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I hope you just mean felons, otherwise we're gonna have a lot more problems on our hands.

"BREAKING NEWS: NOBODY CAN RUN FOR PRESIDENT!" (I mean this bit as a joke, mostly.)

Any condition that alters brain chemistry and/or development. Which, yes, includes things like lead poisoning and strokes, but I also use it to refer to the long list of things that most people do. (The list is too long to put here, and I can't even remember the whole thing.)

Roomie on the left, eyes closed and smiling, holding on to Lillian (on the right) who's leaning against her eyes closed. They look tired but smiling. Text: "tired and yet? Thankful for being alive, still."

💙

We need to remember that China is just as capitalist as the U.S. was in the 1970s. We went straight from the end of the Cold War to Reagan-era austerity, they've just got different conditions amd different problems.

90%+ homeownership rate is really impressive, and I can't say I'm not jealous.

What if you didn’t have to look it up

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WHATRE YOU GONNA DO ABOUT IT??

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An estimated 440 deaths are attributable to the Los Angeles wildfires that set the area ablaze in January 2025—a much higher toll than the 31 deaths reported in Los Angeles County records, according to the first-ever study estimating excess mortality during that period. (from Aug)

the reason people sometimes act madder at democrats than republicans when republicans do impossibly evil shit is the same reason why, if you hired an exterminator to handle a roach infestation and he showed up to feed and play with them instead, your first instinct wouldn’t be to yell at the roaches

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How has making this show affected the way that you interact with optimism and pessimism about the future? Has it affected your mental health?

That disgust reaction you have towards the bigoted people who live in poor, rural communities is what turned the hippies of the 60s and 70s into the boomers of today.
No movement is pure. No message is perfect. You have to try anyway if you ever want literally anything to change for the better. 6/6

Discomfort is an important part of growing as a person. It's also an important part of fighting against cultures of silence and fear.
Don't recreate the left-liberal culture bubble that popped when Elon made likes private on Twitter. It can happen here too. 5/6

If someone is expressing a bigoted opinion, tell them that you disagree, not that they're wrong.
If someone is using irony as a shield, use irony to get through to them.
Please, if you value progress, leave this "everything must be cozy for it to be good activism" idea in the past. 4/6

There is no way to get people on your side without talking to them like you're on the same level as they are. If you put someone on a pedestal, they'll lose respect for you and devalue your opinion. If you act like you belong on a pedestal for having the ideas you have, they'll do the same. 3/6

The American left (and now the left in many other places) is afflicted with the same condition all educated Americans face: a total lack of willingness to interface with the public in a way that doesn't have an undertone of "I'm obviously right and you should already agree with me." 2/6

Unfortunately for the 2010s American left, being correct and being appealing to the average person aren't the same thing. You have to build up some level of community before you can throw around big academic terms like it's college debate club. 1/6

this seems extremely cool and potentially very very good

Mad Max lives in a world that essentially brings the American Disaster Film to its logical conclusion. No community, just competition. No cooperation, just taking advantage. No infrastructure, just the products that are the easiest to use in the modern day, without any interaction with other people.

He's Australian, but the world in which he lives is distinctly shaped by American (and more generally, imperial) paranoias. What is the most valuable thing in the Mad Max future? Gas.

Not food, water, heat, shelter, or the means to make those things. Not even precious metals! Guzzoline. Fuel. Oil.

PSA: Our roadmap for 2026:

This post gave me a tinge of sadness combined with an acute awareness that I have been suppressing the less "human" parts of myself to an irresponsible degree.

10/10

I refuse to believe that he would be this horrible. Like, I assume that Wario is the evil one and that Waluigi just goes along with his schemes because he loves him and wants to spend time with him.

This would sadden me greatly, is what I'm saying.

@Ilyndseybelle this is what 50 bucks means to a small business. $50 is nothing to a billion dollar company. start shopping small @meownikaa whoever just placed a $50+ order in my shop, thank you so much that literally just paid for half of my groceries tomorrow

Shopping small is meaningful!

I just chuck out the classic "I don't use it, what else you got?"

I mean, I want welll-maintained trains, busses, bike lanes, and pedestrian infrastructure too, but I'll take the dub on smaller cars if that's all I'm gonna get.

PLEASE. I JUST WANT SMALLER CARS TO BE MORE COMMON IN THIS GODFORSAKEN COUNTRY.

Basically, this place is anti-worker by its very nature, and for that reason, and many more, I oppose it on a spiritual level.

Also, this is just an indoor trampoline park without any of the jumping, which I strongly despise.