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Welcome to recognizing what corporations have been doing for a couple generations now, it’s good to have you on the team.

submitted 59 days ago • 0 comments

The principle Trump-camp is standing behind in the H1B debate is that short-term economic health is more important than hypothetical American jobs. If they apply the same principle to agriculture and home building, there’s no shot they’ll go through with the mass deportation.

submitted 59 days ago • 0 comments

everything is speech now, except for actual speech, which is unfortunately election interference.

submitted 72 days ago • 21 comments

I caught up w Khanna after this hit and he thinks the “just resist Trump” faction has been discredited, need a new strategy of daring Rs to pass the populist stuff he talked about

submitted 77 days ago • 115 comments

Has Dabo said this yet? Manifesting it.

submitted 81 days ago • 0 comments

United CEO Andrew Witty gave an address to the company today (leaked to me), telling employees "we guard against...unnecessary care" and that "There are very few people in the history of the U. S. healthcare industry who had a bigger positive effect on American healthcare than Brian [Thompson]."

submitted 82 days ago • 989 comments

It’s so cool that my grandma gets fifty spam calls a day. Great part of society.

submitted 84 days ago • 0 comments

Imagine the outrage if Al-Qaeda retook Aleppo a month after Kamala had been elected.

submitted 84 days ago • 0 comments

Did you guys know that publishers won’t sell audio books to libraries? They lease them as software for 10x the price and the lease expires when they lend them 10 times or in 3 years.

submitted 86 days ago • 1 comment

Found out the theatre kid community is hating on Ariana in wicked because she’s a pop star and I am reminded that their reputation as insufferable clouts is entirely deserved.

submitted 87 days ago • 1 comment

This year I read every page of Brander Sanderson’s Cosmere. Ask me anything about the books, world, or reading experience and I’ll answer and for every like, I’ll post a hot take.

submitted 90 days ago • 4 comments

How do I let the book people corner of Bluesky know that I’m out here and want to be mutuals. Do I have to post about Stormlight archive for that to happen?

submitted 90 days ago • 1 comment

Are you looking to feel an overwhelming sense that all the beauty in the world is meaningless in the face of human cruelty? If so, consider reading “Where the Crawdads Sing” by Delia Owens.

submitted 90 days ago • 1 comment

If you’re trashing your extended family on social media while everyone else in the house is enjoying one another’s company, you are the problem.

submitted 90 days ago • 0 comments

My Thanksgiving soapbox no one wants to hear? Disney destroying the public domain is the reason we don’t get fun stories riffing off old IP anymore like Gregory Maguire did writing Wicked.

submitted 92 days ago • 0 comments

The annual human sacrifice to the gods of capitalism did seem to keep things running smoothly around here.

submitted 92 days ago • 0 comments

Blue sky seems great but I wish everyone would just get on goodreads

submitted 92 days ago • 1 comment

Tax cuts that increase the deficit but make the stock market rise are just wealth transfers from the future to the current wealthy.

submitted 93 days ago • 0 comments