My taxes pay for a social security system it is rapidly looking like I will never be able to draw on. My taxes pay for M1 Abrams I will never be able to drive. They pay the salaries of congressional representatives that don't even give me the time of day. I would prefer a grocery store.

USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 3d ago

Opinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.

It'll also be a very good thing to remind the Democratic Party why it is so often said that the southern black vote is the base of the party. Governor's mansions and state senate seats across the south are also up for grabs if this momentum continues.

Christopher Webb@cwebbonline.com · 4d ago

STAY TUNED ON THIS Republicans may have poked the bear. They used gerrymandering to weaken Black voting power. Instead, new data suggests they helped drive higher Black voter turnout across parts of the South. 1/2

The AI overlords can pry the em dash from my cold dead hands—I’m not giving it up!

Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan on X)@markanthonyneal.bsky.social · 5d ago

More Typos, Fewer Em Dashes: Writers Are Creating an Anti-AI ‘Literary Counterculture’ Novelists, journalists, and power LinkedIn posters are embracing first-person narratives and idiosyncrasies to avoid being mistaken for chatbots. www.wired.com/story/more-t...

Tell me you understand nothing about data centers and the IT industry without telling me that. Data centers create maybe 10 local jobs. Construction is a travelling contract crew, most systems management is remote, the HVAC and technical stuff is also traveling contractors. Help desk is offshore

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 6d ago

Hassett: "Data centers are very good for towns bc they create so many jobs & bring people in with high incomes that can buy houses & stuff like that. So if you take a sleepy town that hasn't seen much in the last 30 years & put a data center there, there are gonna be a bunch of happy residents."

Hassett: "Data centers are very good for towns bc they create so many jobs & bring people in with high incomes that can buy houses & stuff like that. So if you take a sleepy town that hasn't seen much in the last 30 years & put a data center there, there are gonna be a bunch of happy residents."

We have lost to the concept of arson, time to burn down New York.

Ketan Joshi@ketanjoshi.co · last wk.

It is putting it mildly to describe these people as a death cult.

Their writers are welcome to swap heads with me for a week and figure out.

Scott Bryan@scottygb.bsky.social · last wk.

“While traits of ADHD undeniably exist – the question is why they exist. Is ADHD actually a neurodevelopmental disorder? Do people with ADHD have differently wired brains? Or does our world – with…processed food, and regimented education – serve as the catalyst for certain…patterns of behaviour?”

www.techspot.com/news/113236-... @legaleagle.tv don't know if this crossed your path yet but I'm really interested in where duress codes, data destruction features, and port of entry stops overlap with the 1st, 4th, and 5th.

US prosecutors charge Atlanta man after GrapheneOS phone wipes itself during airport search

The case centers on Tunick's use of GrapheneOS, an open-source operating system that works on Google Pixel phones and lets users enter a passcode to wipe a...

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hire me to teach your kid how to write and they'll be using an em-dash—my favorite punctuation symbol—in fifth grade

Seth Trueger@mdaware.org · 2w ago

oh come on

I'm gonna go out on a limb here as somebody who has to regularly share the road with vehicles: Traffic flow is a myth. Drive the goddamn speed limit and stop jeopardizing my safety so you can get to your destination a couple of minutes faster.

Electrek@electrek.co · 2w ago

Tesla ‘Full Self-Driving’ got me a speeding ticket, and Tesla killed the fix

I do not like this gen AI I do not like what it implies I do not want it in my art I do not think it makes you smart I do not want it in my games I do not like its goals and aims I do not want it in my books I do not like the way it looks I do not like it, I don't care I do not want it anywhere

Once again tapping the sign that says that there are single digit trans perpetrators of mass shootings over the last decade. Not single digit percent, single digit flat. The homocide rate is likewise significantly lower than the national average or any other single demographic.

Alejandra Caraballo@esqueer.net · 2w ago

This MF is responsible for more deaths than there are trans people in the United States. He's putting up Hitler numbers. So maybe he should shut up before spouting lies like this.

I want to see a depiction of the Odyssey where this man is playing Odysseus and everybody else is genderbent. But like in the Greek style, where the character hasn't changed, it's just the person playing the character is not the gender of the character.

troyliss@troyliss.bsky.social · 3w ago

The only good thing to come out of the dipshit Odyssey discourse is that at one point I commented “if we’re worried about accuracy, then Jason Mantzoukas should be playing Odysseus,” and now I can’t get it out of my head 😄

I would like to inform infowars' parnet enforcement agencies that I am holed up in a cabin in the woods with a ham radio set broadcasting this on legal and licensed radio bands while following all required rules of amateur radio. Also I have a printed out image of Tim as a hostage.

InfoWars@realinfowars.bsky.social · 3w ago

Those who share this will be taken to jail with no court date set in the immediate future.

Makes me wonder how much power it uses to do that. And given this is Germany, how much of that power is natural gas / Polish coal generated. Its more than likely that this plant is a net negative and is just greenwashing.

David Ho@davidho.bsky.social · 3w ago

Wow, removing 150 tonnes of CO₂ per year out of thin air! That's a time machine that takes a year to bring us back to an atmosphere we had 0.1 second ago (i.e., less time than it took to read this post).

A lot of people getting the day they deserved between yesterday and today.

Gotta give the local cops the resources to violate my rights and then have to pay me a massive settlement over my opinion that the timing of his death is objectively funny and we are better off without the sponsor of genocide representing my state.

Parker Molloy@parkermolloy.com · 4w ago

I'm a bit curious why the FBI Director is saying that the FBI is "assisting local authorities and has made every necessary resource available" about Lindsey Graham's death?

Those potatoes and that corn dog look and sound amazing. I know you don't typically eat that entire thing when you go because you share it with friends who all want to try the crazy food, but I would eat those potatoes on my own. I can already tell they are going to be amazing.

Owen Dennis: Infinity Train/Among Us Show creator@owendennis.com · 4w ago

TODAY IS THE DAY! Every year for my entire life I've looked forward to the day the new Minnesota State Fair foods get announced, and it's TODAY! I don't even get to go to the state fair anymore because I live so far away, but I still look forward to this announcement: www.mnstatefair.org/new/food

TODAY IS THE DAY! Every year for my entire life I've looked forward to the day the new Minnesota State Fair foods get announced, and it's TODAY! I don't even get to go to the state fair anymore because I live so far away, but I still look forward to this announcement: www.mnstatefair.org/new/food

On my way, Clacton.

Our refrigerator and freezer have been running off of our car for 36 hrs now. That used 17% of the battery. It's good for a couple more days before it could use a recharge, should we still be out. EVs are more than mobility. They are also resilience.

I wonder if Greg can understand how bovine animals like Buffalo protect thier young when threatened? They form a circle of adults around the calves and yearlings. When you get a vaccine, you are like an adult buffalo. Your vaccinatted immune system prevents the virus from getting to others.

Media Matters for America@mmfa.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Greg Gutfeld says he doesn't understand how vaccines work as “a community preventative thing”

The people who say that women can never compete with men are idiots. They also seem to ignore a significant amount of literature that consistently shows that women have an edge on men in endurance activities, especially water-related ones.

Alejandra Caraballo@esqueer.net · last mo.

We're constantly told that women can never compete with men and yet Kelsey Pfendler is about to set the record for the fastest solo row from California to Hawaii, beating the men's record by a full week. What an incredible feat of athleticism, endurance, and grit.

I think Lord Collins should start his global mission championing LGBT+ rights by talking to the regressive government of this little known nation called the UK.

New UK Envoy to champion LGBT+ rights globally

New UK envoy Lord Collins will champion LGBT+ rights globally, strengthening partnerships to tackle discrimination, violence and persecution.

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The first thing I want to see in November is an expansion of the House. Expanding the House to ensure that each representative only represents at most 400k would make the house more resistant to gerrymandering and allow more people to engage with the systems that govern thier lives.

I can’t top this

Elite Grifters@elitegrifters.bsky.social · last mo.

Kat Abughazaleh, who claims to be poor, posted yesterday about buying fast-casual shrimp twice in a day.

TeamSpeak did it first and they did it with a plugin. It was better. And then they killed the TeamSpeak 3 app and none of that works anymore.

Culture Crave 🍿@culturecrave.co · last mo.

Discord is testing a new 'Living Room' voice channel layout Users will be able to switch to a view which displays everyone in a different relaxed seat

Do you think if we elect enough DSA members in place of democratic institution members, the U.S. might win a World Cup? I mean, it's worked for a bunch of the cities that have elected DSA members, so... it's worth a shot. And as a happy accident we will get rid of the enablers not fighting for us.

Jaime Harrison@jaimeharrison.bsky.social · last mo.

I say this with no ill will or animosity: if you hate the Democratic Party, then please don’t run for our nomination. Don’t use our resources. Don’t rely on our volunteers. Don’t use our infrastructure. Don’t ask Democrats to invest their time, money, and energy in your campaign.

I for one, welcome the new DSA flavored Democratic Party