Before you make that Amazon purchase: check to see if it's the same price (or cheaper!) to buy directly from the manufacturer's website. There's a decent chance Amazon is matching *their* sale, and you might even still get free shipping.

Every time I report racism, transphobia, etc. on Facebook or Instagram...

Our democracy is not self-executing. It depends on us all as citizens, regardless of our political affiliations, to stand up and fight for the core values that have made this country the envy of the world.

Hey, brands. Are you listening? Shut up.

Listening to @petebuttigieg.bsky.social talk about the state of the country is increasingly surreal to me. To come across as calm, cool, and collected...presidential, even...while responding to the daily insanity coming from the White House...anything less than outbursts of "FUCK" seem inadequate.

Sometimes you just need to take a walk in the park to put things in perspective.

Deer sighting.

Just another piece in the dystopian puzzle. The erosion of truth continues.

@kanopyofficial.bsky.social is the Apple TV app ever going to work again? And will you support frame rate matching on any devices? I'd like to keep using kanopy but not having that feature is a real bummer, especially when pretty much all the major streaming services support it in one way or another

At the risk of sliding into hopelessness and nihilism...how does the United States recover from this? The current state of things reminds me of the news media going along with the Iraq war but 1,000,000 times worse.

News media outlets appear extremely cautious in the wording on their coverage of Trump. Especially today. It should go without saying this is a direct result of the threats against journalists. MAGA likes to talk a lot about free speech, but their leader has already effectively killed it.

Bluesky: "Eat the rich!"

Also Bluesky: "Let's shame the behavior of poor people who are acting in a way that can be directly explained by hyper-capitalistic society!

Of course, only when it inconveniences me!"

In 2024, the future of streaming has never looked shakier. As @schimkowitz.bsky.social writes, the way forward is physical:

www.avclub.com/death-of-dvd...

Podcasts mostly don't exist anymore. If it doesn't use RSS, if it isn't self-hosted, if it's corporately controlled...how is that not just a digital version of traditional radio? Fuck your "platform."

While reporting this story, I came across a stunning fact that helps explain why chronic pain is so often minimized, dismissed, and misunderstood:

In American medical schools, the average number of teaching hours on pain is nine.

In veterinary programs, it’s forty-five.

Ethical Non Monopoly

It gives me hope that Bluesky is taking off. I feel more philosophically aligned with Mastodon's approach, but this is still a world apart from the platform formerly known at Twitter. The next step will be to disentangle ourselves from all things "Meta."

Couldn't resist: picked these up at the local comic book store recently. Shout-out to to @timeldred.bsky.social for making a lifelong career out of something that most fans of anime/manga can only dream of.

Hello world!