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i think that using the term “consent” outside of sexual contexts specifically to bring implications of rape into a conversation is trashy and exploitative as hell. yes, it can mean non-sexual things but when people use it in the way they currently are it’s obvious what they’re trying to do

When his family was swept out to sea, boy swam and ran miles to save them Austin Appelbee is being hailed as a hero after he rescued his family. “I couldn’t feel how tired I was,” the 13-year-old said of his hours-long feat.

An Australian boy swam about 2½ miles in rough waters then ran about a mile to rescue his family who had been swept out to sea.

“I just said ‘all right, not today, not today, not today.’ I have to keep on going,” the 13-year-old said.

Microsoft launches the Publisher Content Marketplace in partnership with Condé Nast, Hearst, AP, and others, to let publishers license content to AI companies (Anu Adegbola/Search Engine Land)

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Tokens get spent

New York Attorney General to Deploy Observers to Document ICE Raids

NEW: Letitia James, the New York attorney general, announced that her office will deploy "legal observers" to document ICE activity in NY.

Her office says the effort is the first of its kind by an AG.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/n...

I think they can go rock bottomer!

I never bought the idea that video games cause violence but this is culturally downstream from call of duty

Meanwhile, me in New Jersey watching New York City still covered in trash snow piles also they have to figure out how to fix that $12 billion shortfall since Albany won't let them raise taxes

All through my teens & 20s I recall being told that it was easy to spot the cops: they were the ones always focused on encouraging others to engage in violence & property

Now I come on social media & I'm told that no, actually it's the people encouraging you not to who are really the cops

This cannot be something a civilian law enforcement agent is allowed to wear in the US — and an agency that has a culture that tolerates this cannot be saved.

So he just needs to excommunicate them just like John Paul II did

Elite overproduction and its consequences

I don't know, but whatever is going on in Minnesota is exposing all the useless internet anarchists and "organizers" as ineffectual, feckless, arsonists and do-nothing with no real accomplishments and they're all crashing out.

They just blindly shot through the fucking door.

"Additional photographs show damage consistent with a bullet fragment lodged in a bedroom wall down the hallway — suggesting it traveled between a mattress and a portable crib in a room where several small children sleep."

This is why I say it isn't just the far right that is taking a sledge-hammer to the humanities and social sciences. The academy has no sense of self-preservation and is doing a fine job on their own of undermining the very institutions that grant them authority.

What in gods name are they teaching in these Ivy League PhD programs?

Our intellectual elites

with The Wretched

Damn. That Minute Maid frozen limeade made great margaritas

So I emailed the business unit about this, they did some research and.... yep. Frozen juice from concentrate is gone www.cbc.ca/news/busines...

Trapped in grocery store

The people who are like “we could cut police budgets by more than half and just support food banks and hospitals” must be aghast to find out how many Liberals have had personal experience with people advocating lynchings

Fucking good. Get these goddamn radicalization platforms off the internet

“Fifth and last, my government will work with our public prosecutor to investigate and pursue the infringement committed by Grok, TikTok, and Instagram.”

4/4

“Fourth, Spain will ban access to social media for minors under the age of 16. Platforms will be required to implement effective age verification systems — not just checkboxes, but real barriers that work.

3/4

“Second, we will turn algorithmic manipulation and amplification of illegal content into a new criminal offence.

“Third, we will implement a hate and polarization footprint system to track, quantify, and expose how digital platforms fuel division and amplify hate.

2/3

Spain going for Musk too. PM Pedro Sánchez at the WGS earlier:

“Starting next week, my government will implement the following actions:

“First, we will change the law in Spain to hold platform executives legally accountable for many infringements taking place on their sites.

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yep

Whenever I see someone advocating other people committing guerrilla warfare or some other kind of fruitless violence against the state without a plan, or insinuate that normie dem supporters are complicit with Fascism, I go to their bios, and it's almost always 1 of the 3 same flags