Thoroughly Eldritch Tillie 🎃🦉🌙
@theowlwagon.bsky.social
Gopher Prairie, MN. She/they. Mother of humans, grandmother of cats. Data analyst and bookseller in previous lives. BA Russian Studies UMN '73; Я почти все забыла. The man of my dreams is Warren William. Deal with it. 🇺🇦 Слава Україні 🇺🇦
raise revenue and undercut right-populism with One Weird Trick (capitalists HATE this)
Jake Grumbach@jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 13h agoNew working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854
Who went through all the major platforms where the Pentagon might stream their barbaric firing squad "livestream" execution to see if it violated their policies? Me. I did it.
Techdirt@techdirt.com · 14h agoHey Platforms: Your Violent Content Policies Are About To Meet The Pentagon’s Firing Squad There is plenty of coverage everywhere you look about how Pete Hegseth and... https://www.techdirt.com/2026/10/09/hey-platforms-your-violent-content-policies-are-about-to-meet-the-pentagons-firing-squad/
They’re live-streaming the execution of the person they think they can get away with doing that to first. It’s a test. If they can do that, they’ll expand the margins of permission.
democrats, from obama to biden and most senate democrats, hold on to this notion that the only way to defeat the gop is for them to Finally Be Morally Outraged and Tell Their Party To Stop we've spent at least four decades with this bullshit running the democratic party. people are tired of it.
Vote early and in person, folks. If you're in a "vote by mail" state and can deliver your mail-in vote directly rather than relying on USPS this year, do it. Otherwise get it into the mail at the earliest possible date. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
The Postal Service is slowing delivery. Will your mail ballot be affected?
Democracy Docket mapped the affected zip codes.
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In case you missed it last night: we are seeing reports all over the country of immigration surges and state violence. If you need whistles for your community, we will send you 100-3000 3d printed for free, and we will love doing it. 3dwhistles.com
The first brand-new MST3K episode STING OF DEATH is available right now, immediately, at once, other words to indicate that concept! If you missed it in movie theaters, now’s your chance. You can also order a package of this plus the three next eps in various formats, as they come out. Enjoy!
Never mind Oklahoma City, there are school shootings worse than Ft. Hood.
The Bobadilla Report documented extensive atrocities, torture, and tyrannical rule by Columbus that led to him being hauled back to Spain in chains, being stripped of his titles, and imprisonment. Of course Trump takes pride in "resurrect[ing]" him.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 14h agoTrump: "We resurrected Christopher Columbus"
This is how you get frustrated voters to haul themselves to a midterms voting booth. When ppl see you fighting, it makes them want to join in. They want to be associated with Guy Who Takes No Crap. They're going to think of this moment when filling in the little oval and they're going to _smile_.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterdayOSSOFF: Mike Collins is one of the most extreme members of Congress. He's a Trump puppet election denier. I want to hear if Mike still believes the 2020 election was stolen. What do you say Mike? COLLINS: ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ...
Swedish poster art by Gösta Åberg. Stamboul Quest (1934), starring Myrna Loy and George Brent. 🔽
My statement on the ICE shooting in Marble Hill ⬇️
Wordle 1,938 2/6* 🟨🟨⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🎵I got a badge I got a badge I got a badge Hey hey hey hey 🎵 I enjoy my little happinesses whenever I get them #WordleIn2
A comedian has a pretty good answer for the weird fear that giving people UBI would mean they'd do nothing by harkening back to early covid lockdowns when everyone did stuff to make it more bearable.
Nobody is doing nothing #standupcomedian #standupspecial #comedyclips #universalbasicincome
YouTube video by Craig Fay
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I'm still deeply anxious as to whether this book is any good, but I've had two highly respected professional bakers both say it is the book they wished they'd had when they were first learning to bake, which helps a little
Andrew Janjigian@wordloaf.org · last wk.Just created a central clearinghouse for 'Breaducation'-related stuff over at Wordloaf: preordering, press & reviews, and events (I'll update this thread too):
I feel terrible asking this, but my debit card got stolen and I don’t currently have the funds in my account to cover some upcoming payments while I sort the dispute out with the bank. If anyone could help spot me, I would really appreciate that! V: @Ian-Coldwater CA: $iancoldwater PP: @coldwater
Sean is the artist who created the “We Love Our Somali Neighbors” and “We Love Our Immigrant Neighbors” prints/graphics that everyone is sharing. Give Sean credit if you share them! Artists are a crucial part of the resistance!
Sean Lim@seanlimmn.bsky.social · 18h agoPlease tag or credits artists when re-sharing / re-posting their art somehow… in the captions, in the replies/comments, or within alt-text on the image! Thank you! 🩵
Of course the Trump Savings Accounts for kids turns out to be scam. In effect, "our president is helping rich donors offload overvalued stocks onto children, who are forced to hold the stocks for five years whether they want to or not." www.rawstory.com/trump-accoun...
Trump rigs kids’ piggy banks so billionaires can dump falling stock on them: analyst
A quiet change to President Donald Trump's namesake savings program for children amounts to a gift for billionaires, according to an economic analyst.In an article for The Bulwark on Thursday, economi...
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Thanks be to God that we no longer have to live under the tyrannical yoke of the woke radical left language police.
This beautiful and true art was created by @seanlimmn.bsky.social! Alt text: It is a blue rectangle with blue monarch butterflies that reads “We love our Somali neighbors.”
I can’t be the only person who thinks it's a turn-on that this guy speaks in full sentences that are meaningful, cutting, and spot-on.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterdayOssoff: "I think Pete Hegseth is frankly a deeply unwell person who seems to relish this kind of brutality all the while he's running a department that is falling into chaos. The guy cannot run the military competently and is spending his time with this kind of obscene medieval spectacle."
I think people should listen to what the administration trying to bring back spectacle lynchings, race riots, and middle passage-esque deportation voyages are trying to tell you about themselves. bsky.app/profile/bren...
Brendan Nyhan@brendannyhan.bsky.social · yesterdayThe news just since I left work: -A planned livestream of an execution by firing squad -Trump basically trying to incite a pogrom against Somalis Nothing mysterious or complicated about what's happening.
Minnesota, here's a sign to show your support for Somali neighbors. Share it, print it, pass it on. **updated PDF link** PDF here >> www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/s89ru...
Tom Emmer, like all other MN GOP, actually hates the State we pay them to represent.
“Every member of this ethnic group is a criminal who needs to be imprisoned by the state” is just pure uncut Nazi shit
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterdayTom Emmer refers to Somali-Americans as "enemy combatants" and says they should be "rounded up and put in jail"
Ossoff: "I absolutely believe that Mike Collins would have been among those standing in the schoolhouse door ... Here in Georgia, where we are so proud of our legacy as the cradle of civil rights, I'll be damned if I'm gonna let a man like Collins win this race and represent GA for the next 6 years"
she’s dreaming about greeting her friends aka everyone she has ever met
