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The notion that a tax on unrealized gains will kill business in California is disproved by the fact that Silicon Valley tech workers do it all the time, writes @braundiggity.bsky.social in a guest commentary.

I’m not a political journalist, so was gladly surprised at the community I found here last night. To Americans anxious about the upcoming elections, a key thing we learned in Brazil that might help you: DO NOT engage with the far-right online. Don’t share rage bait. Amplify your people. Ignore them.

Zendaya supporting the Valkyries 💜🖤 appreciate she's always supporting the Bay!

Some cities it's just not worth fucking with

when my purple sweater brings out the purple underneath my eyes 😌🙃

Weird Story real quick… A year ago my friend Bria and I released a cute little app that installs an easily distractible bean on your phone. If you use your phone less the bean can knit more and then you can trade in the stuff they knit for decor for their house. SINCE THEN............

BREAKING: Over 100 Marin residents have once again packed the Board of Supervisors chambers demanding an ICE-Free ordinance. The county is considering an unenforceable policy, but what we need is a law.

my favorite part of Celebrity Traitors (UK) is when the traitors reveal themselves to the person they're about to murder, and that person just laughs

Autumn art is the best!!!!!! #art #illustration

Just filled out my ballot and will be dropping off next week! Vote early if you can!!

let's goooooooo valksssss 💜🖤

🕯 🕯 🕯 🕯 🕯 🕯 I believe in 🕯 GSV 🕯 🕯 🕯 🕯 🕯

If you told me I’d be redownloading Mapquest in 2026 to try to stay ahead of the surveillance state I wouldn’t have believed you

stream Expectations ✨

sometimes I send a novel-ass text to my friends and then hit them with this meme so at the very least they know I'm self aware

Stone Circle - Autumn Edition 🍁 #pixelart #autumn

not going to lie, I love sitting down and filling out my sample ballot 💅 we are READY for the midterms

I'm just going to pretend I'm still in Spain

The store I got my dress at forgot to remove the security tag and I didn’t notice until I was on my trip. So now I’ve just been walking around Spain looking like I stole this dress 😭

"The greatest threat to American democracy is Christian nationalism" Hayley Williams

Also worth remembering that people are responsible for running these AI systems. They choose how to train them, how to run them, how to let them interact with their environments, how to use their outputs. Claims by AI companies that "AI will kill us all" are passive voice on steroids.

i have like 3 different kingdom hearts tabs open and i'm not going to apologize for it

btw Kanye did a song Heil Hitler and no one stepped in to oppose his tour(s), which is ongoing. In fact, Kanye is scheduled to perform at one of the stadiums Macklemore has been stopped from being at.

here's your semi regular beleaguered reminder that covid continues to be very bad for you. if you're not currently masking in public spaces, now would be a great time to start.

Ruby Bridges was 6-years-old when she stepped into the history books. Bravely accompanied by her mother, she was the first Black child to desegregate an all-white school in the South. It was not long ago… Today is her birthday. She is still with us. She is 72. Happy birthday, Ruby Bridges 💜

omg the kingdom hearts 4 leaks 👀

I wish all of my products were sold in a travel size so I could just bring them on my trips

shout out to Adela for making a song for Nicoles

I do think “every rich person went insane during covid because it was the first time they’ve been inconvenienced in decades” felt a little reductive at first but damn if isn’t more and more compelling as the years drag on

patiently waiting

“A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it would replace, according to a new preprint study led by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health.” ysph.yale.edu/news-article...

If you have a Gmail account, you need to read this. Google's AI now scans your emails and attachments, bank statements, tax files, medical letters, all of it. It turned on by default, and there's a class-action lawsuit over how. Here are 5 moves to shut it off, the switch is hidden in two places:

every billionaire & tech mogul, they all want to be adored & celebrated without doing the things Dolly did with a fraction of the power & money. What she had, she gave away. I'm sure she was comfortable (& that's good!). But she just relentlessly helped. It's not that difficult. Love. Care. Help. 💚🌸

50 years for protesting what's essentially a concentration camp is insane

Call it the Ripple Effect: The grassroots demonstration outside Ripple co-founder Chris Larsen's house is part of a growing, nationwide backlash against surveillance technology. That and more in our round up of tech news you might've missed over the weekend:

A rainy day in Animal crossing 🌧

Also my partner and I were like the only people on the dance floor for Hot To Go but you better believe we gave a performance of a lifetime

At a wedding and this is a very real thing that happened omg Groom: some of you may know this but we are expecting… The whole room: *G A S P S* Groom: ….TO GET ON THE DANCE FLOOR TONIGHT!!!!! Room: 😮🙄🤣🤪

Holy shit

Somewhere along the way, "no ethical consumption" morphed from a reminder of the universal moral harm that capitalism does to a thought-terminating cliché meant to excuse the most deeply unethical types of consumption that enable that moral harm

60 yrs ago, sex workers, drag queens and street youth held a landmark riot against police in SF's Tenderloin—the world's 1st Trans District now that space is held by Geo Group. trans people are still arrested at SF Pride—over tagging Flock cams. the trans fight against police in '66 and today:

shoutout to whoever put on Gasolina at the gym this morning. that really pumped me up

A new KH trailer AND an announced KH anime series???? we are being FED

Just like all previous summers since the pandemic began, COVID-19 cases are ticking up again, even while other health threats make more headlines. n.pr/45oln5k