Topaz Rage

Often nature moments are envisioned and waited for.

You see something or imagine it might happen, and you have to plan and return multiple times

Often it never happens

Then there are the completely unexpected encounters

Like a baby goose hopping on mamas back

And it's FUCKING ADORABLE!

🪶 🐣

I was, shall we say, “slightly resistant” to receiving help after this money was stolen from me, but I’ve been sufficiently cowed by friends privately chewing me out for shame and pride. Dylan has kindly offered to do this for me, and many others have wanted to help directly. Options in replies.

A cartoon from the 1950’s that’s more relevant than ever 💔

1 Inquiry for New York Times Good afternoon, My name is [REDACTED] and l am a reporter for the New York Times. I am researching how much money the Palestinian diaspora community has sent to support Gazan families since the war in Gaza began. Does your team track this figure? I really appreciate it. With gratitude, [REDACTED]

Palestine Diaspora Movement Hello [REDACTED] We do not collaborate with The New York Times. Your email asks about money sent to Gazan families "since the war in Gaza began." Let us first correct the premise. This is not a war. It is a genocide. Calling it a war is part of the problem. It obscures the reality of a colonized people being massacred by a military machine backed by the United States and defended, sanitized, and rhetorically softened by institutions like yours. The New York Times has spent far too long parroting Zionist propaganda and laundering Israeli state narratives while Palestinians bury their dead. That kind of coverage does not merely misinform. It helps create the political climate in which Palestinian slaughter becomes explainable, defensible, and forgettable. So no, we will not be sharing any figures, internal data, or community information with a paper that has so thoroughly damaged its credibility on Palestine. Quite frankly, we would rather chew jeans than help The New York Times extract from our community while continuing to fail it. Do not contact us again for this purpose, The Palestine Diaspora Movement Team

“Quite frankly, we would rather chew jeans than help The New York Times extract from our community while continuing to fail it”

lmaooo GET EM

I'm trying to raise $276 to help pay my house's oil bill. It's been cold here in MA, and our oil tank has been refilled about once a month, costing over $500 each time >:(

If I can raise this amount, it'll help my partner and I catch up from the last 2 months.

my venmo is @nal-wu; kofi below

Early in my copyright career I had a complex, nuanced take on the ethics of piracy. Now I'm like, fuck it, pirate copies are perhaps the main way any copies of corporate-owned media (esp tv/movies) are gonna persist through unrestrained corporate looting, have at it.

Hey you guys should totally throw money at Doc, he's a great writer, game dev and thinker, but also just a great guy all around.

to continue existing as a society we must expropriate every billionaire's fortune and nationalize every big tech company, nothing less can work

yes, the armaggedon talk is bad, it's also a pretty good way to encourage mutinies, which is the main thing Hegseth is good at

The US was fascist since its founding.

If public concern is lacking, it may be because people have noted how often public concern didn't matter to the people who have power in the past (see: public concern about AI, rifles, etc.)

You will either become a fascist or a communist in the next 20 years so you might as well take your pick now

Really can't be left unacknowledged that every single state in the region that houses US military personnel, except for maybe two, do so against the will of the supermajority of their own public's opinion but it does not matter because most of these states are US backed dictatorships.

Seems fitting that this is what the "U.S." is fighting a war to defend.

“Fascism, it’s always about using nationalism, and the nation, as a bludgeon to generate support for death policies, on behalf of death governments. For violence and repression and exploitation, internationalism is the antidote, always.” —Robin D. G. Kelley

What little aid Israel had allowed into Gaza is once again being choked off. Please give what you can to help Sama'a feed her family

chuffed.org/project/157569

When the US did regime change in Libya to bring democracy, it led to slave markets being introduced.

With Iraq, the country collapsed and ISIS emerged as a destabilizing force.

In Afghanistan, trillions were spent only for the Taliban to return to power within days of the US withdrawal.

CHINA: "The US is a war addict. Throughout its over 240-year history, it has been at war for all but 16 years. The US has 800 overseas military bases in over 80 countries and regions. The US is the main cause of international disorder, global turbulence, and regional instability."

China will be setting the geopolitical standard for the foreseeable future & the world will be better for it as more countries start choosing the stability of China over the instability of US hegemony, & the US will surely try to turn the world into hell as it lashes out with its last dying gasps.

A new Super PAC, "Chicago Progressive Partnership," just jumped into #IL09, opposing Kat Abughazaleh. Filings show they’re using the same vendors as AIPAC.

one good thing about being antiwar is you will never be wrong. one bad thing about being antiwar is no one who matters will ever listen to you

we (Americans) owe the world the destruction of the United States

"Iran must never acquire nuclear weapons" says everyone. Because then they'd be able to defend themselves. And since 1945 America has never attacked anyone who (they think) can defend themselves.

We are At War now, according to President Bush, and I take him at his word. He also says this War might last for "a very long time." Generals and military scholars will tell you that eight or 10 years is actually not such a long time in the span of human history - which is no doubt true - but history also tells us that 10 years of martial law and a wartime economy are going to feel like a Lifetime to people who are in their twenties today. The poor bastards of what will forever be known as Generation Z are doomed to be the first generation of Americans who will grow up with a lower standard of living than their parents enjoyed. That is extremely heavy news, and it will take a while for it to sink in. The 22 babies born in New York City while the World Trade Center burned will never know what they missed. The last half of the 20th century will seem like a wild party for rich kids, compared to what's coming now. The party's over, folks.

From Hunter S. Thompson’s ESPN page 2 column one week after 9/11.

well, here's my playlist for the next few

Alright February was absolute ass . It’s the last Day of Black history month you can throw in a ol it would help.

If you know of ANYONE hiring a project manager, tech policy researcher/consultant , writer , cosmic galactic muse or sugar librarian or sugar cougar

Please send em to me

Wonderful color artist Tatjana Wood died 3 days shy of her 100th birthday… her work within the limited palette of four-color comics was always impressive and added mood. Important to remember as modern comics reprinting often relegates original coloring to the dustbin of history.

You sound like an unhinged person if you in plain words describe what’s happening, but the Trump admin demanded Anthropic’s AI be able to kill things for it w/out human approval and also do mass surveillance.

Anthropic said no, and now the admin is trying to destroy the company in retaliation.

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So the women’s hockey team got fresh pasta at a swanky restaurant in Milan with Stanley Tucci and the men’s team got cold McDonalds in a room blaring Toby Keith where the President didn’t even eat with them. Y’all idk if you’ve noticed but the patriarchy sucks FOR YOU.

Hey, this cool designer needs help. If you can