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Watercolored drawing of a lean young man with all gold teeth in a sack suit from the 19teens. He has his hand on his belt, a gun in his waistband, and a tin badge on his jacket.

Here's a drawing of gold-toothed Kentucky hero Smilin' Sid Hatfield (yes, related to the feuding ones), chief of police of Matewan, WV, who battled coal coal company gun thugs after preventing them from displacing and robbing the striking miner families to whom he'd sworn his protection. 1/

Ice planning to acquire $38 billion in warehouses to create detention centers all over the U.S.

There is no easier or more important political position to take than to do everything possible to stop this. It will change our society forever, and Democrats are going along with it.

Roses are red
Violets are prime
This is the sort
Of linguist that I'm

Have you ever seen a God smile? 💘 #Zhongzhu

Cartoon: If anyone in Chicago knows this school or an anti ICE organization affiliated with them I would be happy to donate this art. I only wish I could have fully Sal Buscema-ed that punch :)

meme of Ratio hsr depicted as module leader, and his 3 catcakes as online teaching assistants

the TAs are so cute I must lock in #hsr #DrRatio

YouTube video by JezAlmighty Smash Mouth and Linkin Park - In The End, You're an All Star mashup

This has absolutely no right to work as well as it does.

GM: Charisma check.

Mamdani: [rolls natural 20]

GM: that’s a d6 how did you

Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊

anyway the reason the adult has to be the one that draws the boundary is that the kid can’t do it if they don’t believe they’re still a kid. at 16 we are SO desperate to be treated like an adult and we want to believe that’s what we are. we will crash through any boundary that’s not steel-reinforced

It is February 6th.

On this day, Mewtwo was born. Happy birthday Mewtwo.

Child at the podium: “A woo woo woo.”

Mamdani: That’s how I felt when we came up with this plan. Together, we will expand the idea of what is possible in our city—and what sounds and noises we can make at a press conference.

Context: this speech is from SIR THOMAS MORE, a history written, as near as scholars can tell, in the early 1600s by 6 or 7 people including Dekker, Heywood, Chettle, Shakespeare, and Munday.

It was never performed, because Jacobean England was a police state and it was banned by the censor.

do you have any idea how chill you have to be for sex workers to say they felt unusually safe around you WHILE you smoked crack?!

Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.

Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

For your reassurance, here's the Fallen London AI Transparency Statement and the portion of the Steam page which states that we're making Mandrake by hand.

We don't use generative AI. <3

so true

A snowy sunset photo with overlayed text: Northside Rent Support, help keep vulnerable families in north minneapolis housed. Venmo @ nipinet

If you don't know Minneapolis, north is a very vulnerable neighborhood in our city, and it hasn't been seeing the same influx of resources as south Minneapolis has.

We're raising funds to help vulnerable northside families cover rent & bills. If you can, please SHARE THIS this or venmo @nipinet.

Whenever I've encountered ICE they seem genuinely puzzle that a 40-something white dude isn't on their side.

It's incredibly demoralizing to constantly see the highest institutions of government and academia and the most important and widely seen news outlets knuckle under one after another, but then to see the gulf between that and the bravery of communities and neighbors and teachers - that's something

Here is a video of a frozen creek that had begun to thaw, and the water was flowing beneath the thin ice on top. I took this because it was soothing and wonderfully bloopy and I wanted to listen to it for hours. You are all welcome to enjoy it, too. Let your brain settle here and rest for a moment.

Just fucking help people. If you can do something to fix a problem, and it costs you nothing (and in cases like this, *actually helps you too*), just do it, for god's sake.

Sometimes it doesn't matter who made the problem, what matters is who's in a position to sort it.

9/9

rare to see an american politician speak in these terms and it rocks

So much of what conservatives describe as fear is really just discomfort. Which makes their violence in response to those feelings even more ridiculous.

don't get the discord subpoenaed

Quick reminder now that the killer has been identified

oldhead advice from an oldhead.

every couple years, newcomers to the movement think "THIS is finally it, the moment when the dam breaks and the whole system is overthrown"

and when it doesn't happen they lose patience and get disillusioned and drop out of movement work

gotta build for long term

We've removed the paywall from this guide so everyone can access it. 👇 Stay safe.

theres so much horrible shit about the murder of renee good, but there is something deeply terrifying about the way everyone from media to politicians have erased her wife from the story. ive seen far more mention of her late husband than her wife who was sitting next to her when she was murdered

The first time Charlie Chaplin spoke onscreen, he implored the people of the world to resist the rising tide of fascism.

Nearly 90 years later, it remains a timely message.