Watching an Axon worker walk by with multiple plushie baubles on their backpack and thinking "You know, I somehow expected the collapse into the surveillance state to look less boring."

When Muna crooned "The house I live in doesn't have A/C", that's basically my faggotry wake word.

The kids are out here getting looks mogged when they could be getting books mogged, is what I’m saying

New personal low: I'm actively excited about a new pencil sharpener.

“You’re a huge fan of Lord of the Rings, how come you don’t like Palantir?” “You’re a huge fan of 1984, how come you don’t like the surveillance state?” “You’re a huge fan of Fahrenheit 451, how come you don’t like ritual book burnings?”

John Scalzi@scalzi.com · 3d ago

Every now and then someone takes a run at me along the lines of "I don't understand why you, a scifi writer, don't appreciate 'AI'," and I'm all, motherfucker, it's *because* I'm a science fiction writer I have the positions I have, how many times do we have to fucking yell "torment nexus," my dude

huh...

hunchback from sardinia@dogfromsinope.bsky.social · 2mo ago

what's funny about trump's 38% "floor" of support is that its literally the same exact figure as the floor of support that got daniel ortega into power in 2006, where he remains to this day...

You go to your closet, and you select I don’t know, that lumpy blue dress because you’re trying to tell the world that you take yourself too seriously to care about what you put on your back, but... that sweater is not just blue, it’s not turquoise, it’s not lapis, it’s actually wine-dark.

The diarrhea lettuce company, Taylor Farms, uses slave labor contracted from the Arizona Dept. of Corrections. The backbreaking labor is often performed by imprisoned Mexican nationals who would be otherwise ineligble to work in the US. They are paid $1.50 an hour.

The Diarrhea Lettuce Company Has Been Linked to Forced Labor

The lettuce-producing Taylor Farms was linked to the widespread use of prison labor before its involvement in a cyclospora outbreak.

futurism.com

My hot take of the night is that cigarettes might have been a load bearing part of society, in that it was a final item that could require physical assistance regularly and therefore forced mild human interaction of asking for a light.

Flobots take the handlebars

Getting the bag of rice because it's got an Afghanistan map and that's just kind of fun.

Bottom eyes Lob automized Lobotomeis

Oh my god it's happening! It's really happening!

Seattle Department of Transportation@transportation.seattle.gov · 5d ago

ROUTE 8 and DENNY WAY: starting on Saturday, buses and cars merging onto Interstate 5 won’t compete for the same lane of Denny Way. To keep traffic flowing, people driving to I-5 south from eastbound Denny Way will turn right on Boren Ave and left on Howell St instead of using Yale Ave.

ROUTE 8 and DENNY WAY: starting on Saturday, buses and cars merging onto Interstate 5 won’t compete for the same lane of Denny Way. To keep traffic flowing, people driving to I-5 south from eastbound Denny Way will turn right on Boren Ave and left on Howell St instead of using Yale Ave.

I love packing an apartment because there are all these great moments of sifting my items out from my roommate's, and so I get to focus on real questions like "Wait, is that a Karl Marx nude?"

I don't know how you're supposed to talk people out of the idea that policy shouldn't be punitive and cruel to vulnerable members of our society just to prevent a problem that only exists for the brief moment between first imagining it and then briefly thinking through the implications.

I have increasingly felt that Stevens and her supporters’ attacks on El-Sayed smack of anti-Muslim and anti-Arab prejudice. And there has been at least one overt statement from an endorser. It’s very troubling. Muslim and Arab voters are part of the Democratic coalition.

I'm deeply disappointed in this action and the giving in to billionaire hate mongers that attack members of my own family. However, and this is an important distinction, Amnesty International UK is not, per se, the Amnesty International primary global International Secretariat (IS).

Lee Hurley@hleehurley.com · 6d ago

Amnesty have issued an apology to JK Rowling and the rest. Adjust your expectations, and donations, accordingly www.amnesty.org.uk/latest/an-ap...

literally this cartoon

Alex@alexh666.bsky.social · last wk.

Thinking about the time I had to explain to a neighbor that when I say I want “safer streets” it is in reference to infrastructure to address violent drivers, not about property crime or wanting more cops

Rob, just a few days ago, I said "Go, Rob, Go!" Today, there are two extra words after each go. They are not at all able to be construed as positive.

Ryan Packer@typewriteralley.bsky.social · last wk.

Now Saka says he served in the US Air Force to protect the freedoms of Americans that include the right to appeal growth plans under SEPA. It sounds like I'm exaggerating but I am not.

I was born in western Ohio, and so each month I give to Central Christian Church's Haitian Support Fund, which was recommended during other moments in this disgusting attack on the Haitian American community. ccspringfieldoh.churchcenter.com/giving

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · last wk.

Upwards of 200,00 people may have lost their jobs today; or will in the upcoming days. There is a palpable sense of fear among the Haitian community right now. They need your support.

There is no such thing as an ethical car. Ford, Barra, Musk, all have stumped for hate.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.

GM CEO Mary Barra is introducing Trump at his rally. Something to keep in mind if you're in the market for a vehicle anytime soon.

I feel like this 2015 textbook by a right-winger has to have changed this page in more recent editions.

if anyone ever asks you what "single state reality" refers to, a post that frames shooting an occupying soldier as a murder while casually referring to normal rules of coordination and cooperation between an occupying nation's lawbreaking settlers and its army is a pretty good example

#StupidSuez@diplomatofnight.com · 2w ago

Killing an illegally-present, occupying soldier is verbatim the most legal thing a person is allowed to do under every single international law.

Crazy that punishing children for being low income is bad politics.

Super excited to be enjoying a talk tonight by Don Morgan of the Bank of North Dakota about how he runs the nation's sole public bank.

israel, however, does have a military cooperation agreement with Russia (www.reuters.com/article/worl...) and has received tech transfer from Israel (cat-uxo.com/explosive-ha...) under that deal

Russia, Israel sign military cooperation deal

Russia and Israel signed a framework military cooperation deal on Monday that Russia's defence chief suggested would lead to further purchases of Israeli weapons and technology.

reuters.com

James@gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 2w ago

I don't know why I bother to keep saying this, but Israel is literally not even a treaty ally of the United States.

I can't believe I'm saying this, but... Go Rob Saka!

Brett Hamil@bretthamil.bsky.social · 2w ago

Saka: "we know there r families who qualify for free & reduced lunches who r not being served. there r ways to remove systemic barriers. passing universal free school meal is the number 1 most impactful thing we can do in this city." speaking of his experience with the stigma of reduced fee lunches

Not a SINGLE educator or direct service provider has come out for means testing. They are ALL for Universal school meals. Some of the community orgs that came out in favor of means testing have political suction within the Hollingsworth/Harrell nexus.