mjfrombuffalo
@mjfrombuffalo.bsky.social
Cats, social welfare policy, child welfare, advocacy, social work, bad puns, and random things that tickle my fancy. #BillsMafia
Hot tip if you don't care to wait in the crop art line, the quilts on a stick are small but mighty as well
This is my favorite pic of Milo Yiannopoulos because it shows what an annoying twat (appropriately, in the British sense of the word) he is.
August 28th is one of the pivotal days in Black history that one can miss in a climate of erasure.... But im here to offer a few examples on the significance of this date. So let's get to it 🧵
Even a blind squirrel finds a nut on occasion.
Thomas HD@degolierthomas.bsky.social · yesterdaywhat?????
TL;DR: Missouri slashed state funding for the Imagination Library by $4 million, Indiana eliminated its $4 million matching funding, and Maine ended the program due to a lack of funding (Janet Mills, are you kidding me?) OTOH It costs Trump $13.1 million to fix the National Mall reflecting pool.
Dave Jorgenson@davejorgenson.bsky.social · 2d agoAre states really cutting Dolly Parton’s reading program?
This is a pattern, folks. Public health money being used for policing. During COVID a lot of cities spent their COVID relief money to by drones, robots, and surveillance cameras claiming they could be used to do social distancing or they were being used to fight COVID-related crime spikes.
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 2d ago“A review of meeting minutes, local reporting, state opioid expenditure disclosures, and invoices obtained via public records requests reveals that at least twelve sheriffs’ offices and police departments have since 2024 spent their opioid funds on Flock cameras.”
A friend posted about another friend who wrote a children's book. Followed the link to Amazon, interested in seeing what she wrote. She didn't write a book. She wrote a prompt or two, but she didn't write a book.
When this is over ice agents that did shit like this need to be tried and then forced to march through the streets so we can throw rotten vegetables at them and yell shame
Chris Murphy@chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 3d agoThis morning in Danbury, ICE was arresting parents at school bus stops. But it’s more sinister. ICE waited until the kids were on the bus so when they are dropped off at the end of the day, they are alone, scared to death they can’t find their parents. I’m heading to Danbury.
What Dolly taught us is that it is in fact possible to be wealthy beyond your wildest dreams of avarice but still be a fundamentally good person with a strong moral compass, and the only reason more rich people aren't like that is because they don't want to be.
JKR had her chance at a future where she would be remembered forever for getting kids to fall in love with reading, and instead she will be remembered as a stochastic terrorist on the wrong side of one of 21st century history’s foremost civil rights battles, and I do think that’s somewhat sinking in
“by a celebrity 💅” fuck her god she’s SO MAD someone else besides her is being lauded as the patron saint of child literacy. you had your chance and blew it, lady! that’s not who you are anymore! gotta force HBO to reboot your movies just to feel something smh
@cancelled-by-elon.bsky.social · 4d agoHow the BBC is reporting Dolly Parton's passing.
this meme has been haunting my thoughts, unwanted and unbidden, all week
Nevada's cattle ranchers need a beef-related health scare like they each need a hole in their heads. Trump's surprise importation of 300,000 tons of discount mystery meat from unknown origins makes one much more likely. My latest for @thenvindy.com:
OPINION: Trump's gray-market beef imports threaten Nevada's ranches — and your health - The Nevada Independent
OPINION: Trump’s gray-market beef imports threaten Nevada’s ranches — and your health. Read more at The Nevada Independent.
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These numbers are deranged. The entire city of Chicago uses an average of 3.5 GW. If you wanted to generate all this data center power with nukes, you would need something like 100 large new nuclear power stations.
molly taft@mollytaft.com · 5d agoNEW: gas power in development in the US explicitly for data centers have nearly doubled in less than a year, soaring from 97GW at the end of 2025 to more than 189GW mid-2026, according to shocking new figures from @globalenergymon.bsky.social that's up from just 4 GW in 2024:
Ozymandias shoulda made two monuments so he could have told people to look upon his works ye mighty and de spare
This is the letter kids got at the end of Dolly’s Imagination Library. I defy you to read this and not cry.
The Trump-installed board that runs the Kennedy Center told a federal judge the building will have to be torn down unless President Donald Trump's name goes on it.
Trump board threatens to destroy 'unsafe' Kennedy Center in apocalyptic court filing
The Trump-installed board that runs the Kennedy Center told a federal judge the building will have to be torn down unless President Donald Trump's name goes on it.Justice Department lawyers made the argument for Trump on Monday in a court filing before U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper. It oppo...
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Can a DMV area reporter please call me on Signal ASAP at gbrockell.44 ?Our PG County kids got out of school almost four hours ago and the bus still hasn’t dropped them off. It stopped moving on GPS an hour ago, going the wrong way and then the app just crashes now. Where are our kids?!
this is one of my favorite visual jokes of all time. i think about it several times a week.
Man, if you ever want to feel wise, clever, and well informed, watch depositions of cops on youtube Q: "Why did you arrest her?" A: "She was trying to stop officers from going into her apartment." Q: "Did you have a warrant? A: "No." Q: "Was there some kind of emergency happening in the apartment?"
