6 years ago today: A man in Wuhan, China starts feeling ill, becoming the first confirmed case of COVID-19

The second day of every month should be a national holiday for rent hangover, where you spend the day thinking about how much you just paid in rent, throwing up, etc

AI music is a disgrace, an affront to art, and something for us all to reject wholesale. Not only does it hurt artists, it makes our lives far worse and threatens that which makes us human. www.jphilll.com/p/reject-ai-...

It is *lunacy* for the ostensibly liberal opposition party to say we shouldn't limit any individual's wealth and power after watching a cadre of fascist billionaires systematically destroy this country. That's probably the single most important thing we *must* do!

Not voting for anyone who refuses to “look back.” I “look forward” to candidates who will punish all of the Nazis who did this.

"STARTS WORKING IN SECONDS!" from over the counter medicines, now printed on the side of a baseball bat

I wrote a book about US media’s complicity in the Gaza genocide. It's available for pre-order. It’s a data-driven and, I hope, thorough account of how center-left media sold the American public on mass death in Gaza. Out 4/21. 100% of royalties go to @mecaforpeace.bsky.social.

anyway, Spock is loved very much

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"Like the good old time" Kuya and Rei, two little shit for the Quincy ~~ 🦊🦉 #nucarnival

"Where is Gavin Newsom?" The state & local Democratic Party are complicit. Newsom & Karen Bass send the police after protesters & community members.

ICE has been raiding my neighborhood and surrounding ones for the last couple of weeks now. They commandeered my local church (against the pastor's will) for a staging site and raided supermarkets, parks, Goodwills, bus stops, you name it. The national media's been silent. So has @mayor.lacity.gov.

Support community organizers and share information from people on the ground! The media focus on LA has died down so elected officials don't feel the need to even feign opposition. Back to business as usual!

Fact: One of the biggest hurdles LLM devs built for themselves by overhyping their chatbot, being idiots, and leveraging the entire global economy on their pipe dream is that they constantly need *more data* that they can be sure an LLM did NOT generate. If there's a company with data, they want it.

Right. So this says "TurboTax" but they mean "parent company of TurboTax: Intuit, who will extend this to all their holdings." For those who are not up on finance world mergers, that's: - TurboTax - Credit Karma - QuickBooks - Mint (not mentioned in article) - Mailchimp Check your records.

ooh rates ooh every finance peddling business I've ever had the displeasure of interacting with wants me to refinance so bad it makes them look stupid

UPDATE: Person infected with bird flu in Washington state has H5N5. It's the first time H5N5 has been found in a human

Happy Partially Muscled Skeleton Stands by the Perimeter Fence Screaming for 30 Seconds Before Vanishing Day to those who celebrate

Congressional republicans have been spewing racist attacks on Mamdani for weeks and it’s almost never mentioned in our media. Not only that, the person leading the hate campaign—Randy Fine—is treated by the same media as a good faith expert on antisemitism. I wrote about this obscene double standard

NEW: Washington state reports human case of bird flu, patient hospitalized. Waiting for CDC confirmation

Democrats have been passing the buck for virtually no reward my entire life. A good two generations of people are over it.

one of the political lessons of the last few years is that it can be difficult to convince people that dems are influenced by corporations just as much as republicans are, but oh man people need hardly any convincing at all that dems care more about their vacation time than their constituents needs

Why aren't my Senators saying they did it because they simply care about the American people and truly felt this was just the right thing to do? It is an absolutely mystery to me why they aren't saying this thing when it's clearly what they believe

Any Senate Democrat who is not publicly and explicitly calling for Schumer's resignation as the Leader is complicit.

You told us to suck it up over Cop City. You told us to suck it up over the complete lie on the $2000 checks. You told us to suck it up over a goddamn genocide (hey, remember that? The genocide? Weird how we just stopped talking about the GENOCIDE). Your strategy has failed. You may sit down now.

They should invent a California where you can afford to live

See the film and my update on the ongoing, pointless, man-made loss of life here: bsky.app/profile/agaw...

today mamdani has let his haters become his waiters at the table of success

I think a thing we'll learn tonight is that people fucking hate what is going on and they will straight ticket vote against anyone involved in starving people while pillaging the country and kidnapping their neighbors. I don't think it matters at all who that person is.

democrats preserving the fillibuster just for trump to direct republicans to get rid of it was for nothing. democrats should have done this day one in the biden administration but their biggest downfall was assuming that political “norms” were restored after biden won

No single industry is more responsible for the dire straits we find ourselves in than big tech and its gang of billionaire cartoon villains. If you're a Democrat and you still want to play nice with these guys you're nuts

when donating food, please please PLEASE consider lactose-free milk/dairy! not almond, not oat, LACTOSE -FREE MILK. You can be allergic to tree nuts, and oatmilk is full of sugar I'm so 😵‍💫

been something driving me fucking nuts for years. i saw the dems wrap themselves around queers like me and pretend they were always on our side but they'd keep punting muslims out and kicking them around and i was expected to ignore this, or accept this, or just focus on how they liked *me* now

Probably not good that the bubble has gone well past the “to big to fail” line and is now rapidly passing the “too big to actually even be bailed out when it fails” line

Google #GOOG and Amazon #AMZN signing contracts that defy US laws and suspend their right to terminate due to breach of contract go against their shareholders interests. Providing infrastructure for #apartheid, #warcrimes and #genocide, they join #holocaust supporting #IBM in ignominy. #Divest

"According to the deal’s terms, the companies cannot suspend or withdraw Israel’s access to its technology, even if it’s found to have violated their terms of service." This is an absolutely demented thing for ANY company to agree to. And they're probably doing it while handling YOUR data. 1/2

The U.S. spends over $180 billion on cops and incarceration every year. The annual SNAP budget is $100 billion.

Randy Shumway is a sociopath to be in the post he is

Debtor’s prisons. They’re bringing back debtor’s prisons. It’s okay to just admit what they are.

What, wouldst thou have me go and beg my food?

In addition to money donations to food banks & food aid for people, please also consider donating money or food & litter to pet food pantries. Many people who rely on SNAP to feed themselves will now need to redirect $ to buy groceries that they would have spent on pet food before.

Nobody deserves a billion dollars. Everyone deserves food. The end.

I think any story about Trump's autocracy should be mostly about the people and institutions who failed to stop it. This guy isn't a political genius, everything else just happens to be rotten. 'Toddler Consolidates Power In Household' is a story about incompetent parents, not shrewd maneuvering

Monstertober Day 18: Shadow It seems like this plant is beckoning you over with his gaze... A deadly nightshade inspired plant, shade is almost shadow so it counts right? This plant is very toxic, handle with care. #monstertober2025 #plantperson #oc #art

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