bdonnellyI’m 56 years old. Which means I’m about to endure my fourth cycle of twenty-something year old dudes discovering the weight room and Ayn Rand shit like they’ve just unlocked Enlightenment itself and by god I’m fucking so tired of it. And now they have podcasts.
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Scott SantensPreliminary results from the Denver Basic Income Project that's providing cash to hundreds of unhoused people for one year, using the first 6 months of data:
• NO ONE receiving $1,000/mo still sleeping outside
• Full-time employment increased
• Fewer visits to the ER
• Fewer nights spent in jail
• Reduced use of social and public services
Read the full report: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gqtOfZG2sSanWgUdzn-lx-pwSXZKabj-/view?pli=1
Ged MaheuxI think things are coming to a head sooner rather than later.
"Nobody became a billionaire through kindness. And nobody with power actually suffers any real consequences for being a malignant prick.
In this reality, it makes complete sense that the height of comedy for many people is the delight that comes from watching rich people eat shit." #EatTheRich
https://www.thedailybeast.com/eating-the-rich-sounds-pretty-good-to-most-of-us-right-now
Frigid Crystal Tormented WrathI'd put money on there being a higher regret rate for Harry Potter tattoos than gender affirming care
olivierlacanSpeaking of which, hot new robots.txt entry just dropped:
User-agent: GPTBot
Disallow: /
Fitness after 40 often feels like constant rehab. I often frame my goals as wanting to return to the form I had when I was younger. I feel like this is probably regressive, but it’s still motivating. Anything that keeps me going is positive. #fitness
Manuel Correia"Piracy can't be stealing if paying for it isn't owning"
This is increasingly how it feels, when things you "own" digitally become inaccessible, and when shows which are locked in streaming services can get delisted on a whim, disappearing forever.
Thank you @Illuminatus for this quote.
[Edit: In case this wasn't clear, this is about entertainment and digital ownership, not physical goods]
Dewey Ritten 
In a world of critics, be somebody's cheerleader.