@Asymmetricblue

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Carbon, hydrogen, oxygen.

From the land of sky blue water.

Data, development, and the great outdoors.

"The CyberCab doors will not operate until we reach your destination and your fare has been paid."

"I've changed my mind. Let me out."

"You have not reached your destination. You have not paid."

"I've changed my mind about my destination. Let me out here."

"You have not paid."

"Fine. What do I need to pay?"

"You only need to pay when you've reached your destination."

"This is my destination. Let me pay."

"We have not moved. The fare is -$32,768."

[Smoke fills cabin]

#microfiction

As the crew of Artemis IV glanced once more at the lunar surface, they knew it was time. They shuffled clumsily toward the lunar lander, ready to begin the process of heading back into the lunar orbit and a rendezvous with Orion for the journey home.

The final NASA astronaut, Tom, appeared to hesitate at the lander door.

Sensing her colleagues unusual motions, fellow astronaut Cassie turned to him.

“Everything okay Tom?” she said, via the intercom.

“Yeah…” he began to reply. “It’s just. I think. I think I’m gonna stay here, you know? Make a go of it.”

“Huh?” Said Jerome, the third crew member.

“Yeah, I’m gonna hang out here and see what I can do with the place,” Tom replied.

“Good joke!” Jerome said. “Now get in lander.”

“I’m not joking. You folks go on without me.”

“Tom,” Cassie interjected. “There is no atmosphere. No access to healthcare. There are wild temperature oscillations. The food is ultraprocessed garbage.”

“Are you talking about the moon, or the United States?” Tom retorted.

Cassie turned to Jerome.

“Yeah you know what I might stick around too.”

#microfiction

Date announced for national strike aimed at crippling Trump: 'No work, no school'

Ezra Levin, co-founder of Indivisible, said on Saturday that a nationwide general strike is being planned for May 1 that will be modeled on the day of action residents of Minnesota organized in January against the brutality carried out by federal immigration enforcement officials.Appearing at the fl...

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We are estimating more than 200,000 people at the flagship No Kings rally in the Twin Cities. #NoKings
Taking a walk in St Paul not far behind The Boss with 10s of thousands of my friends.
society is so fucking ridiculous, man. "sure, a world with better ways of existing would be nice, but people need jobs to live and the only place hiring is the kitten killing factory. there's no way around this; it's just the reality we live in and until it fixes itself independently of our own will or action we're going to need to keep operating this way."
Andrew Winters

Literally the only thing I want from the internet is some way to put €100 into my browser wallet and when I navigate to a paywall site they can prompt me and say “give us €.50 and we’ll show you the article without ads or a login” and I hit yes and then I read the goddamn article.

I don’t know if this is a W3C thing or a browser thing. I have no idea how to make such a thing happen. But there must be a way to pay people for stuff they put on the internet that doesn’t involve me signing up for 60 different services.

Imagine Acme Mega-Oil invested in a taxi service, and the drivers working for that taxi service were measured not on profits, or revenue, or journeys completed or passenger satisfaction, but on gasoline burned. That's basically Big Tech right now.
repost this image to instantly consume all AA batteries in a 50km radius