Work culture has regressed and people would *much* rather email an incredibly stupid question, making it someone else’s problem, than spend ONE extra minute figuring it out on their own

Jimmy Fallon would host the Hunger Games.

The newest addition to the family!! #starwars #deathstar #lego #legodeathstar

How many Aubreys can you fit onto one girls’ soccer team? The answer is apparently infinite

@eve6.bsky.social where’d you go??

Maybe Hozier should just guest on *all* the songs???

Billionaires have been spending vast amounts of money to keep rigging tax policy so that the rest of us have to pay to support them. Meanwhile, I'm reading my community's angel tree list where 12 year old children are asking for "a warm blanket" as their whole holiday wish list.

This dude has been saying things are great or terrible for over 10 years and a whole bunch of people are like “whelp, if he says so!”

I refuse to learn what LLM stands for - not going to look it up and maybe I’ll be lucky enough to die blissfully ignorant

Are they ready to save it not privately—

Imagine if we had a fascist with an attention span???

this dumb shit is what i mean when i say this is a purely aesthetic “politics.” yeah man, why can’t we have a fusion of cosmopolitan social democracy and revanchist hierarchies of wealth and privilege? tough question.

If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?

Off again to the money making place

Remember when we were afraid to touch stairway railings??

Why do quotations think they’re so smart, anyways??

If you think he’s just going to *let* us elect a Democratic Congress next year, I’ve got a Reichstag to sell you…

It’s always bittersweet when you look at your child and you see a new feature - physical or otherwise - and you think “oh, hello, new version - who will you be?” and you know you’ve said goodbye forever to who they just were

Sometimes, I respond to my friends “that’s crazy!!”, when it really isn’t

We are weeks away from the dissolution of the Legislative Branch of the Federal Government

@katmabu.bsky.social Running for congress in an authoritarian dystopia!! How it started How it’s going

Our military is being paid by an anonymous donor. Our WH East Wing was demolished for a ballroom - paid for by donors. These aren’t acts of benevolence or patriotism. This is the oligarchy assuming control, insidiously becoming part of how we function. Every American should reject it.

If you are a person who told everyone they were overreacting in 2016, and you have since realized you were wrong, I think you have a valuable role to play right now: Talk to people who aren't convinced things are *that bad* about why you were wrong and what you wish you had done differently.

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The average age of U.S. homebuyers is now 56, up from 49 last year. In 1981, the year trickledown economics began, it was 31.

So we spend five days a week (at least) working, one day trying to be happy and one day being sad and anxious?? For 45-50 years?

The terrorists are “patriots” and the patriots are “terrorists” We’re in the upside-down

How did these guys get through @govpritzker.illinois.gov ???

Let’s get building!! #deathstar #lego

Current mood: toiling in obscurity

We are going to “potential” our way right into the gulags…

A group of generals is called a Starburst

More guns than people… Is it freedom or a national death cult that keeps growing?

That's the definition of fascism from Robert Paxton, one of the preeminent historians of the subject, from his book ANATOMY OF FASCISM which came out more than two decades ago.

When are all the terrified people who know this is wrong but think they can just wait out the next three years going to wake up and take their heads out of the sand?

Historically, fascists have divided their energies between conquering external and internal “enemies” In our case, with a population of 342 Million people, there are more than enough “others” and “enemies” to bear the full brunt of authoritarian attention Be ready for history to rhyme not repeat

[in my deathbed, phone in hand, typing] Stop [send, scroll] Quit [send, more scrolling] End [send, new text comes in] Stop [send…]

Not only did we *not* take a pandemic break, we actually upped our horrific output…

I’d like to have a quiet conversation with whomever decided “creative” should be used as a noun…

my daughter really captured my essence in this portrait of me “at work”

me telling my grandkids what it was like to have vaccines

Bullies *really* hate it when their targets change their mind and decide not to be compliant

Got #wordle 1556 in 3 without using skill *or* luck!! #wordle_nyt

Fiduciary duty catalyzes fascism

Folks, you can't report the United States to its manager. There's no superhero coming to save us. We don't need one giant act of heroism. We need millions of small acts of solidarity. Help one person in your community for nothing in return. Then, do it again. And again. That's the revolution.

The Outlook autocomplete for “have a great…” is “Thanksgiving!!” Not “day” or “weekend” but a day that has a 1/365th chance of being correct…

Capitulating to bad-faith people who are acting in bad faith is cowardice. It is also never, ever, ever, ever, ever a good idea.

An INTENDED result of going after free speech is it scares people into being silent in a moment where we need everyone to be the loudest.

One thing that bothers me tonight in particular is how so much of this is happening because of grand and sweeping capitulation by the media, by companies, by Congress, by people in power. Even when they don’t have to — they simply comply, acquiesce, and appease.