Viva Vestal Vespa

I keep getting ads on IG for beautifully cut dresses that are also $300 and also 100% polyester. Those ads and the companies who pay for them can fuck all the way off. In no universe am I paying $300 for a plastic dress.

RFK Jr. should resign. Any healthy Democratic Party would demand it right now. Any public health apparatus of value would demand it right now. We are leaderless in government and academia. America is a fucking death cult

We need to see ourselves as kids of the last days.We have a choice to make. Is it the last days of humanity? Or the last days of these systems that try to keep us from being human? There is always hope but there’s only hope if we make a choice to fight back.

@prisonculture.bsky.social would you mind sharing for my 2nd graders?

After setting up my room, I realized our bean bags are popped. The covers would help keep the filler in!
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We also have a DonorsChoose for Scholastic News!
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A photo I took of the moon tonight, w my phone. It is just coming up behind the mountain and trees are silhouetted against it.

We are all looking at the same moon. In Gaza, Sudan, Congo, Tigray, and the USA.
We are all radiant humans who deserve justice and peace.

Didn’t want to believe this was true. It’s true.

That's what I keep comparing GenAI to when I talk to people. Replace "AI" with "Teenagers"

"we could have teenagers build this for cheap"

Like, yeah, but its gonna be shitty. You cool with that?

Majority of Americans Dislike Trump and Newsom, But They Hate Elon Musk More, According to Gallup Poll It's fairly bad news for California Governor Gavin Newsom that he has quite a bit of ground to make up if he plans to run for president in a couple years, according to a new Gallup poll. But Americans...

You just know this kills him. All he ever wanted was people to think he was cool.

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Like what even is the upside here?

Me in 2014: I make 40k, but all the houses I want are $220k and I can't afford them
Me in 2019: I make 80k but all the houses I want are $400k and I can't afford them
Me in 2025: I make 100k but all the houses I want are $800k and I can't afford them

Quick question, what the fuck is happening

The president has been briefed by Mark Penn, a pollster who has worked for Bill and Hillary Clinton, and Andrew Stein, a former New York City Council president and decades-long friend of Mr. Trump, on a range of polling that showed Mr. Cuomo could still be competitive as an independent candidate. Both men have pushed Mr. Cuomo as the best candidate despite his loss in the Democratic primary, including in a recent Wall Street Journal op-ed. One of Mr. Penn’s firms did extensive work for a pro-Cuomo super PAC in the primary. And in a previously undisclosed call in recent weeks, Mr. Trump spoke about the race directly with Mr. Cuomo, an old associate and foil, according to three people briefed on the call, who were not authorized to discuss it.

Bombshell report from The New York Times reveals that President Donald Trump spoke directly to Andrew Cuomo about how to stop Zohran Mamdani from becoming NYC mayor. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/n...

Exclusive: US Customs and Border Protection arrest 2 women on Alvarado and 8th around 3:15pm. They can be heard saying they're US Citizens. Verified by L.A. TACO.

Chris Cuomo posting a deepfake of AOC the same week that Jim Acosta “interviews” a deepfake of a school shooting victim are both harbingers of how traditional media power players will help usher in the worst of the AI slop era

It's really really hot in Denver

Came here to say this. Why would @latimes.com lead with a term reserved for property damage before revealing that people had been physically hurt? Weird choice...

Home Depot and Lowe's Share Data From Hundreds of AI Cameras With Cops Home improvement stores are finding ways to share data from their Flock license plate reader cameras with law enforcement, according to public records.

“Have these companies given thought about how this data might put their customers in danger, whether it's cops stalking their exes or aggressive ICE agents targeting yard workers? Probably not." www.404media.co/home-depot-a...

If they replace us all with the earth-killing machines
And if they keep boiling the oceans
And they keep bombing the children
And they keep starving the poor
What then?
What is the point of killing the future?
What do they get?
What is the prize?

I have absolutely never met anyone who straight up "refuses to work" except for the idle failchildren of billionaires

Alternate history wanks love to be like "what if the south won the Civil War/what if it ended in a stalemate" meanwhile I'm over here like "what if we actually committed to reconstruction"

The rich are different than you and me, amoral, reckless, disgusting people made idle by great fortune, made evil by power. Tax wealth to make it significantly harder for people of great wealth to traffic in young girls.

I keep waking up with night sweats and being unable to get back to sleep. Perimenopause can suck it.

Woke up at 4am and started thinking about The State of Things so I guess I'll just watch the sun come up with a cat on my lap and send memes to my friends

Under capitalism, "private property" is not about the right to have your own home and belongings. It is about the right of elites to enclose and appropriate commons: forests, subsurface minerals, water, the atmosphere, public goods, and even knowledge itself."

#Marxistmonday 👇💯
If more people knew this the world would be a better place

a whole lot of people are thoroughly conditioned that things will "go back to normal" after a couple years of voting. i think people would be more militant if they realized what's broken can never be put back together, even with fair elections (which we haven't had in my lifetime).

Proof that bullying people for using AI works and we should bully them as hard as possible.

We're definitely closer than ever to finding out!

you don't understand. as someone who isn't inherently good at art, stealing paintings from the museum is the *only* way i'm able to express myself creatively. i wouldn't be able to paint beautiful portraits. but by breaking into a museum and stealing the paintings, now i am

John Cena in the title fight at Summer Slam with Cody Rhodes on his shoulders

This #summerslam is just... Wow