Shann

I enjoy BlueSky, it’s nice, but it just doesn’t have the vibrancy I was looking for. It’s becoming another doomscroll for me, and at the moment it’s part of the constellation not helping me get on with more pressing things.

As such I will be deactivating my account for the time being. Farewell!

Remember that every single “efficiency” gain, fired worker, and so called tariff here for one thing and one thing only.

It’s not for better public services, healthcare, infrastructure, middle classe prosperity, or any of this woke nonsense.

It’s purely to pay for tax cuts for the wealthy.

Images of stocks all in the red

Red Wave

Hey, they got rid of 2 kids in women’s sports, worth it. /s

Meanwhile on Fox News

We simply had to intentionally destroy the world’s strongest economy while dismantling our scientific and educational infrastructure to ensure that a team with a trans girl would never finish second place in the Mountain West volleyball standings again

Trump Goes Crazy on Trade “Liberation Day” is even worse than expected

Falsehoods, lies, and made-up statistics. These are not serious people.

paulkrugman.substack.com/p/trump-goes...

Trump Team Weighs Broader, Higher Tariffs An across-the-board hike of up to 20% is back on the table ahead of Wednesday’s deadline.

This is the economic equivalent of telling people to drink bleach for COVID.

Investors are still behaving as if it couldn't possibly be so dumb, but consider this: people who parrot that tariffs are (and I quote) a "tax cut", might just be economically illiterate.

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Their entire game-plan is using language to condition people to think abusing people they don’t like is a matter of national security.

They’re always “fraudsters”, “extremists”, “terrorists”.

They’re literally weaponizing language in order to justify unsavory actions.

Woman Arrested After Miscarriage In Georgia Under Abortion Law A 24-year-old Tifton woman faces criminal charges after experiencing a miscarriage, raising concerns about the application of Georgia's strict abortion

Absolute insanity.

These people belong in jail - not that poor woman who already had to go through the excruciating pain of a miscarriage.

thegeorgiasun.com/news/woman-a...

Elon Says Government Will 'Go After' People 'Pushing the Propaganda' About Tesla Elon Musk backed earlier statements from Trump and Attorney General Pam Bondi condemning the attacks and threatening legal action.

Going after vandals and violence is one thing (which I personally support, this kind of violence is wrong and illegal - it isn’t the way).

What he’s talking about here is much broader than this, and using a false narrative that his opponents = “fraudsters”

www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Ubisoft’s $4 billion carveout sells Tencent a 25 percent stake in some of its biggest games The rumors were (kind of) true.

Tom Clancy games now managed by a Chinese company 🫠

www.theverge.com/news/637775/...

I'm no big fan of manifestos, most are exercises in empty corporate speech meant to make the writer feel like a pro.

But this isn't any manifesto, it's Miyazaki's project plan for Totoro, written in 1986.

Enjoy.

Whatever happened to the "5 things " DoGe emails ? Talked to someone really smart who just left gov, who said all the emails bounced back as inbox full.

Already forgotten

Typical

Ready Fire Aim

MAGA accusing others of pushing hoaxes is some next level idiocracy.

This whole thing is sickening, and the silence of “but her emails” republicans is absolutely shameful.

Reading the news is depressing, these people are abject.

Impressive, this is 100% “could have fooled me”

you think this administration cares about the truth, or even making sense? They got to power without either of those.

I don’t think “marketing tweeter” (the good and the bad) has found its place now that Twitter is gone.

It seems most have simply moved to LinkedIn (which isn’t the same), while some here, like me, are struggling to stay on topic with everything going on.

Remember that the guys texting state secrets to journalists are the very same people lamenting we need competent white people running things.

None of this has got to do with meritocracy.

Just in case you were confused about the spiteful view billionaires like him have of us plebes.

That’s a new one- email was in my inbox by the time I landed.

It means they flagged that something wasn’t working, sent it to a customer response system, and activated the response.

Pretty neat, and the kind of service that makes sense in 2025.

YouTube video by The Ezra Klein Show Democrats Need to Face Why Trump Won | The Ezra Klein Show

Fascinating dive into what drove the last election, looking at the loss of immigrants, non voters and young voters (all demos that are typically favorable to democrats) - all tilted substantially to Trump.

Well worth a watch.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=Sx0J...

Sponsors drop San Francisco Pride as festival decries ‘rights backtracking’ Comcast, Anheuser-Busch and others cancel funding as US becomes increasingly hostile toward LGBTQ+ communities

Brands will be brands…

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Free speech absolutists in action:

Ben & Jerry's says parent Unilever decided to oust ice cream maker's CEO Ben & Jerry's said its parent, Unilever , decided to oust the ice cream maker's chief executive, Dave Stever, escalating a battle over the subsidiary's independence on social policy issues.

Purpose is going great! 👌

www.reuters.com/business/ret...

Jesus Fucking Christ.

What a sign of the times…

Only had good experiences personally.