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Husband, father, licensed therapist (your favorite therapist’s favorite therapist), disability advocate, progressive, capitalism with guardrails, fighting for democracy and equality 🏳️‍🌈 Views are my own.
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This is probably the most accurate take.

submitted 16 days ago • 2923 comments

learn about the Black Panther Party free breakfast program learn about the Zapatista uprising learn about Jane learn about the Kensington Welfare Rights Union learn about STAR learn about Act Up learn about the Battle of Blair Mountain learn about the Spanish Civil War we are not the first

submitted 15 days ago • 108 comments

I sincerely don’t know why people aren’t physically stopping those dorks. Move shit. Lock doors. Lose the keys. Everyone switch seats. Turn off all the lights. Switch the signs on the elevator lobby. Make the settings all silly. Use a different language. Wear costumes. Fill rooms with balloons

submitted 26 days ago • 1766 comments

Here it is. This is abominable.

submitted 33 days ago • 96 comments

Not the banner you want seeing over this article from … checks notes … 8 days ago

submitted 33 days ago • 122 comments

I want everyone to understand that rescission of 1965 antidiscrimination orders is literally resegregation and for reporters in the room to press them accordingly also the gall of revoking the *Equal Employment Opportunity* directive. man affirmatively said 'I want unequal employment opportunities'

submitted 40 days ago • 36 comments

Let’s talk about resistance after a conqueror takes power. Specifically let’s talk about this bendy yellow building, and what it shows us about the moment the Florentine Republic finally fell to its kleptocratic/proto-capitalist banking-fortune Medici conquerors 1/?

submitted 42 days ago • 54 comments

Since they’re now in office doing what they said they were going to do I’m going to re-share my analysis of Project 2025’s potential impact on FEMA. www.disaster-ology.com/blog/2024/12...

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

Traditional New Orleans architecture under the snow. #sneauxday

submitted 41 days ago • 80 comments

A universe in motion seen from the International Space Station during a night pass over Earth (view fullscreen).

submitted 42 days ago • 244 comments

submitted 42 days ago • 526 comments

“Don’t feed the trolls” also extends to bad opinion pieces in papers of record. They run them bc people react to them the most. If we stop linking to bad columns and instead post thinkers we find valuable (& generate convo around it), incentives change. It’s not easy and takes constant practice!

submitted 91 days ago • 2302 comments

Before & After: I don’t think people realize the extent to which parked cars degrade public space.

submitted 99 days ago • 239 comments

🔥 🗣️STURGILL SIMPSON: “This toxic patriarchal energy is an age coming to an end… that energy is clawing for its survival bc it knows it’s dying. We’re heading to something beautiful, we just have to go through some dark shit first. So love everybody.” (H/T @wutangforchildren.bsky.social )

submitted 99 days ago • 622 comments

i either read for 8 hours straight or don’t touch a book for 8 months there is no in between

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submitted 102 days ago • 65 comments

Remember when there were a rash of manhole cover explosions in large cities? Have we had an update on that? Still something I need to keep in my anxiety Rolodex for future sleepless nights?

submitted 102 days ago • 0 comments

It was the Busta Rhymes It was the Wusta Rhymes

submitted 103 days ago • 317 comments

Bluesky now has over 20M people!! 🎉 We've been adding over a million users per day for the last few days. To celebrate, here are 20 fun facts about Bluesky:

submitted 104 days ago • 3193 comments

Hey, I love you

submitted 105 days ago • 2 comments

Bluesky, you’re a dream. Self verification, without the monthly charge and headaches of dealing with a support team as middleman. Breath, meet fresh air.

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submitted 106 days ago • 271 comments

The crosswalk here is just…sheer perfection

submitted 109 days ago • 0 comments

I, for one, welcome this new approach.

submitted 109 days ago • 0 comments

It’s wild, but not altogether shocking, that billionaire capitalists have succeeded in monetizing our right to public comment and oversight—indeed democracy itself.

submitted 109 days ago • 0 comments

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submitted 110 days ago • 675 comments