pippercorn 🍉

I feel like one of the key strategic benefits of AI warfare from an American general’s point of view is if they ever end up in the dock at the Hague they can just say the vapourisation of an entire school full of children was a technical mishap and not any kind of conscious choice on their behalf

proud to admit that i went to a public school and my kid is going to a public school (and that all private schools should be abolished and their assets nationalised)

they should invent an antidepressant that just gives you the feeling of being two glasses of wine in

Scroll past, right?

1. Hana Dehqani, eight years old

2. Fatemeh Salari, 34 years old

3. Reza Habashian, seven years old

4. Arya Bahadori, nine years old

5. Ali Asghar Zaeri, eight years old

6. Zahra Bahrami, seven years old

7. Ahmad Soltani, eight years old

Public ed is good for social cohesion. Public funding for religious private schools divides us.
It's extremely depressing how our system & pol leaders encourage a belief that sending your kids to private, esp "Christian" schools gives them a better future. We need pride & investment in public ed

(host family in beijing was a woman whose husband had literally just died, revealing that he was in massive debt and had a secret second family in new zealand)

my kdrama heroine experience

once had to hide in an apartment from loan sharks outside

Israeli map showing all of southern Lebanon in red with yellow arrows pointing to north of the Litani river

The IDF just ordered the *entirety of south Lebanon* to be forcibly displaced.

They are emptying the land of its population, creating a massive crisis, and will now proceed to further annihilate large parts of Lebanon.

The very nation state of Lebanon is being destroyed.

sounding out coworkers afterwards like “huh there was a lot about ai though, wasn’t there”
“a LOT about ai!”

why don’t we all just automate our jobs :)))) kill me now :))

when the toilets accommodate men, women and snake demons

had to endure a speech about leaning in to ai for this

free icecream machine for international women’s day…liberal feminism is BACK

this too is bingqiu

Their treatment of Palestinians should have been enough to take action against, but also, it was never going to stop with Palestine. A rogue genocidal state can’t be appeased.

currently getting unhealthily invested in physical instrument because i love sj torturing lqg

okay i am definitely taking it off my wishlist this sounds like it would not be a fun read

Doomscrolling is the weaponization of literacy

Panic! in the Teams Chat

what if instead of doing this powerpoint slide i just laid down on the floor and stayed there forever

i’ve read this story on ao3

just donated $10. maybe you can too

Nancy by Ernie Bushmiller. First panel, Nancy talking to a logger sawing a tree and pointing to a carved piece of trunk. Nancy: Can I have that piece? My boy friend carved it. Logger: Sure. Second panel, Nancy is watching the log burn in the fire place. Nancy: I'm mad at him.

Every once in awhile I think about this Nancy comic and it makes me laugh every single time. Absolute perfection.

oh wait

can’t believe this person deliberately cherry-picked rightwing warmongering opinion pieces and left out all the leftist anti-genocide viewpoints the nyt regularly platforms in its opinion section!

Screenshot of text: First, it’s a mistake to say that Trump got America into war on Saturday. What he did was respond to a war that Iran has been waging against the United States since 1979.

Cool hey did anything happen *before* 1979 between the United States and Iran

aaaahhh this is so good. kyouji you can’t keep getting away with this!!!

This will be the third year in a row that I will boycott Eurovision over its repugnant, hypocritical refusal to exclude lsraeI the way it kicked out Russia

I also boycotted in 2019, the year lsraeI hosted after its shameful, revolting, undeserved win over Cyprus’s absolute banger ‘Fuego’