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Constantly pointing out that the regime is corrupt doesn't do anything. You have to tell people what you plan to do about said corruption. But again, there's no opposition party so we're left with simple narration.

They’d still be around if not for that turkey incident in Cincinnati

David Byrne came to my band’s show at a gay bar in Bed-Stuy and sang This Must Be The Place with us and I still haven’t processed it

There’s a familiar smell coming from outside and I finally placed it: Vegas. That mix of too much perfume/cologne, weed, and cigarettes (my neighbors are throwing a rager)

When someone asks how many transit systems had a rainbow logo before Honolulu

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you’re witnessing exactly how they will behave if obscene starts meaning “trans” or “gay” or “interracial couples”

a form letter saying they are just following orders

if obscenity laws are so vaguely written that ANY content can be defacto banned by sufficiently startling visa and mastercard’s lawyers then no form of free speech is safe

“just following the law” means they will cripple you at a moment’s notice if they get a scary letter no matter what it demands

🤭🤭🤭

They’re in the midst of a fashion authority and don’t even know it 😤

Scare? More like ✨inspire✨

Safety 3rd, right?

Sunset thread goodness!

Deploying those side wings any time someone I don’t like gets too close to me

An ad Scanned from a 1977 Bayless Racing Fiat/Lancia catalog I found in the endless pile of papers. A woman, turned looking over her shoulder, wears a helmet, gloves, striped hotpants, and nothing else. She’s holding a tri-spoke steering wheel and her arm strategically blocks most of her side boob. There’s another steering wheel floating nearby and an Abarth scorpion drawing. It’s a catalog page so the rest of the text reads: BAYLESS RACING INC ABARTH STEERING WHEELS Abarth, grand-daddy of them all, continues to bring you only the very finest in steering wheels. Black leather, 14", three silver spokes embossed, naturally, "Abarth." Superb quality, superb feel ... from Abarth and Bayless Racing, Inc., connoisseurs of only the supreme for your import. Note: Abarth steering wheel available for all imports on special order. Specify year, make, model. 100% deposit required. [a very long list of model & part numbers]

Showing up to an autocross event in Nomex hotpants and nothing else 😌

I think of her anytime that phrase leaves my mouth

Thinking how Mrs. Duke used to yell at us when our choir didn’t sing words to her standard.

Us: 🎶“can’tchew hear the…”🎶

Her: “can’t you.

Can’t. You.

[stomping] CAN’T YOU! CAN’T YOU! CAN’T YOU! [louder] YOU CANNOT!!”

Rinspeed zaZen concept car

Request: Blow up my replies with your dustiest weird car photos & I’ll do a whole @wcotd.com story on it

YouTube’s selfie collection, AI age checks are concerning, privacy experts say Any YouTuber wrongly labeled a teen must provide an ID, credit card, or selfie.

The more pressure platforms and websites face to age-gate services, the more radically it could change people's relationships with the internet, EFF’s @davidgreene.bsky.social told @arstechnica.com. arstechnica.com/tech-policy...

No, the UK’s Online Safety Act Doesn’t Make Children Safer Online Young people should be able to access information, speak to each other and to the world, play games, and express themselves online without the government making decisions about what speech is permissi...

The UK’s Online Safety Act doesn’t make kids safer online—it just censors the internet and invades everyone’s privacy.

Temp showing 69° (nice) with a feels like temp of 63°

My kinda weather (I’m in shorts and a tee, every window in my house is open, and the 13mph sustained/20mph wind gusts have my curtains all aflutter). Happy Friday to me :)

Also: nice

I’m rambling as I’m wont to do but I guess my point is, when you see cool stuff your friends/lovers would enjoy (silly memes, a random museum, a song that would make their heart swell, that gorgeous photo of a place they adore, etc. etc.) send it!

Maybe that’s the bare minimum in friend/relationships, but like I said…rarely on the receiving end. I don’t know that I believe in love languages exactly but it seems like this resonates with me. So here we are.

I send people stuff all the time bc I think they’d like it. It’s rarely something I’m on the receiving end of. But one (newer) friend sends me stuff almost daily and it IS so nice to be seen & have someone remember things you said/you like!

All you “this made me think of you is a love language” people were right, I fear.

Racism is why we’re never going to have universal healthcare in this country. Because some white folks will die themselves rather than see a Black person get a goddamn thing.

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Nyx hiding in a large patch of jasmine, only her head visible amid the green leaves.

Timeline Cleanse

This is not sustainable.

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A typed letter that reads “There's too much world out there to hide out your whole life. Well, I guess that's enough for now. Talk to you later. R.D.” It’s lying perpendicular to some handwritten notes where very few words can be read (guess, the, I’ve, random letters)

Some wisdom sent my way in February 1999. Still relevant.

Scientists Say New Government Climate Report Twists Their Work A new Department of Energy report “fundamentally misrepresents” climate research and leaves out key context, multiple scientists cited in the report tell WIRED.

NEW: i spoke to nine (!) scientists across several disciplines whose work was cited in the new Department of Energy report that downplays the severity of climate change. all of them say their work was misrepresented, cherry picked, and/or lacked context —