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lakeeffectlabs.bsky.social
Board game designer in Erie, sad lefty and baseball fan
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Quite enjoying watching the South Africa vs Nicaragua game

Odds of Asteroid Hitting Earth in 2032 Climb Again as Impact Probability Hits New Peak https://gizmodo.com/odds-of-asteroid-hitting-earth-in-2032-climb-again-as-impact-probability-hits-new-peak-2000565149

also you do not have to think like a political operative, you aren't one and honestly most political operatives are wrong about stuff, just care about what you care about and care loudly

#Erie Times- #News on FEED www.goerie.com/story/busine...

Leones del Escogido of the Dominican Republic win the Serie del Caribe!! 🇩🇴🇩🇴🇩🇴🇩🇴🇩🇴🇩🇴 Which means Albert Pujols adds Serie del Caribe championship-winning manager to his lengthy list of baseball accomplishments Baseball is the best!!

Neo-Nazis appeared in Lincoln Heights (metro Cincinnati) Ohio and got ran out of dodge… but not before locals stole and burned their swastika flag in the street.

Need that Welland Jackfish "Rose City Baseball" logo on a t shirt

Students in #Houston are walking out on strike. "Most of the Houston ISD school's approximately 2,700 students walked out at the start of their second period to protest the Trump administration's immigration crackdown." www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...

On May Day 2006 - a massive general strike by immigrant workers and their supporters defeated draconian anti-immigrant legislation. Utilizing disruption on a mass scale through strikes and student walkouts, people mobilized millions. Latest from @crimethinc.com. crimethinc.com/2025/02/05/t...

But shall this crazed old man be tamely suffered to drag a whole ship’s company down to doom with him?

Protest Held in Warren Highlights Community Concerns

A couple of Democratic senators and members of Congress are holding a press conference outside of USAID HQ to protest the attempted takeover/shutdown attempt by Musk's DOGE group

HAPPENING NOW

2 months ago this is what elected officials from opposition parties in S Korea were doing in the middle of the night as their President attempted a coup.

House GOP members are figuring out which of Trump's promised tax cuts to propose into law and how to pay for them. Among their targets: slashing benefits for single mothers and the poor who rely on government health care. By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & @justinelliott.bsky.social

Yuck Elon, and Yuck Twitter Gold 🤮 It costs around 12K a year…. What a horrible waste of money, Instead of doing that, we are giving $1000 to a different charity each month this year. Starting with Doctors Without Borders!

biggest fear for myself personally was losing medical insurance once trump took office, and now he’s showing his intentions. I need very expensive, life sustaining medication. I rely on Medicaid as my secondary insurance. and I don’t even have it nearly as bad as millions in this country.

spotted at the grocery store what is this world who is this for

Been thinking lately. Necessity breeds innovation. All of the tech oligarchs have so much, they only can only think to throw ever more money at projects. So they end up stagnating or collapsing. This pattern seems to be emerging in a lot of areas of the American economy.

“They forgot to grease the historical markers” is a sentence that has never been said before and could not be said in any other city

My weekend project will be wrapping up a Popeye pulp action TTRPG for a game jam using newly public domain characters, will post here when it's done!

Elon isn’t a brilliant anything. He’s a fraud who had money at the right time and has built a career using that money to create the illusion that he’s an accomplished genius. He’s a sociopath with a well- established history of subterfuge and theft.

Hackers targeted climate activists and there's an allegation that a lobbying firm working for ExxonMobil ordered the attack. This week, there was a new turn in the yearslong case. From @michaelcopley1.bsky.social on @npr.org's climate desk. www.npr.org/2025/01/24/n...