Mischollanious Thoughts
@mischollaneous.bsky.social
Raconteur, tea drinker.
Neuro-Spicy thinker of thoughts.
Better living through CQI.
Neuro-Spicy thinker of thoughts.
Better living through CQI.
Pinned
The massive influx of high traffic accounts unaccustomed to the practice of using Alt text have diluted its use into obscurity.
The ubiquity of Alt txt makes Bluesky a welcoming space for disabled folk like me.
Don't slam the door on the faces of the differently abled by skipping the Alt txt.
The ubiquity of Alt txt makes Bluesky a welcoming space for disabled folk like me.
Don't slam the door on the faces of the differently abled by skipping the Alt txt.
The oligarchs holding whips of power over those indentured by indebtedness are the true heroes of our nation, deserving of such windfalls from the public coffers.
Not like healthcare for we simple fools who have sacrificed our body, mind, and soul running the economic engines that made them rich.
Not like healthcare for we simple fools who have sacrificed our body, mind, and soul running the economic engines that made them rich.
The Big Bad Betrayal Bill will cost $3.4 TRILLION over the next ten years. Extending ACA tax credits would cost $350 billion over ten years — a fraction of the cost.
Republicans would rather give tax breaks to billionaires than make health care affordable for American families.
Republicans would rather give tax breaks to billionaires than make health care affordable for American families.
November 20, 2025 at 3:15 PM
The oligarchs holding whips of power over those indentured by indebtedness are the true heroes of our nation, deserving of such windfalls from the public coffers.
Not like healthcare for we simple fools who have sacrificed our body, mind, and soul running the economic engines that made them rich.
Not like healthcare for we simple fools who have sacrificed our body, mind, and soul running the economic engines that made them rich.
I'm a lifetime gamer and former Wizard of the Coast.
Today's GOP is my least favorite kind of gamer.
Zero sum players, who lack imagination and skill, only achieving their gains by bending, breaking, and changing the rules.
This strategy is transparent and the most disingenuous kind of gameplay.
Today's GOP is my least favorite kind of gamer.
Zero sum players, who lack imagination and skill, only achieving their gains by bending, breaking, and changing the rules.
This strategy is transparent and the most disingenuous kind of gameplay.
Here's the 2026 House calendar. Pretty odd that it has a week off at the end of January, since the current stopgap funding plan runs out on Jan. 30, 2026.
November 18, 2025 at 5:00 PM
I'm a lifetime gamer and former Wizard of the Coast.
Today's GOP is my least favorite kind of gamer.
Zero sum players, who lack imagination and skill, only achieving their gains by bending, breaking, and changing the rules.
This strategy is transparent and the most disingenuous kind of gameplay.
Today's GOP is my least favorite kind of gamer.
Zero sum players, who lack imagination and skill, only achieving their gains by bending, breaking, and changing the rules.
This strategy is transparent and the most disingenuous kind of gameplay.
While Bluesky is still in its pre-enshittification era, I have enjoyed having a social media app back in my life, albeit marginally.
I fled the FB/Meta maelstrom after the news broke about Cambridge Analytics poisoning democracy.
They have only gotten worse.It's time to hold them accountable.
I fled the FB/Meta maelstrom after the news broke about Cambridge Analytics poisoning democracy.
They have only gotten worse.It's time to hold them accountable.
Hold Meta accountable for fraudulent ads
Facebook exposes users to 11 scam ads a day
action.consumerreports.org
November 18, 2025 at 4:12 PM
While Bluesky is still in its pre-enshittification era, I have enjoyed having a social media app back in my life, albeit marginally.
I fled the FB/Meta maelstrom after the news broke about Cambridge Analytics poisoning democracy.
They have only gotten worse.It's time to hold them accountable.
I fled the FB/Meta maelstrom after the news broke about Cambridge Analytics poisoning democracy.
They have only gotten worse.It's time to hold them accountable.
This is based on the idea that the plan you want exists for you to buy.
We really shouldn't let people with lifetime government gold standard coverage make choices about the 'value menu' options regular people have to shop from.
Don't dismantle an imperfect system without a better replacement.
We really shouldn't let people with lifetime government gold standard coverage make choices about the 'value menu' options regular people have to shop from.
Don't dismantle an imperfect system without a better replacement.
Dr Oz: "If you had a check in the mail, you could buy the insurance you thought was best for you"
November 16, 2025 at 4:12 PM
This is based on the idea that the plan you want exists for you to buy.
We really shouldn't let people with lifetime government gold standard coverage make choices about the 'value menu' options regular people have to shop from.
Don't dismantle an imperfect system without a better replacement.
We really shouldn't let people with lifetime government gold standard coverage make choices about the 'value menu' options regular people have to shop from.
Don't dismantle an imperfect system without a better replacement.
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Note the absolutely spot-on touch that * the football is never even placed *.
Democrats keep trying to go through the motions anyway.
Beyond dumb.
Democrats keep trying to go through the motions anyway.
Beyond dumb.
November 11, 2025 at 5:01 AM
Note the absolutely spot-on touch that * the football is never even placed *.
Democrats keep trying to go through the motions anyway.
Beyond dumb.
Democrats keep trying to go through the motions anyway.
Beyond dumb.
There's nothing at all shady about getting into bed with a couple of boutique banks with a history of regulatory violations to back our latest pump-and-dump,get rich quick, crypto scheme. It's completely legit.
Look away now, stop asking questions or some kneecaps might just wind up broken somehow.
Look away now, stop asking questions or some kneecaps might just wind up broken somehow.
Two tiny banks are fuelling the Trump family’s crypto empire: one based in New York’s Trump Tower, the other sandwiched between a junkyard and a funeral parlour in New Jersey. Free from the FT www.ft.com/content/39a4...
How two tiny banks are helping Donald Trump’s sons build a crypto empire
Dominari Holdings and Yorkville Advisors are benefiting from close connections with Eric and Donald Trump Jr
www.ft.com
November 6, 2025 at 8:09 PM
There's nothing at all shady about getting into bed with a couple of boutique banks with a history of regulatory violations to back our latest pump-and-dump,get rich quick, crypto scheme. It's completely legit.
Look away now, stop asking questions or some kneecaps might just wind up broken somehow.
Look away now, stop asking questions or some kneecaps might just wind up broken somehow.
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SNAP is one of our best programs, but universal basic income would be better, especially for local stimulus. SNAP can only be spent on food—and not even all food. No hot food. Nor all stores. Cash can buy anything anywhere. With SNAP, higher pay can also mean becoming worse off. Not true with UBI.
Reporter: SNAP is so stimulative to our economy. There are lots of rural stores where 60% of their sales are SNAP sales. So that rural store might have to shutter its doors. This is our collective struggle. All of us do better when people experiencing hunger do better. All of us lose when they don't
November 4, 2025 at 2:42 PM
SNAP is one of our best programs, but universal basic income would be better, especially for local stimulus. SNAP can only be spent on food—and not even all food. No hot food. Nor all stores. Cash can buy anything anywhere. With SNAP, higher pay can also mean becoming worse off. Not true with UBI.
I can offer nothing to dispute the accuracy of this plotting of our current orientation within contemporary literary paradigms.
Here we are indeed.
This brings to mind a contextually appropriate quotation:
"Oh no, not again!"
- bowl of petunias
Hitchikers Guild to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
Here we are indeed.
This brings to mind a contextually appropriate quotation:
"Oh no, not again!"
- bowl of petunias
Hitchikers Guild to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
November 4, 2025 at 1:31 AM
I can offer nothing to dispute the accuracy of this plotting of our current orientation within contemporary literary paradigms.
Here we are indeed.
This brings to mind a contextually appropriate quotation:
"Oh no, not again!"
- bowl of petunias
Hitchikers Guild to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
Here we are indeed.
This brings to mind a contextually appropriate quotation:
"Oh no, not again!"
- bowl of petunias
Hitchikers Guild to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
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What he said: 💯 🎯
November 1, 2025 at 6:55 PM
What he said: 💯 🎯
Decorum is Dead.
Self entitlement by the GOP remains unchecked as the plundering of the nation continues.
Detached from reality, anyone who challenges their fantasy of superiority becomes a target for their vitriol.
Carry on Nancy Mace, you're a Rockstar now!
The kind who trashes hotel rooms.
Self entitlement by the GOP remains unchecked as the plundering of the nation continues.
Detached from reality, anyone who challenges their fantasy of superiority becomes a target for their vitriol.
Carry on Nancy Mace, you're a Rockstar now!
The kind who trashes hotel rooms.
November 1, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Decorum is Dead.
Self entitlement by the GOP remains unchecked as the plundering of the nation continues.
Detached from reality, anyone who challenges their fantasy of superiority becomes a target for their vitriol.
Carry on Nancy Mace, you're a Rockstar now!
The kind who trashes hotel rooms.
Self entitlement by the GOP remains unchecked as the plundering of the nation continues.
Detached from reality, anyone who challenges their fantasy of superiority becomes a target for their vitriol.
Carry on Nancy Mace, you're a Rockstar now!
The kind who trashes hotel rooms.
It's not immigrants posing a threat to your pets, it's self driving cars that tech bros have released before they have been made street safe that are coming for your critters.
No doubt the string of 'sincere' apologies written by AI & a token donation to some random charity is an adequate solution.
No doubt the string of 'sincere' apologies written by AI & a token donation to some random charity is an adequate solution.
November 1, 2025 at 3:16 PM
It's not immigrants posing a threat to your pets, it's self driving cars that tech bros have released before they have been made street safe that are coming for your critters.
No doubt the string of 'sincere' apologies written by AI & a token donation to some random charity is an adequate solution.
No doubt the string of 'sincere' apologies written by AI & a token donation to some random charity is an adequate solution.
The US government most certainly won't be promoting any kind of positive public health policies in the foreseeable future.
Asking folk to protect others by masking should resonate with folks who aren't inherently sociopathic.
Some evidence this advice is good is it is not endorsed by RFK's H.H.S.
Asking folk to protect others by masking should resonate with folks who aren't inherently sociopathic.
Some evidence this advice is good is it is not endorsed by RFK's H.H.S.
The French government is asking us to mask up. In ads everywhere we are asked to protect others from potentially getting infected by whatever we might carry.
This is one* reason why I like living here. They ask us to protect not ourselves but others.
Civic responsibility.
* clementines !
This is one* reason why I like living here. They ask us to protect not ourselves but others.
Civic responsibility.
* clementines !
October 30, 2025 at 2:35 AM
The US government most certainly won't be promoting any kind of positive public health policies in the foreseeable future.
Asking folk to protect others by masking should resonate with folks who aren't inherently sociopathic.
Some evidence this advice is good is it is not endorsed by RFK's H.H.S.
Asking folk to protect others by masking should resonate with folks who aren't inherently sociopathic.
Some evidence this advice is good is it is not endorsed by RFK's H.H.S.
Even our Senator @murray.senate.gov is on board with permanent DST.
Has it not occurred to anyone that you could leave the clocks alone and just adjust working hours to match the sun?
Is not a world based on standard time with seasonally adjusted business hours less disruptive overall?
Has it not occurred to anyone that you could leave the clocks alone and just adjust working hours to match the sun?
Is not a world based on standard time with seasonally adjusted business hours less disruptive overall?
The U.S. tried permanent daylight saving time—and hated it
In 1974, America set its clocks forward for good in the name of energy savings.
www.popsci.com
October 29, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Even our Senator @murray.senate.gov is on board with permanent DST.
Has it not occurred to anyone that you could leave the clocks alone and just adjust working hours to match the sun?
Is not a world based on standard time with seasonally adjusted business hours less disruptive overall?
Has it not occurred to anyone that you could leave the clocks alone and just adjust working hours to match the sun?
Is not a world based on standard time with seasonally adjusted business hours less disruptive overall?
Those donations worked! The CPB bad actors list is gone.(Is Epstein's list next?)
The payoff?
Medical debt is back on your credit report. Also your mandated health insurance cost is about to skyrocket.
Trump's way to Make America Healthy Again, is to make being sick unaffordable.
#GOPwisdom
The payoff?
Medical debt is back on your credit report. Also your mandated health insurance cost is about to skyrocket.
Trump's way to Make America Healthy Again, is to make being sick unaffordable.
#GOPwisdom
US consumer finance watchdog formally kills Biden-era bad actor registry reut.rs/4350xHs
US consumer finance watchdog formally kills Biden-era bad actor registry
The top U.S. government watchdog for consumer finance has formally scrapped a registry for non-bank financial companies caught violating consumer laws, asserting that its costs outweighed any benefit to the public, according to a government notice issued Tuesday.
reut.rs
October 28, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Those donations worked! The CPB bad actors list is gone.(Is Epstein's list next?)
The payoff?
Medical debt is back on your credit report. Also your mandated health insurance cost is about to skyrocket.
Trump's way to Make America Healthy Again, is to make being sick unaffordable.
#GOPwisdom
The payoff?
Medical debt is back on your credit report. Also your mandated health insurance cost is about to skyrocket.
Trump's way to Make America Healthy Again, is to make being sick unaffordable.
#GOPwisdom
Climate change won't end humanity, human stupidity might.
Humans will survive. It's a civilized world built on technology that is at risk.
Societies collapse. Whole civilizations have gone extinct several times in human history.
The culmination of our collective poor choices will be our doom.
Humans will survive. It's a civilized world built on technology that is at risk.
Societies collapse. Whole civilizations have gone extinct several times in human history.
The culmination of our collective poor choices will be our doom.
October 28, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Climate change won't end humanity, human stupidity might.
Humans will survive. It's a civilized world built on technology that is at risk.
Societies collapse. Whole civilizations have gone extinct several times in human history.
The culmination of our collective poor choices will be our doom.
Humans will survive. It's a civilized world built on technology that is at risk.
Societies collapse. Whole civilizations have gone extinct several times in human history.
The culmination of our collective poor choices will be our doom.
To all who felt the sting of the AWS 'disruptions' last week, @meredithmeredith.bsky.social from the Signal app, breaks down the operational risks of our current infrastructure held in a few private hands.
Almost everything is touched by AWS. It's everywhere.
Almost everything is touched by AWS. It's everywhere.
In short, the problem here is not that Signal ‘chose’ to run on AWS. The problem is the concentration of power in the infrastructure space that means there isn’t really another choice: the entire stack, practically speaking, is owned by 3-4 players. 11/
October 27, 2025 at 4:13 PM
To all who felt the sting of the AWS 'disruptions' last week, @meredithmeredith.bsky.social from the Signal app, breaks down the operational risks of our current infrastructure held in a few private hands.
Almost everything is touched by AWS. It's everywhere.
Almost everything is touched by AWS. It's everywhere.
When your protection against a technology company abusing your use of their product is dependent on the laws of their home nation being obeyed, you need the rule of law to be perdictably rock solid and universally applied.
This administration ended that. Here is one of the natural consequences.
This administration ended that. Here is one of the natural consequences.
Europe's plan to ditch US tech giants is built on open source - and it's gaining steam
One topic dominated the recent 2025 OpenInfra Summit Europe, and it wasn't AI.
www.zdnet.com
October 27, 2025 at 3:45 PM
When your protection against a technology company abusing your use of their product is dependent on the laws of their home nation being obeyed, you need the rule of law to be perdictably rock solid and universally applied.
This administration ended that. Here is one of the natural consequences.
This administration ended that. Here is one of the natural consequences.
Here's the receipts on the DOGE savings. ( Notice how the word DOGE has dropped from the news cycle vernacular?)
It looks like all those painful cuts to our essential services have saved us ....
A negative 260 Billion dollars so far.
If this is government run like a business, where's the ROI?
It looks like all those painful cuts to our essential services have saved us ....
A negative 260 Billion dollars so far.
If this is government run like a business, where's the ROI?
The federal government spent $7.010 trillion in fiscal year 2025.
That’s a 3.9% increase from $6.746 trillion spent in FY2024.
That’s a 3.9% increase from $6.746 trillion spent in FY2024.
October 27, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Here's the receipts on the DOGE savings. ( Notice how the word DOGE has dropped from the news cycle vernacular?)
It looks like all those painful cuts to our essential services have saved us ....
A negative 260 Billion dollars so far.
If this is government run like a business, where's the ROI?
It looks like all those painful cuts to our essential services have saved us ....
A negative 260 Billion dollars so far.
If this is government run like a business, where's the ROI?
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Just checking: the republicans that attacked and sent marshals to arrest Texas dems for not showing up to work (in an effort to protect voting rights, btw) are the same republicans that are not showing up to work, yeah?
October 26, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Just checking: the republicans that attacked and sent marshals to arrest Texas dems for not showing up to work (in an effort to protect voting rights, btw) are the same republicans that are not showing up to work, yeah?
Deputy Secretary of the Navy Reporting for booty, er, duty..... SIR!!!
October 24, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Deputy Secretary of the Navy Reporting for booty, er, duty..... SIR!!!
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Today, the White House Press Secretary told the country that this ridiculous damn ballroom is “the president’s main priority”…not reopening the government, not lowering the cost of groceries, not lowering the cost of housing, not lowering the cost of healthcare….building a ballroom
October 23, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Today, the White House Press Secretary told the country that this ridiculous damn ballroom is “the president’s main priority”…not reopening the government, not lowering the cost of groceries, not lowering the cost of housing, not lowering the cost of healthcare….building a ballroom
In a world with a 24 hour news cycle & a goldfish's attention span, I'm not sure that an article from April still counts as recent.
The point that the NYT is missing the point is still valid.
The paper of record has devolved into a paper of wreckers.
Informational integrity is in peril.
#Factcheck
The point that the NYT is missing the point is still valid.
The paper of record has devolved into a paper of wreckers.
Informational integrity is in peril.
#Factcheck
Setting the Record Straight About #ADHD and Its Treatments
A recent New York Times Magazine article endangers patients’ health by baselessly questioning established science, willfully contorting experts’ words, & ignoring the grave consequences of untreated ADHD
www.additudemag.com/adhd-article...
A recent New York Times Magazine article endangers patients’ health by baselessly questioning established science, willfully contorting experts’ words, & ignoring the grave consequences of untreated ADHD
www.additudemag.com/adhd-article...
Setting the Record Straight About ADHD and Its Treatments
A recent New York Times Magazine article endangers patients’ health by baselessly questioning established science, willfully contorting experts’ words, and ignoring the grave consequences of untreated...
www.additudemag.com
October 19, 2025 at 2:52 PM
In a world with a 24 hour news cycle & a goldfish's attention span, I'm not sure that an article from April still counts as recent.
The point that the NYT is missing the point is still valid.
The paper of record has devolved into a paper of wreckers.
Informational integrity is in peril.
#Factcheck
The point that the NYT is missing the point is still valid.
The paper of record has devolved into a paper of wreckers.
Informational integrity is in peril.
#Factcheck
Here in North Tacoma, liberty is still in season
#NoKings
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Group of enthusiastic and costumed citizens gather to defend democracy. They line the streets for several blocks leading to the entrance of Pt. Defiance park in Tacoma Washington.
#NoKings
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Group of enthusiastic and costumed citizens gather to defend democracy. They line the streets for several blocks leading to the entrance of Pt. Defiance park in Tacoma Washington.
October 18, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Here in North Tacoma, liberty is still in season
#NoKings
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Group of enthusiastic and costumed citizens gather to defend democracy. They line the streets for several blocks leading to the entrance of Pt. Defiance park in Tacoma Washington.
#NoKings
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Group of enthusiastic and costumed citizens gather to defend democracy. They line the streets for several blocks leading to the entrance of Pt. Defiance park in Tacoma Washington.
I have similarly noticed that Project 2025 is the culmination of over 75 years of the finest conservative thinking distilled into an action plan.
An unsustainable resolution that temporarily benefits a sliver of society while causing lasting harms to the those not them.
Cruelty lacks creativity.
An unsustainable resolution that temporarily benefits a sliver of society while causing lasting harms to the those not them.
Cruelty lacks creativity.
Alt text.
October 18, 2025 at 12:59 PM
I have similarly noticed that Project 2025 is the culmination of over 75 years of the finest conservative thinking distilled into an action plan.
An unsustainable resolution that temporarily benefits a sliver of society while causing lasting harms to the those not them.
Cruelty lacks creativity.
An unsustainable resolution that temporarily benefits a sliver of society while causing lasting harms to the those not them.
Cruelty lacks creativity.
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Whenever you call a Nazi a Nazi.
September 25, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Whenever you call a Nazi a Nazi.