LostBoyJim

I was eating with a friend in a Greek restaurant the other day when a Muslim started his evening prayers. He was in the back, and he wasn't obtrusive. We lowered our voices a notch while he prayed, but otherwise carried on with our meal. Should we have done anything different?

This entire thread is really great, and useful, with lessons learned from the election in Brazil.

Available of fresh fruits and vegetables. There is not really such a think a "seasonal produce". Wine availability from all over the globe. Really, anything that used to be limited but is not available via global trade.

You probably aren't following Carlos, but you should.

holy shit this guy rocks and maybe is the patron saint of Operations

Man, Talarico has Musk's number.

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Stolen from Graham Sutherland on Mastodon:

“I think the mistake that people in my party have made is that they confuse the separation of church & state with a separation of faith & politics. We want people to bring their faiths, their moralities, their ethics, their worldview, their philosophies to our politics.”— @jamestalarico.bsky.social

The fact that this is the framing, and not the thousands of LGBT+ children who for decades have been kicked out of their home with nothing, is infuriating.

Every human interest story is a policy failure.

Best Star Wars/Star Trek comparison ever. www.youtube.com/watch?v=12JD...

Just a masterclass here. And the leading, "do you love your dad?"

A Yo La Tengo benefit concert for James Talarico in deep blue Austin might seem like a strange place to meet Trump supporters. But over the sounds of a noisy Ira Kaplan solo, you can hear whispers that DEI is the reason a plate of migas costs $15.

The undergrad reporter here was an absolute delight to talk to. She cares so much it hurts. Her anger at what is happening was very clear during the interview. At risk to getting piled on here, I would ask you and other here: pause and give some grace. We are all navigating this nightmare together

Ok wait. He only reads Male sci-fi. So.. who's he reading? (I would say Wrong Answers Only, but the Right Answers are also likely to be pretty bad, so let it all hang out).

The targeting of one data center is proving a really useful natural experiment showing which sites and ideologies are an echo chamber of Russian propaganda

I wonder if he'll like this statue of himself?

Huh. The naked Trump statue just unveiled was #1 trending on Bluesky and then it just as quickly dropped off the entire list.

This right here. This is how you respond to their bullshit.

This is a really great quote.

I didnt know it gets funnier than a whole ass United States Senator accusing a man of being at a Hawks game in ATL when he was at a Hawkeyes game in MD, BUT... He let every media outlet know he had a big moment coming so they all saw him clown himself and watched Amy Klobuchar clean up the pieces.

Great thread. Revive the OTA! This is also why I do not support term limits in Congress (at least not until other issues are fixed), because they would increase the churn and lead to even more reliance on lobbyists to explain complex issues.

Klobuchar has Schmitt dead to rights: "The game in fact was in Maryland. For a senator to have false information & imply, based on confusion about name of a team, that you were in another city & somehow involved that day in what was happening in Georgia & call you a 'dirtbag' deserves an apology"

Whether it’s Benjamin Netanyahu empowering Hamas, presiding over a massive intelligence failure that let them kill 1,200 Israelis on October 7th, and then killing 74,000 Palestinians in response or Zohran Mamdani pointing out that he did this, both men have fueled their bitter feud.

you will encounter more opportunities in life to change the batteries on a smoke alarm than you will to run into a burning building and no one gives a shit you changed those batteries but it is still very important and why are you waiting on a burning building, know what i’m saying, it’s a metaphor

‼️ Weeks before midterms, Texas election officials have discovered that an unknown number of voter registration applications havent been processed due to an error by the DPS. The Texas Association of County Elected Officials say number could be "tens of thousands" - much of them in urban areas.

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Since the 1950s, researchers have applied the "AI" label to an incoherent grab-bag of technologies that share one characteristic: each one is designed to perform tasks that are considered to be the province of conscious minds.

Must watch.

Just In — Rep. Beatty's legal team just alerted Judge Cooper about the existence of this photo "that appears to read 'Kennedy Center DEMOLISHED.'" Doc buff.ly/aOLFtoG

As I was standing by this gas pump filling up my truck with six dollar gas I couldn’t help but think that this was a small price to pay so that every child wanting to play sports in elementary school has to submit to mandatory genital inspections

One of the most powerful videos you'll see today. Dr. James A. Makokis speaking to the historic announcement that Saddle Lake Cree Nation will defy Alberta's anti-LGBTQ+ laws and provide a safe haven for trans and two spirit people on their land 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈❤️🪶

I wish our politicians would use the parable of Sodom and Gamorrah. For lack of 10 "Good men" the cities burned. We need 6 Representatives and 20 Senators from the GOP to impeach and remove him. We need 26 good people to save the nation.

This is the obvious case. Bad Prompt does Bad Thing, but blame it on "rogue" actions.