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a round pottery piece with pig eyes and a snout

i think we all need to step back and realize that peak art was made when neolithic pot in the shape of a pig was fired

“You eat your dirt, Billy. You want to grow up as big and slimy as your dad, don’t you?”

“You eat your dirt, Billy. You want to grow up as big and slimy as your dad, don’t you?”

I miss Joe Strummer

Behold! men living in garage, which has a mouth open towards the light; here they have been watching football from their childhood, and have their guacamole chained before them so it cannot move. Above and behind them a fluorescent beer signs are blazing. ...

Image of Shax from Star Trek Lower Decks with the words "Sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice"

We all know Clarke's "sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic"

Well we have corollary:

Cory Doctorow : "We need to make tech workers unionized again ...  because tech workers that aren't working behind a keyboard, those tech workers, they're peeing in bottles or being injured at 3x the national rate in an Amazon warehouse. That's how tech bosses treat workers they're not afraid of."

Well I mean, you can, but only via monthly subscription…

Gone are the days of moonlight dalliances with watermelons…

Frank Gehry No Longer Allowed To Make Sandwiches For Grandkids

Frank Gehry No Longer Allowed To Make Sandwiches For Grandkids

Entrails, and the reading thereof..,

Conversely, Nietzsche or Freud’s too…

Photo of Senator Chris Van Hollen with Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.

Just because Musk is a Nazi working for the US government, doesn’t make him a talented rocket scientist

Straussianism has to be the coolest approach to political philosophy in existence.

Instead of writing anything yourself and being judged on your own merits, you just shove your opinions into the mouths of dead famous philosophers and coast off all of their credibility. It’s honestly genius.

Man holding sign that says; think of the most vulnerable person you know, and vote in their best interests.

👍

Get in good trouble, necessary trouble.

All HP Lovecraft stories begin like “I will try and relay the events as best as I can manage, though what I encountered that September night may not be able to be expressed in human language, nor be comprehended by the human mind” and then the story boils down to ‘I saw a building that was large’.

Venezuelans sue Trump administration for ending temporary legal protections About 350,000 Venezuelans are set to lose their legal protections and work permits by April 7.

Temporary Protective Status allows immigrants fleeing violence and persecution to live and work in the U.S. without fear of deportation.

Revoking TPS is not only cruel — it's unlawful.

I'm rereading my book Serving The Reich with increasing dismay, even horror. This, for example. Broaden "European" to "Western" and I have to say that I am no longer as confident in this statement as I was in 2013. That frightens me.

Wikipedia post on Dark Enlightnement: The Dark Enlightenment, also called the neo-reactionary movement (sometimes abbreviated to NRx), is an anti-democratic, anti-egalitarian,[1] and reactionary philosophical and political movement.[2] The term "Dark Enlightenment" is a reaction to the Age of Enlightenment and an apologia for the popular conception of the Dark Ages. The ideology generally rejects Whig historiography,[3] the concept that history shows an inevitable progression towards greater liberty and enlightenment, culminating in liberal democracy and constitutional monarchy,[3] in favor of a return to traditional societal constructs and forms of government, including absolute monarchism and other older forms of leadership like cameralism.[4]

A brief break from puppy posting to remind you that Musk, Vance, and Peter Theil (who tapped Vance) all subscribe to a theory known as DARK ENLIGHTENMENT which is based around the idea that democracy is bad and America would be better off with an...

*checks notes*

...absolute monarchy.

The Targeted Chaos of Trump’s Attacks Against International Human Rights Law and Justice | ACLU Donald Trump has positioned his administration to launch one of the most abusive and aggressive assaults on human rights in U.S. presidential history.

In just a few short weeks, President Trump has already launched one of the most aggressive assaults on human rights of any presidential administration.

If he continues on this path, he will cause more chaos and violence both at home and abroad.

This administration has convinced half the country that the real problem isn’t billionaires who evade taxes and collect government handouts but the working class who pay taxes and get nothing in return.

One of our supporters shared this with us—people are getting creative tonight!

U.S. Forest Service will fire roughly 3,400 federal employees.

When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty.

just saying: it's possible that "I'm gonna dramatically constrict my state capacity while plotting dramatic imperial expansion, and expanding my set of internal enemies while alienating most of my foreign allies" is the beginning of a world-historical masterstroke. but also possible that it isn't