Anyone who applauds the First Amendment being cancelled should take note — the Second Amendment will follow. Authoritarian governments don’t want an armed citizenry any more than they want an informed one.

From Heather Cox Richardson’s newsletter yesterday:

“The events in Seoul … cemented the shift in social media from X to Bluesky, where news was breaking faster than anywhere else, in a way that echoed what Twitter used to be. …Twitter was a key site of democratic organizing until Elon Musk …"

Remember when "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" tried to teach us about tariffs and no one was paying attention

We didn’t have room for dessert! My share of the leftovers. Chicken carcass is turning into stock in the pressure cooker.

This is interesting. A site that counts folks joining Bluesky, purportedly in almost real time. "Almost real time" -- that's a fun concept to play with.

bcounter.nat.vg

"He said there's a storm coming."

Time to stop lurking and actually post. Hi there. Seems to be a pretty friendly corner of cyberspace so far. I'll try to do my best to keep it that way. I tend to speak my mind without thinking through how it might come across. It's easier to be polite in polite company. Limit of 300 characters I se