A means test on my physical disability. Benefits I earned over 22-years of sacrificing my health for the country. I had no idea my bad back suddenly heals when I make more money.

Food for thought.

Hello, welcome to the USA. This is a free country. As long as you don’t want to make a TikTok. Or own land that will be yours forever even if you can’t pay the exorbitant yearly taxes on it. Or if you want affordable healthcare. Or if you, idk, want to be in a restaurant and you’re gay. +

And with that, an end of an era. What nightly routine can I do that works remotely as well as scrolling with my wife? :( #Tiktok #TiktokBan

WWII movies hit different now. A generation that sacrificed everything to defeat fascism came home and built a better world for us. And here we are, throwing it all away while hardly anyone is paying attention. It’s heartbreaking.

The culture wars, the race wars, the gender wars...all smoke screens for the war they don't want you to fight.

The class wars.

Banning TikTok instead of passing a law to better regulate social media companies is a classic example of how broken the government is.

Absolutely outrageous!

Suede are now on Bluesky.

Photo by Dean Chalkley

- SuedeHQ

Now that they destroyed their own neighborhood, the Maga/Elon trolls are rolling in to BlueSky.

My recommendation is to block early, on the first offense, without explanation.

Here are my rules why I block them:

open.substack.com/pub/therickw...

it absolutely rules to keep seeing the worst people on the internet come on to this site to post “well well well i’m really going to TRIGGER some people here huh,” and them me just hitting one button and never thinking about them again lmao

And we need to stop being nice to ignorant people because “everyone is entitled to have an opinion.” No, they’re not. If someone believes the earth is flat, they deserve to be told every day that they are stupid.

Blocking Nazis, trolls, and fascists doesn’t make it an “echo chamber.” People need to stop gaslighting us into thinking we have to listen to Nazis and debate trolls in order to be informed.

The First Amendment don’t guarantee a-holes we’ll be their friend.

resolved: people who insist that all social media sites must be places where users are constantly encountering and arguing with people over fundamental disagreement do so because their actual, real lives are echo chambers where they do not encounter any meaningful difference from day-to-day.

A real thing in my actual family:

“I can’t believe you’re not inviting me to Thanksgiving. All I did was vote for someone who wants to deport half of the family while taking away the rights of most of the people who would remain.”