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I ditched Facebook many years ago, and Instagram earlier this year, despite it affecting my reach and also my ability to communicate with friends. But I had to. Here's my story:

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In the Future All Food Will Be Cooked in a Microwave, and if You Can’t Deal With That Then You Need to Get Out of the Kitchen As a restaurant owner – I’m astounded at the rate of progress since microwaves were released a few short years ago. Today’s microwave can cook a frozen burrito. Tomorrow’s m…

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Workout logging . Forgot to get a photo of the 78.5 lbs on the bar.

Came here for this comment.

How the Billionaires Took Over America Yes, Donald Trump is a threat to democracy. But the far bigger menace is the monstrous growth in wealth concentration over five decades that made a Trump presidency possible—and maybe inevitable. Here’s how we let it happen.

We can keep our democracy, or we can hatch our first trillionaire. We really can’t do both. https://trib.al/60q2oLh

Saturday weightlifting and music

A year ago yesterday we said goodbye to the finest beast.

Yes

Yes it is

Cancel your NYT subscription if you haven't already

Billionaires driving warming more than all of commercial Heathrow. How consistent with their destructive data farms and pipelines, megayachts and fake "intelligence." A plague on billionaires.

Right wing cranks 1993: Clinton Care won’t let you choose your own doctor!
Right wing SCOTUS 2025: We won’t let you choose your own doctor!

Everything is horrible and I can’t do anything about it but I got through day 7 of my workout plan.

Congress, Now More Than Ever, We Need Your Cowardice

Donald Trump is an extremely stupid man with very few real policy preferences who has simply done what mainstream conservatives have wanted 80-90% of the time since he has entered politics. They have wanted to bomb Iran. He bombed Iran. Pretty straightforward.

Can we stop worrying about “reaching” or “reforming” MAGA people now? Can we admit that they are a lost cause and deserve the kind of Reconstruction that Lincoln was too conciliatory to inflict?

I cannot express this enough: If and when the tide turns away from fascism, you cannot mistake a ceasefire for peace. They never, ever want peace. You must persecute those responsible to the ends of the earth. You must make future generations fear a repeat of their fate.

@msnbc.com reporter at the 1:15 mark.

“The chaos you’re seeing is not the result of peaceful protestors, it’s the result of actions of law enforcement, specifically the Los Angeles sheriff’s department.” #nokings

I am back, sort of. Since it looks like posts here are all still public, i won’t be using it much. I’m still posting into the void on my mastodon (@desiringmachine@mastodon.social)

Genie: ok what do you want for your birthday
Trump: a military parade, oh, and also millions of people on the street chanting my name
Genie: okie dokie

Drawn 6 years go today. It was rejected and called unfair and alarmist.

I’m a jerk for scolding people for not leaving Meta and moving here and then proceeding to not post myself. But I can’t post only a followers here so I don’t really use it. That’s unlikely to change. I do use Mastodon, which exactly 2 people I know seem to also use.

Elon’s Downfall

There Is No Method to Trump’s Madness. He’s Simply Insane. His defenders try to apply reason to his erratic, nonsensical decisions. That’s a fool’s errand—but fools abound in this administration.

Journalists are trying to understand Trump’s irrational behavior, and are generally unwilling to consider the possibility that it's not some grand strategy, but a madman with increasingly diminished mental faculties.

Mike Rothschild @rothschildmd The US is scheduled to co-host the World Cup in 2026 and the Olympics in 2028. Why would thousands of international athletes and millions of fans from around the world come to a country where tourists, asylum seekers, and visa holders are being disappeared to foreign prisons?

Fair question.

Everything You Say to Your Echo Will Soon Be Sent to Amazon, and You Can’t Opt Out Amazon is killing its “Do Not Send Voice Recordings” privacy feature on March 28 as the company aims to bolster Alexa+, its new subscription assistant.

"Hey Alexa, are you recording this?"

Yes, the answer is yes. Amazon is killing its “Do Not Send Voice Recordings” privacy feature on March 28 as the company aims to bolster Alexa+, its new subscription assistant.

There is no exaggerating this. The GOP is trying to kill you.

I support and am happy the party came together to stop this.

However, this is what they should be doing on EVERYTHING. I’ve said it before and I’ll keep saying it - we are in an existential crisis as a country. We’re either going to emerge as Americans, or as something else.

Our relatively new rescue dog barked at it a bit. He couldn’t figure out what it was and what direction to bark in but he made an attempt at scaring it off.

Every accusation is an intention.

I mean I do like that one, but what algorithm put these together Etsy?