You should print out your Social Security Statement. Elon and who knows how many countless others now have access to your private information, so it'd be wise to have a record of it.

Journalists flock to Bluesky as X becomes increasingly 'toxic' Journalists are finding more readers and less hate on Bluesky than on the platform they used to know as Twitter.

Bluesky is winning because both twitter and threads have gone out of their way to make their platforms inhospitable to reputable journalists and news. @kattenbarge.bsky.social reports:
www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-...

"You can keep the dime" would definitely have them wondering ...

Tfw the furniture store maybe overdid it on the "all natural materials" sofa.

Tfw the neighbor decides to start up his new snow blower at 5 a.m. "just to see if it works."

r/movingtoillinois is an interesting read (Read it all)

The stunning success of vaccines in America, in one chart America, before and after vaccines.

This is so worth seeing.

"Just go over there, shitlibs! We don't want you here!"
*we go*
*they look around*
*they catch the first bus for Bluesky*

Big surge in trolls. And not the funny or entertaining kinds. Block immediately. Not a scrap of engagement.

The 2018 Farm Bill expired, the first time, on Sept. 30, 2023 and was extended for a year. So Dems AND the GOP have known FOR TWO YEARS that they needed to work on a new Farm Bill. Neither party saw any urgency in getting a new one done.

Nutrition titles make up over 70 percent of the Farm Bill policy and spending, farm programs are less than half of the "Farm" Bill. The current bill, the 2018 Farm Bill was extended once. That extension expired Sept. 30. Stabenow (Senate Ag Dems chair) just yesterday introduced a new Senate version.

Sorry, just found this in a search for Farm Bill to see if the convo had moved here. Yes, the Farm Bill is, indeed, in trouble. Project 2025 effectively ends the Farm Bill and cuts both the nutrition titles (SNAP, WIC, school nutrition, etc.) and the commodity titles to bare bones.

mate if Bill Gates wanted your farm he'd program the chip in your brain to get you to sell it to him

Clarkson fumes as he's reminded of why he bought his farm “So it’s not about you, it’s not about your farm and the fact you bought a farm to avoid inheritance tax?”

Clarkson fumes as he’s reminded of why he bought his farm.

“So it’s not about you, it’s not about your farm and the fact you bought a farm to avoid inheritance tax?”

Clarkson previously admitted that he bought his farm to reduce his IHT bill.

Victoria Derbyshire is a national treasure!

McBride responds to effort to ban transgender women from Capitol women’s bathrooms Rep. Nancy Mace said earlier Monday she was introducing a measure to amend the House’s rules to prohibit transgender women from using women’s restrooms at the Capitol.

This bathroom ban from congressional Republicans is pathetic mean girl behavior from a party that wants to spend time sowing hate instead of passing budgets!

The farm bill (as it happens) is 2 years late because republicans can’t prioritize American families.

www.politico.com/live-updates...

Rylance is physically the opposite of the descriptions (and paintings) of Cromwell but so much closer in behavior and mannerisms and emotions than James Frain (who played Cromwell in The Tudors). IMHO, that is.

You can tell BlueSky is doing well because it is now apparently a hotbed of woke communist anti-American illegal-immigrant-loving liberal elitist transgenders.

It appears skeets are just disappearing in to the ether after one hits "post." Not the first time this is happened, but an annoying Bluesky growing pain.

Rep. McGovern: "What the hell is going on here? And their cabinet picks so far -- I mean, these are like beyond insane. Someone who is credibly accused of having sex with an underaged girl ... someone who has said tap water turns kids gay. I mean, this is the dream team? Really?"

So for all the folks interested, or based, in #Wales here is an easy (non-comprehensive!!!) list of 150 of the best follows.

#Wales #Cymru #Cymreig #Cymraeg #Welsh
go.bsky.app/Ji44uiV

I just did that. Hopefully for the last time this year (and with the ulterior motive of chopping and mulching the leaves vs. raking them)!

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March 23, 2025. Not that I'm counting the days or anything.

We call this "Refurrbishment."

That curly back lil bunny peet tho'! 😍

Simulcast from Twitter.

Yay!

'Zackly! And Musk is so needy, I just don't see Trump putting up with that for very long, even with the $$$$. Trump has what he wanted from Musk now.

THANK YOU! That is more awesome bsky news!

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A lot of Trump supporters are about to find out their jobs are federally funded.

Probably right around the time everything we buy gets 20-30% more expensive.