the panoptik0n

"save your anger for 2026" wait you think I'll run out in a year this is why I hate amateurs

it is pretty darkly funny seeing posts like URGENT!!!! it is SUNDAY EVENING you must PUT DOWN YOUR DINNER and call your senator IMMEDIATELY to politely request they not press the big button marked "fuck you". this will not actually stop them from pressing the fuck you button. functioning democracy

Vaccines are safe and effective.

Autism isn't caused by vaccines, and autistic people and their families deserve our support.

When you want information, ask your doctor.

It's more important than ever for all of us to speak plainly, truthfully, and directly about public health.

The widespread media decision to frame international affairs as "will Donnie get the prize he wants?" is pathetic.

He's not the protagonist of human events. And to the extent he's a significant character in world affairs, whether or not he gets a prize is one of the least important things about it.

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

glad to be born at a time when i got to see what life was like before the internet and will be dead before AI completely destroys humanity

There is no acceptable excuse for zip-tying children! None.

This shouldn’t even have to be said.

it is useful not to lose sight of how, underneath everything else, hollow all of this noise is. portland and chicago are warzones, so i am dispatching a couple hundred best buy assistant managers there to quell the insurrections. potemkin stuff, paper thin

before you yell at a random person on the Internet about something, ask yourself if that will help you get the results you are trying to achieve?

often the answer is no!

Even if you support massive deportation operations, under no circumstances should ANYONE be ok with US citizens being forcibly removed from their homes and detained without explanation.

This is a clear violation of their constitutional rights and should universally condemned.

Periodic reminder: use alt text on images, please!

Many visually impaired folks use tech called screen readers to hear what is on the website.

Alt text allows the screen reader to describe the image to these users.

I’m supposed to believe both that trained and paid journalists couldn’t see through Project 2025 spin but also they’re the people best positioned to tell me what’s happening and how I should feel. Why? They failed at their jobs by their own admission.

A fake screenshot I made of Richter Belmont fighting the Phantom Bat in the entryway halls of Dracula’s castle

It’s October 1st. Time to play some Castlevania!

OBAMA: It's fair to say that 80% of the world's problems involve old men hanging on who are afraid of death and insignificance, and they won't let go. They build pyramids, and they put their names on everything. They get very anxious about it.

Autistic and neurodivergent people deserve far better than a government looking to prevent their existence, let alone one that will invent fictitious ways to do so that puts everyone in danger

Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.

Folks, you can't report the United States to its manager. There's no superhero coming to save us.

We don't need one giant act of heroism. We need millions of small acts of solidarity. Help one person in your community for nothing in return. Then, do it again. And again.

That's the revolution.

Our democracy is not self-executing. It depends on us all as citizens, regardless of our political affiliations, to stand up and fight for the core values that have made this country the envy of the world.

Charlie Kirk Was Not Practicing Politics the Right Way The mainstream media seems entirely uninterested in explaining Charlie Kirk's work.

Mainstream pundits have instantly sanitized and ignored Charlie Kirk's core political project and its impacts. He has been remembered by the mainstream press as someone they merely disagreed with, a debate me-guy whose words and actions had zero consequences:

www.404media.co/charlie-kirk...

i’m not going to be lectured about political violence by people whose politics is violence

"Charlie Kirk spread infinite amounts of disinformation about LGBTQ people. Lies & vitriol about transgender people were a frequent part of his rhetoric & events. We need leaders & all those w platforms to prioritize safety over disinformation, irresponsible politics, & profit.” -GLAAD spokesperson

Let’s make one thing clear from the start: Charlie Kirk was the victim of a shooting in a country where he, along with other right-wing extremist influencers, have been inciting violence for years. — Kirk is neither a martyr nor a hero, he is a cause.

Still slightly frozen Uncrustable > Thawed Uncrustable

enshittification | noun | when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits

Method acting. What a pro 🥲

You can settle. I'm going to demand better from my politicians and expect rights for everyone.

You committing to Newsom in 2025 is you complying in advance. That thing that you keep telling everyone so sanctimoniously not to do.

Your position is literally that some people losing their rights is okay just as long as I get the political outcome I want. How is that any different than Trump?

Losing rights isn't a competition.

Advocating for anyone to lose theirs is a bright line.

We shouldn't support any politician that crosses that bright line because better options exist.

If you think that's debatable, maybe you should check what side of that bright line you are standing on.

So you're comfortable threatening to inflict misery on thousands that you don't think are worthy of the same rights in the name of political expeidency?

Do you listen to yourself? That's just what is happening right now in a different party. The only difference is it's a different "other."

That is what's called "whataboutism."

Good to know you will comply in advance if people you find distasteful stand to lose their rights.