Taradox

A TV ad making the spirit of Whoville about buying stuff from Walmart is a really tone deaf misreading of Seuss.

#Walmart #Capitalism

“Most of the mess that is called history comes about because kings and presidents* cannot be satisfied with a nice chicken and a good loaf of bread.”
― Jennifer Donnelly, Revolution

* and billionaires ― Tara

Faith ecosystem? Private equity funding? AI governance?
I seem to be having trouble recalling any of that in the teaching of Jesus, or the writings of Isaiah or Paul.

"There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him."

“I don’t think Kennedy should be in a million miles of this job”, said Senator Wyden. @wyden.senate.gov

I agree sir, I agree.

It is ironic that people who so loudly deny the reality of evolution at the same time so thoroughly embrace a Darwinian view of medicine. "Can't survive without vaccination? Too bad, you're unfit anyway!"

#magaDeathCult #vaccination

So, you screwed up the international postal system now?

I'm really getting tired of all this winning; can we go back to the losing? That was much better!

#noKings #noHate #noGreed #noBillionaires

"I wish you peace when times are hard
A light to guide you through the dark
And when storms are high, and your, your dreams are low
I wish you the strength to let love grow
Oh, I wish you the strength to let love flow."

Eagles, "I Wish You Peace", by Bernie Leadon & Patti Davis

Meanwhile, I get email from Meta recruiters, asking if I'd like to work there. Did Kafka write about Facebook?

Palm Beach, FL is way scarier to me.

I too was banned from FB, with little explanation other than the opaque "violating community standards." I've no idea what they mean, and assume it was the results of an AI hallucination, but chose not to fight it. I've been happier without FB.

Grey Sabbath

Happy #InternationalCatDay! Tevildo was a servant of Melko in the early works of Tolkien. A precursor to Sauron, this perhaps explains this quote: "The Eye was rimmed with fire, but was itself glazed, yellow as a cat's, watchful and intent."

Artwork: "Tevildo" by Alan Lee #Booksky

I vote for the green one

Today is my birthday (turning 29), which is the only time all year that I ask for a repost 🌿
I hope you get lost in fantasy worlds as much as I do 🔮

Totally, sister!

Not many tsunamis in Frederick County, fortunately

Not funny, but true: All tyrants eventually fall. But after that happens, the people and institutions that bowed down to them will never regain their reputations.

Yo tambien

En Barcelona la gente prefiere el catalán.

A Barcelona la gent prefereix el català.

And I don't speak Catalan, so I got help from Google Translate for that one.

When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.

A feline urge, too

A truck with a pride flag in the background that says, "Hey FTC: pick on big tech, not trans kids"

Voila! A truck with more sensible priorities than half of Congress. 🛻💅 #ProtectTransKids

I have so many candidates to join him.

Recommended: "More Everything Forever", by @adambecker.bsky.social

I already was avoiding Prime Day(s). I've been annoyed by the tech billionaires who co-opt words of SF/F, while clearly not understanding the works.

#billionaires #greed #oligarchy #plutocracy #ai #narcissism #obsession

Celebrating the day by not giving money to billionaires for things I don't need. They already have plenty

#prime #noPrime #overconsumption #endStageCapitalism

He stuck a feather in his cap, and called it

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#yankeeDoodle #realPatriotism #makeAmericaCareAgain #makeAmericaKindAgain

I guess a golf club is technically a lever

As a software developer, I feel the need to say that most people have no idea what an algorithm is. To state that an application or website has no algorithms is to say something that is simply untrue. Just as well state that I've written this post with no verbs.

#basicComputerScience