What are the odds that you'll be alive in a year? The publicly-available Social Security Administration actuarial tables can be... grounding... to review from time to time. www.ssa.gov/oact/STATS/t...

Such people are why I am usually packing a collapsible baton when I take my preschooler to the park...

Note: Due to a critical mass of core volunteers participating in the No Kings march on Saturday, we'll be running the ONE Repair Cafe from 2pm-6pm rather than 11am-3pm this month. Location as always is 12 North Street. #BTV #VT #Vermont #BurlingtonVT

Guy who complains about Mastodon posts being called "toots" from the "skeets" website.

#Meshtastic Day 1: I just got a fun little radio! I wonder who else is out there? Meshtastic Day 100: *mounts a 25' flagpole on my deck in a quixotic bid to reach Montreal from Vermont*

If this website ever gets ads:

Sell your stonks.

Hey #BTV, come hand out with us at our weekly public hours. Every Thursday night (including tonight) fro 7p to at least 9p, usually later. #vt #Vermont #BurlingtonVT

The Democrats have to focus on healthcare above all else. Most of them don't have spines which is a serious medical condition.

Consider moving your 401k $$ out of index funds and into blue state municipal bond funds for a bit? Capital strike against one of the most salient economic metrics by which many people judge the success or failure of a Presdency, while giving folks like Pritzker more fiscal room to maneuver.

FTR, I love Mastodon, and it will probably be one of the last sustainably free spaces as the crackdowns deepens. But, lol.

I am happy the no kings protest is happening but it is fundamentally insufficient. This isn’t something solved with a civil mass protest once every 3 months. It needs to blow up into something bigger and we need national democratic leadership to organize with these movements and local groups.

Our friends at Carolina Common Enterprise are transitioning from a traditional nonprofit to a worker self-managed cooperative! Pitch in to support the future of cooperative ecosystem development in the Carolinas. givebutter.com/c/CCEBetterW...

They say beer is recession-proof but they never said anything about $23 four-packs of blowout juice

wait is THAT the strategy? alienate the most prominent keystone & tech-inclined demo by subtly fanning and seeding an intrinsically hostile environment so they will leave to build their own and adopt atproto to do it? perhaps i have misjudged you Jay, perhaps i did not recognize your game.

Decided now's the time to blow the dandelion, I see(d)...

Lake is low. #btv

End of summer ride to the beach with the boy. Darkness falls...

“But are there not many fascists in your country?" "There are many who do not know they are fascists but will find it out when the times comes.”

Thanks to being a co-op history nerd, I actually got a British political reference, for once!

This is the future of politics in the digital era. It's like watching Elvis on Ed Sullivan.

CHOTINER: I don't know, I just feel like I've been tacitly operating in a moral framework that would fall apart with even the barest scrutiny. But maybe that collapse would bring new clarity DOCTOR: Listen, there is an interviewer I want you to talk to. The best in the business. CHOTINER: ...

Isaac Chotiner has invited me to sample some delicious Amontillado wine and I don’t know guys but I think I’m going to come out of this interview seeming like *quite* the wine expert

Nice article on the retirement transition of Putney Mountain Winery to a #workercoop, which @veoc.bsky.social supported. #vt #vermont #vtbiz

A new legislative campaign aims to make it easier to export Germany’s successful portable solar installations to the U.S.

It’s very important we provide legitimacy to these actions by funding the government, otherwise people could get hurt.

“Standing up for the values of justice, equity, and our shared humanity has never been more important,” Jerry Greenfield wrote, “and yet Ben & Jerry’s has been silenced, sidelined for fear of upsetting those in power.”

The 3 year old's first time really consciously watching a sunset was tonight... 🥰

This entire descent into full-blown fascism has been playing out in my mind like that scene in Monty Python Search for the Holy Grail when that guard is watching this guy run across the field for ages and then suddenly the guy is there killing everyone.

Aluminum flagpole as #meshtastic solar node mast:

You can't shut down the government over minor annoyances like a fully funded secret police force turning terrorism laws against the Ford foundation, people might get hurt :(

The Average American Diet once the tariffs really kick in...

“People are really starting to look at what’s going on in the immigration system as a microcosm for what could happen to our democracy if left unchecked, not just for noncitizens, but for everyone,” said attorney Jill Martin Diaz.

Years of Lead - USA Edition en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Years_o...

Vermont's biggest worker co-op is growing!

not disagreeing with Anna, who is correct, but also, I think this is a good illustration of the futility of staying on twitter as a left-of-center account. this is actually effective dominance politics from vance! there's no function you serve on there that does anything but aid the right's project

krassenstein trying to get in a dunk but he ends up being the one dunked on because there is no left-of-center role to play but the washington generals to the conservative's harlem globetrotters.

Whelp, just learned our pediatrician is pausing COVID vaccinations because of The American Shitshow. Guess I'm spending the evening browsing Southern Quebec's pharmacies and clinic offerings for my 3 year old... 🤬

This should be read as the beginning of the explicit permission structure to underwrite the vaporization of children and women at the border into mist of blood and gunpowder.

My only comment on the bluesky meta discourse is that one of the strongest bull signs that this place is doing good is that it constantly induces involuntary conniption episodes in the people who built their entire livelihoods around twitter before it became a communal prison toilet

Reports coming in that Donald Trump has gone to his golf course to partake in a sacred death ritual where he lies down in a sandtrap on the 9th hole and 18 blonde caddies walk counterclockwise around him carrying gold plated Hamburglar statues until he passes. Don Jr was not invited.

my father-in-law is a “I know a guy” Guy. sadly all the old Guys are aging out of the Guy Economy. Guys are fundamentally incompatible with Hustle Culture because it’s not about “winning” a deal, it’s about collecting favors and goodwill in a mutually-beneficial cycle. protect your local Guy Economy

If we end up with a NE republic, probably gonna need to partition #NewHampshire between #Vermont (east bank of the Connecticut river to the White mountains), #Maine (East of the Whites), and #Massachusetts (all the exurban tax-dodgers in Nashua).

i used to love the adam curtis film "hypernormalisation" - but then it happened to me

In honor of sandwich guy getting out of his legal pickle, here is the original video synced with Freedom - George Michael 1990.

Perfect end of summer weekend in the woods with hackerspace friends. Stargazing, swimming, playing with #meshtastic radios, feasting, and I got to take the 3 year old out on the kayak for the first time... Back to reality tomorrow. 😭

www.wsj.com/finance/curr... just thinking about how the headline "Peter Thiel Leads Pack of Investors Piling Into Ether" could be a 19th century headline