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5 years ago today

IASIP meme: Dennis and Mac with a laptop, setting up a dating profile for Charlie. Dennis asks "Alright, what are some of your likes? Charlie's reponse? "Ghouls."

I will say that I find it weird that a lot of people are like "this is the moment that will tip us into violence" when a Minnesota politician was assassinated in her home 2 months ago and someone literally shot Trump in the head last year. how exactly is charlie kirk the tipping point

ok. let's all have a 36-72 hour debate about the efficacy of political violence.

"I think it's worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights" - Charlie Kirk, 2023

www.mediamatters.org/charlie-kirk...

phd is like being beaten with a metal rod while a really interesting documentary plays in the background

a big mistake we made was computers *should* be refrigerator sized and live in special basements, not ride along in everyone's pocket like an evil Jiminy Cricket

oh haha when i first saw your text i thought it said "brian cancer" and i was like, Uhh wait who's this brian guy? lol but fuck dude, that's awful about your kid

Trans Actual's report entitled 'Trans Segregation in Practice. Experiences of trans segragation following the Supreme Court Ruling'.

TW.
Needs to be widely shared with cisgender people, especially politicians. Utterly horrifying that Britain has come to this- that most of Britain is just looking the other way while a whole community is being eliminated from society because of lies and hatred. transactual.org.uk/wp-content/u...

bad day to be 50-2000 mediocre words produced at underwhelming speed

My bereaved family: Can't believe he's gone. But now, with the power of technology, we can ask him what he thinks about current events

My distorted face glitching on a screen: ToyYotathon Is hERE

True Believer Hayley Williams · True Believer · Song · 2025

open.spotify.com/track/4G1ihd...

any time 🫡 number 1 Doc fan so far

The politics of eternity: weaponising moments that never were Donald Trump is the global face of a growing political movement that deceives voters by distorting history

The ‘politics of eternity’, says Timothy Snyder, is nostalgia for a mythical past. Putin blames the West, Trump blames migrants, Reform UK blames both. Truth doesn’t matter, only enemies. A thought-provoking read by Marc Ainge ⤵️

@eastangliabylines.co.uk @marcainge.bsky.social

A circular embroidery in a wooden hoop of the White Horse using various stitches including hundreds of French knots for the main grass, long and short for the folds of the hill below the horse, and turkey tail for a field and scattered trees.

Apparently it’s World Embroidery Day so maybe you’ll enjoy this aerial landscape I made of my beloved childhood haunt - the White Horse of Uffington. An @nationaltrust.org.uk site from the later Bronze Age or Early Iron Age. Find out more here www.oxfordarchaeology.com/uffington-wh...

The cover of Remington Platypus by Steve Nash - a badger is superimposed over a cityscape.

Remington’s here 🦡 @stevenashwrites.bsky.social

🚨1 DAY TO GO🚨

Tomorrow, we release the brilliant Remington Platypus by Steve Nash!

A darkly comic crime novel with an animal cast, preorders are on their way, and you can order yours here: share.google/iHDUuRxehTb9...

This. A 2023 Oxfam report called every billionaire a policy failure. My thoughts on this from a few months ago: buttondown.com/surekhadavie...

This is no accident. The groups behind age-verification laws have been explicit that they regard "gender ideology" and nearly any representation of LGBTQ+ existence as pornography

AV is government censorship. Platforms are either designating LGBTQ+ content NSFW or removing it all together.

ChatGPT advises women to ask for lower salaries, study finds A new study has found that large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT consistently advise women to ask for lower salaries than men.

Study finds A.I. LLMs advise women to ask for lower salaries than men. When prompted w/ a user profile of same education, experience & job role, differing only by gender, ChatGPT advised the female applicant to request $280K salary; Male applicant=$400K.
thenextweb.com/news/chatgpt...

Confronting & Celebrating the Limits of the Body: Black Sabbath Live at Villa Park  | The Quietus Black Sabbath began with a broken body – Tony Iommi's industrial accident – it is both fitting and inspirational they end in the same way.

Excellent work from @keithkahnharris.bsky.social here talking about Black Sabbath / Ozzy Osbourne's farewell show and the pivotal role played in metal by the frailties and imperfections of the human body.

#BlackSabbath
#OzzyOsbourne

thequietus.com/opinion-and-...

JD Vance is suggesting that neo-Nazis and the descendents of confederate soldiers have more claim to being part of this nation because they're white than immigrants who believe in the Declaration of Independence.

This kind of blood and soil nationalism is indistinguishable from classic fascism.

a corporate robot declaring itself “mechahitler” is some first draft cyberpunk side quest shit

the Noise Feratu guitar effects pedal

when you cross the streams of #shoegaze & goth:

nevermidnf

apparently i have remembered how to write