Ah, thank you. I saw the non-matching stuff and bsky had cut off everything below it for me. Sorry about that!

Sun! Flowers!

3/ The Senate keeps voting on 2 bills to reopen.

1. The GOP bill - it raises premiums on 22m Americans and lets Trump keep acting illegally.

2. The Dem bill - it stops the premium increases and checks Trump's illegality.

Each time, neither bill gets the necessary 60 votes.

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion.

The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.

Read that back.

When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.

The Regime's goal is to grind everyone down. Plain & simple. Our goal is to refuse this by taking turns to fight where and how we can. When one group needs to bow out, then another group needs to step in and so on. We don't all have to do everything. We can all do something though. Stay in the fight

Monarch butterflies - photographs from earlier this season 🌿 #Invert

When Mike Johnson or another national leader repeatedly claims they haven’t seen relevant things in the news, an appropriate reporter reaction would be “Holy cow, how do you not know?!? How can you do your job without knowing what’s happening? What are you doing to fix your ‘not knowing’ problem?”

If you've got a Steam Next Fest demo that would be good @intelligame.us fare (narrative-driven, any genre, connects to real-world themes/issues), please drop me a link!

Currently excited about Ambrosia Sky by @softrains.bsky.social and Relooted by @nyamakop.co.za, but on the hunt for more

"No news is covering this!" Except every major network does have an article about it. "Don't listen to this rich man!" Don't repost what he's saying, then. I wouldn't have known what he said without you telling me in the same post you tell me not to listen to him.

I think I'm too grumpy today.

This is super good news! Plastic will continue to be a thing as we continue to use oil as a fuel, but as we make more progress in turning away from petroleum, having plastics that can replace petroleum plastic will be essential (especially for medical settings, imo). Biodegradable is extra great!

Happy Indigenous Peoples Day!

“Our strength is not defined by visibility in colonial spaces. Our strength comes from something much older, deeper, and more enduring.”

I wish there was a good way to demonstrate how little reaction time you have at those speeds, how much those speeds will cause catastrophic damage, & how much worse fuel efficiency you get when moving thousands of pounds of vehicle at those speeds. Like. Going over 65 is bad for so many reasons.

In addition to CBS covering it as linked by another poster, AP News is also covering it.

Russ Vought is now officially using the government shutdown as a pretext for his continued attempts to permanently gut the civil service.

The executive branch cannot unilaterally reduce agency funding that Congress has allocated: This is a serious separation of powers issue.

Alt text for image: A map of the state of Wisconsin, with different colors to differentiate the lands of the Indigenous people of the region. It includes the Ojibwe, Dakota, Ho-chunk, Menominee, and Potawatomi. Reservations are also labeled on the map in white.

2020 Autumn ...

Today is a great day to watch this beautiful PBS piece on the Taíno people

youtu.be/kpX6dpC5MQg?...

Video games should never have cutscenes with constant repeating sirens in the background of laid-back, chill conversations.

Move out of the siren area and then have your deep and important conversations. I can't focus with that sound going on in the background. T-T

The WHO has verified the elimination of both measles & rubella in all Pacific Island countries, alongside rubella elimination in Japan. The achievement follows 2 decades of coordinated immunisation campaigns, regional surveillance, and high routine vaccine coverage. buff.ly/EpFb7HK
#ShareGoodNewsToo

People are spontaneously posting up near any laborers or street vendors they spot. Just saw a rapid responder guarding a man working on a building exterior. Many things are terrible today but lord, this stuff matters.

Next Monday Oct 13 is Indigenous Peoples’ Day and we have the day off from work… so that means fundraising!

This year I’ll be fundraising for ActionAid, an international network that focuses on working at the local level with the community to coordinate rapid responses and meet immediate needs.

I really want to punch whatever societal things made Americans think that sleep itself can be unhealthy and there's some sort of morality in getting by on less sleep. Too much sleep can indicate health issues, but it's not unhealthy itself. Not enough sleep over time, though, will mess you up.