Reposted by ScatterbrainAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/07/2025McGovern: "So I say to my Republican colleagues -- what's wrong with you people? In this bill you provide a $2 billion tax break for gun silencers, but you cut SNAP benefits for vulnerable families. Jesus Christ!" 15263212090
Reposted by ScatterbrainDave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 01/05/2025These guys have surely read more sci-fi than me, how did they get the morals exactly backwards? 3638932
Reposted by ScatterbrainNaomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 02/04/2025This is, in large part, pandemic revenge. As far as these oligarchs are concerned, all science does is tell them stuff they cannot do. They can't keep spewing carbon. They can't keep businesses open as usual when millions are dying. They have concluded that research is the enemy of profit. 183135634628
Scatterbrain @sbrain.bsky.social · 06/02/2025A vast work of science fiction that stretches almost infinitely into the future, and the abstract, but gets to the core of worldly conflict. 010
Reposted by ScatterbrainNolen Gertz @ethicistforhire.bsky.social · 09/01/2025"So why is it that when human beings have built everything, life is suddenly meaningless? ...it seems to me that there is a relationship between the construction of a human society and this sudden feeling that nothing means anything." - Fredric Jameson, "The Years of Theory" (2024) 0133
Scatterbrain @sbrain.bsky.social · 07/01/2025Second book I closed the year with, You Dreamed of Empires by Álvaro Enrigue. Always alluring, grim, and gleeful. Uniquely satisfying and sobering historical fiction. 010
Scatterbrain @sbrain.bsky.social · 07/01/2025Finished reading two books to close the year. The first was Aednan by Saskia Vogel. A modern epic whose style reflects how trauma stretches across generations with few words but massive space. 000
Reposted by ScatterbrainJo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 10/12/2024They're not so much bookshelves as graveyards of obsessions past. 4578
Scatterbrain @sbrain.bsky.social · 22/11/2024"Radiohead art on a onesie" is my "Dead Head sticker on a Cadillac".store.wasteheadquarters.comBear Is Going to Work BabyGroBaby short sleeve bodysuit with 'Bear is Going to Work' design printed on the front. 100% organic, ring spun, combed cotton. This is a print on demand product that will ship between 5 and 10 working d... 000
Scatterbrain @sbrain.bsky.social · 22/11/2024music.apple.comMental Health by Father John Misty on Apple MusicSong · 2024 · Duration 6:28 100
Reposted by Scatterbrainjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21/11/2024people who have never experienced open racism — or open bigotry of any sort — do not appreciate the way it can be psychologically destabilizing. and on the main, it actually isn’t healthy to be so resilient and thick-skinned that you don’t react to slurs and dehumanization 535759911
Reposted by ScatterbrainDave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social · 19/11/2024this is like something a character in Animal Farm would say, and every 6th grader in the classroom would understand why it's wrong www.nytimes.com/2024/11/15/o... 489160863280
Scatterbrain @sbrain.bsky.social · 18/11/2024I switched to decaf when they told me it'd be better for my anxiety. Years later I realized that all of the cream and sugar I was using to make it palatable wasn't helping me and I, rebelliously, tried espresso. I can deal with 20 minutes of my heart racing better than half a day of nausea. 100
Scatterbrain @sbrain.bsky.social · 17/11/2024Just read: The Wood at Midwinter short story by Susanna Clarke. An alternate, supernatural take on “Stopping by Woods…” the reminds you of your personal freedom in the dark. 100
Reposted by ScatterbrainDemiurge of Doom @euthyphro.bsky.social · 16/11/2024Chicago style “pizza” 061
Scatterbrain @sbrain.bsky.social · 15/11/2024Not just casual readers. It's worth considering how AI's will ingest and train on this content and spit something back out with similar detachment. 000
Reposted by ScatterbrainScatterbrain @sbrain.bsky.social · 13/11/2024“I’m talking about Matt Gaetz the guy who wrote an amicus brief supporting the FTC’s noncompete ban.” 031
Scatterbrain @sbrain.bsky.social · 10/11/2024Where is the anti-war voice in America now?nytimes.comOpinion | When Did Liberals Become So Comfortable With War?If liberals won’t discuss the devastating human costs of war, who will? 100
Reposted by ScatterbrainScatterbrain @sbrain.bsky.social · 10/11/2024Michael Scott definitely voted for Trump in 2016. 011
Reposted by Scatterbrainjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/11/2024people should stop thinking like pundits. thinking like a pundit is how you lose the ability to ask questions that don’t reduce down to “does this win votes?” 1025512511
Reposted by ScatterbrainDenny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 08/11/2024Once again, millennials are the real greatest generation 811920378
Scatterbrain @sbrain.bsky.social · 08/11/2024Want to feel old? Join a subreddit of a band that became popular in the 90s. It’s 80% kids posting “look at this ancient artifact I found” and it’s just a CD in a jewel case. 000
Scatterbrain @sbrain.bsky.social · 06/11/2024Really swell how the instagram algorithm is so goofy you’re seeing people’s stories from yesterday morning/afternoon for the first time now. Really helps recalibrate your cringe meter with everything going down in between. 000
