Emerald

I'm kinda sad that there haven't been any Nintendo Online icon elements for Pokémon Legends Z-A.

4 frame comics. a man with a red cap says to Stephie : nazis were obviously left-wing. it's in the name: national socialism. leftists were always the real fascists. stephie replies : the party's name was specifically chosen in 1920 to lure people away from socialism by using its rhetoric and to channel people's economic distress into a racialist, antisemitic, anti-democratic vision of the state that upheld the capitalist status quo.* source : *r.j. evans: the coming of the third reich, 2005 the third frame shows a nazi parade. text reads : after taking control of the party in 1921, hitler spent a whole decade purging the party of its left-leaning figures. one of the first things he did after taking power was to send left-wing politicians and union leaders into concentra- tion camps or murder them.* source : *holocaust encyclopedia : "nazi terror begins" in the last frame, stephie leans towards the man and says : hitler was a white nationalist famously opposed to socialists. the fact that the word "socialism" was in his party's name isn't any weirder than "republicans" supporting a president who rules like a king.

"Leftists are the real fascists!"

Don't Buy Starbucks! At any location, today and beyond, while workers are on ULP strike!

As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.

Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX

Today is a good day to remember, and to say, that the #MeToo movement was right, and was righteous, and has been vindicated over and over again. There was no overreach. There was no excess. There was no they-went-too-far.

So much work remains to be done.

4 frame comic. the first frame shows a tangram swan. text reads : they call it "aI", but large language models (llm) such as chatbots are far from intelligent: they are pattern- recognition machines that churn out whatever might sound like a reply to the thing you last said. 2nd frame shows inside a data center. text reads : that distinction matters, because the technology for actual aI simply doesn't exist. the only way for llm to get better is to feed it more data, transiting in bigger polluting data centers, scavenged always deeper into our devices. 3rd frame shows a child blowing bubbles. text reads : but once the whole internet has been fed to their llm, how can these companies promise neverending growth to their shareholders? that's what makes "AI" a bubble, kept afloat by circular investments and hype. 4th frame shows a chatbot logo. text reads : llms need us to keep interacting and coming back in order to grow. they are sycophantic by design. they amplify delusions and will never disagree with you or challenge your worldview. it's ripping apart communities for a few billionaires' hubris.

Hubris

Clarifying question; are the ellipses meant to be circles viewed at an angle?

4 frame comics, where we see scenes from the 1936 olympic games in Berlin : the Berlin stadium, 5 women holding hula hoops in the shape of the olympics logo, athletes doing an obstacle course. the last frame is the 2028 Los Angeles olympic logo. the text reads : the olympics have seen various forms of gender policing since the games of 1936 in nazi germany. it was introduced as a way to enforce the gender binary by disqualifying people with inter- sex characteristics or atypical gender expression. naked parades in front of a jury, gynecological inspections, chromosomal testing, certifica- tions that only richer countries could issue... these were all attempts at gender policing by the olympic committee between 1936 and 1996. one after the other, these practices were outlawed. they were all found to be flawed, misleading, humiliating, discrimi- natory, racist, misogynistic. since 2003, strict guidelines have allowed intersex and trans women to participate. despite 20 years of inclusion, there has only been one trans woman who competed, not winning any medal. yet, we just learned that the I.o.C. was looking into bringing back gender policing to ban intersex & trans athletes, in time for the nazi germany olympics of 2028. oops, I mean united states.

What a coincidence!

Well at least now you've got a retirement plan

4 frame comic. a street reporter approaches a man wearing a big hoodie, asking : sir! how much do you think we should hold feminism accountable for the male loneliness epidemic? he replies : there is no meaningful difference between the rates of loneliness between men and women*. the reason we're always talking about men's is that they're making it everyone else's problem. A note under the frame adds : *in fact, several studies (graham & ong, 2024; cigna & morning consult, 2021) suggest that more women experience loneliness than men. In the 3rd frame, he says : according to research*, the primary reason that men isolate themselves is because they feel incapable of living up to rigid gendered expectations. the far-right exploits that vulnerability to radicalize young men. another note under the frame adds a source : *the state of american men 2025, equimundo: center for masculinities and social justice. in the last frame, he makes a peace sign with his fingers and says : if anything, feminism is the solution to men's loneli- ness. let's deconstruct the gender norms that hurt every- one, before these techno- fascists divide us even more.

Accountability

A window of a red brick building. There is a large cardboard cutout of Gianmarco Soresi's head above an air-conditioning unit. There is a white sign with navy text which reads "@gianmarcosoresi" in the top of the window

I don't know what I was expecting, but it wasn't this

that panel from Watchmen

some years, Circulatory System Walking Through the Kitchen Day just completely sneaks up on you

This 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽

There’s a constant concept that Muslim people hate queer people and want us dead.

And sure, yes, there is a small fraction of extremists.

But apples for apples there’s probably more queer hating white evangelical extremists.

I love how Mamdani has publicly broken their brains on this.

If you believe the man who’s been fighting tooth & nail to keep $200 away from starving children all in the name of TAKING AWAY YOUR HEALTHCARE is suddenly about to cut u a $2000 check I really hope u donate your brain to science when you die so we can get to the bottom of how idiots like you exist

I’m so pissed at how all these networks and everyone are not showing white people when talking about SNAP. We’re the largest demographic of SNAP recipients yet they’re primarily showing Black and Brown people and we all know why they’re doing it!

I really hope Americans understand that the forced famine in Gaza and this are intrinsically connected

I have to assume you're talking about the American Musicological Society, but now I'm curious about what's going on with the American Meteorological Society & the American Mathmatical Society

Senate update: Republicans are now trying to sneak a backdoor national abortion ban into their government funding bill. Republicans will stop at nothing to control women's health care decisions.

I wish cis people understood how it feels to see Harry Potter every-fucking-where constantly.

4 frame comic. a guy with a red cap asks Stephie : stop saying that fascism is a right- wing thing. what about stalin or mao? checkmate, leftist. she replies : authoritarianism isn't a synonym of fascism. fascism is ultra-nationalist, whereas communism, with or without the authoritarianism, is against any form of nationalism. fascism is a conservative ideology obsessed with national purity that teams up with big businesses to maintain itself in power. that's why it's considered far-right. but why do you care so much? do you think fascism would suddenly become acceptable to left-wingers if it had a leftist spin to it? sounds like something that someone who finds fascism acceptable would think.

Why is fascism right-wing?

"i asked grok" "i asked chatgpt" yeah well i asked carl sagan and he said the greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge 🧪

succubus - female demon that seduces men

incubus - male demon that seduces women

vengabus - non-binary demon that likes to party

Free to continue wondering what the hell is going on

9. The ACLU posted a response to the ruling on Bluesky indicating that trans people should hold off trying to update passports.

bsky.app/profile/aclu...

A scanned Supreme Court of the United States order, dated November 6, 2025, in the case Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, et al. v. Ashton Orr, et al., No. 25A319. The document discusses an Executive Branch policy requiring passports to display an individual’s biological sex at birth. The highlighted passage reads: “Displaying passport holders’ sex at birth no more offends equal protection principles than displaying their country of birth—in both cases.” The Court grants the government’s application for a stay at this preliminary stage, reasoning that the government is likely to succeed on the merits and that the policy does not violate equal protection principles.

SCOTUS has granted a stay in Trump v. Orr, the trans passport case, meaning that the government will be able to once again deny gender marker changes to trans passport applicants.

This is a terrible decision with horrifying consequences for trans folks.

www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

They've changed it back again now, but changing a quote is a huge red flag. The BBC are repeatedly demonstrating that there are ideologues directly interfering with the meaning of stories they report relating to trans people, and this should be a far bigger deal than it is

heads up to anyone who holds trans kids near: amy harmon from the nyt is searching for and having a hard time finding people to interview to find out exactly what trans kids are doing when their care is limited or cut off, and for purposes of community safety, please shut the fuck up around her.

this is interesting. i strongly prefer for someone to assume my pronouns. i also think there is assumption that pronouns and gender are same thing when one is what you prefer to be called and one is what you actually are. in other words it is okay to want to be called the technically ‘wrong’ thing

A screenshot of a Tumblr post. hullaballoons: welcome to applebees would you like apples or bees? meet-foreverjester: "Bees?" "HE PICKED THE BEES!!" *chefs angrily shake jars of bees*

Mamdani going so hard for trans right and winning is some juicy proof that every dem that abandoned us didn’t do it for politically advantageous reasons. They did it because they’re transphobes and they will lose for it

Here ya go!