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Pessimistic introvert, compulsive doomscroller. Dog person. Anti-kleptokakistocracy. Seeking recovery, escape, and consolation in the outdoors, new wave music, stitching, and Middle-earth.
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A splendid, sad song for the first Monday of March

Chris Murphy: "Everyone who signs up to work for Donald Trump is signing up for one single project, and that is the transition of American democracy to a kind of kleptocratic oligarchy in which the billionaires rule and get to steal from regular Americans."

#readandplay (274) #MusicChallenge The Logical Song - Supertramp

There it is: Speaker of the House says Elon has already started running your Social Security through his AI.

“It’s an avalanche!” cried Toad. Frog and Toad jumped away. Frog was trembling. “I am not afraid!” he shouted.

#readandplay (274) #MusicChallenge Roam - The B-52s

every day I spend time thinking about how stupid and unnecessary all of this is and I hate it

#readandplay (273) #MusicChallenge The Calm before the Storm - Sparks

Dusting off my old Oxford English Dictionary and consulting carefully, I could not find "attack friends and submit to enemies" as a definition of the word "strength."

anyway periodic reminder that congress can at any time they wish, and should tomorrow, end this

To be a dog enjoying a beautiful, breezy day… #dogsofbluesky

I am not the first to say it but I do sort of see where JD Vance's mom was coming from when she traded him for drugs

this encapsulates what all of this administration is about. they aren’t “accidentally” destroying departments. they are intentionally destroying the government so they can become the government. the only issue they have with the system is they don’t profit from it or control it

The richest man in the world calls people who get help from government programs the “parasite class.” But Medicaid’s beneficiaries aren’t parasites. Half of them are children. If we’re talking about people who depend on government, Elon Musk is the biggest “parasite” of all.

#readandplay (272) #MusicChallenge Road to Joy - Peter Gabriel

The best news I’ve seen today

This whole country wants bad things for others more than they want good things for themselves.

#readandplay (271) #MusicChallenge Billy, Don’t Be a Hero - Bo Donaldson & the Heywoods

"Material acquisition is not the goal of the criminal elite, and debt is not a problem. A lifestyle of total impunity, powered by fraud and threat, is the goal. Raw power is not measured in money but by how little you need it. Money is beneath you when you live above the law." --THEY KNEW (2022)

#readandplay (270) #MusicChallenge Love’s Great Adventure - Ultravox

Republicans want you dead. All of them. Make a note of it.

Republicans don’t give a shit about deficits. It’s a cudgel they use when Democrats are in power. That’s it. Period. These “principles,” including small government, liberty, social conservatism, they’re all cudgels. The quicker people understand that the better.

“No Amazon, no Walmart, no fast food….” No problem!

we’re watching elon musk trying to run the government like a business by being that shitty boss everyones had at one point in their life and i hope this is an evergreen example of why “running the government like a business” might be the dumbest ideological statement out there

Time for a walk #dogsofbluesky

#readandplay (269) #MusicChallenge Viva la Vida - Coldplay

💯 I was ranting about this to a friend just the other day...

#readandplay (268) #MusicChallenge Talkin' 'bout a Revolution - Tracy Chapman

Dear OPM, here’s 5 things I did last week: - Made 3 rings for the eleven kings under the sky - Made 9 for mortal men doomed to die - Made 7 for the dwarf lords in their house of stone - Made 1 ring to rule them all - Went TDY to Mordor where the shadows lie

El Capitan displays a massive American flag upside down—the traditional signal of distress or extreme emergency.

#readandplay (267) #MusicChallenge Locomotion - OMD

This was published last October www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

#readandplay (266) #MusicChallenge Ship of Fools - World Party

New this am from @andrewperez.bsky.social @timdickinson.bsky.social and me for @rollingstone.com It’s….. yea. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Is it too much to ask to want the government to stop the president from doing the illegal stuff?

#readandplay (265) #MusicChallenge Fitter Happier - Radiohead