Ty Pethe
@ty-pethe.bsky.social
Hugs. Let's get together again and vent about the end of the world soon. Also, I finished the book you lent me and I'd love to chat with you about it.
April 19, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Hugs. Let's get together again and vent about the end of the world soon. Also, I finished the book you lent me and I'd love to chat with you about it.
I thought it was good. I liked the narrative flow and the moral ambiguity, but I think the story telling could have been tighter. I think much of the criticism probably comes from the fandom and some elements not fitting into their expectations/imagination of the world, but this is only a guess.
April 15, 2025 at 11:22 PM
I thought it was good. I liked the narrative flow and the moral ambiguity, but I think the story telling could have been tighter. I think much of the criticism probably comes from the fandom and some elements not fitting into their expectations/imagination of the world, but this is only a guess.
To build a world with interconnected communities and mutually shared trust, respect, and collaboration, I think we need move people towards a more intersectional lens and embrace of novelty and difference as a positive that brings value while fighting bigotry, prejudice, and monoculture.
April 15, 2025 at 11:16 PM
To build a world with interconnected communities and mutually shared trust, respect, and collaboration, I think we need move people towards a more intersectional lens and embrace of novelty and difference as a positive that brings value while fighting bigotry, prejudice, and monoculture.
I often feel the same. Sadly, I think it comes down to the same old "push / pull" tensions between the individual vs society. As a tribe/group, we reinforce cohesion to the identity, force members to hold to it, and dehumanize the other. As individuals, our context and interaction is subjective.
April 15, 2025 at 11:11 PM
I often feel the same. Sadly, I think it comes down to the same old "push / pull" tensions between the individual vs society. As a tribe/group, we reinforce cohesion to the identity, force members to hold to it, and dehumanize the other. As individuals, our context and interaction is subjective.
Other
- Legalize recreational marijuana.
- Everyone deserves equal rights and opportunities regardless of their personal identity.
- Legalize recreational marijuana.
- Everyone deserves equal rights and opportunities regardless of their personal identity.
March 19, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Other
- Legalize recreational marijuana.
- Everyone deserves equal rights and opportunities regardless of their personal identity.
- Legalize recreational marijuana.
- Everyone deserves equal rights and opportunities regardless of their personal identity.
Taxation
- Lower the federal estate tax threshold to $1,000,000 dollars.
- Increase capital gains tax to the same as income tax.
- Remove Trump era tax cuts.
- Remove the caps on Social Security taxation.
- Lower the federal estate tax threshold to $1,000,000 dollars.
- Increase capital gains tax to the same as income tax.
- Remove Trump era tax cuts.
- Remove the caps on Social Security taxation.
March 19, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Taxation
- Lower the federal estate tax threshold to $1,000,000 dollars.
- Increase capital gains tax to the same as income tax.
- Remove Trump era tax cuts.
- Remove the caps on Social Security taxation.
- Lower the federal estate tax threshold to $1,000,000 dollars.
- Increase capital gains tax to the same as income tax.
- Remove Trump era tax cuts.
- Remove the caps on Social Security taxation.
- Work with the Federal Communication Commission (FCC) and National Endowment for the Art (NEA) to create a robust structure for providing grants to not-for-profit community journalism organizations.
March 19, 2025 at 6:31 PM
- Work with the Federal Communication Commission (FCC) and National Endowment for the Art (NEA) to create a robust structure for providing grants to not-for-profit community journalism organizations.
Journalist Integrity
- Establish a law that differentiates between protected free speech in journalism vs editorial opinion and requires that editorial opinion is labelled as such in broadcast.
- Establish a law that differentiates between protected free speech in journalism vs editorial opinion and requires that editorial opinion is labelled as such in broadcast.
March 19, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Journalist Integrity
- Establish a law that differentiates between protected free speech in journalism vs editorial opinion and requires that editorial opinion is labelled as such in broadcast.
- Establish a law that differentiates between protected free speech in journalism vs editorial opinion and requires that editorial opinion is labelled as such in broadcast.
- Create a low-cost public financing option for higher education.
- Provide college debt relief.
- Provide college debt relief.
March 19, 2025 at 6:31 PM
- Create a low-cost public financing option for higher education.
- Provide college debt relief.
- Provide college debt relief.
- Fund the Department of Education to create a non-government organization to create and publish open-source textbooks for all standard courses.
- Increased funding for Pre-K to PhD educational opportunities.
- Increased funding for Pre-K to PhD educational opportunities.
March 19, 2025 at 6:31 PM
- Fund the Department of Education to create a non-government organization to create and publish open-source textbooks for all standard courses.
- Increased funding for Pre-K to PhD educational opportunities.
- Increased funding for Pre-K to PhD educational opportunities.
Education
- Create a national curriculum guide with approved syllabi and list of resources with universal course numbering for K-12 public education.
- Create a national curriculum guide with approved syllabi and list of resources with universal course numbering for K-12 public education.
March 19, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Education
- Create a national curriculum guide with approved syllabi and list of resources with universal course numbering for K-12 public education.
- Create a national curriculum guide with approved syllabi and list of resources with universal course numbering for K-12 public education.
- Creation of a public and free vote tracking system for all levels of government (from federal to city level) that includes the voting record of each elected representative and a pro/con statement for each proposal.
March 19, 2025 at 6:30 PM
- Creation of a public and free vote tracking system for all levels of government (from federal to city level) that includes the voting record of each elected representative and a pro/con statement for each proposal.
- A law that group donating money to political causes should have to publicly disclose their board of directors and/or ownership. No more unnamed llc donating money. This should include PACS and political campaigns.
March 19, 2025 at 6:30 PM
- A law that group donating money to political causes should have to publicly disclose their board of directors and/or ownership. No more unnamed llc donating money. This should include PACS and political campaigns.
- Create limitations on the use of power by the President’s Office that limit the office to historical rights & responsibilities. Limit the scope of Executive Actions (EA) to federal agencies under direct control of the Office of the Executive and emergency actions.
March 19, 2025 at 6:30 PM
- Create limitations on the use of power by the President’s Office that limit the office to historical rights & responsibilities. Limit the scope of Executive Actions (EA) to federal agencies under direct control of the Office of the Executive and emergency actions.
- Set campaign contribution limits for all federal elections at a much lower level.
- Law requiring that all elected representatives at the federal level are required to place all investment assets in a federally established trust while in office.
- Law requiring that all elected representatives at the federal level are required to place all investment assets in a federally established trust while in office.
March 19, 2025 at 6:29 PM
- Set campaign contribution limits for all federal elections at a much lower level.
- Law requiring that all elected representatives at the federal level are required to place all investment assets in a federally established trust while in office.
- Law requiring that all elected representatives at the federal level are required to place all investment assets in a federally established trust while in office.
- Constitutional amendment stating that economic activity ARE NOT free speech and limit corporate rights to due process, the protection from undue political targeting & unreasonable searches, neutral enforcement of free speech, and the ability to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
March 19, 2025 at 6:29 PM
- Constitutional amendment stating that economic activity ARE NOT free speech and limit corporate rights to due process, the protection from undue political targeting & unreasonable searches, neutral enforcement of free speech, and the ability to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
Good Governance
- Bar all publicly elected representatives, heads of agencies, and senior staff from holding any lobbying or political advocacy job for six years after leaving elected office.
- Bar all publicly elected representatives, heads of agencies, and senior staff from holding any lobbying or political advocacy job for six years after leaving elected office.
March 19, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Good Governance
- Bar all publicly elected representatives, heads of agencies, and senior staff from holding any lobbying or political advocacy job for six years after leaving elected office.
- Bar all publicly elected representatives, heads of agencies, and senior staff from holding any lobbying or political advocacy job for six years after leaving elected office.
- Negotiate federal pricing for prescription drugs covered under any/all public plans.
March 19, 2025 at 6:27 PM
- Negotiate federal pricing for prescription drugs covered under any/all public plans.
- Federal law protecting the right for all minors to be able to receive non-surgical gender supportive care and for all adults to any gender affirming care (including surgery and/or invasive procedures) they desire.
March 19, 2025 at 6:26 PM
- Federal law protecting the right for all minors to be able to receive non-surgical gender supportive care and for all adults to any gender affirming care (including surgery and/or invasive procedures) they desire.
Health
- Public health insurance option at the national level that provides the same level of coverage as elected representative and is pro-rated to income.
- Federal law protecting the right to an abortion.
- Public health insurance option at the national level that provides the same level of coverage as elected representative and is pro-rated to income.
- Federal law protecting the right to an abortion.
March 19, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Health
- Public health insurance option at the national level that provides the same level of coverage as elected representative and is pro-rated to income.
- Federal law protecting the right to an abortion.
- Public health insurance option at the national level that provides the same level of coverage as elected representative and is pro-rated to income.
- Federal law protecting the right to an abortion.
- Streamline regulations to make the process of obtaining building permits and permissions much easier. This should be a state run program but the federal government should give money and staff that can advise to help find ways to better align state and federal regulations to simplify the process.
March 19, 2025 at 6:26 PM
- Streamline regulations to make the process of obtaining building permits and permissions much easier. This should be a state run program but the federal government should give money and staff that can advise to help find ways to better align state and federal regulations to simplify the process.
- Housing affordability where the goal should be two fold: enough housing so that every working American family can get on the property ladder. Enough state run temporary housing so that people who are unhoused can have a safe place to stay. This needs to include a push for social services.
March 19, 2025 at 6:25 PM
- Housing affordability where the goal should be two fold: enough housing so that every working American family can get on the property ladder. Enough state run temporary housing so that people who are unhoused can have a safe place to stay. This needs to include a push for social services.
- All dates for federal elections must be recognized as national holidays.
March 19, 2025 at 6:25 PM
- All dates for federal elections must be recognized as national holidays.
- Establish a definition for a not-for-profit organization that creates a structure for organizations that want to engage in economic output without profit based motives. This includes regulations, financial disclosure, requirements to ensure the function is for the social good.
March 19, 2025 at 6:25 PM
- Establish a definition for a not-for-profit organization that creates a structure for organizations that want to engage in economic output without profit based motives. This includes regulations, financial disclosure, requirements to ensure the function is for the social good.
- National right to advanced schedule. Any variable shift worker has the right to know their schedule at least two weeks in advance.
- Raise the national minimum wage for both tipped and non-tipped work to $15 dollars an hour and set an automatic yearly increase matching inflation.
- Raise the national minimum wage for both tipped and non-tipped work to $15 dollars an hour and set an automatic yearly increase matching inflation.
March 19, 2025 at 6:23 PM
- National right to advanced schedule. Any variable shift worker has the right to know their schedule at least two weeks in advance.
- Raise the national minimum wage for both tipped and non-tipped work to $15 dollars an hour and set an automatic yearly increase matching inflation.
- Raise the national minimum wage for both tipped and non-tipped work to $15 dollars an hour and set an automatic yearly increase matching inflation.