Lucian Tyr
@luciantyr.bsky.social
Builder of digital things. Steampunk, scifi, and fantasy enthusiasts. Just enough ADHD and OCD to keep things spicy. Trying to find a place to land on the left. Anarchism, socialism 🤷♂️. Either are better than capitalism. More: https://trumpseggfail.com
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Lucian Tyr
@luciantyr.bsky.social
· Feb 12
Donald Trump has Failed to Lower the Cost of Eggs (and other things)
Donald J. Trump promised to fix the price of groceries, instead he's implemented Project 2025.
trumpseggfail.com
Do you know someone who voted for Donald Trump and insists they did so because the price of eggs (or anything else) was too high?
Send them to trumpseggfail.com for a convenient catalog of everything Trump's done instead of fixing the price of eggs.
Send them to trumpseggfail.com for a convenient catalog of everything Trump's done instead of fixing the price of eggs.
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The Consumer Price Index (CPI) isn’t just a measure of inflation, it directly impacts Social Security checks, mortgage, federal aid, business contracts, and worker pay. It’s foundational to understanding how the economy is working for everyday Americans. But now? It’s becoming far less accurate.
June 6, 2025 at 12:29 PM
The Consumer Price Index (CPI) isn’t just a measure of inflation, it directly impacts Social Security checks, mortgage, federal aid, business contracts, and worker pay. It’s foundational to understanding how the economy is working for everyday Americans. But now? It’s becoming far less accurate.
Let's not be fooled by the headlines celebrating the "better than expected" payroll numbers. The trend is down.
June 6, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Let's not be fooled by the headlines celebrating the "better than expected" payroll numbers. The trend is down.
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The most unskilled worker of all is the billionaire.
They don't even work, they just leech off everyone else.
They don't even work, they just leech off everyone else.
May 13, 2025 at 4:58 PM
The most unskilled worker of all is the billionaire.
They don't even work, they just leech off everyone else.
They don't even work, they just leech off everyone else.
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With MANIS AI...You can run whole production teams
Incredible AI
Incredible AI
May 13, 2025 at 5:04 PM
With MANIS AI...You can run whole production teams
Incredible AI
Incredible AI
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I think it's unfortunate that “it’s easier to break things than to build them" has become a tagline of the second resistance. It may be technically true, to some degree, in some cases. But it's often overstated, demoralizing, and concedes too much to the vandals.
Don't Let Fatalism Break The Spirit Of Resistance
Building things doesn't have to be that much harder than breaking them.
www.offmessage.net
May 13, 2025 at 4:27 PM
I think it's unfortunate that “it’s easier to break things than to build them" has become a tagline of the second resistance. It may be technically true, to some degree, in some cases. But it's often overstated, demoralizing, and concedes too much to the vandals.
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Wow - I knew cutting Medicaid is unpopular. I didn't know it is *this* unpopular.
There is not a single congressional district in the U.S. where more than 15% of voters support cuts to Medicaid.
May 13, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Wow - I knew cutting Medicaid is unpopular. I didn't know it is *this* unpopular.
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🇺🇸 “Rolling Stone reached out to all 53 GOP senators after the president said he didn't know whether he needs to honor the nation's founding document. None replied.”
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
May 11, 2025 at 1:52 PM
🇺🇸 “Rolling Stone reached out to all 53 GOP senators after the president said he didn't know whether he needs to honor the nation's founding document. None replied.”
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
By threatening to invade sovereign nations, treating foreigners in our country like criminals and seeking to dominate the world economically through his daft tariff scheme, he is making the United States into a pariah nation.
The world is now reversing course to reject Trumpism
The West was moving to the right — and then Donald Trump got elected again
www.salon.com
May 10, 2025 at 4:13 AM
By threatening to invade sovereign nations, treating foreigners in our country like criminals and seeking to dominate the world economically through his daft tariff scheme, he is making the United States into a pariah nation.
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After getting depressed from doom scrolling, I needed something random and funny to cheer me up. Enjoy!
May 9, 2025 at 4:26 AM
After getting depressed from doom scrolling, I needed something random and funny to cheer me up. Enjoy!
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Exclusive: National Science Foundation staff were told today that the agency’s 37 divisions—across all eight directorates—are being abolished and the number of programs within those divisions will be drastically reduced.
Exclusive: NSF faces radical shake-up as officials abolish its 37 divisions
Changes seen as a response to presidential directives on what research to fund
scim.ag
May 8, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Exclusive: National Science Foundation staff were told today that the agency’s 37 divisions—across all eight directorates—are being abolished and the number of programs within those divisions will be drastically reduced.
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If you'd like to learn more about pod mapping, find a printable worksheet, or even read about other forms of mutual aid, check out our resource drive:
drive.proton.me/urls/EPYQ79K...
drive.proton.me/urls/EPYQ79K...
May 9, 2025 at 3:53 AM
If you'd like to learn more about pod mapping, find a printable worksheet, or even read about other forms of mutual aid, check out our resource drive:
drive.proton.me/urls/EPYQ79K...
drive.proton.me/urls/EPYQ79K...
How is this not corruption?
May 7, 2025 at 12:16 PM
How is this not corruption?
It occurs to me that I skipped fixing a drink tonight. Crescent Moon had better beer on tap than what my primitive mixology could have come up with anyway.
May 6, 2025 at 4:01 AM
It occurs to me that I skipped fixing a drink tonight. Crescent Moon had better beer on tap than what my primitive mixology could have come up with anyway.
Dear workers, Here are new holidays. You must work. Sincerely, Donald J. Trump
P.S. Screw you veterans, I'm taking your holiday away from you and renaming it.
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Like how do people still think Trump is pro-worker and pro-veteran?! 🤯
P.S. Screw you veterans, I'm taking your holiday away from you and renaming it.
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Like how do people still think Trump is pro-worker and pro-veteran?! 🤯
Trump Expects You to Work on His New National Holidays
The president said there are “too many holidays in America” as he announced a plan to introduce two more.
www.thedailybeast.com
May 6, 2025 at 3:57 AM
Dear workers, Here are new holidays. You must work. Sincerely, Donald J. Trump
P.S. Screw you veterans, I'm taking your holiday away from you and renaming it.
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Like how do people still think Trump is pro-worker and pro-veteran?! 🤯
P.S. Screw you veterans, I'm taking your holiday away from you and renaming it.
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Like how do people still think Trump is pro-worker and pro-veteran?! 🤯
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Personally, I'm happy about this change, because absolutely no one voted for Trump to experience shared sacrifice. The one commonality among all Trump voters is that they believed he would make them rich while hurting people they dislike. They didn't expect to suffer themselves.
the rightwing influencers are trying hard to flip the narrative to “it’s your duty to sacrifice for your country” like during WWII. except WE ARE NOT AT FUCKING WAR you walnuts.
I cannot believe, and I will keep repeating, that I cannot for the life of me understand how the fuck the Trump admin thinks that "None of you get treats! You will buy EXPENSIVE things and LIKE IT." is a good idea when you literally ran on lowering prices on day one.
May 4, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Personally, I'm happy about this change, because absolutely no one voted for Trump to experience shared sacrifice. The one commonality among all Trump voters is that they believed he would make them rich while hurting people they dislike. They didn't expect to suffer themselves.
Tonight's cocktail: Limoncello, Western Son Lime vodka, & sparkling water. Less refreshing than hoped for, but boy did it get me buzzed (oops). I'll cut the vodka back to let the Limoncello be more pronounced, add a splash of simple syrup to offset the vodka further, and garnish with a lemon slice.
May 4, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Tonight's cocktail: Limoncello, Western Son Lime vodka, & sparkling water. Less refreshing than hoped for, but boy did it get me buzzed (oops). I'll cut the vodka back to let the Limoncello be more pronounced, add a splash of simple syrup to offset the vodka further, and garnish with a lemon slice.
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It is a little weird to me countries aren’t more aggressively, formally trying to take advantage of the U.S. science brain drain. Once in a lifetime opportunity to buy low on Non-Dumbass Americans with PhDs who just wanna look into microscopes and quietly cure ass cancer as our country eats shit.
May 4, 2025 at 8:54 PM
It is a little weird to me countries aren’t more aggressively, formally trying to take advantage of the U.S. science brain drain. Once in a lifetime opportunity to buy low on Non-Dumbass Americans with PhDs who just wanna look into microscopes and quietly cure ass cancer as our country eats shit.
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A Houthi missile getting through Israel's Iron Dome highlights how incredibly stupid and corrupt it would be for the US to spend billions and billions of dollars—with a lot of the money going to Elon Musk—in an attempt to make an equivalent "Golden Dome" over the much larger United States.
“Both the … Arrow air defense system and the American’s THAAD system failed to intercept the Houthi missile this morning…The IDF says it made several attempts to down the missile, which ultimately landed within the perimeter of Ben Gurion Airport.” www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog-may...
Israel’s Arrow and US THAAD systems both failed to intercept Houthi missile, sources say
PM to consult with defense officials, ministers on response to Iran-backed group * Some foreign airlines cancel flights to Ben Gurion Airport * 2 soldiers killed in Rafah tunnel blast
www.timesofisrael.com
May 4, 2025 at 3:13 PM
A Houthi missile getting through Israel's Iron Dome highlights how incredibly stupid and corrupt it would be for the US to spend billions and billions of dollars—with a lot of the money going to Elon Musk—in an attempt to make an equivalent "Golden Dome" over the much larger United States.
The framing from the WSJ on China's recent PMI data is pretty misleading. They call the 1.5 decline "sharp" and implying that the pressure is on China to negotiate with Trump. They fail to mention that the US PMI declined by 2.3 points yesterday.
If 1.5 is a sharp decline, what is a drop of 2.3 🤔
If 1.5 is a sharp decline, what is a drop of 2.3 🤔
April 30, 2025 at 11:54 AM
The framing from the WSJ on China's recent PMI data is pretty misleading. They call the 1.5 decline "sharp" and implying that the pressure is on China to negotiate with Trump. They fail to mention that the US PMI declined by 2.3 points yesterday.
If 1.5 is a sharp decline, what is a drop of 2.3 🤔
If 1.5 is a sharp decline, what is a drop of 2.3 🤔
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Marist Poll has traditionally asked Americans to grade the first 100 Days of each modern presidential administration
Percent who have given an “F” failing grade:
Obama: 11%
Trump (First term): 32%
Biden: 26%
Trump (Today): 45%
Percent who have given an “F” failing grade:
Obama: 11%
Trump (First term): 32%
Biden: 26%
Trump (Today): 45%
April 29, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Marist Poll has traditionally asked Americans to grade the first 100 Days of each modern presidential administration
Percent who have given an “F” failing grade:
Obama: 11%
Trump (First term): 32%
Biden: 26%
Trump (Today): 45%
Percent who have given an “F” failing grade:
Obama: 11%
Trump (First term): 32%
Biden: 26%
Trump (Today): 45%
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WSJ: The 19 richest U.S. households saw a $1 trillion wealth increase in 2024, a rise that exceeds the size of Switzerland’s economy.
@mikezaccardi.bsky.social
@mikezaccardi.bsky.social
April 29, 2025 at 11:37 AM
WSJ: The 19 richest U.S. households saw a $1 trillion wealth increase in 2024, a rise that exceeds the size of Switzerland’s economy.
@mikezaccardi.bsky.social
@mikezaccardi.bsky.social
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I see the already historically unpopular president is exploring how to get the military invovled in “assisting” local law enforcement just a few weeks before the real shortages caused by his inept economic policy start hitting. Probably nothing to worry about.
April 29, 2025 at 1:30 AM
I see the already historically unpopular president is exploring how to get the military invovled in “assisting” local law enforcement just a few weeks before the real shortages caused by his inept economic policy start hitting. Probably nothing to worry about.
Capitalism is cruel. UPS will cut 20,000 workers this year and is still expected to make $10 *billion* in proft.
April 29, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Capitalism is cruel. UPS will cut 20,000 workers this year and is still expected to make $10 *billion* in proft.