Kuju coffee is popular for camping.

BROKEN: my brain.

Tech bros think they can change God’s timeline. Sometimes I think they haven’t actually read the Bible.

Spider on Garmin device.

It doesn't get reiterated enough that "human on a bicycle" is not only the most efficient way that a person can move, it's the most efficient form of motion ***ever observed in land animals***.

Ah, fiscal responsibility…

Is Trump’s base racist? Social scientists begin to weigh in Is President Donald Trump’s base racist? Social scientists are beginning to weigh in

Sociologists come to shocking conclusion: Trump’s biggest supporters are motivated by bigotry and want him to hurt the people they dislike. (gift link) www.sfchronicle.com/politics/art...

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NY-17 Rep. Mike Lawler had a local social worker physically dragged out of his town hall Sunday night.

Emily Feiner was singled out by private security, lifted out of her seat, as the crowd chanted “let her stay” and “shame, shame.”
She’s a constituent.
Not a threat.
Fascism again.

From china to American storage units and landfills so Americans can feel good about themselves. Uck!

Original 1925 jacket cover of The Great Gatsby The Great Gatsby Here is a novel, glamorous, ironical, compassionate a marvellous fusion into unity of the curious incongruities of the life of the period which reveals a hero like no other one who could live at no other time and in no other place. But he will live as a character, we surmise, as long as the memory of any reader lasts. "There was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life. .. It was an extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness such as I have never found in any other person and which it is not likely I shall ever find again?" It is the story of this Jay Gatsby who came so mysteriously to West Egg, of his sumptuous er-tertainments, and of his love for Daisy Buchanan a story that ranges from pure lyrical beauty to sheer brutal realism, and is infused with a sense of the strangeness of human circumstance in a heedless universe. It is a magical, living book, blended of irony, romance, and mysticism. CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS The GREAT GATSBY FITZGERALD

They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.

-FS Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, published 4/10/1925.

Pictorial: Rockland Residents Turn Out In Droves To Protest Trump/Musk Administration - Rockland County Business Journal Nearly 1,000 angry protesters filled the four corners of Route 59 and Middletown Road in Nanuet on Saturday, toting posters and placards with angry screeds over threats to democracy.

This has to be 𝙖𝙨𝙩𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙙𝙞𝙣𝙜 to anyone who knows the area.

“Nearly 1,000 angry protesters filled the four corners of Route 59 and Middletown Road in Nanuet …. Cars rolling along Route 59 honked vociferously to show support to one of the largest crowds to gather in Rockland in recent memory.”

“Nobody knew how bad.”

I kind of want to go

Who did this?

@rarmao.bsky.social

Chartbook 363 Stockholm syndrome in Mar-a-Lago: The belief that "something must be done" and the sanewashing of economic policy in the age of Trump Feast your eyes on this dear readers.

adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-...

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Elon Musk - Dark MAGA

🧵 DARK MAGA EXPLAINED

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This is by far the most viral thing I've ever posted.
200K Impressions / 115K Accounts Reached / 2K Reactions / 600 Comments / 350 Reposts.

So I'll recreate it here as a thread. Strap in.

www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

YouTube video by The Nerd Reich with Gil Duran Beware the Network State: The Tech Blueprint to Dismantle the USA

Trump announced plans to build 10 corporate dystopia cities (aka "freedom cities") across the US. But these aren’t just new urban developments. Learn about the radical billionaire-led movement some call "The Network State," which seeks to replace democracy with tech www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCj_...

‘Startup Nation’ Groups Say They’re Meeting Trump Officials to Push for Deregulated ‘Freedom Cities’ The architects of projects like Próspera are drafting legislation to create US cities that would be free from federal regulations.

WIRED: ‘Startup Nation’ Groups Say They’re Meeting Trump Officials to Push for Deregulated ‘Freedom Cities’.
www.wired.com/story/startu...

Balaji Srinivasan suggests giving Elon Musk “control of a huge swath of land surrounding Starbase, Texas” & designate that land as “a military base or … similar, so that [Musk] can fence it off & determine at his sole discretion who can enter.” Then replicate in other states w/ other Tech Bros. 1/

Democratic Senator Chris Murphy on Mahmoud Khalil.

There have been people less than helpful in my journey here. I wanted to acknowledge those too, bc I know I am not unique in this experience. No thank you to the physics study assoc that made me sing songs about how women couldn't study physics without sleeping with the professor, the day I stepped into university life. No thank you to the 5th year physics student that decided to assign me a stripper name within the first minute of meeting me in the physics coffee corner in my first year. No thank you to the technician that was responsible for onboarding me on the use of the cluster in my third year who raised his eyebrows and asked me if that meant I was some sort of computer girl. No thank you to the senior researcher that sent me utterly inappropriate texts after a conference, then proceeded to apologise months later by telling me they had not been meant for me anyway so no hard feelings remain hopefully And no thank you to him for attending every conference I've been to since. No thank you to the people who told me that it was surprising that I was doing a PhD since I was a girl. No thank you to the man who mistook me for a coffee lady at a conference, and after having to correct him two times that I did not work there, responded with you should consider it. No thank you to the researcher that asked me what I was wearing underneath my outfit during a conference. No thank you to the physicist who declared to a room full of other physicists that biologists don't know how to design an experiment. No thank you to the people who have called me scary instead of strong and intimidating instead of intelligent. And finally, no thank you to the exec board of the TU Delft, whose knee-jerk reaction to being held up a mirror about the social safety at the university, was to sue the party holding up the mirror instead of looking at the problems they highlighted. ... You have made me feel like I do not belong in science & I cannot forgive you for that.

A friend included this anti-acknowledgement section on her PhD thesis. She also added the proposition: “Systematic bullying and undermining of girls and women in STEM starts early on and is the reason why they do not stay in science and related fields.”
Absurd we still need to go through this
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Completely organic bottom-up rage against Mike Lawler is pretty unprecedented in the Hudson Valley. None of this is the DCCC. It's all direct citizen action, outrage at Lawler's radical far right politics - and his votes to actively injure his constituents. Fascinating to see.

Narrator: Lawler just voted for a budget that requires massive cuts to Medicare, Medicaid and/or Social Security.

From Bullion to Bitcoin: Crypto Reserve Is Latest Fiscal Folly in Texas Why?

New from @byjustinmiller.bsky.social: Republicans want to stamp the State of Texas’ seal on Bitcoin by creating a “strategic reserve” that could use taxpayer dollars to purchase cryptocurrency.