I read this yesterday and I can NOT stop thinking about it. It's so representative of everything that has gone wrong over the past 75 years in the US

Someone in my network just reposted this on IG. Posting here because I know some folks on #Blacksky can relate.

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There are a lot of angry seniors crashing out in the comment section on this

Maybe the boys will be okay. Remember, if it's not an enthusiastic "yes", it's always a "no"!

Big Ag is extractive. Trees killed, land ruined, jobs gone. Capitalism strikes again: 'This juice is an innovation that represents the future of citrus,” a sign next to the cooler said. “100 percent American juice,” boasted the label. I drank it. It didn’t taste very good.'

I love how all of my weird interests converge into single point. That NBC reporter who was one of the few journalists honestly covering the far right freaks and their plans? Well now he owns the onion, bought the branding of my favorite RW freak, and is on my favorite podcast. Neat!

The Son and The Seditious Father @toxicmicroceleb.bsky.social and chrissampson.bsky.social thechrissampson.substack.com/p/the-son-an...

Some of my family were born or died in this hospital, and the nearest hospital, 33 miles away? That's where my mother, aunts, and cousins and I were born, where my father died at age 24, and where both my grandparents died in their 90s

Now that Leonard is old, the car only takes him to the vet, where he suffers indignities like having his butt squeezed and being stuck with needles. But he still gets excited to go, he doesn't hold a grudge

It's also worth being clear about who's doing the arguing. Palantir sells operational software to defence, intelligence, immigration & police agencies. These 22 points aren't philosophy floating in space, they're the public ideology of a company whose revenue depends on the politics it's advocating.

If these "other cultures" are so "dysfunctional and backwards" how could they produce an "AI weapons industry"?

I just need to point out that children are not typically put on benzodiazepines. I have worked with hundreds of kids who are on psych meds and have never encountered a child who was taking benzos, not even as a PRN med. And I work with kids with serious behavior issues

It was a good day in the therapy mines today, y'all. Dug up some good stuff. Also, I saw a blue jay! Flying!

While there is a lower class, I am in it; while there is a criminal element, I am of it; and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.

Imagine if your brother was the Pope. Imagine how family dinners would go: "Why can't you be more like your brother?" Mom, I literally cannot, he is the Pope, there's only one

Remember the pink shirt worn by sandwich throwing guy? That was also pointelle, and no, I never figured out where he got it

By 4 pm my voice is GONE. It's been 2 weeks since I first got sick

And thus I clothe my naked villainy With odd old ends stol’n forth of holy writ, And seem a saint, when most I play the devil.

This morning’s light is a gentle nudge: what hurts doesn’t have to live in your body forever. Let it move, let it make something, let it become something softer than the weight it once carried. #Jaye’sMorningLight

Climate denial is so weird at this point in time. If you are over 40, you have witnessed firsthand the changes. Where I live, no old buildings have AC because we didn't used to need it. But all new builds include it, because NOW we need it. Over the past 20 years there has been an obvious shift

"Community and solidarity are superpowers that ICE hadn’t expected. Federal agents would have known how to crush a small, violent uprising. They had no idea how to handle thousands of neighbors showing up nonviolently to support people they might not even know."

They say "new technologies" but we all know they mean AI

I just got a pair of REALLY nice, obvi only worn once, rhinestone cowboy boots on Poshmark for $20. Has to be a sign of something

I am so old I remember when conservatives thought teen pregnancy was a BAD thing

"There is no justification for a regressive system in which the super-rich contribute less than the rest of us," write @josephestiglitz.bsky.social, @gabrielzucman.bsky.social, and @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social.

Went back to work today, had a full day of clients, it was fine. I am super tired, I'm not 100% recovered, but I am getting there. I always forget that things can be temporary

I was thinking he just flat out forgot what he'd posted, free-associated "Jesus->cross->red cross-> DOCTOR!" but the below is absolutely what happened

Anytime he's onscreen with a regular normal human guy, he clearly is falling apart inside, ridden with anxiety. I had to watch the 50 minute interview on 2x speed because he speaks so haltingly

The New York Times Editorial Board yet again demands that Democrats run exactly the campaign they ran in 2024

I didn’t know this, did you? Amazing!

Synthetic humans don't get sick

The GOP is really worried, aren't they. It hurt itself in its confusion

The people and protocols that held the line in 2020 are gone. In their place are two dozen political appointees in positions that could affect elections: 10 who actively worked to reverse the 2020 vote, and the rest who are associates of such people. FULL STORY: www.propublica.org/article/trum...

NEW: In 2020, as President Trump tried to overturn his loss to Joe Biden, the institutional guardrails of American democracy held — barely. A @propublica.org investigation found that, ahead of the midterms, Trump has systematically demolished those guardrails. 🧵

If you really want a stark illustration of this, think about how men and women tend to play video games very differently. Men play more time-consuming video games that take hundreds of hours to finish. Women favor phone games they can play for a few minutes at a time. substack.com/home/post/p-...

I love this lady so much, she is keeping me going rn youtube.com/shorts/PzDDg...

"We should not be working right now" I feel that in my soul. I wonder if The Gay Plant Store offers shipping

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I couldn't do it. After getting to work I realized there is no way can be present for clients today, I am clearly ill. WHY do I feel so guilty

I don't actually feel better but I guess I am going to work anyway. I have missed an entire week now. I am out of PTO. negative actually

Dog (sniffing mom, confused): Where the heck have you BEEN?

Years ago, riding my bike to my shitty low-wage job, I'd imagine trading places with Rush Limbaugh and how he'd cope with my flea-ridden rented tiny bedroom and working a 10 hour shift as a cashier before biking to the laundromat, while I chilled in his mansion. I was thinking "great reality show"

I have now been sick for a solid week with zero improvement. Doc says it's not covid, flu, or pneumonia, but when the nurse did the swab in my nose she didn't touch any surfaces in there. Not like the instructions I remember from home tests

Wait wait wait. Roosevelt's FOUR sons were serving in the armed services during WWII??? "The four sons of FDR - James, Elliott, Franklin Jr., and John - all served in America's military during World War II." Teddy's sons also served. Hard to imagine, isn't it? Times have changed