safety third!!!

@petershankman.bsky.social !

There are 32m small businesses in the USA

Here's the last 40 seconds of Bulls/Lakers. Insane ending.

Text STOP to opt out of updates on war plans.

Can’t emphasize this enough: if you’re feeling overwhelmed by the debased assault on our country, the antidote is connecting with other people in the flesh who are feeling the same way. There are millions of us.

"Nonetheless, holy shit" is the funniest possible Krugman reaction

The stock market is not the economy. The stock market is not the economy. The stock market is not the economy.

Nonetheless, holy shit.

What’s remarkable is that there’s hardly any real news driving this. It’s just investors belatedly realizing that Trump is who he is, and always was.

Imagine being so insecure that you not only have to control a popular speech platform and demand it amplify your own voice over everyone else's, and modify the algo to pump up your supporters... But then also need to post biased "do you like me" polls to pretend what you're doing is actually popular

Claudia Scheinbaum, President of Mexico, in the centre of the image in a purple dress on International Women’s Day, 2025. A search around on google fails to turn up an image credit unfortunately, I found it on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/AccidentalRenaissance/s/MGhF9O80FL

HANG IT IN THE LOUVRE.

(President of Mexico on International Women’s Day)

omg! i didn’t know you did the design. thank you! and we do have patches!

a phenomenal gift from the archives from Jane Eric

Tired: Drum circles // Wired: Air horn circles

Queen & Annie Lennox & David Bowie - Under Pressure - HD YouTube video by derci luiza Gobbi

holy hell. i’ve never seen this performance before. chills.

youtu.be/fCP2-Bfhy04?...

Opinion | Human Interaction Is Now a Luxury Good We’re increasingly becoming a society in which very wealthy people get human care, like concierge medicine and private schools with tiny class sizes.

QOTD: “Human interaction is now a luxury good.”

(via Jessica Grose in the NYT via @benjaminwachs.bsky.social )

www.nytimes.com/2024/12/04/o...

It may feel weird or somehow improper to talk about your art or your writing, but we need it. It can’t be wall-to-wall nightmare all the time. Art is both counterweight and context. It’s escape and enlightenment and a mirror of our own exasperation. We need it. We NEED it. Keep showing us.

i have not yet!!!!!

Huzzah!

a pancake printer printing a pancake

@craignewmark.bsky.social hi, craig.

hi.

*fog

that was Santa Nella, CA

we had a TON of folk just after that on the drive up just east of I-5 in CA

this morning. no filter. santa nella, ca

such a great track

Montana Court Blocks State From Refusing to Correct Sex Markers on Transgender People's Birth Certificates and Driver's Licenses | American Civil Liberties Union HELENA, Mont. – A Montana court has granted a preliminary injunction preventing the state of Montana from enforcing policies that bar transgender...

More good news out of Montana following last week's state Supreme Court ruling blocking their ban on gender-affirming care.

A judge has now also blocked their effort to deny trans people self-identification on birth certificates and driver's licenses

truth

ty! and i’m out! lol

confession: i am aware of whamageddon, but would literally need to look up what is the xmas wham song because i don’t think i actually know which song it is