If not now, when?

another bullshit easy solution to hard, complicated problems.

It’s possible to lead your electorate but not without their consent and the only way to get that is to give them a reason to trust that your focus and actions have some of their needs in mind.

to real voters, lots of them, and there’s a winning strategy here. The key is local candidates with stakes in the real problems their voter face, and expressing energy and passion they actually feel.

There are legitimate grievances DJT voters have, ignoring them opens up the next grifter to sell

The smart ones see the opportunity mamdani is providing to them. A real-world example of how to do this and the results it can deliver. This IS the focus group.

Combine this knowledge with @thebulwark.com @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social focus group tactics that aren’t message testing, but listening

anything it can't do, you can hook in a shell function call into a custom keymap. this is insane.

some one shared yazi-rs.github.io and i'm floored. it's like the best parts of fzf, rg, bat, zoxide, and ffmpeg mashed together and it's lightning fast. damn.

Agreed, nearly every claim stated is feasible with current models and non-ML tool calls implemented in agentic contexts. I think many well-educated laypeople aren't aware of the capabilities of the current state of the art heterogeneity but that describes all new technology.

This thread is a macro-agression.

YouTube video by The Tony Michaels Podcast More of this Please!!! They are Civil Servants and we are Civilians...

This is how all leaders must rise.

Anything less and they are not leaders, not anymore.

Anything less and they are not prepared for this moment.

Anything less and they must make way for those with the will to fight.

We can wait no longer. ✊

#timetofight

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Pure. Joy. 🏳️‍🌈❤️💙💜🧡💚🤍🩶🩷🩵💛🖤

Either let it burn or they get on board, no going back to the before times, not going back to the status quo. not now. not ever again. Our world is broken and if we don't fix it, we'll be in chaos forever. You're either with Taker Billionaires or with the people but the doors are open, get in!

YouTube video by Josh Johnson This TikTok Prank is Accidentally Healing Men

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Funny and heartwarming. A good watch and real deal Josh.

roger, I'm a child of the 80s and 90s so this vernacular is defaulted into my brain, i'll try to focus on changing it.

addendum: I don't know about y'all but this noise about alt-text being a burden doesn't land with me at all. I have so much fun writing alt-text on pictures, often i think its better than the original post, it's like an easter egg for the differently abled. Maybe this is just me....

an oblong white gel-pill supplement, approximately .75 inches in size, adhered to a textured wall, in between an acoustic guitar and a hanging black hat after a laughter-induced spit take fired it across a room. The poster brands this act a Spit Pill Missile™️

same, but i was mid swallow on a supplement, which is current adhered to the wall on the opposite side of the room. we need a name for this, Spit Pill Missile™️ ?

YouTube video by Kat Abughazaleh My "Long Shot" Candidacy Has The Momentum | Kat Abughazaleh For Illinois

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Go get em! @katmabu.bsky.social

No, you just swallow them, and they have capsules now I think. I’ve taken the pressed pills which are just pressed salt so they’re salty but a capsule would be tasteless

those salt tablets that endurance runners take?

Incompetent as they may be, they have power, and lots of agents willing to be the implementers of that terrible power. As long as we are willing to stand up, do the work, and not give up; we can be confident that success is more than possible. We can have hope.

Rebellions are built on Hope.

It would have been nice to realize this without needing people to be shipped to a fucking gulag but I'm looking at the bright side here.

And thats the second accomplishment Saturday wrought: we are all awake and we know that we are not alone. There is a ton of long, arduous work left to do.

I am not offering any answers but after seeing America stand up, I believe that we are ready to begin that journey to a new, better future. We've touched the hot stove of authoritarianism and have been jolted to attention.

we will vacillate back and forth as we have been for the last 25 years.

There are many reasons why we're in this place, but, IMO, the biggest one is money. The easiest way out of this is to give everyone security of life.

regime's power should be held to account. But, the millions of voters who put him there will still be there and simply performing moral judgements won't stop this from happening again. They must be shown that being stronger together includes them.

Until those structural pillars are knocked down,

You can win an election through hope. You cannot prevent the environment that produces an authoritarian without structurally addressing the root cause (for that population at least). The human condition will always have these two archetypes.

Anyone currently breaking the law to implement this

world as a zero-sum game, and inflict pain on others. For many reasons, I assume, but that's not what I want to focus on. It's those who think others winning means they lose who are susceptible to an authoritarian message. Inoculation to that message involves flattening wealth access.

What we cannot be content with, is to just go back to what was in the before-times. People in pain can have one of two responses to that pain, one is to reach out inclusively to try to improve the world so that their station improves by improving everyone's. The other is to close in, see the

The status quo was leaving far too many out. The price of the comfort that those who social-code majority felt was paid by those who didn't. Every year cut more and more people out of the dream as wealth inequality ratchets up, bit by bit. Those blinders are off now. If we make it out of this hell,

Those who care about others are awake to the undercurrent of hate that rages. A sign I saw captured it perfectly. "If Kamala had won we'd be at brunch". Yep, thats the problem. We had all gotten too comfortable, at least those of whichever flavor of privilege is relevant to you or me.

I think we owe Tin Pot Tito™ a debt of gratitude after Saturday. Don't get me wrong, I know he's dangerous and people are being hurt. But he and his band of blanco supremos are proven to be incompetent, ham handed, and out of touch. A band of cowards and bullies.

But he's accomplished this:

I saw 4-5k directly downtown Petaluma today, and given how many were leaving (i showed up a 30m) late and how many I saw come and go during the following 90 minutes, I feel confident there were at minimum 25k people present. Tons and TONS of honking cars. 0 counter protesters. #nokings #Petaluma