Well, it's official. Yesterday I saw the name of someone I once knew and looked them up. Everyone I ever dated went into psych.
Frances Larina
@franceslarina.bsky.social
I am a Friend of Tylenol & my Blåhaj's name is Cassandra 🐧 “Don’t let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.” - Alice Wong 🦽✊🏽 Please don't include pics of Trump in replies, I try to keep his face off my timeline.
And not sure where his elbows are but they certainly are not up. www.desmog.com/2026/04/08/c...
Carney Government Wants To ‘Provide’ the Fossil Fuels for Trump’s AI Strategy
The Liberals once talked tough about distancing Canada from the U.S. Now they seem eager to profit from the president’s agenda.
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every time an ai bro tells me that 'using the internet is as bad as using gen ai' and that the pollution calls are BS, a fairy not only loses it wings, its wings catch fire as it falls into a lake of toxic sludge that was once clean, drinkable water futurism.com/future-socie...
Well, that explains part of why Trump loosened restrictions on how public land is to be exploited. If successful, I could see this happening everywhere there is federal land.
Climate Tracker@climate.skyfleet.blue · 2d agoHow the National Park Service Wound Up in a Data Center Deal #Climate
This is the same GOP that actively supports people like Trump and Texas AG Paxton and dozens of others who are quieter but still quite corrupt. Why does the media keep acting so shocked and surprised? These are the party's core values at this point.
Hyde T. Voltyge@hydevoltyge.bsky.social · 4h agoFirst time I've seen this point raised. Graham Platner's volunteers revolted against him, his page on ActBlue was canned, the DSCC and the Maine Dems weren't going to spend on him or help him. Those things pushed him to drop out! The GOP has done none of the above, just a handful of them asking him.
Crypto is a form of currency that exists specifically to provide anonymity. It can do so only because the governments of the world allow it to do so. One must ask why this is so.
Ron Filipkowski@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 3h agoThe naked corruption is astonishing and the Republican majorities in the House and Senate refuse to conduct any oversight or hearings.
Can confirm this as accurate for California.
David M. Perry@lollardfish.bsky.social · 2d agoRed States: We're cutting the humanities at our public universities to spend more money on right-wing indoctrination Blue States: We're cutting the same programs, but to spend more money on AI and the business school.
California can't fire cops for committing felonies or stealing. The state even offered 54 of them a deal: pay back the money you stole and all is forgotten. calmatters.org/justice/2026...
Court blocks CHP from firing officer caught in LA overtime scandal
The California Highway Patrol lost an effort to fire one of the 54 officers it caught billing the state for overtime hours they didn't work at an L.A. station.
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"US economy unexpectedly lost 23,000 jobs in July. Unemployment dropped to 4.1% but only because 260,000 people dropped out of the workforce" Is any of this really unexpected by non-oligarch / non-Epstein class / non-journalist people?
Trump & the Republicans are entirely unequipped to run any nation, let alone the USA. Their only drive is greed. It clouds everything they do to the point of making incredibly stupid mistakes if they were judged on expected outcome. But they're only judging themselves on how much grift they can do.
Bianca Sommerland-They/them 🏳️🌈 🇨🇦@bianca-sommerland.bsky.social · 17h agoOkay, so...question? Why is the US of A telling the world they're almost out of missiles? That seems...unwise.
I love whenever the cis start thinking they have a "gotcha" by being like "You said if someone tells you they're trans then they are, so nyahhh we're trans now!" Yeah, no, we're not fairyfolk, you can't trap us with wordplay. We're allowed to recognize when someone is an disingenuous troll.
Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE@leftistlawyer.com · 18h agoSTOP SAYING ENES KANTER AND ROYCE WHITE ARE TRANS They're cis men. They're not trans women. There's so much more to being trans than announcing for the WNBA. We're not "men who identify as women."
Know what bothers me underneath it all? There was really exciting research that started in the mid-90's that was doing it the right way, slowly building one fact at a time toward simulating neural functionality. Then ten years ago LLM's started sucking up all funding and that was that.
Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ@olivia.science · yesterdayexactly 💯 on LLMs: they simulate the output we call language, not the cognitive capacity we call language!
Really though, is anyone even the least bit surprised? The Coast Guard requested his super yachts answer a distress call since they were the closest vessel and..."Zuck" simply ignored it. Again, a base value of greed. It's at the heart of everything going bad right now.
KellyK🌺@azkellyk.bsky.social · 17h agoNot surprising—that a greedy, soulless Zuckerberg and his two super yachts—filled with entitled, wealthy guests and every imaginable luxury—chose not to respond to a distress call from a small, stranded boat with two women, a child and a dog onboard. www.rawstory.com/mark-zuckerb...
"Private prisons announce $1.4 billion in revenue as immigration detentions climb" This is not a sign of a healthy society or nation. It is a sign of a nation being driven by greed above all else. www.npr.org/2026/08/08/n...
Private prisons announce $1.4 billion in revenue as immigration detentions climb
That revenue does not include net proceeds of $1.6 billion made by CoreCivic after the recent sale of four of their facilities to the Department of Homeland Security.
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+7.44 ft tides this week, "These predictions include both astronomical tides and a combination of thermal expansion and accumulated sea level rise" - NOAA. www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
An Amazon data center could have the worst polluting power plant in the country
An Amazon-owned site in Pecos County, Texas, received a permit to release up to 33 million tons of CO2.
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The US knew about the outbreak and that they had fired the people who could have handled the problem. Now two people have died amid the ongoing record-breaking outbreak of explosive diarrhea from the foodborne parasite Cyclospora, Michigan health officials announced apple.news/AYRlm-LV7QrW...
Trump admin "aware" of deaths in explosive diarrhea outbreak, delays reporting — Ars Technica
Federal officials will update the outbreak sometime "this week," a spokesperson said.
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"Democrats plan Trump investigations not impeachment if they win House" That's right, they're going to...wait for it...write strongly worded letters. Asking Trump for information to make him look bad.
Corrected headline: "In dead of night, Republican Senators confirm unqualified Trump fixer to (be)head Justice Dept." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Trump loyalist Todd Blanche confirmed by Senate as US attorney general
Major win for president as former personal lawyer wins approval despite outcry over $1.8bn slush fund
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My first gender therapist transitioned in the early '80's. She crossed so many lines in our sessions, but one thing I'm grateful for was getting to hear an oral history of that time period. She was ace & neurodiverse, and it's probably what saved her life.
The Loch Ness Monster@nessiopeia.space · yesterdayAnd when I say lost, I mean that we know from surviving documents and people that there were trans communities during the 80s but we have no data to quantify how many of us were lost, simply because we died while being denied our selves. Lost of the lost
You ever wake up just seething at the way cis people downplay the panic of trans women as if we don’t live in a world that literally disappeared an entire generation of trans women
20,000 people! When will people connect the dots from this devastation to Carney’s slashing and burning of environmental regulations, of rights, and of all the rest of it? This dystopia is being fueled by Canadian nationalism, which is occluding people’s vision of what they are tacitly supporting.
20,000 flee as explosive B.C. wildfire races toward Summerland, burning homes in path — The Canadian Press
More than 20,000 residents have been forced to evacuate British Columbia
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WNBA players union leadership released a statement, I suggest everyone read it. This is the message of united union leaders: hate will not be tolerated and trans inclusion IS protecting women’s rights to play sports This is excellently crafted. Proud of Nneka, Phee and the rest of WNBPA leaders
Carney supporters are complicit. Enablers of a number of genocides at home and abroad, enablers of clinate destruction, pawns for deadly oppression. Fix your hearts or die alone, unloved and forgotten.
Kim Siever@kimsiever.bsky.social · yesterdayAs Climate-Fuelled Wildfires Rage, Mark Carney Cuts Emergency Response and Funds Fossil Fuels www.desmog.com/2026/08/03/a...
The Senate woke up early today - a Saturday - and confirmed Todd Blanche as attorney general at around 4:30am ET.
Telling, if not suprising, that the establishment Dems are freaking out over what's, by all objective measures, a mildly critical social democratic faction. Like they're doing selective rent freezes and grocery store pilot programs. Even by the standards of electoral left it's pretty modest stuff.
WTF? Amazon received a permit from the state of #Texas allowing its new gas power plant to emit 33 million tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere — the largest single source of pollution in the United States. newrepublic.com/post/214111/...
Amazon Is Creating the Biggest Pollution Source in the Entire Country
Amazon has bought a site in Texas where it plans to build a data center campus.
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www.calonews.com/food/califor...
California is currently clear of the cyclosporiasis outbreak, health department declares
The California Department of Public Health (CDPH) and local health departments are actively monitoring California cyclosporiasis cases in raw and fresh produce as increased cases in 15 states have bee...
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