Off topic - you re-share a lot of good material, but in this format it won't show if I click like / noticed or not. I guess that's twitter for ya.

these all fill my feeds (along with the ads for utterly random shit that pays for me to "engage")
So I'm not looking.

I'm trying to turn off the pretty hate machine.

Swastika tat on ICE, Kennedy Center Willow trees all chopped down, man gropes woman while she works out, ICE footage disproves their reported arrest scenario, brazen retail theft, hidden theft from small artsy business, racist tirade, sexist tirade, abused animals, rescued animals from abuse...

(short crosspost...oddly blusky counts characters from cut&paste like 4x if I type them and I'm lazy)
Rage bait: I'm trying to deprogram fb & ig from the fact I watch it.

Shit I get that all the time and I respond things like:
"Sorry, my car-compass isn't working," or
"What, am I supposed to stop driving and check local trees to see what side moss is growing on?"

I'm thinking of
"Did left and right stop working?"

Missouri …

Saddam's 1979 Baath Party purge The BBC's John Simpson looks at footage of the moment Saddam Hussein carried out a very public purge of more than 60 senior members of the ruling Baath Party,

Hey remember when Hussein eliminated a large group of alleged opponents on live tv? Oh, Hegseth just called all military to one publicly named location.

www.bbc.com/news/av/worl...

Some serious uncanny valley trippiness here!

This is the kind of research I want in the interwebs.

Not searching because hey look activity, what are peets? Is it a synonym for beans, or a comment on the color?

Wow

I think religion has gone over to where identified targets for victimization are described as “bad”. This allows for step two were harming bad people is good. So religion is how you show that you’re good by hurting people.

Sad that clicking on your shared post doesn’t show as a click you your page. Y’all posting good shit here.

Hey man don't be dragging pokemon into it...also they might get deported from their otherwise productive life of cockfighting for children's entertainment

You were meant to be a badass. I was meant to write about feeling sad.

New band:
Lesbian banana hammock

Under this administration it's ok so long as you wear a red cap

I mean you might as well just use my name...

Been too long: just hollered at my dem reps (online, not a call this day) to do more for: trans, immigrants, stopping the seizure of power...with a side of DO MORE.

Yelling, with love. I'm not confusing disagreement on how to resist with the actual fucking enemy.

I remember, when I was so young, thinking if “someone” understood how upset I was that it would alarm them and “someone” would fix the problems.

I say this looking back - pretty sure those would not have been my words.

The folks saying to shut up because the election was a popular mandate for (all this) spent the last 4 years screaming about stop the steal, this isn’t real America, and conspiracies.

It’s so weird missing the salves from when I hurt so bad when I’m not in pain.

I thought I was a slut but on reflection it’s just easier to flirt than to try to talk over club music.

Me too - and in my era they did 1 shot, and I "failed" the test as well and got updated.

But I love those promises you gave, what I thought you were, so much that I still want you to be what I love.

Fight USA, fight to be the dream you promised.

We didn't have this, don't have this, and we're getting further from these dreams every day. Now I'm not even sure how long we'll have freedom from kings or personal freedoms while basic survival is becoming a dream.

I even believe in your promise of meritocracy and the American dream where anyone can work to be (most) anything they want. I support your goal that most people who work hard will eventually get what they want and people who don't have a base level they may hit.

I believe in your promise of freedom - the real kind, where I get to do what I want until it impacts others (we fight over where that line is and that's ok) and others can do shit that weirds me out but isn't my business.

Happy birthday USA. I miss you.

I was born in you, a fact I'm not proud of because it wasn't my choice. I have deep respect for people who work to come here and join us - I feel they should be recognized as more patriotic than been-born-heres unless proven otherwise.

I used to keep Ukraine's Zelensky in my IG feed just as a constant reminder how bad things are in places not here. We're not facing daily shootings yet or bombs, but I feel like I don't really need the reminder anymore. U-S-A, U-S-A, 1939, 1939...