“We (medical professionals) cannot correct the error AI made on your record. Only the company who made the bot can correct your record” EXCUSE ME??

Keep Trying #art

Waiting for big cuttlefish to come out of the kiln, but meanwhile: mini cuttlefish

To be a U.S. Senator is to be an institutionalist. Even Bernie Sanders cares more about his role and friendships in the senate than he does about his ideological project. If ideology came first he would lead the charge on ousting Schumer. But that’s his friend.

I double dog dare ANYONE to give me one legitimate reason why we need health insurance companies. Besides making money for themselves and frustrating the shit out of needy people, what actual necessary service do they provide?

This (a muppety pile of human under a sleeping cat) is mentally where I am today It’s also physically where I am; I am ill. The cat is living for it.

Starbucks workers are ON STRIKE! Tell everyone in your life to stop buying Starbucks — don’t cross the picket line!

no money for politicians

Tactical frivolity meets Dust Bowl honesty. Don’t Tread on Frog + Woody Guthrie print — this month in Print Club. www.patreon.com/posts/novemb...

Senators on the brink of retirement who lived full, wealthy lives and never feared the loss of their own healthcare voting for their constituents to die from their inability to afford the same is treasonous

They pepper sprayed a baby

Thirsty for this

Truly amazing that any time the democrats have to bite the bullet and do something that ruins countless lives, there's always *just* enough votes to get it done, but if there is a vote on something that would actually improve people's lives, they are always one vote short. Crazy how that happens.

The status quo delivered us to this moment of fascist acceleration. As Democratic elites in Washington keep proving, they have nothing to offer but behavior that abets and fosters more of the same. Their trajectory is as fixed as the right's.

So every freelancer you know is going to lose their insurance or be bankrupted by premiums because Schumer is an invertebrate

These politicians aren't in disarray. They fucking hate you. They don't work for you.

I don’t know folks. We talk about getting the country back. But it can’t be given back to these people either.

if they were going to cave anyway they should’ve done it a week ago to spare SNAP recipients the agony.

motivations and politics aside, moderate democrats must suck at strategic board games

How long till we learn American, United & Delta worked the phones on Senate Dems?

Things are fine.

Almost completely, every single problem with higher education that folks think is mainly about something else is <primarily> about the massive decline in state public funding since the 1980s. Yes, including everyone's obsession with getting their kid into the "right" college:

Fuck Intuit. Filing taxes can be free and should be free. Direct File is a government program that works and it’s getting shelved because it cuts into Intuit’s profits.

Under Biden, the IRS launched a program for people to file their taxes FOR FREE (finally!) Well, Trump ended it because TurboTax donated $1 million to him. This White House is just one big grift while the rest of us pay more for everything.

Damn, I hate it when things that happen mean nothing :-(

the right wing has eagles and flags; we have frogs and joy. this is my Patreon Sticker Club drop for November

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The airport in Boston is hosting a food bank for TSA workers because the GOP would rather send the cost of healthcare through the roof than make sure Americans can eat three meals a day wbznewsradio.iheart.com/content/loga...

should I buy the long eared bat necklace? the betsey Johnson deadstock alligator choker? y/n? let me be clear I have NO MONEY

My brother was fired from Starbucks after disclosing his reason for not being “smilier” was autism. Happy to demand a better standard for their company to be held to so their employees are fairly treated & compensated. No Starbucks on Nov. 13th if they reject the deal, and anytime thereafter!

NEWS — The Oregon Department of Human Services has issued 100% of November SNAP benefits, per an alert on their website. I've received reports that the funds have already hit recipients' EBT accounts. www.oregon.gov/odhs/news/Pa...

Like, genuinely, and I'm not even Christian, if anyone complains about this...they need Jesus

I’m going to regret asking this, but… what mechanism are people proposing whereby AI will “end scarcity”? This feels like literal underpants gnomes thinking, and as I never tire of pointing out, it’s being driven by a lot of the same actual people

What gave Mavis Staples the right

“Part of a fascist project to offload the work of thinking, especially the reflective kind of thinking that reading, study, and community engagement provide.”

Nuremburg trials is the moderate position

new print for Patreon: Woody Guthrie, patron saint of corny truth-tellers.

I think a lot about the story Carl Reiner told: he’d have been a sewing machine repairman if not for a free WPA drama class. That led to other theater work, to Sid Caesar, to Mel Brooks, and all the rest. All because of one free class paid for by a government that felt the arts were worth teaching.

The "service" includes settings for hiding certain types of content, warning you that the skeet contains such content before you see it, or simply turning off the filter. If you've never been here before, you'll find things like "rude" or "threats" are set to "Hide".

Next select Settings, and then Moderation on the next screen. At the bottom of the Moderation page under "Advanced" is a section called "Bluesky Moderation Service" that looks like an info box. It in fact leads to more settings.

Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default. Here's how to turn it off. First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner

The point isn't that these materials aren't a threat to an authoritarian regime—they are! But they're also widely available pieces of writing you can likely find in any punk house, activist space, or bookstore. The criminalization of their possession is a criminalization of all dissent. Free Des!

"Antifa materials" is intended to sound sinister but the government is talking about ESSAYS. If you read literature the regime disapproves of, you might be a terrorist, too.

BREAKING: Starbucks workers have just authorized a massive strike. Union Starbucks baristas voted to authorize the strike by 92%. Now baristas in over 25 cities could launch an unfair labor practice strike on Thursday, November 13th.

Art for people who still believe humor and hope can be weapons. Patreon drop: Don’t Tread on Frog + Woody Guthrie.

There is nothing they won’t do to get richer. I don’t understand the point

Scams undermine democracies and free enterprise by eroding general mutual trust. Meta’s business model incentivizes people to financially exploit each other.