the year is 2027. gas costs $83 and lettuce is at war with us. however every location on every map now says AMERICA
Ammy
@ammy.bsky.social
🐺 (he/they) lvl 30+ jack of many trades trying to make the world slightly better... "Always keep learning."
Just freaking give a universal basic income to everyone already.
Garrett Gilchrist@garrettgilchrist.bsky.social · 22h ago
low-key this spam apparatus is definitely a reason why I have not donated. it's also important to read as this investigation has been suppressed by the same consultants that stand in the way of structural change.
Hook and Squeeze
How Democratic consultants, committees, and party leaders built a fundraising spam pipeline that funnels money from a captive pool of elderly donors into their own operations.
data4democracy.substack.com
you can build a bunker for you and your retainers & you can hoard your power & fame, you can worship nothing but ambition or status and stand by while people you might be able to help--in big ways or small ways--go without. Or you can be Dolly. All these things are choices. She made good ones.
this is probably said a million times already, but try to live your life so that makes others remember you as fondly as Dolly.
Some people might not be aware, but it is entirely possible that without Dolly Parton we wouldn’t have had a COVID vaccine. She partly funded Moderna’s research and gave the largest individual contribution to make it all happen. Just gives you an idea of the kind of person she was.
Scientists published today the world’s first climate attribution study to link major fossil fuel emitters’ emissions to water loss in the Western U.S. Almost half of decreased snowpack and streamflow in the region, they found, is attributable to 122 oil, gas and cement producers.
The Biggest Carbon Polluters Are to Blame for Half of U.S. Western Water Lost to Climate Change, ‘Groundbreaking’ Paper Says - Inside Climate News
Some of the most impactful changes have come in the stressed Colorado River basin.
insideclimatenews.org
there is no invention better than what many call “the library”
computers are such a collection of deep topics that setting up systems like NAS backups with RAID etc. is basically technomagic to even 80% of millennial population.
I heard Spider-Man was beating up fascists at a rally and thought that was rad. Never give up hope in a world that makes you think there’s none left. Someone’s fighting for you, even if they’re wearing spandex. #spiderman #spidermanart #splitmantra
this looks like a comic book cover come to real life. The Amazing Spider-Man, 2026 edition
Ron Marz@ronmarz.bsky.social · 5d agoJake Lang getting his Nazi ass beaten by Spider-Man in Minneapolis today is the ray of sunshine I needed.
have you ever seen a visual shepherd tone anon? courtesy of @bleuje.com
keep coming back to this thought. seriously it would kneecap so many bad actors and dilute power. for perspective, 100m is a single high-rise tower in a major city center or ~20-30 blocks of houses in a well-off suburb. it's still a fucking lot, but not global-damaging-level of dick wagging.
Ammy@ammy.bsky.social · 3mo agothere's some two or three thousand families who own the majority of assets tucked away through dozens of tax loopholes inside corporate books & trusts. wealth taxing them down to a 100m-per-person cap that follows inflation would do untold wonders to the global political system.
this scene has so many layers of entertainment!
C. Bukowski@thishurt.bsky.social · 6d agoTelevision used to MEAN something in this country. 🧐
Hey guys, we talk big about promoting animation from other countries & ive been following this project since its concept trailers. Please please help share it & keep it seen & going. South American animation DESERVES to be seen too. I want this project to live so badly.
APUKUNAPA KUTIMUYNIN PV2 - El Despertar de la Ensoñación
YouTube video by Ninakami Estudio de Animación
youtu.be
one thing I heard recently that I think is going to be critical to deconstructing power from regressives and fascists: "take back control the narrative about Public Safety"
carefully wording posts with several revisions just so I can leave a single silly wrong word or extra word in order to signal to friends and family that bots haven't busted through my complex defenses and are posting on my account while wearing my underpants.
real dumb things exist in ways you'd never believe, especially from people with money.
Chef Kennedy🐸🏳️🌈@kennedytcooper.bsky.social · 2mo agoMe: its time to open up this pit! Construction Contractor: please, no
it is with great sadness that my salad wrap revolution has on pause the past couple weeks because I don't want to poop-rocket myself into the sea.
Ammy@ammy.bsky.social · 2mo agoit has been months and my salad wrap game is good enough that I've convinced my family that "yes, you can make a salad wrap that's so much better than the cold ham-filled wrap of sadness."
so much of discworld is about stories, and how they work, and who is telling them, and why, and what they want to accomplish and maybe nowhere in the entire series is that better interrogated than by a small inquisitive girl named Tiffany
'The Iron Giant,' 'Ratatouille,' and 'Spider-Verse' vet Michel Gagné spent 14 years hand-drawing the feature 'The Saga of Rex' almost entirely on his own. Today, he unveiled the first trailer for the long-awaited project, set to be finished by year's end: www.cartoonbrew.com/feature-film...
I can tell we're winning at the end because the regressives I know are no longer trumpeting gleefully and are now defensively arguing "who knows that the real truth is," aka trying to bury their head in their own ass to not see how wrong they are.
Not sure what else anybody might need. Even if you don't care about the environment. Even if you don't care about IP theft. Even if you don't care about a world full of incompetence. "It literally makes you dumber."
Henry Mance@henrymance.ft.com · last wk.Woah.
holy crap I have not thought of Taiwan in more than passing the past couple years and have not studied geopolitics formally nor have campaign staff to prepare me and I could answer better than that off the top of my head.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.Darlene Graham just bumbled through one of the worst responses to a question during a political debate you'll ever see
"AI prompts are discoverable" is going to lead to so many funny lawsuit outcomes, my god
Jason Koebler@jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 2w agothis story is batshit Here is the full article, which includes all prompts, trial transcripts, the report itself. The firm hired charged more than $80,000 for the report. Also shows that AI transcripts can be discoverable and can be very revealing: www.404media.co/show-how-3m-...