This video made me homesick and I can taste that diner coffee. I bet it's still using the same coffee mugs every diner in NJ uses
I am not a big emotions person but I am truly overwhelmed and humbled and delighted by all of the support we've gotten from our community, and I cannot WAIT to share all the wonderful things we have in store, with even more to come if we hit our stretch goals.I am not a big emotions person but I am truly overwhelmed and humbled and delighted by all of the support we've gotten from our community, and I cannot WAIT to share all the wonderful things we have in store, with even more to come if we hit our stretch goals.
So, to recap, this morning we launched our Kickstarter for @theflytrapmedia.bsky.social and were hanging out in Slack going 'oh no what if we don't get any pledges' and then you hungry people partyblasted through half our tiers and got us almost halfway there in ten hours.
Worker-Owned, Reader-Supported Intersectional Feminist Journalism to Unfuck Your Algorithm
PACs that are affiliated with Montana Republicans are investing heavily in the stateâs upcoming supreme court races, hoping to secure two seats and a friendlier court. boltsmag.org/montana...
Montanaâs high court has unwound GOP priorities, including striking down voting restrictions this spring, but conservatives hope the November elections land them a friendlier court.
We went from a ton of migrants in our yard yesterday just a few kinglets and our Winter Wrens today. I think I could almost do a WIWR-pic-a-day bot at this pointđ I canât help it, though, because theyâre so freaking cute! #birds#fall#migration#wrens
Undocumented immigrants paid $97B in taxes in 2022. They paid a higher state/local tax rate than the top 1% in a majority of states. They contributed $26B to Social Security, which they can't benefit from. Remember this the next time the undocumented are called "freeloaders."
Fascinating to watch the world at large make mistakes Doctor Who made and moved on from in the 1980s. (From variety.com/2024/tv/news..., which does not consider the obvious solution "stop making so much goddamn franchise slop in the first place")
The MAGAs also intend to break up NOAA and privatize the National Weather Service (which probably translates into forcing people to pay money to some dead-eyed oligarch ghoul to hear about imminent deadly natural disasters)
If youâd actually been paying any attention to FEMA before now, youâd also know that the agency is facing a major budget shortfall, courtesy of the usual loathsome GOP lawmakers in Congress. thehill.com/business/bud...
