Profile avatar
itmerc2024.bsky.social
Engineer. Middle aged lady. Combat vet. I solve problems, but still occasionally mouth off.
554 posts 448 followers 334 following
Regular Contributor
Active Commenter
Posts 22 Comments 27

Last year, Nike made $23 billion. Its founder is worth $35 billion. But Nike pays just dollars a day to the workers who make its products. Today I met Dinar, who sews 222 labels an hour onto Nike products. She is paid $202 a month. This is corporate greed at its worst.

submitted 1 day ago • 167 comments

The web of life is dying Even in non pesticide pristine areas the insects are disappearing and along with them the birds and lizards that depend on insects as a food source Even a small rise in temps can be fatal for insect life

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

LMFAO.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

submitted 6 days ago • 410 comments

Iono if you recall, but wasn’t a palantir that evil crystal ball that connected to all the other evil crystal balls, never told an accurate story, almost always corrupted its user, and ended up breaking anything it touched?

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

www.politico.com/news/2025/05...

submitted 6 days ago • 170 comments

TACO.

submitted 9 days ago • 495 comments

Changing the facts to fit the narrative, I see…

submitted 13 days ago • 101 comments

Ho-Lee Shyit. Just went to create a BS facebook page so I could access “necessary” pages for businesses and education. You need a MOVING FACE SCAN now. Like…do you want my pin code, too? F you Zuck, F you Trump, F you USA.

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

On soma: #booksky #bravenewworld 💙📚

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

Currently working on a reread of Parable of the Talents by Octavia E. Butler and I just... wow. 20ish years after I first read it and it's even more powerful. #booksky #sciencefiction

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

Ben from Ben and Jerry’s just told Congress “YOU’RE KILLING POOR KIDS IN GAZA AND PAYING FOR IT BY CUTTING MEDICAID FOR KIDS HERE.”

submitted 23 days ago • 27 comments

“Poor man wanna be rich. Rich man wanna be king. The king ain’t satisfied ‘til he rules everything.”—Springsteen, Badlands

submitted 21 days ago • 2458 comments

The person who picked the name "dry eye drops" instead of "moistyoureyser" probably failed at other things in life, too.

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

UPDATED: Gov. Hobbs vetoes 48 bills Monday and Tuesday, rejects requiring hospitals to ask patients about immigration status and forcing hotels to post signs if there are homeless also living there. She's now up to 135, just 5 shy of her own 2023 record. tucson.com/news/state-r...

submitted 24 days ago • 35 comments

You might want to sit this one out, Ann.

submitted 23 days ago • 696 comments

End Impunity End Oligarchy End Autogenocide #3E

submitted 23 days ago • 37 comments

submitted 25 days ago • 6 comments

This morning the official Library of Congress Bluesky account (and yes, it's official: www.loc.gov/connect) posted a video of Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden... who Trump fired last week.

submitted 25 days ago • 7 comments

So many layers of corruption.

submitted 25 days ago • 1702 comments

TANK vs TESLA "We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again" - ⁠WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank

submitted 30 days ago • 2311 comments

Stepson just informed me that Hegseth shall henceforth be known as: WhiskyLeaks.

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments