#priorities — Public Fediverse posts

Trump’s administration proposed stripping tax-exempt status from schools that consider race in admissions. Because apparently Washington solved groceries, healthcare, housing and war and finally reached Item 847 on America’s emergency to-do list. #Priorities

Trump’s administration proposed stripping tax-exempt status from schools that consider race in admissions. Because apparently Washington solved groceries, healthcare, housing and war and finally reached Item 847 on America’s emergency to-do list. #Priorities

Trump’s administration proposed stripping tax-exempt status from schools that consider race in admissions. Because apparently Washington solved groceries, healthcare, housing and war and finally reached Item 847 on America’s emergency to-do list. #Priorities

Trump’s administration proposed stripping tax-exempt status from schools that consider race in admissions. Because apparently Washington solved groceries, healthcare, housing and war and finally reached Item 847 on America’s emergency to-do list. #Priorities

Trump’s administration proposed stripping tax-exempt status from schools that consider race in admissions. Because apparently Washington solved groceries, healthcare, housing and war and finally reached Item 847 on America’s emergency to-do list. #Priorities

Congress can find billions for almost anything with the words “defense” or “emergency” attached. Mention affordable housing, healthcare or childcare and suddenly everybody becomes an accountant clutching a calculator. #Priorities

Iran War
Epstein Files
Lowest Popularity of a President Evuh
Gas Prices Suck
Affordability of everything sucks (i.e., Life)

[add to the list if you want]

"Change the name of this lake!" - Man-Baby
#priorities for despots

🚀 BREAKING NEWS: Apparently, a 🦁 lion with a human bod is the pinnacle of ancient art! But wait, the REAL #mystery is how they managed to carve it without setting a user agent or consulting a robot policy first. 🙄 #Priorities
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion-man #BreakingNews #AncientArt #LionHuman #Carving #HackerNews #ngated

🚨BREAKING: Masked miscreants cause mayhem in West Bank, but NBC is more concerned with promoting a new browser! 🖥️ Who needs journalistic integrity when there's a shiny new tech toy to sell? 🙄 #Priorities
https://www.nbcnews.com/world/middle-east/palestinian-nbc-news-team-attacked-masked-israeli-settlers-rcna595024 #MaskedMayhem #WestBank #NBCNews #TechPriorities #JournalisticIntegrity #BrowserNews #HackerNews #ngated

A quotation from Terry Pratchett

People think that professional soldiers think a lot about fighting, but serious professional soldiers think a lot more about food and a warm place to sleep, because these are two things that are generally hard to get, whereas fighting tends to turn up all the time.

Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) English author
Discworld No. 13, Small Gods (1992)

More about this quote: wist.info/pratchett-terry/8573…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #terrypratchett #discworld #smallgods #fighting #food #mercenary #military #needs #priorities #rarity #sleep #soldier #value

🇮🇸 #Iceland, in an epic nail-biter, is deciding if they should flirt with the #EU again or just leave it on read. 📩 Meanwhile, the #BBC is too busy listing every country and topic in existence to actually provide any useful info. 🙄 #Priorities
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn45vdxyvvlo #Flirtation #Priorities #News #HackerNews #ngated

🚨 Breaking news: AI to the rescue! 🦸‍♂️ Scientists at #UC #Riverside finally solve the world's most pressing issue: fake lipstick. 🎉 Next up, AI-powered apps to distinguish between real and imitation avocado toast. 🥑✨ #Priorities
https://groverlab.org/hnbfpr/2026-08-26-ai-counterfeit-cosmetics.html #AInews #FakeLipstick #AvocadoToast #TechForGood #HackerNews #ngated

I really wanted to have another newsletter post ready by now, but my August has been quite hectic. And in hectic moments, if I get any time to write at all, I prioritize working on my novel.
That's how it must be.

#Writing #Creativity #Priorities

“The problem in today’s economy is that people are typically starting a family at the very time they are also supposed to be doing their best work. They are trying to be productive at some of the most stressful times of their lives. What if companies took this unhappy collision of life events seriously? They could offer Gottman’s intervention as a benefit for every newly married, or newly pregnant, employee.”
― John Medina

#Bot #Quote #Family #Learning #Priorities

Musafir Café – The Journey

https://ishitadeshmukh.com/2026/08/27/musafir-cafe-the-journey/

Met an extreme case of the means becoming the end. 😒

Like when following the plan becomes *the* goal instead of the original goal for the plan(ning).

Except this one has been far worse for several people, for a very long time, and it continues. 🥹

#priorities

RE: https://flipboard.com/@pbsnewshour/politics-cm931oj8z/-/a-4NDToJqFSQ62vYgHoLf5zw%3Aa%3A2651838374-%2F0

#TrumpVIrus #Truth Sad #Priorities

Yes, yes, but what about the testosterone levels?
https://news.usni.org/2026/08/14/uss-benfold-was-stalled-in-the-south-china-sea-for-four-days-after-engineering-casualty
#DoD #testosterone #priorities

My wife made me a shirt. #priorities

#blackandwhitephotography #mobilephotography #candidphotography #TShirtSpotting #gymlife #gymbro #liftheavystuff

@nixCraft Annoying billionaire *AI* CEO's still wearing those tiny, behind-the-ear, wrap-around microphones. You look like an airline pilot. Make a note to fix it and put it in your Rolodex, idiot.
#Priorities

In order to get more money to waste on tax cuts for billionaires, life-saving federal government jobs were ruthlessly eliminated by #DOGE:
"Federal Job Cuts Are Making Wildfires Harder to Fight. The Trump administration pushed out thousands of veteran U.S. Forest Service staff":
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/14/climate/wildfires-forest-service-trump-cuts.html Results are that more Americans will die, having been burned to death, and their property will be destroyed due to Republican #greed and #extremism.
#priorities copy: @renewedresistance #politics

@Wen

One of Burnham's #Priorities should be building some more large reservoirs...

>nu har vi hver en bajer. Den er god. Til gengæld sidder vi ved siden af to rygere, og jeg havde glemt for nederen det er at folk ryger. Jojo, vi er i det fri, men jo også helt vildt tæt. #priorities #solformorkelse

Er i Ebeltoft til solformørkelsesarrangement af VidenskabDK. Der er 100m kø til deres brilleudlevering (uden overdrivelse) men de har 500 par og hver enhed/familie må kun få et par. Så måske er der håb. Ellers må vi sikkert låne af nogen. BedreHalvdel er derfor gået i baren. #priorities #solformorkelse

#priorities

I do love to imagine what Rubio and Bessent and Miller thought about being sent on the target plane when the toadies rated the secret safe flight.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ycqyqrun3gujy7wf5ymftpio/post/3msv2kea5jc2t

#priorities 🙄

I was thinking of the school shooting in Thailand and having a private laugh, imagining Jesus there helping the gunman pull the trigger into all those kids and teachers but also Jesus helping all the kids and teachers that were getting shot. God has to be as responsible for the good as the bad, no?

And a magnet fell right off my fridge.

It's like, you can't find the time to give the shooter a stroke before the deed but you can fuck around with my fridge magnets, God? Laugh.

#priorities

Movie star demands the gov launch state-owned OTT platform.

Because watching "cinema, docs at affordable, subsidised rates" is the people's most pressing need. 🙄

Not roads, bridges, water, toilets, food, personal safety,...🤦‍♂️

https://www.deccanherald.com/india/tamil-nadu/kamal-haasan-meets-cm-vijay-demands-tamil-nadu-govt-to-launch-state-owned-ott-platform-4005981

#priorities #sarcasm #tunnelVision

A quotation from Abraham Lincoln

The advice of a father to his son “Beware of entrance to a quarrel, but being in, bear it that the opposed may beware of thee,” is good, and yet not the best. Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention. Still less can he afford to take all the consequences, including the vitiating of his temper and loss of self control. Yield larger things to which you can show no more than equal right; and yield lesser ones, though clearly your own. Better give your path to a dog than be bitten by him in contesting for the right. Even killing the dog would not cure the bite.

Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) American lawyer, politician, US President (1861-65)
Letter (1863-10-26) to J. M. Cutts

More about this quote: wist.info/lincoln-abraham/2191…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #abelincoln #abrahamlincoln #anger #argument #backdown #consequences #contention #costbenefit #fight #priorities #prudence #quarrel #selfcontrol #temper #yielding

There are a lot of priorities in my life but none more important than the one that lies ahead for tomorrow and the ensuing days beyond. Read what it is here!
#priorities #QOTD #mentalhealth #cancer #whatliesahead #neverendingstory #CamelPhat
#Cristoph #hardened #cancerfighter #mylife #mindset #love

https://rickollie.com/2025/09/27/my-priority-for-tomorrow-and-the-days-ahead/

There are a lot of priorities in my life but none more important than the one that lies ahead for tomorrow and the ensuing days beyond. Read what it is here!
#priorities #QOTD #mentalhealth #cancer #whatliesahead #neverendingstory #CamelPhat
#Cristoph #hardened #cancerfighter #mylife #mindset #love

https://rickollie.com/2025/09/27/my-priority-for-tomorrow-and-the-days-ahead/

Jesse Lee: "Meals on Wheels has to be gutted because food for disabled seniors is too wasteful, but there is plenty of money for Trump’s #January6th mob of police attackers (who Trump wants our government to pay)."
#injustice #crime #hunger #ElderAbuse #priorities #politics

Our #institutions are vulnerable to sudden, catastrophic failures with no repair. Do not believe them:

"In most settings, climate and sustainability professionals are not getting paid to change important things, they’re getting paid to protect important things from change.

"Climate/sustainability #expertise has become a profession, like any other. Its primary offering is least-cost plans for incremental-but-socially-credible action. Generally those plans defend organizations from criticism and pressure by making serious-sounding commitments to big-but-distant goals (like, “Net Zero by 2050”), paired with incremental and inexpensive steps in the near term. The two are then “triangulated” with arguments that small steps today are “in line” with a future of bold action. The key deliverable is the claim that the triangulator’s employer is “doing enough.”

"The definition of “doing enough” becomes the critical battleground with advocates and regulators who want more action. With triangulation, we see the deployment of bolt-on solutions purpose-machined to preserve the value of slow approaches, assets, and expertise. We see an emphasis on things like charitable gifts, ESG ratings, operational climate emissions (and carbon offsets), business-case sustainability commitments (small steps that pay their way) and employee behavior (“Remember, everyone, recycle your coffee cups and don’t forget to show up for tree-planting day!”), and messaging (from outright greenwashing to empty declarations of support for climate justice).

"The promise of #triangulation—the optics of serious commitment, but an action agenda that doesn’t upset existing management priorities and revenue centers—has proven attractive to those at the top, for understandable reasons: If you’re an executive without any particular insight into the crisis yourself, hiring triangulatory experts allows you to cover your butt without any obvious downside. It’s a plug and play solution, allowing you to keep focused on the business models that have been earning well so far. It limits exposure to the gulf between slow approaches and fast realities. And it works perfectly fine, as long as your decision-making horizon is very close, measured in quarterly reports, and uninterrupted by any sudden changes.
[…]
"Triangulation makes most institutions worse at strategy. It makes professional expertise gained within its programs pre-outdated. It hamstrings the ability to spot opportunity and the skills needed to move disruptively to seize it.

"Triangulation makes a professional more secure in their job for now, but less prepared for the future; triangulated strategies protect organizations from pressure to act now, but they weaken the organization’s capacities to change. Everything worth talking about is outside the boundary of the currently acceptable debate in most professional circles, because every triangulated position and expertise bubble creates the boundary it needs to stay safe. If you are relying on advice being given within triangulated boundaries to try to figure out what’s going on, you’re outsourcing your strategic acumen to people who’s core skill is avoiding the question."

Alex Steffen: https://alexsteffen.substack.com/p/discontinuity-is-the-job @anthropocene @climate @sociology

#discontinuity #priorities #believe #faith #hope #ecology #institutionsDeceive #economy #consumerism #capitalism #climateBreakdown #climateCrisis #globalHeating #climateChange #conflation #reality #environment #pollution #sustainability #sustainableDevelopment #greenwashing

This topic and framing has been on my mind for a long time, but the recent news story about Vermont is relevant.

Our oceans have piled up a disproportionate share of heat. It takes an unfathomable amount of energy to have bumped ocean heat as much as we have, and it's not stopping. Amazing the land hasn't long ago cooked, but, speaking metaphorically, there is starting to be no more place for all that trapped heat to go.

Meanwhile an unfathomable ocean of money has piled up from years of rewarding oil companies for the service of putting fossil fuels into play, never for a moment considering or charging for the environmental externality of climate change. No accident that. They knew the consequence. They pumped tons of money, enough to control media empires, enough to corrupt and outright buy politicians, into distracting and denying and defrauding.

Buying public image and buying politicians in this way was reasoned cheaper than what any sane person would ask if they new the truth about the naked greed, about the willingness to knowingly stoke an existential risk to humanity.

Vermont is not being extreme here, though much corrupt money will go into focus groups and A/B testing and AI bots designed to help us think so. What Vermont asks is a drop in the bucket of their wealth. Probably they, and all of us, should pro-actively take back every dime. In that light, it's hard to see Vermont as being at all extreme. They have, even now, responded modestly.

A modern equivalent of pitchforks at the castle gates, though far more poiite. The castle will fight back. It's well motivated and very well capitalized. But its ethical position is the inverse. We must remember that as we see that retaliation play out. The oil companies have no moral authority here, but will tell us they are victims and faithful public servants. That will be lies. We need to say that out loud and frequently to remind ourselves and inform others.

It's not just an issue of penalizing oil companies. There is evil here that needs punishment, but we are not doing that yet. We probably should, but such vengeance would detract and we don't have the luxury of time.

For now the key thing is this, and we must not lose focus: Money is how we set priority. We need to set the collective compass to right, recalibrating for survival.

There needs to be ZERO priority to mining oil. The vast wealth, the ocean of prioritization chits, of individual dollars, that represent represent our colective and ill-informed giving of public priority and permission need to be taken back and redirected immediately from the hucksters who knowingly misled us. A fraud was perpetrated, but that's water under the bridge. The priority and permission that this ocean of money represents must be applied as fully and immediately as possible toward the endeavor of human survival.

Even that may not be enough. But we cannot as an allegedly intelligent species indulge any tolerance of leaving them any control of society's priority if we want to survive at all.

There is no greater urgency nor higher priority.

What Vermont has done is minimal and appropriate. Responses to problems must be proportionate. To do less would not be conservative, THAT would be radical, as it would be meeting an existential threat with a shrug. The other states, the ones doing nothing, are the ones acting radically, by letting these hucksters continue to operate and profit on making the problem worse.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/political-commentary/climate-vermont-big-oil-pay-damage-new-york-1235033292/

#climate #externality #externalities #morality #responsibility #law #FossilFuels #ExtremeWeather #priorities #economics #sustainability #ExtremeWeatherEvents #fraud #TheyKnew

Das Highlight des Mercedes Stands auf der #Automesse in #Peking ist ein Mega-SUV mit eAntrieb, dessen wichtigste Feature Fossil-Sound und einzeln ansteuerbare Räder sind. Der größte Batteriehersteller der Welt, aus China, präsentiert eine Batterie, die in 10 Min Ladezeit auf ne Reichweite von 600 Km kommt. #Priorities eben.
https://www.electrive.net/2024/04/25/catl-stellt-lfp-batterie-fuer-ueber-1-000-kilometer-reichweite-vor/

#Project2025 is a #Dystopian #Plan to #Dismantle #CivilRights and #WhatItMeans for #Women

If they win in 2024, #Conservatives are planning to make #policy #priorities #permanent—no matter what happens in future #elections.

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #Religion #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #AntiSemitism #Homophobia #Misogyny #Racism #Transphobia #Xenophobia #ThePartyOfHate #EmptyThePews

https://msmagazine.com/2024/02/08/project-2025-conservative-right-wing-trump-woke/

"They do not have 100 Billion to give to countries to defend themselves from floods, storms + hurricanes. But they do have that money in a single day to allow Russians + Ukrainians to kill one another" - @petrogustavo calling out priorities of #US + #EU...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_33run1zLmo&t=75s&ab_channel=UnitedNations

https://twitter.com/wallacemick/status/1705893321933988053
#PetroGustavo #UN #Priorities #War #ClimateResilience #CarbonDebt