Rowley @Rowley@qoto.org

Worker: I can't live on $7.25/hr

GOP: So go to college

W: I can't afford $100K tuition

GOP: Take out loans

W: I can't afford to pay these at 8% interest

GOP: No one forced you to go to college

W: But you just said—

Billionaire: I NEED MORE MONEY!

GOP: Here's a $2T Tax Cut

As an American, one of the things that gives me a feeling of kinship with the Ukrainian people is their courage in refusing to accept a future determined for them by Putin, and their resolve in fighting for their freedom despite the odds. That includes fighting to make a free country for all Ukrainians, including marginalized ones from their LGBTQ communities.

It saddens me that @timkmak lost subscribers because he highlighted the stories of Ukraine's LGBTQ community in his reporting. I've subscribed and encourage others to do so, too.

#slavaUkraini #lgbtq #allyship

https://counteroffensive.substack.com/

"The rich are good people deep down"
Seen in Seattle, Washington

could have spent a full year spitballing how musk was going to kill Twitter and couldn’t have come up with anything close to the unbelievable dipshittery of “users can only read 600 tweets a day” like, what do they put in billionaire cocaine anyway

“A Kansas woman says she was ordered to leave the restroom at Wichita Public Libary's central branch after taking her nonverbal and disabled adult son into it with her, reports The Topeka Capital-Journal. Kansas recently banned people from using bathrooms and other spaces not designated for their assigned birth sex, a law plainly targeted at trans and intersex women but also useful for keeping disabled people and their opposite-sex carers at bay.”
#TransBan #TransRights #DisabledRights #LGBTQ

SERIOUSLY, LET'S TALK ABOUT HOW GREAT SANDWICHES ARE. I LOVE 'EM. ALL KINDS.

I'M NOT A SANDWICH PURIST. YOU CAN SHAG A FEW CLOSE CALLS INTO THE ROUGH AND IT'S STILL A SANDWICH. I AM NOT HERE TO GATEKEEP YOUR IDEA OF WHAT A SANDWICH CAN BE. I AM SIMOLY HERE TO CELEBRATE THE IDEA OF A SATISFYING HAND-HELD MEAL.

Both Twitter and BlueSky - backed by untold amounts of money and white tech bros - are down.

Mastodon - run by trans furries and femboys high on anxiety - is running just fine.

With Twitter Services Limited And Unreliable, Americans Turn To “Books” To Determine Whether Jews Fabricated Red Cross Blood Drives As Part Of Great Replacement

Meine Recherchen ergaben, daß viele Menschen keine Laktose brauchen, um intolerant zu sein.

a thing of beauty

Hey journalists: want a fun story? Look up all the people who filed amacus briefs against student loan forgiveness and cross reference that with the PPP loan forgiveness database.

It is simply astonishing that companies are embedding technology into search engines that makes them vastly, vastly worse at finding accurate information.

France is trying out the American solution to police brutality, which is much, much more police brutality.

Hey atheist creatives, you can now tell Christianists and other religious fascists to pound sand if they want to employ your services.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-rules-web-designer-refused-work-sex-weddings-rcna68629

the idea of being visited by aliens lost its appeal when i realized they’d likely just be some other planet’s asshole billionaires

I must not engage with the discourse
Discourse is the time-killer
Discourse is the little error that leads to table-flipping
I will ignore the discourse
I will permit it to pass through me and over me
When it has gone past, I will turn to my timeline and see no posts
Where the discourse was, there will be nothing
Only cat pics will remain

#Alito is a full-throated fucking neo-Nazi who would greenlight the Nuremberg Laws if he got/gets the chance, and his sadboi, aggrieved entreaties for "respect" for the "institution" should get lost in a neverending chorus of "Shut the fuck up, Nazi."

I hate flying. I love trains. Trains are wonderful. High-speed rail is one of those things that would make America so much better for literally everyone except airlines, oil companies, and car manufacturers. Can we build it, please?

Found something remarkable (and also quite sad).

In 1997, Wired published "The Long Boom", a hyper-optimistic article about how we'd achieve Utopia by 2020.

The authors included notes on some "scenario spoilers"—negative events that might send is in a worse direction.

...and those spoilers turned out to be almost spookily accurate.

https://www.wired.com/1997/07/longboom/

The world is short on lithium and we're letting the same car manufacturers which sold 8mpg SUVs make electric cars as big as they want.