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And I always thought they called it an X-wing because of the shape
Remember: if it’s in the Midwest, it’s New Jefst!
Remember that NASA was only able to *start* because the rich were being taxed at 90+% marginal rates.
Now, *you* pay a greater percent of your income as taxes than any billionaire.
You're just not gonna get NASA back without billionaires paying taxes again.
My “I did not shoot the deputy” t-shirt…
That’s exactly what the heavily indebted children will do. Which also solves the problem of caring for the elderly. Win-win!
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I took a picture of this cat on the job, patrolling a neighborhood park
You grew up in a Hunter S. Thompson book?
Text screenshot: Terminal facility physical address The physical address for the Data Transfer Terminal facility will not be provided. Instead, the Process owner and Data transfer specialists specified in the reservation will receive an email with the searchable public name of the Data Transfer Terminal facility. AWS Data Transfer Terminal uses the same location identification system as AWS Direct Connect so you can search for the public name on the internet to locate the Data Transfer Terminal facility. If you do not have an email with this information, confirm with your AWS Data Transfer Terminal account manager that you are included in the Transfer team and that your email information is correct.
The bar is high, but this might be the most batshit insane thing I’ve ever seen in the AWS documentation. “To find the address of the facility, google it.”
A bison sitting on dirt, body facing away from the viewer but head turned to look back at the viewer. It’s a very large animal.
They’re definitely big!
Taken today at Yellowstone, from behind a fence as a group of them lounged by one of the hot pools.
Let's discuss the *actual* charges against Judge Hannah Dugan using the Complaint against her.
tl;dr - she sent the man in question into the public hallway where agents there to arrest him watched him walk by and did nothing. 1/
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Yes, this is all about phones and the vices they supposedly inculcate, and has nothing to do with the fact that K-12 education has been forced to teach to tests for decades and constant messaging that the humanities are useless indulgences.
Nobody who thinks empathy is a weakness should be a parent, or go anywhere near government
“We can’t even do some eugenics for tax reasons” is certainly a take.
Q: How evil do you have to be to cut a Dolly book program?
A: Pretty f*cking evil.
Solution: Dolly for Prez!
Dolly Parton Calls Out Indiana Gov Over Plan to Dump Her Imagination Library www.thedailybeast.com/dolly-parton... cc @drjengunter.bsky.social
America has plenty of territory and the urge to empire is maybe the most reprehensible urge there is, the provence of wretched men who mistakenly fancy themselves magnificent. Those who desire conquest should be condemned and shamed.
It's not that money is bad, it's that it should not accumulate in stagnant pools and it must not be allowed to control the means of production or levers of government, because then it becomes a high score in a game where the points are also the cards you play.
When I look at the fear this man thrives on. What he wants to project and sow onto so many. The fear and anger that his supporters want to sow into everyone, I immediately relax. They want fear. More fear. Fear keeps people under control. And I won’t be under their control
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Ok, fine, I wrote about what is apparently going to be the dominant issue of American politics for the foreseeable future. God help us all.
🧵On the Broligarchs' Hostile Takeover of the US Government
And why this is the logical endpoint of 40+ years of marinating American minds in the anti-democratic dogma of "everything should be run like a business."
We're citizens, not customers; firms exist to produce profits, not public goods.1/x
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Cozy Caturday
(Tiny Tim voice) God bless us, everyone. defector.com/the-2024-hat...
Not gonna be sharing any "wraps" for the years but we will share our Bandcamp. This is where it matters. This is where bands benefit. This is where fan support counts. The only streams that matter are the streams of dollars that directly flow to the artists. Wrap that!
pitchblackmanor.bandcamp.com
I wrote about the societal diseases of billionairism and narcissism that our country is suffering to a terminal degree, the reasons why building communities is the most effective treatment for it, and what that means for The Reframe.
www.the-reframe.com/we-cant-affo...
The "bluesky is an echo chamber" think pieces that keep popping up really tickle me because they show how certain people genuinely believe social media should be for debating and arguing and not talking about the things that make you happy and sharing art with the world.
I’ve been saying this since forever! Running from values and abandoning the most vulnerable in our communities won’t be the win folks try to paint it to be. If this election taught us nothing else, it should be this. Lean into values harder!
I teach a class on data science here at Illinois and during the seminar I host a competition for the class called "The Hunt for the Worst Data Visualization."
This was my most popular post on Xitter, so reproducing some of the best submissions from previous years here:
This was the motto of every allegedly responsible institution in this nation when confronted with the task of applying the clear rule of law to Trump for the past eight years.
