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Opinion: Stop price gouging in grocery stores Why Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib is introducing legislation to ban stores from using technology like electronic labeling and facial recognition to set prices

Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib is introducing legislation to ban stores from using technology like electronic labeling and facial recognition to set prices.

Smiths Crisps Chicken flavour ad from Muziek Expres, 1967

the affluent extraction class ownership of our major media institutions like Trump, love tax cuts and mindless deregulation, and want him to rule over us like a king

I don’t see why not.

I don't advise it. It can have terrible consequences in the wrong hands.

The output of large language models are familiar to anyone who grew up reading stream of consciousness writing in middle school like I did, stealing titles like The Sound and the Fury from the library of the school to read instead of going to class. The difference is that Faulkner had a point.

Tell him

Oh. Hey there. Didn’t see you. Say, would you like to listen to the Polyphonic Spree and go up on the roof?

@maureenjohnsonbooks.com let’s remember Butts Across America

we need to teach the 1930s properly so that people know the Reichstag Fire was exactly this stupid

Dreamt @herzwesten.bsky.social was known as the Quizard Red— the quiz wizard of Redmond. He would solve any quiz you could put against him, often without even breaking a sweat. He solved puzzles like Arnold Schwarzenegger lifts weights. He also had a driver’s license. Watch out!

@maureenjohnsonbooks.com deadline questions

Between a "No Other Land" crew mate filming himself being killed by a settler, to a journalist being killed by airstrikes he was covering minutes earlier, I'm not sure how much more televised Israel's genocide can be

I heard there’s a special place where men can be wrong every single day. It’s Earth.

Welcome to your last rodeo. You’re retiring from the rodeo today. Congratulations.

Torn Apart: Robot Crab Meets Terrible Fate When Its True Nature Is Discovered by Real Crabs Scientists apparently underestimated the aggression of tiny male fiddler crabs when they deployed a friendly robot version in their territory.

Crabs are the heroes we need to be. futurism.com/robot-fiddle...

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Oh, to spend an extra hour in the ball pit listening to Enya and Mazzy Star.

I cherish my signed picture of @maureenjohnsonbooks.com

I’ve been described as being I n league with the mummers and clowns of Bluesky.

Bananas in pajamas do a true crime podcast

Dreamt someone asked how the book was coming along and @maureenjohnsonbooks.com frowned and then went up on the roof of her house.

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The owner of a cat wig shop stands in front of his store, surrounded by a bunch of cats walking around wearing colorful wigs, including Heathcliff and his girlfriend Sonja. Happily, the store's proprietor says "I'm living the dream."

09 Aug 2025

Remember when Israel bombed hospitals and they spent weeks gaslighting us?

A digital illustration of the Yipyips from Sesame Street. They are essentially just fabric tubes with mouths that are either widely agape or closed into a huge underbite, with ping pong ball eyes and curly deelybopper antennae. In the left is a blue one, agape. On the right a pinkish-orange one, underbitten. Between them is an antique radio: wooden in a pointed arch shape with two dials and a lit tuning indicator. Most of the front of the radio is a fabric covered speaker protected by a decorative wooden grille part of which is in the form of lettering reading ‘Maybe it will happen today’.

It’s surprising, sure, that South Park is suddenly culturally relevant again. And I do resent that. But also, well played, you weirdo South Park dudes.