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gerrymandering in pre-warp cultures

There was a shooting yesterday that was one of the ones that was big enough that we all had to know it had happened so they sent me out to lower the flag to half-mast outside work. Half-staff they call it on land I don’t know. I looked at my phone out of habit on the way back inside and there was another shooting going on. A real nasty one it looked like. It wasn’t immediately clear to me what the protocol here was supposed to be. If I were meant to put the flag all the way back up to reset things or lower it halfway down again still. They had fired the main flag-knowing guy last month who had been in the National Guard a hundred years ago or something and this wasn’t really my job in the first place but I said I’d do it so I wouldn’t get fired myself. I figured I’d be proactive so I lowered it down to the ground to one-third mast and went back inside feeling fine about it and none of my bosses seemed to care and then there was another shooting by the time I got to my desk. I went back outside again and lowered it further still. The next day I came in to work and you won’t believe what happened. Now we were in a Zeno’s Paradox–type of a scenario vis-à-vis the flag height and its approach to the soil. People inside were debating what the definition of a mass

shooting was and the managers were getting a little pissy about how work was being waylaid by all of us streaming the news on the computer all day. Trying to find out what kind of guy it was who killed everybody this time. Everyone hoping it was the other type of guy to balance it out. Like trading free throws at the end of a close game. Being sort of new I was left to my own devices so I went out and lowered the flag halfway closer to the ground once more. Probably not worth remarking on what happened by the time I came in the next morning and the next one too and just between us I was running out of real estate there height-wise with the flag so I went around back to the maintenance area to look for the custodian but there was some kid there instead who said in his cockney accent that the guy had been sacked so I borrowed a shovel from this kid he was an actual Victorian child with a sooty face smoking a cigar and everything and went back out to the flagpole and started digging to give the flag some breathing room so it would never have to touch the ground which was considered poor form in the flag community. I had dug halfway to the molten core by the end of the next month but on the upside I was bulking up. The planet itself was spinning on this flag pole’s axis now. I was going to hoist an upside-down American flag in a country on the other side of the globe at this rate. It was going to be a whole international incident. People were going to get shot over it.

An international incident

Which work? Calling for gay people to be stoned to death? Blaming airplane crashes on black pilots? Anti-vax bullshit? Election denialism? Pushing Great Replacement Theory?

Kirk’s murder is awful and ominous for this country. But no, we don’t need to honor him or “continue his work.”

At least 2 students shot at Evergreen High School, Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office says At least two students were shot Wednesday at Evergreen High School, the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office said.  This is a developing story that will be updated.

BREAKING: At least 2 students shot at Evergreen High School, Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office says

Absolutely a pile of rotting excrement trying to appear human

Sony digital Walkman NW-306 displaying the final track (Miles Away) playing on Basia's Time and Tide album.

Sometimes all I need is some Basia. #TimeAndTide

That bird has an 80s RnB/Soul album. That album is FLAMES.

Tobias is just a solid guy. I was so happy when the Pistons got him back.

Fucking with Poland is a big mistake. Really big mistake. In the meantime I'm stressing about my peeps. bądź bezpieczny tam na zewnątrz

People are following federal agents around DC w/the Imperial March. 😘

CHICAGO!!

Will add some basic ICE melting🧊 resources below.

Plz add other resources/ideas, & let’s get sub threads by city, so eg one person can start a Boston reply thread and everyone can add stuff to that thread — ?

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the real war on Christmas is US trade policy

over time I believe this will end up being one of the most unpopular things the administration ever does

a death sentence for many hobbies and all the average consumer sees is that you’re taking away all their bargains

one of the few policies that has a direct negative effect on almost everyone

Huh, they didn't get the message

Ok so in the meantime as the gop continues unfettered stomping all over our rights and safety, we just wait for... health subsidies? They're just so out of touch.

Fire hazard!! 😂

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Matt Bianco - Don’t Blame It On That Girl

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It's tough right now! It's hard to know what to say, hoping the right word combo will somehow change something. It doesn't, but we're here online just trying to make sense of a nonsense time.

I love Kids in the Hall, and the way it stood for homosexual people loud and proud throughout it's run.

I'll still love that show, but now there's a damn asterisk on it, and it never had to be this way. Now he's another who pulled the ladder up behind him, and that's how we must see him.

Badly needed 🥲

Ughhhhhh not this asshole

My father in law told my trans son he won't go to heaven, and gave him a conversion therapy website address if "he wanted to get rid of the homosexuality." We kicked them out with some choice words. A week later, FIL messaged, saying I shouldn't hold a grudge, it isn't healthy 🥴 Yes, my bad, meeen

Can the mold hurry and absorb her already?

Exactly. I get no rights to help my child. But I have to kiss the asses of other parents and their religious feelings.*

*They think. I don't.

You can't see that "trans kids in sports" was just the gateway drug to get society comfortable with greater trans exclusion? Though what you are saying is a direct effect of that propaganda working.

‼️Eighty-six years ago, the world entered the bloodiest war in history.

Its outbreak became possible because for too long the dictator was not confronted with force. Instead, attempts were made to appease him with concessions and negotiations.

If you are protected by a union, you have Flint to thank for the historic role Flint workers played in creating strong organized labor. I spent some time this Labor Day talking to a couple of unions in Flint still fighting that fight.

When he talked about "fluffy bread" I knew he was really pissed about Kleenex bread 😂 the woooorst

My inlaws seeing this saying they knew it all along