Ghosting Along

Florida moves toward joining national redistricting push State House Speaker Daniel Perez said Thursday that he’s creating a select committee to look at drawing up new districts seven years ahead of the normal schedule.

The nation’s redistricting war is coming to Florida.

Recent graduates looking to enter an increasingly shaky labor market paint a dire picture of their job search: “A black hole,” one said.

NBC News heard from over 100 recent graduates, many of whom described months of applying, hundreds of submissions and no replies.
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Turtle Trip… 😃
🐢 🐶
#dogday #cute #bluesky

IRS Says It Will Not Change Withholding Tables Or Form W-2 In 2025, Despite The New Tax Law Taxpayers and tax professionals alike expected the IRS to issue new withholding tables and Forms W-2 to reflect changes under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. The IRS now says that won’t happen in 2025.

Taxpayers and tax professionals alike expected the IRS to issue new withholding tables and Forms W-2 to reflect changes under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. The IRS now says that won’t happen in 2025.

The wildest thing about this era is watching so many institutions say out loud yeah, we’re done committing ourselves to excellence, we’re going to specialize in the coddling of mediocre white men

Rev. Sharpton on the continued fight, 60 years after Voting Rights Act

Ultra-processed foods make up over half of Americans’ calories, CDC says Roughly 55 percent of the average daily caloric intake comes from ultra-processed foods, which HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has vowed to crack down on.

Ultra-processed foods account for roughly 55 percent of the calories Americans consume daily, according to new federal data.

Perez: The governor's coordinating the Texas department of public safety with the FBI, the president—this is really the type of coordination that could have been used when Texans needed it during the recent floods.

Federal judge orders two-week construction pause at ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ Experts testified newly laid down pavement would cause harmful runoff to spill into the wetlands surrounding the airstrip.

A federal judge ruled construction must temporarily stop at “Alligator Alcatraz” as hearings challenging the Everglades-based detention center’s environmental impact continue.

A little math about that prison camp in Florida. $450 million per year for 3,000 people is $150,000/person per year. The cost for one person receiving SNAP for one year is $2256, yet they're telling us that's too expensive. threads.com/@unapologeticallyzae

Texas Battle Triggers National Gerrymandering War—These States Could Redistrict Next At least nine states are considering mid-cycle redistricting efforts in an attempt to gerrymander new congressional seats.

At least nine states are considering mid-cycle redistricting efforts in an attempt to gerrymander new congressional seats.

Mexican Army Ranger calls out ICE GOONS ✊🏽

You just gotta LOVE MAD MAGAZINE!!!

Okay folks. It's December 23rd. If you're out shopping anywhere today (but especially at a bookstore, wherein my experience most lies), there is but one rule: Don't. Be. An. Asshole.

Expanded, this rule breaks down in to ten sub-clauses:

A hand knit blanket on the floor. The blanket is made of 100 striped mitred squares in a colour gradient starting at purple, and working through the rainbow and ending with a purple-y blue. The blanket is square, and just wider than a twin bed mattress.

The same blanket, also on the floor, with a cat standing on it and looking at it. This photo was taken before the ends were trimmed, so yarn ends are visible at the edges

I have given my mysterious knitting project with 200+ ends to its new owner, so now I can share it. I have been working on this since June.

#knitting

Repost: Haitang Authors Arrested: Where is the Way Out for Danmei Works Frequently Involved in… Source: 海棠作者被捕，耽美创作频繁涉刑出路何在？

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It's a great day to not spend money at any Starbucks location.

Back and front cover art that I had the pleasure of painting for the symphonic metal band Lycania and their album "My Kingdom Come".
I really had a lot of fun working on this piece as the subject matter was close and interesting to me.

#cover #coverart #metalalbumart #metalalbumcover #metal

Honored to draw cover for #Guardian #镇魂 by Priest, vol. 1

Assuming all fanfiction is written poorly really just shows you've never been caught in the chokehold of a 150k slowburn that changed the course of your life at 2:40am written by someone whose username has 4 Zs in it and they only wrote one fic and then vanished like an ethereal legend.

there's gotta be a better way

ALSO @duckprintspress.bsky.social was like also you married a historian and I was like I know I'm saving that for later when I tell folks about how I asked you something when I started reading Cold Mountain and you went off for 30 minutes and I was like "cool I wasn't sure this was the Civil War."

I can't keep this from you!! #XiaoShunyao in all his glory

Hello, I've officially moved the Content Scrapers blocklist to its own dedicated account.

The old list will stay for the time being, but you'll need to manually re-subscribe to the new list if you want to stay up to date with the latest additions to the blocklist.

If you have a website, a Substack, a YouTube channel, Twitch, IG, FB, or newsletter, you have a vested interest in moving over to Bluesky where your external links aren't throttled. Elon isn't looking out for you; he's looking out for Elon.

We have a very long road ahead of us
Please listen to Timothy
Snyder
We are all in this together
DO NOT OBEY IN ADVANCE

1/ We're experiencing a huge influx of users, and with that, a predictable uptick in harmful content posted to the network.

As a result, for some very high-severity policy areas like child safety, we recently made some short-term moderation choices to prioritize recall over precision.

Tomatoes. Mexico ships more than 90% of our imported tomatoes.

The second largest source of imported tomatoes? Canada.