Tempest Love

Tempest Love

@tempestlove.bsky.social

Who could ask for more?

110 Followers 155 Following 144 Posts Joined Nov 2024
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Update: Civil War cancelled due to shooter being demographically uncooperative

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6 months ago
Won’t give any advice about carrying out mass shooting until user drags the slider to fit the puzzle piece

New Safety Features Coming To ChatGPT https://theonion.com/new-safety-features-coming-to-chatgpt/

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Alt text: A Simpsons meme shows Smithers holding a gun to a man labelled “Inflation is only 2.7%” while saying “Go on, tell ’em.” Below, two Costco steak price tags are compared: in April 2024, $10.99/lb ($49.24 for 4.48 lb) versus in August 2026, $15.99/lb ($78.03 for 4.88 lb).

Commentary: This meme highlights the gap between official inflation numbers and lived reality at the checkout. The U.S. government has repeatedly changed how it calculates inflation—stripping out categories that once mattered. In the 1960s, the Consumer Price Index (CPI) included housing costs, mortgage interest, and food in ways that captured household pressures more directly. Over time, adjustments like “hedonic pricing” (assuming technology gets better so rising prices don’t count as much), substitution effects (if steak gets too expensive, they assume you’ll just buy chicken), and exclusions of volatile essentials (food and fuel) have made the published number smaller, cleaner, and friendlier to policymakers—at the expense of accuracy for working families.

Meanwhile, meat prices are not simply about supply and demand. Four conglomerates—Cargill, Tyson, JBS, and National Beef—control more than 80% of U.S. beef processing. Their power lets them set prices for both ranchers and consumers, extracting profit at both ends. The meme’s side-by-side steak labels make the point: when the official story says inflation is “under control,” but your grocery bill tells you otherwise, the problem isn’t your imagination—it’s the system.

When I was young, my family could barely afford meat for a Sunday dinner. Now, it’s just unaffordable … but meat processors are making record profits.

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6 months ago
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"Men in Black" White Album joke YouTube video by JustFourGuys

www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKlm...

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7 months ago

I would love to see the difference between a writer's, a developer's, and a script-kiddy's keyboard.

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A Star Trek TOS meme showing Spock giving the Vulcan salute with the caption "Drink coffee and prosper".

Good morning, those of the Blue Sky! Have an enjoyable #Saturday!

And please pass the #coffee.

#Inspiration #Motivation

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7 months ago

Man, Delta Airlines cannot stay out of the news.
B-52, Engine Fire, Flying under the influence... and so much worse. I think Delta is cursed.

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7 months ago

I need brain bleach after that

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CBS to Cancel ‘Late Show With Stephen Colbert’ Citing ‘Financial Decision’ CBS said it planned to cancel Stephen Colbert's Late Show after next season, citing the weakening finances of late night

CBS canceled the only good 15 minutes they had.
variety.com/2025/tv/news...

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a man wearing a mask holds up a bottle of coca-cola ALT: a man wearing a mask holds up a bottle of coca-cola

@bluestein.bsky.social

Coca Cola already makes Coke with sugar cane and it is available in many USA grocery stores.

Just ask for "Mexican Coke".

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Canadian judge halts deportation of non-binary American | Xtra Magazine The ruling could set a massive precedent for trans and non-binary Americans seeking refuge in Canada amidst Trump’s wave of anti-trans attacks

A Canadian judge just halted the deportation of a non-binary American in a landmark ruling that could set a huge precedent for trans and non-binary U.S. citizens seeking refuge in Canada.

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Judge in Ábrego García case signals DOJ failed to prove he's dangerous Judge Waverly D. Crenshaw Jr. presided over the Kilmar Ábrego García bail hearing on Wednesday and indicated that the Justice Department struggled to reach the high standard required to declare him a danger to the community. "Obviously, the court is going to look at the issues...I'm having a hard ti...

Judge Waverly D. Crenshaw Jr. presided over the Kilmar Abrego Garcia bail hearing on Wednesday and indicated that the Justice Department struggled to reach the high standard required to declare him a danger to the community.

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I've never signed up for a new source when I hit a pay wall.
I do subscribe to a couple of local news sources, just to help them stay in business.

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I raise you, 'The Mouth of Sauron.'

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When someone is detained by ICE, they are often sent to a private, for-profit detention center.

The same detention centers that cut corners to increase profits, are rife with abuse, and bankroll Republican campaigns.

Your American tax dollars at work.

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8 months ago
This is a parody of the trolley car meme.
A trolley is driving over a line of people.  It is captioned "you can stop the trolley at any time, but doing so would disrupt the trolley service, causing the company to lose profits!  ... and the on-call gets paged."
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Service workers: No taxes on tips!
Big Beautiful Bill: They bought it
Faking out service workers:
1. Promise no taxes on tips
2. Doesn't affect low-income earners
3. Tell them they got a break.

www.npr.org/2025/07/03/g...
"Our analysis suggests that if your income is above 3.3 million, you get a tax cut of over 118 thousand," Gimbel said. "And if you're in the bottom quintile, once SNAP and Medicaid cuts are taken into account, on average, you're losing $560."

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I see your Peter Parker and raise you a John Nada.

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Is Zohran the Destroyer the cousin of Gozer the Destructor? Or did Gozer rebrand?

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Out of curiosity are the ones you have marked matter compliant? The ones I had were from before that compliance standard.

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I had the no-hub Wi-fi ones. Those are dependent on sengled servers, which were down for more than a day.
The people who had the hub based / zigbee, ones, were not affected

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This is nightmare fuel.

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If it fits... it sits.

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I've seen the news about him being returned to Norway, none of which mentioned this. Is there an article supporting the rest of this?

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When I was reading Heritage's description of why it wasn't an abortion, they stated it was because it hadn't implanted in the uterus yet. I guess they no longer have a problem with Plan B? Such mental gymnastics.

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