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not to sound like a stoner or whatever but it is really weird that this country has the military that it does. no one is going to invade us. we are not under any kind of threat at all. and it just causes us to get into nonsense around the world and now at home. really boneheaded

When i used to work at Target, we had an hour a day where we had to do this and promote Cartwheel. They called it Power Hour. We did not advertise this to "guests."

Customers would ask me when power hour was so they could get their shopping done and leave first.

all day sounds miserable

i really think legislators should be paid based on the median wage so they are incentivized to increase wages and lower the cost of living.

wow!! a trillionaire! every reaction i am having is definitely within both legal and community guidelines!!

Nuremburg trials is the moderate position

Sam Altman and every other executive at OpenAI criminally liable for the deaths they've caused and all of their personal fortunes distributed to the families of their victims, then jail for a thousand years, and the company liquidated, absolute complete dismantling of OpenAI.

Are you sure that poisoning the entire Earth is the right move? Of course. Nothing is real except money.

The words "FIX YOUR HEARTS OR DIE" placed over David Lynch's face (a still from TWIN PEAKS THE RETURN).

I feel like we have the opportunity to turn David Lynch's quote into this moment's "Keep Calm and Carry On" and it's a far better rallying cry too.

storygraph challenges chart showing 50/50 books read for 2025 and 12550/13000 pages

800+ flights cancelled today because Elon took a chainsaw to the federal government and Trump won’t pay the remaining airport personnel.

Elon’s on his way to becoming a trillionaire.

Trump’s net worth has more than doubled inside a year.

Glad everything worked out for them.

How about you?

i already refuse to fly even with the correct passport because the last time i did, i was flagged both directions for a pat down. This will make it so much worse.

I loved Parks and Rec when i *was* a self-hating fatphobic lib. Theres probably a reason I've never been drawn to rewatch it.

finally gave something 5 stars

chart of october reads

lisr of books with ratings

chart of my September reads

list of books with ratings

Just realized I forgot September, so here are my September and October Storygraph reading reports

I think the biggest takeaway for both Dems and the GOP last night should be that bots don't get to vote!

basically every 2024 truism is dead. Trump did not build a lasting multiracial coalition or turn young men into committed Republicans. You don’t need to cave on trans rights to win. The pundits have nothing left to tell you.

If at least 26 billionaires can waste at least $27 million trying to defeat Zohran Mamdani, then those same billionaires can afford to pay an extra 2% on their income over $1 million to make New York a better, thriving city for everyone — including themselves.

Also, as a nonbinary person who has medically transitioned, it is always wild to hear binary trans people's opinion of me bc they cannot fathom that i exist.

Theres not really any visible differences between me and a binary trans guy. I dont even bother telling most ppl because ik they wont get it

Brianna Wu just hears conservative talking points and acceps them at face value with no examination of the facts.

Does she realize there might be a reason WHY detransitioned trans men are given a platform and not detransitioned trans women?

Turns out a lot of Americans understand that trans people aren’t the reason shit is expensive and people are being starved

He says Republicans did bad because he wasnt on the ballot? what???

you can win without billionaires supporting you

you can win without party leadership endorsing you

you can win unapologetically standing with every persecuted minority pundits say are too politically toxic to touch

we could do everything about this process differently if we wanted to

hey!

i genuinely think this is linked to the death of the midsize newspaper. TV used to get a lot of their stories from newspapers reporting

the entire twitter and group chat poisoned elite of American society who decided Trump winning an election by 1.5% heralded a thousand year reich may have miscalculated a bit

Resign.

City of Sickos

i hope this election cycle empowers everyone the next time a centrist liberal says to drop pro-trans and pro-immigrant rhetoric to enthusiastically tell them to shut the fuck up