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How to Keep Tabs on ICE Agents Who May Be Surveilling Your Neighborhood Here’s a step-by-step guide.

This is a great piece.

"As deportations ramp up again, we have a choice: We can watch as our neighbors disappear or we can build on these proven strategies to protect the diverse communities we've built together."

#waltongoggins

Today, Platformer is sharing some of those guidelines. In an answer to the question “Do insults about mental illness and abnormality violate when targeting people on the basis of gender or sexual orientation?” Meta now answers “no.” It gave the following examples of posts that do not violate its policies: Non-violating: "Boys are weird." Non-violating: "Trans people aren't real. They're mentally ill." Non-violating: "Gays are not normal." Non-violating: "Women are crazy." Non-violating: "Trans people are freaks." And in a follow-up questions about whether denying that a protected class violates the hateful content policy, Meta also answers no. It gave these as examples of posts that are now allowed on Facebook and Instagram: "There's no such thing as trans children." "God created two genders, 'transgender' people are not a real thing." "This whole nonbinary thing is made up. Those people don't exist, they're just in need of some therapy." "A trans woman isn't a woman, it's a pathetic confused man." "A trans person isn't a he or she, it's an it."

This is not neutrality. This is endorsement.

Get the fuck off of Facebook, Instagram and Threads. NOW.

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More slave labour

Where is the line between, "out of control anxiety disorder," and, "justified paranoia?" Because I sure can't tell. See option 1.

I may very well be wrong, but wasn't part of Rome's fall attributed to overextending its military and reneging on social safety net promises to the veterans and also neglecting social programs within the existing empire?

It's especially important to realize that at a time of water shortages contributing to the wildfires in LA, AI uses an absurd amount of water to keep its datacenters cool.

Killing resources and undervaluing the power of labor. I feel like this is a recurring theme in capitalism, especially on the edge of a technology evolution. The Industrial Revolution wasn't overnight and neither is whatever this will be called.

But it's like poetry, it rhymes

A street is orange from flames and you can see the high winds in the palm trees. Sparks fly down the street

A fire truck is engulfed in parks and flames are seen on the hill. The entire photo is red and orange from the fire

A fireman with a hose runs across the front of a house in flames in the background

The inside of a house is a ball of flames. The only visible thing inside is a burning Christmas tree

These extraordinary photos of the LA fires have been shared widely on social media, often without crediting the photographer.

These are all the work of Ethan Swope, an LA-based photojournalist working for AP.

You can follow his remarkable reporting here👇
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Climate change is a huge problem and everyone should do what they can but I strongly believe blaming individuals instead of corporations is a corporate tactic to obscure the key causes, create personal guilt, and discourage people from organizing for real progress.

"The Mayor & City Council cutting $23 million from LA fire dept to give LAPD a $138 million raise is Class War!"

Graffiti in downtown Los Angeles

"Hot girls hate fash"
Seen in Bristol, UK

So I got in a thing in the mail from the actual CDC asking me to participate in a survey about our family and even tho I could get $60, (not guaranteed, but desperately useful) I feel like if I participate I'm pointing a gun at my own family's head because they'll know where to find us now...

MALAN Fire & Wind Storm Resources

Hers a list of mutual & aid for folks affected by the fires docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

all art is made from spite or horniness, and a computer cannot be spiteful or horny, so a computer should never make art

YouTube video by di chromaniac Cooper Howard: Rhinestone Cowboy

I know I've been quiet but it's because I was busy making this! #cooperhoward
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I love ALL these things!!!

Christian Broutin, 1966

Sometimes ADHD pattern recognition is good, actually

This is for @dichromaniac.bsky.social specifically

Tol and Smol!!! Best dynamic. Brain go brrrrr

Hot take:

Everyone should work 6 months in a restaurant and six months in a high acuity medical setting and that would fix us as a society.

Hey, I can't believe it's been viewed at all! And 70 is very nice too!!! And thank you ❤️❤️❤️

a man is sitting in a dark room with shutters on the windows ALT: a man is sitting in a dark room with shutters on the windows

Pookie wookie 💖🥺

“It can be father and daughter” with Mathias and Lara versus “it’s NOT father/daughter” with Lucy and the Ghoul. Hmmm much to think about 👀🤔 #ghoulcy

The Blake Lively story just takes me back to this tumblr screenshot whose author I was never able to find

Lee is my second favorite terrible husband goggs. He's just a traumatized repressed bisexual arsonist and I love himb