don’t forget to destroy your clocks tonight, walk away from your mortgage, just start driving, you’re free
A new(ish) social media platform means getting to present various baubles from my past like some sort of resplendent and flirtatious bird. Here's a view of the Pacific from R/V Falkor's starboard porthole, taken on January 9th, 2017 during my time as the @schmidtocean.bsky.social Artist at Sea.
The Ford Pinto had a death rate of 85 people for 10 million cars sold. The Cybertruck hasn't sold 10 million, but the fatality rate so far maths out to 1,452 people killed per 10 million sold.
The Cybertruck may be the deadliest road car, for the occupants, ever sold.
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We kan daunse yf if plese us
We kan leave thy friendes behinde
For thy friendes daunse not
and yif thei daunse not
Then no friendes thei are of myne
Ich saye, we kan wende wher it plese us,
A place thei shal nevir fynde
And we can act lyke we come from Brocéliande
Leave the real worlde far behinde
“The husband & wife before this court are charged w/civil violations of our country's immigration laws. Civil. Not criminal. That distinction is not a technicality or a formality. It’s the line the law draws betwn regulation & punishment. Yet these working parents appear in unmistakable prison garb.
Ask and you shall receive!
This sounded deep and introspective but the truth is I was swearing at indesign when I thought this
Ossoff: "There's a wickedness to the program. I don't know, pastor, where it is in scripture that it says deny care to the sick, take from those with the least to give to those with the most, violate the house of worship to hunt down the refugee. Where in the scripture are those lessons taught?"
I love Tony Romo's dumb voice. I said what I said.
Amy Poehler laying down the hard TRUTHS in this episode 😂 pca.st/episode/063c...
*Penn not Penny 🙄
I once saw Robert Forster in the parking lot of a Wilson Farms. I was also retweeted by Penny Gillette before Tw*tter became the Bad Place. That's the total of my celebrity encounters.
PUT IT BACK YOU FOOLS
From the German department of terrifying ideas: www.cbsnews.com/news/cockroa...
Just your daily reminder that the occurrence of frequent uncontained measles outbreaks in a country is not a flex, it is a marker of under development and a failed public health system.
Naming your ChatGPT is like naming your copy of Microsoft Word. "This is Barbara, my writing assistant." Truly one of the more bizarre aspects of this dystopian timeline.
Remember the recent middle-of-the-night apartment building raid where children were dragged outside naked & zip-tied in the street while black & Latino residents were _sorted by race_ and piled into separate vans while their apartments were ransacked & robbed? That raid? So it resulted in 0 arrests.
The fact that I have to shove nutrients in my mouth three times a day is ridiculous
According to the most recent USDA data available, as of 2023, white people make up 35.4% of SNAP recipients, African Americans 25.7%, Hispanic people 15.6%, Asian people 3.9%, Native Americans 1.3%, and multiracial people 1.0%. The race of about 17% of participants is listed as unknown.
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5pm on November 1: let’s go for a walk, it’s still light out!
5pm on November 2: an early darkness blankets the land. Fallow fields lay bone-bleached by moonlight. The last memories of summer fade into oblivion. The last echoes of hope lapse into baleful silence.
Medicare for All would save $450B a year.
Every dollar spent on food stamps generates $1.50-$1.80 in economic activity.
Each dollar going to low-wage workers adds $1.20 to the economy overall.
It’s not about what this country can or can’t afford.
It’s about priorities.
I've built a socioeconomic system that depends on everyone to do useful work and act ethically except the people at the top, who get unimaginable rewards for being antisocial frauds and criminals. And I think it will stand the test of time
America right now is an airplane that the crew is actively trying to dismantle mid-flight while at least half the passengers are sitting bare-knuckled just hoping we somehow eke out a survivable landing. (The other half are, inexplicably, rooting for the dismantling.)
I can smell this lunchbox through the screen.
(solemnly) You've had mail.
1. More Americans work at the Cheesecake Factory than in the entire coal industry, and that won't change. It's because of automation, not snooty libs.
2. Coal energy is now more expensive than wind and solar.
3. So this means: higher energy prices, more pollution, no jobs benefit. Genius!
I love this story so much. Thank you for sharing it! It makes me want to write a story from my house's perspective. 🏡
Absolutely, especially with regards to wealth and health. People seem to forget so easily that we don't control what family we are born into. Genetics and generational wealth are bestowed randomly among newborns.
When future generations study the decline of the United States as a world power, private equity firms will be at the top of the list. Their unchecked greed is literally killing people. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
