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jesus fuck what is wrong with these ghouls

what are they even getting out of this? how does a human brain get so corrupted that doing shit like THIS to complete strangers becomes a source of dopamine?

Dear neighbours in the building across the street who already have Christmas trees up in your windows:

1) I am judging you.

2) I secretly love seeing them.

Two things can be true at the same time.

I Want You to Understand Chicago Politics Chicago 2025-11-08 I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago. On September 19th, Reverend David Black, lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying outside the ICE detention center in Broadview when a DHS agent shot him in the head with pepper balls. Pepper balls are never supposed to be fired at the head because they can seriously injure, or even kill. “We could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,” Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted. Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon was violently arrested on October 17th, and Baptist pastor Michael Woolf was shot with pepper balls on November 1st. Understand what it is to sleep in Chicago. On the night of September 30th, federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter to execute a raid on an apartment building on the South Sho…

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.

He is a computer safety researcher.

And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.

In under 1600 words.

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Just pointing out that Hakeem Jeffries got TWO HUNDRED AND TWELVE House Democrats to hold the line.

Not one House Democrat cracked.

Not one House Democrat caved.

I’m going to remember that.

The administration went all the way to the Supreme Court on Friday night to halt food-stamp funding. 🤡

This term is so social media-brained. Coined by people who can't imagine themselves without an audience, or that anyone could genuinely want to pass time in any other form than Stare at Phone

40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion

Call buttons are helpful too. I have a question, I push it, someone comes. You don't need to be up in my business the minute I walk in.

You know what would be ideal?

Set up a bullpen for helpers. Little central location in the store. Give them a couch, let them check their phone. Four or five of them, sitting there at all times, so when I need to find something I can KNOW THERE IS SOMEONE TO HELP WHEN AND ONLY WHEN I NEED THEM.

If I am shopping, and I'm not seeking you out for help, leave me alone.

Just fuck off. I don't want conversation, I don't want a warm welcome and I damn sure don't want you to slide in for an upsell or trying to get me to sign up for a credit card or what the fuck ever.

This is why I shop online.

My dude, I have left stores because salespeople were too pushy. If every person in a Target did this to me I would scream.

Drop something green! 💚

I'm not sure if this is lack of empathy or cognitive decline. Honestly the odds are even at this point.

Stop sharing AI slop.

It's one thing if you don't know or just made a mistake. No need to breathe down someones neck b/c its harder to tell nowadays.

But if you do know (ESPECIALLY IF YOU DO KNOW) even if you're posting it to make fun of it or sharing it unironically... consider not doing that.

In my head this is 100% Benoit Blanc speaking

You have to listen to this

"Don't get too excited, because-" Nah, how about you shut the fuck up. All the way up.

Let people have a crumb of joy, you miserable fucks, my GOD.

I promise, you can go back to posting "We're so fucked" and then not doing anything to stop it thrice daily tomorrow.

I feel like the universe just played Fuck-Mary-Kill with Jonathan Bailey, Zohar Mamdani, and Dick Cheney

illustration by Abigail Larson inspired by Guillermo del Toro's "Frankenstein". The scene depicts Frankenstein's monster carrying Elizabeth Lavenza.

Take me with you 🫀

man the chokehold this movie has on me #frankenstein

sapphling: sitting anti-kink posters down in front of a wrestling match and explaining kayfabe to them with the patience of a preschool teacher sapphling: You see that one? He's called the "heel." He looks mean and says a lot of scary things, but it's not real and he's actually very nice. When he says "I'm going to break you in half" you don't have to be scared because it's pretend. These two talked about this beforehand, and now they're playing pretend together. Can you think of any other situations that might be like this? sapphling: *screenshot of tag that says #crying and throwing up when you tell me the undertaker didnt REALLY die and come back to life all those times* no that part was real

If you're going to half-ass an English paper the honorable way is NOT with ChatGPT, it's to rent the Demi Moore Scarlet Letter that has nothing to do with the book and get an F because you mentioned it having sex scenes

A grand film set: Frankenstein's lab, the man himself standing at the gothic window. With his monster on the operating table to his left, two giant apparatus on either side of him, golden light illuminating the scene.

@realgdt.bsky.social has done it again with Frankenstein. My eyes and mind are fed, like biting into a juicy apple; rich with colour and life. With gorgeously lit sets, tangible horror and wonder tying together, he very firmly proves that ai does not belong anywhere near the cinema.

Harvard Gazette: Gazette: “You are the mother of two In ten years you have produced three novels and two short-story collections. Can you talk about your process and how you manage work and family?” Groff: “I understand that this is a question of vital importance to a lot of people, particularly to other mothers who are artists trying to get their work done, and know that I feel for everyone in the struggle. But until I see a male writer asked that question, I am going to respectfully decline to answer it.”

Had to share this from twitter just because

Looks like a nail salon

a photo from dashcon with a small ball pit in a large convention ballroom

live view from cuomo hq

"The day NYC elects a Muslim Mayor will be the day I die."

--Dick Cheney probably

I don't think there has been a passing of the torch casting that could touch this episode. Literally having Adam West, the last person who played Batman on television, being a hero to Kevin Conroy, who just got started in the role, was truly one of the best half-hours in the show's run.

Divaling One has that Lego set, so can confirm it's awesome.