Torrey Podmajersky

I received this email shilling Trump Accounts from the SSA, and now I have an IRS letter shilling TrumpIRA accounts. Wtf is wrong with these people?? This is a misuse of taxpayer funds and a misuse of the govt machinery we built. I want my rep to investigate.

It’s somehow more depressing that our constitutional order is being dismantled by people who demonstrably cannot find their own asses with both hands.

Does my Speak-n-Spell feel pain when I type O-U-C-H? The jury is out. Philosophers and neuroscientists say that's fucking stupid, but I called a guy from the Center for Pretending that Household Electronics Are Sentient and he said there's no way to know for sure.

omg. i love this version so much

This has really cracked open something for me. I had been thinking about free speech discourse in terms of hypocrisy, but this illuminates a much more consistent throughline (derogatory).

The Ford app just added AI. This is the greatest thing ever.

When the powerful playact powerlessness it is always a ploy to avoid accountability.

There is a scene in the movie Gandhi -- I'm not historian enough to know how true it may be -- where Gandhi is fasting to urge the end to sectarian fighting. And after he is quite ill from malnutrition and the fighting has largely stopped, he is visited by another delegation pledging peace...

Our society's unfathomable cruelty to homeless people is not just morally unjustifiable, but more expensive than housing people would be. Cruelty against the homeless is an unaffordable luxury. Abandoning homeless people to avoid offending the Protestant work ethic is an unaffordable luxury.

How deeply sad it is for somebody to dismiss the improbable greatness of a great thinker or artist as merely improbable. The dismissal reveals their misunderstanding of their own talents and their cloudy discernment of complexity.

This is a picture of two women from the Vernon Cadet Training Centre, which holds summer programming for 12-18 year olds to develop skills on the way to adulthood. Unlike Secretary Hegseth, they do not deserve contempt or ridicule.

Think about Miss Piggy. She lost a best friend and now an ex-lover in matter of 24 hours.

let's do UBI for her, she'd want us to

The Library is devastated to learn of the passing of Dolly Parton, a music legend and titan of children's literacy. Her Imagination Library program has earned multiple Library Literacy Awards and, in 2018, she visited us to donate its 100 millionth book to our collection and host a story time. 🦋❤️

People joke that Marx couldn't have written 9 to 5 but that Dolly could have written Das Capital. It's not really a joke to me because I believe it to be true: Dolly understood the pressures of class just like Marx did, but she was able to speak to the masses in a way that Marx could never.

Dolly Parton, among a thousand other amazing things she did in her life, gifted over 330 million books to kids through her Imagination Library program. Her passing is a tremendous loss to the world, but you can support the program today to keep it going imaginationlibrary.com

Same. Jim Henson, Prince, Dolly...

Oh Dolly. 😭 youtu.be/aDqqm_gTPjc?...

Here's your daily reminder: Trump and Republicans are kicking 15 million Americans off their health care so that people like Mark Zuckerberg can buy another yacht.

Lyin' Lutnick continuing to lie. 🙄

Fresh tomatoes, hard boiled eggs, feta cheese, garlic salt, and a drizzle of olive oil. Yum.

Library funding is tied to usage.

Analysts estimate that 70%+ of Microsoft, Google and Amazon's present and future AI revenues are from Anthropic and OpenAI's compute spend and model sales. Outside of two unsustainable AI labs, demand barely exists, and they've massively overbuilt capacity. www.wheresyoured.at/the-ai-deman...

Acting U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche, whose nomination advanced in the Senate on Tuesday, told faith leaders in a call that he would take action to restrict mail-order access to abortion medication, @kelciemmorris.bsky.social reports. stateline.org/2026/08/04/a...

"Oh you want to play sports, honey? Well, you know you'll have to show them... ::meaningful look and shame-avoiding squicky face:: THIS IS ABOUT SHAMING ALL GIRLS OUT OF SPORTS while ALSO persecuting trans folks.

This is depraved

A must read for anybody delighted by smart women who advocate for good things, like tribal rights in the Upper Peninsula and elsewhere in the Great lakes. @alexisdahl.com I'd love to see a story about her. She may not be geology, but she had an iron core.

I have just been sent the transcript of a deposition my grandmother gave in 1977 while she was serving as an expert witness in a series of tribal rights cases and let me tell you, if nothing else this is proof that I come by it honest for every conceivable value of “it”

lolol I've said it before--the tech comms on this feature rollout have been abysmal, ESP at a time when end users are ENTIRELY JUSTIFIED in skepticism and caution in every other digital arena.

this comes up a lot and is worth remembering as a general rule: any detection system where 1) true positives are rare and 2) false positives are costly is going to have tons and tons of misses unless it has phenomenal, basically unachievable accuracy. AEB, shotspotter, airport security

85% of the US beef market is controlled by 4 corporations. This consolidation boosts the profits of these corporate giants at the expense of independent farmers and consumers. Our Family Grocery and Farmer Relief Act would break up these monopolies and lower costs.

Shorter Trump admin: Obey or Die

Important context: No matter what Mullin says, the president and his administration do not have any legal authority to withhold any funding from states that don't adhere to their preferred election policies. None.

It is a very particular kind of joy to see a friend's work cited in a scholarly article.

I appreciate this software developer's take on developing software with Claude, at least in part because it mirrors my content designer experience using LLMs to content design.

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