The Supreme Court sure is a collection of lifetime appointees. That's what it is, that's what you can say about them. They are appointed for life and they make the lives of everyone else worse all the time, except for the lives of the worst and most powerful people in the country. That's them.
We have a hanging basket on our back deck, and a pair of mourning doves have made a nest in it.
Lately, there's been a weird pigeon nearby just staring at the basket like a jealous ex-boyfriend.
WTF nature?
#birdsky
Just FYI we’re entering a summer Covid wave right now (especially western regions in the US); you can see it in the CDC wastewater plot here (and anecdotally a bunch of my friends are suddenly testing positive). www.cdc.gov/nwss/rv/COVI...
The media isn't interested in the biggest technology story of the 2020s, the rapid transition to clean energy, because
1) it will destroy a bunch of oil based wealth and is a boring, competirive low margin business
2) it makes Democrats look good for helping it and they want Republicans to win
“AI” is the culmination of the tech industry. Every time you use it, you destroy the environment, erode labor protections, endanger workers overseas, enrich the ruling class, and make something unforgivably worthless, all at the same time – and it's all hidden from you in a frictionless distraction.
Just learned the Spanish version of "righty tighty, lefty loosey" translates as "the right oppresses, the left liberates" and holy shit that goes hard.
The founders would have understood it as treason, and would resort to war against someone who attempted it, and punish it with hanging. Other countries would prosecute it as treason. That is what it is. Folks should be clear eyed on it.
The first rule of avoiding scam calls is to never answer unknown numbers, and even some known ones.
Curious? Bored? Worried it’s an emergency? Wait the extra minute it takes for the call to go to voice mail, then decide if it’s legitimate.
still pretty mad that for much of the spring some of the most powerful people in the country & leaders in the GOP coalesced around a public call that it was OK & in fact preferable to send in heavily armed soldiers (literal army guys!) to deal with unarmed college kids who they found too annoying
Happy Pride! If you'd like to know more about gender-affirming health care, moral panics, conversion therapy, anti-LGBTQ pseudoscience, asexuality, pro-trans legislators, families supporting queer kids & more, here's a collection from Scientific American: www.scientificamerican.com/report/sexua...
Every time I think I have Clarence Thomas REALLY pinned down in my brain as a terrible person, new information comes to my attention that makes him SO MUCH WORSE.
clarence thomas raised his nephew “like a son” until it became too difficult at which point he dumped him and washed his hands of the boy’s life. www.businessinsider.com/clarence-tho...