The next time you hear Republicans in Congress complaining about the national debt, remember that roughly 25% of it has been added during Trump's presidencies — largely thanks to his tax cuts for the rich. The notion that Republicans care about the debt is one of the biggest lies in politics.

Darren Bailey's school curriculum wants kids to think slave owners treated their slaves well. That is who wants to be governor of Illinois.

@gailsimone.bsky.social have you seen these!? Timex x Peanuts - Snoopy & Peanuts Watch Collaboration | Timex US share.google/Yte2GPyE9QTA...

Timex x Peanuts - Snoopy & Peanuts Watch Collaboration

Snoopy, the Peanuts Gang and Timex have joined together to create a series of watches that are both fun and functional. Shop the Peanuts collaboration now at Timex.

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Here are things that happened at the DNC today: 1) Resolution calling to abolish ICE unanimously adopted 2) Brand-new early state calendar that reflects the full diversity of the Democratic base 3) Rejection of insider efforts to ban RCV from being used in presidential primaries Great results here

An insurance card from birth till death. That’s what Medicare for All provides — no more private insurance premiums, copays, deductibles, or denials of care from greedy companies. No losing your healthcare if you lose your job. Universal healthcare as a human right.

I know you're not allowed to say this during the current debate, but the reason the left dominates academics, art, comedy, and music is that the right has stupid, discredited ideas, they're not funny, and dull resentment does not make for good art. No grand conspiracy required.

To me, the foundational tension of modern AI is this: If the stated goal is to create a human-level intelligence that can replace human workers but lacks human rights, then the real aspiration is slavery; but if human-level intelligence is impossible, then the industry's stated goal is a lie.

🚨 BREAKTHROUGH: 25-year-old Argentinian biologist Pilar Ferrer has developed an injectable gel that helps repair damaged heart tissue after a heart attack

Today would've been Walter "Matt" Jefferies' 105th birthday. 60 years after the spaceship he designed along with the entire aesthetic he envisioned first hit TV screens, they continue to inform and inspire #StarTrek production design in every incarnation of Gene Roddenberry's creation to this day.

This doesn't even pass the sniff test.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w ago

WHAT -- Rep. Lisa McClain totally makes shit up, claims "82% of women who got the vaccine in their first or second trimester had a miscarriage"

Adulthood is really just a never-ending search for the perfect pillow.

Y'know, you can just replace every major media "Moderate Democrats Are Terrified and Repulsed by Popular Left-Wing Stuff" story with "We Interviewed One Stupid Fucking Asshole Who Hasn't Voted Dem Since 1992" in your mind's eye and lower your blood pressure considerably.

Some days I feel old enough to have beta tested this.

Senet

Senet is a board game from Predynastic Egypt. It is the oldest board game whose ancient existence has been confirmed, dating to circa 3500 BC. The full name of the game in Egyptian was zn.t n.t ḥˁb me...

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Joseph Hewitt@gearheadrpg.com · 3w ago

QTP with a game released in the year you were born.

Phones. We've gone from big bricks that only made calls to powerful computers not much bigger than a credit card. You have the web, a still and a video camera, music, etc. A full multi-media device.

Constantine@ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 3w ago

Food, man. Food is so much better than it was in 1986. All of it. Poor-people food, restaurant food, fresh food, frozen food. Food is just a hell of a lot better.

A quick word on Taco Bell: That's where we found the suspected lettuce, and it's not bc Taco Bell is gross. It's bc Taco Bell is REALLY GOOD at tracing product! Keeping track of exactly where they got their ingredients, & exactly what restaurants each shipment of ingredients went to!

If you show up to Bluesky without following anyone, you'll be treated to a series of posts about art, music, and dogs. If you show up to X without following anyone, you'll be bombarded with right-wing conspiracies and white supremacist slop. It's weird which one is seen as a "political bubble"

My supervisor as I build LEGO.

Legal immigration as most Americans conceive of it does not meaningfully exist in the United States. "Just come here the right way" is one of the most pernicious lies in contemporary US politics, accepted across the aisle as the goal of the immigration debate when it's impossible in reality.

Always asking how to accommodate trolls and racists... If the Bluesky PTB try to force that accommodation, through an algorithm or ending the nuclear block, this place will end up just like Twitter, a conservative echo chamber.

The Verge@theverge.com · 3w ago

Bluesky's new CEO Toni Schneider on the platform's reputation for being a liberal bubble: "Yes, we definitely want that to change. It is already changing. It certainly wasn’t designed to attract one specific group of people."

Gail is the best of us.

Gail Simone@gailsimone.bsky.social · 3w ago

Okay, I am going to tell a little story. It's one I have saved for the last couple years, almost nobody knows about it. But it lives in my heart. I don't know how others will feel about it, maybe something, maybe nothing. It's about the Uncanny X-Men. 1/

Yep. This is the clearest description of Karl Popper's rule I've found:

I saw yesterday that some right-wing outlets were running stories about me, which I’m used to. But this time I’m going to say something about it, because these were framed to imply that I was aligned with their own transphobia. ⬇️

Le Petomane is getting the band back together!

Hail Sagan ™️@hailsagan42069.bsky.social · 3w ago

And when there was only one set of footprints in the sand, o my child, that was when I blocked you.

Someone didn't bother to read past the "turn everything to gold" part of the King Midas myth. Also, this redefines tacky and gaudy and gauche.

Dom Ervolina@dominicervolina.com · 3w ago

Deputy Chief of Staff Dan Scavino posted this video of the Oval Office and it somehow looks even more embarrassing than I realized

Two pieces of art that I purchased from artists I discovered through Bluesky. Fozzy Bear watercolor from @jodyvanb.bsky.social I had it matted and framed. A Lascaux horse ceramic tile in a frame from @earthen-were.bsky.social

A fifth Friday of the month means bonus content from Speculative Insight , and so we present: Garth Nix and France Hardinge in conversation! www.speculativeinsight.com/extras @franceshardinge.bsky.social @garthnix.bsky.social

Happy Birthday to the Queen of Comics @gailsimone.bsky.social ! She's a genuine, caring, funny, and talented agent of chaos!

FBI: "We have 300 witnesses that say she duct taped herself to the beverage cart before stowing herself in the aft galley."

Hemant Mehta@friendlyatheist.com · 4w ago

Evangelist Whitney Lynn says she preaches on planes because she loves “a captive audience.” She's not alone. It's becoming a trend. If spreading your message requires listeners who can't escape, maybe it's not as compelling as you think. www.friendlyatheist.com/p/christian-...

Spotted lantern flies are bad. Joro spiders eat them and other pests. So let's encourage those spiders! We can bring in the Chinese needles snakes later, if need be.