One of the best things about 100% WFH - lunchtime is naptime. 😁😁😁

Free Covid tests are back: special.usps.com/confirmation

But if it's not from the Chilis at 45th and Lamar, who cares?

there's currently $20B in the u.s. disaster relief fund and biden is considering calling back congress for more. that's on top of fema's budget of $33B and $3B to the army corps of engineers for disaster relief. so no, israel is not getting all your disaster relief money.

With the closure of its last coal-fired power station today, the UK—home of the Industrial Revolution—is now powered by 20% Gas, 20% Nuclear, 45% Renewables, and 15% Seething Insular Resentment At The Self-Inflicted Character Of Its Much-Diminished Place In The World

You remember how Trump kept saying that a vote for Biden was really a vote for Harris? Yeah, Harris should do that to Trump - say that Trump is obviously unwell and that Vance will end up as president and do we really want that unlikable prick leading the nation?

PayPal is updating their ToS to let themselves give your data to merchants starting in November and they're certainly banking on people not knowing to opt out, SO to opt out before they start: go to Settings > Data & Privacy > Manage shared info > Personalized shopping, and toggle that shit off

I really want people to understand that this is just as awful and upsetting and invasive for a trans girl as it would be for a cis girl under the same scrutiny. Because when it happens to cis girls/women people get upset, but when it’s an actual trans girl somehow it’s “complicated.” It’s not.

GBgbbranstetter.bsky.socialSep 29, 2024 1:12pm

In order to determine whether a 15-year-old volleyball player was transgender, Florida police sought out her medical records to determine any changes in her body weight and asked her teammates if they had ever seen her nude. One detective referred to the girl as "it"

Apropos *gestures at the world* I am constantly reminded that the burning question on billionaires’ brains is “after the world is reduced to a smoking husk by our own actions, how do we keep our security team loyal to us once money no longer has meaning?”

The super-rich ‘preppers’ planning to save themselves from the apocalypse

Tech billionaires are buying up luxurious bunkers to survive a societal collapse they helped create, but like everything they do, it has unintended consequences

It's funny how prominent men have to prove again and again that they're shallow thinkers before anybody believes it and smart women have to prove every day of their lives that they aren't and get treated like they are anyway