No more penny! What's the catch?

Cuts the US Mint's budget by 4% or $192 mil/year. Only cuts fed budget by 0.00003%. Drop, meet bucket.

W/out the penny, prices round up 5₵ & cause an inflationary effect, negatively affecting those w/ limited incomes & historically marginalized communities. Bingo!

Y'all remember Google+?

::queue cricket sounds::

Jay Graber's net worth is $5M, and is expected to soar if Bluesky sustains current growth by exploiting users' screen addiction & narcissism like any other platform. Users seeking a space less toxic, less politically biased, and free from government/oligarchy control.

Refuge or more refuse?

2006: Jack Dorsey develops Twitter.
'13 Co. goes public.
'19 Dorsey starts Bluesky.
'21 Dorsey hires Jay Graber as Bluesky's CEO & resigns as Twitter CEO.
'22 Dorsey aids Musk’s Twitter buyout & exits board.
'23 Dorsey quits Bluesky, backs X as "Freedom Tech."
2024 Dorsey exits Bluesky's board.

Just trying to outrun the oligarchy on this here techno treadmill in a prison of our own making...