I'm wondering if we have to accept that it's going to get way rougher and a couple of us might have to start taking a few risks.
16.10.2025 06:52 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0@unclefishbits.bsky.social
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I'm wondering if we have to accept that it's going to get way rougher and a couple of us might have to start taking a few risks.
16.10.2025 06:52 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0"Hey, everyone hates everyone, now govern them!"
There's a great line from the film Mindwalk, "An Italian premier, just was just after Mussolini, was asked, "Is it difficult to govern Italians?" He said, "Difficult. No, not difficult. Only useless."
"Hey, everyone hates everyone, now govern them!"
There's a great line from the film Mindwalk, "An Italian premier, just was just after Mussolini, was asked, "Is it difficult to govern Italians?" He said, "Difficult. No, not difficult. Only useless."
This is a fantastic statement from the governor of Washington, but I can't get past the fact that the man who's standing up to the right-wing anti-immigrant machine is named ...
Bob Ferguson?
Seriously?
Does he have a daughter named Willa?
Reuters reporting this blatant crime as if itโs a lunch date is a prime example of the kind of careless, aloof normalization in journalism that has greased the skids of this catastrophic authoritarian power grab.
16.10.2025 01:13 โ ๐ 865 ๐ 275 ๐ฌ 8 ๐ 4๐จThe US labor market is CONTRACTING.
US ADP Private Employment FELL -32,000 in September, far below the expected gain of +51,000.
August was revised DOWN by -57,000, to -3,000.
This rarely happens outside of RECESSIONS.๐
AOC: And they are able to radicalize a generation of young boys in particular, away from healthy masculinity and into an insecure masculinity that requires the domination of others who are poorer, browner, darker, or a different gender than them.
16.10.2025 01:36 โ ๐ 16662 ๐ 4574 ๐ฌ 386 ๐ 249I thought they said it was wrong for an administration to ask a social media platform to take stuff down.
15.10.2025 02:41 โ ๐ 6211 ๐ 1559 ๐ฌ 376 ๐ 117Business Insider headline reads: UPS is telling customers that their packages coming to the US are marked for destruction.
About a month ago, the Trump administration got rid of the de minimis exemption, whereby packages valued under $800 could slide in without import duties. Now there's a backlog as the government can't process all of this paperwork, leading to UPS just destroying packages
12.10.2025 04:59 โ ๐ 9500 ๐ 3734 ๐ฌ 217 ๐ 375Trump said that San Francisco was one of the great cities 10 to 15 years ago.
Guess who was mayor and district attorney?
Gavin Newsom and Kamala Harris.
A journalist simply needs to ask him why he loves Gavin and Kamala so much that he would say that and confuse him.
This is some of Burial's best work in 15 years...
Comafields
Imaginary festival
burial.bandcamp.com/album/comafi...
If you enjoy post dubstep atmosphere, someone said "he invented lonely winter nights", but walking back from the club at 3:00 a.m. when your ears don't work.
I'm worn down to a nub, so genuinely asking:
Do you think there will be Nuremberg, let alone elections?
After 700,000 dead Americans, Lincoln said "With malice toward none, with charity for all / let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds"
So, what happens here?
I'm worn down to a nub, so genuinely asking:
Do you think there will be Nuremberg, let alone elections?
After 700,000 dead Americans, Lincoln said "With malice toward none, with charity for all / let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds"
So, what happens here?
Help @quoteinvestigator.com! I can't find the source:
โHalf the world's population are women. The other half are her children."
Efu Nyaki?
Branson said Graรงa Machel with this added: "Yet in many countries women still don't have equal rights.โ
(& possibly but unlikely Purna Chandra Kanungo Deo)?
Help @quoteinvestigator.com! I can't find the source:
โHalf the world's population are women. The other half are her children."
Efu Nyaki?
Branson said Graรงa Machel with this added: "Yet in many countries women still don't have equal rights.โ
(& possibly but unlikely Purna Chandra Kanungo Deo)?
Kai Ryssdal said The S&P 500 shouldn't be 500, it should be the S&P 490 and 10 AI adjacent companies.
This is a problem:
"Harvard economist Jason Furman recently said that AI investments accounted for nearly 92% of U.S. GDP growth in the first half of 2025" finance.yahoo.com/news/most-us...
1997 MTVโs Zoo TV predicting Youtube, AI content delivery, AI designed digital ecosystems, CRISPR & Epigenetics, Digital Ecosystems, and more. unclefishbits.com/1997-mtvs-zo...
15.10.2025 23:23 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Chasing AGI: altruism, self-interest, capitalism, libertarian technologists, and a different existential threat for the human race. unclefishbits.com/chasing-agi-...
15.10.2025 23:22 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0LOVE DINNER PARTY HORROR:
The Invitation
Coherence
The Dinner Party
The Feast
Await Further Instructions
Krampus
You're Next
The Menu
It's a Disaster
Would You Rather
Krishna
The Perfect Host
Who Invited Them?
also The Gift, Mother!, Ready or Not truly fits!
TCM's dinner scene
Hitchcock's Rope
LOVE DINNER PARTY HORROR:
The Invitation
Coherence
The Dinner Party
The Feast
Await Further Instructions
Krampus
You're Next
The Menu
It's a Disaster
Would You Rather
Krishna
The Perfect Host
Who Invited Them?
also The Gift, Mother!, Ready or Not truly fits!
TCM's dinner scene
Hitchcock's Rope
86'd Facebook 2012, Twitter circa Mid 2023.
I've 2 "legacy" Instagram (DJ, personal), but never really used (don't get settings, just found DMs lol).
I'm in email, text, bluesky, imgur, & reddit, mainly. Strava.
It's not only wild how many place we exist, but where we're *expected to also exist*.
Soft spoiler for the Boyle Garland Zombie film:
The ending of 28 Years Later, nodding to the fact that 2002 and everything after it would not have happened (trends, pop culture, crimes, metoo, etc), and the Jimmy Savile gang is the most bonkers out of left field thing, and it was absolutely WILD.
For the masses, why should you not run it unsupported?
I know that's a stupid question, but if it's simply "security issues", that's fine for me! =)
They arrested a giraffe.
15.10.2025 16:19 โ ๐ 7147 ๐ 2895 ๐ฌ 571 ๐ 181it is ALWAYS worth pointing out who gets to be just a helpless little innocent precious baby boy at the age of 34, vs. who is framed by the cops as a big scary dangerous man whose candy bar might be a gun when he's barely in middle school, or described as a "13-year-old woman" by her predator
15.10.2025 21:21 โ ๐ 707 ๐ 266 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0This is serious. JD Vance just confirmed Trump is considering invoking the Insurrection Act โ deploying troops on U.S. soil against his own people.
๐ฐ Heโs using OUR tax dollars for HIS power grab.
๐ But in America, we donโt do kings.
On Oct 18, we rise. Peacefully. Powerfully. Together. #NoKings
UPSHOT: Is it soil? Plant based, especially pea protein = worst offenders. It's still not that simple.
But, YIKES-
"Federal regulations also donโt generally require supplement makers to prove their products are safe, and there are no federal limits for the amount of heavy metals they can contain."
UPSHOT: Is it soil? Plant based, especially pea protein = worst offenders. It's still not that simple.
But, YIKES-
"Federal regulations also donโt generally require supplement makers to prove their products are safe, and there are no federal limits for the amount of heavy metals they can contain."
This is a HUGE deal.
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