Upcoming weekend sorted, thanks to @maris.bsky.social! 💙📚#booksky bookshop.org/p/books/i-wa...

"Black applicants would, on average, need credit scores approximately 120 points higher than white applicants to receive the same approval rate, and about 30 points higher to receive the same interest rate."

big & beautiful

Loved the audiobooks so much that I picked up hardbacks for a deeper read. Thanks, @matociquala.bsky.social and looking forward to #3 next month! 💙📚#booksky

CARTOON OF THE DAY (From @laloalcaraz)

Yes. She really said it.

“President Bystander” indeed

Brad, please stop.

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

This morning, I cracked open bookshop.org/p/books/mode... by @riverssolomon.bsky.social from a recommendation by @maris.bsky.social Fifty pages in and I regret starting it before a workday, but it will patiently wait for the day’s nonsense to be done.

"The people who were laid off aren’t gone — they’re watching."

The lesson of history is that tyrants cannot be appeased. Appeasement only feeds their insatiable hunger for power. Without mass submission, a tyrant is powerless. Some thoughts... https://robertreich.substack.com/p/sunday-thought-69d

This morning is the 250th anniversary of the first battle in what would become the American Revolutionary War. One quarter of a millennium. Lots of bad and good along the way; lots of corruption and moral compromise; some moments of real courage and honor. A Republic, if we can keep it.

It was never about “efficiency” www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...

🧵 I just want to clear up some misconceptions about what Social Security actually is and how it works. You, as an individual, do not have an "account" with SSA where your FICA contributions have been saved for when you retire. It's not at all comparable to an investment account.

Read this. open.substack.com/pub/thelastm...

Remember Fiona Hill? She’s now sounding the alarm again: “We’re definitely on a path toward full-on state repression. There’s no question about it. I’ve thought about this for an extraordinarily long time.” When Fiona speaks, we should all listen.

Justice isn't aggression or retribution; it's accountability.

NEW POST: I got to sit down and talk to Free League (ALIEN THE RPG, Dragonbane, Etc) about how they're changing ALIEN with their new Kickstarter. Biggest change in my opinion? Better tools for long-term campaigns.

#legionsimperialis is the best 40K—tiny tanks rule!

Wrote a thing. Maybe it's a thing you wanna read, I dunno. We'll see. *lays it gently at your feet*

I have not gamed in many, many years. Why do I keep buying this stuff?

Album cover mood.

Good morning, @matociquala.bsky.social! Something for your team: on Audible, “Ancestral Nights” and “Folded Sky” appear in the “White Space” series, while “Machine” appears in the “Ancestral Night Series” series. Minor metadata issue, but it does make book 2 a little more difficult to find.

If you think this can’t happen, remember that of the 125,000 Japanese Americans who were interned during WWII for years without charge or trial, two-thirds were U.S. citizens. Including me.

For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences

Criminally negligent. Children with janky algorithms running the government. This will kill people. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/t...

Cartoon by Adam Zyglis

Politics hasn't been this simple in a long time: do you think it's good for one man to exercise unchecked, arbitrary power or not. Those are the two available ideologies right now

People still need to eat breakfast during a constitutional crisis.

If you see this, quote it with what you're reading this weekend! I’m reading Ancestral Night by @matociquala.bsky.social Sets you up with a space opera heist adventure story then knocks you out with deeply intimate explorations on the self in a post-scarcity transhuman society. It’s beautiful.

Congratulations on your thirty pieces of silver. apnews.com/article/trum...

By the way, the Associated Press is a not-for-profit organization and you can donate to support it here: apnews.com/donate

It's always time to listen to @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social www.meditationsinanemergency.com/to-use-their...

@aoc.bsky.social last one—who signed the ATO (authorization to operate) the new OPM server and did they have the legal authority to do so? All of these things are public records.

@aoc.bsky.social I get that SCOTUS is bought and paid for, but they don’t have capacity to handle thousands and thousands of challenges every session.

@aoc.bsky.social And when they absolutely cannot produce any of that mandated documentation, file injunctions in a friendly district to keep them tied up?

@aoc.bsky.social Stupid question, but could congressional democrats file FOIA for every EO and OPM memo? Demand PIA for every system they plug in? Demand FISMA complete documents for every program they start?

"Pete Hegseth: The Short Course – 13 Steps to National Destruction" snyder.substack.com/p/pete-hegse...

I am a former incarcerated firefighter. I served in a California fire camp from 2009 to 2012. Misinformation is afire on the internet, so here are facts about the prison firefighter program, all in one place. A thread.

There are a million little Stasi wannabes in this country, from boyfriends suing partners for abortions, book banners contacting the state AG, these guys. You don't need to build an infrastructure, you just have to grant permission.