People who put very sticky price stickers on the *front covers* of books should have a special place in at-least-purgatory, where they can ponder their crimes for a good long while.

We're holding a celebration of public transit/benefit show & looking for SEPTA employees who also have a fun skill they'd like to show off. Do you know a bus driver who can play a musical instrument? Do you know a rail machinist who can juggle? Send em my way! gettingbare.eventbrite.com

This is it, right here. The capital markets crave slavery, and our most unserious South African entrepreneur is willing to promise it to them.

Donate to Fobazi’s road to recovery: Kidney and liver transplant, organized by Ysabel Gerrard Hello all, my name is Ysabel and I’m fundraising for my friends … Ysabel Gerrard needs your support for Fobazi’s road to recovery: Kidney and liver transplant

Fobazi is currently in the ICU and could use your support. Apologies to those I haven’t been able to reach out to yet. You can message me for more info and I will be posting updates to GoFundMe. Please share, send healing thoughts, prayers, etc. ❤️ -Elena

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I spend far too much time looking at auction catalogs for a person with so little money.

Today’s self-pity outing cost $30 but now I have iridescent watercolors and the new Jackson Brodie.

I believe one of the new mRNA vaccines was expected to treat colon cancer, and another had the potential to keep pancreatic cancer from recurring. That’s what they’re taking away.

Please don't just boost--make a note of the number, and call.

Be polite, be patient, be firm.

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There has never been a “public-private partnership” that provided a higher quality service or cost less money than the public just doing the job in-house.

PPP’s exist to transfer more public, taxpayer money to private entities. It’s welfare for the immortal, immoral, unaccountable corps.

A political project that believes that your enemies also deserve living wages, food, healthcare, clean air and water, leisure time, etc is always going to be an uphill battle.

WTF is happening with SAVE, PSLF & SCOTUS? If you have student debt, here's a helpful update from your friends at the Debt Collective

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A Profession, If You Can Keep It Imagined meritocracies mean little to extractive institutions.

"...this “burnout” that secure scholars are feeling is phantom pain where their colleagues should be. Or, to use a term that every other normal worker in the US uses to describe their workplace under these conditions: you are suffering from the effects of intentional systemic understaffing."

Sponsor an Environmental Activism Art Night! By Skype a Scientist

I am looking for sponsors to continue our Environmental Activism Art series (formerly Climate Change Crafting Night)!

Why?
- This event is valuable! I want to share it more widely
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You might already know what this phrase means to ranchers…

I just dated something “July 44th” and you know what, I stand by it

A photo of a hand made sketchbook spread standing up on edge. The left side is a brown sheet of construction paper with a texture in light blue and orange made by painting on bubble wrap. On the left side it’s a white page with light blue circles and a silhouette of a cockroach. Over the spread are two strip of yellow paper. The top strip has “we need less” written out using cut paper. Two inches down is another strip of yellow paper with “assholery” written using cut paper. Art by Martha Rich.

I’m teaching a class where they make a sketchbook and get experimental and messy trying different techniques using their hands not AI. It’s loose and fun. Here is a page from my sketchbook. I’m tired of assholes running things. We need decent people in charge.

Look, you want something done, you go find the woke spinster in town. Whether it's a bake sale or digging up a body. Doesn't matter. She will be there and she will come prepared. #LifeLessons #NoirAlley

July 17, 2025 : Wondercab Mini (94A) SOS: FIRE AT THE MJT

The wondrous Museum of Jurassic Technology recently caught fire. They responded quickly and didn’t lose it all but will need help to remediate.

Please donate if you can.
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I'm boosting this again, since:

1. I'm nervous, so hah.
2. I want to make sure that Irvine City Council doesn't try and bury this and file for dismissal.

I'm not the only one who has been impacted by this; far from it. The application of this penal code HAS to change.

All I want in the whole world is to be a competent bureaucrat in the Temple of the White Rat and have a gnole acquaintance who tolerates my presence.

The best? Lack all conviction. The worst? Full of passionate intensity. The revelation? At hand

Photograph of a book taken with a phone. The book title is in large, blocky, hot-pink letters: THE WAR OF ART. The subtitle and author’s name are in black and yellow: A HISTORY OF ARTISTS’ PROTEST IN AMERICA by Lauren O’Neill Butler. The photographer’s left hand holds up the book to catch the sun. The blue sky and trees in the background are out of focus. There is a silver Oura ring on the index finger to track the wearer’s heart rate & sleep data. The book is published by Verso.

“There’s got to be more consistent opposition to hatred and contempt in the world, and not adding more evil.” Faith Ringold tells @laurenoneillbutler.bsky.social in Lauren’s new book THE ART OF WAR: A History of Artists’ Protest in America. Wonderful story, from ACT UP to Sackler’s PAIN. #Resist

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Michael Kirk Moore, a man who committed fraud and theft in selling fake COVID19 vaccine cards, injecting children with placebo instead of vaccine, and destroying $28,000 worth of vaccines that YOU paid for, still has an active medical license in Utah.

His charges were just dismissed by Pam Bondi.

It's so awful that we have to bail out a woman who is jail for having a miscarriage, but here we are. A couple of bucks from a lot of people adds up!

We don't say it often enough and the lapdog press is too cowardly to say it at all but these people are literally evil in the Biblical sense

FEMA Didn’t Answer Thousands of Calls From Flood Survivors, Documents Show

The problem with trading government services for tax cuts is that there are a lot of essential services where no amount of additional money in your pocket makes up for their loss.

The DOGE dividend was a lie.

Isaiah Hodgson, who arrested 2 U.S. citizens, including 20-year-old Adrian Martinez at Walmart and Job Garcia at Home Depot, is accused of entering the women’s restroom and approaching a female while intoxicated and armed with a handgun. lataco.com/border-patro...

by @shoton35mm.bsky.social

As Trump slashed weather agency, his appointees have ties to companies that stand to benefit from privatizing forecasts Companies poised to step into the void have ties to those tapped by President Donald Trump to run agencies that collect

As Trump slashes NOAA and the National Weather Service, several of his appointees — including Howard Lutnick — have close financial ties to companies that would profit from privatizing weather forecasting.

Everything is for sale.

It's disorienting living in the Wile E. Coyote portion of a country's life cycle. We ran off the cliff but haven't plummeted down yet. We're just now starting to hold up the big YIKES sign