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Whew! Sorry to the admins for the consequences of this steaming fuckery, but that’s it.

the pay is so-so but benefits* are what attract them

* punching people in the face with qualified immunity

Anything but giving us the ability to private our accounts

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.

Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.

They are not the same.

i guess this is the preferred use case for AI, fascists literally making up guys to be mad at and then also oppress

For some very chilling Halloween reading ...

If you just banked that coffee money every week and denied yourself every other instance of life’s gastronomic pleasures, however small and ordinary, you could save enough to make the down payment on that starter house in [checks notes] five hundred and seventy three years

Detail of a black mosaic with a white skull, the boney arm of the skeleton raised, and a few ribs.

Mosaic with black background, reclining skeleton with cup of wine in hand with two loaves of bread and an amphora upright in a stand.

Happy #Halloween!
A wonderful 2nd century AD Roman mosaic found near Antioch, Turkey showing a skeleton, cup of wine in hand, reclining on the floor of a dining room in a house reminding guests to enjoy life: ‘ευφρόσυνος’

this is blood libel gutter racism of the kind that you only encounter if you or your staff are spending a lot of time in online spaces that are avowedly white supremacist

Gretchen Whitmer is helping a team that SUED Saline Township to FORCE residents to sell them +500 acres for their water sucking, power draining, data farm.

Whitmer should never be president, signed a card carrying @michigandems.bsky.social.

if I told you that Medieval people buried some of their dead in heavy chains or staked to the ground so they couldn’t rise from the grave, you’d probably think that’s some bullshit from a fantasy novel and, while that’s often a good inclination, they absolutely did that shit irl

Pretty sure "attacking another country's military infrastructure within its own borders" has a name...

This is part of the war over How We Remember the Pandemic

Always remember the truth: it was a big deal, most regular people were sensible at the time, the anti-vaccine craziness set in late & has been trying to rewrite history ever since

IMHO, the single most important thing to remember about the pandemic was the spirit of collective sacrifice & national unity that pervaded the US in the first weeks, when the 'lockdowns,' which were almost totally a matter of voluntary compliance, went into effect to protect the most vulnerable

The second most important thing to remember about the pandemic is that the federal government built a temporary fully funded and expansive welfare state via unleashing a tidal wave of money into society to limit economic misery, and it worked pretty well.

This whole thread, but let me add that the coming of Christianity to the new world created more human sacrifice than was ever practiced before.

It’s just that those dead bodies were made on the altar of human enslavement and capital accumulation.

Evelyn Williams was born on Halloween, and all joking aside, lived through some true horror stories with her family.

Happy birthday, Evelyn. Rest in power.

📸Appalshop, "Evelyn Williams," Anne Lewis, 1995

Halloween is a spooky time. Thankfully your birth control doesn’t have to be!

From our All Access EKY program, a look back on contraceptives that once included wool, weasel testicles, and animal guts.

📸Appalshop's Appalachian Media Institute

get in losers, we're doing 2008 again but with graphics cards instead of houses

Last year, you donated a signed Mamma Mia! record for a fundraiser for humanitarian aid to Palestine. Was that a politically fraught decision for you? No. In Sweden, I protested even before they went into Gaza. Before October 7? Right after, when they started talking about flattening Gaza, about sending them to Africa, and other things. The thing was that you knew what was going to happen. Because since 1948, they’ve been doing the same thing. If the Palestinians kill one, they’ll kill ten. Plus they’ll bulldoze the home of the family and friends. We were afraid that they would go in and try to flatten Gaza. One of the Swedish papers had a big article with a picture of me saying that I was supporting antisemitism. The usual. But every night, I think about it. Every night.

also no qualms about supporting palestine

hahahahahaha holy shit they reinvented the junk bonds from ‘08 except it’s fucking data centre leases instead of mortgages to min. wage workers

How would you describe that worldview? My father told me something when I was very small to instill confidence in me: “Nobody in the world is worth more than you, but nobody’s worth less.” It is an egalitarian view that I’ve carried around in my life. That’s why I am for free schools, free universities, free health care, and free babysitting. Because our society could afford it. In America, people think social democracy is some kind of communism. They think capitalism is freedom. It’s not. It’s only freedom to exploit people.

stellan skarsgård seems like a good dude

WaPo is rapidly closing in on literally publishing “a modest proposal…” in earnest, not satire.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Modes...

There panel cartoon of a weird looking guy with giant eye. In the first panel he’s wearing a witches hat. In the second he’s holding a Black cat. In the third a jack-o’-lantern and a bat. Text reads ma hat ma cat ma pumpkin and ma bat

The general inclination to stick one’s head in the sand and pretend that being “not political” is a morally justified position that puts you above the bullshit of Washington is pure centrist masturbation.
Everything is political. Ignoring it makes you a sap, not a sage.

Adoptable dogs named Wind, Earth, Fire, and Pickles.

Ah yes. The four elements.

Crying! Screaming! Throwing up in agreement! Please understand that there is no inherent advantage to R wing ideas. People are disillusioned with the status quos & hear R wing arguments a lot more.

Yes. All the empirics on misinformation indicate that the way to defeat bad ideas is to mock and marginalize them. Constantly declaring "hey the far right isn't so bad" is a terrible strategy both morally and electorally.

Dems should be way more comfortable saying "look at these fucking psychos"

Bahahaha

RFK: Tylenol causes autism.
Tylenol: Do you have evidence? We can sue you.
RFK: Tylenol doesn't cause autism.

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