Phil050pher

Phil050pher

@phil050pher.bsky.social

Librarian, writer; I find refuge in forest and garden; I am consoled by philosophy.

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Here I am in the health "care" system, an object being evaluated, tested and examined by superficially smiling and polite "care" workers for whom I'm just another widget to be moved along the assembly line. Bleed, x-ray, sample--Next. We are living souls trapped in a cold, technological juggernaut.

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Take a moment and think about just this: The president of the United States has lost his mind. Moreover, he is vicious, vindictive, and his increasing dementia is making him increasingly disinhibited. The most powerful man in the world is a dangerous madman. Be afraid. Be very afraid.

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In Springfield, OH. I have lots of sympathy for the people living in this community. Only a few years ago the had to deal with the “They’re eating the cats. They’re eating the dogs” fiasco and now the loss of so many jobs.

Catherine Rampell@crampell.bsky.social

In Springfield, OH, nearly 1,400 workers were laid off at truck factory just days before Trump rally. Layoffs were large enough to basically erase an entire year of job growth in the greater Dayton, Ohio, area. apnews.com/article/trum...

Take a moment and think about just this: The president of the United States has lost his mind. Moreover, he is vicious, vindictive, and his increasing dementia is making him increasingly disinhibited. The most powerful man in the world is a dangerous madman. Be afraid. Be very afraid.

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SHOUT-OUT to all proud members of the MAGA-Resistance Movement in their defense of the Kennedy Center. It will NEVER have the Orange Felon's name on it, just as it will continue to be the Gulf of MEXICO, Lake ONTARIO & the Department of DEFENSE. #AccountabilityIn45Days 🌊 🌊 🌊 🌊 🌊 🌊 🌊 🌊 🌊 🌊 🌊 🌊 🌊

Peggy Shinners@pshinkicker61.bsky.social

Americans taking to the streets to stand up to the malignantly narcissistic megalomaniac. #HandsOffTheKennedyCenter #VoteBlueNoMatterWho

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The New York Times did not blink. The Times: “We won’t be issuing a retraction." But they didn't stop there. "This is another all too common example of the president lashing out at coverage he doesn’t like and belittling journalists who report the facts.”

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⚠️ Be careful with VoteSafe .org. It is NOT an official voting website. It’s tied to Elon Musk’s America PAC and collects a lot of personal information from people who use it. Before you hand over your name, address, phone number, email and voter information, know who you’re giving it to.

Aside from taking away jobs and bolloxing things up with hallucinations, just what is it that AI is supposed to do to us? I hear a lot of dire predictions that it will kill us all, but exactly how? What can it do when we have sledgehammers and wire cutters?

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This Labor Day, if you've ever benefited from:   — The weekend — 40-hour work weeks — Workplace safety standards — A minimum wage — Paid time off   thank a union.   Unions don’t just improve working conditions for their members, they help every American worker.   Happy Labor Day!

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These were courageous people who believed they were fighting for their country. For their own president to dismiss their sacrifice as 'small potatoes' is beyond disgraceful. It's a profound insult to the very people who were willing to put everything on the line for their country. Shame on Trump!

Lynne@msviking.bsky.social

They were not small potatoes.

I am so tired. Every day I get up and brace myself, looking to see what fresh hell has been visited upon us. Meanwhile, as an early and enthusiastic adopter of new technologies, I gaze out at the wasteland and despair. Enshitification is the word of the year applying to all things. Yet I keep going.

Have you noticed that it's the Right, Christian Nationalists and the male supremacists, who want to oppress others? Who want to pass laws and wave guns and threaten people who aren't like them? The rest of us are like, hey, we just want to live our lives. Just leave us alone. Let's coexist, okay?

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🇺🇦President Zelenskyy: We paid tribute to fallen Ukrainian warriors. Every day of free life on Ukrainian soil has been won by our defenders – the people who stood up to protect their nation, their right to be free, and gave their lives for it.

Evil. Everything the US government does is evil. There is no other way to describe it. Their actions and policies maximize suffering, destruction, misery and horror. They crush hope, mock ethics, lie shamelessly, sneer at humanity. Those who do not oppose them, excuse evil. Which is more evil.

I am so sick with anger I want to scream and smash something. To cut down the iconic cherry trees for a golf course--it's so stupid, malignant, utterly insensitive--I am furious. I mean, yes, so much suffering has been caused by this psychotic coprophage, but this...THIS...🤬🥵😡🤬speechless with rage!