some guy
@xdivision.bsky.social
weird, funny, shitposter, and has a music superiority complex
They could always sign up to give comment at a public meeting.
The Wall Street Journal@wsj.com · 20h agoNew York City’s business elites are long accustomed to direct access to City Hall, where even Democratic mayors felt the need to court the city’s wealthiest and most influential corporate leaders. That access is getting shredded by Mayor Zohran Mamdani.
Talarico’s argument is simple: Stop treating marijuana like a crime. Legalize it. Regulate it. Tax it. Stop wasting police resources on low-level marijuana offenses. Clear the records of people whose lives have been derailed by nonviolent marijuana convictions.
🚨 Croatian virologist Beata Halassy used viruses from her own lab to shrink her recurrent breast cancer by over 60% The result: Her tumor shrank by over 60%, was successfully removed, and she has remained in long-term remission
here's a fun lil exercise for cis people: how many articles would a publication have to print calling for your extermination before you would expect people who care about you to stop giving them money? and how would you feel if their excuse for still supporting them is some fuckass crossword puzzle?
Administration regards abuse, harassment, and other naked exercises of bullying power as a proactive social good, example #29458523
Task & Purpose@taskandpurpose.com · yesterdayArmy ends anonymous reporting for harassment complaints trib.al/oQU93m2
You actually don't have to do the "well, you know, I disagree with MAHA but they're right that there are real problems with The System" thing. That's a concession you absolutely do not have to make.
Trump has made big threats and given Iran a one-last-chance at least 8 times now, backing off without getting anything every time. "A whole civilization will die tonight" was April 7! He has claimed Iran is making concessions, desperate for a deal, and a deal is imminent too many times to count.
‘One last chance’: The times Trump threatened Iran, said deal imminent
US president has claimed Iran 'desperate' to do a deal or given Tehran 'last chance' on multiple occasions.
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extreme income inequality is bad for a lot of reasons but today the one i'm mad at is people having the wealth and power to force me to live inside their delusions
Last month I put up a shirt design that was extremely cute and a lot of people liked it so this time I decided instead I would do two that are extremely specific and weird looking roryblank.bigcartel.com
Like even if I was a suburbanite I would want things like 1. A home that goes up to the hotline. More usable space > a front yard 2. A carport/ garage in the back. Snouthouses are ugly! Why not have a facade full of natural light? 3. Shared space and amenities like integrated commercial spaces
#OtD 2 Aug 1944 4000 Roma people in Auschwitz resisted being taken to the gas chambers. They armed themselves with sticks and crowbars, and barricaded the doors, women in particular fighting the SS with hands and nails. They were overcome and murdered stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9169...
#OtD 1 Aug 1968 striking petrochemical workers occupied Venice Mestre railway after being locked out. Workers demanding equal productivity bonuses for all organised wildcats, mass marches, and roadblocks in a dispute controlled by the rank and file stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8054...
Florida threatens to defund Catholic schools unless they allow students to opt out of vaccines
Florida threatens to defund Catholic schools if students can’t opt out of vaccines
The state’s attorney general claims that at least one diocese has accepted the position that schools cannot offer exemptions on religious grounds
trib.al
Monday again. You would think they would get easier with time. Affirmation Coyote knows you'll get through this one, just like you've got through all of the others so far.
say hello to the new college of florida in manhattan
Kevin Carey@kevincarey1.bsky.social · last yr.Columbia University has handed over its undergraduate admissions process to Donald Trump and his MAGA allies, who will now decide at their sole discretion whether the university has admitted enough white people. It's no longer an independent institution.
She’s confused. And so am I. This is nuts! My wife just said this is straight out of The Handmaid’s Tale. Anyone know more about this?
The sad stupidity of UK police. Private Eye jokes now ‘criminal’ as the magazine hits back at dumbass cops www.thecanary.co/trending/202...
Private Eye jokes now 'criminal' as the magazine hits back at dumbass cops
Police nonsense over Palestine Action proscription continues as Ian Hislop jokingly bemoans officers never having heard of Private Eye
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At one time, beer was safer to drink than water. That time will come again very soon. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
Courts banned this herbicide twice. The EPA wants to bring it back.
The EPA announced Wednesday its plan to re-register dicamba, a herbicide widely used on soybean and cotton farms that has been banned twice by federal courts.
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Two members of the Homeland Party have been identified as admins of the Facebook group organising the protests shorturl.at/Np7tc
more evidence for “a bunch of AI cultists dismantled large parts of the federal government because they believed that their LLMs were intelligent and could do the work better” thesis
FactPost@factpostnews.bsky.social · last yr.Reporter: The FDA has a new AI tool that's intended to speed up drug approvals. But several FDA employees say the new AI helper is making up studies that do not exist. One FDA employee telling us, 'Anything that you don't have time to double check is unreliable. It hallucinates confidently'
this is the premise to a horror movie and the longer I think about it the more horrified I become