tiqquna matata

John Lennon doing that stupid walk

Walking away from Omelas like

Ill Will on Twitter "Despite all of these attempts to break me, I stand here before you with my head held high. I stand here because when I stand here, I know that it is not just my flesh and bones that hold me up, but s...

“Despite all of these attempts to break me, I stand here before you with my head held high. I stand here because when I stand here, I know that it is not just my flesh and bones that hold me up, but something much bigger."

www.freejack.co/2026/03/03/5...

a rose by any other name would smell as sweet

When is a war not a war?

When is a search not a search?

When is a gift not a gift?

self care W

Dow Jones and the Temple of Doom

Gaza Sunbirds has a mobile cinema where they move between camps providing much needed joy for the children of Gaza by showing kids films such as Ratatouille.

This is a much needed respite for all of the kids in Gaza, and with our help, we can make a difference. Donation link is in the comments.

this is true now and has been true for a century:

if we don't create a society that isn't dependent on fossil fuels,

but instead uses alternative energy sources *and* uses drastically less energy overall,

most people on the planet are going to die as a direct result

I can only imagine. The closest i've experienced is grocery store lines in the aftermath of a hurricane, or lines for wood before a hurricane. Saw many fights in the latter, and one time in one of those grocery store lines someone called the cops because they didn't like the way the line worked.

jesus christ

for those unfamiliar with the 1970s

it's saturday night and i'm killing nazis again (in ps4's wolfenstein: the new order)

I am tempted to keep replying and just collect as many positive titles as i can

i'll work on myself

North Tehran’s Aqdasiyeh oil depot is ablaze tonight after it was targeted by multiple US-Israeli airstrikes. Apocalyptic scenes filmed by Iranians driving on the nearby highway. Local reporters saying firefighters can’t put it out. This depot is critical energy infrastructure for Iran.

you probably didn't feel safe because of my extreme anti-diaper vibe

incredible

these are the same people who complain about "safe spaces" and they're literally afraid of their own shadows

if you can't explain that two people of the same gender can be in love then you are not capable of extremely basic tasks and your kids are not safe with you as their guardian

btw, in Schneckloth v. Bustamante (1973) the supreme court set the standard that whether a person knows they have a right to say "no" to a search isn't dispositive of whether their consent was voluntary, & that it would be too burdensome on cops to tell us we can say no.

they don't want us to know!

These are concentration camps. Don't think that these aren't concentration camps simply because there aren't gas chambers. The Nazis began to build and operate camps in 1933, but it wasn't until 1939 that they began gassing their prisoners. This is the path we're on.

have i memory holed some shit or is this even more blatant than the post-9/11 racism?

when asked about why they consented to a search when they knew they had drugs or weapons, most people say it's because they didn't think they had a choice and hoped the cops would go easier on them. this is sound logic if you don't know your rights. so we need more people to know their rights.

or worse yet ask how many straight up confess

also, study aside, ask a public defender how many of they clients consent to stupid shit. it's probably gonna be "most"

yes but consent is about the stupidest thing they could lie about when all they need is a reasonable suspicion or exigente circumstances and i don't see a lot of folks contesting that they didn't consent in court cases. seems extremely rare compared to all the other lies.

have i ever consented to a search? no. have i had my person, my car, and containers on me searched many times? yes.

i'm not saying knowing your rights will stop them searching but A. it can, B. it can make it harder for what they find to be admissible in court, and C. why give them permission???

Publicly available data from the Los Angeles Police Department in 2006 indicate that police requested consent from 16,228 drivers to search their vehicles, and 16,225 (99.98%) agreed. Oren Bar-Gill & Barry Friedman, Taking Warrants Seriously, 106 Nw. U. L. Rev. 1609, 1662 2012). "[M]ultiple scholars have estimated that consent searches comprise more than 90% of all warrantless searches by police ***" Alafair S. Burke, Consent Searches and Fourth Amendment Reasonableness, 67 Fla. L. Rev. 509, 511 2016).

as a friend pointed out, i'm sure this number is not completely accurate, but even taking that into account: fuck.

we gotta find more ways to educate folks on their basic rights

Ruben Ray Martinez: Footage shows US citizen shot by ICE agent in Texas traffic stop The Department of Homeland Security did not disclose Martinez was shot by one of its agents until almost a year later.

Newly released footage shows an ICE agent killing Rubin Ray Martinez, 23, in his car in Texas.

"He was shot at point-blank range through his side window by an ICE agent who was in no danger."
www.bbc.com/news/article...

lol wordnesia is such a trip