We are seven months away from the most consequential midterm election in US history. Meanwhile, we are fighting a war. These are the structural conditions for a coup attempt in which a president tries to nullify elections and take permanent power as a dictator. snyder.substack.com/p/the-next-c...

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“We create. We write, we speak, we think, we publish. Our creativity is central to who we are. It is not free fuel for your models.” Hell yeah, @jbernoff.bsky.social! controlyourpersona.org

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This is what a sea change looks like

Dear ICE, Thou shalt not wear a mask and abduct 5-year-olds and call yourself a ‘Christian.’ You are the complete opposite of Christ. Hate, God

“It sounds crazy to say that Republicans are making children go hungry to protect pedophiles, but it’s actually a reasonable interpretation of the situation.” @pkrugman.bsky.social

‼️Plus, well-nourished, educated, and healthy.

@ianlurie.bsky.social Have you seen this?

Watching the Senate “vote-a-rama” on the BOOB (Big Obscene Oligarch-licking Bill). Disgusting display of craven cowardice.

Since 1980!

I'm a human rights lawyer. If you're exercising your human right to protest on June 14, here are 13 rules I recommend you follow. No paywall. Free access. Please do read and share: www.qasimrashid.com/p/13-rules-t...

Learned a new word today: “kayfabe.” Thank you, @hcrichardson.bsky.social! heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/june-10-20...

Charts new territory? 🤨

Same, except not a librarian.

Why do spreadsheets default to bottom-of-cell vertical alignment instead of the top?

The internet didn’t make us stupid. It made stupidity scalable.

*Kids* are not overdosing. 🤦🏻‍♀️ This headline makes it sound like third graders are giving their lunch money to the cod liver oil dealer in home room.

You probably have to have a lot of experience in bankruptcy court to come up with this idea, but it's still kind of inspired to try to end all of a nation's international obligations by declaring that nation's moral bankruptcy.

FFS! 🤦🏻‍♀️

BRB… adding Lemony Snicket to style guidelines 🍋

If you're critical of the US government and you are planning to cross the US border any time soon, today is a good day to review EFF's border search pocket guide: www.eff.org/document/eff...

WTAF. Imagine if this much energy were channeled toward positive efforts to help people instead of inflicting perverse obsessions on others. 😡https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/detrans-awareness-day-dept-of-education-crenshaw

Folks: I am NOT affiliated with the group that is using my name to support an economic boycott. Please spread this post, if you would.

Saw this headline in The Guardian and it took a minute to realize the story was about fertility, not the skyrocketing price of a dozen eggs or the avian flu. 🐣

Cheers, Jay! 🍷😊

Does anyone have a contact for Ann ? Would love to discuss with her the possibility of partnering with her to publish her cartoons exclusively on @bluesky

Love starting the new year at the Oregon Coast!

"From 1997-2017, search was an excellent place to start marketing. Today, search is a reward for doing marketing right everywhere else." ~ @randfish.bsky.social

Feeling so much (self-imposed) pressure to make my first Bluesky post pithy, clever, memorable, etc., that I haven't posted anything at all. So anyway, here’s a photo of a butterfly*. It’s not blue but seems apropos. 🦋 (*Taken at Cornell Botanic Gardens)