I’m alive, just preserving my sanity by staying away from most social media.

There would not be any kind of popular uprising if this happened!

I was talking about this last night. Does any rural person think Musk gives a crap about farms or understands farm subsidies?

Hardly new info, but BSky should know: Warsaw's water quality is monitored by eight clams with magnets attached to their shells. If contamination in the water causes the clams to close, the magnets trigger an alarm and shut off the city's water supply. Thank you, little guardian molluscs. 🧪🌏🚰

So I’ve been making pottery for a few months now and I’m happy with how I’m improving. First mug Most recent

Sometimes you can be a thorn in someone’s side or a very squeaky wheel too!

If I just read one million more posts tonight, I will have complete control over what comes next

Every time I remember Stephen Miller designed this rush of orders to burn me out specifically I get a new burst of energy from the spite alone. The very thought of my exhaustion giving him an ounce of joy makes me want to burst through walls

Just had to call animal poison control because one of these dogs ate melatonin. You already know which one it is.

I’m just really glad to live in a town that is at least trying to respond to homelessness and care for my unhoused neighbors

Please can a whole bunch of billionaires go please?

This is primarily why I am firm in not having children. I can’t do that to someone I love.

It’s been surreal to watch the people who taught me not to worship anything but Jesus totally abandon the most basic tenants of Christianity in favor of worshipping the crudest and most basic version of an authoritarian. Turns out the idol wasn’t grades or a boyfriend, it’s always power.

The federal freeze on grant funding is looking very, very bad in Atlanta. Georgia relies on federal funding for essentially *all* of its spending on housing support, and most of its spending on homelessness, mental heath and substance abuse treatment. Providers are locked out of their accounts.

Banner week for cancelling @michaelhobbes.bsky.social

We would not know Bishop Marianne Budde if the church did not ordain women or gay folk. Consider the prophets your church has discarded. #Narthex

And if you keep doing the mental gymnastics of "well they'll just get out" When? Do you know how long the backlogs are going to get? 2/

I know folks think we're being hysterical about the Laken Riley Act and Trump's EO's but ICE just did a raid in Newark where they detained undocumented residents as well as citizens (including a veteran), without producing a warrant. 1/

It may be a good time to recall that almost 100 yrs ago wealthy businessmen hatched a scheme to weaken progressive Christianity because the social gospel wasn’t conducive to corporate profits. They poured $$$ into Chr orgs that preached a different tune: the gospel of free market capitalism.

Mercy IS actually radical if you haven’t been shaping your life around the example and teaching of Christ and have only been pursuing self gratification. So, ya know.

Unionize your workplace. We’ve been here before and organized labor is how we get out.

If media thinks we can’t just choose to not consume their product because they’re serving as a propaganda arm of an authoritarian regime, they are mistaken.

So is this going to be TV now? Watching someone unrelated and suddenly several minutes of that guy out of nowhere?

I cannot bear how comically evil we are as a country

Teen movies led me to believe that if you bullied the nerd, they might end up being rich and cool one day and you’d be sorry. Apparently they end up rich losers flirting with fascism.

I’ve been traveling all day and came home with an awful headache. Advil didn’t fix it. Water didn’t fix it. Relaxing on the couch didn’t fix it. What did? An inhuman amount of Mexican food.

I feel like I pretty successfully paired my wine with my food tonight. I’ve been trying to learn enough to be able to make educated guesses, but Italian wine is still pretty new to me. The menu description told me just enough to make the right choice.

I just ate at a restaurant with a quote from my favorite Martin Short character, Franck the wedding planner in the 90’s Father of the Bride, on it.

I’ll make yall a deal. You post your dog being a goof in the snow and I’ll tell you exactly what kind of goof they are. It’s very scientific.

So anyone got Dogs in the snow pictures they wanna share?

Whaaat? No surely all religion is white evangelicalism!

@jengolbeck.bsky.social got any restaurant recs near Tenleytown? I’m there for a week and you have excellent taste!

So. Oregon.

Im having to read a management book for a class and can we please kill this industry? Every one of these books is a pamphlet worth of content blown out into 200 unskimmable pages. An absolute scam.

You need this thread

Ok so the new season of queer eye? I am LIVING for the new guy just crying constantly.

the AI scam

Go to church with your internet friends, like @joshuaeaton.bsky.social and I just did. Merry Christmas!

Stop Forcing A.I. into Fucking EVERYTHING!

THE DREAM

This weekend I get to do a memorial service honoring people in my town who died while experiencing homelessness. It’s been amazing to see so many groups and individuals work together on this

This is why cops aren’t workers, in case there was confusion. They support capital, not labor.

Me, a public health person, just sitting over here reflecting on the fact that the US has experienced a 7% increase in infant mortality post-Dobbs. Like, do you realize what that says about this society from an ethical perspective? That we made policy choices that caused this? #PHEthx

In case it wasn't already clear whose lives count most in this country.

I’ve never been in a rehearsal where the vibes were as rancid as they were tonight. The rehearsal was actually fine, but it was just off in there

It bears stating that the high end estimate of ending homelessness in the US is roughly $30B.

Health insurance industry PR is working overtime right now diverting blame to physicians for claim denials and rising costs. I feel compelled to remind everybody that Optum (UHC) is the largest employer of physicians in the US. We have never had less power in healthcare than we do right now.

Insurers must spend 80-85% of premiums on care by law. "But big insurers have figured out if they also become health care providers—by buying physician practices, clinics, and pharmacy benefit managers—they can meet that threshold by paying themselves and avoiding payment for their customers’ care."

This weird ass team just Forrest Gump’d their way into being SEC Champions. These mfs gonna win a natty on accident.

Beck on the last play