scheopner.bsky.social - Profile | ThreadSky | a Reddit-style client for Bluesky

4.5 Trillion in tax breaks, you say? Mmm...yes...."efficiency" indeed. #Sarcasm apnews.com/article/john...

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

ready for lunar new year!

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

A friend pointed out a couple weeks ago that Bill Clinton, George W Bush, and Trump were all born in 1946 and I keep thinking about how it feels like our political imaginations are being held hostage, with occasional outliers, by a very particular generational precept of the nation.

submitted 47 days ago • 125 comments

My newest piece of flash fiction is up on @kaleidotrope.bsky.social -- what if you could live forever? With some yogacara philosophy. Maybe fun for @lastpositivist.bsky.social @neuroyogacara.bsky.social kaleidotrope.net/winter-2025/...

submitted 58 days ago • 7 comments

Honu Year!

submitted 58 days ago • 1 comment

Where are all the historians and archaeologists and "heritage" people who rent their clothes and beat their chests when Notre Dame was damaged in that fire? Your silence speaks volumes.

submitted 60 days ago • 7 comments

Did you use the Internet Archive this year to research, read, explore web archives with the Wayback Machine, or discover something new? Your support makes it possible! 👉 Like & share to spread the word. 💙 Consider donating to keep Internet Archive growing: archive.org/donate/?orig...

submitted 60 days ago • 35 comments

what is going on with Netflix Chiefs game in Hawaii?

submitted 65 days ago • 0 comments

Debt Collective members, mostly in their 60s and 70s, are begging Biden and the Secretary of Education to cancel their student loans before it's too late. These folks have more than paid off the original principal, but they remain stuck in a debt trap. Listen to some of their stories here 👇🏽

submitted 71 days ago • 3 comments

finch feeding frenzy

submitted 73 days ago • 0 comments

They also happen to be super delicious!

submitted 78 days ago • 0 comments

Imagining what headline would be for me: "[Wo]man arrested after CEO murder showed social media interest in" ... silly animal videos and scenic ocean/beach photos.

submitted 81 days ago • 0 comments

Wonder if I ran into him? "He also spent time in Hawaii, where he was a member of a co-working space, Hub Coworking Hawaii, in the Kakaako neighborhood of Honolulu, the New York Times reported." www.thedailybeast.com/person-of-in...

submitted 81 days ago • 0 comments

@sunnytailor.bsky.social Merry Christmas!

submitted 81 days ago • 0 comments

This is weird right?

submitted 81 days ago • 5 comments

Somehow, it got worse.

submitted 81 days ago • 0 comments

capturing beauty

submitted 81 days ago • 0 comments

Reminder: If you see your friend following the account of a terrible person, it's completely okay to DM your friend and say, "Hey, do you know that this person you're following/quoting/reposting/agreeing with, is terrible?" Rarely your friend will say, "Yes, I like terrible people!" But not often.

submitted 82 days ago • 11 comments

"Adams said the NYPD does not want to release the suspect’s name at this time. 'If we do, we are basically giving a tip to the person we are seeking and we do not want to give him an upper hand at all,' Adams said." I'm going to go out on a limb here and say the suspect knows his name.

submitted 83 days ago • 256 comments

Read my biography of Henri Bergson to find out about his philosophy of durée, his secret meeting with President Wilson during WWI, the experiments he and Pierre Curie conducted on an Italian medium, and why he caused the 1st traffic jam on Broadway! Order your copy here: linktr.ee/eherring

submitted 92 days ago • 6 comments

Ugh

submitted 83 days ago • 0 comments

Assad boarded a plane and left Damascus for an unknown destination, two senior army officers told Reuters www.reuters.com/world/middle...

submitted 83 days ago • 24 comments

access to wifi is critical!! gofund.me/9f8318bd

submitted 83 days ago • 3 comments

I love Reddit cuz you can follow a Bigfoot subreddit where someone asks “Can Bigfoots get human diseases?” and responses range everywhere from “yes but they’re better off because they don’t get vaccinated” to “actually the plural of Bigfoot is Bigfeet” to “the Bigfoot i saw definitely had the flu.”

submitted 83 days ago • 48 comments

Someone toss holy water and see what happens.

submitted 83 days ago • 23 comments

The guy had a $10.2 million annual pay package. Come up with that or GTFO.

submitted 83 days ago • 13 comments

Always! I’m not fishing for a thank you, I just want to know the box got to you. I’ve had too many mail parcels go missing.

submitted 83 days ago • 0 comments

Why I end up back at the evil empire … sigh

submitted 83 days ago • 0 comments

I tell this to libertarians too. :)

submitted 84 days ago • 0 comments

@elimccann.bsky.social Oh, thank god! Your account was the only reason I went back to the X zone. SO GLAD to find you here!!

submitted 85 days ago • 0 comments

I feel the distinct need to be an old man and explain that the reason for cyber Monday is not everyone had an iPhone and normals depended on their work DESKTOP to do online shopping.

submitted 89 days ago • 3 comments

“The law essentially bans price discrimination, making it illegal for suppliers to offer preferential deals and for retailers to demand them.” But it has not been enforced since the 1980s.

submitted 89 days ago • 0 comments

Black Friday

submitted 90 days ago • 0 comments

submitted 94 days ago • 0 comments

from below

submitted 94 days ago • 0 comments

Brief update on our ongoing efforts to allow users to specify consent (or not) for AI training: 🧵

submitted 94 days ago • 803 comments

big balls

submitted 94 days ago • 0 comments

I have to remind myself every year.

submitted 94 days ago • 0 comments

@mjdress.bsky.social Aloha!

submitted 95 days ago • 0 comments

"Oh God, it's Mom": With many divided families getting together for Thanksgiving, a look back at the most famous call on C-SPAN's Washington Journal www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q15x...

submitted 96 days ago • 1 comment

We're about a third of the way there in funding our special December Star Trek issue! If you're a fan of the magazine, or you're looking forward to reading the issue, help us pay 6 writers! donorbox.org/contingent-m...

submitted 98 days ago • 0 comments