Discworld QOTD, from Feet of Clay

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Amanita Muscaria fest. #fungi #Amanita #FungiFriends #PacificNorthwest 🇨🇦

🔥 COUNTRY SINGER @bryanandrewsmusic.bsky.social : "You don't get to call yourself a Christian and laugh when families are torn apart — and think it's okay that the highest court in the land just gave a green light to ICE agents to target people because they’re brown or speaking Spanish.”

Trump the Mesiah is forcing world leaders to individually walk up to him on a poduim and praise him for his 'role' in ensuring peace between Palestine and Israel. It is sickening. It is all about Trump and nothing to do with the countless lives lost, in part due to America enabling Israel.

What matters is precisely this: the unspoken at the edge of the spoken. ~ Virginia Woolf

I feel like a broken record, but I have to keep saying it over and over again: a farmer bailout won’t do much of anything because the market is gone. There will be no incentive to plant next year. The bailout will help payoff farmer debt to the banks. That’s all.

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Every journalist should have the following response prepared for every time they speak with Premier Danielle Smith: “With respect, Premier, that did not answer my question. What you provided was a justification aligned with your predetermined position, not a direct response."

Angus: American farmers who bought into Trump, thinking tariffs would help them—their markets are gone. Canada’s not making noise about it; we’re just moving in. Canadian corn is now being sold in Ireland, Spain, and the UK. Those used to be guaranteed American markets. Not anymore.

How TSLA hasn’t cratered into the Mariana trench is beyond me. I get that it’s in lots of index funds but FFS! If I ran any kind of fund, I’d never include his overpriced robot sock puppet company; especially when Boston Dynamics and WayMo actually do what he always promises but never delivers.

Excited to be on the beta ride. 🤓

Tesla's current value is hugely overstated. There is no realistic path by which they get to free cash flows that match their current value let alone your number. 20bn (based on, say, 10 years discounted free cash flow) is much more realistic for an auto OEM.

In nearly all of those 148: Tesla doors remained .. closed Meanwhile: Nissan Leaf, on road since 2009 and best sold single EV model worldwide on 1-1-2020: Zero fire deaths .. Picture from Germany 12 days ago: Tesla driver + two 9-year olds burned alive. All doors closed, rescuers helpless ..

BREAKING: London Mayor DEMOLISHES Trump after "Sharia Law" comments: “When people behave in a certain way, you've got to believe them. President Trump has shown he is racist, he is sexist, he is misogynistic and he is Islamophobic.”💯 Most of the world can see what too many Americans choose not to!

‘Tidal wave of problems’: With harvest here, Trump’s trade war pushes some US farmers to the brink https://cnn.it/3Keg6G0

#Canadian PM @mark-carney.bsky.social has delivered a POWERFUL message at the Council on #ForeignRelations in NYC. Speaking at the #UNGeneralAssembly, He laid out his plan to strengthen #Canada, diversify its partnerships, and warn #Americans that #GlobalPower is shifting 🇨🇦 youtu.be/ZsluEhQGlpU?...

Watch the Dutch kick Disney in their tiny mouse gonads…

Bottom line: financial pressure and subscription cancellations do work.

Thousands of activists marched down Park Avenue and turned down Billionaires’ Row toward Trump Tower in New York Saturday to “Make Billionaires Pay,” calling for climate justice, democracy, free speech, gender equality, a stop to the Trump’s immigration crackdown and a ceasefire in Gaza.

Carney: We are both undertaking massive transformations of our economies. Plan Mexico, Canada strong. Our efforts will be strengthened by working together. As President Sheinbaum said at the G7 summit — and I quote — “In an interdependent world, no country can isolate itself.”

We need to boycott ALL businesses that support this regime. Money is all that matters to them. Prepare for General Strike. Goods Unite Us. Search a Brand, See its Politics Alternative Brand Suggestions www.goodsuniteus.com

Protest in Windsor against US President Trump's state visit to the UK #world

A REAL CANADIAN HERO 🇨🇦

#Canadasky Let me correct the heading. 'Another Trump Slump' Why Trump is to blame for tanking sales.

It is a tragic & destructive irony that, in the name of national security, the United States is now injuring the allies that have contributed the most to its economic well-being while leaving China far less disadvantaged. https://www.foreignaffairs.com/united-states/new-economic-geography

"As for the US, no matter how many bilateral trade deals it brokers, how many economies appear—at first—to align at a high cost, the country will find itself increasingly bypassed in commerce and technology and less able to influence other countries’ investment and security decisions."

Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024. This was the widest CEO-to-Worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500. Remember this before you order your next pumpkin spice latte.

"In 🇨🇦 “I’m sorry” is less an apology than a mantra. It’s a way of saying “Look, you & I live in this impossibly vast & icebound country… & we live in a civil society where I need you as much as you need me, & neither of us wants any trouble, and so I’m sorry.” canadiangeographic.ca/articles/nor...

Fund ditches Caterpillar, Israeli banks #econsky

“Once you agree to the premise of the trolley problem, then it's just a matter of arguing over who to put on the tracks, and in what order, and who to set at the switch. This sort of debate is fine with fascists like Republicans, who intend to put everyone on the tracks eventually…”

40 years later, this is stunningly timely – and may be a key to our way out: Doris Lessing on the prisons we choose to live inside (which never look like prisons while we are living in them) www.themarginalian.org/2024/11/11/d...

I don't know who needs to hear this, but an economy controlled by a handful of oligarchs isn't a "free market."

@justinwolfers.bsky.social @jaredb-econ.bsky.social l @pkrugman.bsky.social #EconSky

The G7 is exempting American multinationals from the global minimum tax. It’s pathetic and scandalous.

Trump's tariffs: winning stupid prizes. #econsky

Today marks 16 years since the federal minimum wage was last raised. Guess how much the wage would be today if it kept up with worker productivity over the years?

...the threat from accelerating income inequality for many decades. Worth every minute. The Last Class Film share.google/KPy0NBvW7bMX...

Here's your periodic reminder that political centrism is nonsense. There is no middle ground between democracy and oligarchy.

🇨🇦 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦 #MarkCarney #Canada

imo Trump is leaving because he feels stupid at the G7 and is using geopolitics as an excuse

WE ARE RELIEVED TO HEAR A U.S. COURT HAS RULED THAT TARIFFS AGAINST OUR ISLAND WERE ILLEGAL AND A SPECTACULAR MISUNDERSTANDING OF GEOGRAPHY, BIOLOGY, AND REALITY. FLIPPERS UP UNTIL WE ARE PERMANENTLY SHOWN DUE RESPECT. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER -PM Tuxley II

Lilac Day. In times like these, we could use fewer uniforms and more Sam Vimes — someone who followed the rules of law not because they were easy, but because they mattered. 💜 #LilacDay #Discworld #TerryPratchett

Markets thrive on trust and predictability. But Wall Street sees an economic team that's MIA, policy chaos, and small but meaningful risks of radical and consequential changes. No wonder they're anxious.

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Welcome to Wall Street under Trump/Musk. TSLA for sure, but many other tickers, and arguably the US market as a whole are all manipulated. Pumping, either through communication or through "friendly" funds. Why do you think Trump wants his own US fund? US is uninvestable. www.npr.org/2025/04/10/n...

The *economics* of the special tariff carveout for British-made luxury vehicles is a bit too revealing.

Echeveria succulent - early buds. #bloomscrolling