THEY FEED US Farm workers are as much as 35 times more likely to be killed by heat than any other civilian occupation. PLEASE CONTACT YOUR LEGISLATORS (See prompts in link)

It's not just AI being used to build software, it's that the large models being trained require huge data pools in the cloud. It's like putting a bunch of gold in a castle and then having little to nothing guarding it. And then anyone can copypasta their own shitty castle.

“why would someone need pre-boiled eggs” “why would someone need grocery delivery services” disabled people exist ! anytime you see something that makes life easier its probably beneficial for disabled people !

sontag wrote “Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and … of the sick. Although we all prefer to use only the good passport, sooner or later each of us is obliged…to identify ourselves as citizens of that other place.” step thru the portal, stamp your passport

Listen: they make it difficult if not impossible to mitigate the pandemic they refuse to address, which disables you. You can’t work&lose yr job, thus your insurance, so can’t afford the medical help you desperately need. You wrack up credit&medical debt trying, until you cant afford your home—then?

I see grocery/takeout shaming discourse going around again, so this is your periodic historian reminder that cooking from scratch daily while working has never been sustainable, and for millennia everyone either relied on takeout & restaurants or ate in huge households w/ big dorm-like group dining.

Best Governor Wisco has had in my lifetime. He was just in central Wisconsin celebrating removal of 1000 lead pipes in Wausau. The amount of travel and events he does would be rough for anyone, but he's 73. So grateful for everything he's done for Wisconsin.

By the way, this is still happening to many Covid informed women. Because the pandemic isn't over www.unwomen.org/en/news/in-f...

The Trump administration’s slashing of budgets and staff have Great Lakes scientists concerned that they have lost the ability to protect the public from toxic algal blooms, which can kill animals and sicken people. (Published May 2025) By @annaleighclark.bsky.social‬

Reminder to help out trans businesses on here 💙 go.bsky.app/6DkNbH7

The Minnesota shooter apparently used data broker websites to find the home addresses of the people he shot and murdered. Congress has had years to do something about data brokers and they've sided with the tech lobby over and over again. Their inaction is deadly.

"people aren't ready for all this trans stuff" i dont care. i exist now.

A number of stories of companies replacing workers with AI are simply CEOs putting a positive tech spin on cost cutting. It’s telling that instead of stories of how AI enables companies to do more, we mostly hear about AI enabling companies to do the same (or lower quality work) with fewer workers.

🔗 Quick reminder that unlike most platforms, Bluesky doesn’t algorithmically penalize posts with links! So if you are posting some striking image or screenshot from elsewhere you don’t need to bury the link in a reply; just include it in your post so everyone will have the context right away.

My rent has increased 40% since I moved into my apt in 2020. I'm currently moving out and the next tenant will pay 40% more than I'm currently paying, because the income restricted program is ending. 80% higher rent. It has almost doubled.

I WANT MY FUCKING LIFE BACK I WANT A FUCKING FUTURE I WANT TO BE ALLOWED TO EXIST IN YHE WORLD

please use alt text on your images! it helps anyone on screen readers, phones, & other screens. if you keep accidentally forgetting, you can navigate through your bsky Settings > Accessibility > "Require Alt Text" for reminders! people perceive things differently & this provides options for them.

they don’t call them redwoods because they love free markets

I'm pretty sure billionaires understand what they're doing. Trump is a symptom, not a cause. It's convenient to have a figurehead that draws attention away from everyone else.

Today is the 111th birthday of Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre

3-Bird feeders. Often attract squirrels, which are nest predators. I use a variety of tricks, most effective has been this super hot sauce. Careful not to get it on your skin. Birds can’t feel capsaicin—peppers need birds pooping put their seeds to propagate. 7/ coleswildbird.com/products/fla...

The more you conflate these things, the easier it will be to outright ban medical face masks like N95, KN95, KF94, and etc. Words are important. Please think these things through before drawing comparisons.

I’ve seen the ICE agents. They’re wearing gaiters, not face masks. Please make this distinction! It probably seems like semantics, but it’s important to draw a delineation between a public health tool and face concealment (via means that do nothing for public health).

Clean drinking water for 40+ million people, 21% of the world’s surface freshwater, 3,500 species plants &animals, 170+ species of fish. The Trump administration clearly does not care. #CleanWaterisLife www.propublica.org/article/noaa...

<points at this from my "disabled in an ongoing global pandemic" endless isolation hole>

Thank you for adding some alt text, but images of text should include all of the text in the alt text. Especially the author credit.

Reminder: there is no such thing as a red or blue state. There 50 purple states and various territories and DC, all with different degrees of and generations of disenfranchisement, voter suppression and gerrymandering.

My daddy didn’t have a BC until the military gave him one. This is because many Black people were born at HOME during Jim Crow apartheid b/c doctors didn’t allow Black people to go to or even become doctors. Chris Rock spoke about his mama having to go to a veterinarian to get dental care

Can I offer you an egg in this frying time

There's some people who are going to be psychologically vulnerable to this stuff and AI will harm them. Bleak

Let's play a game with `document.querySelectorAll` 617 div elements. 84 elements with aria-label. All 84 are divs. No button/role=button elements. 12 anchor/role=link elements. 5 role=link elements. All 5 are divs. 5 elements with tabindex. All 5 are divs. 7 elements with href. 5 are divs.

Whenever I think of buying something, I'd rather try to make it myself first. Within some amount of reason 😅😆 I made some dresser drawer locks for moving. The design could be more robust but I used what I had. And they're way less ugly than most child locks 🤣

Speaking of beds, my garbage packed bed risers are holding up swell. 2.5 years so far. It's 2 packed med bottles in a cross inside a larger plastic container that has fabric packed into it too. I used fabric scraps to pack it.

If you see this, post the most recent photo of yourself from your camera roll. - No cheating! -

If we accept the truism that POC have to be twice as good as white ppl to advance to the same level, it seems like it would follow that getting rid of POC would disproportionately reduce the overall skill level.

Pretty wild willow arch 😮 🌴 at Cors Caron National Nature Reserve, Ceredigion, this afternoon

Yes, men need friends. A lot of adults have few to no friends. The "loneliness epidemic" affects everyone. And there's a difference between sharing emotions and feelings to bond with someone vs control them. "I opened up about my feelings and you still wouldn't do what I wanted"

You probably think this skeet is about you, don't you 🎵 Cause it could be about me 😅

This book is incredible

You know N95? That’s a NIOSH standard. Without NIOSH, there is no one overseeing the production of American masks, to protect against wildfire smoke or the next pandemic (or this one). As for foreign-made KN95 and KF94 masks, well, they’re subject to tariffs… They want you to die.

Herd immunity is already undermined. We have population level immune damage from covid reinfections. The US hoarded covid vaccines, even when they were wasted. Vaccines don't prevent long covid and Biden's refusal to deal with that left the door open for anti-vaxxers to recruit.

The AI jobs crisis is not the sudden displacement of millions of workers in one fell swoop—instead, it’s evident in the attrition in creative industries, the declining income of freelance artists, writers, and illustrators, and in corporations’ inclination to simply hire fewer human workers.

I also spoke with a former employee of 18F, the federal tech support agency gutted by DOGE. He discussed how DOGE used its "AI-first strategy" and the hype around genAI in Silicon Valley to help justify their job-killing program. *This* is the AI jobs crisis—not any far-off robot apocalypse.

begging for money on the internet after calling a child racial slurs? these are gutter people raised in gutter families with a rotten, rancid culture

Rural ancient house repairs: my dad using his truck's trailer hitch to increase the travel for a hydraulic jack. You can hear the house move. This is like a huge refactoring the worst legacy code or adjusting the skeleton of a whale while inside it 😅

It's becoming clearer every day that some people should not have ever been given the keys to the car.