Sign in

Born Broke

@bornbroke.bsky.social
86 followers 145 following 710 posts

My dog ate my TV. Then I ate my dog. ho/hum

PostsRepliesMedia
Born Broke @bornbroke.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
We 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 · 26/01/2025
What’s up, or should we ask what’s going down?
000
Born Broke @bornbroke.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Too much data, man.
000
Born Broke @bornbroke.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
We’re at war with ourselves, and we’re losing.
100
Born Broke @bornbroke.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
We 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 · 24/01/2025
Gift 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 Post
wapo.st
Opinion | Trump returns — and so does his astounding ignorance
If you feel off-kilter, you’re in good company. The president seems downright bewildered.
032
Born Broke @bornbroke.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
alumni.berkeley.edu/california-m...
alumni.berkeley.edu
Here's Why You Can't Get Home Insurance in California - Cal Alumni Association
As 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 · 22/01/2025
www.npr.org/series/12824...
npr.org
The Human Edge
We 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 Broke
Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Mike 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.com
Mike 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 Broke
Jess-Icabod Zellers @stellagarp.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Those who study the past are doomed to watch others repeat it.
131
Born Broke @bornbroke.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
It'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 · 22/01/2025
Trump: NOT HOT
000
Born Broke @bornbroke.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Too dry January cww.water.ca.gov
cww.water.ca.gov
California Water Watch
000
Born Broke @bornbroke.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
WHAT DO WE WANT? The same thing as yesterday. WHEN DO WE WANT IT? Today.
000
Born Broke @bornbroke.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Fuck Kamala Harris for losing. Fuck Joe Biden for running. And super fuck Donald Trump for being a bitch.
100
Born Broke @bornbroke.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
What does the Geiger counter say now, Cliff?
100
Born Broke @bornbroke.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
Craigslist Free is a place even David Lynch wouldn't go into. sfbay.craigslist.org/search/sfc/z...
sfbay.craigslist.org
san francisco free stuff - craigslist
san francisco free stuff - craigslist
000
Born Broke @bornbroke.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
A 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.
Black and white photo of a scholarly man in jacket and bow tie, sitting in front of shelved books.
000
Born Broke @bornbroke.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Choose lice
000
Born Broke @bornbroke.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Zen unboxing youtu.be/AeUrmYb72s4?...
youtu.be
zen unboxing
YouTube video by Born Broke
000
Born Broke @bornbroke.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Cry me an atmospheric river, why don't ya
032
Born Broke @bornbroke.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
susanpcrawford.substack.com/p/why-pushin...
Even before these cataclysmic fires, keeping the status quo in place in Los Angeles (and other risky areas around the US) has built up systemic financial risk that may affect our overall economy. Today's Financial Stability Board report (FT story here) points out that rising insurance premiums and insurer exits (already clear in California) are leading indicators of unstable housing markets that, when hit by extreme weather events, may weaken banks, lead to freezes on lending, cause abrupt repricing of physical assets, and create fiscal strains on national economies by driving up both borrowing costs and direct expenses.
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.com
Pete Hegseth Confirmation Hearing for Secretary of Defense
YouTube video by Sarah Cooper
000
Born Broke @bornbroke.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
www.thestranger.com/katie-wilson...
If the root of homelessness is commodified housing, then crisis-level mental illness and drug use can be seen, likewise, as creatures of 21st century capitalism. Psychosis and addiction both feed on the alienation, isolation, and sense of meaninglessness that have followed the creeping marketization of every facet of social life. Poverty worsens both. And while the bad old days of long-stay psychiatric hospitals may be harder to romanticise than other parts of the 20th century welfare state, their dismantling, the deinstitutionalization of their patients, and the failure to replace them with the promised community-based care are all part of the same story of neoliberal defunding and privatization.
000
Born Broke @bornbroke.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Why is Donald Trump still rich?
010
Reposted by Born Broke
Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Good @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 · 15/01/2025
When 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 · 15/01/2025
And they say bicycles on the sidewalk are the problem
A highway viaduct in downtown San Francisco
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 · 15/01/2025
Heroes ride bicycles.
REAL FREEDOM: bicycle and the American flag
010
Born Broke @bornbroke.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
People 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 Broke
Nicholas 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 · 15/01/2025
We 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 · 14/01/2025
Be the guy standing on the corner in your city that you want to see standing there.
010
Born Broke @bornbroke.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
I'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 · 14/01/2025
What if Geddy Lee isn’t actually a very good bass player? What are we gonna do then?
000
Reposted by Born Broke
Single 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.com
On TikTok, Every Migrant Is Living the American Dream
Many 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 Broke
Cardboard Revolution BACK DEMON CASTLE MONONOKE @cardboardrevolution.com · 12/01/2025
Tech 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 Broke
Rob 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.com
What 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 · 12/01/2025
Good teachers explain things, but not too much. Good musicians play things, but not too much.
000
Reposted by Born Broke
Kate Gordon @katenrg.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
A fun and wide rangong converstion w @volts.wtf on insurance, #climaterisk, the economy, life. www.volts.wtf/p/climate-ch...
volts.wtf
Climate change and insurance: a growing fustercluck
Climate change is breaking the insurance market, and state governments can't afford to pick up the pieces
56822
Born Broke @bornbroke.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
It’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 · 10/01/2025
Man, 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 · 09/01/2025
Rebuild communities, not single-family homes.
011
Born Broke @bornbroke.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Pacific 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 Broke
Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
No 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.com
Sunset Boulevard in ruins: Fire’s massive scale comes into focus in Pacific Palisades
In 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