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Too much modern culture only understands politics as a form of performance art and not as a form of individual and/or collective action, even though the latter is what politics actually is.

Mark Harris@markharris.bsky.social · 23h ago

Dolly Parton lived with a gay man for years. She was a vocal advocate for LGBTQ+ folks and a philanthropic champion of childhood literacy and education, vaccines, and the black people in her community. "We don't know what her politics were"? Please. She lived them. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/27/a...

Lotta people this weekend are gonna have a karaoke mic in their hand when they find out that Dolly was a SINGER singer and even the songs she made sound easy are very hard. Keep your head on a swivel.

I think it's bad that the Democrats' House leader is having secret chummy meetings with a guy doing a domestic ethnic cleansing operation and funding a genocide abroad, then spending his entire week going on cable news to complain about a lefty Twitch streamer who nobody knows. Sorry for offending.

“We found absolute, iron-clad evidence that short-term rental regulations put downward pressure on rent. Lots of things cause housing to be expensive, but this is low-hanging fruit to manage those costs.” Long past time for harsh restrictions on Airbnb.

Andy Yan@ayan604.bsky.social · 2d ago

"McGill study demonstrates that restricting short-term rentals improves housing affordability" #Vanpoli #VanRe www.mcgill.ca/newsroom/cha...

Just saw Facebook antivaxxers speculating that 80-year-old Dolly Parton’s death was hastened by the COVID vaccine she helped fund the development of and received—half a decade ago—and am thinking about how the past decade spent catering to these people has been nothing but a waste of time.

Damn that’s crazy but you can’t be racist against the computer. Yeah. No I hear you but. Yeah it’s because it’s not a person it’s the computer.

people who use ai for businesses baffle me. do they not read what these produce? do they not think this is decieving customers? it makes tou look lazy and i think you deserve to fail as a business

there are going to be many remembrances of Tim Curry today for his brilliant work in Rocky Horror and Clue and so much more, but to me this ridiculous bit from Red Alert sums up everything that made him great you never knew what you were going to get with him, but whatever it was would be brilliant

Tim Curry: Uncorrupted Space

Alt: Tim Curry's Space gif from Red Alert

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I appreciate that Dolly Parton refused to participate in "dress respectability" and, by her own account, modeled her aesthetic after a town "tramp," who she thought was beautiful. She separated aesthetics from character and understood "classiness" to be about how you treat people, not how you dress.

Listen up bitches, this is serious. Here’s the plan for tomorrow morning. No exceptions. Everyone shows up. We’re gonna tumble out of bed. We’re gonna stumble to the kitchen. And we’re gonna pour ourselves a cup of goddamn ambition. Because we’ve got dreams they’ll never take away. Lock in.

BREAKING: The union of Starbucks workers is officially calling for a boycott of the chain. @sbworkersunited.org has over 12,000 unionized baristas, and they're calling on customers to stop visiting Starbucks until they get a fair union contract.

her very existence was an indisputable reminder of how many things framed as inevitabilities were actually just someone’s choice. there actually is enough money for everything. the wealthy could fully fund literacy and public health and the arts and child welfare. they just won’t

Luke O'Neil@lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 3d ago

By almost any measure Dolly embodied "the American Dream." Some people will come from nothing and make it big and consider the problem now solved. Others will remember that there are still others with nothing and use what they have to help.

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Tim Price@timprice.bsky.social · 3d ago

Stop making fun of AI or it will spitefully deny your insurance claims. They’re calling it the perfect argument.

Dolly Parton with Keith Haring in 1985, incredible woman and supporter of LGBTQ people for decades going back to a time when few others dared.

Hi, yes, person who grew up in “family farm” country here to explain this deep and recurring mystery to you all: Farmers are overwhelmingly (90+%) rich white men, and they vote as such, and will continue to vote as such. You’re welcome.

The Daily Beast@thedailybeast.bsky.social · 3d ago

Farmers who overwhelmingly backed Trump are now warning they are in the worst financial crisis since the 1980s.

The group of Americans who are currently aware of that sort of thing and the group of Americans who decide close elections is a Venn diagram with two circles that do not overlap because they’re not even on the same sheet of paper.

Karen K. Ho@karenho.bsky.social · 3d ago

do you think Americans understand how essential Canadian potash is for growing stuff or how much they rely on Canadian hydroelectricity and oil yet or no

Where’s that post that’s like ‘to a lot of people the experience of the Roman Empire falling was that one day the bridge collapsed and no one came to repair it”?

‘Getting no help’: Thousands in Gary, Indiana, still without power nearly 2 weeks after storms

For some in the predominantly Black city, the lack of electricity has caused medical complications, while others are cooking what food they can at local parks before it spoils.

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The depressing thing about the US isn't Trump really. He's just a grotesque. It's the complete failure of all the things liberals believe in: Congress, the judiciary, the press, voters themselves, all persistently unwilling or unable to stop him. It's the failure of an entire society.

Alan Beattie@alanbeattie.bsky.social · 3d ago

And yet still farm counties will vote Republican. They always do.

In a nation where 66% want universal healthcare, "appealing to the center" means appealing to those people. In a nation where 50% want to abolish ICE, "appealing to the center" means appealing to those people. In a nation where 63% support the right to choose,"appealing to the center" means them.

Not one racist debater can point to the person that they successfully debated into abandoning their racist ways. None. Which is why, to Brooke's point, the only reason they want these debates is for recruiting.

Brooke@brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 4d ago

OK everybody remember, this "debate me on racism" thing has been tried before and people actually did debate the racists and all it ended up doing was elevating racist messaging. Also, that message was sown on Twitter to be bait for journalists in 2016 so maybe don't fall for it this time around 🥰

sometimes I don't even hear myself say it

Sometimes society at large rejects certain ideas because they’ve been thoroughly shown to be wrong and also because they suck and the people who espouse them suck and when someone comes around arguing those ideas should be part of some edgy modern debate we can and should shun them and move on.

Establishment Democrats are only allowed to oppose the GOP on a narrow slice of issues. For instance, only 3 companies have more annual revenue than United Healthcare and they are a major Dem donor. So Dems will never go hard on universal healthcare. This is just coordinating the kayfabe.

I guess it's kind of hard to view the dismissal of one grublike phrenologist as a major hit to free speech after major American universities have in the past year banned the use of words and eliminated entire departments in the hopes of pleasing the senile president

the amount of pain i am willing to absorb to support whatever the fuck the American negotiators were trying to accomplish is less than zero, because my extremely heavy prior is that i would oppose whatever the fuck the American negotiators were trying to accomplish if I understood what it was

George Pearkes@peark.es · 6d ago

On paper a trade war between the US and Canada should be much harder on the northern country. But one country’s political economy can sustain the major costs of a trade war and the other’s cannot.

I think it is good and important for other countries to start playing domestic US politics like this right as everyone starts paying close attention to the midterms? fuck you, retaliatory tariffs punish the Republican Party directly with your timing

Mark Carney@mark-carney.bsky.social · 6d ago

In the coming days, we will release the details of these new tariff measures, which will come into force the Tuesday after Labour Day.

We have just had our breakfast.

Optimist: The cup is half full Pessimist: The cup is half empty Game engineer: The spec didn’t say cups could have intermediate states. If you want that feature, I’m gonna need five weeks to refactor the entire inventory system.

Mar Hicks@histoftech.bsky.social · 6d ago

Optimist: The cup is half full Pessimist: The cup is half empty Historian: The cup can teach you a lot of things that you do not want to know