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in retrospect, elaine benes was so real for being obsessed with a big salad with lots of stuff in it. she was just simply correct

Yet again conservatives are melting down about the foreseeable consequences of conservative policies. We’re in a death spiral now where they tank the economy and cut welfare, then fearmonger about the resulting increase in visible poverty and addiction.

art of a bunch of arkane characters leaping into action, shooting, and doing other video game-y things

Unionized workers at Arkane, a Microsoft-owned studio, demand that Microsoft divest from Israel's "sinister project for Gaza"

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I have a hard time believing that voters really care about crime when a plurality voted for a convicted criminal who committed serious crimes against the country and vowed blatant lawbreaking in office.

I believe voters care about this subject, but “crime” is not quite it. They mean something else.

I've said it often, but libraries are, without hyperbole, one of the greatest things humans have ever done. Like ever.

The military and federal law enforcement are occupying our nations capital in a brazen display of petty authoritarianism and no one is doing anything about it. There are no protests, there are no politicians or institutions speaking up.

We're cooked. There's nothing stopping this fascism.

Perusing the chatgpt subreddit is an immensely depressing experience

The #1 thing that blows my mind about how most people use LLMs: they believe if they ask the LLM a question about how it works or how accurate it is, the LLM will truthfully answer them.

I have seen SO many seemingly-smart people do this.

as someone who likes to see the best in people the number of fuckers falling for the computer saying "while i'm just a chatbot... i think you're really special! ;)" is testing me

I disagree with a lot of people I really respect at this moment. I don't see the situation in the U.S. as they do. I think that people are refusing to land the fascism plane because they don't want to start actually thinking through what that means.

i really think the only reason we haven't created new states — which was a common political tactic in the 19th century, see nevada and the dakotas — is that 50 is a round number

it's a whole cross factors of motivations, ime. people having different ones, sometimes overlapping

1. fandom shit, treating politicians as celebs
2. identifying with the party so hard that any criticism of *them* is taken as criticism of *you* - this especially stands out w/moral criticisms

They pacified and indoctrinated the working class for the past 70 years that's how

Anyways, a big reason Washington wanted a "revolution" was to genocide native americans to use their land to grow tobacco

Idk I think we should stop glorifying these rich capitalist slave owners. Their perspective is fallible and and their methods obsolete. They designed the government to nurture capitalism and would absolutely be as useless as the dems if not locked in with Trump.

BREAKING: Israel Killed Al Jazeera Journalist Anas Al-Sharif Journalists in Gaza continue to be murdered in record numbers, while Western media outlets and reporters show little or no outrage.

Israel has killed 240+ journalists. People who'd cover a strike that killed their kids and go on to cover the next strike, in the pursuit of convincing the world to act, of the hope of tomorrow being different.

How many more murders will it take for the mainstream media's cowardly fever to break?

Capitalists always begging people to accept that they aren't the problem and that wealth redistribution would crash the economy when it is very well-known and documented that economic crashes are a FEATURE of a capitalism

Acquire his rearend, Martha!

Barely an hour ago, Palestinian journalist Anas Al-Sharif warned us all:

“If this madness doesn’t end, Gaza will be reduced to ruins, its people’s voices silenced, their faces erased — and history will remember you as silent witnesses to a genocide you chose not to stop.”

Israel just killed him.

Are Americans aware that down here in Mexico we’ve been getting bombarded for months with ads of Kristi Noem telling us to our face that we’re out welcome in the US, and that these ads even found their way into our national TV broadcasts

Because I feel like I have seen nobody mention it

You'll know that it's not a real team of Ph.D. when it don't answer any question with "It depends"

I think it's a waste of time to spend your time on social media yelling at people who have the exact same level of power that you do to change the world which is to say very little.

It IS a good use of your time to enlist other people into actions and projects you would like them to join with you.

the continued capitulation of every corporation to fascism in pursuit of the almighty shareholder value is as unsurprising as it is blood-boiling

I'm of the radical belief that artists should genuinely be kind to each other. Other artists aren't your competition, we don't need rat race mentality bleeding into the art space. We've went through A LOT over the past couple of years already so please treat one another with love and compassion 🫶

Love doing this

I want to go to there

This looks like fish

I’m just a girl screaming into the void that the destruction of our institutions WAS THE ENTIRE POINT.

This is why @timothysnyder.bsky.social’s *SECOND* (of 21!) lesson in his book On Tyranny is “Defend Institutions”