one weird thing (of a million) that I hate about AI posters is how often shit is not centered. misspellings suck, not having a date or location sucks, AI sucks, but you can’t even center the text?! it’s fucking the worst

I struggle keeping up with messaging between all the different apps but fbook messenger is the worst. I don’t know why, I just CANNOT remember to message people back there. my brain just auto-voids all memories of conversation there after I put the phone down.

During the immigration raids in Minneapolis, Robert Rice (White Earth Ojibwe), the owner of Pow Wow Grounds, gave away thousands of pieces of hot fry bread to protestors and activists, keeping demonstrators warm and fed at a time of upheaval.

this was such a good listen 🌏

good morning. <opens app> what new horrors await us today? <goes back to bed>

I’ve covered Chicago’s federal courthouse for 11 years and have never seen a hearing like this one.

Google was once so good it became a verb and now is at best an inconvenience

The vice president of the United States is just standing up here saying people should feel sorry for domestic terrorists who were given free and fair trials and were then convicted in a court of law. Absolutely despicable.

I had a dream last night that someone dropped a Kendrick song that turned out to be faux AI (not his) and he was PISSED, and that night at a Pearl Jam concert, K Dot and a bunch of kids come on stage to do a rousing rendition of Pink Floyd’s “Another Brick…” and the place was LIIIIIIIIT

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once again, just spitballing, what if we just provided for everyone's basic material needs

And it wouldn't even lead to lower prices at the pump! Here's the legendary @pkrugman.bsky.social writing in 2000.

we’ve been watching tons 90s movies this year and it is so true - 95 was a banger of a year for film

As Tennessee Republicans voted Thursday to approve an unprecedented Congressional redistricting map that would divide Memphis, protesters and Democrats pushed back with walkouts, protests resulting in arrests and burning a printed Confederate flag in the Capitol. nashvillebanner.com/2026/05/07/t...

I guarantee you that no matter how deep seated the problems with the United States that led us here, exactly zero of them will be solved by "we should lock up more people and treat them worse."

This means that hundreds, if not thousands of labs all over the country will close. Tens of thousands of jobs will be lost. This is in defiance of Congress's will and in defiance of good stewardship of the US economy. This is entirely because Russ Vought hates science

I need more disco balls in my life

Automated phone trees used by insurance companies are criminal. They’re impossible to navigate… on purpose

The meta now is to wait for some big exogenous event > increase prices far more than is justified by said event > never lower prices when the event passes > 'what are you going to do? Not drive? Not use electricity? Not eat?'

In Seattle's Pike Place Market, vendors claimed that removing cars would cripple them. Nope. Sales actually rose. Remember: Studies show that biz owners consistently exaggerate how many customers drive and undercount those who walk, bike, or ride transit. Info: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Hold on. We the taxpayers are going to pay companies $900 million, which is more than 6x what we spend on wind power R&D, to NOT build wind power at a time when electricity prices are spiking and we need more clean power?

ProPublica obtained a vast cache of IRS information showing how billionaires like Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk pay little in income tax compared to their massive wealth — sometimes, even nothing. (Published 2021)

It bears repeating that historically, the #1 thing that keeps people alive in hard times and disasters is “the ability to play well with others”

"The average taxpayer in 2025 paid: $4,049 for weapons and war, vs. $2,492 for Medicaid, which provided health insurance to 68.5 million Americans in 2025 — about one in five Americans."

A couple points on this manifesto, apart from the racial superiority subtext others noted. Palantir is a company built on public contracts, they bill the state billions to surveil and target the state's population. The manifesto exists to justify their demand for even more. /1

Record profits are unpaid wages and unpaid taxes.

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The day Trump won the election every DNC office in the country should have started moving to this. As Trump destroyed lives across entire country, the DNC should have been democratizing aid and doing something for people instead of taking their money to pay for lawyers

he's counting on people not knowing what a doctor looks like because they don't have healthcare

CHRISTINA KOCH GREETING HER DOG AFTER RETURNING FROM THE MOON IM GONNA CRYYY 😭😭😭

two days in a row with an afternoon nap, how glorious!

Nearly six years reporting on working homeless families taught me one thing: the precarity isn't incidental to the profits. It's how you get them. Kimberly-Clark could pay a living wage and still clear almost $2 billion a year. They can afford to pay workers enough to live. They just choose not to.

What a great photo just added on the NASA Johnson Flickr page www.flickr.com/photos/nasa2...

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Americans suffer from a desperate need to believe in the inherent goodness of the American electorate--the idea that a voter in 2024--after nearly a decade of unfiltered, widely broadcast, deeply fascist rhetoric from Donald Trump--was simply "tricked" by a Facebook algorithm or a Fox News segment.

a most excellent Claire thread of fascinating catholic history tidbits and the beef between the Vatican and the current US clowns in charge

You have more in common with the people of Iran than you do with anyone in this administration, any member of the technocracy, anyone who is profiting from this war, or any billionaire. When you see Iranians forming human chains outside key infrastructure sites, you should feel a sense of kinship.

call for an investigation into the president's fitness. call for the house to impeach. say you will obstruct every last bit of senate business. call for soldiers to disregard illegal orders. say you will prosecute the people who do this. say you will take their military pensions and benefits.

things would run a lot smoother if people who thought they were funny actually were

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this!

If billionaires exist, if wealth hoarders exist, it is categorical proof the resources exist to solve our problems. We just need to redistribute those resources.

I swear to god you guys I’m not doing sponcon here but every time someone messages me that they switched from TurboTax to @freetaxusa.bsky.social because they saw me hyping it up I feel SO ALIVE the cheaper version is both the better AND the less evil version, we just get that so rarely in life

This is largely by design. If we stop thinking about AI as simply technology and instead as part of a political and economic program, its chief function become easier to see: namely to erode interpersonal trust so that ultimately we give up on forms of agreement & negotiation arbitrated by people.

feeling this so hard rn cause SAME

Once again, the stock market is not "the economy;" it's a mood ring for the plutocracy

A staggering new finding from Harvard's Joint Center for Housing Studies: since 2001, the money left over each month for lower-income renters—after paying rent and utilities—has fallen 60 percent to a record low of $210. $210 left over for food, healthcare, childcare, and everything else.