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Yes, the #PrehistoricPlanetIceAge trailer is out today...

I love that Mamdani is what the right claimed Obama was: A Muslim socialist born in Africa. The right practically manifested Mamdani into existence.

Max Dubler @maxdubler • 2/8/25 That old saw about how "good times make weak men" is true in the sense that stable times with material abundance create reactionaries who want to destroy the systems that protect them because they're too sheltered and stupid to understand that things can get meaningfully worse. Jason C & @jasonc_nc・2/8/25 I don't think a lot of people appreciate how much of their overall lifestyle and relative certainty is backstopped by a steady, boring stability of systems they don't understand or even realize exist. Q 24 L. 1.8K 15K Ill 399K 贝 ① Max Dubler @maxdubler True decadence looks like people who are three generations removed from the cultural memory of polio refusing to vaccinate their children against deadly communicable diseases because they don't like needles and don't think there will be any consequences, not queer dance parties.

yeah haha i am unfortunately quite a doomer about this stuff, but i would be elated to be disproven

mamdani is going to become usa's sadiq khan

has a spine when compared to the party he's a member of, relatively more progressive, has some decent policies, makes right wingers loose their marbles, but overall doesnt do much beyond this

When all else fails, try misogyny.

Highlighting fantastic palaeoartists:

渔火 on xiaohongshu, a mixed-medium artist from China. Magical depictions of theropods. Pictures are panels from their Spinosaurus comic.

The current status of The Big 3:
#BackInHell #Tyrannosaurus #Spinosaurus #Giganotosaurus

They are also intentionally conflating machine-learning and generative AI slop to confuse and try to make GenAI seem necessary. Google Maps traffic stuff is machine learning, not GenAI, for example. Auto-correct is too. Don't let them make you lose the thread. GenAI slop is slop.

What Arlie Hoschild found was that when women entered the workforce en masse in the 20th century, men functionally went on strike from domestic labor—forcing women to take on a double day of wages and caretaking work.

I tweet: "people who see 50% of their monthly paycheck go to rent don't care if a candidate eats with their hands. they want to hear what your candidate is going to do about housing." John Galt 2025 replies: "Move if the cost of living is too high."

who creates the lively art and music scenes if the rent is too high? who makes cultural life? who serves you food or washes your dishes? who creates the fancy little restaurants that draw you to urban living? affordable housing is at the heart of what makes city life worthwhile.

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I just got sponsored and the costs are heavy enough to set back my financial goals for a couple of years.

It's genuinely insane.

Pattern against a bright blue background featuring flat illustration of Juncos and yellow fall Ginkgo leaves

Juncos and ginkgos! 🐦 🍂

Political parties must shift immediately and dramatically to the left to avoid alienating these frustrated and abandoned young women. Am I doing this right?

i have now achieved so many of the goals i set for myself almost half a decade ago.

it is surreal. i am not sure what i will do, now that i am here. i am grateful to be safe, provided for, and alive. i am grateful for my friends and partner who give me so much love.

i need to figure it out hereon.

i will leave you to imagine how difficult is for immigrants from the third world.

i planned my move financially and emotionally for several years (due to my country being unsafe for LGBT people) so that i could be on the right route. the racial rhetoric around the SWV really boils my blood.

farage's ugly rhetoric only diminishes the scope for integration of immigrants. i hope he kicks rocks and is kicked far and way from any position of power, the repugnant fascist.

labour has been so disappointing on this too. your party - get your fucking shit together!

needless to say, i dont think any human is illegal, and dont believe in pulling the ladder behind me.

i want the immigration system to be fair, predictable and humane for everyone. borders cause violence and steps should be taken to mitigate said violence.

life update.

i somehow managed to drag and pull and get a skilled worker visa sponsorship in the UK before the new rules kick in!!!

The current rhetoric around immigration and ILR is extremely disgusting however. I have no idea what will happen after my 4 year visa runs out.

Most people who write about politics, right or left, have internalized the concept of the Trump supporter as the authentic american Volk and so many of their conclusions proceed from that
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Anything but D or F is a crime tbh

Hot people are living in a world that the rest of us cannot conceive of.

its kind of insane that we’ve been forced to watch rightwingers openly celebrate and taunt everyone over the death of people like trayvon martin for over a decade now and now they’re trying to grandstand over the one time it’s personally affected them and political project

"On the last episode of his show before he was killed," Kirk told "his audience, falsely, that “one in 22 Black men will be a murderer in their lifetime” and that “by age of 23, half of all Black males have been arrested and not enough of them have been arrested.”

Man, 34, is no longer blind after tooth is implanted in eye in 'crazy' surgery Tooth-in-eye surgery sounds like science fiction, but it can help people with severely damaged corneas see again. A patient and his doctors describe what it's like.

TIL that for some people with irreparably damaged corneas, you can pull one of their teeth, drill a hole in it, install an artificial lens, sew it into their cheek (so tissue attaches), then pull it out and stick it in their damaged eye, and ... it works fine!?! www.nbcboston.com/news/health/...

The Barbican is a relatively recent building complex but it just feels totally beyond the capacity of our society to make anything this cool now, like the remnant of some fallen civilisation whose ruins we live amidst.

Hind Rajab

The killing of Charlie Kirk is getting more widespread condemnation and sympathy than 5-year-old Hind Rajab who was shot at 355 times by an Israeli tank in Gaza.

Are Palestinian life’s worth less than politicians?

he was talking about the “epidemic” of “transgender mass shooters” before he was shot. so no, I don’t have sympathy for him.