The democratic collapse of my country is making it hard to focus on the collapse of my profession

Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit:

The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.

Every damn day @edsbs.bsky.social

I could easily see myself voting for someone who runs on abolishing ice and prosecuting every single one of them and the entire administration free campaign idea to good home

It turns out that protecting hate speech did not create the conditions to protect other kinds of speech; instead, it protected hate and allowed hate movements to take over all the institutions of that might have defended the rest of us.

When you strip away humanity

Verily, it is one of the universe’s great mysteries as to why the American public is no longer obsessed with Suffering From Inflation™️ & is now just “learning to live” with it

PSA: you're probably tired because you're going through cognitive dissonance all the time and compartmentalizing doesn't really work unless you're constantly ignoring news updates

If you see this, quote this post with a time travel movie that's not BACK TO THE FUTURE 🎥

[worst possible stuff happening everywhere] man why do I feel bad

This is a pro rivers and estuary account and also an anti cop account.

Key quote from this recent press release we discussed: "Not a single pilot has shown decreased employment among recipients of guaranteed income." This is after 20 completed studies by @mayorsforagi.bsky.social so far. See my pinned thread for even more UBI studies.

Germany's largest UBI study funded by 200K private donors found that - Everyone kept working, no change in hours - More enrolled in university - More job changes (for better jobs) - More satisfied with work This is the data UBI critics love to ignore.

I check the little screen, I check the big screen, I check the watch screen, I check the tablet screen. I check the screen that reminds me of the good times, I check the screen that reminds me of the better times.

every time i hear about new information i'm like no thanks and then the next day i hear more new information

bsky.app/profile/veri... gonna be a useful account.

I wonder if it's healthy to see everything saying THE END IS FUCKING NIGH and then trying very hard to pretend none of that is happening long enough to complete a task and then checking again and repeating that all day every day

The fall of Rome seems so much less exciting now that I realize everyone was kinda just working their regular jobs and paying bills and stuff the whole time

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If you could commission one fictional character to fix the current US political problems, who would it be?

Billionaires prioritizing tax avoidance over market stability seems irrational—until you understand how advantageous their tax privileges are. The so-called "Buy, Borrow, Die" tax avoidance system is so valuable they'll risk market losses to protect it. Here is a step-by-step explainer:

Millennials about to endure another "OnCe In A LiFeTiMe" republican economic crash...

The real capitalists have constructed the largest, most expensive, most sophisticated propaganda network in recorded history. Networks, newspapers, movie studios, media outlets, all theirs. Americans hate socialism and without even knowing what it is. And they don't know what's happening right now.

been thinking a lot about the media reaction to Biden's first debate performance compared to its response to fascism

Post a gif that perfectly encapsulates you.

History: “Eventually the incompetent fascists invariably lose power and then society recovers in a new and stronger way” Me: “Oh, cool, so what has to happen for the spell to be broken??” History: “mmmm…well, that part is less encouraging.”

If you see this, post a fictional artist/ band that you would love to see live.

Toni Morrison's observations on censorship show our collective unwillingness to address mainstreaming fascist ideas & iconography to be something larger: "The historical suppression of writers is the earliest harbinger of the steady peeling away of additional rights and liberties that will follow."

Fun fact US friends; you will never be obliged to forgive the people in your life who chose what is about to be done to the US.

If we want any chance of surviving the interlocking crisis of climate collapse, information collapse, and the rise of fascism, we have to admit the reality that the billionaire class knows they are causing the climate collapse as well as fascism and are attempting to divert from that reality

Once it is accepted that facts have a liberal bias and, for the purpose of balance , we should ensure what is wrong is given as much or more exposure , then we are done

a story in two parts

After watching researchers try to recover bodies from the 1918 flu in the Arctic, I went back to school to study the social history of epidemics. I couldn't understand why 1918 sparked no major memorials, no novels, no plays. How could societies collectively agree to forget mass death? Welp.

Welcome to Bluesky 💙🦋

All that talk about “blue bracelets, pussyhats, tweeting online and women’s marches” ain’t gonna cut it if you’re talking about being a resistance. The blueprint has been in place for years, are you willing to make the sacrifice? 😒

Name a better qualified doctor than Dr. Oz.

Name a show you’re positive no one remembers but you.

One thing I think people talking about the threat of authoritarian creep have gotten, if not exactly wrong, not quite right either is to frame discussion in terms of various European precedents. Those are relevant to be sure, but we also have an American precedent - namely the South before 1965.