted to it and they can die without it. But this whole narrative is very strange. The first thing you SHOULD do in dealing with a deadly virus is close schools. I’m sorry but that is a wise course of action.
YES AND THIS IS TOTALLY BIZARRE!!!!
That is not something I remember? But I do remember we needed to close the schools if we didn’t want everyone to get covid.
Do they not remember what happened AT ALL?
my 75 year old mother is out today 🫡
It serves many purposes—avoid looking at yourself, balm for anxiety, they’ve always been idiotic racists—they feel threatened. Deflection and a way to consolidate under emotions (find someone else to hate). But it won’t work. People will remember. The discontent with them isn’t from ‘immigrants’
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This is also routine rhetoric in Silicon Valley — even by immigrant founders! — about America and nobody says shit. Journalists refuse to even *mention* it, let alone ask questions or hold anyone accountable.
“Ok, so I can’t make jewelry, but I’m great at disarming an alarm system and smashing glass cases”
Honestly, the hour-long run and march of people shouting “Free DC” up 14th Street today is the energy I needed this morning. I love you, DC.
WORKING CLASS UNITE!
Post a random picture or else everything will go bad in September.
Thanks!
It’s very stupid to make a country you must interact with your pubic whipping boy.
Yes, good point. I have always taken hope from that then Trump dashed those hopes—like when the Bundys took over the ranch all the white supremacists converged there but the Oathkeepers and Patriot Front immediately started fighting