Nichi Joe Young

The only midterm message I want to hear from Democrats is aggressive prosecution of the crimes of the Trump administration and an immediate end to all military aid to Israel.

A data point to remember re: “popularism” is that the popular position on what is happening in Iran and happened in Venezuela is “no war, this is insane, full stop” and the moderate elected officials we are supposed to like are saying contorted, legalistic, unpopular word salad instead of that.

This is such an exciting day for me, with the premiere of the film made about my 17 years rewilding an Irish Atlantic rainforest (also the film's title).

What a surreal moment in my life it'll be to see the ecosystem I know and love so well on a big cinema screen!!

Democracy starts by establishing the basic rights that can never be lost or upended by the loss of an election. Without that guarantee, the electoral stakes are too high for anyone to tolerate or accept an electoral defeat. Democracy does not mean minorities must freely surrender their freedoms.

as per raptorcivilization on tumblr, BAFTA-winning, Oscar-nominated documentary Mr. Nobody Against Putin--by all accounts worthy of all the praise its getting--uses a greyscaled screengrab from Muppets Most Wanted (2014) in a montage of historical depictions of gulags. yes, kermit gulag

I like the implication that it would have been better if she'd learned Tarot from a reputable source.

Today’s military strikes on Iran — carried out by the United States and Israel — mark a catastrophic escalation in an illegal war of aggression. Bombing cities. Killing civilians. Opening a new theater of war.

there's a lot of specific overwhelming and massive crises happening at once and every single one has at its root elites who did crimes and never suffered consequences for it.

I think if I'd gotten away with attempting a coup, suffered no consequences for it, then won an election four years later, got away with executing citizens in the streets and foreigners in boats, and successfully abducted a head of state, I too might think I could just bomb my way to regime change

Schumer was never going to do anything satisfying here because he doesn't control the Senate. But he could have called for the attacks to end & he did not. Demanding procedural correctness without demanding an end to incorrect conduct will never impress anyone.

Aside from being The Most Perfect Casting Ever as Shaggy in Scooby Doo, never forget that SLC Punk is an absolute banger

album cover for a band called GOITSE

did a quadruple take

i always get emotional about recovered lost films but you guys

spoiler alert lol (it’s 45 sec if you wanna click thru & see) but seemingly the first robot in film is a clown, who then gets smashed into nonexistence with a sledgehammer

this literally may have to be on page one of my dissertation

underground art is important (and important to ME personally) but a world where nobody ever gets a big budget to take a big weird swing is still massively depressing

I continue to be fascinated by the phenomenon whereby an expert engages with any of the LLMs on their field of expertise and is instantly horrified by the wrong answers, and then goes on to use it for things they are not experts in as though it won’t be just as bad for those.

Tweet from @DanSpenser Me: "Oh no, it's Scream!" Ghostface: "It's actually Ghostface." Me: (Being stabbed) "Scream, stop!" 11:47 AM • Oct 12, 2021

It’s Scream time again

thirty and forty year olds of the earth! please reply to this with 1) your favorite music videos of all time (all genres and languages!) and/or 2) the most iconic music videos of all time. i am a zoomer trying to do research and fill in cultural blind spots. thank you and have a nice day!

never bring Diet Fash to the party; the fash will want the full-sugar fash and everyone else will stay home

this is one of those lessons that can be repeated over and over without anybody learning it, like Universal Basic Income working and trickle-down economics not working

Literally everyone who's had to deal with Trump should be mad at themselves for not coming up with "create mock headlines".

The screenshot of the release notes reads: A new version of TeX Live Utility is available! TeX Live Utility 1.55 is now available-you have 1.54. Would you like to download it now? Release Notes: Changes Since 1.54 • Fix bug 137, homepage link in Help Book. • First release in a long time, since I don't use TeX anymore and resent the very idea of paying Apple annually for the privilege of giving away free and open-source software. Also, I'm really lazy. Please accept my apologies for all the annoying issues you've encountered in this mission-critical software. • Updated mirror list, which was three years out of date. • Added missing legacy mirrors, which was even more out of date. • Added an alert on startup when user tries Homebrew's lobotomized MacTex, because those lunatics left timgr but removed its database. Thanks for nothing, guys. Bug 142 and 144. • Use a custom user-agent to work around the Anubis bot trap on texlive.info. Can't wait to see what else breaks because of this, thanks to the profusion of degenerate Artificial Insemination fetishists scraping websites to feed their models. • Lists of countries in Repository/Continent are now sorted. No idea how you people let me get away with that one for the last fifteen years.

There's a "is anyone even reading this" sort of honesty you get in the software update release notes from a project that's been around for a long time.

CW: transphobia.

See, this is why it can be painful to know too much history.🫤

This post implies that what is happening in Kansas is *similar* to what the nazis did.

But it's not just similar. It's *identical*.

In 1933, nazis revoked trans people's documents. Before 1938.

Paragraph 175 and 183.

as glad as i am she is out i feel so weirdly helpless that we just lucked out on a smooth talking mayor that can knows what to say to the demented emperor

Purity test is shorthand for “you care about the people I have already decided are expendable.”

second, redundant list of people who legally can't work at a school is about to drop

Is this fucking Pilgrim's Progress, what is going on

I love working at the closed captions factory and putting "[speaking foreign language]" directly on top of the subtitles