This from Abbas Alawieh, on Jake Lang and connecting him to Mike Roger's and the Trump, is incredibly powerful, and not that hard for any self identifying Democrat.
Fun fact: Dolly Parton spent decades quietly funding band uniforms and instruments at Black high schools across the South - never once putting her name on it. No headlines, no fanfare — just help, given because it was needed. Wonderful Heart ♥️ RIP Dolly ❤️
Day 230 (of 365) Confluence Park, Issaquah, Washington #watercolor #watercolorlandscapes #landscapeart #issaquah #washingtonlandscapes
The best measure of how America is doing isn’t the unemployment rate, or the stock market, or the rate of economic growth, or the inflation rate, or the average wage. It’s how well most Americans are living. And the reality is that most Americans are struggling.
Young people really, really don't trust tech oligarchs. New polling shows that among adults age 18-34: -81% don’t trust Alex Karp -79% don’t trust Peter Thiel -71% don't trust Mark Zuckerberg -70% don't trust Elon Musk -69% don't trust Sam Altman
Young People Hate AI CEOs So Passionately That It's Almost Hard to Believe
A new survey of 1,000 young adults in the US found that nine of the top tech executives are deeply loathed.
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Indy has a $333 million stormwater infrastructure... backlog
Dozens of gas-burning power plants are being built across the country, solely to power data centers. These plants could emit as much planet-warming pollution as half of all passenger vehicles in the entire country in a single YEAR. We need a data center moratorium — now.
airbnb I’m staying at unintentionally created the toughest punk album cover of 2027
One day, our grandchildren will read about this with the same horror we read about 1930s Germany.
I once asked a priest to bless a printer that I was in the middle of fighting with and he went "I only bless things when there's a chance it'll take" and then turned and walked out of the room.
👻evenmorehauntedtoasters👻@hauntedtoasters.bsky.social · 3mo agoI am tech support to the bone and do not like to mystify computer stuff but I genuinely believe in my heart of hearts that printers have demons in them. There is literally no other explanation.
“You cannot make billions of dollars without hurting lots of people. And you can’t hurt lots of people without, in some sense, believing that they’re not really people.” Corey Doctorow
He epitomises the parasitic nature of turbocharged capitalism. Index funds literally work like a turbo charger in this case, forcing value generated by people who can’t afford it to be invested in his company that doesn’t generate any real value.
Sanho Tree@sanho.bsky.social · 4mo agoThe world’s first trillionaire took away our Ebola response capacity, gave us screwworms, hollowed out our government so he could pay less taxes, and condemned millions of the world’s most vulnerable people to death.
The desperate campaign to push AI down our throats is just what Nestlé did with baby formula, or Monsanto with patended seeds. Manufactured Intermediation—inserting a corporate tollbooth into a process that used to be self-sustaining, using a low initial barrier to entry to destroy the alternative.
Adam Conover@adamconover.net · 6mo agoI don't recall any previous transformative technologies that had to be sold to the public so hard. No one in 1999 was going, "Guys. Cell phone? It's coming, whether we like it or not. I think it's important, FOR WOMEN ESPECIALLY, to learn about cell phone. So that we're not left behind!!"
Octavia E. Butler said, “Never let pride or laziness prevent you from learning, improving your work, changing its direction when necessary. Persistence is essential to any writer—the persistence to finish your work, to keep writing in spite of rejection, to keep reading, writing, submitting work.”
People will die in the US from the war in Iran from not feeding themselves or paying for medicine because of gas prices. Check on your rural neighbors and bring them grocery gift cards and offer to carpool to the grocery with them.
“The most dangerous threat to Black studies right now is not coming from the federal government… It is coming from institutions that have decided, in advance, that accommodation is the same thing as survival.”
Lit Hub@literaryhub.bsky.social · 7mo ago“A new report in the Chronicle of Higher Education shows how Black Studies departments around the country have been kneecapped by a multi-pronged conservative strategy to halt the study of race at American schools.”
Artist in residence on each of the Washington State ferries
Starting January 1st, California will mandate that any use of AI-altered real estate photos in listings be disclosed, and that a link to the unaltered image be included. It will be a criminal offense to fail to make this disclosure.
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This has not gotten much attention, but it should. Virginia under Youngkin returned to an insanely harsh system where people convicted of any felony lose their voting rights FOR LIFE. Dems' win this week mean they'll get to advance a constitutional amendment to end lifetime disenfranchisement.
The LA chefs and shops delivering food to immigrants scared to go out: ‘I know how to feed people’ After ICE’s infiltration of LA, the community is rallying to provide essentials for survival for those forced to stay home www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
The LA chefs and shops delivering food to immigrants scared to go out: ‘I know how to feed people’
After Ice’s infiltration of LA, the community is rallying to provide essentials for survival for those forced to stay home
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Do you want lower rates of "crime"? Do you want increased childhood development and well-being? Do you want lower rates of homelessness? Do you want to reduce overdose deaths? Do you want these things cheaper than ever? Then give people housing, food, schooling, medicine, and support, for free.
Crazy how long this conversation has been going on
Finally. This place in the summer is wildly crowded and this will increase safety.
Gordon Padelford@gordonofseattle.bsky.social · last yr.Let’s goooooooo! Thank you to everyone who has advocated publicly or behind the scenes over the years to pedestrianize Pike Place! This is an enormous step forward.
I hope seeing Kilmar Abrego Garcia alive will convince some of you to stop preemptively declaring people dead. I know it comes from a place of fear, but cynicism and pessimism can demobilize people and lead folks to give up before a fight is lost. Let's not seed that attitude.