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sparbtastic.bsky.social
rhetoric and tech comm prof || all posts are my own views, sometimes shitposting but more often just reposting existential dread
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My advice to disaffected young men is to get a squire p bass and join a band and your whole women only date rich guys reactionary politics vibe will seem pretty silly when a lady breaks up with her real estate boyfriend to date your broke ass

If you're 60, 69.1% of all job growth since your birth occurred under Democratic administrations. If you're 45, that number is 74.7%. If you're under 30, the number is 100%.

Once again, I am giving up for Lent

Dear Media: Halting all aid to Gaza is not "pressuring Hamas." Collective punishment is a war crime. Starvation as a weapon of war is a war crime. Withholding medical care is a war crime. None of this is remotely controversial actually. Israel is doing war crimes, not "pressuring Hamas."

2 things can be true at the same time: 1. America’s universities are under attack & it is a crisis 2. OMG Harvard is NOT “the soul of higher education” & its crises pale in comparison—“pale” feels too weak a word— to what state, regional, & community colleges—ie the actual soul of US higher ed—face

NO OTHER LAND won an Oscar without a US distributor. Stunning. #Oscars #NoOtherLand

This is exactly what many of us that are not NOAA employees are worried about why this impacts more than NOAA.

still in shock (even with all the insane things going on) that to get any scrap of useful human-produced information in 2025 you have to add the word "reddit" to every google search

like a month ago a lot of people started making this point - from the left - that anti-trans legislation was absurd because there weren't that many trans people, and like... it seemed very obvious that the unintended takeaway from that was going to be "oh not a lot of votes on the line"

NEW: Senator Marshall (R-KS) RUNS AWAY, fleeing his own town hall after being asked about DOGE firing Veterans. MAKE HIM GO VIRAL.

Thanks to everyone who participated nationwide!

The TL is bleak but Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, donated her Tesla to @npr

Please read—this is becoming serious!

We want to send a message to the world: what has happened today is an absolute disgrace. It is completely un-American.

A guy who used to be a comedian & is good at improv and dealing with hecklers and who has also spent the last 3 years in a war zone turns out to be a guy you can’t out-alpha, imagine that

Supporters Praise Trump For Upholding Traditional American Value Of Supporting Murderous Dictators For Political Gain

Slava Ukraini! 🇺🇦 ✊

Yay!! A federal judge in California sided with a coalition of unions, temporarily barring the Office of Personnel Management from ordering federal agencies to terminate probationary workers, stating that the firings were ‘illegal, should be stopped, and rescinded.’

fascinating to watch a global superpower tear itself apart for no good reason

Since we started the Elon Musk boycott, Tesla shares have dropped nearly 26% in the last month. Remember, don’t buy anything Elon.

It is really hard to watch people willfully tear down an infrastructure that allowed us to double lifespans, drastically reduce poverty, and become one of the richest countries in the world.

We really need to stop supporting media outlets that aren't willing to do the right thing And the right thing to do is get off of X, and switch to Bluesky Like The Guardian, Le Monde, and others on this list have

The reporting on the trans travel visa ban is criminal. It does NOT only affect transgender athletes. The cables CLEARLY say it affects all trans people. They can reject visas on point 6 of anyone who is requesting a visa that does not match their assigned sex at birth.

The first measles death in the US in a decade -- the tragic, preventable death of a child whose parents chose not to protect them with vaccination -- should spark an immediate nation-wide campaign to ensure all children are protected against preventable diseases. Anything less is unconscionable.

Clothes, household appliances, cars. Beef, beer, tomatoes. Gas, lumber, building materials. The Tax on Working Families will impact items that we use every single day. apnews.com/article/trum...

Tenth Circle Added To Rapidly Growing Hell theonion.com/tenth-c...

Brave to @jeffstein.bsky.social, WaPo's chief economics correspondent, for not wasting any time in stating what must be stated. Hopefully the first of many.

Virtually Imperceptible Facial Expression Sends Shock Wave Through ‘White Lotus’ Fan Base theonion.com/virtual...

El Capitan displays a massive American flag upside down—the traditional signal of distress or extreme emergency.

Come on

Where I think different fonts would stand on trans issues, a thread

trillion dollar industry that will revolutionize everything

We need to create a culture of solidarity. Boycotts and strikes are effective. February 28th, join us.

Public comment is now open for passport gender marker changes. You can go here to go to each of the three proposed passport rules, and submit comment. My suggestion: be unique, argue for trans-inclusive policies, against the constitutionality of the changes, etc. www.reddit.com/r/Passports/...

If i were president i would issue an executive order stating that everyone had to love each other and listen to CDs and then I'd push through universal healthcare

There have never been kings in America. The monarchy doesn't start now.

Fiery speech from Gov Pritzker raising the alarm and urging us to fight back against the trump/musk administration. He’s sounding the alarm because it took the Nazi’s a little over a month to dismantle a constitutional government. But with all of us together, can fight this because we must.