New Years Revolution ✊

New Years Revolution ✊

@tekweenie.bsky.social

Just a nerd from the Midwest. Studied Music Engineering and eventually ended up in home automation.

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It was tragic when Dave’s long time friend Geoffrey had his world implode. It's a tough road for a giraffe to start over at 61. Dave didn't realize however, that the occasional commiserating drinking sessions with his good friend would lead to his own chaotic spiral to the dumpsters behind the bar.

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Also, as I have recommended multiple times: Go vote with someone vulnerable to the voter fraud conspiracy theories. Friends with a trans person who will be under suspicion bc of their ID or a brown person who speaks mostly Spanish? Don't make them go to the polls alone.

Celeste Pewter@celestepewter.bsky.social

If you haven't already, 1. Make a plan to vote, 2. Study your ballot this weekend, 3. Help your family and friends make plans too (e.g. can you take them to the polls/vote centers or drop off their ballots?) 4. Ask them to pass it forward.

And yet, Kash Patel with his beer, shaking, drunken celebration with the hockey players is still employed. 🤷‍♂️

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social

Britt McHenry is no longer in her role as a press advisor for Trump’s Department of State following a viral video that showed her throwing a drink at a Wizards game, FOS reports She had just joined the admin last month

Bring your phone into the voting booth and video this if it happens to you. Video proof will go far in many litigation.

Aaron Parnas@aaronparnas.bsky.social

Dolly Parton's sister claims voting machines in Tennessee changed her vote to the Republican candidate.

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we gotta bring back shame, man society doesn’t work real well without consequences for being an enormous piece of shit in public

“Then I looked at his legs and I said, 'Man, his feet are big.’” Sounds like a Tom Waits lyric.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "I'm studying his body. I've never studied the body of a man before. It's not my thing. Nothing wrong with it, of course. But it's never been my thing. But I looked at his ass. I said, 'His ass, shit, it's like a pile of muscle.' Then I looked at his legs and I said, 'Man, his feet are big.'"

“Obama-Garland willed helplessness” is quite the turn of phrase. Accurate.

Zeteo@zeteo.com

After years of Republican criminality and Democratic timidity, @ryanlcooper.com argues that Democrats can’t afford to “fritter away” another majority. If they don’t establish real consequences for attacks on democracy, he warns, they may not get another chance. zeteo.com/p/this-might...

Breaking: another instance were a person’s gender, sexuality, politics, personality, shoe size or hair color was a non-issue. Critics are baffled that people in hospital wards are uninterested in what’s going on with others while the are trying to be helped. We visit this Ohio diner to get answers.

cancelled-by-elon.bsky.social@cancelled-by-elon.bsky.social

The wild thing to me is no cis people are remotely bothered by sharing a ward with a trans person. It's completely an elite manufactured problem. novaramedia.com/2023/10/04/t...

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Sometimes I have an intrusive thought hoping for The One Horrible Disaster to happen in the hopes it will snap people to their senses. This is stupid of me because if the pandemic and insurrection have taught us anything, it is that people do not learn from horrible disasters. People just die.

I know, maybe we can bundle subprime mortgages in with the AI data center mortgages!

Nicholas Grossman@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social

AI is now the biggest investment in all of US history as a percentage of GDP. Datacenter construction is up, all other construction is down. "AI Is Squeezing Out the Rest of the Stock Market," reported WSJ 2 days ago. We basically bet the whole economy on the most optimistic visions panning out.

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At least MORTGAGE CRISIS we don’t have MORTGAGE CRISIS any recent instances of MORTGAGE CRISIS the market being overly fixated on MORTGAGE CRISIS one thing coming back MORTGAGE CRISIS and biting us MORTGAGE CRISIS in the ass.

Steve Rattner@steverattner.bsky.social

Data centers are booming. All other private construction is shrinking.

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Replying to @jamellebouie.net

it's such a perfect example of what is actually alito's hallmark as a justice, shoddy, sub-undergraduate thinking dressed up with five dollar words.

Could everyone finally decide where the “save image” selection will be located?!? Upper right, upper left, bottom, side… I don’t fuckin’ care, but let’s all just pick *ONE* and stick with it, shall we?

The Bears beat last year’s Superbowl champs 27 - 7 with their third string quarterback last night. Not really a sports guy, but I thought I’d let sports people know in case they were interested. I’m more of a Garfunkel and Oates “Sports Go Spirts” guy. #sports

Joe Posnanski@joeposnanski.com

The MLB Postseason is here! Come celebrate with us on a very special live video chat with @mollyknight.bsky.social this evening.

I sincerely hope @democrats.senate.gov @housedemocrats.bsky.social and @duckworth.senate.gov who want to “just move on” are listening.

Mark Chadbourn@chadbourn.bsky.social

“The disillusionment is huge. Voters are hungry for a different way of operating. Parties that take power and then try to pick up where they left off by doing the same old thing — because it’s all they know — are quickly punished.”

There seems to be no paradise on this planet the universe has bestowed on us that Meth and AIDs can’t destroy

NPR@npr.org

In mid-September, Fiji's government declared a national emergency because of a startling rise in HIV infections. The country's crystal meth epidemic is a strong contributing factor. n.pr/4z00OZG

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that 18 percent seems really well represented in the news and on social media bsky.app/profile/atru...

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Enten: "President Trump has the highest strongly disapprove rating going into a midterm election on record. 50% of Americans now say that they strongly disapprove of the job he's doing. The previous record was Trump going into 2018 ... just 18% strongly approve of the job Trump is doing."

AI feels a lot like Trump’s war with Iran. They rush in headlong thinking it will be an easy operation to develop general artificial intelligence. But when shit doesn’t turn out like they hoped and they lose both money and popularity they want someone else to get them out of this whole shit show. 

“Bravely ambivalent” 😂🤣 An-dy! An-dy! Good to know ostensibly left or left leaning politicians have no spine and refuse to be pinned down world wide. Here’s to the spirit priest and the Levite in the Samaritan story! Woot!!

Alex Hall Hall@alexhh.bsky.social

Wey hey!! Two cheers. Hurrah! I’m almost, but not, quite, mildly excited that something might not be ruled out in a few years time. Way to go, Andy. Bold, bravely ambivalent, solidly ambiguous, resolutely vague leadership, at last. 🙄🙄🙄 www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Replying to @owillis.bsky.social

I can already hear the Schumer speech Jan 3, 2027. "Now is the time for our republican colleagues to get to work with us to fix the affordability crisis in America."

I miss the old El Ranchero chips that were greasy and had way too much salt. You’d sometimes get the really thick one where two were stuck together or just a big blob of corn tortilla with a grid pattern where the machine wasn’t working quite right. Good stuff. The new ones? Meh. Needs more salt.

Whoa, I’ve never heard that one before. Sounds like something an authoritarian or fascist would say. Thanks for the heads up, I’ll have to be suspicious of anyone spouting that kind of nonsense. It’s like someone swearing an oath to a person instead of the constitution. Or someone grifting people.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin: "The only way you can take a republic country like the United States and turn it into a communist country is by causing chaos on purpose and then saying, 'hey look, government is a mess. You need us, the communist country, to rule you.' It's insane."