Brendonowicz (Wears an N95) ☭🩺 #MedicareForAll

If you refuse to wear a respirator mask in all public spaces during the ongoing pandemic of Covid-19, you are not "following the science."

#COVID19 #respirator

OK, I lol’d

Cory Doctorow : "We need to make tech workers unionized again ...  because tech workers that aren't working behind a keyboard, those tech workers, they're peeing in bottles or being injured at 3x the national rate in an Amazon warehouse. That's how tech bosses treat workers they're not afraid of."

Former slave states in the Deep South have the nation's lowest minimum wages or none at all, meaning some workers rely on the federal minimum wage, $7.25/hr.

Map of the technate of America showing all of North America including Canada, Mexico, Central America, all the Antilles, and the northern parts of Colombia, Venezuela and Guyana in red against a tan background with the title Technate of America which was basically the network state model of colonial fascist dictatorships from the 1930s that has been revived by Yarvin, Thiel, Musk, and other assholes.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technoc...

That is, in fact, the plan.

People keep wondering why they're going after Venezuela. It's because they want to do regime change and control its oil, then use a big tract of land there to keep a tax free "network state" that looks like Dubai but operates like Rhodesia. They are saying this out loud! Believe them!

www.eff.org/press/releas...

People are going to die because of the pending insurance premium hikes. I know the terrain of discourse is inconsistent and goes through a tumble cycle every 24 hours, but I really think we need to hone in on this reality and drive it home for people.

H/T Gina on x

This is the health advice in New York on our current situation. The Public are being advised to wear an N95/ffp2 respirator. This is the correct advice. The disparity between this advice which is correct for airborne transmission and UKHSA saying wear an FRSM is huge.

100,000 Christians Are Being Trained To Be Representatives In Their Own Country For The State Of Israel

100,000 Christians Are Being Trained To Be Representatives In Their Own Country For The State Of Israel.

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That’s the stuff! Hit em in the stock value folks, and of course take to the high seas.

haven’t seen a mashup of things I hate this much since the sports betting on genocide story mere days ago

Right? This isn’t even just about shingles, in the same way that we give penicillin for acute strep more to prevent rheumatic fever/heart disease later on, because it doesn’t really speed recovery from strep throat.

Alito wrote separately to say this doesn’t go far enough because it spares children

The Seven Richest Billionaires Are All Media Barons Alan MacLeod tracks how billionaire media barons like Musk, Ellison, Bezos and Zuckerberg are capturing global news outlets and reshaping politics.

ICYMI: this is very obviously a crisis every bit as emergent - and indivisible from - climate breakdown.

Taps sign:
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Went to do wordle and saw it had a credit for today’s Wordle Editor and am not sure how that isn’t the occupation of a The Onion opinion commenter. What exactly does a Wordle Editor do?

It's not sustainable to pay for every newsletter and Patreon you want to support. I subscribe to MANY and I am going to have to unsubscribe to some because it is costing me thousands of dollars a year (over $3000). More collectivist options need to be developed.

I swear someone wrote a letter from a Birmingham jail about "moderates" and it was a pretty fucking stern warning.

Let me just say: I have run more than a dozen marathons and an ultramarathon and I have worked 13-hour days in a cornfield in the scorching-ass sun, and none of those things broke me like breastfeeding.

It’s not a question of will. I am a determined person. Sometimes your body just WONT DO IT.

Migrating to Blacksky PDS: Complete Guide | Blacksky Documentation Complete guide to migrating your Bluesky account to Blacksky's infrastructure. Covers migration tools, step-by-step instructions, troubleshooting, and how to use Blacksky services without migrating.

Not sure if this will reach anyone, but if you don't love the idea of handing private information (actual birthdate is just the beginning I'm sure) over to a platform that has clearly prioritized arguments and engagement over safety and healthy moderation, you *CAN* migrate without the age thing!

One of the most disturbing things about the U.S. government getting themselves into the anti-vaccine game is that it is a time-release poison pill.

It will take a few years before the worst of the harm is visible to enough people that they will truly understand what has been done to them.

Liberals complained about SCOTUS all pandemic

Their member's addresses are public information

Not a single torch was lit
Not a single pitchfork sharpened

Still just working class USians infighting while their rulers laugh it up

Cover art of the book "The Overseer Class: A Manifesto" by Steven W. Thrasher. The cover is a black and white woodcut, with the title appearing over the images of three African American faces. To the left, is a face without eyes, in profile. To the right, is a man in a suit with no eyes looking forward. In the center is a police officer with eyes. Inside of him is a Black man on his knees, appearing to have been whipped. They all tower over raised fists.

Coming May 19, 2026 from Amistad Books and HarperCollins

THE OVERSEER CLASS:
A Manifesto

by Steven W. Thrasher

cover art by Jamaal Barber

Available for pre-order now www.harpercollins.com/products/the...

Chattanooga’s Municipal Fiber Network Has Delivered $5.3 Billion in Community Benefits, New Study Finds | Welcome to Community Networks Since 2011, a new study finds that Chattanooga's city-owned fiber network has generated $5.3 billion in net community benefits for Hamilton County. Conducted by researchers at the University of Tennes...

A new study has found that Chattanooga, Tennessee's decision to build their own affordable community-owned fiber broadband network has driven $5.3 billion in economic benefits back to the community.

From my colleague and friend @seangon.bsky.social:

Counterpoint: A lot of what made US science great was a brain drain 80 years ago due to scientists, teachers, and professionals fleeing fascism/authoritarianism.

Today, US policies have greatly increased the scientists fleeing fascism index.

Winning!

I've said this before, but there are two kinds of people in the world.

- People who have suffered or been traumatized by something, and think it's unfair unless everyone else also suffers
- People who have suffered or been traumatized by something and don't want anyone else to experience that.

Clipart of a small top-loading red woodchipper with a gasoline engine. Credit:Ivan Ryabokon via Vecteezy

Executives and board members at these companies need a lesson in landscaping, although I'd settle for names and addresses of individuals betting on murder/torture being leaked so we can publicly recognize them.

CNN partners with Kalshi, a gambling app that lets you wager on starvation in Gaza The network will integrate betting odds for life-and-death issues into its coverage. What could possibly go wrong?

I have no words
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Presenteeism Among Health Care Personnel With COVID-19 This cohort study evaluates the frequency of presenteeism among health care personnel with symptomatic COVID-19.

8% is why I'm delaying a knee replacement even though my increasing pain level is making ADLs hard. I hate reality.

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