A 1% annual wealth tax on billionaires in Illinois would, by itself, balance the budget.
A 2% wealth tax on billionaires would pay for universal single payer healthcare for everyone in Illinois.
Tax the billionaires.
*whispers* So if a rich person gets the same free stuff as a poor person I don’t care bc at least the poor person is getting it
A full disc image of Earth, as seen from the Orion Crew Module. The planet is a pale blue, swirling with white clouds and glowing slightly lighter blue in place from reflected light. At lower left, a large brown landmass is Africa, with Spain and Portugal with twinkling lights where the planet curves. At top right, auroras glow in a thin green glow, just barely separated from the planet's surface. Earth is set against the black of space (pic: NASA/R.Wiseman)
More context on this #Artemis II image:
* This is the night side, lit by moonlight. You can see city lights in Spain & Portugal, & a sliver of day at lower right
* The Sun is entirely behind Earth, which makes it a kind of solar eclipse, but w/ Earth doing the eclipsing instead of the Moon:
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I can't speak for other fields, but programming is headed for a future where the Morlocks eventually die off leaving a generation of Eloi who will be fine as long as the Second Law of Thermodynamics is wrong.
Cover of GORGON WITH THE WIND on a blue seashell background with the words: Now Available! Small town, cozy, crime solving, romantic.
Maybe today is one of those days you could use a cozy little mystery. Here you go: books2read.com/u/mKj1X5
A cluster of sky-blue five-petal flowers with white centers on top of greenery with a mix of clover and other such things.
Baby Blue Eyes! We converted a strip of our yard into wildflowers last autumn--well, we planted the seeds--and now our first flowers are blooming! Can't wait to see what blooms next!
Same.
Heck to the yes!
I feel like there is a need to repeat this every now and then: I do not use AI for *anything*. All my writing is 100% my weirdo brain doing my weirdo thing and that will never change.
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Okay let's go!
Cover of GORGON WITH THE WIND on a bright swirly background.
Need a cozy little break to round out the month? GORGON WITH THE WIND is one week old today! It's got Medusa trying to re-start her life. It's got Death's book club. It's got a wily witch, a reluctant seer, and murrderrr... (Print is out now too!!) books2read.com/u/mKj1X5
A new Ilona Andrews! TOR also backed a bunch of special editions with sprayed edges and the like. Check you local bookstores!! Or for print check bookshop.org. They sell the ebook and print: bookshop.org/p/books/this...
Happy world backup day! You should take this day to reflect on what backup plans you have for your computer data. There are many options, but you should apply the 3-2-1 rule:
• Three copies of your data (including the "live" copy), on
• Two different media, with
• One offsite.
#WorldBackupDay
If anyone needs to ADD works to the claim they already filed with Anthropic, the link is here: (you'll need your claim# & email used to submit the claim) secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/update-infor...
Green, weedy grove. In the foreground are two wooden, toothy, six-armed, green buggy aliens. In the background is their flying saucer, also wood. Way in the back is Bob, the kid alien who wants ice cream, instead.
These folks were on a road trip near Ordinary, Oregon. We gave them directions to the best fish and chip shop.
An apparently outclassed Eowyn in mortal combat with Angmar, leader of the Nazgûl. The style is of a bold woodcut.
In a forest, the Hobbits Merry and Pippin sit on the “arms” of the Elk Treebeard while discussing matters with him.
The destruction of Mount Doom. Lightning bolts fire out from a mountain’s summit while a blast carries away its mid-section.
“The Grey Havens” - Three figures on a hill watch a lone ship sail out to sea. The trip ahead is shown to be sunny, leaving behind the rainy skies over the land being left behind.
Some of the small spot illustrations by Eric Fraser that accompanied the Radio Times magazine’s weekly listings for the BBC’s 1981 radio adaptation of Tolkein’s “The Lord Of The Rings”.
One of the most interesting things about UBI trials is they often use relatively modest amounts of money per participant, yet see massively outsized gains even in studies that seem like they were designed to show failure.
It is a resilient system, hard to sabotage. Put money in pockets, see results
Universal Basic Income works. It works extremely well because what people need is cash, trust, and dignity, not paternalistic bureaucratic hoops to jump through to exist. And yes we can afford it because the lack of it is very costly. UBI should be seen as an investment with a large expected return.
Moving is looking at everything you own and wondering if it's worth the effort of lifting it.
Hand-drawn sign with a happy Kermit the Frog sitting in the center. Above him are musical notes and a rainbow with the words: "The lovers, the dreamers...No Kings."
Time to break out my favorite sign:
Man walks on a basic income from an old project to a new project. Behind him is a orange sun over a yellow sky.
Basic income is not a replacement but a floor. The "basic" is not what it is or how much it is, but where it is.
Thank you. At least I hadn't added the chocolate chips yet.
Woe. My gluten free chocolate chip cookie dough did something weird that gave the mix a metallic taste. I'll have to try again with all fresh ingredients. Still, it's a bummer to throw cookie dough away. Sigh...
That would be fun, for sure!!
Can you imagine how fast we could replace fossil fuels if the US government wasn’t actively trying to sabotage the effort?
Elizabeth Banks
Friendly reminder: Whatever problems you have today are precisely the fault & responsibility of the Republican-controlled Senate, Republican-controlled House of Representatives, conservative-majority Supreme Court, Republican Vice-President & Republican President running this farce of a government.
Showed up magically the other day, as well as "Gorgon With The Wind - An Ordinary Oregon Mystery" by @devonmonk.com, both short enough to distract me from @adapalmer.bsky.social's "Inventing the Renaissance: The Myth of a Golden Age"
Graphic of GORGON WITH THE WIND cover and a list that says: If your wishlist looks like this... Small town, beach town, friendship, crime solving, sleuths, Medusa (yes, that Medusa), gods and monsters (oh my)
My new cozy mystery is three days old! It's full of fun stuff, like Medusa solving a murder, and the ex-queen of hell trying to run a book club. books2read.com/u/mKj1X5
