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And PS. If you see anything like this, go play Tetris for an hour. I am serious and I just had to do this myself. The bilateral stimulation works like EMDR and helps your brain to properly process the memory so you are not traumatized. It works.

28.02.2026 20:03 — 👍 344    🔁 83    💬 12    📌 9

maybe I should have been more explicit but this was part of the subtext to me continuously saying this all depended on what grandpa's cottage cheese brain decided in a vacuum, because there is no functioning interagency or anything else that would normally contextualize/inform any of this stuff

28.02.2026 23:40 — 👍 199    🔁 24    💬 6    📌 2

Prison

01.03.2026 00:46 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Susie Wiles is wearing an Apple Watch during a highly classified meeting on Iran.

Unreal.

28.02.2026 22:50 — 👍 18458    🔁 6007    💬 2112    📌 588

The question that rewired my whole brain: "What do I want to have WRITTEN in five years?"

Not what how much do I want to earn, or what kind of car I'll be driving, or any other standard "goal". Instead: What stories do I want to exist?

01.03.2026 01:05 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
 “The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.” 

- James Baldwin

“The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.” - James Baldwin

28.02.2026 16:04 — 👍 517    🔁 178    💬 2    📌 3
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Let’s be clear, Donald Trump and the Epstein class that have enabled genocide in Gaza are now blowing up Iranian children and setting the Middle East on fire to enrich themselves and cover up their paedophilic crimes.

We need to build a mass movement to stop them.

28.02.2026 21:32 — 👍 152    🔁 40    💬 6    📌 3

A stronger statement than anything you'll see from the leaders of the other major parties.

28.02.2026 20:09 — 👍 314    🔁 45    💬 3    📌 0

110%! “Concept album” seems like an inadequate description.

28.02.2026 19:02 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Oh, same - I feel like it’s so under appreciated?

28.02.2026 19:01 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Well, it was either world war three or letting black people have jobs, so I see why people just went with the world war

28.02.2026 12:46 — 👍 5089    🔁 992    💬 36    📌 24

May everyone involved burn in hell

28.02.2026 11:43 — 👍 623    🔁 159    💬 6    📌 1
21 minutes ago
Farnaz Fassihi
The attacks have come on a Saturday morning, the first day of the week in Iran, with millions of people at work and children in school. Residents in Tehran described scenes of panic and chaos.

21 minutes ago Farnaz Fassihi The attacks have come on a Saturday morning, the first day of the week in Iran, with millions of people at work and children in school. Residents in Tehran described scenes of panic and chaos.

Tehran is a city of nine million people, with 17 million in the larger metropolitan area.

Saturday is the first day of the week for Iranians.

Millions of people are at work, and children are in school.

28.02.2026 07:06 — 👍 1207    🔁 552    💬 16    📌 21

Fun fact: the US has been at continual war since 1945 and *not a single one of these wars*, from the Korean War to Vietnam to Iraq to Iraq again, was ever declared war by Congress.

The last time the US Congress declared war was 1942. 83 years ago.

18.06.2025 22:19 — 👍 3005    🔁 1083    💬 8    📌 32

A lot of people are talking about whether Trump is going to go to war with Iran but not enough people are talking about the fact that Trump has no legal authority to do so without Congressional authorization

18.06.2025 22:04 — 👍 2512    🔁 593    💬 171    📌 77

To recap:
Anthropic refused to do killbots or mass surveillance. DOD trying to destroy company.
Altman: we are now working with DOD, who totally respect safety and oppose mass surveillance!
Why would anyone trust a word Altman says after this?

28.02.2026 04:18 — 👍 2078    🔁 584    💬 88    📌 33

I mean, you’re not wrong! Shows my friends worked on for years were canceled and then used as tax write-offs.

28.02.2026 04:59 — 👍 2739    🔁 637    💬 24    📌 1

ICE was very active in Minneapolis today, they kidnapped multiple people. ICE didn't leave, the media has moved on but we are still under federal occupation.

28.02.2026 01:36 — 👍 2349    🔁 1261    💬 43    📌 32

'It can’t be watching it, not in that volume; we’d notice.' I snorted. He underestimated me.

28.02.2026 06:15 — 👍 79    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0

I’m so fucking tired of hearing about Trump every fucking day..

27.02.2026 21:33 — 👍 10028    🔁 993    💬 587    📌 123

Unalloyed contempt, 9 times out of 10. Leaving aside the fact that they think it’s mashed up garden peas (rather than understanding that marrowfat peas are a different, starchier pulse) there’s this absolute determination to pantomime revulsion, by people who have zero problem with refried beans. 🤯

27.02.2026 23:19 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
27.02.2026 23:12 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
the-unflappablewolf
Who would you trust more?
total stranger in a star trek shirt?
94.5%
total stranger in a star wars shirt?
5.5%
99.421 Stimmen • Verbleibende Zeit: 2 Tage 23 Stunden
thebaconsandwichofregret
No exaggeration, the vote split on this poll is hysterical.

the-unflappablewolf Who would you trust more? total stranger in a star trek shirt? 94.5% total stranger in a star wars shirt? 5.5% 99.421 Stimmen • Verbleibende Zeit: 2 Tage 23 Stunden thebaconsandwichofregret No exaggeration, the vote split on this poll is hysterical.

No but this is entirely correct

27.02.2026 00:03 — 👍 5214    🔁 1117    💬 96    📌 176

I really can't emphasize enough that you are a complete freak if you care about Boy Scout genitals

27.02.2026 18:16 — 👍 1823    🔁 385    💬 18    📌 8

“I cannot remember any of the things that were on my list of things to do. I will just have to sit here and do nothing,” said Toad.

26.02.2026 20:37 — 👍 244    🔁 64    💬 0    📌 15

Jesus Christ

27.02.2026 23:09 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Buffy the Vampire Slayer. There was a site I stumbled across that was specifically for noncanonical pairings and I remember being deliciously scandalised by this window into what the world held. Like - what? There are people AS OBSESSED BY THIS SHOW AS I AM? And they are MAKING UP THEIR OWN STORIES?

27.02.2026 21:20 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Can't believe the Labour strategy of going door to door since the election, punching their voters in the face and yelling 'What are you going to do, vote for someone else?' didn't work out.

27.02.2026 10:11 — 👍 103    🔁 29    💬 2    📌 0

i think the fact that i can say over and over again 'i am not being ironic, this is not a bit, my books are not a joke' and have people on the right AND left just say 'NO YOU ARE' to my face (or my mask) over and over again is very telling. culture just cannot deal with neurodivergent people yet

27.02.2026 19:35 — 👍 852    🔁 147    💬 20    📌 8
Frog, ever the know-it-all, points out all the shortcomings of Toad's housekeeping. It is true, though, that Toad's house is a mighty mess, including a pile of dirty dishes in the sink.

From "Tomorrow"
In *Days with Frog and Toad*

Frog, ever the know-it-all, points out all the shortcomings of Toad's housekeeping. It is true, though, that Toad's house is a mighty mess, including a pile of dirty dishes in the sink. From "Tomorrow" In *Days with Frog and Toad*

“Your windows need scrubbing,” said Frog. “Your plants need watering.”

“Tomorrow!” cried Toad. “I will do it all tomorrow!”

27.02.2026 11:37 — 👍 282    🔁 46    💬 3    📌 10