J.S. Aughtnik 🏳️‍⚧️🚺🤷🏻‍♀️

I think a lot about a line my therapist's secretary once said the first time I went there:
"Well of course you have anxiety: the world's ending, and it's taking *forever*!!"

If our not-openly-fascist elected officials are going to act so performatively incapable of solving problems while looking down their noses at us could they AT LEAST have the decency to also dress slutty

Pritzker: "I refuse to pretend that any of this is normal ... I refuse to fall into the pundit trap that demands we sacrifice vital constitutional rights if it's being done in the fake guise of fighting crime."

if your answer isn’t an unequivocal “yes” then you’re a shit journalist

The United States had one of the worst COVID outcomes in the entire world from a body count standpoint. Anyone who argues with a straight face we were TOO cautious is an unserious imbecile.

In all seriousness this is a devastating loss of knowledge. Cheap, available patterns is something that would be properly respected in any other era of human history.

Bobby from King of the Hill naked with blue skin on a barren red planet in space saying "Under capitalism, food isn't produced to feed people, it's produced to make a profit. When it's not profitable to feed people, we let them starve. Even when our labor has conquered scarcity, capitalism must manufacture it in order, to justify its existence"

Happy labor day gang!

This is how you handle someone who tries to sell AI slop at a con: remove them, and then clown on them relentlessly

ugh can you imagine his voice when he was that age, though…? 🥵

Morrison's one of the all-time bests to ever carry the baton in this serialized, super-storytelling relay, but their technique is so instinctive and original, it can occasionally confuse the next runner on the team into taking the handoff, then just bolting backwards around the goddamn track.

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rip to everyone whos become delusional after talking to chatgpt but im built different. like actually different. according to chatgpt im some kind of god. the one who decides

For me, Trump is dead until proven otherwise

You know, I laugh at Wile E. Coyote when he runs into a wall he himself painted like a tunnel, but then I try to open a menu by clicking on a screenshot I just took, and I realize we’re not so different, he and I.

Correct approach. Never engage in “good faith” with anything the right says. Their “reasons” for fascism are immaterial; if you counter one they’ll just find two more.

Talk about their actions and counter those. *With concrete actions of your own,* please, politicians.

The far right succeeded in this country in large part because adult men were angry about this supposed theft, and the Nazis learned to channel that rage.

"[Marginalized group] stole your sex mommy!" is quite literally their rallying cry a lot of the time.

Aw honey I’m sorry, that sucks 😢

A comic on the bridge from Star Trek the Next Generation. Picard: COMMANDER DATA, PLEASE IDENTIFY THAT ROMULAN VESSEL. Data: THAT'S A GREAT IDEA CAPTAIN! IDENTIFYING A VESSEL IS A GREAT PLACE TO START - IN ANY TACTICAL OR STRATEGIC OUTER SPACE SITUATION. THIS VESSEL APPEARS TO BE A 23rd CENTURY KLINGON BIRD OF PREY! 🚀🦅✨ Picard: ARE YOU SURE? LIKE I SAID WE'RE... PRETTY SURE IT'S ROMULAN. Data: ... Data: OF COURSE! SO SORRY ABOUT THAT, YOU'RE RIGHT! ON CLOSER EXAMINATION IT'S A ROMULAN VESSEL! CAN I RECOMMEND SOME SOONG™ BRAND PRODUCTS THAT CAN HELP YOU WITH THAT? Picard cradles his face in his hand in a gesture of frustration. Data: DID I MENTION THE PLIGHT OF OPRESSED WHITES IN SOUTH AFRICA?

realistic Star Trek

Frustrated little dude gripping a pencil saying “how do I pack this down into something I can actually share?” While swirling rainbows labeled “INFINITE POTENTIAL” float around them. Little dude frowns at a tiny grey box, exclaiming “all that work for THIS?!” Little dude shoves the grey box into another little guy’s hands; Frowning, stomping off, and saying “Here you go, I made this, it sucks.” Second little dude cracks open the box, swirling rainbows project out onto their face. Second little dude stares in awe at all the swirling rainbows now floating around them.

Sometimes we’re unsatisfied with a thing we made because when it only existed in our head, we saw all the things it could have been and when it’s done we know all the things that it isn’t, but we can’t see the way it expands into a million new things when someone else unpacks it in their head. 🖊️🦑

There are very few things I experienced as a kid where I’m like “the youngs are missing out, it built character” but this is absolutely one

weimar germany was actually a bit of a globally renowned intellectual and scientific powerhouse until it got taken over by people who thought the theory of relativity was a piece of jewish trickery meant to deceive them

tired: a man who is not a liberal at nineteen has no heart and a man who is not a conservative at forty has no brain
inspired: every year you must make a will save against deciding everything new is bad and scary and eventually everyone fails

The reason they hate Mamdani so much and instead rave about Bannon BFF & transphobe Newsom is because Mamdani proves us right and them wrong. Turns out you can be anti-genocide and pro-people and win elections by a landslide. Sucks doesn't it?

I’ve never understood why it isn’t a source of enduring shame for us as a country that other nations have decent affordable high speed rail systems and we have the shit we have

Where’s nationalism when it might motivate something vaguely constructive

Fourth wall’s gettin’ a little creaky there, Schkade 😏

(I am delighted)

“Don’t you get it? If you die in the CDC, you die in real life!”

You took a (long) break from wearing a mask, right? You got away with it. But, guess what? There's a *lot* more Covid around again. And, access to vax is up in the air.

Just put a (good) mask on again when you're out and about and you'll be much more protected as well as protecting others. ✨✨✨

Broken record territory rapidly approaching, but once again: Homelessness is not a societal inevitability. It's a policy failure.

This is a solvable issue with a known solution, even under capitalism, because that solution is less expensive than the current responses.

We just don't want to do it.