On today's installment of Things That Don't Suck, we bring you Not Your Average Joel ;0)

This is not normal. A sitting president refusing to call the governor of a state after two elected officials were shot, one fatally, is beyond words. A typical president, regardless of politics, would pick up the phone. Offer condolences.

In addition to gutting Medicaid and SNAP, the House Reconciliation bill takes aim at the clean energy boom 🔋🌱

Slashing clean energy tax credits = slashing jobs in your own district 💼⚡️

Let’s see how that plays out 👀

Hurry up

The brief sounds brilliant, and I think I would enjoy reading it.
But I do have one question: why would a 158 page book cost £128?? That's prohibitively expensive for me.

Alt text: Love understands every colour of the rainbow.
Love is more than binary.

Love understands every colour of the rainbow. Love is more than binary

Who did this? 😂

I agree.
He has.
But it won't matter.
His MAGA base will always adore him and thr judges he bought are afraid to upset him.
So he'll coast along like everything is fine.

There's no way he'd bring those back. He's eradicating any mention of progress or innovation by anyone whose not white.
They're both POC marketing icons, no way they get a pass.

Yes.... conditionally.
I try to, if not love everyone, then to at least think we'll of everyone.
But I was the victim in a 7 year abusive relationship. She actively tried to destroy me. To her, my suicide would have been a victory. There are still psychological scars.
She gets no love from me.

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The man cannot speak without belittling someone.

Assorted Haiku Haiku #2511   Tourists wait in line to enter Machu Picchu. Oh, look! A high queue. Haiku #564127   how dare you suggest I have a short attention spanish omelette   Limeraiku   There once was a young limerick from Kew who turned into a haiku. The Constraints of Haiku   Tied up all night with a haiku dominatrix and her three-line whip.   Shakespearean Haiku   Shall I compare thee To a summer’s day? Alright – Thou art pretty hot.   How to Write a Haiku   The last line should flow seamlessly from the first two – hippopotamus.    Brian Bilston

It’s International Haiku Poetry Day today apparently so here are a few haiku with which to start the day.

Can.
Won't.

A lot of Americans do NOT want Universal Health care. I asked a friend about why. His explanation was simple.
"Why the f#@k should I have to pay for Jimbob down the street to get a new liver? Let him pay for his own damn liver. What's he ever done for me?"
That's America, in a nutshell.

Oh, I hadn't considered screen readers. Thanks.

This is the start of the police state that 47 wants.

That's what 47's government wants. (Well, the Heritage Foundation does.)
They want a population that's too uneducated to think for itself.
It's easier to control a population that never learned critical thinking.

Question for you: I was once criticised here on Bluesky for not using alt in conjunction with a picture I posted.
Thing is, it was a picture of text on a wall. If you can read these words, you vould have read the words in the picture.
Should I have added an alt description of the text in the pic?

It is. But those heels look painful.

To call it a "Tariff plan" is a bit of a reach. His use of tariffs was to manipulate the stock market to benefit his Insider Trading scheme.
That's what people need to be investigating.

Start wearing a blue hat.
Ball cap, cowboy hat, propeller beanie, whatever. Make it blue.
The MAGAts are known by their red hats. It sends a message.
Start sending a blue message.