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Do you know special education teachers? I do.

Oh my god.

You can help build billionaire-free local news.

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Let's fight misinformation, help good journalists to make a decent living, and stick a big ol' finger in Jeff Bezos' eye.

@chriswarcraft.bsky.social , I'm doing a thing.

The only resources I can currently redistribute are my own, so I figured I'd start there.

I'm still SHOCKED by the obscene rise in billionaire election spending since Citizens United in the NYT piece, despite already knowing that election corruption w/ $ was profound. (Recall that BCRA fought dangerous campaign $ in *2002*)

The article data didn't have a graph, so I made one to show it.

Nope, you conveniently pick and choose some very shady sources to quote. Maybe because Rep Khanna has supported some Palestinian issues ?

It is true. This right wing extremism is going to make our planet much harder to live on. And way more expensive to fix later.

That mask is also popular with neo-Nazi accelerationist groups, which I think is really important to mention. Just like it's important to mention that ICE agents in Denver have been dropping Ace of Spades cards where they've kidnapped people. The white nationalist culture at work is clear.

I've been thinking on this topic, not because of Neil Gaiman, but because of a first time author who just emerged with a lovely best seller. Oh, how I hope success won't spoil him. And I realize now that my appreciation of his work is the only piece of his life that I have any claim to ownership of.

Unfinished.
#LiamRamos

@adamzyglis.bsky.social

At least it’s an HP laptop… ;-p

I watched the stream from the Bay Area. So cool to see two people I follow, meet up to have a great conversation. BTW, Paulo Bacigalupi is also a favorite author of mine. Wish he would write more. He wrote a very relevant short story in 2019 for the MIT alumni magazine; title is “A Full Life.”

Thank you SO much for hosting this. I participated from the San Francisco Bay Area, and I was thrilled that two seemingly very different writers I follow on BlueSky are actually good friends and signed up to do this conversation together. It was definitely worthwhile.

Online on the Left Coast and waiting for the entertainment to begin.

YouTube video by Ann Arbor District Library A Conversation with Former NFL Pro Chris Kluwe and Sci-Fi Author John Scalzi

TONIGHT! A conversation with NFL punter, activist, gamer, and candidate @chriswarcraft.bsky.social and award-winning author, musician, and burritovator @scalzi.com at the @aadl.org Downtown Library! From 6-7 PM EST followed by a signing. Join us, or watch it live: www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBxG...

Curious how two folks I follow from (in my mind) completely different worlds are coming together at a library in Ann Arbor. Wish I lived closer.

Holy shit, I made a Downfall meme back when we were renegotiating our CBA that went pretty viral, but this is brilliant. It’s fantastic all the way through, and then the last three seconds sent me into orbit.

I approve of this disapproval

Greg Brockman, OpenAI's COO, donated $25m to a MAGA Superpac, spare me finance.yahoo.com/news/openai-...

The Power of Poetry   with things falling apart and anarchy let loose,   it was only poetry, he found, which had any use,   so he reached for his copy   of The Complete Works of Yeats   and bludgeoned the President of the United States Brian Bilston

Here’s a short poem about the power of poetry to change the world.

Or as my mother who graduated from Purdue used to sing it, " Indiana, you big banana, Indiana, to H*ll with you." I am so happy for IU.

50 years ago, IU basketball had a perfect season on their way to the NCAA championship. IU now has the only teams in basketball and football to accomplish that.

If you live in the Cities, an easy way to help immigrant families in hiding is: laundry! Laundromats are ICE magnets, so people without washers need help.

The People’s Laundry will drop off laundry to your door to wash and dry and pick up a few days later:

thepeopleslaundrympls.com/volunteer/

YouTube video by demonflyingfox Greenland Defense Front - The Hungry Giant (Official Music Video)

Brilliant video by #DemonFlyingFox
#Greenland
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This week’s Just for Skeets and Giggles is out! Have a great weekend. open.substack.com/pub/statusku...

A woman recording an ICE agent tells him "Shame on you."

The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?"

"Learned what?" she asks

Then he knocks her phone out of her hand

In an homage to the movie Big, it's now an entitled vindictive immature 13-year-old nepo boy in the body of a decrepit 80-year-old man who was just elected US President with control of Congress & Supreme Court. Imagine the highjinks that ensue in this new sitcom titled "YUUUGE!"

Yes, JD. Let’s ask them if they think a stay at home mom, avowed Christian, and widow of a veteran deserved to be shot in the face and left to bleed out in her own car after dropping her 6-year-old off at school, for the crime of looking out for her neighbors. Let’s ask everyone running for office.