If only our society took major crimes by rich people as seriously as minor crimes by poor people. Ideally more seriously. But as seriously would be a big improvement.

i’ve said this before and i remain convinced it’s true, the 2028 platform that would deliver obama 08 results is “i am gonna bring the hammer down on the corrupt self-dealing politicians and their rich friends and there are no sacred cows id give a pass”

jeffrey epstein spent thanksgiving *2017* with President Donald Trump at Mar a Lago and we only know this now i'm going to go insane

Kate Lycett (British Artist, born 1970) "Copper Beeches", 2013. Ink, Gouache, Acrylics, Gold Leaf and Gold Thread, 59 × 75 cm. Private Collection. #art #painting #painters #BlueSkyArt

Correct. Food banks prefer cash donations over food donations. Their buying power and relationships with food outlets mean their dollars go farther.

The official investigation into the January 6 riots concluded Trump “summoned the mob, assembled the mob, and lit the flame of this attack" in an effort to halt the peaceful transfer of power. No billion dollar lawsuit can change reality. The BBC should call this convicted criminal’s bluff.

Snow happened. #yooper

Don’t Wait Too Long Madeleine Peyroux #musicsky #music

"The cost of all this success was a short, transitory burst of moderate inflation...& then the burst...stopped cold. It was over after the middle of 2022." "I characterize 2024 as...a worldwide failure to break the misinformation system..." All. Of. This. In re: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

For some reason the media is not mentioning that the reason GTA6 is being delayed is they fired 40 staff over threats of unionization and now the rest of their staff are revolting

The AFL-CIO should start throwing some money towards labor journalism. If it was done right (i.e. with them accepting that journalists must have full editorial control over what’s published, whether or not union leaders like what they have to say) it could really have such a hugely positive impact

Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design. news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

Democratic party leadership has been on autopilot for ten years, they weren't losing to fascism, fascism isn't popular enough for them to lose to fascism, they were allowing it to fill the void where their leadership should have been. Tonight we're seeing that we have other options. They should too.

Zohran Mamdani won young men 18-29 by 40 points. 40! And he did so by standing FOR economic justice, FOR Trans rights, FOR immigrant rights, FOR labor rights, FOR Palestinian rights, & FOR diversity—& still unapologetically dunking on Trump. He is anti-MAGA w/o throwing people under the bus. 1/2

basically every 2024 truism is dead. Trump did not build a lasting multiracial coalition or turn young men into committed Republicans. You don’t need to cave on trans rights to win. The pundits have nothing left to tell you.

"We can respond to oligarchy and authoritarianism with the strength it fears, not the appeasement it craves." Quite a line right there. And a call-to-action.

I just watched a mayor-elect in my state defy an authoritarian at the height of his institutional power—with Congress and the court behind him. I watched him deliver a full-throated defense of transgender Americans and immigrants and declare in no uncertain terms that he is a democratic socialist.

Adventures in spookiness. Power went out in the night, knocking out the heat. It could have been the intense winds that did it. Or the loud bang in the distance could have been a chipmunk dying to explode a power transformer. Still, the power coming back on didn't get us any heat... To the basement.

their plainly stated goal is to starve forty million people until they get what they want, which is to rip health care away from millions more that this is too monstrous for most news organizations to tell the truth about does not change the facts

It’s very strange to repeatedly see Democratic “strategists” observe that the party is widely seen as focusing on identity politics—in spite of the Harris campaign largely avoiding them —and concluding this is a problem with party priorities and not with losing voters to misinformation.

scary

"Children of the Night" by Nash the Slash, 1981 🎧 #musicsky #darkwave #minimalwave #synthpop #80smusic #1980smusic

🎃 happy spooky time 🎃

This is kind of a halloween-ish pre-sunrise from the northwest corner of Lake Michigan. #906Life #mymichigan

Some see the mass appeal of today's rightwing politics in status anxiety, as formerly dominant groups resent their relative decline. It's illuminating to extend Du Bois's "psychological wage" to capture how right populists generate both demand for this wage & give themselves a monopoly to supply it.

Some news from sh*tGPT & Co 🎪: "Largest study of its kind shows Al assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time - regardless of language or territory" 👇 www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

🇬🇧 Depeche Mode - In The End (from the Memento Mori Sessions) #MusicSky #DepecheMode New single released October 24 Unreleased track from the 2023 album 'Memento Mori' open.spotify.com/intl-ja/trac... youtu.be/orgnOgq1wGE?...

William Powell and Skippy in The Thin Man by W.S. Van Dyke (1934)

“Tell your children who the cowards were.”

Today I learned: “This is Spinal Tap” is the only movie on IMDB that’s rated on a scale from one to eleven.

Almost every major news story this week is about how the entire economy is now gambling, scams, bribes and theft.

Every once in a while I have occasion to share this article around widely, this seems like another good time:

It's white and wet. What more can I tell you?

It's been a while since I've used Linux (turn of the century, running Window Maker on Slackware). I'm getting fed up with Microsoft so I'm trying Linux again. First, Linux Mint with Cinnamon. Everything's easy and it just works. Pleasant experience but the software packages aren't the latest.

This week's Don's Tunes Ansley Lister - Need Her So Bad #MusicSky 🎼🎶🎵 #slowblues www.donstunes.com www.aynsleylister.co.uk youtu.be/hs1CONJPXPQ?...

‘No Kings’ protest line in Marquette. MI nearly a mile long. www.uppermichiganssource.com/2025/10/18/n...

Golden Sky 6”x6” oil Available

“The danger is to be the cynic, seeing the flaws as the only reality, and the potential as an illusion.” - Erik Olin Wright, “Envisioning Real Utopias”

tl;dr: "debating" right wing ideas amplifies those ideas. Instead, opposition should offer a different vision and stick to that as their talking point, forcing the right to "debate" them. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

It's kinda cool that Gary Larson is doing new cartoons because he picked up a digital tablet, taught himself how to use it, and it made him love drawing again. www.thefarside.com/new-stuff/

House of Stathopoulo harp guitar

science is nice, huh.

So, @frame.work decided to be the J.K. Rowling of tech then. community.frame.work/t/framework-...

Happy Columbo’s Day

These very true words from Steve Hely have given me tremendous comfort over the years.

The Graceful Sleep of the Creature of the Night 🕯️

Respect to George Harrison. If my guitar gently wept I would freak out.

The Portland Frog - the hero we didn't know we needed