Sharing this for posterity. Apparently I made it in just under 200k: #197,634.

Honestly I would like to find whoever it was who first posited into the public consciousness the idea that there is some sort of conflict between libraries lending books and authors getting paid, because I would really like to kick their ass in about it.

The hero we need right now: @techconnectify.bsky.social – the Tweed Coat Signal has been lit!

#MilkshakeDuck really pisses me off. I really like the content he's produced, and good people on the cast/crew of some great shows are going to suffer because I refuse to even peripherally support people who do that sort of stuff.

MBmonicabyrne13.bsky.socialAug 14, 2024 7:28am

Just a reminder that Neil Gaiman’s hired PR firm, Edendale Strategies, is likely flooding social media with AI bots to drown out the fact that seven women have now come forward about his decades-long pattern of coercion and SA. Don’t let them control the conversation. Keep talking about it.

Who wants to join my exercise program? My parents had to remove a sick tree, but that means free lumber! Well … "free."

Free campaign strategy to anyone who wants it: "If JD Vance were your neighbor, can you imagine him helping you move?" "If Tim Walz were your neighbor, can you imagine him /not/ helping you move?"

"Accidentally" ended up with five center cut squash vines, so we're already full into "too much squash" season. My wife learned that you can dehydrate it and grind it into "flour" … which tastes great I have a large dehydrator but this didn't even fit all of yesterday's haul.

This is timely in light of JD Vance's comments about wanting to surveil the body of every woman in America. I just dropped a new investigation into car companies selling off your private location data to shady data brokers. The case for federal privacy legislation has never been stronger.

TNnytimes.comJul 26, 2024 8:00pm

If you drive a car made by General Motors and it has an internet connection, your car’s movements and location are being collected and shared anonymously with a data broker. The practice was disclosed in a letter sent by two senators to the FTC on Friday.

Automakers Sold Driver Data for Pennies, Senators Say

Ron Wyden and Edward Markey urged the F.T.C. to investigate how car companies handled the data from millions of car owners.

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