Voiceless Hand

I heard this once as "In a just world, only a few people are guilty, but everyone is *responsible*" and that has really stuck with me.

i am asking all the cis people in my life to make a LOT of fucking noise about this

This is why Gavin Newsom is a non-starter for me.

Sure, he's "a fighter" who's landed a few good punches on Trump, but that's not the same thing as a leader.

A real leader doesn't fight back against an authoritarian takeover by using the most vulnerable as his shield.

A kid with a dope ass mullet is asked by a clearly evil cop "hey do you know this guy?" And answers smoothly "nah, I don't know him" picture clearly cuts to another scene where the kid with a dope ass mullet tells our little nerdy protagonist that "hey, theres this cop scoping for you. Check it out."

Casual reminder as snap benefits are fucked but if you witness someone steal at the store no you didn't
Be more like the kid from terminator with this dope ass mullet

This drives me nuts. So much local media is deeply unserious and uncritical of our candidates until far too late.

Image: three figures in protective suits watch from behind a screen as a child approaches a door-like mechanical structure in which stands a man. Between them is an amorphous glowing shape. Caption: Scientists at the institute of halloween studies have succeeded in creating "The treak": a quantum state that is simultaneously trick and treat. It is stable for a millionth of a second before decaying into a half-hearted prank and a mediocre candy bar.

A halloween cartoon for @newscientist.com

What in the absolute fuck are we doing

Man Evicted From Public Housing — The Shovel The man has lived in the property for more than 20 years under a long-term public housing arrangement with the Crown Estate, a Government body that provides affordable accommodation to unemployed Brit...

"He has lived in the property under a long-term public housing arrangement with the Crown Estate, a Government body that provides affordable accommodation to unemployed Britons"

my wife: we have to wear what we died in for eternity!?

st. peter: that’s right

me: [from the back end of our horse costume] what’d he say

Read the whole thread — this is the kind of energy we need.

Awesome

Beloved Bodega Cat Allegedly Killed By Waymo In Mission District KitKat, a bodega cat who patrolled and slept alot in Randa's Market on 16th Street, was allegedly run over by a Waymo vehicle, inciting what could be a fresh wave of anti-robot sentiment in San Franci...

Fuck driverless vehicles.

Humans, & cats first.

sfist.com/2025/10/29/b...

Unfortunately evergreen.

Beyond the fact that "develop skills by playing sports" is based on a monoculture that will probably never change, I've also observed that the type of folks who end up in elected office tend to be sports people, not arts people.

Every single reporter should be asking them why they’re so certain they’ll be experiencing enough civil unrest to warrant this. They won’t, of course, but they should.

Revealed: Pentagon orders states’ national guards to form ‘quick reaction forces’ for ‘crowd control’ Pentagon memo details plan to train over 20,000 national guard members across the US to carry out Trump’s order on subduing civil unrest

Yikes

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

I adore Clarkesworld. So many fascinating tales!

Every poll is like:

"Should we eat our own shit?"

31% yes
39% no
30% don't know

but there are still people getting paid to argue for how Democrats can finely tailor an eat-some-shit message to win over the median moderate voter, of which there are zero.

a trans girl in vermont was kicked off her swimming team and committed suicide and at the very same time, the discourse in d.c. today is about whether the democratic party should’ve abandoned her sooner in order to win votes

a day in an american life

This absolutely sucks. I LOVE Madame Lou's. So glad I got to experience this year's Mechanismus fest there.

Eh, I think they DO know this, which is why they are doing their damnedest to blame trans people and the (comparatively powerless) Democrats.

Voters Under 35 Account For Just 10% Of Ballots Returned In King County So Far Young people: This is fucking serious. The 2025 election could be a huge shift in the balance of power at City Hall — voters could kick out our MAGA Republican City Attorney, banish the most incompete...

NEW: YOUNG PEOPLE GET YOUR BUTTS TO THE BALLOT BOXES. So far, only 10% of ballots come from voters under 35. And overrepresentation of older voters could be the difference between Katie Wilson and Bruce Harrell 2.0. www.theburnerseattle.com/post/voters-...

If people aren't starving, you can't hold conversion over their heads as a requirement to eat from your pantry.

I grew up as a pastor's kid in an evangelical church and we had a food bank and I can assure you that no one they would think was a "drug addict" (ie nonwhite, visibly poor, queer etc) was ever gonna get access to that pantry

Mamdani supporters: This should worry you. Do not underestimate the money and power behind the campaign against him. Go vote.

There are two things that guarantee massive instability in authoritarian regimes, not paying the military and starving the citizenry. Trump is now managing to do both at the same time.

It’s too bad only farmers are people and not librarians or artists or healthcare workers or researchers.

If you believe people should starve because they’re poor I don’t want to build community with you. I want you ostracized. I want you out of civilized society. I want you to truly understand what it means to live on your own with no help from the rest of humanity.

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I'm a bit taken aback by just how MUCH Bruce Harrell's reelection campaign has made me detest the man. I never like him much, but good lord has he kicked my disdain into overdrive with his every action and statement. What a loathsome specimen.