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Don't forget that Zohran Mamdani spent his entire campaign standing proudly beside the trans community. He went to trans rights rallies just to show support. He proudly waved trans rights flags without hesitation. He refused to back down in support of trans rights. That makes me happy.

This is why I always hesitate when people call larp "an expensive hobby". Sure, it can be if you go to big events and do elaborate costumes. But larp can also be getting emotionally devastated in your friend's living room while wearing your normal clothing.

If you have it please donate cash to the food banks. $10 in their hands will feed more people than the $10 worth of canned goods you can buy for retail prices. Also check on your elders. Many of them will not admit they rely on these programs so grocery gift cards or a surprise bag of staples

In a reasonable world, randomly murdering people in fishing boats with drones would immediately get you impeached, removed from office, and sent to the Hague for war crimes.

Throwing a grenade into a Klan meeting in Mafia 3 was one of the greatest moments in video games for me.

WWII "Friend" poster series from the Allied Forces, originally demonstrating the various Allied forces (British, Australian, Chinese, French, Dutch, etc.) and their appearances It reads: "This man is your FRIEND He fights for FREEDOM" The image is a sepia/black and white toned image of the Portland Frog protester, simply labelled FROG

This dude has always sucked.

the post office is a public service. it doesn’t need to make money. public transit doesn’t need to make money. the library doesn’t need to make money. some things exist for the public good and we desperately need lawmakers to stop thinking about them in terms of capitalism. these are not businesses.

ICE is a physical and existential threat to the fabric of this nation and they must be shut down.

I hope they only go back if they get double their original salary and ironclad wrongful termination protection

reminder that Disney+ has still been on the Palestinian BDS boycott list for over a year.

You should continue the pressure and continue withholding your money from them.

Testing a theory:

reskeet if "every ICE agent will be unmasked and tried for their crimes" would get your vote

Restricting the expression of sexuality through fiction and art made by adults, for adults – including those you find personally disturbing or offputting – is conservative censorship, full stop. When that censorship disproportionately affects subgroups, that's also discrimination. For shame.

The lack of mainstream coverage of regular huge protests reminds me of a talk from a Twitter employees who explained that they had to drop BLM off the Trending Tags section because otherwise it would have been there permanently. The modern media environment has no appetite for sustained movements.

“I spy with my little eye…” (a wolverine!)

You picked a great game to show it off with, with how close the characters get to the dang screen!

Charcoal donut.

"Itch haven't covered themselves with glory with their funbling in this situation" and "ultimately, Itch has been trying to defend its users and the payment processors are the real villains" can both be true at the same time.

By refusing to make this change, Pokemon left the door open for Digimon to fill the Sexy/Scary Monster Niche.

We need to build some real social stigma around being afraid of cities. You don't have to like them or live there, but a politics built this strongly around watching TV and going "ewww" is embarrassing, and people should be embarrassed by it. It's like "fear of werewolves" being your top issue.

Hyenap 😴

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I spent a while in a spreadsheet laying out my specific gripe with trying to find history books on specific places recently. I want to start with a big overview, then zoom in on in specific targets. In moat US bookstores, I'm lucky to find just the overview.

Sketchbook comic. Panel 1: a disembodied voice says “I KNOW a.i. is ethically, ecologically and esthetically awful, but I just gotta say…” Lucy is reacting with a ._. Face and thinking “do ya? Do ya really GOTTA?” Panel 2: Lucy’s thought bubble reads: “do you just GOTTA recite some tired anecdote using the phrase ‘I just typed it in!’ That just amounts to you admitting that your cheapness, laziness and poor taste outweighs your unexamined ethical code?”

Sketchbook comic page 2: Panel 1: Lucy’s thought bubble reads “and, at the very least, do you GOTTA say it to ME?” She is turning away, saying “ok I’m gonna go, um, get a snack.” Panel 2: another disembodied voice is saying “Lucy! You’re an artist— whattaya think about a.i? Ya know, it may be bad, but I JUST GOTTA SAY…” Lucy is startled, dropping a chip.

Sketchbook comic page 3: Panel 1: Lucy is surrounded by speech bubbles and text, repeating the phrase “gotta say…” she looks terrified. Panel 2: she is fleeing the repeated “gotta say”s, yelling “you gotta live with yourselves, but I don’t gotta!” A note with a heart at the end reads “stop doing this I will not absolve you.”

Gotta say…

I totally check out on huge servers or Twitch chats too. For Discord servers though, it can help a lot to mute stuff you don't care about so you can focus in, and just accept that you won't be part of every conversation.

I love private health insurance. I love paying $500 a month for the privilege to spend several thousand dollars before they cover anything. I love having a random accountant be able to countermand my doctor. Great system, can't possibly be improved.

YouTube video by The Tom Lehrer Wisdom Channel Tom Lehrer - Smut - LIVE FILM From Copenhagen in 1967

RIP to one of the all time greats; half a century gone by and so little has changed

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Happy Caturday!

African lions spend a majority of their day sleeping, and do so in a variety of positions, from lying on their sides, curled up or, like you see in this photo, looking quite comfortable on their backs!

[metroid] family comix 1/3

Reform Party... 2!