There's a person running to be my representative in the US House. She'll likely get my vote. Her politics are much closer to mine than the incumbent.

She's running to be my most direct and local contact with the Federal government. She's solicited donations from me a million times. I have yet to encounter an event where I might meet her or hear her speak. Her website solicits money, volunteers. Offers "merch". The relationship already seems to go only one way.

Democrats, remember democracy?

how to persuade the public that Donald Trump is not Johnny Cash.

does a screenreader read what a screenwriter writes?

I'm not sure Google's AI is that into the #indieweb.

best in class has become impossibly bad.

@carlana Thanks! I've added an update with this link (crediting you of course!)

@Puck i'm just north of you in Palm Harbor. not born in Florida, but lived 7 years in Sarasota when I was a college punk, now decades later back again.

@ralfmaximus @paninid @PatrickoftheG easier to imagine them doing that than actually cleaning up the detritus that keeps rolling in from submerged Tampa…

@carolannie oh, realtors will talk up anything. for them its 6% and out. no doubt there will be a grift, buy where the beaches will be! and who knows, some of them might get rich on the hype, a kind of farmland as bitcoin. but they will never see that farmland actually become a beach. actual encroachment of water will only be bad news for them.

@paninid @ralfmaximus @PatrickoftheG i think making a garden of Florida was quite a human accomplishment. it’s a pity we are fucking it up.

@ralfmaximus @paninid @PatrickoftheG more like swamp-front property i expect, at least for the next some thousands of years. inland spots won’t suddenly become lovely sand beaches.

it’s not indentured servitude. it’s cloud-native.

@androcat he certainly is, in lots of domains. but i don’t think climate denialism offers much in the way of scapegoats. lots of his base may at some cultural level want to think climate change is a hoax perpetrated by elites he would scapegoat. but man, facts on the ground. late May feels like August used to, devastating floods even without any tropical storm system.

@paninid the state of Florida is going to face a hell of a financial hole, some time pretty soon, when the insurance industry it regulates, implicitly backs, and largely operates via insurer-of-last-resort Citizens, can’t make good to policy holders after a couple of serious storms.

whatever people think of woke and whatnot, i just don’t think climate denialist can be a winning position in Florida going forward. no one thinks the weather and the water temps are not fucked up. it’s not a base DeSantis is catering to, but economic interests, quite the opposite of populism. https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/06/15/desantis-florida-storm-floods-rain/

“Outlets such as The New York Times and NPR are doing excellent reporting… but they remain narrowly focused on the ethical lapses of employees rather than the real story, which is the political corruption of employers.”

#JeetHeer asks, why is Jeff Bezos putting the Washington Post under the control of sleaze? https://www.thenation.com/article/society/jeff-bezos-rupert-murdoch-will-lewis-hacking/

is there joy without arrogance?

@sharkinman @pluralistic “monopoly” is a matter of degree. “market power” is a clearer term, and yeah, Frito Lay has a lot of it.

@stevendbrewer it’s a better guess than i have. that’s a good description of how it moves! i’d never encountered thrips before your reply, so i can’t be too certain either way.

@realcaseyrollins i mean it's my leg, so, no.