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AR Senate candidates @jamesrussell3rd.bsky.social and Mayor Ethan Dunbar visited the 77th Mount Nebo Chicken Fry today with the Yell and Pope County Dems #arpx @arkdems.org

Hot Springs National Park, Arkansas, Labor Day Labor Rising Rally. James Russell III, candidate for US Senate addresses Rally goers.

#ARKANSAS Labor Day SEP 1 ☮️ #WorkersOVERBillionaire💲

‪rp @cortneymckee.bsky.social
I helped organize my 3rd protest yesterday!
#Arkansas #arpx #arbluedots #solidarity #goodtrouble
@jamesrussell3rd.bsky.social
#HotSprings National Park

#SeptemberSolidarity #UnionStrong #FiftyFiftyOne #RATR

Today, I'm thankful for Werner Herzog's advice from several years ago. (Paraphrasing)

"Embrace and use every ounce of your creativity toward executing your vision just as you did in having the vision in the first place. Let nothing stop you from bringing it fully to life as YOU envision it."

a man in a white suit stands in a forest with the words now that i can 't abide above him ALT: a man in a white suit stands in a forest with the words now that i can 't abide above him

Negotiating with fascists legitimizes them. It's succumbing to the fallacy that they enter into any discussion on equal moral footing as you.

They don't. You don't negotiate with fascists. You defeat them. WAY too many people seem to have forgotten this.

Europe has a message for Elmo.

This is the GOP’s long con on full display.

Of course it is! But he's also going to make absolutely sure that he personally makes money from the "solution".

Again, I'm genuinely very sorry for anyone who is suffering a sense of loss in the wake of this. Please just know that what you are feeling is by design, not by happenstance.

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Seriously. Every week without fail.

Now we're all talking about TikTok and have been doing so fervently since Friday. I'm willing to bet that it gets "solved" by Wednesday.

That's largely why I'm leaving most social media. I don't want to have to go through the Panic of the Week every Friday.

By Monday, news had gotten down to talking heads discussing what happened and by Wednesday we're just finding out what OTHER horrible things happened while that news cycle dominated everything. Then we get announcements on Thursday about what MIGHT happen Friday, and the entire cycle started over.

I paid attention during Drumpf's first term. EVERY SINGLE WEEKEND was dominated by some huge news story that kept everyone distracted and ate up the news cycle. Seriously, a story broke on Friday afternoons and that was all anyone talked about on Saturday and Sunday.

Confirmation hearings
Mass deportation prep
The complete lack of ANY laws or legislation meant to protect our digital privacy (b/c if you have digital privacy, we can't maximize our advertising $ on you).
Any number of other goings-on that further serve to undermine society while we're distracted.

TikTok made money. America loves money. That's really the entire story for me. It's GOING to return in one form or another. But, for right now, it's a big story that can get everyone up in arms and grab all of the attention so that no one is watching...

To those feeling lost in the wake of TikTok's ban, I'm very sorry, truly.

But given the timing, the people involved, the nature of the app itself, etc, it all seems more like a planned piece of theater than anything else...

CARTOON OF THE DAY 🫤🇺🇸

We all know this is the real reason.

4 more years of this kind of crap. At least if we're lucky and they don't trash the rest of our laws in order to keep the nightmare going.

This is too perfect. I come across this gif exactly as Reel Big Fish's cover of Take On Me queues up on my playlist. 🤘🏼💜

I'm much more interested in how we gtfo of here, though.

How did we get here?
1. The inexorable marriage of religion to the state under Reagan.
2. The relentless defunding of public schools.
3. Lowering standards to give the appearance of success without the substance.
4. Death of the Fairness Doctrine alongside the birth of the 24hr news cycle.

Could be! I was thinking maybe 5 Queens in poker (one has to be a wild card).

The March of the AI Femmebots!!!

Just so, a Chaotic state may require the cessation of energy and become disordered before being reintroduced to move towards order.
Life, Death.
Big Bang, Heat Death.
Probably utter nonsense on stilts, but a friend commented on being engulfed in a chaotic state, and it triggered thoughts. Thanks!

Chaotic simply is, Disordered was allowed to become. Both, I think, are purely subjective since order can be found within chaos, and disorder can be the state in which things are found. But that's the crux. Active and static. And disorder MUST have chaos introduced to it in order to become ordered.

"Chaotic" and "disordered" have distinct different physical feelings for me. I've had sound-color synesthesia my whole life; but I think this is different. More like ingrained responses to the concept itself. Chaotic feels active, disordered feels sedentary. Or manic vs. lethargic.

from today's post —
link is here: bit.ly/4aiwxdA

I'm at that strange point in middle-aged where I can see the mistakes I've made in the past, & know how I should have corrected for them. Yet I'm now hindered by the anxiety that ageism may restrict my options in trying to move forward. It's a crisis without manic spending or flings. Take your meds.

Why is the media like this?