Reed the Frog
@socialistfrog.bsky.social
Co-host on Barking Points Memo; Extremely Gay; Partnered to MxAsher and @lunostophiles
I always think that so many kids want to be influencers because it's obvious to them that every normal job has either been destroyed or is going to be destroyed while the conditions of labor get worse and worse and middle class salaries buy less and less. So it's pretty rational, in my view!
Buttadeus@thewanderingjew.bsky.social · 6h agoIt does kinda seem like the supply of influencers is functionally infinite, but the demand is limited.
Two 50-year-old power plants in the East River are propping up New York's grid, which is ailing under strain from electrification and climate change
New York City’s Aging Power Barges Show the Blackout Risk Is Real
Meant as a backstop, the plants are in constant use as demand rises, with no relief in sight for the strained grid.
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Hey man, maybe just make the sandwiches and take a pic of them.
I couldn't even include everything in this piece (e.g., I got copies of presidential correspondence from AAU member institutions during the Red Scares from the archives) because my benevolent editor had already let me go way over my word limit. I wish they had learned from their past actions.
Gregg Gonsalves@gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 2d agoOn the day that Barbara Synder, Douglas Girod and Ronald Daniels and the @aau.edu capitulated to the Trump administration, it's worth looking back at history. First. The Red Scare. @aau.edu was there to bend the knee to Senator Joe McCarthy and HUAC. 1/ www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...
On the treatment of mental illness, by @katewagner.wehwalt.net. Great-hearted, funny, brilliant, filled with soul and fire. flaminghydra.com/issue-620/
*mad at my tf fetishist roommate* do you think you can TF into someone capable of doing the dishes this evening
SNAP, “The largest food assistance program in the U.S. is undergoing a massive overhaul. But even before the most drastic changes take effect, more than 4 million people are estimated to have already lost the critical food aid between last July and April — many of whom are children.”
Over 4 million people are no longer receiving food aid amid sweeping changes to SNAP
SNAP, also known as food stamps, has seen a rapid and consistent participation decline since last July. The drop comes as the program faces historic cuts and changes.
npr.org
Nile is sooo subtle... Get your own Nile's Fuckable Cock at the link in our pinned post!
gonna do an experiment and bring this post over to linkedin. might not make it back. prayers up for the kid 🫡🫡🫡
Josh Sternberg@joshsternberg.com · 2d agoThere are 7 PR people for every journalist in the US. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
Covid lockdowns demonstrated, in a deeply imperfect way, the possibility of large-scale social solidarity for a higher cause. That is a prime reason why so many powerful people want us to run screaming away from them into the comforting arms of selfish individualist competition.
🧵On @thenewsagents.co.uk yesterday, school closures and the lab leak theory were offered as two examples of legitimate questions that were hard to ask. Both have in fact been asked constantly since 2020. But here's a thread on why I think they were wrong and dangerous on school closures 1/12
He noticed you from across the dance floor, then decided to be on the same side of the dance floor as you. Old art for @wispshep.bsky.social #furryart #NSFW More: www.furaffinity.net/view/58500330/
This is deadass every republican campaign ad here in the south. I'm not even REMOTELY JOKING.
I and many of my friends stream on Twitch. I say, *absolutely the fuck not*. Friends who stream on Twitch, there is a comment thread here where you can make your voices heard: twitch.uservoice.com/forums/92338... This is the *least* they can do.
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Zach Bussey 🍁@zachbussey.tos.gg · 5d agoTwitch and Amazon are apparently planning to use streams to train Generative AI. Multiple sources tell me it will be announced in the coming months, despite some internal friction against it. Creators may be able to opt out of some training data.
I started a podcast with @thefoxbard.bsky.social and @cackle-shack.bsky.social!
Weasel Words@weaselwordspod.bsky.social · 6d agoEpisode 1 - The Road Will Never Be the Same We don't talk about the weasel. With surprise guests: walnuts, toe socks and a unicycle. Find us on Apple Podcasts and more (but never Spotify) - weaselwords.transistor.fm
if you want to see normally sclerotic do-nothing local governments suddenly snap into action, do some quietly beneficial tactical urbanism type thing like this and watch how quickly they race to remove it
wishda@wishda.bsky.social · 5d agoThe DSA in Wilmingotn, N.C. has created a "crisis" by putting benches at city bus stops, after literal decades of the city promising and failing to do so.
Google has also decided to effectively kill the desktop version of Google Earth Pro - which has been a genuinely useful mapping tool for many years. They’ve apparently decided those resources are better spent allowing users to burn AI credits on creating satellite imagery disinformation.
Get Google Earth Pro while you still can.
In an update on Tuesday, Google says it will block users from downloading its Google Earth Pro desktop app starting June 25th, 2027. People can continue to use the app after that date, which offers ac...
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there are a lot of philosophical concepts that get egregiously misused out of the seminar room (and in the seminar room, to be fair). but in terms of sheer pernicious misuse "social construct" has gotta be top 5 somewhere and it's not number 5
Scott Bryan@scottygb.bsky.social · last wk.Channel 4 has announced documentary “The Great ADHD Myth?” It “seeks to determine whether ADHD is a genuine neurodevelopmental disorder, or a social construct.”
we should charge the C-suite with fraud and theft if they take a tax credit meant to keep people employed and then cut staff anyway.
Paula Wirth@paulawirth.bsky.social · last wk.Pixar receives a $26.2 Million Tax credit to keep film jobs in CA, and immediately lays off 10% of its work force, after making over a billion from Toy Story 5, the highest-grossing film of 2026.
The fact that after receiving classified briefings about COVID, Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue downplayed the virus to the public and invested in BODY BAGS should have been a bigger a story.
Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social · 7d agoRunning out of body bags, using forklifts to transfer corpses into makeshift morgues, a mortician conducting 200 funerals in a month when he usually does 30, crematories running at double capacity… And these senators just want to memory-hole it all www.nytimes.com/2020/04/30/n...
One of my Crank Theories of Everything, at least of Everything in the Recent Past, is that we are dealing (badly) with COVID trauma we’d mostly prefer to pretend never happened.
