The Cray

@thecray.bsky.social

Left Optimistic Cynic. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️Ally. Work in science. Usually like animals a lot more than people. Photography, food, gardening, books. Living on Dharug and Gundungurra lands. Fled the bird site. Quite caffeinated. HarrisWalz 2024 #auspol

NYT: Federal officials said in court documents that they halted billions of dollars in funding for energy projects to states “based solely” on whether they backed President Trump in the 2024 election.

Justin Pearson on data centers: We are being asked to sacrifice our drinking water to cool computers whose main use case is to take our jobs.

It sounds stupid, it is stupid, but its deadly serious because they are trying to blame an impoverished .5% of the population for EVERYTHING, no matter how ridiculous. Very much the same as how Germany blamed .5% of the population for everything, and you know what came next.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3w ago

Trump on the CHIPS Act: "If you weren't transgender, you didn't qualify. So they'd get the money, they'd look all over for transgender people to run the company."

🚨BREAKING: Jesús Manuel Arenas-Silva (45) has died in Georgia—the 22nd death in ICE custody this year. While ICE claims cardiac arrest, his grieving family reveals he was fatally deprived of his medication during a prison transfer. This negligence is a death sentence. We demand justice! 🎥 statuscoup

"executives with no understanding of the industry" seems to be an endemic problem across industries: higher education, medicine, you name it, a bunch of suits with MBAs and unearned arrogance are destroying everything around us, and for some reason, we're supposed to accept that they know best

Greg Iwinski@garyjackson.bsky.social · 4w ago

TV writers were right in 2023 and are being proven more right every day — there was a stable television model that made everyone lots of money and put out good shows. Then execs with no understanding of the industry confused the production model and the distribution model, and they blew it all up.

HARD WATCH: Please don’t look away. An autistic and bipolar 15 year old CHILD was violently detained with a knee on his neck and a hand over his mouth. According to reports, the officer involved is a sergeant with the Louisville Metro Police Department in Kentucky.

Nothing to see here, just the son of the President marrying the daughter of the accountant of a notorious child sex trafficker who was best friends with the groom's father. Oh, wait, you didn't know Junior's current new wife is the daughter of Jeffrey Epstein's accountant?

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