Again, the civil rights era didn't end. You are still in it. Black Americans still don't have equal access to the vote. It's 2026.
Mekka Okereke@mekka.mekka-tech.com · 3mo agoAnd as I've said before, the civil rights era didn't end. You are still in it. If the civil rights era had ended, Black people would have equal rights, and civil rights leaders would have gone home. Instead, white people just assassinated all of the Black civil rights leaders and declared it over🤷🏿♂️
Really would have hit harder if there had been “senator” and “presidency” slotted in around the aircraft carriers and football stadiums
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As a moderate Democrat my only fear is that Republicans are going to have a lot of ammo to hammer these DSA candidates, which I am also going to do.
Luke O'Neil@lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 4mo agoWith Chevalier Republicans finally have a Democrat they can paint as an extremist.
Calling the RFK Jr diarrhea strain “MAHA Blast” since it has now evidently infiltrated Taco Bell
demand more of your working class heroes than whiteness, a beard, and a plaid shirt
googled "redis guy vs kyle distributed systems" and friends, some glimmer of the internet we once new abides
can’t believe a narcissist is being so publicly humiliated by a reflecting pool
Those who cannot remember Fetterman are doomed to Platner. I don't get this shit.
This is a common misconception, but in US political jargon, “hindsight is 20/20“ means “leftists predicted this outcome at the time, but I find them personally annoying so I didn’t listen, and it’s actually their fault that I didn’t listen”. see also: climate change, every war ever, etc
I think with age, the primary symptom of being tired and stressed is increased recall of all the pun names for stores I've brainstormed. Today I remembered a hypothetical curtain fixture store called Finial Fantasy
Lmao any time this administration puts together an "oversight" committee, or "brings together executives and government officials" you can tell they just figured out how to shake down the thing being overseen.
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No jump scare like AWS changing their UI. 99% sure I've been phished every time.
re: that bell curve post. A good chunk of adulthood has been trying to unwind my conservative/protestant/success-theology-adjacent upbringing.
really does feel like we have a bunch of commentators who would like to just say “the bell curve was right”
How it feels to make a joke with the boys about how of course an orange man hates the pope
Gonna bump this again with some commentary. This is the same robotics organization (www.firstinspires.org) my kids are in. It has been an unbelievably positive experience for them. It offers the best aspects of team sports, in a structure that promotes collaboration and knowledge sharing.
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whitney pastorek@whittlz.bsky.social · 7mo agoHey Bluesky there’s an incredible high school robotics team in Nashville that qualified for the world championships but they can’t afford to get there. Can y’all help me step up for them? $10, $20 … Anything helps! Competition is at the end of the month so we gotta hustle:
Hey Bluesky there’s an incredible high school robotics team in Nashville that qualified for the world championships but they can’t afford to get there. Can y’all help me step up for them? $10, $20 … Anything helps! Competition is at the end of the month so we gotta hustle:
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I grew up working in small orchard country (mostly, also rice). Most places were family owned, "small business". But they hired armies of seasonal labor to actually do the harvesting, and the fact that the management class is a "family" doesn't change the fact that they're capital exploiting labor.
horse shoe crab programmer@myrrlyn.net · 7mo agowe have got to stop allowing people to think of farmers as Big Gardeners. they’re not. farms are factories — and i don’t just mean factory-farms but those too — and need to be thought of and regulated as such
we have got to stop allowing people to think of farmers as Big Gardeners. they’re not. farms are factories — and i don’t just mean factory-farms but those too — and need to be thought of and regulated as such
Jorts (and Jean)@jortsthecat.bsky.social · 7mo agoI just watched a video of Katie Porter saying farm workers getting overtime pay is a regulation that “doesn’t make sense”
If someone repeatedly takes advantage of young women working under him in their first jobs, chances are he’s a rapist. What people knew is a lot more than just being a cheating sleaze. They knew was repeatedly exploiting a power differential.
ghost malone ergo propter bones@proptermalone.bsky.social · 7mo agomy sense is that Everybody Knew that he was a cheating sleaze but Everybody Definitely Did Not Know that he was a serial rapist
"i could probably pilot a ship through the straight of hormuz" -next big thing 80% of men secretly believe about themselves
No news organization has gotten more out of a single article than The Onion has with this, from 2003. theonion.com/this-war-wil...
This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. No It Won’t
George W. Bush may think that a war against Iraq is the solution to our problems, but the reality is, it will only serve to create far more.
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things every single republican president of your lifetime has done - started a war in the middle east - completely destroyed the economy
The more I hear about the Block layoffs, the more gross it all is. Not just a gross action, but managed gortesquely. Having dealt with Jack at Twitter, he has been playing dress up trying to ape visionaries for 20 years, with a strong dash of Chance the Gardner.
Signing up for a half-Thermopylae (me and 150 dipshits plus retainers are going to carry a bunch of weapons on a narrow trail and try to die slowly)
I fully realize I'm in a privileged position wrt my employment, but I can't imagine continuing to work for a company whose leadership pulls this. sf.gazetteer.co/marc-benioff...
Marc Benioff makes ‘cruel’ ICE jokes at Salesforce event
The Salesforce CEO joked about ICE agents being at a company gathering in Las Vegas
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