Reuters is reporting that Ukraine has been notified that Elon will shut off Starlink access to Ukrainian Armed Forces unless Zelensky signs the rare earth minerals paperwork. 100% extortion.

Someone take my phone away I want to earnestly post shit like love is the only thing that matters

Idiocracy was a documentary

You can find a large random selection of open source #TTRPG resources on our site now for easy reference. Borrowed from the Forever Open Source game jam series I host every year. thoughtpunks.com/ope...#TTRPG #OpenSource #TabletopGames #TabletopGaming

I remember when Nemik sounded alarmist.

The Stonewall stuff is akin to if the government agency running the web site for the house where Anne Frank and her family hid removed reference to the fact that they were Jews.

🔥🔥🔥 new track from @theknocks.bsky.social that's going to get me through this week: music.youtube.com/watch?v=wSJZ...

🧵 When Medicine and Science Ignores Diversity, People Die. 1/ Ignoring diversity in medicine and science is deadly. From unethical experiments to life-threatening misdiagnoses, history is replete with examples of how neglecting race, gender, and identity costs lives. A thread of concrete examples.

NOT NOW, MELVILLE. READ THE ROOM.

The United States Military Academy has just eliminated all Cadet clubs and activities for POC. Most of these have existed for decades like the Society of Black Engineers. They were there when I was a Cadet in 1987. All of the religious ones remain. This isn’t DEI. It’s white Christian Nationalism.

thank you @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social for making me aware of this

Federal Worker: “Those of us within the ranks of the federal workforce looked on in horror at all of this. Those outside the federal government might not understand the gravity of this situation.”

Federal employees have received a copy of the deferred resignation agreement. Contains a lot of brow-raising lines such as, "Employee waives any claim that could be brought on Employee’s behalf by another entity, including Employee’s labor union." Full text shared with me:

When a group of private citizens took over a federal wildlife refuge and its offices in 2016, the media called it a "siege," a "takeover," an "occupation." Later they faced charges of obstructing federal employees performing their duties. Why is this not being applied to Musk and co?

I want to spell out the basic reason it’s so dangerous for Elon to have control of the U.S. payments system. It may seem like a technical matter, but the dynamics are simple. 1/x

Email from Ingram: “some book prices will go up. Some will go down.” Unspoken: books are going to be more expensive. Ingram is the primary printer and distributor for bookstores and libraries. They do both indie and trad pub. Expect delays and expense. Support authors and bookstores and libraries.

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in addition to musk stealing the data for his own purposes, I imagine that they think they can simply shut off payments to whoever doesn’t comply. I would not be shocked if they tried to turn off Social Security for an entire state of course that’s dissolution of the union territory.

We can always do something to change the situation. — Thích Nhất Hạnh www.parallax.org/product/peac...

Guys like joe rogan are funny because they still think smoking weed that they buy legally from places that look like an apple store makes them hunter s thompson

i need someone to ask john roberts if nondelegation applies to handing over the entire federal government to a single unelected billionaire

Well done for making it to the end of January. Stop whatever you're doing and read a book to reward yourself. If you don't have a book, then buy one from an indie bookshop, that way you'll be making TWO people happy.

A graphic adaptation of Good Omens is no longer associated with Gaiman. The project "will now fully be an entity run by, and financially connected to, the Terry Pratchett Estate only"

I think it’s really interesting how many of the DEI comments made by the administration are about disability and the headline says DEI and folks here assume it’s a comment about race. They’re coming for everyone but let’s be precise where we can. The ableism is LOUD and aggressive from these folks

American Airlines CEO: Don't listen to the president, he's wrong and/or lying. www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

Today is Fred Korematsu day. Today is a good day to seek out our inner Fred Korematsu.

want to scream this from the rooftops!!!

The guy from The Apprentice, who hired a Fox weekend host to run the Pentagon and a cast member from the Real World to run the FAA (the two agencies associated with the incident) says the real cause of a deadly plain crash is DEI.

I don't think MAGA or Donald Trump can claim Sam Lilley, one of the pilots of the American Airlines plane that crashed with the Army Black Hawk helicopter, is a DEI hire. Him and his family deserve better.

NEW: Yesterday, the Department of Transportation issued a memo that says DOT and DOT-supported programs should "give preference to communities with marriage and birth rates higher than the national average." www.transportation.gov/sites/dot.go...

✨abortion is very often fertility-saving✨

When the Patriot Act was passed, libraries got requests for patrons’ borrowing history. We were prohibited from disclosing those requests. We deleted and shredded those records and stopped tracking reading history for that reason. ALSO.

Comrade card for 1/30/2025. Evergreen from @prisonculture.bsky.social.

One of the best things you can do right now is read books. Buy them. Borrow them from the library. Gift them. Read history. Read fiction. Read science writing. Read anything that shows you the world is bigger than what fascists say it is. Read to remember why your resistance matters. 📚💙

These are the good guys supporting DEI. Reward them with your business. Costco Meijer Kroger Giant Grocery Ben & Jerry’s Ulta, Macy’s Old Navy Nordstrom’s TJ Maxx GoTo Foods ( Moe’s Southwest Grill, Mcalister’s, Auntie Anne’s, Jamba, Cinnabon…) Dollar Tree Walgreens Wegmans

The @sivav.bsky.social piece on phones and youth well being is so, so good, and this is the crux of it. I’m no fan of phones *inside classrooms*, but shoving the blame for youth anguish onto phones lets adults skate on the moral injury we inflict on our kids.

I kind of feel like if you had to do a big PR visit to Auschwitz to prove you’re not antisemitic, you’re antisemitic.

hey, stop using populism as a euphemism for naziism! it not only sanitizes naziism, but implies that most people like it! that's wrong! shut the fuck up!

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