gretared
@gretared.bsky.social
Indie designer, author, artist, I love music
To-do list for SD Mayor Pete and DSD Uncle Frank (and the transition team): - at 1201 rip down the stupid fucking sign, regardless of whether Congress has officially changed the name (not looking good for the 27 NDAA lol) - at 1202 issue orders to rename all the confederate bases back*
Have we lost the transitive property?! Dems were trying to shut his businesses down for months in the streets. Yes ffs, strip this man of everything and send him to South Africa. Sorry, South Africa.
David Burbach 🇺🇸@dburbach.bsky.social · 13h agoFwiw, there's some evidence cutting Musk's govt contracts would be popular with Democrats' voters (and Independents). Pilot question of mine (Verasight) that is hardly the final word, but the effect wasn't exactly subtle.
Soccer mom sketching at the bar watching bball while child does futbol training
The host snuck some people into boatober but I persevered on day 21
A pair of horned owls have been hooting at each other every evening for a week or so. I hella ❤️ Oakland.
It’s wild how Russiagate and Epsteingate were both proven and it just didn’t matter.
Faeelin@faeelin.bsky.social · 2d ago“In the interim, Trump’s actions toward Russia and Ukraine have mystified lawmakers on both sides of the aisle.” Has it? Has it really?
I wanna do the “what’s a true/obscure fact about movies” thing but for tech. Apple made the screenshot feature in iOS because they needed an easy way to show work in progress.
Again, I know I'm not supposed to make fun of people's appearance but even my zoomer/alpha kids would think this look is no bueno
David Roberts@volts.wtf · 2d agoNo surprise here.
For the “you can’t turn an aircraft carrier around just like that!” crowd: m.youtube.com/watch?v=TN7B...
HIGH SPEED MANEUVERS! US Nimitz-class SUPERCARRIER in a series of EXTREME RUDDER TESTS!
YouTube video by Ultimate Military Channel
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FactPost@factpostnews.bsky.social · 2d agoJD Vance on the economy: "You don't turn the Titanic around overnight"
I got 3h sleep on Saturday, but I got 10h last night and I am a new person.
I cannot wait for breathless think pieces about how the right has lost everything by not being anti-Israel enough
Pop Base@popbase.tv · 4d agoDonald Trump endorses Benjamin Netanyahu for re-election as Prime Minister of Israel.
I am coming up on 24h awake taking all the things except ambien. I have no ambien. What’s the most brain dead thing I can watch?
Under conditions of fascism, "polarization" is not bad. It is, in fact, imperative, lest government of the people, for the people, and by the people, not perish from this earth.
Jay Van Bavel, PhD@jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 5d agoCollective deliberation leads to large, reductons in affective polarization Deliberation requires that people use good information to “weigh” competing arguments through civil and diverse discussion The impact was strongest among the most extreme www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
I’m in the Bay, my bff is in NYC and we’ve been exchanging messages all summer: “it’s hot now” “oh it finally cooled off” and I wonder if AI found a way for us to trade weather.
My teenage children, who have never set foot in NYC, go around saying "Help me, Mamdani!" whenever anything goes wrong and/or they can't figure out their homework, just to give everybody a sense of the scale of this man's presence in the culture lol
First design job, 1 week. I told them I didn’t know Director but wanted to learn. On Friday they told me I was fired because I didn’t know the tool. 🤷♀️
Better Things Are Possible@internethippo.bsky.social · 6d agoIn honor of the fired lady tell me about your shortest job tenure. I worked at a candy store for less than 2 weeks when I was like 16
A warehouse, like 25 vintage cars, and two mechanics to take care of them.
Peter@notalawyer.bsky.social · 6d agoquestion for the audience: if you were ultra rich (let’s say $25M), what completely frivolous thing are you buying?
Chick-fil-A Employee Explains No Sauce
Alt: Chick-fil-A Employee making a, girl wtf face
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Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 6d agoTrump: "Jon Ossoff has spent more money on makeup -- and by the way I wear very little and I do it myself. Yaaaaaaaaaaahhhh. Because if you don't put a little on, you look a little bit like a dead person. I don't want to look that way. But he goes full bore."
