A snare hit so hard you can SEE it

Here's a warning that the right-wing could go after the 1st Amendment next, using "originalism" to wipe out speech freedoms. Watch out: prosecution for blasphemy could follow. Important caution, so a gift link: Let’s Not Bring Back Jail for Swearing www.nytimes.com/2024/10/10/o...

Opinion | Let’s Not Bring Back Jail for Swearing

The latest threat to our right to speak freely comes all the way from the 1700s.

New euphemism for scientific racism just dropped

I cannot over-emphasize the colossal loser energy of taking a platform where once the biggest stars in the history of popular culture voluntarily posted original content every day because they enjoyed it into a pyramid scheme where the worst dipshits on earth pay to be fake friends with each other.

TVverge-poster.bsky.socialOct 9, 2024 6:53pm

X will pay its Premium users to engage with each other - https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/9/24266258/x-pay-premium-users-engage-with-each-other

X will pay its Premium users to engage with each other

Will creators actually get higher payouts?

"The future of the Democratic Party" but unironically

BJbrunojnavarro.bsky.socialOct 9, 2024 7:26pm

And since the city has elected a police captain mayor, the Police Department’s overtime spending has risen to nearly $1 billion, more than double what it was in fiscal year 2021. All the while, prekindergarten programs and libraries under Mr. Adams have seen crippling cuts.

A family member had a close encounter with a bat this summer. Got 2 rabies shots in NYC, then traveled to Canada. Got 2 more there. Pre insurance cost in US? $18,037. With insurance, it STILL costs $1664 for those two shots. Cost in Canada? $218. CDC may reimburse some but... what are we doing here?

Spelled out here as plainly as possible mastodon.nz/@pezmico/113...

Refusing to vote at all over Palestine is one thing, but voting for Jill Fucking Stein over Palestine is entirely another

To reiterate a post from the Other Site, for most of the last four thousand+ years, the vast majority of people living in cities got takeout. Many apartments lacked kitchens due to space and fire risk. Cooking yourself 7 fresh, varied meals a week is a VERY recent expectation.

"Liberal activists want to do away with the traditional stoning lottery. Apparently, in PC America, a 'safe space' is one in which you aren’t stoned to death in the town square to increase the harvest yield. Well, count me out." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/sto...

Stoning Our Neighbors to Death Makes the Corn Grow High, and Elitist Liberals Should Stop Attacking This Traditional Value

Since Biblical times, stoning people to death has been a horrible punishment reserved for the worst criminals. But now, in PC liberal America, the ...