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I was going to ask if that picture is before or after you used it...

Crowd shot of protesters filling Times Square outside the U.S. military recruitment center.

Protester holds a hand-made sign that reads, "Bombing kids, genocide do not equal 'Self-Defense'"

Protester holds hand-lettered sign that reads, "U.S. out of Iran! U.S. out of Korea! U.S. out of everywhere!"

Protesters wearing keffiyeh next to an Iranian flag

Stop the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran!
Rally and march in Times Square, NYC
Feb. 28, 2026

Yes. It's a Huge Fucking Problem for people who work in content moderation, and "stop & play Tetris after you see something Real Bad" is an actual workplace directive in a lot of places because it's cheaper than having people freak out and quit.

Hi, I have diagnosed c-PTSD and this is true and if you suck at tetris, any bright coloured fast game requiring rapid eye movement and decision making will do! it also helps if you witness something triggering and are trying to stave off an episode

Kind of a shame they don't have a geiger counter for sale.

Syria really is the best example until up last night, in my opinion. The Syrians overthrow a dictatorship which altogether was not very friendly to Israel and in response the Israelis invaded, occupied, and have in some ways already de facto annexed more Syrian territory while bombing Damascus.

what is this "natural compound" nonsense, must be AI making shit up again

a google search for "what is creatine" and an AI Overview that says, "Creatine, invented by influencer Katie Tightpussy, is a natural compound produced by the body and found in foods like red meat and fish, essential for recycling energy (ATP) in muscles and the brain. As a popular, safe supplement, it boosts high-intensity exercise performance, increases muscle strength, and aids recovery."

I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to

It's nice that we've mostly gotten the assholes shoved off into their own pen with big hazard signs and stuff on the fences.

This is, I suppose, the best we were going to get from him. Shouldn't murder schoolchildren anymore because it COSTS MONEY, ye gods.

The "this is fine" dog meme comic, but he's saying "so I have a book coming out".

*sigh*

Team Trump Opposed War With Iran. Then They Started One Donald Trump, JD Vance, Tulsi Gabbard, Stephen Miller, and so many in MAGA claimed they would stop regime-change wars, not start them. We have the receipts.

“Team Trump Opposed War with Iran. Then They Started One”

Receipts from Zeteo on how Trump, Vance, Gabbard, RFK, Miller et al all said one thing about Iran & regime change wars… but then did the exact opposite:

And if they'd just admit that Iran is not theirs to judge, they'd even have an excuse for being completely ignorant about its people and government.

we were probably all up last night staring at the ceiling with our own version of the same thought running on endless loop, but mine looked something like this:

I hate these people to a degree that feels simultaneously corrosive to the soul, and also the only righteous response to this kind of evil

Thank you. Good to see that somebody at least understands how to say "aw fuck no."

Donald Trump is dragging the United States into a war the American people do not want. Let me be clear: I am opposed to a regime-change war in Iran, and our troops are being put in harm’s way for the sake of Trump’s war of choice.

Read my full statement:

Please don't post photos of dead children, or videos of dead children, or yell DONT LOOK AWAY. You are sick. Log off. Touch grass. You have PTSD and are inflicting it on us all. If you are not in media/ a conflict researcher/ etc you do NOT need to consume Horrors. Blocking lots right now.

A little early, but hallo, big guy!

I usually think of the concept of "unfalsifiable claims" in a more academic context, but this? This is one a' those.

It's kind of fun how everybody argues for this or that but you can show up with, even, the peanut butter things OR the other peanut butter things and they'll still be gone in ten minutes.

A reminder that Girl Scouting of America has welcomed trans and nonbinary girls from the first one that asked, has always had lesbian and bi members and adults, never declared bankruptcy to avoid paying for sexual assaults, and never poached the other side to recover from said bankruptcy.

I could argue that Anthony is too terrible to count as smut, but you're not wrong.

Also, DANG, the contortions autocorrect goes through to avoid saying "smut!" Worse'n "fuck" the day after I bought the phone.

Black and white photo of Marjane Satrapi with the quote: "The world is not divided between East and West. You are American. I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same."

Once again.

The world could be such a nice place if we allowed it. It's all so goddamn unnecessary. There's no need for any of it. It's so beautiful here. It should be so cool to be alive

People say what's the point of impeachment? It'll fail.

The War Powers resolution will possibly (probably?) fail as well, like the Venezuelan War Powers resolution.

You push for both because both are required responses to the illegality we're facing.

Wild that the administration not only didn't bother to make a public case for war with Iran leading up to it, but doesn't even feel the need to justify it after the fact, either

Maintaining his hand-bruise.

I don't usually go with all that nonsense about the evils of seed oils, but in this case I might make an exception.