It’s abhorrent that a country as wealthy as America doesn’t guarantee healthcare for all. If you have an accident or illness in most developed nations… you’re cared for. No questions asked. No money or insurance needed I felt hope watching the Dems hold the line. Caving condemns people to death

It should be that simple.

If you're in Colorado, there are resources:

Sincere Post Alert: If you can, please consider donating to a local food bank like @foodbankrockies.bsky.social It will make you feel good and at least 25% more sexy!

Republicans led by their golden ballroom king want to starve American children, seniors, and veterans.

I live 3 blocks away and walk by this every day on my way to work. Denver is getting better because of changes we've made, choices to update the laws. This is so cool.

I sincerely doubt it!

BREAKING: Colorado voters approved a ballot measure that would raise state income taxes on higher-earning households to fund free meals for all public school students. Follow AP for live updates.

logging into bluesky like:

Feels like I’m absolutely preaching to the choir here but please please PLEASE donate to a local food bank if you’re able. For Colorado folks: www.foodbankrockies.org

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

A president who can tear down 1/3 of the White House can tear down the entire White House. A president who can steal $230M from the treasury can steal $1T from the Treasury. We have both legalized and tolerated Trump’s crimes, so they will only get bigger.

It’s going to take ages to pay all these people

The three genders

Been offline for the most part since starting the whole cancer journey 6 months ago. Today, I’ve got clear scans, clear bloodwork, and to quote my oncologist this morning, “It’s over, it’s done, things couldn’t possibly look better.”

mucho, mucho joy. kick rocks, cancer.

Folds: If we’ve been told our whole lives that we can’t spend money on the arts because they’re not important—then why was taking over the Kennedy Center and the arts the first thing they did? It is extremely important. It’s the bedrock of self-expression.

Tattered Cover in Denver 🖤

America is beautiful, contradictory, unfinished. I am proud of our country even as we constantly strive to make it better, to protect and deepen our democracy, to fulfill its promise for each and every person who calls it home. Happy Independence Day. No Kings in America.

Needed this reminder today.

If I didn’t have good insurance, I wouldn’t have gotten a colonoscopy, and wouldn’t have found my cancer until it was way too late. I would have died. This isn’t hypothetical. People are going to die without Medicaid and Medicare. It’s eugenics, plain and simple.

all this time spent wondering what caused it and I forgot about the >1 hot dogs I eat every day 😕

This @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social video is absolutely INCREDIBLE. The numbers he cites, the strategy and results they produced — it’s the future. When have you heard *any* campaign talk about this, ever? (Video split in 2 to fit in Bluesky’s limits)

raise your hand if you're not in NYC but you're following the mayoral election out of a desperate need to believe that good things are possible

7 years with the best dog in the world!

"i asked chatgpt" yeah well i went to the doctor, i went to the mountains, i looked to the children, i drank from the fountains there's more than one answer to these questions pointing me in a crooked line and the less I seek my source for some definitive closer I am to fine

!!!

average conversation tbh

If you're interested in the security of agentic systems, you're not going to want to miss this talk. @beccalunch.bsky.social will present NVIDIA AI Red Team findings in real world agentic systems, and I'll talk about how the AI Security team helps mitigate them. www.blackhat.com/us-25/briefi...

your regular reminder that buying Harry Potter stuff gives money to Rowling and she uses that money directly and in large quantities to fund attacks on trans people no ethical consumption under capitalism and all but “don’t buy Potter stuff” is an extremely easy baseline to follow

are we great yet

People forget that Cancer (the disease) donated like $300,000 to the Trump inauguration fund

BREAKING: A federal court ruled that Alabama cannot prosecute people for helping others travel across state lines to access abortion care. This is a win for our freedom of speech and our right to travel freely.

This is so blatantly illegal. If Musk isn’t prosecuted for this, we might as well throw out democracy and turn it over to our billionaire lords and landed gentry. It’s over.

In his 1957 filibuster, Strom Thurmond said "Negroes ... are not so well qualified to vote as are the white people.” A Black senator just broke the record Thurmond set with that speech. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/cory-bo...

I have been watching @booker.senate.gov speak today, in between meetings, and it's nice to see some good history happening for once Would love to see @padilla.senate.gov or @schiff.senate.gov hold it down next

Me and a buddy after we dig up Strom Thurmond’s desiccated corpse and force him to watch a Black man break his Senate speech record:

Less than 3 hours until Booker breaks the record for the longest filibuster ever, held by Strom Thurmond who filibustered AGAINST the Civil Rights Act. This rocks.

Counterpoint: get fucking huge. Lift heavy. Be scary.

yall we can’t collectively screech that “no one’s doing anything!” and then say “no not like that” when someone actually does something. is Booker’s filibuster gonna save the world? of course not. but since courage begets courage it could lead to more. I’m fucking cynical as hell but come on.

There are trans Americans right now looking out at this world and wondering if anyone is going to stand up for them and for their simple right to exist. Well, I am. We are. We will.

[bluesky timeline] me: [chanting] blogs, blogs- other users: blogs, BLOGS bluesky staff: [pounding their computers] BLOGS, BLOGS, BLOGS!

If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.

Worth noting that on the same day, the Navy was ordered to stop Sexual Assault Prevention and Response training. It’s not about protecting women. It was never about protecting women.

there is no central election infrastructure in the united states

ngl feels great to yell

Live in Denver

Rep. LaMonica McIver: "We are at war!"