If you are a state or local elected, there is very little you can do about skyrocketing gasoline prices.
BUT there is A LOT you can do to protect your constituents from the impact of the oil price shock:
Info on the new BLM plan to clear cut Oregon old growth forests so regime buddies can rake in cash without any consideration of ecosystems, watershed, salmon habitat, recreation, etc etc.
Comment period open until March 23. You can write in!
morethanjustparks.substack.com/p/blm-announ...
don’t forget to destroy your clocks tonight, walk away from your mortgage, just start driving, you’re free
If you're at the airport and Kristi Noem is doing the ominous little message from the TSA screens, you no longer have to do anything she says. Leave your laptop in the case, whatever.
Massachusetts drawing up articles of secession as we speak
Cats everywhere cursing that a lizard got this honor.
Time to start explaining to your teens what FDIC insured means.
Chromebooks are going to close the achievement gap! Learn-to-code programs are going to close the achievement gap! AI is going to close the achievement gap! [This shiny new tech thing that is funded by VC] is going to close the achievement gap!
I live in a college town that is also a retirement town and a lot of times when I assume it's a college student driving recklessly, it's actually a 70 year old driving a giant truck. The college students mostly walk, ride bikes and escooters, or take the bus.
At a certain point you just cannot keep extending someone the benefit of the doubt. www.yahoo.com/news/article...
things every single republican president of your lifetime has done
- started a war in the middle east
- completely destroyed the economy
blue graphic with an outline of the United States. Red and white text reads: Call. National Book Banning Bill Proposed in US House of Reps. Tell your rep: Vote no on H.R. 7661.
We've had a day to pull a few things together, so here's a thread some more targeted info opposing the potential national book ban just proposed in the House of Representatives.
Don't know if it's still around but back in the day there was the Boston Beer Marathon which was basically this but pub food instead of tacos.
His dad would be all about a WH invite
I've been thinking about the analogy of cars and AI and we should consider the way we let the proliferation of cars ruin our environment, cities, health, etc., because corporations wanted to make your life unlivable without their product. A good analogy but not for the reasons they think.
The demographic reality is unrelenting. What happens when you have 70 million baby boomers pushing 80 and still driving big SUVs on North American roads? A whole lot of accidents waiting to happen. lloydalter.substack.com/p/we-may-soo...
Apparently if you're on Ozempic you're supposed to eat a super high protein diet. I assumed that was driving this sudden shoving protein into everything.
A meme of Alysa Liu based on Da Share Zone reading: JUST WALK OUT work social thing movies home class dentist figure skating too fancy weed store cops it your quick friend ships IF IT SUCKS... HIT DA BRICKS!!! Real winners quit You can leave!! Da Gold Zone
I’ve been talking about Alysa Liu’s story about her quitting skating only to come back and become even better because she did it for herself and this came to me in a dream…
My very PNW specific answer is salmonberries.
this is the pitch that got so many companies on board and investing in the bubble. This is the naked truth of what capitalists want: pure unhindered income once the annoyance of people needing food, shelter and healthcare is removed. They'll be able to sequester themselves away from us permanently
One of the things that personally drives me crazy in the U.S. is how youth sports/athletic activities went from a part of the public good (municipal leagues and fields! rec centers! public parks!) to a privatized, expensive, highly competitive, highly structured pursuit for wealthy kids’ résumés
"No Nazis in my punk bar...unless they share my opinions on Israel"
My kosher self laughs a little every time I see the Arby's commercial that has a Meat + 3 box and the meat is fish.
The states supporting 1A / library restrictions: Arkansas, Alabama, Alaska, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, and West Virginia
Can't stress enough how much the ethos of the library and the ethos of police work differ from each other. You cannot effectively run a library using a police world view.
"I fed your work into the plagiarism machine because my time is too valuable to spend actually reading your work" is one way to start an interview, I guess.
Ride in a bike lane and glance into every car that you pass and you'll see an extremely high percentage of people staring at their phones. It's terrible and frightening
They don't want kids to go to college.
NYT opinion headline from 2017 "Yes, this is a witch hunt. I'm a witch, and I'm hunting you."
I watch a lot of sports with my kids so we see tons of ads for gambling. I never let an opportunity pass to say something bad about online gambling and prediction markets in front of them and pray that it sticks in their little heads.
