Eee! I just turned on the TV and its on the Xmas Dogs channel! Doggos! Musics! Snow!

This time of year I'll browse Zon, looking for gift ideas (which I usually buy elsewhere) for family members. I had no idea how much AI slop is on there now. Ick.

Oh hi! Happy holiday to you, however you may celebrate! Yesterday we visited a tiny bend in the Luckiamute River which travels from the west over 60 miles to feed into the Willamette River at almost the exact place the Santiam River feeds in from the east.

More convinced every day that a Universal Basic Income is the only long term workable solution. Everything else is just duct tape.

Just like UBI & Medicare for All would be much better uses of taxpayer dollars.

We don’t need to reform ICE. We don’t need alternatives to ICE. We don’t need to engage in dishonest debates wondering what the U.S. would do without ICE. ICE isn’t even 23 years old. Most adults know a world without ICE. And the billions used to fund ICE can be used to meet people’s basic needs.

Coast Guard rescue helicopters keep boat crews from dying when things go wrong. Taking them away to make room for an ICE prison is going to get extremely ugly

the reason this is amazing is because the most opportunistic self-serving shitheads in this country are acting like MAGA is a toxic brand, and this is GREAT FOR US. they are still not our friends.

The morning fog is thick, only the nearest black skeletons of trees visible. As the sun rises, the fog shifts lavender, pink, grey again. Hello, Friday.

Whenever this is mentioned, it is obligatory to post xkcd 2381, in which @gretchenmcc.bsky.social shares forbidden linguistic knowledge with the masses.

An Oregon pilot program giving cash to homeless youths sees a staggering reduction in homelessness. The program gave participants $1,000 cash payments each month for two years, and at the end of the project's first phase, 91% of participants reported being in stable housing.

Anyway please enjoy this pumpkin I saw yesterday

EPSTEIN BOMBSHELL: my staff is releasing a new report showing JPMorgan Chase executives – all the way to the top – enabled Epstein's sex trafficking operation. You're going to want to read this.

I think one of the hardest things about being a career writer in traditional publishing is that writing attracts the neurodivergent brain while the variable reinforcement schedule punishes it. We are all the rat at the water bottle, waiting for the hit of cocaine. You get one win, and you need MORE.

Let me tell you about the other Epstein files the Trump administration is STILL HIDING — records that aren’t affected by the bill Congress passed today.

You know how you take power away from the wealthy? Universal Basic Income.

Office cleaning was interrupted by visitors stopping by. Did sweep, tidy, and dusting ceilings. Break for food, then we'll see if I finish the office (just one large messy shelf) and tackle the kitchen before Clean All The Things day is over.

Cleaning the spare room and getting things tucked away in the attic took more time than I expected. Time for coffee, then I'm on to attack-the-office part of Clean All The Things day.

Front porch cleaned and swept. Summer chairs stored away, spiders gently relocated. Next Clean All The Things stop? Spare room and attic.

Today is Clean All The Things day. So far? Back porch cleaned and swept. Bushes along back walk trimmed enough one can more easily ramble past. On to front porch.

I really need everyone in power at the DNC to not get distracted by this and to just embrace Let Them Fight. You do not have to hand it to the Jewish Space Laser Lady. Ever.

Give a man a fish and someone with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about people getting free handouts. Teach a man to fish? Yeah, that person with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about that too.

My political hot take is that US voters should be able to recall elected representatives via petition - at any time. No more hiding behind election terms.

Further proof of the need for universal health care and UBI, to keep our young people one step away from predators.

lots of countries and societies have in fact dished out Severe Consequences to fabulously rich and powerful people. the U.S. can do it too.

Do not cross picket line. Godspeed

Big inhale. You get another chance today. #photography

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and honestly the craziest thing about it is that time and again evidence is borne out that BEING GOOD SAVES COSTS. Diversity of opinions enriches work culture and makes teams more strategic. Housing the unhoused saves governments money. Basic income is cheaper on civic systems than mass poverty.

Rails thrum with trains that never arrive. Limbs made phantom by branch line butchery become ghost grooves for steam-powered spirits to move across the land. No aspect of what was once modernity is immune to temporal shading, is immune to being haunted. – #CJosiffe #Ghosts

Medicare for all Universal Basic Income Raise federal minimum wage Defund ICE and DHS Free education - preK thru 4 years higher education-Includes trade schools. Revision of the tax code- wealthy pay their fair share

For now I am mostly just sending these up to Chicago for the Whistlemania events for as long as they need them, but if you are in an org that is trying to organize whistles in any other city, I will send them out! 💓

My red line has always been lowering health costs for Americans. Donald Trump and Republicans don’t want an agreement that meets that bar. I’m a no.

"Folded together, the two-part outer hoop and three interior hoops give the illusion of a simple gold band. Slipped off the wearer’s finger, they can fan out into a physical model of celestial longitude and latitude."

If you’re wondering what a “least weasel” is, they absolutely live up to the name. This is the least amount of animal you can have that can still meet the bar for “is weasel”

If you’re wondering what message democrats should be broadcasting for the next few years, here it is. “We’re going to DESTROY billionaires. Over the past few decades they’ve stolen trillions from you, and we’re going to TAKE IT FROM THEM AND GIVE IT BACK TO YOU.” That’s it. Say it loud & MEAN IT.

'Early Autumn in Itako' - Kawase Hasui, 1942. #JapaneseArt

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...

and honestly im sick of not pushing back on this specifically you want to advance human civilization? - universal health care - ubi - green energy - high speed rail and public transportation - free education through college

JFC. Tax the hell out of him and all billionaires to fund UBI, universal healthcare, social security, and a better life for the rest of us. This is obscene. No one needs to amass this kind of money, especially not a would-be Nazi.

We're still talking about the Epstein Files, right?

Imagine taking a Trillion dollar salary for running a company that can't profit without government subsidies, will never profit a Trillion dollars, all while others can't buy food.

I've seen this go by a few times on TikTok now and I have to say, I love this idea. We need a way to convince people to keep running even if they don't win, maybe building the loss into it as a troll move is the secret.

Shit push it further, everyone deserves UBI and cheap to free housing. Dead serious 💯

Hard working Dems flipped THREE SEATS in the Mississippi legislature (thus ending the GOP supermajority there). This is huge news, and what an achievement: www.mississippifreepress.org/mississippi-...

Universal Basic Income defeats one of the main issues of social safety net programs: it’s not limited to people who meet certain qualifications. It helps to “cover the gaps” for folks who make too much to qualify for many programs but who still can’t afford to live in their communities.

I can't keep the thread up, but suffice to say, PEOPLE VOTED TO PROTECT AND FUND LIBRARIES AND SO MANY SCHOOL BOARD ELECTIONS SUPPORTED PRO-EDUCATION, PRO-STUDENT CANDIDATES. People showed up. They didn't just buy banned books. They VOTED. And guess what? Voting made a difference.

Oh fuck yes, America. More of this, please.

You have to survive. There are graves to piss on that haven't been dug yet.