Ireland just released a report showing the huge success of the unconditional basic income it provided to artists. Each $1 spent led to society gaining $1.39. Artists' earned incomes went up more than their side job incomes fell. And they were happier and used less welfare www.gov.ie/en/departmen...

Another variant for #TransformersTuesday! This is WHEELJACK, from the Armada* series. A different character from the classic G1 Wheeljack (plot twist: he’s a Decepticon!) using the same Lamborghini mold as Sideswipe, Red Alert, Clampdown, and others. I need to do a Lambros group shot sometime.

Lots of folks starting their anti-censorship posts with “Look, I don’t even LIKE Kimmel, but…” disclaimers, very much giving off this energy.

RIP. I won’t shut up about TFTM if you let me and he’s the scribe of that work and much more. Screened it for pals on my birthday last year.

A wise show once said “power doesn’t panic.” Forget which one. Probably Golden Girls if I remember it.

🎵I remember now what I had to say this is why I come this is how I pray 🎶 #musicmonday

Aw, RIP. A long life and a storied career. From all I've ever seen of him and his work, the man was definitely the sorta fella you'd fondly describe as "a real character."

Too late, Batman. Once this Tylenol floods the city's water supply, my wiki won't run out of editors ever again

Well, there it is. Sinclair is digging in for a fight, so please help push back -- find stations in your area, watch their local news to see what ads they run, then write those advertisers to tell them you're boycotting as long as they're on a Sinclair station. List here: sbgi.net/tv-stations/

everybody wanna act hard until it's time to do hard guy shit bsky.app/profile/cult...

And this is when Disney needs to tell Sinclair, "That's cool. You just can't have any sports, either." See how they choke that shit down.

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regardless of the details I think it’s important to spin the Kimmel thing as a win Trump is weak, he’s unpopular, he massively overreached and inspired enough of a revolt that Disney had to backtrack immediately he wants to paint himself as an all-powerful dictator, paint him as a loser who sucks

I cannot emphasize this enough: The regime has overextended itself. It is vulnerable to protest and dissent. They have not consolidated power and we are entirely capable of keeping them from doing so. Doomers are not realists.

"Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that." Looking forward to seeing Jimmy back on the air.

Disney: over the last 72 hours we were shocked to discover that censorship isn’t cool.

A fun fact about McCarthyism is that just two and a half years after he was condemned and censured, Sen. Joseph McCarthy drank himself to death at 48. Fevers break. Petty tyrants fall. Censorship and persecution drive good people to stand together and fight back.

ATTN @ianfortey.bsky.social

thinking about this a lot rn. we just watched GOOD NIGHT, AND GOOD LUCK and like. idk man. i think everyone should do themselves a favor and learn in some way more about how we have actually been here before, and how we claw it back. it not only *can* be done. it’s *been* done, in living memory.

we have gone from a world in which we were told not to cite wikipedia because it was unreliable to a world where wikipedia might be the only reliable source left on the internet and we all owe a lot to the pedantic nerds who got us there

"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?" Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.

While ppl are boycotting Disney a reminder that Sinclair and Nexstar are also the problem. They started this. Canceling Disney subscriptions hurts Disney but does nothing to Sinclair/Nexstar. We also need to boycott companies that advertise on Nexstar and Sinclair stations.

I 1000% believe the people who are saying "Since moving to Bluesky versus [other social media] OUR traffic/business has been BOOMING! because, y'know - thar can be verified 😁👍 ...but man, speaking from (unfortunately) YouTube? Sure wish it was the case here 🤷‍♂️ youtu.be/7FkGkO-ufmM?...

PLAUSIBLE BUT FALSE is the defining trait of the 21st century.

Be sure to find the Sinclair (and Nexstar) affiliates in your area and reach out to them and their advertisers with your thoughts. Links to both lists in here: bsky.app/profile/kevi...

Nobody runs like hell anymore and that's sad

Imperial boi is imperious. #caturday #catsofbluesky

Do you think it bothers the the anti-woke "StarWars" fanboi-whiners that fans of the second least-edgy guy in Boomer Mom&Dad demo late-night NETWORK TV comedy have been able to inflict a more *devastating* consumer impact on The Mouse in 2.5 DAYS than they managed in almost a DECADE?

Oh, and this one made a HUGE impact, introducing me to tons of artists (I owe my Leonard Cohen fandom entirely to this movie) and inspiring me to chase down all the songs in the movie that didn’t make the soundtrack, too.

Four of my faves from the 80s. In each case, it was the handful of score tracks that lured me in (and I would eventually devour all of their full-score releases later on) but the pop tracks became indelible time capsules, too.

Is it cringey to answer this question when it's your own band asking? Eh, whatever. We never got a crack at Placebo Effect, Brave Old World, or Good News For Everyone. I'd love to try those out. And I intend to play Square One every chance I get for the rest of my life.

This is a 9-0 Supreme Court decision from just last year.

If I remember correctly there used to be a show called Info Wars and the host whose name I don't recall talked at great length about how the slaughter of children was just a bunch of actors and not a real thing. I don't recall the FCC getting involved with this.

Posting my #LastFourWatched an hour past Friday. Mea culpa * Tap & KPOP complemented each other surprisingly well. Mr Redford’s passing got me to knock The Natural off my shame list. Apollo 13 was a 30th anniversary screening, and my first time seeing it since it was in theaters originally.

I feel real bad for everyone who's been struggling to care for a delusional family member, watching whatever progress they've made get annihilated by ChatGPT in an afternoon.

I tell you what, learn a little bit about cancer and people who think you can cure cancer with diet or supplements do look very silly. This is why cancer biologists have such a hard time not being snarky.

Do not punish the behaviour you want to see.

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#OnThisDay September 19, 1994, #TheSimpsons began airing in syndication. Local Fox stations aired repeats 5 days a week, sometimes up to 5 times a day, aiding in every Simpsons nerd's ability to commit entire classic episodes to memory for the rest of their lives.

yeah, I think in rich countries, “the politicians are all corrupt and I don’t trust institutions” is a luxury belief, and a lot of journalists have erred in seeing it as a sign of despair rather than the opposite

I want to reiterate what some others have said about this: If you're even THINKING about canceling a subscription or boycotting a Disney thing re: Kimmel - ALSO send them a letter. A PHYSICAL letter on paper in an envelope. NOT an email or click they can just ignore. PILES of real mail make impact.

As much as I loathe AI, I'm happy for uncreative people to keep using it until we can finally blow the technology up. It makes all my awesome ass writing even awesomer asser. Buy my books, they're 100% hand made!

Authentic frontier gibberish!

My friends and I are experts on the Dunning-Krueger effect, which is a cognitive bias we just learned about yesterday

There’s been a 2-for-1 sale on Lindt bars at my local Ralph’s for a couple of weeks now. Mmmm, foily goodness.

A better world is possible.

Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.