Evan

"Nazis were just regular people" is not a statement meant to evoke empathy or to excuse their crimes. It is a statement of warning.

The capacity to be part of and perpetrate atrocities is not limited to "monsters," it is wholly human. It is what we must always be aware of.

*"having a normal one" voice* having a normal one

This should be a major scandal in BC, except the blame is too thick on too many powerful institutions.

How many hundreds of people have died directly as a result of the government’s caving to safe supply disinfo from police, private treatment and rw politicians?

Documents Show BC Knew Safe-Supply Diversion Was Negligible - Filter Even as British Columbia’s Ministry of Health was caving to right-wing panic over “diversion” of safe supply drugs, its public ...

BC knew that just 0.3% of drugs seized in Vancouver by weight were hydromorphone.

"Rather than publicize the evidence to correct loud claims of diversion flooding communities, the BC government opted to sit on the information and retreat from safe supply."

@godfrey.bsky.social reports:

it keeps going back and forth between being infuriating and funny how much we study this when the answer is always the same and it never matters

Israel used weapons in Gaza that made thousands of Palestinians evaporate US-made thermal weapons burning at 3,500C caused 2,842 people to "evaporate" in Gaza, Al Jazeera investigation finds.

“Four of my children just evaporated,” Badran said, holding back tears. “I looked for them a million times. Not a piece was left. Where did they go?”

There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.

If you have a billion dollars or more, you are evil. You don't start out as evil, so it's not like only evil people ever get a billion dollars; it's just that being a billionaire forced you to make a choice, be evil or change how you do things and stop being a billionaire. Billionaires choose evil.

sometimes i think about that thing a disco elysium dev said in response to someone asking why choosing fascist options lowers your morale. that being a fascist is miserable, since it requires you to believe that you are being dominated by the weak and unworthy in everything you do.

the faceless portrait from Disco Elyisum. it is a smear of oil & bleeding paint, vaguely suggesting something inhuman

"And then you see it. as it strangles and beats your friends to death... the sweetest, most courageous people in the world," he's silent for a second.

"You see the fear and power in its eyes. Then you *know*... that the bourgeois are not human."

Bilbo looking at his phone top on bottom is ChatGPT After all, why not? Why shouldn't I keep it? You're absolutely right — you found it, it's been with you a long while, and it's only natural to feel fond of something that's served you so well, especially when someone like Gandalf suddenly seems to want it for himself.

I paid 12 million for the email summary machine that tells me I am good at stuff and I am shocked I have yet to make a return on my investment. The email summary machine that tells me I am good at stuff told me it was a good decision too. Shocked. Shocking.

@animesickos.bsky.social specified this in their Podcasters Bill of Rights

A 6-year-old just lost his mother. A woman was shot in the face in front of her wife.

The swift, lockstep attempt to dehumanize and villainize Renee Nicole Good might be the most depraved thing we've seen yet from these ghouls and their supporters. These people are utterly fucking dead inside.

Distraught woman says ICE killed her wife in video after deadly Minneapolis shooting "They killed my wife," the distraught woman says, adding, "They shot her in the head." An ICE agent shot and killed a 37-year-old woman who was driving an SUV in Minneapolis on Wednesday. / Screenshot/@Breaking911

"They killed my wife. I don't know what to do," the woman says through sobs in the footage, with a damaged SUV visible in the distance behind her. "We stopped to videotape, and they shot her in the head," the woman cries. "We have a six-year-old at school," she says, almost unable to breathe, as a chaotic scene in which federal officers prevented at least one doctor who was on the scene from assisting the shot victim unfolds. "We're new here," the distraught woman says in despair.

You and your wife drop your 6-year-old off at school. You just moved here. You see ICE terrorizing your new neighbors. You film them, as is your legal right. Your wife complies with orders. She is then shot in the head. You still have to pick up your child later today.

This could be you.

French Foreign Ministry: “The removal of Maduro from power and the violation of sovereignty constitute a serious act of aggression against the dignity of the Venezuelan people and their right to determine their own future.

I know everyone is pointing it out but I do think it is absolutely reckless editorial practice to cite what an AI says, especially in a headline.

Grok has no authority, nor does it have a meaningful explanation for what happened, and citing it obscures those actually responsible for literal crimes.

If The Next Generation was a current show, would you want anything to be different about Geordi? Yeah. He’d get laid. It’s pretty weird that Data, an android, got laid more than Geordi. Weird? It’s insulting. Whether they are aware of it or not, those white men who wrote the show had an unconscious bias that was on display to me and to other people of color. Their blind spot is revealed in the fact that a Black man never was successful at one of the basic and most … My wife says, “There’s a lid for every pot.” It’s true. The idea that Geordi never found a lid for his pot is ludicrous. It’s preposterous, and it’s insulting. Do you know the term “incel”? Yes. Some might describe Geordi as an incel. I don’t think Geordi was an incel, because he wasn’t angry. I think that term comes along with the idea there’s some sort of maladaptation going on in the fixation. Geordi wasn’t angry, so I think it’s unfair to put him in that category. Even so, he did some creepy things — like creating his dream woman in the Holodeck and trying to date his subordinate. And that’s part of the problem, right? In their attempts to be cute, they inadvertently created an aspect of Geordi’s character that is very uncomfortable.

real answer? burton thinks the writers were uncomfortable coming up with romantic plot lines involving a black guy

"You will be haunted," resumed the Ghost, "by Three Spirits."

Scrooge's countenance fell almost as low as the Ghost's had done.

"So you and two others, Jacob?" he demanded, in a faltering voice.

"No. Three more."

"So four spirits" said Scrooge.

The ghost’s head dropped as it sighed. “Fuck’s sa

You cannot hide the soul.

look at how little effort it takes for someone on the conservative grievance circuit to destroy a life

millions of college kids have half assed an assignment at the last minute, you eat the F and move on

but the effort to push trans people out of public life will use whatever it can get

"It is logically impossible to simultaneously be evil, corrupt, and incompetent" is an absolutely amazing take to have in the year of 2025

Hey guys we need to raise your power bills again because the jackoff material factory needs more power to turn your mom and daughter’s pictures into pornography and we need you to pay for it

Why does that matter? Because if you pass a bunch of laws and no one enforces them, your laws are worthless. Laws are not self enforcing. Thinking otherwise is how you get "but how can he do that? It's illegal!" which is something I am told every. Single. Day.

you aren't actually preventing it. I will repeat that: passing a law prohibiting something does NOT prevent it from happening. It simply means that a prosecutor or law enforcement officer MAY, but is not required to, leverage the power of the government to put you in a cage for doing it.

it got real winter out

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as you know i had an mri and it was perfect. very strong mri

i will be stepping back from public life some out of respect to the victims

Counterpoint | Minnesota humanities graduates thrive in meaningful careers "The stereotype of the underemployed history major is simply not true," professor Andrea Kaston Tange writes.

My latest: "Numerous studies show that majors in the humanities—typically, in departments of English, history, philosophy, religious studies, classics and languages—lead students to employment and life satisfaction outcomes as positive as those for majors traditionally championed as 'practical.'”