Paul Westerberg are you out there on Bluesky?

Lately I’ve wondered whether the perception of music as an almost magical pursuit also contributes, in some small way, to its treatment as essentially valueless by contemporary society

Reaganomics Finally Trickles Down To Area Man theonion.com/reagano...

REPORT: Biden Officials Admit They Never Pressured Israel for Ceasefire, as Israeli Leaders Boast of Playing Washington Here’s what the investigation revealed: 🧵⬇️

Fandom is rotten as a concept, man. I understand it helps a lot of people who struggle with socializing to find community, but I think it's pretty clear the end result is the very difficult to reverse enmeshment of individual identity with corporate property.

ACLU — NEW ORLEANS: “ICE deported at least two families, including 2 mothers and their minor children – 3 of whom are U.S. citizen children aged 2, 4, and 7. One of the mothers is currently pregnant... 1 child with cancer deported without medication…” www.aclu.org/press-releas...

Since nobody really jokes on here except @505serena.bsky.social this is the funniest thing on Bluesky right now. We call that “Bluesky Funny”

Guy in post-apocalyptic Jackson Hole who keeps trying to reinvent health insurance

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Nation Can’t Believe It On Harvard’s Side

i’ve always wanted to use a social media website that only has fake users with fake human profile pictures with posts entirely created by a robot brain trying to sound human

MIT following Harvard's lead here

They said my artisanal hand-carved semiconductor business would never be viable but who’s laughing now?

Citizens cannot, by legal definition, be "deported." What she's describing is kidnapping and forced imprisonment without cause. She and many, many others in this administration should face prison one day. bsky.app/profile/ones...

It feels like it should be a bigger story that S&P Global is considering downgrading SoftBank's credit rating due to their investment in OpenAI, saying that their "financial condition will likely deteriorate" as a result of their investment. www.wsj.com/business/dea...

There is absolutely no way the US can host the World Cup or the Olympics

i don’t want to hear anyone’s opinion on chappell roan ever again like genuinely.

If you were a halfway decent human being and you knew an innocent man was rotting in foreign prison—likely suffering nightmarish conditions—because your administration screwed up and send him there, you’d do something about it immediately instead of shitposting lies all day.

this is why i say it's a form of hegemonic suicide. america had the entire postwar consensus built around it and decided liberal internationalism was woke

This guy is in one of the worst prisons in the world with no way out and may spend the rest of his life there because, it appears, he has an autism awareness tattoo in honor of his little brother. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

“We had positive ID of him walking into his girlfriend’s building and it’s now collapsed,” National Security Advisor Waltz wrote. “Excellent,” VP Vance replied.

massively depressing that the big scandal is that the shithead guy from the atlantic got texted accidentally and not the part where they're raining more death on yemen

In partnership with @freedom.press, WIRED will make all of its FOIA-based reporting free to access for anyone. Public records should be public, and I hope to see more outlets follow suit: freedom.press/issues/wired...

Read this now www.ft.com/content/bcd3...

Congratulationz to all my friends at Ted Lasso,,, I think we all need something to BELIEVE in right now ,,, and if y’all need Flavor Flav to step up and sponsor your women’s soccer team,,, I gots you. 👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾 @jasonsudeikis.bsky.social

In the US, the homeless are not treated with an ounce of humanity.

Change The World

Put me under coach

Computers are accusing humans of terrorism

Happy International Women’s Day to the most international woman of all: the woman trapped on the International Space Station

(guy whose business is entirely government contracts) we’re going to run the government like a business

Happy Twin Peaks Day, my friends ☕️

Sure looks like Google News caught the Latin Times using a large language model to write an article picking up on my latest report

this is not universal but it is distressingly common among legacy media people. the idea that they have any duty to society or responsibility beyond getting clicks and clout is abhorrent to a sizable number of people at the top of this industry

This whole saga has, I think, demonstrated very well my contention that American political journalists believe that they deserve all of the respect and deference that comes with filling a vital societal role, while rejecting the idea that holding such a position also entails duties and obligations.

"The unified message I took away from the ads was that the time of new ideas is receding, and society along with it. The theme was the soft acceptance of a comfortable death." defector.com/for-sale-the...

Everyone in your life knows a band called Daisy Chain

Reporters: Please stop calling things DEI that are not DEI. This is only cementing the propaganda being used to legitimize the dismantling of all types of initiatives that are not DEI as well as legitimize efforts to end civil rights enforcement. Be specific with your language. Be accurate.

At the last minute the president of Buffalo just wired the NFL a million dollars. sad night for all of us out here in the United States.

I will be a reporter again come the morning

the ai sloppification of the world will only end if organizations stand up for artists like this. this is another great reason to unionize your workplace as you can include NO AI ART in your work contract

In 2004, I interviewed for a teaching position. The principal asked me how many kids I had. I answered. He asked if I was planning to have more —said he couldn’t afford to have another teacher out on maternity leave. This is why women need protections, diversity, equity, and inclusion.

I miss Michael Brooks

It should prob be remembered that “birthright citizenship” was the product of the abolitionist mvt, which understood that no person of color would be safe from deportation or bondage if their citizenship could be questioned or taken away

With literally minutes left in his presidency, Joe Biden has granted clemency to Leonard Peltier

david lynch on angelo badalamenti, who passed away in 2022

Thanks to all for your kind remembrances on this awful day. Words will come later. Only feelings at the moment. Mourn and remember him but don’t forget to celebrate too. We won’t see his like again. The man from another place has gone home. #DavidLynch #TwinPeaks