Josh Sheldon (he/him)

Interesting point. It seems like e-filing might be an especially bad idea this year.

Canada is sending resources to help fight the California fires.

So is Mexico.

So are other states.

Over 800 convicted felons are out there fighting the fires.

Not the Chief Convicted Felon elect of America.

He's too busy politicizing this disaster.

‪“It’s a little embarrassing that, after forty-five years of research and study, the best advice I can give people is to be a little kinder to each other.” ~Aldous Huxley quote quotation #KindnessMatters #Compassion

‪“It’s a little embarrassing that, after forty-five years of research and study, the best advice I can give people is to be a little kinder to each other.”
Aldous Huxley

It’s simple. I’ll use it in a sentence:

President-elect Musk and Donald Trump went out for dinner on a mandate.

Supreme Court term limits? Senators push for constitutional change Bipartisan push for Supreme Court term limits gains momentum as poll shows majority support across party lines.

As a member of the President’s Commission on the US Supreme Court I ended up strongly supporting this change. In my view, it can be accomplished by an appropriate Act of Congress, without any need to amend the Constitution.
www.newsweek.com/senators-pus...

The man detained in the McDonald's had written a "manifesto," according to two law enforcement officials.

I KNEW we weren’t getting out of this without a manifesto.

Still very disappointing that people are swayed so easily by trends in education.

Three things that would make #k12 education better almost immediately if it started today:
Fully fund public schools
Get rid of standardized testing
Give teachers ample time and support to do their jobs

X’s ad for Premium—looks like they’re feeling the heat from Bluesky, even referencing Bluesky in their ads. Congrats Bluesky!

Nothing says “lead the Pentagon” like mommy making phone calls for her very good boy.

It made me physically ill following updates from the Supreme Court today. Sending love to trans people, trans kids especially, and their families because… whew. Enduring this kind of hostility is an experience us cisgender will never fully understand.

Middle schoolers mocking a Cybertruck never gets old

just because Pete Hegseth was not charged with crimes and would be able to get hired at an Applebee's does not mean he meets the bar for running the Defense Department. you'd hope the standards would be a bit higher.

Before DOGE, Ramaswamy spent years attacking Musk for ties to China | CNN Politics Vivek Ramaswamy, the co-chair of the proposed Department of Government Efficiency alongside billionaire Elon Musk, has a lengthy history of attacking his partner’s ties to China, frequently referring ...

Lobbyists Undermining Government Efficiency

LUGE*

Fixed it

*an extremely dangerous two-person sport spectators are well advised to stay far the hell away from

What Banksy says…

Wow. $100/month in median rent = 9% bump in homelessness rate. Oof

Shoutout to South Korea. Their guy tried to pull a Trump and he got shut down and impeached within 24 hours.

Gangsta democracy.

Korea Expert here. I’ll explain what’s going on over there because the Orient can be confusing to Westerners. In Korea, there is a concept known as “the law.” (법) This is a set of rules which are enforced to encourage prosocial behavior and ensure stability which leaders aren’t allowed to break.

The deep goal of bluesky is to decentralize the social internet so that every individual controls their experience of it rather than having it be controlled by 5 random billionaires. Everyone thinks they signed up for a demuskified twitter...we actually signed an exciting and bizarre experiment.

Lee Jae-myung, Leader of South Korea's Democratic Party, live-streamed himself scaling the walls of the National Assembly to bypass military barricades so that he could vote to overturn the President's martial law.

As a food writer I feel it's important to report that sometimes the solution to your problems is eating as much mac and cheese as physically possible

Give a man a fish. He feeds for a day.

Teach a man to fish. He feeds for a lifetime.

Teach a billionaire to fish. He buys all the lakes and rivers and then charges you to fish them.

This is my wife and daughter

Happy “when the hell did I subscribe to emails from that business?” to all who celebrate

Is this where the term "hairied" comes from?
😉

No, for the last time, I would not like AI in my coffee...

via @shanavwhite.bsky.social

This is great by itself, and it makes me think of Monty Python: "Spam, spam, spam, eggs, and spam."

via @shanavwhite.bsky.social

Graph of posts and likes per day over the past 11 days showing growth from 2.2M posts per day to 6.5M posts per day and 11.7M likes per day to 37.5M likes per day.

Graph of follows per day and unique users following someone per day over the past 11 days showing growth from 2.1M follows per day and 417k people following someone to 41.5M follows per day and 2.9M people following someone. The growth is clearly exponential.

Bluesky by the Numbers today:

1.3M people Posted 6.5M posts
2.3M people Liked 37.5M posts
2.9M people Followed 41.5M people (!!!!!)

Over 1,000,000 people joined the network!!!!!!

We broke all-time traffic records by over 30% today across the board.

Follows are up 20x from 2 weeks ago!

Holy Moly

Stephen King, master of the horror novel, just quit Twitter because it'd become too "dark."

That's how horrifying Twitter is right now.

There may never be a more perfect expression of this fact.

Kid Rock

Thinking of going into politics just so that someone actually reads my thesis.