Steven Sparrow

@theothersparrow
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Actor, SAG-E, fighting the neverending battle against sleepiness, North America's premier Matrix Resurrections defender

https://tellonym.me/theothersparrow

The stock portfolios of more than two dozen members of Congress outperformed the market in 2024.

This isn't due to luck or skill.

Lawmakers can use privileged information to trade stocks while they’re supposed to be working for you.

Yes, Chuck Berry Invented Rock ‘n’ Roll — and Singer-Songwriters. Oh, Teenagers Too

The American legend, who died March 18 at age 90, endured racism even as he seemed to transcend skin color and struggled to enjoy his genius even as he enshrined fun in pop music. And, oh yeah — he definitely invented rock’n’roll.

Billboard

This will be me I reckon.

@Edmonds_Scanner

A majestic Mexican navy tall ship’s festive tour turned to horror after it slammed into the Brooklyn Bridge on Saturday night — sending one of its enormous masts crashing down and leaving multiple sailors seriously injured.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/us-news/watch-moment-200-crew-mexican-35244768#Echobox=1747533176

WATCH: The moment a 200 crew Mexican training vessel strikes Brooklyn Bridge

A majestic Mexican navy tall ship’s festive tour turned to horror after it slammed into the Brooklyn Bridge on Saturday night — sending one of its enormous masts crashing down and leaving multiple sailors seriously injured.

Daily Mirror

Don’t Fear the Reamer
—Blue Oyster Pulp

#CitrusASongOrPoem
#HashTagGames

This is what George Orwell was talking about when he coined the term “doublethink.”
We need to have two compartments in our heads:
one compartment for knowing what thoughts we must not think,
and another compartment that has only glowing thoughts
— such as the upcoming birthday party / military parade for our Dear Donald.
-- Charles Ashurst, Logan Utah
https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/letters/2025/05/17/letter-detention-people-without/
Letter: Detention of people without due process leaves us good, obedient Americans in a bind

Letter: Detention of people without due process leaves us good, obedient Americans in a bind

The Salt Lake Tribune

The largest investors in Donald Trump’s crypto coin have been promised a private audience with the president.

The arrangement could put Trump at odds with the Constitution and add fuel to calls for his impeachment.

https://www.wired.com/story/trumps-quest-for-crypto-riches-is-a-constitutional-scandal-waiting-to-happen/

Trump’s Quest for Crypto Riches Is a Constitutional Scandal Waiting to Happen

The largest investors in Donald Trump’s crypto coin have been promised a private audience with the president. The arrangement could put Trump at odds with the Constitution and add fuel to calls for his impeachment, experts say.

WIRED

@everylibrary

I think many of us are tired. Calling a congressperson, writing letters, signing petitions seems futile. But, these are first actions. Take them. Do them like little chores.

They aren't the full solution but there are people counting on us being lazy and buying in to the idea that no action is huge enough to be real... and every real action is too dangerous to take.

Instead do everything within your power however small it may feel.

I think if anyone wants to "bring back extinct organisms" they should start with an extinct lichen as proof of concept.

What's that? You say you don't know of any extinct lichen? Well, that seems like a problem don't you think?

What's that? You say you aren't even certain how many genomes you'd need to have the whole organism? Hmm. Maybe we should ponder this.

Show me you can bring back a lichen first. Show me that you even *understand* the lichen.