John
@jcasey.bsky.social
Not the hero of the story, not a main character, just that guy in a Roland Emmerich film who looks up.
Satan worshippers don't like it when you point out that they worship Satan (or Moloch, or the golden calf, etc)
Jack Jenkins@jackjenkins.me · 10h agoAs of last night, there are now *7* pastors, former pastors and seminarians who've become Democratic nominees running for Congress. Some have already won safe Dem seats, and several are in hotly contested races. In multiple cases, the GOP has attacked their faith. religionnews.com/2026/08/04/p...
I would like to propose the Taco Bell Principle When a person/institution Did A Problem, & IMMEDIATELY fesses up & takes proactive steps to solve it That's exactly what we want them to do? So how bout we let them live ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Sarah Taber@sarahtaber.bsky.social · 3w agoA quick word on Taco Bell: That's where we found the suspected lettuce, and it's not bc Taco Bell is gross. It's bc Taco Bell is REALLY GOOD at tracing product! Keeping track of exactly where they got their ingredients, & exactly what restaurants each shipment of ingredients went to!
Like the most obvious way this manifests isn't just housing, it's clothing in general. Historically clothing was often very expensive, which meant non-durable clothing was a serious and constant money pit. People would do violence over damaged or lost clothes because it was a big deal!
Same vibes. Nazi Germany prioritized using limited railway resources to transporting Jews to concentration camps over transporting military equipment and troops to battlefields bsky.app/profile/greg...
Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social · 2d agoDon't miss this vile story: MAGA is raging at DHS chief Markwayne Mullin for admitting migrant farmworkers can beneft our economy. This means his devotion to ethnic cleansing is in doubt. He must be excommunicated! I wrote about the collapse of MAGA mythology here: newrepublic.com/article/2138...
Don't miss this vile story: MAGA is raging at DHS chief Markwayne Mullin for admitting migrant farmworkers can beneft our economy. This means his devotion to ethnic cleansing is in doubt. He must be excommunicated! I wrote about the collapse of MAGA mythology here: newrepublic.com/article/2138...
This says absolutely nothing of substance whatsoever about the thing it is ostensibly meant to address. "I've voted for people of both parties" good for you bro so have many Trumpists, how about you address the fact that you guys were literally leveraging your personal relationship with Trump
FDR literally had the president of Montgomery Ward arrested and the company seized for not negotiating with his workers
tbh i think covid analogies are not really comparable because covid should be viewed as the federal executive actively abdicating its role in uh executing policy. A serious wartime government would just arrest your ass
Reconstructionist@unavaleable.bsky.social · 4mo agoCan you imagine how people would respond to rationing literally anything
Today's Mechasaurus is a terrifying chimera of a sea spider, a dinosaur, and a Saiyan. I think there was something in Getter Robo G with that armor design too.
Massachusetts farm installs 832 solar panels above berry fields, and the berries grown underneath turned out sweeter and juicier and could change the future of American farming - The Economic Times share.google/GDGqQBgisqhG...
Massachusetts farm installs 832 solar panels above berry fields, and the berries grown underneath turned out sweeter and juicier and could change the future of American farming
A Massachusetts farm is integrating solar panels above berry fields. This agrivoltaics project generates electricity while shading the crops. The elevated panels create a cooler microclimate, retain...
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The richest person in the world, an avowed white supremacist, today again posted "the next step is getting rid of 'source code' entirely and just making an efficient binary directly with AI" because he has no idea how anything works, not even the basics of industries he is in.
Like I know this site needs to pretend their was some terrible material suffering going on under Obama in 2015 that could only be solved by voting for Trump but no "voters were bored and thought it'd be funny" is what actually happened.
MAHAs are MAHAs because they are individualists who believe that people without health insurance deserve to go without.
Politics is about building coalitions. A coalition with lab-leak boosting gun nut conspiracist Tom Massie shook loose the Epstein files. So, meet with whoever unless they're literal Nazis. But even so, MAHA activists are not to be trusted.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez@ocasio-cortez.house.gov · 2d agoThere is pervasive corruption across our healthcare and agricultural systems that defy party lines. I meet with MAHA activists because a lot of their concerns are bipartisan issues that major corporations paint as partisan. The fight isn't left and right, it's top and bottom.
As a Religious Studies professor, this directly targets my livelihood in a way that makes a mockery of any supposed profession of concern the administration has ever expressed for me as a Jewish person on campus.
The New Republic@newrepublic.com · 2d agoPresident Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/aaAEu6v
it's genuinely fascinating how like, people don't get that social *and* normal housing are both in short supply
A law legalizing housing has ... led to a bunch of proposals for new housing. In Palo Alto, the car-brained NIMBYs are baffled & shocked. Oh noes, the "fabric of the neighborhood"!
New California law could ignite a surprising housing boom in Palo Alto
City officials didn't expect this flurry.
sfgate.com
and there we have it, a aesthetic problem dressed up as a class problem bsky.app/profile/wick...
Virginia lays groundwork to combine more solar with farming #energysky -- via Canary Media:
Virginia lays groundwork to combine more solar with farming
A new state law aims to spur agrivoltaics projects where crops or livestock thrive amid solar panels, as AI power demand booms and concerns about farmland…
canarymedia.com
This is really apparent when you think about vintage clothing and the fact the majority of surviving true vintage is either 1) workwear or 2) military surplus: because both types were designed to survive as long as possible!
XaiaX ̆̈ (🏳️🌈)@xaiax.net · 3d agoGiven that I remember people in the 80s saying stuff “now” is disposable crap, unlike what they “used to make”, and now people talk about how stuff made “back then” (the 80s) was meant to last, I think we are at least partly living through multiple iterations of survivorship bias.
Virtually all discourse re internal fighting within the Democratic Party is progressive versus centrist, and I think it's a counterfeit discourse, because that framing overlooks the fact that both take for granted the base as it exists in favor of chasing whiteness.
there is a strain of lefty discourse where you can’t come to any unflattering conclusions about the populace—those must be explained away by how they are being acted upon by capital—but I think you’ll understand things better if you understand capital can also exploit weaknesses it didn’t create
A caucus of violent, drunk ex-husbands controls three branches of government and both chambers of Congress.
The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 3d agoRep. Max Miller: "My former wife has claimed that during a custody exchange at my home that day, I assaulted her…If I had assaulted her, would she have offered to cook me dinner six days later?"
i once sat in my ambulance with a patient for 10 hours because there were no ER beds because there were no beds available anywhere in the hospital we ran through every O2 tank we had and the hospital was so low on O2 tanks that they couldn’t give us a new one
Gabriel Bosslet@gbosslet.bsky.social · 3d agoRFK Jr said these words today on national television "There were ICUs that were empty all over the country including in New York at the height (of the pandemic)" hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha You are a fucking idiot hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha <sobs silently>
It’s like inverted lent; “to proof my allegiance to you, my president/leader/tribe, I’ll forgo virtue for 40 days (indefinitely).”
From a historical perspective it's a genuinely strange state of affairs that the Church of England turns out to be too woke for much of the modern right. But really it just feels like: having a consistent moral code that demands taking Lessers and Outgroup seriously is impossible for populist right.
Parody Nigel Farage@parodypm.bsky.social · 3d agoMan who shagged his girlfriend behind his wife's back lectures the Archbishop of Canterbury on Christianity.
