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‘We Are Not Expendable’: Southaven Residents Fight xAI Plan for 41 Gas Turbines to Power Musk's Grok Many residents around Southaven, Mississippi, oppose xAI’s data centers and presence in their backyards, fearing for their health and environment.

"This is not an inconvenience—this is a health crisis inside my own home,” said Chestela Farmer, a Southaven resident and mother who lives in the neighborhood next to the xAI plant.

“No parents should have to watch their child struggle to breathe and wonder if the air around them is the cause.”

chungus hangin out

Willem Dafoe in To Live And Die In LA (howls at the moon)

for me, it was finding a day job that allows me to only make art for myself. Chasing my bliss without ever having to compromise for someone else means feeling an unparalleled sense of ownership over my work, and that has a direct correlation with how other people engage with it.

I can hear dirtbikes♥️

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It’s fascinating (in a “this is why we’re fucked” sociological way) that so many people who otherwise wouldn’t have said we should go to war will, now that we’re in war, attach their sense of wellbeing to whether we “lose”.

does never again mean never again for everyone or just never again for god's chosen?

War euphemism hall of fame contender

NO NO NO YOU DON’T

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I don’t think Trump and his people are capable of engineering “distractions,” I think the mind-numbing chaos we see every day is straightforwardly the result of giving the dumbest, cruelest, most corrupt, most selfish people of a generation near-unmitigated power

So funny how he has to translate normal words into corporate bombast before he can absorb or respond to them.

“You were supposed to look for savings?”

“We were supposed to…eliminate spend…through optimization.”

Forsythia Breaks Out St Margarets: ink and watercolour

Former Pixar employee u/PixelatedRonin fires back at chief creative officer Pete Docter on Reddit over claims on LGBT storyline cut from 'Elio' (2025):

1910 Women could wear pants 1920 White women could vote 1963 Women gained equal paid rights (sort of) 1965 Black women could vote 19 69 Women were allowed to initiate divorce 1972 Women could get birth control, without a man 1973 Women could choose to get an abortion, legally 1974 Women could buy a home, without a man 1988 Women could own their own business, without Nomesticial protection agains 2022 Women lost the constitutional right to abortion

Strong reminder: women have not been independent for as long as some folks would like you to believe. We’ve lost rights that we never should have lost.

Soviet realist painting of a woman operating a port crane. Our perspective is from behind her so we see the lofty view of the port out the window of the crane’s cab

“From the height of the port crane” Rudolf Baranov, 1974

One of the books that changed my perspective on the world and many things, was as a teenager reading John Hershey’s Hiroshima.

This might not be the same type of Black Rain that was produced by the Atomic Bomb, but this is close.

The Fascist US and its allies have committed war against humanity.

These people want to force anyone with a uterus to give birth regardless of the physical or emotional cost and have no problem forcing women to breathe vaporized petroleum products but call themselves advocates for women because BuRqAs ArE bAd

It was never about freeing the Iranian people. That was always a lie. No one in the Trump administration cares about Iranians.

The one immutable characteristic of MAGA, the force that underpins, drives and animates everything they do — their permanent raison d'être — is the cruelty is the point.

Resolution is accepting that the harm we experienced was not our fault. That it happened, it was real, that healing is not contingent on anyone else. That recovery begins with us.

We can grieve for what was taken from us, without focusing on who took it and why.

I don't talk about forgiveness with clients unless they bring it up first. I talk more about resolution. Accepting that we're never going to get a satisfactory answer as to why our perpetrator hurt us, never going to get an apology or justice that will undo the harm caused.

As requested, some personal thoughts on forgiveness from a therapist who works mainly with people suffering from PTSD, and who has recovered from PTSD himself.

Gonna lay my stall out early by saying I'm not a fan of the concept!

What about the lives we build afterwards? The relationships that sustain us in the now? The people we are, can become? Recovery is about those connections, those skills, that potential.

The perpetrator doesn't automatically get a seat at that table.

Our cultural narrative on harm is focused on the perpetrator. Motives, retribution, forgiveness, justice. We absorb that as victims. Even our most fevered, badass revenge fantasies revolve around the idea that "we cannot heal without the bad guy paying somehow"

To which I say, bollocks.

turns out that ICE has been hunting a congregation that is majority deaf/mute refugees with a large child population

One of the lessons of the Iran war is that it was a huge mistake not to even try to put any of the Iraq war architects in prison. We shouldn’t make it again.

How Pixar’s Open Sexism Ruined My Dream Job (Guest Column) A former Pixar employee writes that after John Lasseter's departure, the company still has a lot of work to do to fix its sexist culture.

If you're wondering how bad things were at Pixar for women, the answer is pretty horrifyingly bad.

I just assume every man who did well at Pixar during Lasseter's tenure is a weenie. And the fact that (as far as I'm aware) none of them have even attempted to publicly reckon with what went on there or the fact that if they'd been women they wouldn't have their careers just bolsters my assumption.

Pixar’s Pete Docter Says Queer ‘Elio’ Storyline Was Axed Because “We’re Making A Movie, Not Hundreds Of Millions Of Dollars Of Therapy” Pixar Chief Creative Officer Pete Docter explained the animation company's decision to ax a queer storyline in last year's Elio.

Am I surprised that a man who was able to thrive at a company where women weren't allowed in the same room as the boss, because he'd grope them, appears to have no ethical backbone? Not even a little.

Allow @amylittlefield.bsky.social to introduce you to self-admitted virgin pastor who ended abortion in Texas and is working to ban it nationwide. Mark Lee Dickson has a collection of teddy bears that play audio from women's ultrasounds and doesn't appear in public without a backwards baseball hat