Born Broke @bornbroke.bsky.social · 26/01/2025We are, in fact, animals, and maybe living outside with a simple movable shelter sometimes makes more sense than living in a building. 010
Born Broke @bornbroke.bsky.social · 24/01/2025We need a filter to hide the L word in all Bluesky posts. "Literally." Hide it, ban it, crush it now. 100
Born Broke @bornbroke.bsky.social · 24/01/2025"Trump is as deranged as he seems and more dangerous than people realize." 021
Born Broke @bornbroke.bsky.social · 24/01/2025Gift link: wapo.st/3WzJb2a The evidence that Donald Trump was truly, madly and deeply confused was worrisome when he was a candidate. Now he is making the country a landfill for his nonsensical policies. — Dana Milbank, Washington Postwapo.stOpinion | Trump returns — and so does his astounding ignoranceIf you feel off-kilter, you’re in good company. The president seems downright bewildered. 032
Born Broke @bornbroke.bsky.social · 23/01/2025alumni.berkeley.edu/california-m...alumni.berkeley.eduHere's Why You Can't Get Home Insurance in California - Cal Alumni AssociationAs wildfires abound in California, the state faces a mounting insurance crisis. Berkeley Law's Dave Jones explains why the current system is failing homeowners. 010
Born Broke @bornbroke.bsky.social · 22/01/2025www.npr.org/series/12824...npr.orgThe Human EdgeWe share most of our genes with apes. Around 6 million years ago, evolution began tinkering with this basic body kit and brought about the physical, mental and cultural changes that made us the most v... 000
Reposted by Born BrokeAlbert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 22/01/2025Mike Davis in his last interview: “Ruling classes everywhere have no rational analysis...for the immediate future. A small group have more concentrated power over the human future than ever before in human history,& they have no vision, no strategy, no plan” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022...theguardian.comMike Davis, California’s ‘prophet of doom’, on activism in a dying world: ‘Despair is useless’His warnings of ecological and social breakdown have proved accurate. But with months to live, Davis is anything but defeated 111236
Reposted by Born BrokeJess-Icabod Zellers @stellagarp.bsky.social · 22/01/2025Those who study the past are doomed to watch others repeat it. 131
Born Broke @bornbroke.bsky.social · 22/01/2025It's gonna be fun when Jan. 6 hoodlums who just got Trump pardons go out and commit more crimes. Fun in the bad way, ya know what I mean? 000
Born Broke @bornbroke.bsky.social · 21/01/2025Too dry January cww.water.ca.govcww.water.ca.govCalifornia Water Watch 000
Born Broke @bornbroke.bsky.social · 21/01/2025WHAT DO WE WANT? The same thing as yesterday. WHEN DO WE WANT IT? Today. 000
Born Broke @bornbroke.bsky.social · 21/01/2025Fuck Kamala Harris for losing. Fuck Joe Biden for running. And super fuck Donald Trump for being a bitch. 100
Born Broke @bornbroke.bsky.social · 19/01/2025Craigslist Free is a place even David Lynch wouldn't go into. sfbay.craigslist.org/search/sfc/z...sfbay.craigslist.orgsan francisco free stuff - craigslistsan francisco free stuff - craigslist 000
Born Broke @bornbroke.bsky.social · 19/01/2025A new study in the journal Nature confirms that personal book collections that remain unread can transmit up to 25% of the knowledge and stories contained within to the consciousness of the book owner. 000
Born Broke @bornbroke.bsky.social · 17/01/2025Zen unboxing youtu.be/AeUrmYb72s4?...youtu.bezen unboxingYouTube video by Born Broke 000
Born Broke @bornbroke.bsky.social · 16/01/2025"All of us are drunk all the time. I did cocaine off of Tim Kaine's back the other night and you all saw me." www.youtube.com/watch?v=jci1...youtube.comPete Hegseth Confirmation Hearing for Secretary of DefenseYouTube video by Sarah Cooper 000
Reposted by Born BrokeGreg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 15/01/2025Good @brianbeutler.bsky.social burn of Peter Thiel. I'd add that Thiel's op ed also wouldn't exist in a world where Thiel wasn't a billionaire. www.offmessage.net/p/do-not-wel... 1029769
Born Broke @bornbroke.bsky.social · 15/01/2025"We acknowledge we’ll lose something, but we’re going to work to make sure we don't lose everything." 000
Born Broke @bornbroke.bsky.social · 15/01/2025When firefighters or policeman sit in their vehicles, parked at the side of the city street with the engines running, that’s when you really know that they’re doing the public service. 000
Born Broke @bornbroke.bsky.social · 15/01/2025And they say bicycles on the sidewalk are the problem 040
Born Broke @bornbroke.bsky.social · 15/01/2025"Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we die." — Winner of Best Slogan, Food & Hospitality Awards Ceremony, A.D. 1389 000
Born Broke @bornbroke.bsky.social · 15/01/2025People believing in god is still quite a scam. Nice work if you can get it. A local church can't be bothered to maintain its god-given patch of unpaved earth. They let it go to weeds and trash. And they pray for souls or whatever. Hello god? Giving away food ain't enough. 100
Reposted by Born BrokeNicholas Poggioli @nicholaspoggioli.com · 15/01/2025"Is the world fundamentally a better place because of science and technology? We shop at home, we surf the Web... at the same time, we feel emptier, lonelier and more cut off from each other than at any other time in human history..." The movie Contact, 1997 031
Born Broke @bornbroke.bsky.social · 15/01/2025We are just dumb animals, who've made ourselves miserable by distancing ourselves from the rest of the planet. We took nature, ground it into a chuck and put on the gas grill. We like it charred. 🔥🌎 000
Born Broke @bornbroke.bsky.social · 14/01/2025Be the guy standing on the corner in your city that you want to see standing there. 010
Born Broke @bornbroke.bsky.social · 14/01/2025I'm sick and tired of hearing NPR tie everything to mental health. Life is freakin' hard and you have to deal with it. Circling everything back to anxiety, stress, burnout — this gets old, and it practically frames systemic inequalities as individual issues that require counseling. 110
Born Broke @bornbroke.bsky.social · 14/01/2025What if Geddy Lee isn’t actually a very good bass player? What are we gonna do then? 000
Reposted by Born BrokeSingle Female Lawyer @singlefemalelawyer.bsky.social · 10/01/2025“Many people from the Andes have settled in New York. They face tremendous difficulties, but their online posts glamorize their lives, drawing others northward.” Gripping read about the human condition — the universality of pretending all is well when it’s not. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...newyorker.comOn TikTok, Every Migrant Is Living the American DreamMany people from the Andes have settled in New York. They face tremendous difficulties, but their online posts glamorize their lives, drawing others northward. 011
Reposted by Born BrokeCardboard Revolution BACK DEMON CASTLE MONONOKE @cardboardrevolution.com · 12/01/2025Tech guys literally despise all the things that make us human because they're bitter they can't monetize them enough. They're not even really people anymore, they've turned themselves into hungry ghosts, also starving for money and never satisfied. 2659
Reposted by Born BrokeRob Majteles @robmajteles.bsky.social · 12/01/2025“California's is not the only insurer of last resort in trouble…insurers are losing their appetite for risk, and the states are doing their best to keep property markets rolling. Does this make sense? Who will rescue them, and on what terms?” susanpcrawford.substack.com/p/what-happe...susanpcrawford.substack.comWhat happens when a state insurer of last resort goes belly-up?A possible next act in this new drama: California 0126
Born Broke @bornbroke.bsky.social · 12/01/2025Good teachers explain things, but not too much. Good musicians play things, but not too much. 000
Reposted by Born BrokeKate Gordon @katenrg.bsky.social · 04/12/2024A fun and wide rangong converstion w @volts.wtf on insurance, #climaterisk, the economy, life. www.volts.wtf/p/climate-ch...volts.wtfClimate change and insurance: a growing fustercluckClimate change is breaking the insurance market, and state governments can't afford to pick up the pieces 56822
Born Broke @bornbroke.bsky.social · 10/01/2025It’s weird that we ruined kids’ lives with social media and most adults are like sorry I’m busy 100
Born Broke @bornbroke.bsky.social · 10/01/2025Man, when Trump goes to the Ukraine in early February and pops off a couple warning shots with his personal side arm and stops the war, we are gonna be so glad we elected him, it’s gonna be great. 000
Born Broke @bornbroke.bsky.social · 09/01/2025Pacific Palisades should rebuild as 2 to 8 story apartment / condo buildings, supporting the exact same number of residents with a bit of wiggle room, in a dense neighborhood. And re-wild the rest of it. 120
Reposted by Born BrokeWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 09/01/2025No functional institution designates as true whichever idea excites people the most. The creation of modern society is in many respects the creation of systems to carefully adjudicate which ideas are true, and act on them. But social media and the internet has dissolved that. 230627
Born Broke @bornbroke.bsky.social · 09/01/2025“We have to survive; that’s why we’re still here. If you’re a worker, you’re hungry, so that’s what it is.” www.latimes.com/california/s...latimes.comSunset Boulevard in ruins: Fire’s massive scale comes into focus in Pacific PalisadesIn the catastrophic Palisades fire, one of the city’s iconic thoroughfares was severely damaged and large swaths of homes were reduced to smoldering rubble. 000