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I never thought leopards would eat MY face, sobs Chief Justice who ruled in Leopards v. Faces

God should invent a type of octopus that chills on land with me and we smoke a blunt

oh fuck new video limit means i can upload breaking bad type beat

A man carries a coffin with a skull on the front and spray painted on the side "we're here we're queer we hate the fucking president"

ACT UP, 1990

GenAI has polluted image search results, especially for animal pics. It’s now basically impossible to find accurate art references.

Enter this: a repository of open-access, AI-free images of wild & exotic taxa. Artists creating *without AI* have blanket permission for derivative/transformative use.

hey! if u live in washington please fill out this form in opposition! it does fr take like 30 seconds. this is a real way *YOU* can make a decision that meaningfully effects the quality of life of trans people.

My dad was tortured by the Gestapo for 4 days and thrown in a concentration camp for being in the Norwegian Resistance. Growing up, he would tell me things he learned in the Resistance. I thought, I'm never going to need this stuff. Here's some of those things #Thread

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I’m gonna get put on a government watch list for this one I just know it

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KNOW YOUR RIGHTS.

With mass deportations starting today across the country, it is vitally important - for both citizens and non-citizens - to know your rights.

You have the right to remain silent. Assert it. You have the right to a lawyer. Ask for one.

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Believe it or not, Google, I would actually like to compose a sentence all by myself with my human brain.

a key take away from reading a lot of history for me:

the people who survive hard times and eventually brutally humiliate their seemingly invincible enemies are not the people whose first response to adversity is “oh well, guess I’ll die”

Today and in the coming days, remember

Kamala Harris would’ve won the election if she’d promised to bring back Comixology

TV seasons should be 22 episodes long with no commercials, made by cable auteurs who get network money but work reasonable hours & there should be a legally obligated Halloween episode with a sexy misunderstanding

kyle_maclachlan Forty-two years ago, for reasons beyond my comprehension, David Lynch plucked me out of obscurity to star in his first and last big budget movie. He clearly saw something in me that even I didn't recognize. I owe my entire career, and life really, to his vision. What I saw in him was an enigmatic and intuitive man with a creative ocean bursting forth inside of him. He was in touch with something the rest of us wish we could get to. Our friendship blossomed on Blue Velvet and then Twin Peaks and I always found him to be the most authentically alive person I'd ever met. David was in tune with the universe and his own imagination on a level that seemed to be the best version of human. He was not interested in answers because he understood that questions are the drive that make us who we are. They are our breath. While the world has lost a remarkable artist, l've lost a dear friend who imagined a future for me and allowed me to travel in worlds I could never have conceived on my own. I can see him now, standing up to greet me in his backyard, with a warm smile and big hug and that Great Plains honk of a voice. We'd talk coffee, the joy of the unexpected, the beauty of the world, and laugh. His love for me and mine for him came out of the cosmic fate of two people who saw the best things about themselves in each other. I will miss him more than the limits of my language can tell and my heart can bear. My world is that much fuller because I knew him and that much emptier now that he's gone. David, I remain forever changed, and forever your Kale. Thank you for everything.

This is a beautiful tribute.

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“When a ceasefire is announced, I will just run. No one ask me where. I myself don’t even know. I will just run, and run.

…the important thing is to arrive at a quiet place: a place that allows me to weep for a long time.”

direct action notice: fuck up some landlords' day with the click of a button :3

So many comics shops and independent bookstores are struggling right now. It's scary. Please shop local when you can, it makes all the difference. And if any stores need a boost, feel free to tag me in your event/sale/etc announcements and I will RT.

Why I'm quitting the Washington Post Democracy can't function without a free press

Folks: please be diligent about not disseminating Ann Telnaes' cartoon in a way that she's not getting the clicks on it (until she says differently). Her IP matters now more than ever.

Make it go viral but make sure she benefits.

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The last full moon of 2024, photographed by Gary Hershorn

A bunch of Schnappviecher goin down the street

CLACK CLACK CLACK CLACK CLACK

Private company buys a public good. A few years go by and the company decides the public good is no longer worthwhile; the public suffers as a result.

This story arc is way too common in modern society.
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a pinup girl who is a little person poses. her shadow is weird and scary and filled with screaming faces

standing in the shadows of love~ #horriblegirls

“Everybody wanna be demon, ‘til they get chipped by a throwaway”
— Kendrick Lamar