some specific democrats suck and they suck in ways that are detrimental to issues that you personally care about you know how you solve that once we are past the primaries? you elect even more democrats so that their votes are less important joe manchin couldn’t have done as much damage as vote 52
Adobe AI promised it could take a PDF and turn it into a slide deck. That’s a use case I could embrace as I hate the task of turning a handout into slides. I gave it a one page document with headings under each of which were 4 bullets. It created a single slide with the PDF as an embedded image.
Reading The Talented Mr. Ripley while this debate about how things were in the old days is interesting both for the description of Tom's initial poverty and for the Greenleafs treating cold chicken in aspic as a fancy meal.
DSA-aligned Democrats are now the most pro-free-trade voting bloc in the United States, in an incredible turn of events www.theargumentmag.com/p/who-suppor...
REMINDER: A main argument against US aid to Ukraine is the US badly needed to husband missiles and air-defense for the possibility of war with China. Then the US used that and more on war with Iran. And the supposed China hawks said nothing, confirming that they were Russia sympathizers all along.
I wouldn't mind if Prince continued his way through the Lomax-Hay household by hooking up with Ste as well. I always thought he and Romeo had something under the surface that they should have explored. #Hollyoaks
The second Trump era has, if nothing else, been a good illustration of the idea that the people at the top echelons of society, in finance, law, higher education, politics, etc., are often the most credulous fools you can imagine.
Kevin Elliott@kjephd.bsky.social · yesterdayLook, they're not gonna stop doing it until it stops working
Bombshell new report out from my investigators this morning spanning our four year investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s financial records. This report shows exactly how Wall Street protected Epstein and enabled his sex trafficking for decades. Mega thread following with some key points:
Deutsche Bank, JPMorgan, BofA Enabled Epstein, Wyden Report Says
Democrat Ron Wyden cited nonpublic documents held by the US Treasury in a report that says banks delayed reporting suspicious financial transactions and calls for tougher anti-money-laundering rules, ...
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Absolutely unbelievable how solar power has taken off worldwide during the Hormuz oil crisis. You don't have to hand it to him, but Trump may have done more to finally kick off a global civilization of effete librul solar users than anyone else in the West
San Francisco cut its affordable-housing requirement from 15% to 5% because the city's own controller found the old rate made most projects unprofitable to build at all — so developers built nothing. missionlocal.org/2026/07/sf-i...
Just ONCE I'd like to get a spam text announcing holy war
Experts aren't always right. That's why I put my faith in morons who are never right
So I'd actually frame a more extreme version of the test phrase, "The Confederacy, as historically constituted, had no right to exist."
TIL that it my old work computer dying from a capacitor dying was not a normal thing but a temporary fluke of history:
Capacitor plague - Wikipedia
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Good Tsar, b.A.A.d Boyars@error52.bsky.social · 2d agoalso bear in mind because of a miscopied capacitor formula electronics from around 1999 to 2007 are actually generally much less reliable
In every human endeavour, repetition is how we figure out time/cost efficiencies. Same goes for housing.
Max Dubler 🏳️🌈@maxdubler.com · 2d agoThe only way we are going to solve California’s housing shortage is by having every city in the state “rubber stamp” unremarkable new apartment buildings and townhomes.
I could understand Dodger giving James the cold shoulder if he weren't comfortable living with actual gangster and murderer Warren Fox? #Hollyoaks
I wish Nana were here to tell Warren and everyone else that she remember he murdered Bart and that he's scum. #Hollyoaks
It's absolutely insane we've somehow let the Covid recriminations debate become like "why didn't we reopen in person schools before there was a vaccine" and not "why did none of the trump guys go to jail for stealing PPE from New York hospitals in March 2020"
I’m a defense attorney that specializes in white collar cases. Most of my clients are conservatives. And almost all of them are chock full of reasons why they’re different from everyone in the system. “I’m not a criminal.” “You stole $4 million.” “You know what I mean.” “Yup.”
Lisa Simpson’s wedding, which took place 15 years in the future at the time it aired, now takes place 16 years in the past. #TheSimpsons
Rich urbanites need to allow apartments to be built near them to lower rents and they need to allow themselves to be taxed more to fund services and housing if they want to eliminate homelessness. Both involve sharing (money/space/amenities), which the rich urbanite is loathe to do.
Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 4d agoThis is the exact problem, right here: people would rather make up a social justice warrior to get mad at than take a hard, honest look at the problem.
Not only did they absolutely beg for this, they made it so that “merit” was synonymous with being white so now you’re stuck with precisely the kind of moron who believes that. www.politico.com/news/magazin...
I don't remember the context of this, but I think this is what @christianed2.bsky.social wants to see more of.
A strong dissent from denial of rehearing by Judge Willett in McKesson - the case where the Fifth Circuit upheld liability for a Black Lives Matter leader when there is no evidence he had anything at all to do with a police officer's injury. 1/ www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub...
I do think a lot of folks really don't understand that Capitalism is, in fact, a specific kind of economic structure, and not the original sin of mankind. (Redacted cause it's more illustrative of an issue in left-of-center politics and not the posters in particular)
99% of the time, when someone accuses you of selective outrage, it’s a way of politically demobilizing you and shutting you up “Why are you angry about data centers instead of fast fashion” isn’t about making you care about fast fashion. It’s about shutting you up about data centers And visa versa
Also, people "care" about many things. They can only take action on a very few of those and usually the people implying you don't care enough about something know this (based on their own experiences).
It's pretty wild this basic suggestion, that the burden of safety falls on drivers operating multi-ton vehicles, is often met with derision.
Lloyd Alter@lloydalter.bsky.social · 6d agoDemographics being what they are, “walking while old” is going to be a growing problem. I have been banging on about this for years www.treehugger.com/complaining-...
