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Hope it was worth it to stop a few of us from peeing.

submitted 21 days ago • 202 comments

Rep Zephyr’s speech flips 13 GOPs, trans bills die in Montana Trans people have been scapegoated so effectively (among older people) that we're flooded with models of how to hate. But when people hear the love behind why we stand up for each other, we win. Bravo, @zoandbehold.bsky.social!

submitted 49 days ago • 32 comments

KNOBS AND CRANKS KNOBS AND CRANKS

submitted 57 days ago • 771 comments

When I was a Hill staffer in 2009, a Dem trifecta was trying to pass universal healthcare. In response, Senate GOP released a memo detailing all of the tactics they in the minority could use to delay the effort as much as possible. I'm recirculating that 2009 GOP memo here. Take inspiration from it.

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Ever wonder what snow in the swamp would look like? This is 5 miles into the Louisiana swamps in the Atchafalaya basin... it's unreal... having lived down there for the first 28 years of my life, we never saw anything like this. Smashed records. Curtesy of Garrett Roberts.

submitted 90 days ago • 1260 comments

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.” Diary of Anne Frank January 13, 1943

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Sorry America but after Jan 31 no industrial size Kirkland Signature for you if the workers don't get their due

submitted 94 days ago • 27 comments

here, have some fish from 2002

submitted 95 days ago • 375 comments

I have been thinking a lot about how becoming more informed and aware over the next four years in a way that’s really useful might mean more books about history and less getting sucked into the daily firehose of bad news which is the present

submitted 96 days ago • 42 comments

If Tiktok got bought by Meta, either in part or in full, I'm deleting that shit.

submitted 96 days ago • 0 comments

Free Palestine

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A proposed rule would raise wages for disabled workers, @byashpeterson.bsky.social reports. Advocates urge the public to comment by Jan. 17 on a DoL proposal that would put an end to allowing employers to pay disabled workers less than minimum wage. prismreports.org/2025/01/15/d...

submitted 100 days ago • 0 comments

after days of grifters and con men at CES we stumbled upon the booth for VLC. they were all dressed as wizards and told us, "we have nothing to sell, we just decided to show up". i told them I'd been using their software to pirate media for 15 years and they said "keep doing that"

submitted 105 days ago • 332 comments

being a faggot is the greatest joy of my life

submitted 110 days ago • 138 comments

Dear Denmark, I'm sorry I made fun of how mumbly the Danish language is. If you do this I swear I will learn Danish, I'll eat herring every day, I don't care. Please.

submitted 121 days ago • 0 comments

There's this ancient usenet post by the creator of Babylon 5 I tend to cite periodically. The gist was that nerds read or watch a lot of nerd shit, and good for them, but they do it at the expense of everything else, dramatically shrinking their frames of reference.

submitted 122 days ago • 20 comments

HMart is open tomorrow. You're welcome.

submitted 122 days ago • 6 comments

Net Favorability of Elon Musk among: All Americans: -5% Men: +19% Women: -25% Quinnipiac / Dec 16, 2024 / n=924

submitted 125 days ago • 6 comments

I am not ready before 12 on Sundays. Franz Kafka, 1914.

submitted 138 days ago • 1 comment

People sometimes make fun of science that sounds stupid and random. Meanwhile, a study of lizard saliva turned into a peptide medication, which was turned into a diabetes medication, which was turned into a GLP1 weight loss drug, that just became the first therapy every approved for … sleep apnea

submitted 126 days ago • 377 comments

Sorry, what election did Elon Musk win? Why the fuck does that little beady eyed prick have any say in any legislation?

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