Ski
@ski3143.bsky.social
Dino Nerd | Aviation Nerd | Video Game Nerd | Urbanist Nerd | Nerd Nerd.
Slava Ukraini. Pro-Union. Pro-trans rights. Pro 2a. Some kinda socialist apparently because I think it's bad when people starve and/or are homeless. Transhumanist.
Slava Ukraini. Pro-Union. Pro-trans rights. Pro 2a. Some kinda socialist apparently because I think it's bad when people starve and/or are homeless. Transhumanist.
Rest in Power to the only president to have earned my respect as a human being.
Carter used the power of his post presidency to nearly eradicate guinea worm. There were 3.5 million cases when the Carter Center’s work began in 1986. He said in 2015 that he wanted to see “guinea worm completely eradicated before I die.” There’ve been 7 cases this year. www.npr.org/sections/goa...
Jimmy Carter took on the awful Guinea worm when no one else would — and he triumphed
Carter targeted diseases primarily affecting the poor in remote areas — notably "Guinea worm disease." Because of his commitment, case numbers plummeted from 3.6 million a year to just 13 in 2022.
www.npr.org
December 29, 2024 at 10:17 PM
Rest in Power to the only president to have earned my respect as a human being.
If we taught modern monetary theory in schools people wouldn't buy into this bullshit.
BTW: the debt ceiling shouldn’t exist. It’s just a way they hold a proverbial gun to our head and threaten to crash the economy.
We print our💰—We should pay our bills. Despite what @MarshaBlackburn says, “debt” is not an issue if we keep inflation down. www.brookings.edu/articles/why...
We print our💰—We should pay our bills. Despite what @MarshaBlackburn says, “debt” is not an issue if we keep inflation down. www.brookings.edu/articles/why...
December 19, 2024 at 1:33 PM
If we taught modern monetary theory in schools people wouldn't buy into this bullshit.
Sick days are not a limited resource that the company cannot provide more of without taking them from elsewhere. They're a social construct and there's no reason we cannot provide them without limit to those in need.
December 16, 2024 at 2:23 PM
Sick days are not a limited resource that the company cannot provide more of without taking them from elsewhere. They're a social construct and there's no reason we cannot provide them without limit to those in need.
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Hey, at least they’re giving the land a vote in their maps—finally, representation for dirt and trees!
December 15, 2024 at 5:24 AM
Hey, at least they’re giving the land a vote in their maps—finally, representation for dirt and trees!
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"Medicare for all would have saved that CEO's life."
December 7, 2024 at 6:29 AM
"Medicare for all would have saved that CEO's life."
A bank account they can withdraw from.
All the GOP plans to cut government spending involve decreasing human services and human resources.
What is a society that doesn’t invest in its people or accept the investments of its people?
What do they think America is supposed to be?
What is a society that doesn’t invest in its people or accept the investments of its people?
What do they think America is supposed to be?
December 6, 2024 at 2:46 PM
A bank account they can withdraw from.
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Reading this aloud in my best Werner Herzog voice.
December 6, 2024 at 2:45 PM
Reading this aloud in my best Werner Herzog voice.
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always crazy to me when conservatives talk about regulations being so restrictive because i can’t remember a single time in my entire life a regulation has made my life harder but i can name dozens of times a conservative has made my life tougher
December 5, 2024 at 2:31 AM
always crazy to me when conservatives talk about regulations being so restrictive because i can’t remember a single time in my entire life a regulation has made my life harder but i can name dozens of times a conservative has made my life tougher
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if you read a reply and think, "That's the stupidest fucking thing I've read in a while,"
and it's also way too wordy, formal, etc? it's probably a bot!
you can check their replies for HUNDREDS of similarly worded, often barely intelligible, replies
please report them when you see them
and it's also way too wordy, formal, etc? it's probably a bot!
you can check their replies for HUNDREDS of similarly worded, often barely intelligible, replies
please report them when you see them
December 4, 2024 at 10:59 PM
if you read a reply and think, "That's the stupidest fucking thing I've read in a while,"
and it's also way too wordy, formal, etc? it's probably a bot!
you can check their replies for HUNDREDS of similarly worded, often barely intelligible, replies
please report them when you see them
and it's also way too wordy, formal, etc? it's probably a bot!
you can check their replies for HUNDREDS of similarly worded, often barely intelligible, replies
please report them when you see them
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Normalize closing businesses entirely between thanksgiving and new years. People were not meant to work when it gets bright at 7AM and dark at 4:30PM.
December 2, 2024 at 2:50 PM
Normalize closing businesses entirely between thanksgiving and new years. People were not meant to work when it gets bright at 7AM and dark at 4:30PM.
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This morning's blue #PaleoArt, for all the new #Bluesky people, is "Cretaceous Blue Moon." Pictured are male #Elasmosaurus showing off how strong their necks are during a bloom of blue bioluminescent algae. #SciArt #SciComm
December 2, 2024 at 9:45 AM
This morning's blue #PaleoArt, for all the new #Bluesky people, is "Cretaceous Blue Moon." Pictured are male #Elasmosaurus showing off how strong their necks are during a bloom of blue bioluminescent algae. #SciArt #SciComm
Trying this quote with your lock screen thing. "Beltalowda!"
December 2, 2024 at 1:31 PM
Trying this quote with your lock screen thing. "Beltalowda!"
I was on bsky pretty early, and very recently started following political accounts with the influxes occurring. So now my feed is this weird mix of shit posting trans friends and excessively wordy leftists explaining exactly why society is ending. The emotional whiplash is certainly something.
December 2, 2024 at 3:02 AM
I was on bsky pretty early, and very recently started following political accounts with the influxes occurring. So now my feed is this weird mix of shit posting trans friends and excessively wordy leftists explaining exactly why society is ending. The emotional whiplash is certainly something.
Optimistic Sci-Fi is an underutilized genre.
I was listening to an interview with Ayana Elizabeth Johnson a few days ago who said we need more stories in Hollywood depicting a solutions oriented future beyond dystopia.
My first thought: Star Trek’s been there this entire time. Gene Roddenberry+ have given us a lot on which to build.
My first thought: Star Trek’s been there this entire time. Gene Roddenberry+ have given us a lot on which to build.
December 2, 2024 at 12:54 AM
Optimistic Sci-Fi is an underutilized genre.
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Good advice to everyone on BlueSky
You can voice your opinion about Kash Patel without retweeting DT. PLEASE do not turn BlueSky into Twitter/X by continually retweeting him. Let’s not become a garbage dump for Truth Social. Just state your viewpoint without platforming him. Thanks.
December 1, 2024 at 12:25 PM
Good advice to everyone on BlueSky
D&D pickup line: You look so radiant I should be taking double damage.
November 30, 2024 at 4:40 PM
D&D pickup line: You look so radiant I should be taking double damage.
There's a reason the department of education has been so demonized.
November 30, 2024 at 3:38 AM
There's a reason the department of education has been so demonized.
I've always wondered about that as someone who grew up listening to talk radio.
A question I used to have is “why did the Right take over AM radio after Reagan ended the fairness doctrine, and why weren’t there any partisan liberal AM talk shows?”
There were some liberal shows and the hosts got murdered
www.history.com/this-day-in-...
There were some liberal shows and the hosts got murdered
www.history.com/this-day-in-...
Denver radio host gunned down by white supremacists | June 18, 1984 | HISTORY
Talk radio host Alan Berg is gunned down and killed instantly in the driveway of his home in Denver, Colorado, on June 18, 1984. The 50‑year‑old host, whose show on the station KOA gained a strong fol...
www.history.com
November 26, 2024 at 2:59 PM
I've always wondered about that as someone who grew up listening to talk radio.
The leopards hunger for faces grows.
U.S. farmers want President-elect Donald Trump to spare their sector from his promise of mass deportations, which could upend a food supply chain heavily dependent on immigrants in the United States illegally.
www.clarionledger.com/story/news/2...
www.clarionledger.com/story/news/2...
US farm groups want Trump to spare their workers from deportation
U.S. farm industry groups want President-elect Donald Trump to spare their sector from his promise of mass deportations.
www.clarionledger.com
November 26, 2024 at 1:47 PM
The leopards hunger for faces grows.
It bothers me to no end that most of the leadership in this country is older than the internet. They are FUNDAMENTALLY disconnected from what the world has become. The world they lived in and are making rules about, no longer exists. We need newer younger leadership.
Or get rid of the ancient “leadership” and make room for more young people. Carville has never been relevant in my lifetime and at 80…just shut up.
"We don’t know how people get their information...[we need] an exhaustive, detailed, well-fielded, well-constructed survey on media consumption."
Here's James Carville laying out his idea for a deep dive by Dems into how people get their news these days:
newrepublic.com/article/1888...
Here's James Carville laying out his idea for a deep dive by Dems into how people get their news these days:
newrepublic.com/article/1888...
November 26, 2024 at 1:43 PM
It bothers me to no end that most of the leadership in this country is older than the internet. They are FUNDAMENTALLY disconnected from what the world has become. The world they lived in and are making rules about, no longer exists. We need newer younger leadership.
Today was wild in the best way. I smell like jet-A, cordite, and whiskey currently.
November 25, 2024 at 3:21 AM
Today was wild in the best way. I smell like jet-A, cordite, and whiskey currently.