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Lmao!!!! I think the last day of summer is technically September 22. But it is outrageous to consider anything in September “Summer”

The labor done by prisoners is NOT mainly for profit. People in prison work to REPRODUCE the prison itself. They are engaged in maintaining the prison - cleaning, cooking, etc etc etc.

YouTube tops the list of the online platforms we asked about in our survey. Nine-in-ten teens report using the site, slightly down from 95% in 2022. TikTok, Instagram and Snapchat remain widely used among teens. Roughly six-in-ten teens say they use TikTok and Instagram, and 55% say the same for Snapchat. Facebook and X use have steeply declined over the past decade. Today, 32% of teens say they use Facebook. This is down from 71% in 2014-15, though the share of teens who use the site has remained stable in recent years. And 17% of teens say they use X (formerly Twitter) – about half the share who said this a decade ago (33%), and down from 23% in 2022. Roughly one-quarter of teens (23%) say they use WhatsApp, up 6 percentage points since 2022. And 14% of teens use Reddit, a share that has remained stable over the past few years. We asked about Threads, launched by parent company Meta in 2023, for the first time this year. Only 6% of teens report using it.

Where the teens are
YouTube 90%
TikTok 63%
Instagram 61%
Snapchat 55%
Facebook 32% (down from 71%)
WhatsApp 23%
X 17% (down from 33%)
Reddit 14%
Threads 6%
report: www.pewresearch.org/internet/202...

Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew calling these geriatric idiots ambulance chasers is an insult to the hardworking personal injury attorneys who form the backbone of our working class attempts to escape wage slavery. None of these people could successfully litigate an injury case in a modern court of Law.

To me, the lesson of De Blasio and the NYPD is different: they will hate you no matter what.

NYPD, especially the white well-connected officers who make up the upper ranks, get their news from conservative propaganda and will not respect your authority or cooperate with you no matter what you do.

I assure you Bluesky is nowhere near as cool as this sounds

Get those animals off those horses.

One thing social media has taught me (though I have definitely experienced it in other media too): a lot of people, even quite smart people, are worryingly bad at reading comprehension. For instance: many have trouble distinguishing between someone *describing* a thing and *advocating* that thing.

this speaks a bit to my argument about leaving twitter. it's not about ideological purity, it is about the fact that it's been turned into a political weapon for people who wish to use it to harm others. it's not the marketplace of ideas - you do not have to participate in this project! very simple!

there are so many thoroughly antisocial behaviors that would shock and disturb you coming from any other human being but are completely standard for cops

“Defund the police” was in fact a great slogan.

called a cop a “doodoo poopoo fuck” and he shot me 62 times

The problem with leftists in the west is that they don't want to join existing institutions for fear of becoming morally impure but also feel useless due to a lack of any institutional power so they spend all their time scolding people online for not being radical enough instead.

It is by no means an exaggeration to say that many, many people who work in politics don't actually believe in anything but making money in a white collar career of consequence. You can't explain this kind of thing any other way.

They should read Character Limit

completely correct. all of the complaints about cities & public transit being dirty boil down to what we prioritize in our city budgets: police. Can you imagine how much better it would be if we paid custodians police officer wages to keep our shared public spaces clean?

Lindy West deleted her Twitter in 2017 after relentless harassment. And she was accustomed to hateful shit directed towards her. It’s been shockingly hostile for a very long time for a lot of folks.

you want to win voters trust? choose something, anything at all, to care about more than polls and fight like hell for it.

the kid looks fucking terrified, knows the university will probably punitively hold the diploma they've worked three or four years to get, and also knows people have been disappeared recently by fascists for doing way, way less. still says it! just an incredibly fucking brave person

Hasan has a certain amount of fame and can get away with shit because ICE wanted to intimidate him but not suffer the heat for holding him long.

If you get picked up say exactly this and nothing else: "I am invoking my right to silence and will not say anything until I have legal counsel present".

Free Luigi Mangione black and white text poster

Fascism first arose as a responce to large scale, Marxist worker organising. Refusal to understand the potenency of that organising - and why the owning class feared it so much - makes it impossible understand fascism. Liberal screeches of 'get rid of the bad man' will achieve nothing

right-wing ppl who work normal jobs are complete freaks. there’s no way around it. you make $15 an hour and the thing that motivates you is your boss not having enough money? you’re cooked buddy

[defense wheels out a tv with their own ai of the victim] hey man, thanks for killing me

November 2023. About 10k Canadian for 7 days at DW.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airplan...

"Ethan Klein, Hasan, Streamer Debates"

You bolt awake in the mountains of Carthage. You are not online. It is 217 BC. You are the general Hannibal, and you have changed your mind. The future cannot come to pass. Rome must burn

oh sick. this is the guy whose twitter account was reinstated by Elon after posting screens from the worst and most demonic CSAM video ever created, a snuff film, with his own watermark on it. meaning he watched it and took stills and edited them. anti-pedo activists are sus but that was next level

Instagram comments from Conservatives suspicious about pencils at their voting polls. Pure cope.

Instagram comment “They made us vote with pencil!!!”

They are getting themselves whipped up over pencils at the polls.

i wonder if the new york times feels bad or complicit interviewing and gawking at a bunch of people who don't know any information or news