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Seattle-based Product/UX Designer. Previously at AstrumU, Textio, Black Pixel, and Mule Design. Currently #opentowork. Husband, father, dog guardian. Pacific Northwesterner. https://tomcarmony.com
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Uline's owners are the 2nd biggest political donors to Trump, so found a non-MAGA alt rec'd on Reddi: EcoEnclose. For shipping boxes for original comic art, so I got EXACTLY the size I wanted. It's half the price once you add in shipping to my house from Uline. EcoEnc $120.32 vs Uline $238.38.

lol “getting a GIFT, FREE OF CHARGE,” yeah that’s the problem my guy

If you're not watching "Andor", you really should. It's the best Star Wars. And it's so very relevant to what is going on in the world today, as evidenced by Mon Mothma's speech to the Senate in the most recent episodes. This isn't a spoiler, it's just a major moment worth sharing: #Resistance

HAY FOLKS this is a VERY reasonable and feasible goal, and it's to help a friend further their education and get a good, accessible job. Please kick in if you're able!

It shouldn't have to be said but if you're law enforcement and you have to cover up your face while doing your job, you are not the good guys in this situation.

The arrest of Newark Mayor Ras Baraka is a warning sign of just how far Trump and his allies are willing to go to silence dissent. This is not normal. It’s authoritarian behavior, plain and simple.

Cassocks are red Conclaves are dope Wake up babe we got a

once again my full throated support and endorsement for any democrat who pursues criminal legal accountability for the DOGE boys. and i’d be fine with shipping these guys to the Hague

The rats have chosen a new pope.

this is a grim bunch of questions but i do wonder -- how much homelessness will this cause, and with what systems, authority, and exactly how does the administration expect to accomplish this... www.cnbc.com/2025/05/06/h...

NEW: Data reveals Musk has delivered 0.25% of promised federal spending cuts Musk initially promised $2 TRILLION in annual spending cuts. He's on track to deliver $5 billion. And that's being generous. Here are the receipts

I feel really stupid asking again

Do these things not have parking breaks?

We can’t afford healthcare for everyone because we need to spend that money dropping planes into the sea

Wait… another one fell into the ocean?!?

When asked if the United States should have a military parade to show off its might, President Eisenhower responded: “Absolutely not. We are the pre-eminent power on Earth. For us to try and imitate what the Soviets are doing in Red Square would make us look weak.”

just so we’re all clear: the reason they keep using dolls as their example is because they’re trying to frame caring about material stuff as feminine and thus inherently shameful

Fucking corporate consolidation strikes again. Giant shitty publicly-held Rite-Aid buys, dismantles, and destroys a century-old local drugstore chain: www.seattletimes.com/business/why...

64 days with no aid reaching Gaza. No food, water or medicine. Children are starving. Netanyahu’s extremist government now says it will occupy Gaza & put mercenaries in charge of distributing aid, instead of the UN and other aid groups. Despicable. No more US support for Netanyahu’s war machine.

Probably the purest distillation of Trump’s neomercantilist ideology that any time you import something you’re automatically losing. He can’t even grasp the concept of a mutually beneficial transaction.

Pay attention. The fascists are carrying peaceful social workers out of town halls. Insane.

This is an astoundingly good interview. The LA Port Director explains very clearly how profoundly trade is coming to a screeching halt. This summer will be tough.

We recycle, keep the thermostat at 65 in the winter, and have a compost bin. Then there's this asshole. www.sustainability-times.com/sustainable-...

grew up with the media depiction where they rip out a guy’s still-beating heart and eat monkey brains and we still managed to win all the spelling bees m, I think the white boys can survive the message of “don’t be a rapist”

There's a Crisis of Masculinity in this country and the only way to solve it is to let me act like a cross between a baby and a movie villain

It’s funny because I grew up as a Black kid during the 90s and if “people think we’re bad” was as determinative as it’s being depicted me and everyone I know should be dead by now.

Saturday afternoon dogwalk soundtrack music.apple.com/us/album/liv...

THIS IS OUTRAGEOUS. First Trump illegally sent a child’s father to be imprisoned without trial or due process in El Salvador. Then ICE grabbed her mother to be deported to Venezuela. But despite the mom saying she wanted to leave with her daughter, ICE is keeping the baby!

1/2 Those who have stood up and said HELL NO in court have won nearly all their cases, and in many have made Trump back down. (See also: China, vs Trump tariffs.) Those who surrendered in advance found Trump asking for more. (See also: Paul, Weiss; general history of appeasement.) /cont

love to make america great again by essentially expelling the people that enrich our children’s lives

No surprise that this experiment didn't work out... futurism.com/professors-c...

Truly, amid the gloom, do not miss this. Fighting back can indeed pay off.

Authoritarianism functions in predictable cycles and Trump is currently laying the groundwork for using state violence to meet organized resistance. So much depends on what we do now and how we meet this moment. jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/an-escalat...

Thursday morning dog walk soundtrack: music.apple.com/us/album/kin...

House Republicans killed a measure that would have stopped ICE from being able to deport or detain U.S. citizens. “Your bill will deport more kids who are American citizens with cancer,” Rep. Eric Swallwell asked. His statement was met with complete silence.

RFK during Wednesday's cabinet meeting: "During the Biden administration HHS became a collaborator in child trafficking for sex and for slavery. And we have ended that and we are very aggressively going out and trying to find these children, 300,000 children that were lost by the Biden admin.”

AMAZING! A Winamp skin museum (wow does this bring back memories)… skins.webamp.org

Dear god let this man cook.

this captures so perfectly the way that the boosters of AI don't understand at all what AI can and can't do

I still can't believe we have an actual carny running the Department of Education (into the ground).

I feel like @anildash.com really sums up corporate AI-use mandates so well: www.anildash.com/2025/04/19/a...

These are getting close to the virtual ceiling for polls (e.g., 10% of Americans will say they have been abducted by aliens). Trump's policies are wildly unpopular and should be treated by the press with the contempt they deserve.

Undocumented mothers and their U.S. born children were deported. Attorneys for the families say federal immigration agents planned everything. "She was trying to get ahold of a phone to try to call her family and her attorney. But she wasn’t being allowed.”