A thought for those hoping Trump's second term won't be worse than his first:

It will definitely be worse than his first. https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/worst-president-ever-will-even-worse-second-term-rcna178971

@davidcelis I feel lucky that I played it two weeks back where the message of working to overcome all that was hopeful; now Metaphor itself is its own unreachable utopia.

"Why did no one tell me that my poor decisions could have consequences?"

1/3
We feared they would try to subvert the election. It's worse: They didn't need to.

We asked how, given his obvious unfitness & fascism, the election could be close. But it wasn't even close.

We deplored the injustice of the electoral college. But he won the popular vote, too.

We can't say the majority didn't understand who he is. He recklessly boasted about dismantling democracy and persecuting his enemies (which is to say, many of us). And 70 million of our neighbors said, "Let's do it."

You Can Use “text-wrap: balance;” on Icons, by @Edent:

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/10/you-can-use-text-wrap-balance-on-icons/

today is apparently National Stress Awareness Day and hoo buddy let me tell you, I am Aware of it

As @jvl.bsky.social pointed out, Harris ran a smart campaign. She was a solid candidate. Trump ran a disastrous campaign and is in clear decline. This was a clear choice. No matter who wins, half of voters either chose bigotry and authoritarianism, or had no problem with it. And that’s hard to take.

Updated (see below)

Like you, I've been absorbing the news today. As I write this, it looks more and more possible that the American experiment will end in January.

I'll be back tomorrow, but right now I just want to wait and see.

PS: To all the journalists who barely deigned to notice the likelihood that the next president would be an outright fascist – and did nothing to stop him – you have my contempt.

Further thoughts in my newsletter:

https://cornerstone.ghost.io/essentials-november-6-2024/

How is this country real? How are this many people voting for this asshole?

As we all await the outcome of what feels like a make-or-break election, I want to offer some perspective, if you’ll hand a fellow with eight-plus decades the mic for a moment.

Anyone know what year the @Defcon 3 2 1 rule started and if there was a particularly "smelly" incident that led to it?😂

do you die each time you go through a transporter

WASHINGTON (AP) — A video purporting to depict voter fraud in Georgia is fake and the work of “Russian influence actors” determined to undermine faith in the integrity of next week’s presidential election, U.S. intelligence officials said Friday.

FBI links video falsely depict...

How a misinterpretation of a BMJ publication from 1996 caused (and yes, I do mean caused) the explosion in rates of peanut allergy.

In a nutshell: for decades the guidance issued in the USA and UK was the opposite of what it should have been and left a generation with preventable, life-threatening allergies.

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2024/10/excerpt-from-blind-spots-by-marty-makary/

#Vote people. It's extremely important that we don't get a dictator in power. This is what happened right before Nazi’s took over Germany. #USpolitics #Trump #VoteKamala

If you agree, PLEASE REPOST

CLIMATE PROTESTORS NEED TO STOP BLOCKING ROADS!!

Also, Silent Hill 2, I see what you did there. Classic.

Apparently I'm opening franchises in hell now? Checks out.

If someone tells you not to vote, suggests that not voting is a meaningful protest, or posts about the uselessness of voting, they are engaging in voter suppression, and they are not your friend.

We think of voter suppression as a set of partisan policies, and in large part it is, but it is a very big toolbox, with more in it than that. I've already blocked one person I agree with on a lot of things today, because I won't sit and watch folks do the worst people's work for them.

#uspol

please vote

Even if you're disillusioned with electoral politics, I implore all people in the US eligible to vote: please vote. You may think things can't get worse if Trump wins again, but they absolutely can - for everyone in the world.

In all the dystopian sci-fi movies where the world falls apart, the cause is always something advanced, like a space invasion, or the rise of an evil AI army.

I have yet to see a sci-fi movie, where the world crumbles because a charlatan wearing thick orange makeup convinces 81 million voters, that mentally ill migrants are coming to eat their pets; and then they vote for him, and he destroys NATO and the international world order while eating chicken out of a bucket and drinking diet coke.

Someone on reddit pointed out that he’s trying to make an X with his body and it’s the most embarrassing thing I have ever seen

:cloudcomputing:

environmental storytelling

Elon Musk said he’s going to
“Need a lot of security”
When he starts taking away programs that help the poor and middle class
“Because they aren’t going to like that”
Remind me again
What office is Musk running for?

- William Buecker

Illegal immigrants have to pay taxes, including social security, which they're never allowed to claim. So they basically end up funding American's retirements for them. Meanwhile Elon Musk is spending taxpayer money aggressively suppressing free speech and being the single largest contributor to climate change in the hope that he can one day go on vacation to another planet. People hate the former and worship the latter. Make it make sense.

Especially this:

“But to be fragile is not the same as to be perishable, as G.K. Chesterton wrote. Simply do not break a glass, and it will last a thousand years. Smash it, and it will not last an instant. Democracy is like that: fragile, but only if you shatter it.”

“Embarrassingly enough, I like this country. But everything good about it has been the product of centuries of people who had no reason to hope for better but chose to believe that better things were possible, clawing their way uphill — protesting, marching, voting, and, yes, doing the work of journalism — to build this fragile thing called democracy.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/10/26/washington-post-endorses-kamala-harris-satire/

Jesus. Depending on WordPress anything feels like a liability at this point. Matt Mullenweg looks to be a vindictive asshole all around https://mastodon.social/@mvsde/113373682248521134

Jeff Bezos is worth $204.3 billion -- and even he's afraid of what a Trump dictatorship could bring.

Money and privilege won't buy you safety from fascism.

But you can still resist and prevent it, right now.

VOTE.

So, thanks Jeff Bezos, now we see it all very clearly if we didn't see it before...

This election is The Billionaires vs. The People

And the billionaires are trying to hoodwink, lie, bride, cheat and steal enough votes to get over the line, and then end democracy for good. Screw them. We are not giving them our country.

@KamalaHarrisWin

me when i GET you ​:ablobcatbongogoogly:​​:blobcatknife:​​:blobcatknife:​​:ablobcatbongogoogly:​​:blobcat_chew_wire:​

Them: We're forcing you to go back into the office because we believe work is more meaningful when employees are together and have a shared sense of comradery.

Me: So, unionize?

Them: No, not like that.

#USpolitics

I'M POOPIN.
https://jwz.org/b/ykbe