Musk’s Wealth
2012: $2 billion
2024: $454.1 billion

Bezos’ Wealth
2012: $18.4 billion
2024: $242.3 billion

Zuckerberg’s Wealth
2012: $17.5 billion
2024: $210.1 billion

Federal Minimum Wage
2012: $7.25
2024: $7.25

It’s not the start of an oligarchy. We’re in the thick of it.

– (@strandjunker.com) December 25, 2024

Cheery holidays to one and all this Yuletide season.

I hope that time and tide bring you peace and good feelings.

Day 20,414

#marilwyd #doodle #art #christmaseve #yule

– (@scottobear.bsky.social) December 24, 2024

Matt Gaetz outed as a pedophile on the same day Biden commutes the sentences of a bunch of child murderers is the most fucked up Gift of the Magi ever

– (@mattoswaltva.bsky.social) December 23, 2024

How Google Maps Makes It Harder for Palestinians to Navigate the West Bank
One user told WIRED that Google Maps directed them to “drive right into a wall that’s been up since 2003.”

@wired.com spoke with five people who have driven recently in the West Bank who say Google maps, the world’s most popular navigation app, sometimes leads users into traffic jams, walls, and onto restricted roads where they may have potentially dangerous encounters.

www.wired.com/story/google…– (@peard33.bsky.social) December 23, 2024

Superstitions about gingerbread flourished in the seventeenth century. Witches supposedly made gingerbread figures, ate them, and thereby caused the deaths of their enemies. Dutch magistrates went so far as to declare baking or eating molded cookies illegal.

– (@scottobear.bsky.social) December 23, 2024

Merry almost Xmas, folks!

My annual Rankin-Bass Rudolph painting is a bit less “HollyJolly” than those of past Xmases. A bit quieter.

Of course this scene is right before Hermie jumps out of the workshop window to follow his dreams.

So there’s that.

– (@bsienk.bsky.social) December 23, 2024

We’re living in the most ludicrous timeline

– (@abbyhiggs.bsky.social) December 22, 2024

When you can buy a democracy. It’s not a democracy any longer.

Join the resistance at
@altyellonatpark.org

– (@altyellonatpark.org) December 22, 2024

Day 20,412

Ghost of Christmas Present, year 2024. I wonder what his 2000ish brothers are up to today.

#art #doodle #dickens #ghostofchristmaspresent

– (@scottobear.bsky.social) December 22, 2024