Wes Rose
@wesrose.bsky.social
Hubby to Rachel. Dad to Finley & Dash. Flanneled Bard. Singing songs and slinging stories across the multiverse. Pirate two hundred years too late.
I wrote about the triumph of Doing Your Own Research and the stupid, nasty thing that is replacing some very recent history in real time. defector.com/were-just-go...
We're Just Going To Keep Doing 2020 Again Until All The Wrong Stuff Is True | Defector
In a bunch of ways, there is no real percentage in remembering what things were actually like during the worst years of the COVID-19 pandemic. Beyond all the uncertainty and suffering and death, there...
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if establishment candidates want to start winning primaries again all you have to do is say that rich people have too much money and that youll prosecute trump admin staffers and republicans that have broken the law
This is 💯 not true. It is never a choice between ‘taking big tech’s money and doing nothing’. A stronger moral imperative is NOT to take the money and the strings attached to it - particularly if you do not and cannot yet understand the implications
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 12h ago“Teaching educators about AI is a ‘moral imperative’, said Randi Weingarten, the AFT president.” “And without outside funding, it was a choice between taking big tech’s money or doing nothing, she said.”
Oh my god the dietician who is telling everyone in the White House to only eat steak and sauerkraut doesn't wipe his ass.
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"
"it looks like you're using an adblocker to visit our site." yep! ha ha! it rocks!
This Film often has the piss taken out of it for being a rather sedentary piece about 2 people just talking a lot — BUT — it has one of the most brilliantly prescient monologues in the history of Movies imho. MY DINNER WITH ANDRE (1981) Have a listen.
The North Carolina Republican Party folks:
I will not be surprised by anyone in indie rock who could be described as "difficult" suddenly going conspiratorial/weird/fascist. That's the Morrissey Rule.
kate bush’s husband@airbagged.bsky.social · yesterdayCat Power is antivax
I'm far from the only person pointing this out, but: my good bitch, my taxes *already* subsidize shit I will never use. At least this way NYC residents know it's going to something GOOD and not, say, drones or bombs or some shit.
USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 3d agoOpinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.
everyday the news is like: "polls show voters want trump flayed alive 55-35." "new busload of elites pulls up to white house to drink trump's warmed over piss"
I HAVE BEEN SUBSIDIZING WALMART AND AMAZON STARVING THEIR EMPLOYEES FOR MY ENTIRE LIFE.
USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 3d agoOpinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.
I came across this a while back and ended up saving it because it was so accurate and depressing
Sam Neill on tackling depression and imposter syndrome when you’re between jobs.
Given all of the recent genAI discussion, I wish to repost this.
The sitting president of the United States got his accounts closed for money laundering and its barely news 🤯
This is the story I fear about so many of the neighbors we saw abducted: they were dumped in concentration camps and are now outside the country, living in places that are unfamiliar and unsafe.
Minnesota Reformer@minnesotareformer.com · 3d agoOn Jan. 11, Gregory Bovino watched as his Border Patrol agents dragged a man out of his car at a St. Paul Speedway, knelt on his back until he lost consciousness, and dragged his limp body into the back of a van. The man's name is Orbin Mauricio Henriquez Serrano and this is his story.
There’s a bit in here that takes a brutal examination of student messages preparing young folks for almost inevitable martyrdom in the wake of Columbine and it took my breath away. Great stuff from @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social sojo.net/magazine/aug...
Reckoning With the Youth Groups That Raised Us
We were meant to live for so much more. But we lost ourselves.
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Sen. Bernie Moreno (paraphrased): On second thought, now that it's clear this is making me personally look awful, I say domestic abuse, lying about it, and failing basic standards of character like that has no place in the Republican Party, except at the top, and some other places too. Thank you.
Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · 3d agosenator bernie moreno finally makes a statement about the allegations of abuse by rep. max miller against his daughter and granddaughter after miller went live on X this morning to deny everything.
We got headlines about Joe Biden having Parkinsons and being mentally unfit in the big papers for months. One of Trump's own buddies gets on TV and says The President is crazy and doesn't know what he's saying sometimes and has impulse control and it won't move the needle
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3d agoSen. John Kennedy on Trump's blatant reflecting pool lies: "The president says it was caused by vandals. I don't know if he really believes that or it's part of his political messaging or he's just thinking out loud ... he grows anxious when he has an unexpressed thought."
