Jed Leonard

Tired of "journalism" where the thrust is "we have no idea what's actually happening and no desire to find out; here's 3000 words of baseless opinion."

They don't mind sacrificing great numbers of people, as long as the proportions work out the way they want them to - which is to say, as long as the deaths and disabilities disproportionately affect Black and Brown and low-income communities.

It's just a numbers game to them.

Russ Vought is an agent of active sabotage. There is literally no reason to do this, except to make America less resilient against novel diseases.

These people want you sick, poor, and desperate: all traits of the ideal underclass.

Give him the lil egg

You know you want to

Gotta be honest, I really figured I'd have inherited at least one fortune from a long-lost uncle by now

the problem isn't the money. it's the power. and also they used the money to get the power but that's not important

The main difference between me and the average NYT contributor is that I don't get paid to have panic attacks in public. I do that shit for the love of the game 🥲

damn. hoping it at least signifies something

Saying someone is a "member of antifa" is like saying someone is a "member of socialism" or something. it makes zero sense. But they can't use the ideological form of the word because it makes it too clear what the ideology actually is and it would include our grandpas

bartender: the usual?

me: you know it

bartender: [takes out a wrinkle in time and begins to read to me]

:O

One of the reasons they're having trouble concocting a Left Wing Terrorism epidemic is basically nobody in this country has ever met a left wing person. You might as well say we're being invaded by the smurfs

@aoc.bsky.social @vanhollen.senate.gov @governorwalz.mn.gov

The right wing is engaged in a propaganda war, and they're very good at it. I know y'all are more about policy, but policy doesn't beat propaganda. You have to directly counter their narrative.

Link the actual thread where he said this. I've only seen screenshots.

False hope is worse than none at all.

oh thank you lord and baby jesus

This game is a goddamn masterpiece, and I don't use that word lightly.

The Caves of Qud credits screen

Just beat Caves of Qud after LITERAL YEARS of failed / aborted attempts. Final build was a double-muscled centaur barbarian with a scorpion tail, triple-wield axes, and the ability to summon alternate universe copies of myself.

Y'all, I think this might be my favorite game of all time.

Sometimes I even do it in the opposite order! So zany!

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

It’s really neat that for awhile pundits like this were saying “why can’t Zohran clearly and directly denounce the violence of Hamas?” and when he clearly and directly denounces the violence of Hamas they go “but he didn’t do it with any poetry! It wasn’t beautiful! I demand panache!”

a way to understand Bari Weiss’ ascendance is that capital absolutely does not want to “turn down the temperature” on culture war, au contraire they understand culture war to be their most successful media project and want more more more.

Poster features a fractured skull and a chain link border. Micro publisher of weird fiction aiming to amplify working class voices in the face of corruption. www.infestedpublishing.com

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Y'all who keep lecturing protesters to "not give them an excuse" need to pause for a minute. Imagine yourself telling a DV victim, "Be sure not to mouth off or make any mistakes so he won't hit you. Don't give him an excuse! It's what he wants!" That's what you fools sound like.

Anita Gaye Biggerstaff

North Carolina, Department of Archives and History, Index to Vital Records, 1800-2000

Well you can take solace in the fact that when things go tits up the worst people to ever live will get away with it having paid absolutely no consequences

No yeah, I'm sure that's fine

Fascism in America will not stop unless we stop it and that means coming together in collective action to shift the paradigm and begin answering the material conditions that created this crisis.

Seeing how this system works make it obvious. It will continue until we stop it.

Terrified Terrified is a negative mental effect that causes the affected creature to stop whatever they were doing in order to run away from the source, be it a location or...

wiki.cavesofqud.com/wiki/Terrified

Oh man, I have so many of these...

Probably the biggest one though is Game of Thrones

Amazed at the number of guys who are willing to give interviews about how since they didn’t find love with women they found love with the computer that’s poisoning people in black neighborhoods