I mean, adjusted for inflation a plane ticket from New York to London in 1980 would cost about $4,500 dollars today. It's not that air travel has got worse. It's democratised. If you pay the 'old' price in modern money you basically get the same, if not better, experience than you did then.
Constantine@ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 15h agoFood, man. Food is so much better than it was in 1986. All of it. Poor-people food, restaurant food, fresh food, frozen food. Food is just a hell of a lot better.
Air quality. I grew up in the Los Angeles basin in the 70s and 80s and remember having to stay inside because the smog was so bad - Stage 2 smog alerts, they were called. Apparently they haven't had one of those since 1988. Haven't had a stage one smog alert since 2003.
Constantine@ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 15h agoFood, man. Food is so much better than it was in 1986. All of it. Poor-people food, restaurant food, fresh food, frozen food. Food is just a hell of a lot better.
The Ellison Bullshit machine CBS had to shovel their crap back from their LIES about Mamdani THEIR STENCH IS STRONG popular.info/p/update-cbs...
UPDATE: CBS News reverses course, airs story on 9/11 families supporting Mamdani
Last week, CBS News New York falsely reported that “thousands of 9/11 victims’ families are asking New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani not to attend this year’s solemn remembrance ceremony.” The articl...
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aww did someone get addicted to corruption and graft!!!!
The Wall Street Journal@wsj.com · 15h agoNew York City’s business elites are long accustomed to direct access to City Hall, where even Democratic mayors felt the need to court the city’s wealthiest and most influential corporate leaders. That access is getting shredded by Mayor Zohran Mamdani.
The Palestinian Prisoners' Media Office reports that imprisoned physician Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, the director of Gaza's Kamal Adwan Hospital, recently suffered multiple fractures after being brutally assaulted by Israeli prison guards at Rakevet Prison. Source: Quds news network
What our country is doing to kids is unconscionable.
The line is, "Of course people deserve a second chance, but their repentance has to be real, consistent and thorough-going, and it has to be reflected in a real change in their conduct, not just excuses."
Andy Burnham Accepter@jorisbinned.bsky.social · 5h agoHello I'm an idiot
Thanks for including me, @mlipsitt.bsky.social 💙 While children go without food, our government pays for gaudy golden statues. It's no wonder they believe they don't matter. They don't in the eyes of this corrupt regime. #ProudBlue #GoldenStatues #Corruption #GTS
Marcie Lipsitt@mlipsitt.bsky.social · 16h agoDay 10 of my Share button not working on Bluesky! How many millions of children in America & around the World see nothing but doors shut in their faces? When Will OUR Children Be the Priority? No Child Asks to be Born! PLEASE Care About Our Children! youtu.be/dAkbtvmsETw?... bsky.app/profile/did:...
NEW: After our tests showed many Omaha yards still contain toxic lead after remediation, the city’s response to residents has been inconsistent. Some received additional testing and cleanup, while others were denied. with @flatwaterfreep.bsky.social
Lead Contamination Is Still a Problem in Omaha. Why Is the City Cleaning Up Some Yards and Not Others?
After our tests showed many yards still contain toxic lead after remediation, the city’s response to residents has been inconsistent. Some received additional testing and cleanup, while others were de...
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Daaaamn. “AI is the asbestos we're shovelling into the walls of our technological society. Our descendants will spend generations digging it out again, and the longer the bubble goes on without popping, the longer it will take to repair the damage." www.thenerve.news/p/cory-docto...
Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying
It has become impossible to tell managers mesmerised by artificial intelligence that the tools are not, in fact, helpful. So employees just play along with the fiction to keep their jobs, writes our t...
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the funny thing about people in the western world being angry at sikhs for taking all the trucking jobs is that people in India are also angry with them for taking all the trucking jobs. It's not you. It's what we do. We are the Truck Guys.
Lot of cis people still dont see trans people being forced out of public spaces as segregation and i urge them to wake the fuck up and read a history book as well as a dictionary Its *literally* segregation If you think even saying it is bad, you should be angry its actually happening
While the gen-ai bros are a cult, the worsening of Google is not due to the introduction of llm per se (paradoxically llm could actually improve search), but by a conscious decision: more time you spend in a search more ads they can serve you www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-...
The Man Who Killed Google Search
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It's OK for criminal ex-neo Nazis to run your bins is a hell of a line.
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Hey @nytimes.com @washingtonpost.com the president had 300+ Capitol One accounts closed for money laundering. Seems like it should be news. Got anything?
You can/should read Emily Wilson's latest take on the Odyssey, but I'm logging on to convey my hairdresser's reaction. She was AGHAST that Nolan, with his million $ budget, gave Matt Damon ONLY 6 hair extensions. As a result, his hair did not blow around properly, & that ruined the film for her.
adding to the list of acceptable critiques
Deidre Lynch@drbibliomane.bsky.social · 20h agoYou can/should read Emily Wilson's latest take on the Odyssey, but I'm logging on to convey my hairdresser's reaction. She was AGHAST that Nolan, with his million $ budget, gave Matt Damon ONLY 6 hair extensions. As a result, his hair did not blow around properly, & that ruined the film for her.
It's fun to be reminded that even if you supported Kamala in 2024, her stupid fans will backstab you anyway. There is no value in ever bending the knee to them.
Delta Nupe@itsnotuitsme1911.bsky.social · 9h agoEl-Sayed won. I’m urging Black Detroiters to STAY HOME and be “uncommitted’ like El-Sayed was for Kamala Harris during the general election. Dearborn voted for TRUMP instead of the Black Lady. I’m encouraging Black Detroit to vote for Jill Stein or Trump , like the Arabs in Dearborn did in 24!
@paulduane.bsky.social's Barbaric Genius, a film about John Healy - the vagrant turned memoirist turned international chess whizz - is one of my favourite documentaries of all time. It's having a rare full screening at the IFI in Dublin on Monday 17th August. You should go!! ifi.ie/film/from-th...
FROM THE VAULTS: BARBARIC GENIUS + Q&A - Irish Film Institute
SCREENING MONDAY 17th AUGUST Paul Duane’s intimate portrait charts the unpredictable life of John Healy – award-winning author, internationally distinguished chess player and erstwhile alcoholic vagra...
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Its maddening that so many people cannot join the dots to see the swastika forming over the UK. Rises in hate crime are across the board because hate is being weaponised to exploit us. Trans segregation is inextricable from this. Its all the same fascism. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
NHS radiographers report rise in overt racist abuse by patients
Survey reveals medics were called ‘monkeys’ and ‘dirty foreigners’, and patients refused to be seen by black or Asian staff
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She should be held to account for her rigged prescription of PA & the ridiculous consequences on our prison system. We are seeing 100s of places being taken up by pensioners who were waving cardboard, on remand & being convicted of terrorism because of her actions while murderers are being released.
I cannot emphasize how much of a non-issue this is. I use the women's. Doctors ask when my last period was. Airport security looks back up at me when I hand them my passport. I have navigated life smoothly as a woman for years, and I am only endangered by the ideological fixations on denying that.
Rose Schmits@roseschmits.bsky.social · 9h agoAnyway i will just continue using the women’s toilet cause I am a woman and over my dead body will you deny who i am
🚨We have written to all MP's expressing our anger at the government. Our rights WILL be restored. Our voices WILL be heard. We will continue to fight 🏳️⚧️✊
Wanted to find out how much more obscure of a columnist/author she is than Séamas, and...
First, a note on Husted. He is leaning into being a champion for health care. But while he has worked diligently to protect and support the wealthy, his record on health care costs for everyday Americans is… not that. tiffinohio.net/posts/jon-hu...
Jon Husted’s record at odds with new tone on ACA subsidies
Republican Sen. Jon Husted is trying to reinvent himself on health care just as more than half a million Ohioans brace for steep premium hikes that health-policy analysts warn were made more likely by...
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