Are there other examples of this? Movies where they changed the name of the script primarily because the producers got the right to some Boomer anthem that they could then use as a title song to milk some cheap nostalgia? Because I feel like this was kinda a *thing* in the 90s/early 90s.

Added two more pieces of evidence today that show how good Universal Basic Income is for health and how it can save us a lot of money that's otherwise spent extremely expensively on emergency care instead of much less costly prevention. Think of UBI as a vaccine. www.scottsantens.com/universal-ba...

Universal Basic Income as the Social Vaccine of the 21st Century

Can the savings of basic income exceed the costs? > “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.” — Benjamin Franklin [https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/247269-an-ounce-of-prevention-is-worth-...

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Scott Santens@scottsantens.com · 2y ago

Alaska's UBI increases preventive healthcare usage: "Our results suggest that basic income policy ought to be thought about as a form of health policy, as it has the potential to advance a wide range of health objectives related to primary and preventive care." www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Too many entries in the cultural discourse in the year of our Lord 2026 read like, “I have accepted that the emperor’s new clothes are amazing and real, and if you haven’t, you’re a schmuck.”

QOTD: "Reading is a practice of freedom."

Lisa Diedrich@lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 2d ago

Reading is a practice of freedom.

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Jessica Ellis@baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 9h ago

I’ve been thinking about the Cornell rape all day. And I have to say, there are very good men in my life, many of them, who are confident and would have stepped in. And I also have to say I think something men and women need to reckon with is that those men are the exception.

i posted an epiphany i had about why i hate AI so much on fedi and i wanna post it here but it won't fit and i don't wanna cut it down to size so fuckit i'm just posting a screenshot

Magnus, Chat GPT Fighter

Born 27 September 1943 Randy Bachman is a Canadian guitarist, singer & songwriter. He was a founding member of the bands The Guess Who and Bachman–Turner Overdrive. He was the writer & singer of several hit songs, including "Takin' Care of Business", and "You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet". #RandyBachman

I slept on this book for TOO LONG. It is SO GOOD! Beautifully written and intricate like a puzzle box. @amalelmohtar.com & @maxgladstone.bsky.social knocked it out of the park with this one.

PROGRESS MADE but still need HELP Down to needing $140 for an un expect med bill now due in 4 days so asking for help Sorry short notice didn’t know it was coming. If you can assist me with it: www.PayPal.me/DeeDentalDamn Thank you #TransCrowdFund #MutualAid #MutualAidReques

Pay Den Elms using PayPal.Me

Go to paypal.me/DeeDentalDamn and type in the amount. Since it’s PayPal, it's easy and secure. Don’t have a PayPal account? No worries.

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Y'know, I hadn't thought about this framing regarding that specific "discourse" until this, but now that i have ... I feel like XKCD 1053 needs to make the rounds right about now xkcd.com/1053/

Ten Thousand

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Nome@nome.bsky.social · 10h ago

So because certain people are finding it ridiculous that others haven't heard a popular song, I've been thinking about when I hear new music. - I work in a grocery store. The music is not live, but rather a track list approved by corporate, where most of the music is 10-15 years old.

Glenn Burke made history as the first Major League Baseball player to publicly come out as gay. He’s also credited with inventing the high-five xtramagazine.com/video/gay-hi...

The lesser-known gay history of high-fives | Xtra Magazine

Glenn Burke made history as the first Major League Baseball player to publicly come out as gay. He’s also credited with inventing the high-five

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The best thing about being someone who loves reading is you want to read everything, everywhere, all at once. The worst thing about being someone who loves reading is you want to read everything, everywhere, all at once.

I don’t think George Springer will be back with the #BlueJays. But I could see Max Scherzer coming back in much the same way that he did this year, if the #Jays have enough injuries to the pitching staff, which I think we have to assume they will.

JLA Avengers by @kurtbusiek.bsky.social and George Perez is a love letter to anyone who has ever read a DC or Marvel comic. We all love "who would win in a fight," but this more importantly asks "how can we coexist and work together to be better?" This book is the pure thesis of superhero stories.

Caleb Joseph is so full of it he squeaks going into a turn.

Total disaster of a season and they didn't miss by much. Do some backfilling and come back and run this league in 2027.

THERE HAS NEVER BEEN ANY POINT IN HISTORY WHERE IT HAS BEEN IN THE BEST INTEREST OF WOMEN TO DEPEND UPON THE BENEVOLENCE OF MEN

Seasons where Jays averaged 4 or fewer runs a game 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1997 2026

Jays finish with 648 runs. Exactly 4 a game.

RPG tip from the archive: Have players build characters together at a session zero so they can build their characters off of one another. #dnd #ttrpg

I keep saying this, but we have been in a long golden age of game creation, and it isn't done yet. I can't think of a better time to be into ttRPGs across my lifetime than now.

SprintingOwlDesigns@sprintingowl.bsky.social · 17h ago

Every game I'm reading lately is great. Now, is this because great people are making great games? OR Have I developed gorgon-like powers and can fire game enjoyment rays from my eyes, including but not limited to a powerful chargeable textual analysis beam attack?

If you love stationary and based on sales, I think a lot of people do. Here's a gentle nudge to move past "collecting" and to actually USE the stationary. Write letters to friends and family. Send thank you notes. Write actual cards and MAIL THEM.

I’m all right with Max Scherzer. But he’s not really one of my guys. He’s fine. All of this mythology around him is amusing enough but I don’t require more of it. #jays #BlueJays

I actually finally made peace with all the broadside attacks on my own late X cohort that didn’t apply to me politically when I realized it was history choosing my own formerly losing side against my worst peers. Now I welcome the roasting of those jerks. It keeps me feeling young(ish).

ceej@ceej.online · 17h ago

over the next few years you are going to see kids posting infinite variations of “millennials always wait until the end of the transaction to scan their card 🙄” and it is your sacred duty to not let that turn you into a turbochud

We @thestar.com have been looking back at 50 years of #Bluejays baseball all season long. Here’s the final instalment of the series, my piece on the best #Jays slugger of the first half-century, Carlos Delgado:

Mike Wilner: The greatest Blue Jays slugger is an overlooked giant in franchise history

Carlos Delgado dominated like no one before or since — but a decade of losing teams robbed him of his spotlight.

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Having written a TV show built on "deep dives on one bad rich guy per week" with one version 2008-2012 and another 2021-2025, I'll say that the OG evil rich guys were evil greedy assholes, and the new rich guys are mentally disordered perverts, and so do evil. And not the good kind of perverts.

Faine Greenwood@faineg.com · 2d ago

This is another great, approachable explainer on “the rationalist wackos who have managed to take over much of the AI industry, and who now have tons of money and political power.” www.iankduncan.com/personal/202...

This year is not going well. I realize how bad it is that I’m asking for support in such a bad time for everyone. It’s a punch in the gut to write these posts because I just want to find a job and get back to being productive. I’m still getting tests done. I’m scared a bit. Please, if you can.

Jon Hex@jonhexbrooks.bsky.social · last wk.

Been unemployed for a year, still searching for work in a terrible time. Please, if you can, I need support to get through the month. I have leads that may turn things around but they aren't sure things. I'm praying to get over before the end of the year. Thank you. PayPal.me/hexbrooks

It is the greatest poem ever written about a cat

www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45173/... Christopher Smart's poem Jubilate Agno, a poem to his cat written while incarcerated in a mental asylum in 1757