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Show Me Your Thumbs @mearn4d10.bsky.social · 1h

There are printable files.

It’s almost 2m tall.

Show Me Your Thumbs @mearn4d10.bsky.social · 18h

“Won’t”, not “Can’t”.

If they had incentive to, they would.

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Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 20h

This is quite hopeful. It's probably worth providing NG members with a link to this page, or a print out of it: girightshotline.org/en/military-...

2 Illinois National Guard members speak out: "I won't turn against my neighbors"

Staff Sgt. Demi Palecek and Capt. Dylan Blaha say they'll defy federal orders regarding Trump's immigration enforcement operation in Chicago.

www.cbsnews.com

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Fifty Shades of Whey @fiftyshadesofwhey.bsky.social · 1d

There has never been a time when SNAP was withheld nationwide, but this shutdown will break the streak. The public has proof of genocide, pedo rings, foreign collusion, gaslighting, surveillance, urban occupation, police brutality, human trafficking, family separation, etc...and now mass starvation.

Fifty Shades of Whey @fiftyshadesofwhey.bsky.social · 1d

Reminder: The only 2 nations that voted AGAINST recognizing food as a human right is the United States and Israel.

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Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 1d

Greetings from the Dirksen federal courthouse, where Border Patrol Chief Greg Bovino is set to appear before U.S. District Court Judge Sara Ellis.
What you need to know, for @wttw.bsky.social:

Border Patrol Chief Greg Bovino, Who Fired Tear Gas at Little Village Crowd, Set to Face Federal Judge

U.S. District Court Judge Sara Ellis ordered Border Patrol chief Greg Bovino to appear in her courtroom at the Dirksen Federal Building in downtown Chicago at 10 a.m. Tuesday.

news.wttw.com

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SlacktivistFred @slacktivistfred.bsky.social · 1d

100 miles from the border is clearly NOT a "reasonable distance." It is an UNREASONABLE distance.

If CBP is to continue to exist, then the "reasonable distance" from borders in which they are allowed special rights needs to be limited to an actually reasonable distance of FAR less than 100 miles.

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Show Me Your Thumbs @mearn4d10.bsky.social · 1d

*gentle hugs*

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Show Me Your Thumbs @mearn4d10.bsky.social · 2d

Until We’re Not.

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Show Me Your Thumbs @mearn4d10.bsky.social · 2d

Plant the trees you’ll never know the shade of.

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Show Me Your Thumbs @mearn4d10.bsky.social · 2d

*see republican/antivaxxer Venn diagram

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Micro SF/F by O. Westin @microsff.com · 2d

If you pass Humanity's Earth,
Land, buy some local delicacies:
Chocolate, coffee, tea, liquorice.
There are more; ask a Human.

Keep them, until you need
To befriend a Human
Wandering the galaxy
Far from home.

The rumours about Humans are true,
For good or ill

A gift can be invaluable
#poem

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · Jun 19

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

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Show Me Your Thumbs @mearn4d10.bsky.social · 3d

That’s the Farmer Truth.

And one bad year (or a cruel, idiotic asshole in the WH) can break more farmers than we have acres planted.

- a lifelong farm-adjacent Iowegian.

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Show Me Your Thumbs @mearn4d10.bsky.social · 3d

Millionaires in ‘on the books assets’, maybe some.

But tying in every cent you have from the futures in your last crop + govt subsidies into infrastructure maintenence so your next one breaks even enough to do it all again?

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Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 3d

Walmart employees? On SNAP. Junior US military personnel with families? On SNAP. Wherever workers are being underpaid, they are on SNAP.

Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 3d

Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.

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Show Me Your Thumbs @mearn4d10.bsky.social · 3d

ACAB.

Yes, even that one you know who is ‘nice’.

*A*C*A*B*.

So Endeth the Lesson.

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Show Me Your Thumbs @mearn4d10.bsky.social · 3d

… A Maid Lusty For Aragonians?

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Show Me Your Thumbs @mearn4d10.bsky.social · 3d

It should be *illegal* to pay an employee less than the median rent for a one bedroom apartment in a 50 mile radius of the work location or corporate headquarters, whichever is higher.

There is *nowhere* in the US where the federal minimum wage is livable for a solo adult, much less a family.

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Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 3d

Not only is it going to be a hunger crisis, it's going to be a farm crisis. All those gallons of milk bought from dairy farmers, all the produce, all the on sale ground beef and packs of chicken that are paid for by SNAP are subsidies to farmers who don't qualify for commodities subsidies.

Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 3d

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Show Me Your Thumbs @mearn4d10.bsky.social · 3d

“This Relationship Dilemma Could Have Been A Polycule.” Is honestly one of my least favorite tropes.

LET THERE BE POLYA!!!

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Show Me Your Thumbs @mearn4d10.bsky.social · 3d

“Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.”

Nowhere does it say a word about Work.

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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 3d

SNAP isn't about "people who don't work." It's about people who don't get paid enough to live.

Of the 40 or so million people who rely on food stamps:

* Two-thirds are children, seniors, or disabled

* Most working-age adults who receive SNAP are employed—but in jobs that pay poverty wages

Marc Lobliner post on X: "Why the hell are we giving food stamps to 40 million people?

Does anyone work anymore?"

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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 3d

Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.

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Abigail Larson @abigaillarson.com · 3d

Guillermo del Toro on wealth: "a wealthy man is a man who has enough, not a man that needs more. If you have enough to invite someone for a beer? You're rich. If you have a yacht, planes, islands, and you still need more? You're not rich."

Guillermo del Toro quote "...think about wealth for me for example. A wealthy man that has enough..."

"not a man that needs more. If you have enough to invite somebody to beer..."

"...you're rich. If you have, whatever-"

"- yachts and planes and islands and you STILL need more? You're not rich."

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Show Me Your Thumbs @mearn4d10.bsky.social · 3d

The growl of WANT my internals gave.

Daaaaaaaaaaaaamn.

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