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"Seriously, I don’t care how much it costs. Take every dime I have. But know this: I would level my house to the ground before I paid slightly higher property taxes to fund infrastructure that would prevent a landslide from leveling my house to the ground."

submitted 59 days ago • 48 comments

Found this an interesting listen. whyy.org/episodes/an-...

submitted 62 days ago • 11 comments

Admitting you don't know something is like a superpower. That's how you learn. Most of the problems in the world are caused by people pretending to know things they don't

submitted 78 days ago • 17 comments

I am tired of begging for help but if I don't, my family could die of hunger, donations have disappeared and we are left without food, we need around €850 to survive this week, FOOD, WATER, MEDICINES URGENTLY💔🇵🇸🍉 #MutualAid #Freegaza #Freepalestine www.paypal.me/MahmoudAhmad... goget.fund/4eGOovZ

submitted 94 days ago • 2 comments

This whole thread—all of it—about how rigged this game feels, and how you can do everything right and still have things go wrong that should never go wrong.

submitted 94 days ago • 14 comments

Took me a bit but I've found the framing to put into words a way to express to the people fretting about the death of the UHC CEO why we just aren't heeding their admonishment: The social contract stipulates that all life is sacred, and Brian Thompson violated it. But it's more than that.

submitted 94 days ago • 80 comments

The fact that this is the woman exposed the most powerful man in conservative media as a monstrous sexual predator when he preyed on her is a reminder that, for better or for worse, solidarity and empathy are optional. You can just not have them if you don’t want to.

submitted 95 days ago • 5 comments

most politically destructive american penises of my lifetime, ranked: 1. anthony weiner 2. hunter biden 3. hulk hogan 4. bill clinton

submitted 98 days ago • 7 comments

Trans bathroom bans are bad for all of us, for MANY reasons. Aside from their obvious discrimination against trans people—what they say, at heart, is “You body, especially what’s in your pants, decides what rights you get.” I hope cis folks, especially my fellow cis women, see the dangers here.

submitted 107 days ago • 38 comments

I don’t know why people are annoyed by mutual aid posts and not just sad that we’re in a society that constantly puts people in situations where they have to mutual aid post

submitted 225 days ago • 3 comments

all we have is each other do your fucking part

submitted 234 days ago • 1 comment

okay so currently: a cybersecurity provider called crowdstrike has knocked out massive swathes of business operations all over the world, from airplanes to hospitals to tech to tv stations, forcing computers into a boot cycle. They rolled out an update at night that was faulty

submitted 234 days ago • 21 comments

@mskellymhayes.bsky.social Have you heard of any organized write-in campaign regarding for pres. for the IL primary? I was going to write-in Tlaib, but if their is a push for something like "ceasefire" in NH or "uncommitted" like in MI I'd like to write in for the one w/ most oomph behind it.

submitted 387 days ago • 1 comment