Fantastic local Georgia-based #pottery artist Sam Cordle brings us these #NoKings cups! They're priced at $86.47 each, with half of all profits going to Jon Ossoff's campaign (@ossoff.senate.gov) until November 3. (more in Alt Text...) @samcordleceramics.bsky.social #Georgia #Handmade #NoFascistUSA

Wow. Seconded on all counts.

After the film the young man told me: we need to take care of strangers because they might be gods in disguise; and though I wanted to reply: we need to take care of strangers because they are people too; I was just glad he was talking about taking care of strangers.

This just arrived in my inbox. I don't know why I'm on their mailing list, but here, have a look at our Sheriff ENTIRELY MISSING THE POINT that they are collaborating with *Flock's misuse of their own system*. It's never been about what local jurisdictions are doing directly! 🤦‍♀️🤷‍♀️

Things like this remind me that very, very few Americans actually get a proper Black History Month education. MLK was, deliberately and openly, breaking the law on a regular basis. That's what civil disobedience is.

When trans folks point out the cowardice of institutions complying with anti-trans bigotry, we're often hit with "but what do you expect them to do?" Well, this. Say "no." Refuse. Defy. Grow a goddamn spine.

One for the genealogy folks. It's been a WHILE, so I went back to check on my husband's FTDNA 111 marker Y test. He still has 26 total matches. 1 at 37 markers, 4 steps away. 1 at 25 markers, 2 steps away. 24 exact matches at 12 markers: 18 unique surnames, and 7 unique countries of origin. 🤷‍♀️

Speaking of that yearbook page: it was a real gut punch to see Tommy jokingly signing his own yearbook and wishing himself luck... "I'll need it." He was a B-26 pilot; survived 60+ bombing runs before, on, and after DDay - and died in a training flight crash in FL in early 1945. He was 20.

Digging into my gf's brother's yearbook (Tommy, Annapolis HS, '42) & looking up the other class officers. In 1950, Martha corrected "roommate" to "partner". In 2006, she was survived by a "friend and long time companion". She worked for the fed gov't for 30 years. Marriage was not an option for her.

I was raised by Republicans. My libertarian phase started when I realized that Republicans suck on social issues, and ended when I realized they also suck on fiscal issues.

This.

we’re living in a time of extreme government overreach and the libertarians have almost nothing of substance or consequence to say about it

Man, it's a pain sometimes trying to reverse engineer breaking news from people's snarky comments.

Trump's arch received a jaw-dropping 101,000 comments during its two-week Section 106 Historic Preservation Review. I cannot think of another DC project has garnered more than 1,000 comments in 106. Most get 20-30 over months. www.ncpc.gov/files/projec...

Really interesting thread. Taco Bell is getting the blame but actually we might still not know where the outbreak came from if it wasn’t for their help:

Nobody has bought this yet and someone should, IJS

It's the Taylor Farms lettuce. The Taylor Farms outbreak. Earthbound Organics is Taylor Farms.

*Jan 2025, y'all

#FindsFriday Bichrome IV barrel-shaped Cypro-Phoenician jug with sacred tree, stags, crested birds, and lotus flowers. Variation of the Free Field Style, Larnaka, Cypro-Archaic Period (c.750 c. 600 BCE), Ceramic, 28.5cm (height), 27.9cm (width). AN1885.366. Cyprus. See.Alt. #pottery #artwork

one time when i was like 20 maybe my then-boyfriend and his parents (who were quite wealthy and conservative, and we didn't like them) and some other random extended family members were going to the coast for the weekend and i volunteered to go by to feed the dog

Taylor Farms has pulled iceberg lettuce linked to the cyclosporiasis outbreak out of the supply chain. The company added it's "voluntarily removing" iceberg lettuce sourced from central Mexico after it was linked to one of the largest outbreaks of the parasitic illness in the US in recent years👇

You know they actually arrested this ICE guy for shooting someone? I wonder why?

“A.i.” reproduces and industrializes the racism of its inputs and reflects the biases of its developers.

YOU CAN'T TELL ME NOT TO DRINK FROM THE BROAD STREET PUMP

Um. The idea that we should use the phrase "white narcissism" in lieu of "white supremacy" being promoted by someone who defines themselves as a "wealth activist" has me setting that idea down and backing away slowly instead of engaging with it.

This looks like it will be fun. www.eventbrite.com/e/embroidery...

I found a universal graph:

"parasite outbreak blamed on taco bell because they're the only company reporting it" feels very "1918 flu blamed on Spain because they're the only country reporting it"

A native fish species is eating some of the most damaging invasive species in the Great Lakes…AND making a significant impact! Freshwater Drum: The overlooked native fish that has been crushing trillions of Zebra & Quagga Mussels in Lake Erie www.canr.msu.edu/news/freshwa...

It's amazing how she had all the fame, fortune and goodwill in the world and decided to set it all on fire to be a braying bigoted jackass.

I hope Philadelphia goes peak Spartacus: taping articles to the President’s House, the Liberty Bell museum, Independence Hall, etc. Samizdat the fascists! cc @willbunch.bsky.social

According to the article, all she's been doing is TAPING articles onto the walls. TAPING. Not spraypainting, not carving, not damaging. Just TAPING. And they're calling that vandalism. This too is fascism.

This is a huge problem in the handcrafted maker community. These AI drop ship fake businesses especially like to use the images of Indigenous and Black people.

This is awesome.

@clairewillett.bsky.social A local restaurant in the news for refusing to serve the armed military members occupying our city has this on their cocktail menu.

It's not enough to be against AI, you need to be pro art. You need to be a champion of the art you love, you need to share that passion and joy, and do what you can to support the artists who make it, because it's not enough to hate AI, to hate what it's doing to art and media; you gotta love.

Please read this whole thread. There are several really troubling points raised that I think are integral to framing the conversations around and potential arguments against this kind of technology should it try to come to a school near you

That's not incidental. Under-resourced districts are easier sells for "innovative" tech and harder places to say no when a company frames it as closing an opportunity gap. Rural and Indigenous communities keep getting cast as the beta testers for whatever Silicon Valley wants to normalize next. 4/

We'll keep on pointing at this comic by @skutchdraws.bsky.social and @hbomberguy.bsky.social until it's embarrassing for tech bros to call you a luddite for hating AI! More of Failure to Launch in the link bsky.app/profile/iron...

Amelia is right. I do not have words. I didn't do a fundraiser when I was going through pancreatic cancer treatment and I certainly didn't want to have to do this one. But I am very fortunate to have friends who bully with love. And never forget the fact I need this at all is a systemic failure!

It does suck, but the community has a chance to do something wonderful to help them reopen faster... Here's the donation link: www.harriettubmanmuseumcenter.org/donate

This. Please stop thinking all those MAGA folks are isolated & uninformed somewhere in a vast Middle America wasteland. They're definitely not, and that place doesn't exist. (Source: www.census.gov/library/stor...)

Both my son in NY and my in-laws in PA texted this morning about the heat and air quality.

it is not the Department of Defense's or the Services' job to fight anything domestically within the US unless a hostile foreign power &/or non-state actor invades the United States. Even if there were a critical mass of US citizens who were communists, that's not a military problem.

lol a study just dropped that AI hiring tools are STORING your resume score, so even applying to new jobs makes no difference in your screening experience. And this harms Black and Asian applicants. We wouldn't know that if someone didn't... ASK A QUESTION. #CriticalThinking #BigBrainActivities

So much appreciation for our friendly Catholic interpreter. 😀

even like the most closely-aligned other right-wing trad Latin Mass Christofascist asshole demon clubs are like "just want to make sure everyone knows we are NOT with THOSE guys" lmaooooooooooo your schism is such a flop I'm screaming

Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called social security. Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations. Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people. —Harry Truman, 1952

I have some moots with this eugenicist POS, really?! Y'all need to examine what, exactly, you're willing to stand behind because this shit will get you fucking blocked. There are no acceptable casualties.