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The widespread media decision to frame international affairs as "will Donnie get the prize he wants?" is pathetic.

He's not the protagonist of human events. And to the extent he's a significant character in world affairs, whether or not he gets a prize is one of the least important things about it.

Yeah let me draw a picture of batman and copyright it right?

now THAT’S funny

Our nation's federal employees are more than just numbers on a spreadsheet.

They make sure we have clean water.

They protect us from financial fraud.

They provide healthcare to our communities.

They make our government actually work for people.

Do not forget this.

So Trump gave Argentina a $20 billion bailout and is now building a Qatari military facility in Idaho.

While Americans can’t afford groceries.

Leo questioned a world where the wealth of the elite grows "exponentially" while many "millions of people die of hunger or survive in conditions unfit for human beings." He also criticized "ideologies that defend the absolute autonomy of the marketplace and financial speculation," with false promises "that a free-market economy will automatically solve the problem of poverty." Leo described a "new tyranny," which shuns any kind of oversight and where the economy is structured "in such a way that sacrifices are demanded of the masses in order to serve the needs of the powerful." The poor, he wrote, are only allowed "drops that trickle down." The pope openly challenged "prosperity theology" and called Christians to the practice of giving charity. "It will not solve the problem of world poverty, yet it must still be carried out, with intelligence, diligence and social responsibility," he wrote. Popular movements that challenge "the empire of money," invite people to take on the cause to combat poverty alongside the poor, instead of on their behalf, and "make history," the pope said. It our duty, Leo said, to "make their voices heard, albeit in different ways, in order to point out and denounce such structural issues, even at the cost of appearing foolish or naïve."

Pope Leo is spitting.

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Mouthwashing was pretty fun, Swansea is a legendary character in my mind

We have reached that time of year when it's cold enough in the morning to hoody up and turn the heat on, but by afternoon you almost need shorts.

Post this everywhere‼️
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RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES

A black and white cat with yellow eyes is sitting, slightly tilting his head while raising one paw forward, as if preparing to punch.

My punch is the strongest. Wanna try it?

The Discord Hack is Every Users’ Worst Nightmare A hack impacting Discord’s age verification process shows in stark terms the risk of tech companies collecting users’ ID documents. Now the hackers are posting peoples’ IDs and other sensitive informa...

BREAKING: A catastrophic breach has impacted Discord user data including selfies and identity documents uploaded as part of the app’s verification process, email addresses, phone numbers, approximately where the user lives, and much more.

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Do not lose your empathy.

Odd one for October !

Law Banning Child Sex Offenders From Homeschooling Stalled After Nine Child Sex Offenders Testify Against It Illinois lawmakers proposed the state's first protections for homeschooled children; at least nine registered child sex offenders appeared as witnesses against the now-stalled bill.

"We identified a registered child sex offender currently participating in a local homeschool group. They are a lifetime member of the HSLDA as well as a lifetime member of the national sex offender registry for forcible sexual abuse of a seven-year-old."

Vallette the witch apprentice! She has a tragic habit of using banned and dubious magics in an attempt to increase her renown. (always backfires.)

Sometimes I like to imagine a world in which game developers can just make cool shit without a bunch of suits sucking in air through their teeth and interfering because it might reduce shareholder returns by .03% or cause the smelliest men in the world to post a tweet

Banger thread i loved this analysis queen. I havent finished the game yet but easy game of the year so far.

GHOST OF YŌTEI does some interesting stuff with the frankly tired AAA open-world formula. The first big thing it does is completely remove any sense of narrative urgency, which to me has always been the most jarring thing about these games.

it's only racial profiling if it comes from the racial profiling region of france. otherwise it's sparkling reasonable suspicion.

The guiding wind system is still one of the most creative and immersive ways to help players navigate in video games ever

Continuing the #ghostsofyotei glaze, I Fucking Love seeing these characters and their real trauma and their real problems. Especially refreshing when the news is a bunch of grown men talking about imaginary tech currency and imaginary problems.

at least one good thing happened in the city this week

Heater, an orange cat with BIG eyes, nestles herself in a sea of grey blankies.

Just want to remind everyone that little moments of joy are so important right now.

For instance, my cat does not understand the human concept of kisses beyond Incoming Nose = Love. So every time she’s happy, she’ll smush her face or shove her nose into ours.

Please share your joys with us.

Screenshot of David Simon interview SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems... SIMON: What? SHAPIRO: ...Or saying... SIMON: You imagine that? SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over. SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level. SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this. SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

The only correct take on a fundamentally anti-human technology.

My career was made on social media. I met my partner, many friends & colleagues in these streets. At the risk of sounding melodramatic, it helped me change my life for the better & expanded my understanding of the world. Which is what makes the now rapid slide into unusable void all the more tragic

Atsu from #ghostsofyotei is quickly climbing my bad ass women ranks. I fear a top 3 entry is inevitable.

Judge dismisses retailing group's challenge to New York surveillance pricing law A federal judge on Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit by the National Retail Federation challenging the constitutionality of a New York state law requiring retailers to tell customers when their personal data are used to set prices, known as surveillance pricing.

A federal judge on Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit by the National Retail Federation challenging the constitutionality of a New York state law requiring retailers to tell customers when their personal data are used to set prices, known as surveillance pricing.