Old poster from John Scalzi. Tabby kitten sitting on the back of a sofa looking up at the sky through a window. Words on the poster: If you use your religion to justify being terrible to others, You're an asshole. If you use someone else's religion to justify being terrible to them You're an asshole. Maybe don't be an asshole.
06.04.2025 14:55 β π 160 π 53 π¬ 3 π 6
YouTube video by Forbes Breaking News
WATCH: Protesters Flood The National Mall In D.C. For The βHands Off Rallyβ Against Trump And Musk
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QUb...
06.04.2025 03:58 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Spectacular view of 100,000 people attending the #HandsOff march in NYC
05.04.2025 20:44 β π 78611 π 17691 π¬ 1380 π 1382
Wow!!! Commitment β€οΈπͺπ»
05.04.2025 18:29 β π 289 π 47 π¬ 8 π 3
The US has now sent at least 278 men to the CECOT prison in El Salvador.
The courts have already ruled twice that they were not granted due process under the law. We need to (1) remedy this immediately, (2) stop further such actions, (3) hold accountable those who were responsible.
31.03.2025 23:11 β π 736 π 181 π¬ 13 π 7
Pastel pink and blue graphic titled βNewly Released and Upcoming Books with Trans Rep.β In the upper left-hand and lower right-hand corners are wavy ribbons designed in the colors of the trans flag.
Celebrate #TransDayOfVisibility with these newly released & upcoming books featuring trans rep! π³οΈββ§οΈπ©΅π€π©·
As always, this is not intended to be an exhaustive list. Feel free to reply/QRT with your own anticipated trans releases!
31.03.2025 14:40 β π 36 π 27 π¬ 2 π 1
Dozens of Clinical Trials Have Been Frozen in Response to Trumpβs USAID Order (Gift Article)
The stop-work order on U.S.A.I.D.-funded research has left thousands of people with experimental drugs and devices in their bodies, with no access to monitoring or care.
You cannot abandon participants that have received experimental drugs or devices. It is a violation of the Declaration of Helsinki and a dereliction of medical responsibility. Other agencies or local govtβs have got to step in to support these medical teams.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/h...
06.02.2025 20:33 β π 9 π 5 π¬ 0 π 1
Elon Muskβs DOGE is feeding sensitive federal data into AI to target cuts
Department of Government Efficiency workers embedded in the Education Department have been processing sensitive agency data using artificial intelligence.
βThe DOGE team plans to replicate this process across many departments and agencies, accessing the back-end software at different parts of the government and then using AI technology to extract and sift through informationβ¦β
Keep the leaks coming!
Gift link:
wapo.st/4gDmPnG
06.02.2025 20:32 β π 635 π 267 π¬ 35 π 15
This will always be my favorite thing ever.
31.01.2025 01:36 β π 6570 π 635 π¬ 200 π 50
A horrific image of a someone who seems to have his hands tied behind his back. A big cat (the predator kind, not the overfed pet kind) has jumped up at him and is devouring his face. Blood splashes on the floor.
For Blue Monday we can't think of anything more appropriate than this charming depiction of a man getting his face eaten off by a leopard.
#MosaicMonday
20.01.2025 09:31 β π 13294 π 3767 π¬ 189 π 298
"Forty-two years ago, for reasons beyond my comprehension, David Lynch plucked me out of obscurity to star in his first and last big budget movie. He clearly saw something in me that even I didnβt recognize. I owe my entire career, and life really, to his vision.
What I saw in him was an enigmatic and intuitive man with a creative ocean bursting forth inside of him. He was in touch with something the rest of us wish we could get to.
Our friendship blossomed on Blue Velvet and then Twin Peaks and I always found him to be the most authentically alive person Iβd ever met.
David was in tune with the universe and his own imagination on a level that seemed to be the best version of human. He was not interested in answers because he understood that questions are the drive that make us who we are. They are our breath.
While the world has lost a remarkable artist, Iβve lost a dear friend who imagined a future for me and allowed me to travel in worlds I could never have conceived on my own.
I can see him now, standing up to greet me in his backyard, with a warm smile and big hug and that Great Plains honk of a voice. Weβd talk coffee, the joy of the unexpected, the beauty of the world, and laugh.
His love for me and mine for him came out of the cosmic fate of two people who saw the best things about themselves in each other.
I will miss him more than the limits of my language can tell and my heart can bear. My world is that much fuller because I knew him and that much emptier now that heβs gone.
David, I remain forever changed, and forever your Kale. Thank you for everything."
was mostly keeping it together until I read Kyle MacLachlan's tribute to David Lynch
16.01.2025 21:23 β π 16968 π 3363 π¬ 177 π 231
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