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icamon.bsky.social
Previously Botchamonica
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Look none of this is difficult. The billionaires want us to hate each other. They're buying every newspaper and social media company to flood the space with bots and hate speech to keep us fractured and divided. And we could do that - and tear each other apart - or we could try to fix things.

submitted 48 days ago • 34 comments

Israel has burned northern Gaza’s last remaining hospital. And kicked out its patients, including neonatal and ICU patients. I picked a western news source since y’all seem more likely to believe those. I don’t know how else to get people to care. www.nbcnews.com/news/world/h...

submitted 61 days ago • 1 comment

Explaining to my three year old that Elmo has to go away because he wasn't providing enough value to shareholders. My son turns to me and says "while I personally enjoy Sesame Street I understand that corporations must put their obligations to shareholders above consumer demands."

submitted 72 days ago • 43 comments

Black women are three times more likely to die from pregnancy-related causes as White women. Doulas, midwives, nurses and obstetricians are explicitly preparing Black women to speak up loudly for themselves in the delivery room.

submitted 73 days ago • 30 comments

HBO has declined to renew “Sesame Street” for new episodes. The series that’s been teaching generations of little kids since 1969 now has no studio. Please consider donating to Sesame Workshop to ensure the residents of 123 Sesame Street are still around to teach kids of all needs and backgrounds.

submitted 73 days ago • 179 comments

People tolerate their own immiseration under capitalism because they're under the mistaken impression that they too may one day become a billionaire and when i become a billionaire i plan to use my immense resources to disabuse them of this fallacy

submitted 72 days ago • 30 comments

Kyle Rittenhouse is allowed to get away with murder. Daniel Penny is allowed to get away with murder. Cops get away with murder all the time. The people pearl clutching about this CEO killing are really concerned with who was killed, not the act of killing.

submitted 79 days ago • 50 comments

If McDonald’s employees are finding shooters cops don’t need to make more than $7 an hour.

submitted 79 days ago • 17 comments

In 2025 (less than 30 days away), PayPal will start selling your transaction history for targeted advertising. I very highly recommend logging into your account and going to Settings > Data & Privacy > Personalized Shopping. If you're reading this, turn that off RIGHT NOW before you forget.

submitted 83 days ago • 388 comments

A tearing, howling explosion collapsed everything in milliseconds. I didn’t see the ceiling crack or the walls crumble. I only felt the sudden, crushing weight as the world above came down. It wasn’t like falling, but like being smothered into the earth.

submitted 81 days ago • 2 comments

A propos of nothing, UnitedHealthcare declined to cover my husband’s ambulance trip to the morgue because his insurance policy lapsed at the second of his death.

submitted 82 days ago • 641 comments

How often does everyone get summoned for jury duty? I swear I get a letter at least once a year.

submitted 83 days ago • 1 comment