Just finished the audiobook of ELATSOE by @littlebadger.bsky.social. It’s excellent! Will listen to the prequel soon. Hope we get a lot more books about Ellie! Now I’m starting… FRANKENSTEIN by Mary Shelley! There’s like 15 audiobook versions, I picked one at random. 😅

this business model should be flatly illegal taking on a bunch of debt to buy a company and then burning the company to the ground to service that debt while paying yourselves huge fees is a purely destructive practice that has never once had a positive outcome ban it completely

I will fail this challenge.

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So I just became a notary and

Target stock is down near 36% year to date.

This activist's guitar was destroyed by ICE today. ICE fired multiple rounds of rubber bullets at us, and the guitar was struck. I am trying to raise $800 to help replace their instrument, which they rely on for gigs. I bet someone out here can straight up cover the cost. DM me.

Oh damn, the Blue Dot is back in season!

Folks, we are moving into the “arresting and prosecuting” of political dissidents phase of fascism. It will NOT stop with organizations, it WILL move onto political figures. This regime is moving at a rapid pace in order to cement their power. I won’t be surprised if people are disappeared.

anyway periodic reminder that congress can at any time they wish, and should tomorrow, end this

Emma Watson about Rowling: “It’s my deepest wish that people who don’t agree with my opinion will love me, and I hope I can keep loving people who I don’t necessarily share the same opinion with.” *Dumps Watson in the trash* www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

I know there's a lot going on but this is a huge deal: Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin will stop providing abortions next week in an apparent bid to keep accepting Medicaid. The GOP budget law "defunds" PP affiliates that offer abortion care after October 1 We broke the story on @autonomynews.co

So I’ve played a lot of Balatro. And I thought I’d unlocked everything. But apparently not? How did I miss THIS awesomeness?!

For anyone with a good place to donate masks! Amazon is selling 440 individually wrapped 3M Aura 9205+ N95 masks for just $29.99. (Listed seller is Woot). That’s <$0.07 per mask! www.amazon.com/dp/B08J1THV9G

Better tell @schumer.senate.gov not to cave, then.

Genie: ok but you could aim higher? On at least one of the three?

Game description: “…set in the achingly strange and nostalgic period of the 90s.” Me:

Since it needs to be reiterated: If they argue in favor of GenAI, don’t argue back. Block them and move on.

You cannot trust information coming from Kash Patel's FBI. You cannot trust information coming from ICE. You cannot trust information coming the Trump administration. You cannot trust information coming from Republicans.

This remarkable therapy uses an approach the Trump administration just cancelled funding for.

the thing that Granny and Vimes have in common is that they are people who know, at their core, what is right and what is wrong and have consciously chosen to do what is right and the worst villains, on the Disc and in real life, are those who know the difference and choose to go the other way

Since it needs to be reiterated: If they argue in favor of GenAI, don’t argue back. Block them and move on.

Just because someone you like is using genAI doesn’t change the harms.

This is what they've done.

Game description: “…set in the achingly strange and nostalgic period of the 90s.” Me:

Just a reminder that in addition to canceling Disney, you should also cancel Paramount. Hiring racist transphobe Bari Weiss as head of CBS News and actively denying that Israel is committing genocide are both really harmful.

Masterful, masticate, and masturbate are all nautical terms. Discuss.

We should not care or reward Disney for this. We must make their bottom line hurt for even considering doing something like this. Don't let up. Other companies need to see that bowing to fascism is not something you can do without consequence.

This has been a truism amongst cat owners, brought into sharp relief when COVID started. People were doing zooms *just* to see each other's cats. (Okay some won't admit that's the reason but we all know the truth.)

“Thoughtful conversations” my ass. As soon as you hit these capitalists where it hurts—their paychecks—they get shook😂

This is bad

Oh, so Disney is pulling off a “secret weapon?” Yeah, no. Don’t resubscribe. They’re tempting you to come back.

🚨UPDATE: In response to the boycott that erupted over the weekend, Disney decided to update the cancellation process on their website, making it MORE DIFFICULT FOR THEIR SUBSCRIBERS TO STOP GIVING THEM MONEY. This underhanded strategy hasn’t retained customers as they hoped.

This is unironically a lot worse than Jimmy Kimmel but you won't see 1/1000 of the outrage

So the article quotes the question but doesn't answer the question. The answer is the Katy Police Department. Seems like that matters.

Chuck Schumer's burner account

Technologically advance a band: Copper Zeppelin

HEY YOU, BLUESKY USER Do you like art on the site? Then you'd better go give the site's moderators a piece of your mind, because they're looking to instate guidelines on October 15th that *massively* censor art on this platform. Make noise in the comments, submit feedback forms on their site, go.

This is why Republicans are going home instead of even bothering to schedule a vote, because Schumer's history and his signals both make it abundantly clear that he's going to cave as soon as possible. Stop doing this! Have you never negotiated anything in your life?

While ppl are boycotting Disney a reminder that Sinclair and Nexstar are also the problem. They started this. Canceling Disney subscriptions hurts Disney but does nothing to Sinclair/Nexstar. We also need to boycott companies that advertise on Nexstar and Sinclair stations.

and a retired meteorologist shall lead us

We need to stamp "Unfit For the Moment" on their giant fucking foreheads.

They sent a letter! POW! Asking for a meeting! BAM! To discuss a path forward! BOOM! To keep funding Trump’s takeover! ZAP!

Two days ago I got 1.5 hours into an audiobook that many people had recommended and was like “Nope, not for me”. No judgment on those people, if they liked it, great! Just not vibing with a book is absolutely a legit reason to not finish it. I’m a librarian, I’m giving you permission! 😉

I feel like the fact that this puts me in the top 0.1% proves that these numbers don’t mean anything.

What movie do you consider perfect?

What the fuck, @warren.senate.gov? What the fuck, @markey.senate.gov? A national day of remembrance for a white supremacist and neither of you had the guts, or the sense, to object? You really expect us to vote for you when you capitulate like this?

This is fucking mind-blowing. Can we just give @danaterrace.bsky.social all the money to make all the things? More KoG WHEN?!