Grumpy Lefty Carpenter

Seems especially relevant today (and all the days after):

Wondering if the rescheduling of cannabis will make it possible for companies to have access to the banking system in ways that will make it harder to slow the roll towards full nationwide legalization.

This is the energy! 💪 ✊

logging on

Thems fightin' words! (RE: the bumper sticker, not the post).

If I had explain American history in one sentence, I could do worse than "John Brown was hung for treason, but Robert E. Lee was not."

every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”

“We assume that car use is an incompressible liquid that must be routed somewhere. But it’s more more like a gas that fills whatever space it is given.” —Ian Lockwood, Harvard Loeb Fellow, transport planner.

This is the Antifa 'network' they were talking about.

if i've learned one thing from doing union stuff while also doing other forms of organizing, it's that you're better off with people you disagree with who are nevertheless trying to do the same thing as you than with people you agree with who aren't trying to do anything

See my pinned post.

If you’re not actively choosing an ideology based on careful investigation then I guarantee one is already winding its way through your soul right now and making you its puppet.

JUST ANNOUNCED! I'm throwing a party to celebrate the release of my new album, AMAB/ACAB on Sep 20th at @deepcutsrocks.bsky.social in Medford, MA. I'll be playing the whole album with a full band! Fire lineup spans hip hop to folk punk with BRANDIE BLAZE and TIME & PLACE 🎟️ dice.fm/partner/deep...

To the surprise of no one who has used Google search for decades now.

Add this to the Black Book of Capitalism.

Seems appropriate today.

The "echo chamber" charge is pretty funny coming from folks that get their news and commentary from the NY Times and The Atlantic.

masking is illegal, unless you are doing nazi shit

Countries that headshot starving people trying to get food do NOT have a right to exist.

Deliberate starvation of a captive population. Genocide

A good 70% of the fighting over AI would have been avoided if VC hucksters (and gullible access journalists) hadn't conflated incrementally useful automation with computational sentience to make money

Globalize the Intifada.

Already happening.

Grew up believing the "All the News that's Fit to Print" line that I pretty much took for granted until around the time of the Iraq war. Luckily, I was in the cadre of folks that got radicalized to the left after discovering my error, avoiding the liberal-to-reactionary pipeline (8-lane highway?).

Oh. My. GAWD!

I've been in the woods for a couple of weeks, without access to my Bsky password info, so it's been a second since I was able to log on and see my feed. Feeling cute, maybe post some cats pics later...

Reskeet this if you want @blumenthal.senate.gov to stop introducing crappy censorship bills that make kids less safe while praising Elon Musk as a "free speech champion" (we are driving this billboard around Hartford, CT right now)

My favorite joke is about sisyphus. I tell that joke over, and over, and over, and...

The caption writes itself.

By @guyrichardssmit.bsky.social

Good ref. for folks on the front lines. Stay safe folks!

Avoid the violence/nonviolence debate. It’s a trap. The only thing that matters is what actions lead to more justice and less harm. Inaction and complicity in the face of brutal oppression is the worst form of violence. Never forget it.