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Ground control to Major Tom… Mostly just reposts. Occasionally I have something to say.
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I would like to nominate Maxwell Smart for national security advisor.

"I love you so much. You make me so happy," I heard my wife exclaim. I was temporarily stunned by the outburst of emotion and felt so happy. I walked towards her to give her a hug and realized...she's talking to the cat.

Dublin, CA? On St Patrick's Day? The universe has a sense of humor.

If there's no due process literally no one is safe.

Too much is at stake not to keep up the pressure on the Senate Democrats up to the very moment of the vote.

i think if you still defend dem leadership after this you should be studied in a lab to figure out what’s wrong with you. unfortunately that lab has also been defunded

Only takes 23 Senate Democrats to remove Chuck Schumer from leadership and replace him with someone willing to fight

It is amazing how fucking awful @schumer.senate.gov is at his job.

'Did you even say thank you?'

An important rarely-seen historical photo: Some of the first female #Zen students in America, sitting with Shunryu Suzuki-roshi at Sokoji temple in the early 1960s, before Roshi founded San Francisco Zen Center. [Photo from the Betty Warren collection at cuke.com, digitally enhanced]

This is money already owed. For work already done. They’re asking SCOTUS to let Trump run the government the way he runs his businesses.

This morning at Dept of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) HQ in DC as mandatory return to office began, this video played on loop for ~5 mins on screens throughout the building, per agency source. Building staff couldn’t figure out how to turn it off so sent people to every floor to unplug TVs.

One of our supporters shared this with us—people are getting creative tonight!

We could just be reading great books, watching good movies, and eating fruit. Instead we have to survive/fight miserable power hoarders. What a waste of limited time.

The AMA has a YouTube page where you can catch up on all the fun, ongoing TB & bird flu outbreaks, since the CDC is no longer allowed to do that: youtube.com/watch?v=HlPB...

The real reason why the Kansas City Chiefs lost the Super Bowl: This Eagles fan had a Patrick Mahomes voodoo doll at the game last night.

Something I’ve always wanted from the NYT, but that I can’t remember it ever doing, is for the newspaper to show some professional indignation about being grandiosely lied to.

This is also a valuable resource for sky users theblue.report

I just wanted to note for the record that we have a decorated Iraq war veteran who flew combat missions in a Blackhawk as sitting member of Congress! Who also happens to be a woman! And if you don’t know who Tammy Duckworth is, you’re in for a treat (complimentary).

Amazon is looking to spend “considerably more” after pulling much of its advertising from X more than a year ago, while Apple may return to the X after pulling all of its ad dollars from there in late 2023 —- per WSJ I’m sure Elon’s heart goes out to them in a victorious Sieg Heil.

I've assembled a team of the most horrible perverts and criminals you've ever seen and we're going to fix this country

Dr Fauci treated a US health care worker infected w Ebola in Sierra Leone. "Even when you have optimum facilities-the disease itself is truly devastating." Fauci says he also wanted to show his staff that he wouldn't ask them to do anything he wouldn't do himself www.science.org/content/arti...

Hell is empty, And all the devils are here.

RIP, king www.vulture.com/article/davi...

The Supreme Court ruled corporations were allowed to donate unlimited amounts to politicians in 2010. It only took them 6 years to take complete control of the government and 15 years to mark sure their voices are the only ones the masses ever hear again.

Just finished reading Merve Emre’s piece about Paradise Lost in the New Yorker. I was so impressed I went looking for her here on Bluesky. Here she is interviewing another admirable writer, Sally Rooney.

Assad Returns To Ophthalmology At Moscow LensCrafters

Nice winter walk amid the pre-vaccine graves

“A contagion of love swept the world”

I had polio when i was 9. I was taken from my parents & placed in a Hospital for contageous diseases- the polio ward. I would see them once a week - thru the glass window at the end of my ward. I could not walk. It was terrifying. Kids died. Iron lungs were awful. Dont let RFK Jr ban the vaccine

I love it when people complain to me directly about having too many cats in their timeline, as if I'm the bluesky cat czar and I have a giant cat content mixing board where I can adjust their personal cat levels.

Sometimes I think, "Compared to geological time, living things exist for only little blinks," but other times I think, "actually, life is one continuous chemical chain that first formed billions of years ago and every mountain range that existed back then has long since crumbled away to dust."

Hey y'all? This isn't twitter. This doesn't have to BE twitter. You don't have to try to MAKE IT into twitter. That place turned into a toxic mess long before musk bought it. And you can leave it BACK THERE. You really can.

I keep reading that this is a place for kinder people, but gentle souls have always been among us. We just couldn’t hear them anymore. Perhaps our gathering here is proof that we missed those voices. What a wonderful thing to believe about ourselves. It can be a bold move to choose kindness.

Pat Nixon and Justin Trudeau, 1972: