I know US Dems. They always snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. It's by design.
Keep your eyes open for the betrayal.
I’m sure we could work something out.
Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…
I hate being right I hate being right I hate being right
It is AMAZING how many “anti-capitalists” refuse to engage with the inevitability that some people cannot work or work as much. All of a sudden it’s “nobody who works 40 hours a week should be living in poverty” instead of “nobody should be living in poverty.”
It’s not a plot hole that Elmo has been 3 years old for 50 years. He was bitten by The Count, willingly. Elmo asked for the Dark Gift
Search your camera roll for "Hell"
Franzi Schimmer captured this Grizzly bear in Brooks Falls, Alaska just floating along, tippy-tapping down the river, browsing the salmon.
Prior to hibernation, up to 40% of a bear's body mass is fat, which is less dense than water (~0.9 g/cm^2), so the murder-monster is also a floaty-boaty.
your vote is rarely the single decisive vote
but sometimes it is! and you never know when that might be
Mark my words--- Polymarket and other predictive market schemes have the potential to become a serious threat to press freedom/journalists.
between ubiquitous gambling and cyberpsychosis, modern society really is built to turbocharge the exploitation of the human brain's worst flaws, isn't it
Important for pro-democracy Spaniards to know that the Minnesota State Fair has a paella truck with the tagline The Hotdish of Spain.
I’m just saying the cross-Atlantic solidarity runs deep.
I had assumed the headline was a joke. But no.
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FYI to trans people:
HRT Cafe has apparently shut down after too much media attention.
Please, take advice from an old trans woman:
Take those discussions underground. All of them. Anything that discusses what we need to survive & where to get it. Word of mouth and private forums only!
People just don't yearn for the mines like they used to.
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I've signed this one previously, if you're canadian and you haven't yet, get on it 👍
just a heads up, that article going around about the FDA and a 'registry of trans women' comes from The Needle 'News', who have a track record of sensationalist and inflammatory reporting, take anything they say with a grain of salt until someone else backs it up
Fascism requires an enemy, and one which is simultaneously incredibly dangerous and on the verge of defeat at all times.
if only somebody had written in, say, 2022, that New Zealand was uniquely vulnerable to the Strait of Hormuz getting shut down but thankfully we could prevent this by taking action immediately
looks like we traded generations of healthcare for 4 days worth of missiles
Sick of living in the time of monsters can we skip to the time of lesbians who cuddle good or some shit?
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
finally found the time to dig into this one and she's ripped my heart out again, yall. one brutal, visceral, gripping scene after another and while there is some respite to be found in the small moments, everybody's still in hell. F&F is a hard act to follow but Kay fucking knocked it outta the park
Clearly has poor judgement.
Sounds like it's hard to prosecute this monopoly because ... they are abusing their monopolistic powers.
Best solution is to organize the employees of the shuttered stores to take them over and run them as co-ops until CVS plays ball.
I am shocked, shocked to find capitalism isn't benefitting consumers.
There are broadly two types of people:
1. People who are worried about killing children.
2. People who are worried about oil tankers.
Recently, we have discovered a 3rd type:
3. People who don't give a shit about either.
this is also my ongoing frustration. you can not run for office on "democracy is under threat" and then lose and go "oh well, nice game everyone"
they put us in a constant state of hypervigilance & terror begging for our last $5 to save the country and then they do the joint softball game.