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Just got an unintentionally hilarious email from the Social Security Administration. The only scammer I’m worried about stealing my personal info right now is DOGE, you got tools for that?

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Ex NFL player @chriswarcraft.bsky.social protesting the inclusion of a MAGA acronym in the Huntington Beach library plaque at last night’s council meeting. He was arrested and cited.

submitted 4 days ago • 236 comments

I hope America is as lucky as the delta jet - everyone survives but the right wing explodes

submitted 5 days ago • 1064 comments

My water heater died this morning but I also got this in the mail today (thanks, past me!) so it’s not all bad, cold showers on Valentine’s Day notwithstanding.

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

The Partition of India displaced 20 million people, killed almost 2 million & created a refugee crisis whose effects are still in play over 70 years later, if you actually think it's a model for anything but massive catastrophe, you should not only not be employed here you should be in a padded cell

submitted 10 days ago • 90 comments

I think it's worth repeating plainly that a federal judge halted Musk's federal funding freeze nearly two weeks ago but funds are still very much being frozen in violation of the court order.

submitted 11 days ago • 182 comments

Banks, payday lenders, and credit card companies can now scam Americans with zero consequences because there is no longer a functioning agency to hold Wall Street accountable. This is a coup and your Members of Congress need to hear from you: indivisible.org/coup?source=...

submitted 12 days ago • 65 comments

The viral post goes far and the explanation barely gets noticed, a tale as old as time

submitted 13 days ago • 3 comments

real straightforward calculation finds that Cybertrucks are 17 times more likely to have fire fatalities than the Ford Pinto fuelarc.com/evs/its-offi...

submitted 15 days ago • 64 comments

attempting to describe the vibes of the moment. have yet to do better than: "imagine watching a documentary reenacting the burning of the Library of Alexandria set to the soundtrack of 'Yakety Sax'"

submitted 17 days ago • 145 comments

If you work for the federal government and are tempted to take Musk’s “buyout” offer please know that you’re never going to see that money.

submitted 17 days ago • 130 comments

"All that Trump managed to accomplish was to anger local water districts & farmers who lost more than 2 billion gals of water that flowed, unused and unusable, into the dry lake bed of the Tulare basin, where it will be unavailable to farmers in the coming hot season.” thehill.com/policy/energ...

submitted 18 days ago • 4 comments

In a new own-goal world record, a Stanford professor and one of Minnesota's designated experts in deepfake AI was disqualified as an expert in defense of an anti-deepfake statute because he used ChatGPT to help write his expert report and cited the hallucinated academic article titles it spit out.

submitted 18 days ago • 14 comments

Generally, 'fewer' is used when a number of things can be counted ("fewer problems") and 'less' is used when an amount is measured ("less trouble").

submitted 19 days ago • 18 comments

New: Why practices to connect us with our own humanity, each other, & perhaps something bigger, really matter now— And can help keep us more whole, less responding on their terms & more on our own, more making choices as the people we wish to be. Practical tips & bigger picture here:

submitted 20 days ago • 20 comments

Little missy murdermittens has decided my higher purpose in life today is to be her bed.

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

We're just going to leave this here…

submitted 22 days ago • 12 comments

Pretty big deal. @bookshop-org.bsky.social is selling ebooks now. You can now support indies while purchasing digital books. bookshop.org/ebooks

submitted 26 days ago • 150 comments

Hello new folks! I see a lot of "Hey, is there a starter pack to help me find [interest/group/my people]?!" Here's a big #directory of #StarterPacks so you don't have to reinvent the wheel! blueskydirectory.com/starter-pack...

submitted 101 days ago • 8 comments

Placing a hold on an e-book at the library feels like giving future me a gift.* *Usually the gift of five of these suckers coming in at once and all needing to be read in 3 weeks. 😬

submitted 31 days ago • 1 comment

I don't think we can share the side-by-side of Elon Musk doing the Nazi salute next to Nazis doing the Nazi salute enough.

submitted 32 days ago • 348 comments