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YouTube video by allluckyseven RLM Clip: 'Eraserhead is my most Spiritual Film' - David Lynch

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New Site Tracks Oregon Corporate Ties to Federal Immigration Enforcement A new website exposes Oregon businesses who have official government contracts with ICE and CBP

New- A new website exposes Oregon businesses who have official government contracts with ICE and CBP

OpenAI Unveil “Final Slogan”

Thousands of institutions abandoned programs, ended or rewrote scholarships, closed down clubs and publications, all in pre-emptive compliance.

And you know why?

Mostly because they wanted to do it if they thought they could blame someone else for it.

Didn’t manage to get cauldrons fired for the new moon, but got other things taken care of, so success in some ways

Oh my god. It just gets weirder and weirder

Meta is pure evil.

This is so cool

Senate Democrats Block DHS Measure as Funding Deadline Approaches Lawmakers say they remain far apart on deal on Homeland Security to put new restrictions on immigration enforcement

NEW: Senate Democrats REJECT funding for DHS, which will lead to shutdown of the agency. Keep in mind, ICE and CBP are still funded by supplemental money in the BBB, but it's harder to spend and will deplete those funds. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

philadelphia residents won a similar lawsuit back in 2020. it ended with a $9mil settlement & followed a city-council prohibition on the use of rubber bullets, tear gas and other "less lethal" munitions.

I love that this made me have to look through all of my old CD cases for the playlist my friend made for a Hunter the reckoning game that we were playing around 2002

This is the funniest shit I've seen in years.

if you have a ring camera you are a child, terrified of the silhouette of a jacket hanging on a chair. you are lower than a worm to me. you have sold your soul to a devil that has offered you nothing in return

Activists Are Fighting ICE Even Though It Could Get Them Killed. Here’s Why. ICE is still trying to subjugate Minneapolis. It's still failing.

"Maybe all we do is frustrate," Star said. "Give someone one more day with their daughter or their dad.

"But if you lost your dad, or you lost your daughter, you would give anything to have one more day with them. And that’s what we can do.”

My latest for Slate

Facial recognition + bad data protection structures + "AI" that regularly gets behavioral prediction very badly wrong + glaring holes in tech regulations & privacy laws + a stunning & nakedly bigoted authoritarian regime= a threat surface, a bottleneck, & an arm of oppressive state control, all in 1

one of the greatest human triumphs of my lifetime is the relentless, unceasing, heroic effort by DECADES' worth of doctors and scientists to find a cure for a disease much of the world didn't take seriously for years because it predominantly affected a community they thought kinda deserved it

worth noting that the second rich people stopped being afraid of mobs tearing them limb from limb, they stopped building libraries and opera houses and stuff and started ripping the copper wiring out of the walls of society instead

I DELETED THE STARBUCKS APP #DeleteTheApp to show Starbucks that you stand with baristas, not billion-dollar companies.

Your reminder that Starbucks baristas are still ON STRIKE.

So our call to action is simple: Delete the Starbucks app. #DeleteTheApp bit.ly/deletetheapp

I like your style.
I like the way you move through the world with raggedy Muppet hair, smelling of stale coffee & dusty bookstores, and leaving a trail of confusion and small disappointments in your wake.

What it's like to see ICE tear gas kids Attendees at a Portland, OR protest describe a vicious, unprovoked and sudden attack

New — I spoke to eight people who were present at the ICE protest on Saturday in Portland, Oregon when federal agents deployed tear gas and rubber bullets into a crowd of families, children, elderly and disabled people, and their pets.

These are their stories:

this shit pisses me off so much . burn it all down

Poems sneak up on you
Cosmic jump scares from nowhere
Defibrillated

Kim Kelly on the Difference Between a General Strike and a National Shutdown (And Why It Matters) On January 23, thousands of people across the state of Minnesota took part in a massive day of action to protest ICE’s violent occupation of their home. Despite subzero temperatures, the day saw be…

“It is a time for action, and what matters most is that that action, whatever what we call it, is effective.”

Important from @kimkelly.bsky.social this morning.

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Just sitting here and waiting until my seed order comes in. I just want to plant my poison garden

Just started doing new data analysis and I know I keep saying this, but: I really, really don't think people appreciate how much this moral panic was a deliberate and extremely expensive invention.

my cancelable take on Sorcerer Twitter is y'all need to be declining and conjugating your spells

you're using the nominative case and not the vocative, jackass

My cancelable take on Sorcerer Twitter is broken down trucks are a terrible way to transport nitroglycerin across narrow, curving ravines

My cancelable take on Sorcerer Twitter is that summoning a daemon directly from the abyssal plane, binding it in a magic triangle, rendering it fleshbound with words of subjugation, and casting banes with its tortured howls is STILL more ethical than using ChatGPT to assist with your spellcraft.

My cancelable take on Sorcerer Twitter is that folks need to consider the local ecosystem before they curse people into animal forms.

I get it - toad is a classic! But as Australia shows, YOU CAN'T JUST LET THEM LOOSE EVERYWHERE.

Most places need more beavers! ALMOST NO PLACES NEED MORE WILD HOGS.

After executing Alex Pretti on Saturday, ICE has shifted to primarily targeting bus stops and elementary schools in my community this week. I cannot overstate how much of the ICE activity in my community is just targeting places where little kids are.