Wealth taxes NOW. It’s patriotic to do your part and fund society for the workers you exploit in order to get this rich. #taxtherich
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Wealth taxes NOW. It’s patriotic to do your part and fund society for the workers you exploit in order to get this rich. #taxtherich
Sexual harassment or sexual "expectations"? Dude started dropping his pants like he'd been to this sorta massage parlor before. 🤮
John Wayne as an ex-confederate killing Indians? I cut to the chase and read the wiki...Someone want to tell me what the redeeming 'thing' in this movie is going to be that'll make me want to watch it or why it's such 'an amazing movie' cause I'm not feeling it... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sea...
big tech hasn't come up with anything paradigm-shifting and useful since the smartphone in 2008 and I'm tired of all the shit they keep shoving down our throats trying to recapture that high
Yep, he's got that. Microfiber clothes over scrunched paper and a light heating pad. He's proper snug 😁
What was the news what did I miss?
Uggggghhhhhh Nadler..... Also, hello neighbor lol
Turns out sleeping for 18 hours is normal. Got him to sip a little bit, still not eagerly eating. Set him by the tree for an hour with a speaker playing baby squirrel noises, but no luck drawing out mama. Can't/won't climb the tree, so he's gonna spend the night and we'll try again tomorrow
This guy gets it.
My wife just called me Kronk and I just learned he counts as a Disney Princess and I couldn't be more proud. It occurs to me too that I *have* had wild sparrows let me pet them...also that penguin incident...
welll.....shit....
You almost got a follow from me but you mis-attributed the quote, how could you.
Taking advice from Nate Silver re politics is like taking financial advice from a dorm bro who won $1,000 on a scratcher one time. Anybody who considers him relevant at all isn't anyone who has any critical aptitude.
That's about where I'm at. Internet says they do a mix of solids and milk at this age (6-9 weeks?) so I picked up a can of kitten formula + bottle and have squeezed that and/or water onto her lips. Cut up some avocado and sprinkled chia and pine nuts on a plate, hoping for the best. 🫣
Somebody is throwing things out of a window of the White House wtaf
Invited to an Alice-in-Wonderland theme party and I wanted me and my wife to go as Paul McCartney and John Lennon but she says it's too meta, nobody will get it but I think we'd nail it.
She's alive but not very active. Currently laying under her tree in a box with baby squirrel sounds playing, hoping to lure out mom...
You're wayyy too kind lol
Internet "cums" full circle. I'll see myself out...
@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!
Piro not being able to prosecute young adults for hand gun possession sounds like a skill issue, not a law issue. Git gud scrub.
"becoming"?
That is fundamentally untrue. The person responsible for the enshitification of G-Search is largely the fault of Prabhakar Ragahvan. To give Pichai credit for *anything* implies the man has vision and leadership. As an ex-Googler, I can assure you: he has neither.
"Because nobody clicks through to the second page"
Brb, adding "The Searchers" to my watch list
Baby squirrel took a 40ft fall onto the path in front of me this morning and I don't even know if I can with this. (Too weak/stunned to get back in the tree, free run dog park, maybe concussed?, no local place I can take it) Any vets in the house?
Murderbot not helping you sleep?
My mother experienced domestic violence and was left on the side of the road, at night, asking for help. I once gave a ride to a HS classmate walking at 1am on the side of the road bc of her family abusing her. And even *I* don't believe Giulliani. Like that guy?! Not a chance.
Person #2 in that conversation was an L8 VP/Director, not a proper developer. If anybody in leadership at Google had any actual technical competency, they wouldn't be as shitty as they've become. -- ex-Googler
universe loading the bases for a walkoff grand slam
Oh, and receipts at a glance. Turns out $5 was generous since most of the WM8524 variants could be had for just $1. God you guys suck so hard. www.digipart.com/part/WM8524
Hey, @cambridgeaudio.bsky.social , Thanks for letting me know not to ever trust you for any of my future Hi-Fi audio purchases. I don't know what kind of drugs your team was on when they put a *literal* $5 DAC in a tin box and decided to charge $400 for it, but do kindly fuck ALLLLLLL the way off.
Whatever they used to be, the surest sign that @roughtrade1976.bsky.social is dead is that they're shilling this kind of trash on people. $400 'slim' CD player with 0 significant features. This would have been a joke in 1995 nevermind 2025. Kick all the rocks at anyone who tells you otherwise.
CHICAGO…
Kinda hope we implement ID checks for it too. No reason we should impose on those red state anti-vaxers... /s #letThemTakeIvermectin
"Four-and-a-half Vulcans" isn't the worst ep of any Trek ever by far, but it did have the most lost potential. Thumpasurus has a great summary of it youtu.be/T6dmMUR9TVI?...
Holy shit they're making a sequel to Sisu. This is not a test: They're making a sequel to Sisu!
We can't even play basketball 🏀 🤬
It’s important that everyone act as if the federal government is occupied by a group of Nazi sympathizing, neo-Confederate insurrectionists who are opposed to multiracial democracy and at war with the constitution—because that’s exactly what’s happening.
Inhuman. “I don’t have any choice” is a lie.
"Ashli Babbitt was a grown ass adult who made a series of conscious, ill-advised decisions to engage in treasonous behavior, and she got exactly what she deserved. She was a traitor. She was a threat to national security. There is no nuance needed here."
"The charges lacked 'sub-stance' " My wife wants to kill me.
Angus: I’m saying we need to start building progressive media that people actually listen to. I’ll give you an example: MeidasTouch. Wherever I go in Canada, working-class people listen to MeidasTouch because they talk about what’s happening in a practical way. They give facts.
Don’t look away
Pay attention. Your family’s safety is on the line.
My mom brought home a free ][e in '92 for me. It was my first computer and obsolete at that point. I took my bike to every thrift store and bought any 5.25 floppies I could find. Tried them all till I found one that worked and taught my self BASIC by reverse engineering via the list command.
Thinking it does the term a disservice to call it pedocon 'theory' at this point
oh man, when you find someone with the same vibe as you and you get that right song? It's transcendental. Threading needles of people with swingouts at 180bpm in a packed New Orleans jazz bar at 1am with a complete stranger inches away from the trumpet player? Nothing like it in the world.
Preach. I had 0 social/school from 14-16 and then dropped into HS half a world away. I was practically sociopathic about learning how to 'fit in', actively practicing gestures/head movements. Good news is, now you know and *you* get to choose how/when you do it now. You get to be YOU.
There's really nothing like it. I could geek out on this stuff for hours and you'll meet so many others eager to as well. WCS is a unique beast, it's the only contemporary social dance that has continuously developed it's aesthetic in response to music vs. being 'pinned' to a specific genre.
You *will* encounter alll sorts of levels of dance, don't let youtube make you think everyone is S tier 😂 Avoid Fusion/Blues if you're trying to develop, it'll only give you bad habits. If you dig into the WCS for bit though, you'll be able to drop into almost any social dance near effortlessly.
The lead/follow might be weird at first, but the aesthetic is adaptable and the core components will elevate you. WCS does have a competitive scene, but never feel pressured/obligated to participate beyond what your personal itch is. And you can always show up alone, no partner necessary.
Always a great question! Honest Answer? Don't worry about it. Dance is a kinesthetic language, like Ballet->Hip Hop, there'll be things things to adjust, but it won't ever really detract, if anything, it just gives you more vocabulary. I literally lead my partner into ronde jamb's all the time 😂
Yea, the city never worked for me, (ex east Greenlake) but the people are missed. If you ever make it out, ask for Koichi, Scott, Rebecca, Jillian, tell 'em Stryder sent you 😁
Seattle has a great WCS and Lindy community, used to be my stomping grounds. Sad China Harbor is gone. Century had a remodel/change of ownership I heard. Made it back for Easter Swing this year and they absolutely nailed it I thought.
What city, if you don't mind sharing
We are too long overdue for a soft sequel to Big Trouble in Little China staring Wyatt Russel. Who do we gotta harass to make that happen?
No, you can't fire someone you don't have authority to and it's not "illegal", it's just Illegal. Don't do the WAPO's work for them unless you're trying to carry water for the fascists.
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It used to be taught to help "hook" new dancers, but we'd just have to end up breaking all the ECS habits to get them dancing Lindy Hop. Timing, rhythm, intent, movements, all kinda run "counter" to what the other swing dances do.
Also, in case you're ever around this crowd; swing dancers don't usual consider ECS a "real" swing dance. It's like the splenda of the swing world and typically done along with Jive by "Ballroom Dancers". It (rightly) gets some derision.
Yea, that's PopOS. And you're proving my point: you believe the jump will be painful so are unwilling to take the jump because of preconceived notions that I'm not gonna try to disabuse you of. That much negative attitude isn't a personality. 🤷 glhf
It absolutely does. When basic user X goes to buy a computer, they believe Linux is "nerd tech" and stores sell either Win or Mac. You have to go out of your way to buy a Linux PC. You're still operating on stereotypes that simply aren't true anymore, but are still prevalent.
20 years. It was the first to make the attempt with some success and they've gotten even better. Check out PopOS if you want a skinned classic Windows feel. It's more user friendly than Windows 11 and doesn't invade your privacy.
And it does take some adjusting, like if you were moving from windows to mac. Disrupting your own norms isn't easy, it takes some effort and (understandably) people don't always have that time. Learning new things takes focus and that's hard to spend for avg people.
Yes, because that's how it's been for the last 3+ decades, so it's become the association. Like Lamborghinis and douche bags. But newer flavors like Ubuntu, Mint, and PopOS focus on making a general user friendly OS. But it says Linux so people are still (fair play) afraid.
Not quite. WCS has origins in Tommy Two Step and "Hollywood" swing. East Coast Swing used to be called Jitterbug, is the basis of 90's NeoSwing, and was created by Arthur Murray to 'de-black' Lindy Hop for White people (true story). WCS arguably pre-dates ECS
You're not wrong about the last but missing the point with the first. You keep doing you boo
It is absolutely a swing dance just like Carolina Shag, East Coast, Balboa, Collegiate Shag, Charleston, and of course, Lindy Hop. Source: me and my almost 30 years of dancing and professional instruction.
It is a swing dance, just a different one. The popular one of the 90's you're thinking of was Neo Swing or Lindy Hop. Think of them as different types of cake. West coast swing works to any modern pop or blues and has a distinctive look apart from the others but they share some movements
This is a "Jack and Jill" style competition for West Coast Swing, a lead/fellow partner dance. The competitors are paired randomly and don't know the song ahead of time. The dancers have likely danced together, but the whole thing is improvised. Source: I'm a dancer and know the people in the video
And that's Mint. Or ugh, Ubuntu. You don't even need to pop the hood to install stuff these days. The curve is really just the look and feel. It only looks scary.
Gonna miss our parasocial relationship, but totally get it. Take care good buddy. If you ever need to know where the good shows in NYC are, give a holler!
I mean, if you don't want to learn how a computer works, sick with windows or mac, certainly, but Mint is the closest you can get to a pre-Windows 10 experience without having to do anything.
wow, I didn't know who Ritichie Torres was before this, but dude's an absolutely schmuck.
NY'er here and yea, because he was an asshole. That's why he got mean looks. If he'd been less of an asshole we wouldn't have needed to not like him so much. Even in a city full of assholes he stood out as a particularly notable asshole. Kinda forgot he even lived here. Dude was *such* a prick.
The tinkering is an Arch thing. Multiple years in on Mint and I've never needed to tinker with anything except my terminal theme. *shrug*
The only goon I believe in
Because you were effective enough at masking thanks to as a child that everyone just treated you like a "normal" person who was maybe just a bit too intense at times making it difficult to develop deep interpersonal relationships? Or was that just me?
But think of all the other innocent sandwiches that might come to harm over this!!! If people think it's ok to throw food stuff at law enforcement, what of all the tomatoes and pizza slices!!
Can confirm. 🫣
If you end up doing a personal retrospective on things in your past that went wrong /didn't work that suddenly make sense bc of this, don't be hard on yourself. Just, don't. -- someone swimming similar waters.
In honor of sandwich guy getting out of his legal pickle, here is the original video synced with Freedom - George Michael 1990.
🎶there gooooessss ourrr heroooo Fuck this unserious administration www.wusa9.com/article/news...
How do you go this long without learning Bruce Willis is his tall dad? That's incredible
You love to see it.
Yea, and it's Hakeem and Co holding us back, not the other way around. The ONLY thing making the Democrats the LEAST bit relevant right now are your New Squad and DSA. Crockett, Pritz, AOC, Mamdani, are all meeting the moment. Even Newsome is doing more and like, fuck that guy but go get it my guy.
NY'er and I absolutely do. You could paint a potato blue and I'd vote for it over Hakeem. And if Zohran endorsed that potato? I might seriously have to look into it's policies. The DNC is DEAD.
This is the strat I've been talking about! *Arrest* them, charge them in the state, and make Trump et Al chase it in the court. Fuck being on the backfoot with this BS
I only vaguely recollect the rest of the conversation, but I do recall it being filled with reactionary folks who wanted virtue signals and knee bending and I don't do either because that's not how you stand up for people and I don't need a strangers approval to love my trans family. #getFucked
Someone **else** used the term "tr***ies", not me. It's an offensive and derogatory term so yea, "ewww" as in that person was really gross. I'm happy to share my more explicitly vulgar thoughts on the kind of person that would use that term, but it didn't seem necessary.
Hey, that's a pretty cool trick, right on! Much appreciated! And if *that's* the basis for calling me transphobic, then somebody isn't being honest or forthright and it's not me. /1
Burn OpenAI down to the silicon and then move on to the next one and the next. Melt it all down and then ban every CEO and shill from doing anything more than picking fruit for the rest of their days.
Who did this?
I would've said "ignorance" but you're clearly beating us to it
Wait, not all my neighbors... There's a couple Trump'ers that I harass on a near daily basis and have been physically threatened about, but it hasn't slowed me down. Fuck Trump and allllll his BS. Trans rights are human rights and I absolutely stand by that. Fuck whoever labeled me.
I couldn't tell you why someone thinks I'm transphobic *shrug* but you're welcome to take a strangers word over my actual allyship. So, yes, ALL my neighbors and yea, I've gone to bat and to the mat on that.