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If Teen Vogue folds, we will have lost some of the best political journalism still present in the US.

my mom taught me there's two kinds of businesses: hot dog stands and art galleries

- hot dog stands protect territory and keep competition off their turf
- art galleries benefit from more adjacent art galleries, cluster together to amplify reach/support

youre an art gallery, not a hot dog stand

CEO pay is up 1,085% since 1978, while typical worker pay is up just 24%. 

Why do we always hear "we can't afford to pay our workers more" but never "we can't afford to pay our CEO more"?

Um, what?! For real? That seems smart

Realtime Fascism | Tracking Fascist Trends in the US Realtime Fascism is an automated system that tracks and analyzes news headlines against historically confirmed steps toward fascism in the United States. See the data in real-time.

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If you're in the USA, you can no longer watch the Dutch TV special about my theories on fascism and pro wrestling on YouTube! Oh no!!

But fear not, for I have uploaded the full thing to my Vimeo for American viewing and sharing

Go forth:

They have a bowtie?! Look at that. He sure does have a stripey bowtie on. How did I ever miss that?! I hope Arthur is well compensated for the use of his likeness

A brown cardboard box with purple ink printed on it. On the top flap, it has a kitty cat looking at you saying “these look fun! Can we open the box next?”. On the side of the box: it says “open immediately for maximum enjoyment”. Then, there’s a microcosm gear logo. Under that it says “fresh, life – saving books inside!”. The logo reads “build a world you want to live in. Cleveland Ohio and Portland Oregon. Established 1996

This is the coolest box I’ve ever received @microcosm.bsky.social

I think this is quite possibly why my dad thinks "everybody's autistic"

a cartoon of jerry in a tuxedo stands on a stage with a microphone Alt: Jerry the mouse, from Tom and Jerry, in a tuxedo proudly bowing to the audience from a stage

I reported a 🐟y email with the subject "[EXTERNAL] The Manager Survey is Open - Share Your Experience by August 8!"

The response: "Our analysis of [subject], determined this email is spam"

+1 grain of sand thrown into the cogs of the murderizer machine. It's been a pleasure. *takes a bow*

Parents will get arrested for letting a 12 year old walk a mile by themselves, but abandoning your baby is no problem if you're rich enough to pay the robo-car.

94% of teachers have had to dip into their own pockets to buy school supplies. An estimated 1 in 6 have second jobs during the school year to make ends meet.

The average Wall Street employee got a record $244,700 bonus last year.

Something has gone terribly wrong.

Even my 2s and 4s are written in a way that avoids making me seem childish. I dropped that kindergarten bs as soon as I could. As if anyone would see negative space in my numbers and think “wow this child is so mature”. Ah the joys of unmasking autism

Over the last two days, the Bluesky account for Codenames has blocked 204 users. A substantial number of those accounts have Trans Pride flags in their user names.

If you hadn't already made a call on where you stood with CGE, it's impossible to ignore the optics of how cowardly and gross this is.

Would you accept a lower salary for remote work?

No. Not a chance am I going to take less pay so that some employer gets to save money not having to provide the space for me to work for them

Post-societal-collapse, we've communally agreed to re-write our Moral Fabric. Players make and pin 2 quilt pieces together. From there, play is Ito-like. Players place the pairs upside-down along a scale to start planning a strip of the quilt. Then there's flipping, rearranging, and sewing

Top cards read: “flying a kite”, “wearing white after Labor Day”, and “healthcare”. A long skinny board just wider than applying card has multiple sets of half poker cards clipped together and then along the edge of the long skinny board there’s a shoelace woven in one card and out another an in one and the other in one and out the other all the way down, the shoelace goes from green at the top to red at the bottom

The bottom cards read: “comedic relief”, “drying your hair in the bath”, the clap”, “standing on the top rung of the ladder”. A long skinny board just wider than applying card has multiple sets of half poker cards clipped together and then along the edge of the long skinny board there’s a shoelace woven in one card and out another an in one and the other in one and out the other all the way down, the shoelace goes from green at the top to red at the bottom

It’s been a riveting (literal) week of protecting cardboard holes. I think I finally have enough functional components to iron out the 🎲 ✂️ mechanics.

I think I unintentionally built an Overton Window simulation 🤷🏼

Velvet, velour, anything the simulates that same abhorrent feeling

r/technology Al's Biggest Threat: Young People W... 4.3k upvotes + 442 comments | recently heard about a teacher who instead of trying to circumvent students using ai, which is impossible, she made assignments by going "ask ChatGPT to write a report on this subject, and then research how and why it's wrong". Not only did the students discover that chatGPT is extremely wrong a lot of the time, it also lead them to realize that they should not use it as a primary source.

That's 5D-educational chess.

#FuckGenAI #ChatGPT #GenAIsucksCamelDong

Hey, remember when the Panama Papers were released and they showed how basically every wealthy person on the planet was avoiding taxes by offshoring their money and nothing was done about it except the reporter who broke the story was murdered with a car bomb?

Justice Dept. Asks for 1-Day Sentence for Ex-Officer Convicted in Breonna Taylor Raid

They mean to be as insulting to Black people, as dismissive of our lives, as resistance to our status as full citizens in this country as they can be.

There is no common ground to be had at the expense of our sisters & daughters’ lives and our dignity as a people.

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/u...

Steam Bends to Payment Processors on Porn Games Steam, which has hosted sex games for years, says developers must now comply with the standards of payment processors and financial institutions.

Payment processors have such a chilling effect on the kind of content we can access on the internet. Regardless of your feeling on porn games (which span a pretty wide category), any time a site is pulling down content to satisfy puritans it should worry you.

If yall can learn how to draw rail thin anime boys with spiky hair, y’all can learn how to draw fat people and black people.

What it comes down to is that a lot of y’all don’t want to. 😬

Ohhh I’d go to either one or both.

Tangent: are you going to Play Make Learn next month? It seems if might be of interest to you

Never before in U.S. history has one man exercised such unbridled discretion affecting the lives of so many, while simultaneously preventing others — Congress, the courts, the American people — from having a say or even knowing what he’s going to do next.

This is dictatorship.

Jesus, what a time we are in when I see an Onion headline and immediately my heart quickens, my insides clench and I feel my outrage rising... because "of course" I think. Only to be mildly relieved it is satire, but barely.

A four-panel comic starring a stylized green fox. Green fox, talking to two beige foxes: Please respect my boundaries and be nicer to me, or you won't see me again. Beige foxes: Stop making such childish and unreasonable demands. Green fox (walking away): Okay Beige foxes (upset): Hey! Green fox (looks about) Narrator: And green fox lived happily ever after. Green and Blue foxes looking admiringly at each other (connected by hearts) Narrator: With people who don't think that's unreasonable.

From: Foxes in Love - Book 4

This felt like it would speak to a lot of folks here.

Vice Principals (TV Series 2016–2017) ⭐ 8.0 | Comedy 30m | TV-MA

Ohhh Vice Principals is an interesting watch. Within the first 4 episodes, they appeal to a specific audience, demonstrate a problematic view, make it clear that it’s a problem, and show a compelling viewpoint to replace the old.
May be a good one to watch with family you want to bring to enlighten

This is the most bizarre thing I’ve heard, all week! I’ve not had the pleasure of partaking so I have no choice but to take your word for it

I’d love nothing more than for this ⬆️ post to be one of those reposted madlib things. maybe quote the above post with a realization of your own

Who couldn’t use a reminder that we’re all still learning life as we go? Imagine those who might be helped by you fun, interesting, or useful information