Making Sense of It All

A happily married, fifty-something geek – a warrior-poet, a singer of songs, a teller of tales, and a weaver of dreams. And what I can conceive, I can achieve.

[keithspyder]

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[the-irreverend]

And stay safe everyone!

[teathattast]

[sizzlingsandwichperfection-blog]

good.store just passed $13,000,000 raised for charity, which is both a lot and an amount that sometimes comes out when billionaires cough really hard.

anyway, why buy your household cleaning supplies, socks, soap, coffee, tea, and more at a regular store that enriches the few when you could buy it at good store and support vulnerable people and ecosystems?

[wilwheaton]

“Living through the Trump II presidency is an exercise in repeated loss and extended mourning for what is gone — while being daily confronted with the farcical and the absurd.”

— The Mounting Toll and Absurdity of Trumpism

[genderqueerpositivity]

(Image description: 10 pride flags with text that says "Queer kids deserve safety, support, and acceptance." in white and black text. The flags are the original Baker rainbow, intersex, aromantic, asexual, bisexual, pansexual, sapphic, lesbian, gay man, and abrosexual flags.)

[wilwheaton]

“Even if the Republican Congress stands up to Trump on the slush fund, it doesn’t appear to be preparing to scrutinize, let alone unwind (if it’s possible) the corrupt release of the IRS’ claims against Trump and fam. It’s a huge giveaway — $100 million, by some estimates — under extraordinarily corrupt circumstances. The improper leaking of Trump tax returns by an IRS contractor isn’t a proper justification for dropping all of the IRS claims against Trump, let alone other civil and criminal claims the government may have had against him or his family members.”

— Will We NEVER Learn the Lessons of Trump?

[wilwheaton]

“In post-coup America, we remain a long way from truly grappling with the persistence of a powerful cultish movement that includes seditious conspiracists who have already proven their willingness to bring down the Constitution.”

— Will We NEVER Learn the Lessons of Trump?

[itgetsbetter]

annual reminder that this is who pride is for:

❤️ those who are out & proud

🧡 those who aren’t out at all

💛 people still figuring it all out

💚 folks trying out new labels or terms

💙 people who have always known

💜 people who are just realizing

🩷 those out there being loud

🤍 those waiting until it’s safer

🩵 our elders who came before to pave the way

🤎 and youth making change right here, right now

we see you, you're valid, you belong here.

promise.

[goth-queen]

[depsidase]

[liberalsarecool]

AI is a subscription that never solves the issue of cost. You pay for tokens that are more expensive than the employees they replaced.

[depsidase]

[wilwheaton]

“The American right built the current corrupt Supreme Court because they were confident that the center-left had no appetite or ability to fight back or require accountability and reform in response. They were mostly right. Supreme Court reform is important because you can’t have democratic self-government in this country with this Court’s corruption. That’s the main reason to do it. It also teaches a lesson. Don’t spend too much time creating a big corrupt shiny object. Because the Constitution creates the tools to break it. And we’ll break it. Say goodbye to your constitutional golden calf. Sucks to be you. It’s critical for Democrats to demonstrate that they’re just as able to use political power as Republicans, ready to be just as audacious, not just because it’s critical that they do so but because it’s the only real path back toward some kind of constitutional equilibrium.”

— What Exactly Should a Project 2029 Be? - TPM – Talking Points Memo

[wilwheaton]

“The top-line outrage here is clear but it’s so astounding that it bears repeating: The president is using the powers of his office to settle not just political but private scores against someone adjudged by juries to be a victim of his sexual abuse and defamatory attacks. Carroll, 82, has been awarded nearly $90 million by juries in the two Trump cases, whose verdicts he is still appealing. It is abuse heaped on top of abuse.”

— Trump Uses DOJ to Target Famed Victim of His Sexual Abuse

[marcchurch]

[poppins-me]