“…only as you gasp your dying breath shall you understand, your life amounted to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean!” Yet what is any ocean but a multitude of drops? Cloud Atlas (2004) David Mitchell #booksky

can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot

I feel called out. #booksky

English writer Mary Lamb was born today in 1764. She was best known for writing “Tales from Shakespeare” w her brother Charles. Lamb suffered from mental illness & fatally stabbed her mother during a breakdown. Mary was committed, but spent much of her adult life living with her brother. #booksky

“There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one’s head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people’s pain.” Giovanni’s Room (1956) James Baldwin #booksky

warm breath meets the chill earth rests beneath thick cold snow it’s time for coffee #haiku

“I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded; not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night.” The Kite Runner (2003) by Khalid Hosseini #booksky

“I think from the very start my literary ambitions were mixed up with the feeling of being isolated and undervalued. I knew that I had a facility with words and a power of facing unpleasant facts.” —George Orwell #booksky

Breaking: Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died. She was 111 years old

Everything about this might be the saddest thing I’ve ever seen

Interesting study of cannabalized Neanderthals. The Neanderthals eaten were either smaller adult females or juveniles, suggesting they were deliberately and selectively hunted. #paleosky

Twitter now displays where accounts are from and it has confirmed that too many of the political accounts are out of country bots. Why are folks still there? To argue with bots? A waste of precious time while enriching the richest man on Earth. Delete your account.

“We are but older children, dear, Who fret to find our bedtime near.” Through the Looking-Glass (1871) by Lewis Carroll #booksky

“The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.” Animal Farm (1945) by George Orwell #booksky

honestly, if you’re still usin twitter at this point, you’re kinda tellin on yourself

“When the rich are too rich there are ways, and when the poor are too poor there are ways … and if I am not mistaken, that way will come soon.” The Good Earth (1931) by Pearl S. Buck #booksky

It’s rich people The problem is rich people

I quit the former Twitter two years ago this week, and I am here to tell you that my online life got a lot better for having left it. In two years I've not been tempted to go back, and I haven't felt any penalty in either career or community for not being there. It's nice to be here and not there.

I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered. He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here : www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...

POV: you’re still on twitter

Epstein’s War

THROTUS

Growing up in a time when “selling out” was the most shameful thing you could do and then being forced to live through the 2020s feels like being kicked in the head by a horse every day

PBS did us a solid and dropped the whole Epstein emails. www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...

C R Y I N G this is so perfect lmao x: www.instagram.com/reel/DQ7cPSf...

Pretty wild that the first evidence of human writing is a hashtag on the floor of a cave & here we are 39,000 years later still using the same basic symbol every single day. #hashtag

Why is anybody with a brain still on Twitter?

There are more of us than there are of them.

No victory lapping. The job’s not done.

Minimum wage went up to $7.25 in 2009. Full time workers can make around $15k/year before taxes on that. 51% inflation over 16 years, no change in minimum wage. Republicans: Why do we need SNAP? Why do so many Americans need help feeding themselves?

I continue to wonder when Americans will decide enough is enough. As Frederick Douglass reminds us: “The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.”

Mike Johnson: ‘My Christian Faith Is More About Not Jacking Off Than Feeding The Poor’

It seems like the REAL economy is crushing the working class, while upper-middle class still gets by. Meanwhile, the ruling class has only gotten wealthier, so they don’t give a shit. The people in charge are so out of touch & that’s a HUGE problem. “This is the golden age. Let them eat cake.”

So it’s pretty clear to everyone that republicans want the govt shuttered & have no intention of reopening it, right? This is by design. Less oversight, more power to the executive. GOP passed their tax cuts, which is the only bill they care about. This will continue for months. #GOPshutdown

For those who aren’t following along: 1 Gut the federal govt 2 Manipulate markets w tariffs 3 Cut taxes for the rich 4 Shutdown govt <—YOU ARE HERE 5 Crash markets, buy up stocks 6 Reopen govt, bailout corporations It’s all about reducing govt oversight, while siphoning wealth & power to the 1%.

Mike Johnson’s wife: “Honey, can you take out the trash?” Mike Johnson: “I haven’t seen that, so I don’t know much about it.”

Pancakes & coffee. Morning constitutional. Good morning Bluesky! #haiku

We are in a recession, by the way. A bad one. Prices are way up. People can't find jobs. I am plugged into this in a very real way. The stock market is just not important unless you are in the top 10%/1%. I have not seen a labor market this bad since 2008. The 2nd Great Depression is coming.

First, we gave $20 billion to bailout Argentina, while simultaneously screwing over American soybean farmers. Now, they’re building a Quatari Air Force base in Idaho.

The worst thing for Republicans is when they have to interact with real actual voters instead of beltway reporters

Bill Gates: $106B | Microsoft: $3.9T Jeff Bezos: $232.5B | Amazon: $2.3T Larry Page: $204.2B | Google: $2.84T Mark Zuckerberg: $243.5B | Meta: $1.8T Can someone please explain why on earth we’re paying the power & water bills for their data centers?

In a matter of hours we’ve had the attorney general refuse to deny that Jeffrey Epstein had compromising material on Trump & the Deputy Chief of Staff claim that the president has plenary (absolute) authority. Just a typical Tuesday in the “golden age” of America.

"You have it in your power to make a difference. Don't give up. There is a future for you. Do your best while you’re still on this beautiful Planet Earth that I look down upon from where I am now." Those were Dr. Jane's last words, as released by Netflix. Photo: Katherine Holland

AI like Tilly Norwood is just one big propaganda machine. They produce this sewage in HUGE quantities, bending the narrative to their will while also drowning out artists. They want an AI monopoly on all media. No more human voices, only corporate mouthpieces speaking in 1s & 0s. Eat your slop.

Trump’s shutdown will last a lot longer than most people think. I’m guessing well over a month. And it won’t be compromise that reopens the government, it’ll be a market crash & recession. GOP will only take action when it’s time to bailout their corporate overlords with taxpayer money.

quick while the government is shut down let’s all switch to metric

Apparently this one is evergreen.