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The morning #bee 🐝
The news is terrible so it’s time to deploy the dangle leggies. A sustained campaign of dangle leggies and some horse blinkers 👀

Yes 😂🤣

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dhuartson: Don't let anyone talk you out of spending $15 on a new hobby. That $50 will be the best $400 you ever spent.

This is not wrong.

The acting head of the CDC has canceled publication of a study showing the Covid vaccine sharply cut hospitalizations and emergency visits last winter.

There’s a moment when studying American history when you realize that with less than a handful of exceptions the Presidency has been filled with criminals, grifters, moral deviants, and
mediocrities, and the fairly recent development of treating the office like a king is a nation-shattering tragedy.

If someone can’t clearly say “Yes, Donald Trump lost the 2020 election,” they shouldn’t be confirmed to anything.

oh no republicans not your petard, no dont hoist no stop not your own petard bros

I've started getting weirdly defensive on behalf of clowns every time someone calls someone in the administration one. Clowning is an art! Those guys train for YEARS! Most of us could absolutely not do what skilled professional clowns do!

Also SO MANY PEOPLE want to vote and are struggling because they have to stand in 10 hour lines or they need ID that is expensive/hard to obtain or they can't get off work and the absentee process is confusing.

Start with folks who already WANT to vote but just need help ffs!

What qualifies as "for public consumption" tho? Is it only things created to be exchanged for money? Does cosplay count? Regular street clothes to add to your own wardrobe? Gifts for friends & family? I mean, I'm a creative person as a hobby, not just a potential profession. Is the rest forbidden?

"There should be a rule that if your headline speaks of a coming global catastrophe it can’t be behind a paywall "

Fully agree with this! My gift links keep expiring! Hanieh's essay on Iran war shockwaves on "fossil food" has been archived here: archive.is/202604180716...
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it also hasn't had a negative impact on his circumstances (other than maybe on his soul). he's doing fine. you don't get to call what he has going on a disability and equate it to actual disability until it impacts him negatively, sorry. there's no correlation between what he is and what I have

A screenshot of the pre-order page for the Dragon Age: Wedge of Destiny Shield Pillow showing it is 70% funded with 9 days remaining.

👀🧀👀

omg I've been away from work for a week and !!! we have only 15 more to go before we get to make the full production run of the Wedge of Destiny!!!!!!!

dear #DragonAge fandom please help us make this thing🙏

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The message of the Right reacting to Virginia is the same as the message of "2020 was rigged": no victory by anyone but us is ever legitimate. We are the only ones allowed to win.

These people are cartoon villains entitled to no respect and no trust. Rabid dogs.

Why do luddites have a reputation for being backwards hicks who can't understand technology? Have you heard how execs talk about folks that refuse to use chatGPT? It's in the best interest of capitalism to erase the vital history of protest, action, and heroism that defines these movements.

::taps mic::

This would be horrific no matter what it was referring to. But "cleaning up the risk pool" by eliminating vaccines just means you kill a bunch of people WHILE ALSO creating a whole new "risk pool" of people with post-viral issues.

lol

I do think tech companies are underestimating the amount of
- new account fatigue
- new app fatigue
- useless upgrade fatigue
- terms of service fatigue

‘Long Buried’: Inside a cold case hidden for 44 years After human remains were found during the construction of a new home in April 2024, it took investigators nearly two months to identify them. When they did, the mystery only deepened.

The first 3 eps of my podcast, “Long Buried,” are out now. It delves into the mystery of a woman who disappeared in 1980 and the secrets that spilled out after her body was found 44 years later.

It would mean so much to me if you subscribed, rated and reviewed!

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And she was right

"The Trump era is what happens when you systemically under-prosecute white collar crime. There is no Donald Trump, Paul Manafort,...Steve Bannon, or Trump Org in an era where white collar crime is prosecuted with anything close to the vigor of the lowest-level drug cases in a major US city."

"This couldn’t be a simpler scandal to sum up for the American people, if anyone cared to do so: This is Donald Trump ordering the looting of the public treasury for his own benefit."

One of the hardest + most important things to learn as a creative. Stop waiting to make your “opus” — keep going, get better

digital art. crying cat. text above the cat: has to do more than 1 thing arrow from text points to the cat

This, with the caveat that all the creative writing you’ve done as a child & teen counts toward those million words.

Red States Thought They Could Stop Abortions. They Ended Up Stopping Only the Lifesaving Ones. Abortion bans are failing.

Abortion rates in red states have not decreased, aside from medically necessary ones. Pregnancy has become much more dangerous. slate.com/news-and-pol...

It’s also worth reading all 22 bullet points and asking yourself “would any of these be out of place in Mussolini’s Italy?”

I’m not saying Alex Karp is a fascist. I’m just saying he’s giving voice to a business-model-with-a-political-philosophy that just so happens to fit comfortably into fascism.