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Thank you for sharing this. We can’t look away.

No more “looking forward to heal the nation.”

We need to prosecute every damn criminal civil servant all the way to the top.

Happy birthday to the little munchkin. It can take so little to spoil them at that age - like junk food and a rotating sprinkler on low.

Fuk. 😳 That’s crazy and far too common.

They told my wife to calm down repeatedly while she fell on the floor crying that she was giving both. Then they saw the baby was crowning and freaked out.

And this was the hospital she worked at as a practicing physician. 🤦‍♂️

Damn. The coloring is insane. So good.

I guess that’s the new “senile and mastermind”? 🤷‍♂️

All I wanted was a Pepsi. Just one Pepsi…

So idiot boys are still trying to pull the pigtails of the girls they have a crush on like butch on the little rascals? Gotta sit that boy in glue and point a skunk at him. You adorbes, Bu. Stay cool. 😎

You can’t say the same thing about the presidency.

You also can’t save a vote for later. So it’s great you didn’t waste what little power were all given.

Thank you for holding your nose and casting that vote.

If it were a bullshit concert, or a crap movie, or a racist comic then staying home would have helped to end the crappy system. All of the above need customers to carry on. To support them would be a major reflection on your values.

Please consider that you’re using a capitalist framework of brand identity in a non-capitalist system with vastly different incentives.

FYI I teach high school in NYC. I see the dead names on my roster. I keep preferred pronouns on my seating chart.

This ain’t about me. And that’s the point ☮️

Don’t like the crap movies at the multiplex? Go home and read a book to help kill those studios. 👍

Don’t like the candidates for office? You can’t sit out a presidency. 🤷‍♂️

I get the anger, but boycotts just don’t work in elections. Please don’t shoot the messenger. This has been shown repeatedly.

The capitalist seeks to maximize.

Politicians only need more than.

The only way to affect change is to vote. Politicians chase the active voters. These fights need to happen in the primary. I’ll vote for Schumer if he wins. But I’ll work like hell to have a better candidate in the general.

It’s very dangerous to apply the capitalist model to a democratic system.

Ever notice that car, hospitality, and restaurant ads rarely EVER go negative but political ads ALWAYS do?

That’s because the game theory is totally different.

Hi Brit. I believe the right thing to do is to compare it to the candidate with a negative value and you vote for the zero.

0 > negative

Some of the largest living elms are in Manhattan parks because Dutch elm disease didn’t cross the water. And new tree planting is one thing NYC is getting right.

But yeah - it’s the same mentality that gave us leaf blowers at 8:00 AM on a Sunday. 🙄

Yep. 👍
This is why I subscribe.
Great article on Billy Woods this month too.

Seriously Xitter really was great for many academic communities before it died.

The prototypical Bluesky user is this emoji:

🤓

“And stop trying to make people laugh! Rage is the only true engagement.” 🤡

@rachelbitecofer.bsky.social was one of the first people online that I saw who really seemed to understand that we were up against a propaganda machine literally stealing the Nazi blueprint. She’s been tracking the parallels since.

THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS!!!!! ✊

I know! And I wanna kill my account so bad except Facebook marketplace. It’s such a great resource for used effects pedals. 😩

So the idea that data like this is still being collected anywhere is inspiring. Good luck and I’m sure it will be well received!

A number of my high school students were also supposed to assist at labs at Rockefeller university. Also shut down.

That’s wonderful news. Congratulations.

My dear friend does research in HIV prevention at NYU and her work was shut down due to DOGE.

YouTube video by Petey USA Petey USA - Breathing the Same Air

Petey USA has a mean synth game too. This track kills me every damn time.

youtu.be/boSJVxqP9zs

lol. You should! There are a group of men that I love dearly who are rock solid and super sweet midwesterners. We’ve all been playing in bands since high school. Two build makeshift recording studios in their basements. We’ll still have reunions to form bands and play. 😃

The Venn diagram of nerds and libertarians has a union set that is depressingly large.

All their ideas look soooo attractive on paper, but in reality it they just make you sick. 🥽🤢

I can't think in terms of boundaries. Those imaginary lines… “I can't think in terms of boundaries. Those imaginary lines are as unreal to me as elves and pixies. I can't believe that they mark the end or the beginning of anything of real concern to the human s...

You and Kurt Vonnegut. ☮️

"You hate America, don't you?" she said. "That would be as silly as loving it," I said. "It's impossible for me to get emotional about it, because real estate doesn't interest me. Those imaginary lines are as unreal to me as elves and pixies.”

“Repeat a lie often enough…” ☮️