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Lucy Lawless as Xena

Painting of Ulysses S Grant cucking Robert E Lee at Appomattox

Reminder that Xena: Warrior Princess lasted longer than the Confederacy.

Leon Panetta on CNN saying "In my experience, the Israelis usually fire and then ask questions." It's like a dam broke and everybody who's known about the shit Israel's been doing for decades but wouldn't say anything is coming out of the woodwork

look at how israel lean on other countries unquestioning acceptance of their lies about NRWA workers to justify further atrocities

we are complicit in this genocide

It's a very human apocalypse.

Give a man a profile pic, and it's only good for a day; teach a man to hold a fish in it and he has a profile pic for a lifetime.

when u can not find the remote but do not want to move so u just sit there watching the same channel all night

Young man-- there's no need to feel down
I said young man-- Pagliacci's in town
You can go there-- see the world's greatest clown
Now why do- you- wince- so sadly?

We had to deal with beholders in my last D&D campaign. Nasty bastards, they were!

"Altman is joining other tech leaders, chiefly Bill Gates, in proposing that we fix the problems caused by our fucking with our atmosphere by... fucking with our atmosphere."

I saw somebody say the sheer volume of murder going on in Gaza is unmatched on earth since the Rwandan genocide in 1994.

Thought I had some point to make about the impact of that comparison, but nope.

I've got nothing.

The Hulks have chosen a new Pope.

Everybody approaches art with their own ideological filters. Some of us can (more or less frequently) see beyond those filters in order to engage with the artist's intent. Many cannot.

For this same reason I really would like people to stop calling the output from diffusion models 'AI art'. They're not, they're AI-generated images - that's what we researchers call them. It's just hucksters who call it art. Don't let them get away with it through repetition.

‘They lied’: plastics producers deceived public about recycling, report reveals Companies knew for decades recycling was not viable but promoted it regardless, Center for Climate Integrity study finds

How many times are we going to have a study exposing this only for nothing to happen? How many years have we known this now? How many decades?

Turns out I am able to live a perfectly functional online life without using Facebook, Twitter, or Google, a realization that more and more people are coming to after years of these services becoming more and more aggressively hostile to their users.

As one will.

Smiling selfie with my dark brown and cream tabby Big Bob, who is huge and very unimpressed

Hello

Unicef official tells of ‘utter annihilation’ after travelling length of Gaza James Elder describes children on the brink of death and families desperate for clean water, food and shelter

“The depth of the horror [in Gaza] surpasses our ability to describe it,” said James Elder, a spokesperson with the United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef).

“I’ve not seen that level of devastation in 20 years with the UN."

The longer it goes on, the easier the comparison will be to make.

Every modern genocide has been framed as defensive or retaliatory and I would say not understanding that disqualifies you from weighing in on the subject

They’ve arrived at a place where “be the absolute biggest fucking asshole you can be at all times” is a sign of in-group virtue! It’s very weird.

And the broader point here is how much antisocial behavior is now embraced and coded as conservative and pro-social behavior is coded as left wing! They’ve decided that not being a gross weirdo is “woke.”

Black Capped Chickadee

I'll be sharing some pictures of birds that have visited my yard over the past few years . . .

Black Capped Chickadee

#BirdsinMyYard

sign saying it's all good Headline: Breaking Good News: Of The Tens Of Millions Of Children Infected With Covid, Only Tens Of Millions Of Them Will Have Increased Risk Of Lifelong Life-Changing Life-Shortening Health Conditions Story by Trig Wiveliscombe and Ruaf Potto Photo: https://unsplash.com/photos/brown-its-all-good-led-sign-cBb94xhYAXw

Breaking Good News: Of The Tens Of Millions Of Children Infected With Covid, Only Tens Of Millions Of Them Will Have Increased Risk Of Lifelong Life-Changing Life-Shortening Health Conditions

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children

killed

in

Gaza

in four months

than

in

all global conflicts

the past

four

years

fluffy gray kitten with her feet kicked playfully

baby Tarragon was so wiggly

the entire "social media ideological bubbles" talking point is wild. I'm not "preventing myself from considering disparate views", I hear right-wing politics ALL THE TIME: they're bad. That's the problem. I hang in leftist communities to get a BREAK from hearing ghoulish dogshit.