Melissa HS

I love when you have clear and obvious proof of companies buying your data. I've never seen a @royalcaribbeanintl.bsky.social ad on my phone, searched them, interacted with any content, & definitely never gave them my email address for any purpose. But I just got a promo email from them! Yay spam!

it's not just that Mamdani is charming af (he is), it's that he is normalizing the idea that children are full members of society that we all share a collective responsibility for

A worthwhile thread to go all the way through

Aside from all the other reasons I won't be mourning Charlie Kirk (note: this is not the same as taking glee from political violence), it's difficult to feel bad about a situation when the person affected actively advocated for more of that exact situation. Like idk what else you wanted man 🤷‍♀️

“awful people don’t deserve to be killed, but they don’t deserve to be praised, either” is apparently a thought too complex for the pundit mind

My feed is almost entirely people condemning violence and telling others not to celebrate this.

Charlie Kirk's political and social opinions are hateful garbage. And he has the same right as anyone else to express them without fear of being shot. Political violence suppresses all free speech, not just the stuff we agree with.

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He also comes uncomfortably close to endorsing a genetic explanation for poverty reduction. The simple fact is that America's most effective anti-poverty strategy is Social Security, a program that gives unrestricted lump sum payments to old people. No culture change necessary!

This is a common conservative trope: Giving money to poor people isn't enough, we need to focus on "cultural values" like hard work and marriage. The problem is that red states have been doing that for decades and it doesn't work! Telling people that jobs are good doesn't help if there's no jobs.

Also that they hate institutions of education, but still rely on the credentialism…

My unpopular opinion: in emergencies, power should be kept working on a hierarchy with residents at the top, essential agencies/orgs next, and going from there. In any black out warning, data centers should be required to shut the f down to immediately free up grid space for more important users

"So here's the plan -- we impose massive tariffs on the nations that sell us food." "Hmm." "But it's OK, because we just rely more on states like California that grow a lot of the same things." "Oh, I guess that ..." "And then we go to war with California."

GOP closing message on their budget bill

Okay so there is in fact a way for elected officials to be on social media but in a bad way. Don't...Don't do this everyone

San Diego is not having it. Love to see it. By coincidence, earlier today I was listening to the ep of the Conspirituality pod where they talked about how fascists (and cops) don't actually want a fair fight. If you outnumber them, they often run away. Feels relevant to the lil scamper seen at 58s

My daughter’s speech therapist went out of business because Medicaid reimbursement rates were too low. We do not have Medicaid. I’m going to keep posting this until people understand that when Medicaid gets cut *everyone* loses services.

As ample comments have said l, nothing is less funny than blatant desperation. It would be pitiable if he weren't the kid that ruins the game for everyone else if he doesn't win every time. I truly don't understand how this man has fanboys, he's just such an out and out loser

I want better transit and safer bike/ ped options because I hate driving & think it's a very stupid activity. Me, when driving: why is this my job? Why isn't someone who's much more trained than me doing this so I can just read a book or scroll my phone? Nothing wrong with selfish motivations imo

lmao it’s not even very close

“We must end gender ideology,” say the people who believe that heterosexuality should be enforced with state violence and that women should have the legal status of permanent children.

Zuckerberg is just openly saying that conservative views aren't biased. Whether he really believes that or is just doing it because he's uvula-deep on trump's boots is basically a moot point, and he's deeply pathetic either way.

foreign governments regulating american social media companies? bad, horrible, censorship the us government banning and/or facilitating a sale of a foreign social media company? very good and pro-freedom of speech actually. 🙄

it is, effectively, a view that nothing should be done to solve any problem if there might be a trade-off somewhere for someone who you could code as “marginalized.” it is just anti-government conservatism with a different aesthetic!

Been trying to think of what going back to work feels like and it's this

This thread is the dream