Boots discourse? Yeah I can't wait til summer ends and it's cool enough to wear my boots again. Hot weather take.
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Full-time student of Japanese language; sometimes translator for hire. Dale Cooper's imaginary girlfriend; electronic music nerd. Land back. ACAB includes SWERFs and TERFs. Why TF was Link banned again? AuDHD. She/her/彼女
morning mad libs: BrooklynVegan has been killed by Veeps, a company cofounded by Good Charlotte's Benji Madden, who - incredibly - has a full back tattoo of Benjamin Franklin
The important thing to know about boots is that Dr. Martens was bought by a private equity firm a while back, the boots are now garbage in terms of construction quality, but Solovair set up to make similar boots on the old equipment in the old factory and their versions are much better quality.
Will Wilkinson@wlknsn.xyz · 57m agoMy take on boots discourse is that we face a lemons problem with many consumer goods, given the acquisition of many storied brands by companies aggressively milking accumulated brand equity for higher profits, such that price and reputation for durability does not reliably predict higher roi.
New math New math It won’t do you a bit of good to review math …
Greg Martin 🇵🇸@yablonowitz.bsky.social · 13m agoI’m surprised more people aren’t bringing up the poorly phrased line re: the Sirens: “What you most want is what you most can’t have. And what you most can’t have is what you once had but lost.” There are things you can’t have but then there is the thing you MOST can’t have!
Before anti-anxiety meds: maybe I need a gun for when society collapses After anti-anxiety meds: maybe I need to learn to sew for when society collapses
It's baby skunk season! Remember, it's totally legal to snatch one and keep it as your pet as long as you don't tell anyone or get caught!
My friend told me her 10 yo daughter is growing out her hair after a teacher at school barred her from entering the girl’s bathroom last year because of her short hair. Can you believe this shit? And the school never apologized for this act of bullying.
El-Sayed: "My commitment to Jewish safety is the same commitment that I have to the safety of my own daughters. Because if there is one question of political philosophy that ought to animate us all, it's what would we do if we treated all our kids like they were all of our kids?"
The state and local results in purple and red regions last night is eye opening. NO votes winning for data centers, eliminating state income tax, direct election of state Supreme Court justices.
Taniel@taniel.bsky.social · 9h agoBig tax results out of Missouri tonight: Voters statewide rejected by an huge margin a GOP ballot measure to phase out the income tax. They also renewed a sales tax to keep state parks free. And Kansas City approved a package of $1.7 billion of bonds for infrastracture.
petty, maybe, but it always gets me, a person with adhd and aphantasia that would never use ai, when people claim adhd and aphantasia is the reason they *need* these in their life no, you're just a mark
Jean Cabot@prairiehamster.bsky.social · 38m agoIn a videogame roleplay server I'm in they just banned AI and this person flipped out, saying that because of her ADHD she needed it to manage her whole life and it turned out she had even been making her *tiny* game posts with it too! Then she called it her friend. Terrifying shit. She ragequit
Google - a thrice-convicted monopolist - is the gateway to the internet, with more than a 90% search market share that it attained by buying out all its competitors and bribing Apple more than $20b/year not to start a rival search engine: www.democracynow.org/2024/8/6/goo... 3/
Google Is a Monopoly: Judge Rules Against Tech Giant in Landmark Antitrust Case
In the biggest antitrust case in decades, a federal judge ruled Monday that Google illegally maintains a monopoly over the online search industry, using its market dominance to shut out competitors an...
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The reason this nonsense is being reported today is that SpaceX has a bunch of stock being unlocked for sale tomorrow, and the price has been...cratering
FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social · 2h ago$SPCX - SPACEX PLANS MOON FACTORIES POWERED BY HUMANOID ROBOTS
New: Police in Wisconsin used Flock to create a pretext to search a man's car for weed. Their justification? He drove from Wisconsin to Michigan, a “known source state for marijuana as it is legal there,” and Flock showed he "travels to Michigan frequently." www.404media.co/cops-used-fl...
Cops Used Flock to Track a Man Across State Lines to Create Pretext to Search His Car for Weed
"The vehicle travels to Michigan frequently which is a known source state for marijuana as it is legal there," a probable cause justification reads.
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Kaden is running around in downtown Portland, literally running at people, while wearing a full facemask and gloves putting his hands on people. He seems to be targeting Black men with his harassment/evangelism campaign. Kaden doesn't take "no" for an answer. He's a scary, creepy dude.
SometimesPDX@sometimespdx.bsky.social · 2w agoThere's this white guy in dreads, Kaden Olsen, that dresses-up in cosplay warrior outfits and hangs-out downtown Portland, proselytizes, and gives out prophecies, trying to entrap people in his fundamentalist extremist Christian sect.
This is the most loser-coded image imaginable, big "villains in an '80s breakdancing movie" energy
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 56m agoJD Vance: "We don't want the next administration, whoever -- god forbid you're gonna have President El-Sayed in three years ... "
I actually had to play the clip. He really does respond with this mish mash non sequitur.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 37m agoBLITZER: Why is Israel, another country, your red line right now, rather than a domestic issue that impacts Americans' everyday lives? FETTERMAN: Yeah, absolutely. And I agree with a lot of Democrats too. I called trash Platner.
several studies that go into how fast/severe your brain atrophies even with short term use makes me think a lot of people will be severely fucked in the coming decades
Mike Bithell@mikebithell.bsky.social · 8h agoThe specific focus in this video on the way these tools get under your skin and train you to depend on them is an aspect I personally find existentially terrifying. youtu.be/TtvICev9sBE?...
This is the way. This is ALSO what "Vote blue no matter who" means.
Getting smoking out of public spaces, particularly restaurants. I remember 1986, and at that time, smoking was omnipresent. It was inescapable.
Constantine@ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 13h 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.
An analysis finds that New Mexico's measles outbreak cost $5.4 million last year. NM had 100 cases. AZ outbreak is more than 3x larger; Utah's is more than 7x larger. TX and SC are each 10x larger. Welcoming back measles is going to be very expensive. www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/...
Economic Impact of the 2025 New Mexico Measles Outbreak: Highlighting the Cost of Efforts to Prevent Future Outbreaks | Annals of Internal Medicine
Background: In 2025, the United States experienced its highest measles case count since 1992. In New Mexico, 100 confirmed measles cases (99 outbreak-related cases), including 1 death, occurred across...
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Another person conducting ICE abductions in New Jersey has been identified: Mike Smith of Warrington, PA, described by Jersey Counterinfo as “41 years, is married, is a homeowner, has two children, and is a Disney Adult.” He evidently is a U.S. Marshal: jerseycounterinfo.noblogs.org/nj-ice-agent...
"Time to go to the slop well!" *begins reeling up a bucket from the depths of hell, a bucket teeming and steaming with fresh hell-barf* "Fresh AI! Hot fresh AI here for you! High-tech future business right here! Bits and bytes of all types!"
AI can’t fix a shitty partner www.patreon.com/LyzLenz/post... @lyz.bsky.social links back to the Silicon Valley "an Uber for [Everything I Would Otherwise Expect a Woman to Do for Me] and put this with @katemanne.bsky.social 's on sycophant culture yesterday and I am tired
AI can’t fix a shitty partner | Men Yell at Me
Every year, before the school year starts, I take a full day to make sure all the sports, music, and academic calendars are properly put int
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We have higher rates of kidney and bladder problems compared to the general population, and historically rather than address this, medicine has chosen to either ignore it or blame our healthcare. Nope, turns out marginalization just destroys bodies. Quelle surprise.
Sandy Ernest Allen@sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 1h agoHere's my Cosmo piece about how segregated bathrooms have impacted my own health www.cosmopolitan.com/lifestyle/a6...