If you spent one million a day it would take over 2700 years to spend a trillion dollars

"I saw someone call generative AI a Thneed. [...] It's a PERFECT analogy. The Thneed was an all-purpose tool that didn't do anything really useful. It was a fad that did major damage to the environment to make the Onceler a billionaire. It left no real lasting impact, only damage." --BrainsandSpoons

Link's permaban is unjust and should be reversed. #FreeLink

This is why I say ICE enforcement is a mass disabling event Conditions like the ones described in this thread will cause disease, disability & death Randall Esquivel was healthy when ICE grabbed him He was in a persistent vegetative state when deported a few months later. We need transparency

Alright, I realize it's pedantic but I have to ask : Has the word "fewer" just dropped out of our vocabulary all together now?

At @dataforprogress.org we continue to do SNAP defense work. SNAP is *very* popular with the American electorate — 69% of Republican likely voters have a favorable view of the program.

///BREAKING/// A federal judge is issuing an injunction putting more permanent use-of-force restrictions on immigration agents during “Operation Midway Blitz,” saying top government officials lied in their testimony about threats that protesters posed www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/06/o...

I don't know if it's just me, but I've gotten the sense recently that transphobia a political tool is already played out. Not only is it not a winner, but it really feels like the right overplayed their hand with anti-trans hate and people generally seem sick of it, sick of bulling running on hate.

There has been entirely too little scrutiny about the fact the American Starmerism media elites have been advocating for has been a political disaster for UK Labour. We have a contemporary blueprint for how they want Dems to govern!

I talk to the press professionally, I'm really, really, really good at it. So please, please believe me when say you cannot turn this interview request into anything good, it will do only harm. Harm to you, harm to your child, harm to other children.

Fucking SAY that shit, my dude. Everybody means EVERYBODY.

I keep seeing that Dershowitz quote about blowing his brains out on live tv and I just want to remind everybody that some of us have known people who have blown their brains out and it kinda sucks to be reminded during an otherwise celebratory night. 😬

That feeling when the pain level hasn't changed, but your ability to tolerate it has completely folded in on itself? Yeah, that.

This is incredibly important: we must frame tonight as a resounding victory — an electoral landslide, a mandate from the universe itself and as a repudiation of MAGA, of Trump, and of vichy democrats we must be relentless, we must not shut up

I start with kids. And these days? There are far too many people saying "i work hard to feed my kids, their parents should get off their lazy ass" and it's just like, 'oh, so your kids picked you as their parent? they weren't irresponsible picking a lazy parent?"

Here’s Israel's strategy to continue the war on Gaza: find a pretext, no matter how baseless, use it to kill dozens of civilians and fighters, stop fire and claim you’re honoring the ceasefire. Then do it again. mondoweiss.net/2025/10/isra...

This has been the most important question from the beginning of this

Need to fire up a Foodraiser thread soon, but the Costco order is in Food comes out to $129,606.45 this year, up +2.28% YoY If you're willing to be one of our per-donor matchers, please let me know!

Y'all, if you have the option you do NOT want shingles on the bottom of your foot. For your own sake, get your shingles vaccine as soon as you're eligible!

This is some bullshit right here. Taking your super successful secondary imprint, folding it into your main imprint, then laying off the people who made your secondary imprint successful is not how to keep my business.

Every word of this article is true. And I challenge you to read it.

Boko Haram kills more Muslims than Christians but it will be a cold day in Hell before any Trumpist gives a shit about that.

Y'all, there is literally no way to be comfortable when you have shingles and sciatica in the back of your leg and butt.

Day 1 proof of knit: rows 96-98 At urgent care because I have developed bad hives down the line of my sciatica after starting steroids to bring down inflammation. I'm knitting every day in November to raise money for the American Cancer Society. You can pledge at the qr code

can't believe outlets are running moral-panic headlines again based on flimsy anecdata from the *same* trade group (the national retailer federation) and sponsored by the *same* anti-theft company (sensormatic) that had to retract this *same* "study" just two years ago for being bogus.

We'll go over the two court rulings from yesterday, and Trump's Truth Social post(s) from today — what they mean, what the outlook is for SNAP benefits, etc. www.patreon.com/posts/snap-u...

Why do bodies suck so much?

I believe in giving grace when a genuine accounting of wrongdoing and regret are offered by way of apology. I do not believe forgiveness is owed, especially when the person offering it considers “business settled” with people harmed just because a self-serving apology was posted. Once. This not it

I'm shocked! SHOCKED, I TELL YOU!

It’s okay to be glad that restaurants are doing stuff like this AND absolutely furious about the utter failure of the United States government.

If you are considering a health product and you see an ad with a testimonial, pause for a beat. Ask yourself why the company is using emotion to manipulate you into buying their product. Look for data, not testimonials, and failing that, ask your healthcare professional. Hopium is expensive.

For once, my fellow Gen Xers are living up to the punk rock ethos instead of simply co-opting the aesthetic for style points.

Having started steroids to help reduce inflammation, and continued heat as needed, I now have welts down the back of my leg along my sciatic pain line. So things are going well. @rahaeli.bsky.social , do you know if this is a known reaction? Should I see if I can get back in to my doctor Monday?

Firstly, billionaires are not physically made of stocks, if a billionaire falls down a hole and expires his stock portfolio persists and continues to have value, secondarily, this is why one diversifies one's investment portfolio outside of the stock market, thirdly, okay, let's test this hypothesis

Y'all, I'm knitting every day in November to raise money for American Cancer Society. You can pledge to support me via Facebook, directly via ACS' website, or by snail mail! #KnitNovember #FuckCancer www.facebook.com/share/p/1Aix...

So much this

Naturally the dev team not ONCE thought to consider how this unasked for feature could be weaponized as an attack vector.

police can't tell the difference between candy and fentanyl

The average US taxpayer spends $36 a year on SNAP You know what they spend on corporate subsidies? $670 Poor and disabled people who need food are not the problem If you’re angry about “your money” feeding people but not angry it’s giving tax cuts to the wealthy? You’re doing their dirty work.

Happy #Halloween This intaglio depicts a skeleton resting on an amphora and holding a jug. Such representations were intended to remind to enjoy life to the fullest since pleasure ends irrevocably with death. Photo: Museum August Kestner/Christian Tepper #RomanArchaeology

This has been updated to reflect Judge McConnell’s order from the bench requiring USDA move the SNAP contingency fund immediately.

I had fully intended to stay downstairs and hand out candy to trick or treaters. But that requires A) less sciatica B) trick or treaters

Do not lose hope. I beg of you - I am writing this on my knees - do not take meds away from any gender nonconforming child in your life because of these developments. Even if they ultimately prevail, they won’t win quickly. There’s still time. www.patreon.com/posts/trump-...

Let's be clear: Trump has the funding to keep SNAP running. He's choosing not to. There's even a Republican-led bill to fund SNAP with broad Democratic support. Republican leaders won't let us vote on it. Deliberately choosing to let families starve is as vindictive as it gets.

Narrator voice: the legal case for a third term is that Trump violates the constitution at will. This is not so much a legal case as an illegal one.

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So ... when are we going to admit there is no ceasefire in Gaza, there are just times when it's convenient for Israel to pretend there is?

So it would seem that when I fell 2 weeks ago, I did it in such a way as to give myself sciatica. We hope. My PT helped adjust my pelvic alignment, which improved things a little. Now we'll see if steroids & muscle relaxers get me the rest of the way there.

Putting people in cages instead of feeding them is a policy choice