Thom Tillis, January 3, 2021: "I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States"
Thom Tillis, now: "nobody should bellyache" about unconstitutional acts even though what Musk is doing "runs afoul of the Constitution in the strictest sense"
People usually profess to hate the group that they’re excluded from as a way of coping with the rejection by people they secretly admire. If you get picked on all the time for being a dweeby little nerd by the reigning popular meatheads, of course you’re going to say how stupid you think they are!
Not the stupid, it’s a tax on the mathematically challenged.
It’s also manipulatively preying upon the emotions of the desperate, whose only hope is that an infusion of cash will miraculously change their dead-end circumstances.
Manhattan smog: fog + pollutants. From 1971-77, the Documerica project captured 20,000 images of America’s environmental impact. Explore these through the National Archives. The photo below is from Documerica—join the movement! Let’s not forget our past, or we’re bound to repeat it.
A true clown fiesta tonight
You should read The Westing Game if you haven’t and this is your kind of life goal
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X has ~18m daily USA users. @bsky.app, ~1.5m.
Is it worth 20 MINS a day to proactively recruit and bring your friends, neighbors,relatives, businesses, anyone who is or could be a user, to @bsky.app?
If Bluesky ends up with more users than the others, you destabilize musk, zuck, trump.
January is not the month for resolutions. We’re all sick, exhausted, cold, broke, depressed and back at work against our will. January *is* the month for outrageous Victorian self-care rituals, because who needs a new gym membership when you can just take a good turn about the room for your agonies.
The biggest barrier to entrepreneurship in this country is a lack of universal healthcare…
Since we’re talking about how much billionaires suck again, here’s a reminder that your local indie bookstore deserves your business this holiday season. They have gift cards and are happy to mail stuff out. Same goes for @bookshop-org.bsky.social. Buy books. Give books. Support bookstores.
"You shouldn't find joy in rich people suffering, anyway let's watch a nice family film like A Christmas Carol, a story about how the only way to get rich people to show some humanity is to make them suff... WAIT"
