During the Reagan years, one of my mom's friends used to buy chipped dishes at a warehouse. She hosted "Fuckit Fridays" in her garage. Everyone brought safety goggles and broke all the plates and screamed taboo words. Then they'd clean and brainstorm ways to foment change. This is my current mood!

Erasing history www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

*I am (your name) God/dess of (predictive text) bringer of (predictive text). Fear me because (predictive text)* --- I am Amy, Goddess of course, bringer of the time I was in the hospital. Fear me because you don't want to be a child.

Today's Daily Cartoon for @newyorker.com by Kevin Maher and me.

Per my calculation, I have to sell about 1100 shirts to fund our insect mural series. Which sounds nuts, ok? I know. That sounds nuts. However... We already sold 132 so... I dunno, maybe we CAN make good things happen with silliness joy and art? I kinda think we can.

As nationwide opposition to the increasing number of data centers grows, a crowd of more than 100 people gathered at the University of Montana Tuesday for a panel discussion about the facilities proposed in the state, including one in Missoula’s backyard.

Can he please define “left-wing”.🙄 The Overton Window he’s created has shifted a vast number of people further “left” than they ever were before. You’d almost think “left” is now what “centre” used to be.🤨 “Radical left” just want peace, social services for the taxes they pay &human rights…

Whoa! Kent Pavelka fan in Missoula, Montana. #nebrasketball #huskers

Starting a new company. Fractional-ass Analytics: "when half assing it is just too much"

The amount of bad behavior I see in everyday life exploding.

Coarse, ugly, mean shit

as we grieve the slop-ification of Google, I want to know everyone's favorite fun niche sites from Back When The Internet Was Good. what did you visit every day on your coffee break at work? we were a big Homestar Runner household, and I also loved Cake Wrecks and Animals Talking In All Caps

So let me get this straight - white national insurrectionists who broke into Our House get reparations, but not decedents of slaves who have survived 20 generations of racism, violence, and forced economic disparity. This is America.

I'm just your average Amy, and I know this is bad. It hits especially hard after just reading Fauci's memoir "On Call." Doom around every corner.

My body battery is so low from a float trip last weekend, and now my dad is coming to visit for a few days. What I really need is a weekend to relax and catch up. But when your one remaining parent is this age and you live 13 hours from him, every visit counts. Such rough timing. #VentingToTheVoid

Look, I hate pointy-clicky interfaces as much as the next Gen-Xer (let me use the keyboard, dammit) but it is so weird to reduce the important, and importantly effortful, work of navigating the information ecosystem to the apparent drudgery of clicking on links that are (*shudder*) blue!!! >>

But all the academic papers in the world exposing bad ideas won't stop companies from doing it, if it's profitable/fits into their quasi-religious beliefs that "AI" is the future, alas. So let's look at what Google is up to now, or at least says they are, via TechCrunch as stenographer: >>

Users: We don't want AI Google: What if it were an Ask Gemini button Users: no Google: What if we drafted reply emails for you Users: NO Google: What if we redid search to be an "experience" Users: WHAT PART OF NO ARE YOU NOT GETTING

@mountainjournal.bsky.social, @montanafreepress.org, and Grist are pleased to announce that @reportforamerica.bsky.social corps member Ellis Juhlin will be joining our newsrooms to cover how climate change is impacting the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem and beyond. #RFADay https://bit.ly/49g8XPk

exciting news! truly living the dream—Wired is launching a book club this summer, hosted by ME! more details to come, and sign up here: www.wired.com/newsletter/b...

I'm testing a higher prescription in my contacts. All the far stuff is better, but I can no longer read my watch. 🙄👵🏻

Paying for parking at a hospital really ties the whole American healthcare experience together.

Good point. This is already true to a degree with journalism—misinformation is free, reported-out quality news usually has a paywall

oh my god there’s video and it’s beautiful

So you’re saying that if I had stormed the capitol in an attempt to stop Biden from becoming president, I could have gotten my student loans paid for by tax payers

Three Nebraskans just won a challenge you've probably never heard of. The Chop Top Challenge is an annual cross-country scavenger hunt in DIY convertibles. The Nebraskans drove 3,500 miles and completed about 40 challenges. Read more 🔗 buff.ly/0isZy0b

Almost certainly the best thing I was ever told about owls was when I met an owl handler at an owl sanctuary and he told me that the wild owls who lived near the sanctuary worried about the tame show owls there and sometimes stopped by to leave them shrews and mice as presents.

We need to all do a better job of supporting local journalism. Like some of the biggest stories that broke through to the culture came out of a local outlet first. The Miami Herald was all over Epstein’s ass before any of the national outlets, as one example.

Imagine what the country would be like if Republicans spent as much time working on policy as they do working on disenfranchising voters?

Long Live RSS!

1999, just the right amount of tech.

And Google. My 1999-2000 self (a boss at the time had been out to meet them and raved about their search algorithms) would be so fucking angry at what's become of Google. Where did it all go wrong and why is the answer: Silicon VCs.

With my little Mac SE and my 2400 baud Cardinal modem, I spent entire days spelunking through Chadron State College's Internet files. With Kent Pavelka announcing the Husker football game in the background.

There were good election results in Nebraska on May 12 for the lovers of freedom and democracy, and those opposed to the regimes in Washington and Lincoln. The House of Ricketts suffered a devastating defeat.

Fires back home in drought-stricken Dawes County, Nebraska...and I'm buying a rain suit for a rafting trip in Oregon. Survivor's guilt to the max.

When you find out you’re the Democratic nominee at your kid’s baseball game>> So grateful for everyone who made this possible!

Other documents from the same court case transforms "Robin a Negro" into "Robina Black." The handwriting is perfectly clear, but the AI is programmed to replace what it says with something it doesn't say.

NEW: ICE is racing to secure co-working space in nearly 100 cities across 42 states and Puerto Rico, with all locations required to open simultaneously within 15 business days of a contract anticipated to begin June 1. We mapped every site.

"There is no use resisting. We may be named after an obscure fruit, but our goal has always been ubiquitous dominance."

I love it already!

I don't even know what this is, but it sounds delightful. I need some delight!

And here are some of my stickers nakedpastor.com/collections/...

Hey lovers! Pride is coming. So it's time to start choosing your tees, stickers, and digital downloads so you can be ready for Pride Month. Much love, my friends! 🧡

New polling from KFF shows that about 4 in 10 voters consider themselves Party of Trump supporters. Just like Dems, they are not a monolith. Their main concern is healthcare. They are starting to grasp how they are being scammed by commercial health insurance companies and privatization.

Big Big Big landmark news out of Oregon on the corporate control of medicine: Take note, replicate, use their road map. The Governor of OR is a moral courage trailblazer. Also read Dr. Linda Peeno’s essay about Corporate Medicine in THE FINE PRINT Magazine>

Subtext: Paine, in addition to setting the Revolution aflame with “Common Sense,” was a stalwart opponent of “mingling religion with politics” and railed against organized religion. His HUGE influence on the Revolution is undeniable, but watch how — or if — he’s mentioned at 250 events this year.

The less-than-great videos from the Washington Post opinions desk reminded me of this great guide to doing interviews by @ftrain.bsky.social, from 2017, that is still very helpful for people who rarely (or never) get asked to be in the media: ftrain.medium.com/be-our-guest...