Father, Musician, Photographer, iOS Software Engineer, Geek. Works at a small multinational agricultural conglomerate.
Minnesotan posing as a Seattleite.
Shh! Don’t tell them!
They Are, In Fact, Coming After Obamacare Again
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/they-are-in-fact-coming-after-obamacare-republicans-big-beautiful-bill-cuts-aca-billy-joel?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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“Can we go outside and play now?”
“Soon, boy.”
“You said that ten minutes ago.”
“As soon as I finish my cof-“
“Oops.”
“You did that on purpose.”
“It slipped.”
“I’ll get my coat.”
“Excellent.”
Sorry, I couldn't resist
the Plate Eater has struck again… and this time he left his calling card
So, that was short-lived
https://aviationa2z.com/index.php/2025/05/27/qatar-airways-cancels-boeing-737-max-10-order/
“We don't take an #oath to a wannabe #dictator”
“We take an oath to the #Constitution.…and we're willing to die to protect it"
- General Mark Milley
#MemorialDay2025
Oh good! Republicans in the House are saying they didn’t read the bill they voted for, and don’t really support preventing judges from holding people in contempt, and they sure do hope the senate fixes their mistake.
Bullshit. It was widely reported on before the vote. Fucking cowards, every single one of them.
So when this is all done and we are trying to rebuild a semblance of a functioning modern society, all these MAGA folk are going to want us to treat them with due process and kindness, right?
They aren't expecting us to say something like "Ha, ha, no, ... you don't get a hearing. You broke that thing."
Apparently the White House is assessing ways to “persuade” women ti have more children.
I can save them a ton of time and energy:
Universal healthcare
Universal basic income
Childcare & paid time off
Education
clean air & water
Affordable housing
Legalized abortion
Address climate change
Stop Being Fascists
It’s really not that hard.
#uspol #fascism #birthrate #pregnancy #abortion #MyBodyMyChoice
I just do eyes.
5 years since the start of the pandemic and it is frustrating that we still need to keep repeating: vaccines, masks, tests, and cleaning the air all play roles in reducing transmission.
Wrongly claiming that any of these layers isn’t important is an anti-science stance.
Of the many of law firms targeted by the White House, only four agreed to fight rather than appease Trump.
At least so far, those four firms are undefeated in their cases against Trump’s offensive — including a breakthrough win today. https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/judge-strikes-trump-executive-order-targeting-law-firm-extending-losin-rcna209344
What is happening to higher education in the U.S. right now is not reform. It is destruction
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/19571bded90fe198795277d8bf99277c1c4d5f41ae87dab4aa442451b328d54e/FPPWN7OLMZBDZKQQLCVK57UIKA/
where do we get the back-alley covid boosters, smuggled by mooseback through the wilderness and across the border from canada hidden under some cover layer of fentanyl, of course https://med-mastodon.com/@luckytran/114564677825491854
One can't help but think that behind all this cruelty and destruction is a twisted ideology that the poor, the weak and the ill are expendable and should be eliminated. Society should be made up of able-bodied men working in factories and a whole bunch of brown-shirts to keep them under control. And women should be baby factories. And govt should only serve the oligarchs.
I've worked with -- talked to -- computers for 45 years, nearly every single day.
No computer has ever told me I was ugly, stupid, fat, lazy, worthless, wrong-colored, wrong-gendered, wrong-preferenced, wrong-aged, or wrong-nationed.
No computer has ever told me it was too tired.
No computer has ever told me to shut up.
No computer has ever told me I deserve to feel this bad.
People talk to LLMs -- *trust* them -- because LLMs don't directly hate or hurt them.
https://mastodon.social/@Kurtis_Clark/114575398829808540
On the one hand, yes, of course.
On the other hand, There is a reason why this obscene LLM scam succeeds, a reason beyond the marketing of the extractive capitalist scumbags who are sponsoring it.
There is a reason why innocents turn to a chatbot to answer their questions.
You know what it is?
@Holberg @drahardja ooh, it can supposedly dry dress slacks even… that’d come in really useful if dad didn’t stop wearing formalwear to the office 35 years ago. (And retired in the intervening decades, and now barely owns a suit)
