it's fish doorbell season, friends
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Lady of a certain age. Pickle friend. Living in SoCal, missing the PNW. "I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times . . . "
it's fish doorbell season, friends
visdeurbel.nl/en/
I have never seen a politician more directly copy this speech in my life
01.03.2026 22:13 β π 8030 π 2084 π¬ 30 π 34
The whole right wing movement is animated by 1 conspiracy theory: that white people are all secretly in agreement with them, and are being suppressed by a woke conspiracy
Miller and ICE occupations, Carr/Ellison and right wing media, DOGE and USAID, it's all looking for the off switch for the woke
Came across the phrase "cognitive DDOS" to describe our present culture.
Understood instantly what it meant.
they should invent a falling asleep on the couch that happens in bed
24.02.2026 02:17 β π 1598 π 272 π¬ 23 π 11I keep hearing that the Epstein files are so big if we held everyone accountable everything would collapse. And no it wouldnβt. These rich guys donβt do any actual work. They arenβt actually important or useful they are just rich.
14.02.2026 08:09 β π 9992 π 3273 π¬ 125 π 181
Ursula Le Guin wrote a response to this kind of nonsense years ago. Read it instead.
www.ursulakleguin.com/a-rant-about...
Ramadan Mubarak!
Kung Hei Fat Choi!
Laissez bon temps rouler!
Hodesh Adar tov!
Y'ALL
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Every morning before I get out of bed I open this app hoping to see good news; today I see the Grim Reaper has disappointed me yet again.
17.02.2026 13:53 β π 6 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0I literally saw a post two weeks back in which a guy with two jobs was flagellating himself because he was short on rent, lamenting that had he donated plasma more, maybe his rent would be on time. This system is deeply fucked. Earth is a pleasure cruise for 1000 people and we're all just the staff.
16.02.2026 20:41 β π 2169 π 533 π¬ 54 π 26Somebody who cuts me off in traffic is still dude, but it's like DUDE π€¬
14.02.2026 04:55 β π 6 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Same--I just want a car!--except make it a Mazda 3 for me π
13.02.2026 21:37 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I don't even understand car classifications any more--how are they calling this any kind of SUV? It's a coupe, right? But yeah, I'd take it.
13.02.2026 21:22 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0um
11.02.2026 18:22 β π 800 π 144 π¬ 27 π 4Over 30k followers, including some that I follow (and a few who follow me) βΉοΈ
11.02.2026 04:25 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0You should not be forced to gamble your earnings for the chance to die indoors.
10.02.2026 03:10 β π 60 π 15 π¬ 1 π 0
omg everybody go draw a horse this is what the internet was made for
gradient.horse
It's Julian Shapiro-Barnum of Recess Therapy! So it's no wonder he's great with kids.
09.02.2026 02:46 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0they performed American Idiot
09.02.2026 00:33 β π 2478 π 320 π¬ 53 π 7TIL I'm older than Billie Joe Armstrong π
09.02.2026 00:17 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
Link kept popping up in my feed and I'm glad I finally clicked it!
The world needs more weird short stories!
kind of funny that an olympian said they are here to represent "compassion, respect, and love for others" and some people automatically knew that was a statement against them
07.02.2026 22:25 β π 39690 π 7199 π¬ 305 π 145A 2 panel sketch disgram of a 1 meter tall pod. in the second panel, an oval section pops off and a demonic little face with short tentacles flies out, crudely drawn.
My favorite artifact in the "you don't need AI to do art" discourse is, of course, screenwriter Dan O'Bannon's sketch of the facehugger to explain it to Giger.
07.02.2026 18:39 β π 9159 π 2830 π¬ 77 π 91Check your settings! Apparently there was a sneaky reset and my alt text prompt got switched off. I guess I should have thought to check when GIFs and videos started autoplaying again after I had disabled that.
07.02.2026 04:51 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 1 π 1Artist is Mindi Lehman
07.02.2026 00:16 β π 141 π 31 π¬ 0 π 1Ian McKellen performs βThe Strangersβ Caseβ speech from βSir Thomas Moreβ on Colbert.
05.02.2026 13:07 β π 9248 π 3614 π¬ 176 π 725
"We would have lost so much if we'd driven him away" is the justification.
But we lost all those girls. We lost the women they would have become. We lost the work they would have done. Why was his future work so much more valuable than theirs?
im building machines that i keep saying will both throw you out of work and allow masked special police forces in service to a lunatic i bought and paid for to recognize your face and check if i agree with your beliefs. im part of a pedophile ring that put this into motion. why are you rude to me
03.02.2026 15:58 β π 3112 π 747 π¬ 9 π 5When it happens I think it would be both fun and funny if after the celebrations die down no one ever says the name again or acknowledges he ever existed. Like see how long we can keep it up
02.02.2026 04:02 β π 3504 π 386 π¬ 1 π 0
Am I positive that video shows the president shitting himself on camera? No.
Do I think we should spend an entire week debating it? Oh yes.