Eh

I get accused, I've also had people come to my booth, snap a pic and say "I'll get [whatever GenAI they like] to make that for free". Anyway, I have a 9-5 now so my family won't starve, but it makes me livid.

A line of Ramona Quimby, a young girl with a choppy bob cut. She has a furious frown. The text, by Beverly Cleary, reads: "I am too a Merry Sunshine," insisted Ramona, but she got down from the table and ran out of the room.

finding joy despite the world in 2025 is like this lol

I'm in the US and short and cis but my voice is "low for a girl" and I've had a woman full on crawl under the stall divider and say "JUST CHECKING" while staring into my crotch so

It's an artistic representation of a circulatory system walking through a kitchen, as drawn by Dave Gibbons and written about by Alan Moore. It happens a lot 'round here.

Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.

You have blood on your hands, coward. You refused to hold the line and threw millions to the wolves.

Newsom is a bad person and I’ll leave that bubble empty before I vote for him, but if he spends all day on tv tomorrow calling Schumer a coward and it normalizes the call to primary him among lowish information democrats, godspeed.

"i asked grok" "i asked chatgpt" yeah well i asked carl sagan and he said the greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge 🧪

Useful:

Martin Scorsese and his daughter Francesca read Letterboxd reviews and guessed which Scorsese movie they were about.

The future being pushed by both AI boosters and educational censors is one where access to information is tightly controlled. Children will not be allowed to read certain books or learn certain narratives. “Research” will be performed only through one of a select few artificial intelligence tools owned by AI giants which are uniformly aligned behind the Trump administration and which have gone to the ends of the earth to prevent their black box machines from spitting out “woke” answers lest they catch the ire of the administration. School boards and library boards, forced to comply with increasingly restrictive laws, funding cuts, and the threat of being defunded entirely, leap at the chance to be considered forward looking by embracing AI tools, or apply for grants from government groups like the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), which is increasingly giving out grants specifically to AI projects.

Once you start thinking of AI as a war on humanity, on human thought, on human inquiry, on human labor, on nuance and critical thinking, it slots in pretty seamlessly with the right wing ideological project, oligarchical political projects, big tech's political projects, etc

someone got indicted on the basis of “transporting antifa materials” for allegedly transporting a box of ZINES

THEY’RE PROSECUTING PEOPLE FOR DOMESTIC TERRORISM OVER ZINES

picture of dick cheney and it has a morrowind text window saying "with this character's death, the thread of prophecy is restored. The weave of fate is stronger than ever, you've no need to persist in the doomed world they have created."

inspired by @dialacina.com

The factional grifters will hate this, but the Mamdani-Spanberger-Sherrill axis actually suggests the outlines of a broad, emerging Dem coalition organized around both anti-Trump *and* affordability politics, not a party bitterly divided against itself.

You have to survive. There are graves to piss on that haven't been dug yet.

So sort of a "Papers, Please" + The Thing? Hell yes.

60 percent of republican discourse now is like "why are you talking about nazis? that stuff is so played out and you're an NPC if you think it isn't. it actually threatens my family when you say stuff like this." and the other 40 percent is "hello. I am Hitler."

So important to not forget both what happened + what the prevailing feelings were while it was happening: OP was hardly alone, but this kind of reflection/memory and accountability is absolutely crucial. This, much more than being right, is the sign of a trustworthy comrade and friend

#SaveSpeech

We need folks to hammer paypros, as the holiday season is a prime opportunity to clog up their call centers and have our impact be felt the hardest.

Need contacts, talking points, etc? use the site linked! It has a ton of info that is still relevant and useful!

The original Far Side Cow Tools Cartoon by Gary Larson. A cow stands on its hind legs behind a table, staring blankly at the viewer from behind its heavy brow ridge. On the table are four crudely made tools: a lump, a lump with an offset crooked handle, a long stick with hooked prongs at the end, and a crude handsaw with irregular teeth. In the background a barn sits on a hill. Caption reads, "Cow tools."

43 years ago today, readers the world over opened their newspapers and gazed upon cow tools for the first time. happy birthday cow tools. you look great.

Cookie Monster’s date: Can we talk about something else

Antisemitism and Transphobia will both just completely destroy your ability to think or function normally in society

like some kind of memetic prion disease

Mayor Johnson is cooking

Two cats sitting on top of cages and looking at the ceiling

Two cars on the floor staring up at the ceiling

Two young kittens in a cage taking notice

A cat standing on her hind legs to reach for a moth

A moth got into the shelter tonight and it was the event of the season.

On a deeply personal note:

CW: eating disorder

If you have struggled with disordered eating in the past and are now dealing with food insecurity, it is really important to seek support. It is so, so easy to fall into unhealthy patterns when self-denial is involved. Don’t white knuckle it.

It was a treat to speak to Rev. Rachel Griffin-Allison of Oak Lawn UMC in Dallas. After Greg Abbott's order over pride crosswalks, UMC is painting rainbows on its front steps.

"They're not just paint on steps, but a way to say that God's love will not be silenced."

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Nazi tat affair useful because anyone doing bizarre prevarications atm re how its totally normal to have a Nazi tattoo, good actually, not a big deal that'd matter in an election, if anything its cringe you care, etc etc, has revealed you never need to take their politics opinions seriously again.

He's got terminal baby disease cause he is baby 💖🤣