Dustin Debris

I keep thinking, stuff like this doesn’t come down without a mandate from fairly high up, ultimately at least sanctioned by the top, to remove everything that positively mentions Black people. It’s not like the memorial to Black soldiers in the Netherlands was on anyone’s radar otherwise.

Came to say "vast," but I defer

Obscene

1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️

Is it too late to find a lot that still has kidney week trees?

<Perverts meme> Yes!

It’s so cool how we’re only “playing god” when it comes to allowing people to have kids via medicine or when folks want to affirm their gender and never when we decide who gets to be detained without a warrant, die in prison, who gets to have medical care, and which kids get to eat today

nora.jewelry handmade glass pendants, earrings, game tokens and bolo ties (the text is surrounded by colorful jewelry pieces)

fruit, veg and shroom drawings for mutual aid, $50 drawings, details in thread the text is surrounded by various fruits and vegetables on single colored backgrounds and they are glowing

Happy Saturday everyone! I have a jewelry shop at nora.jewelry!

I'm also drawing fruit/veg for people who donate $50 to @wingsndnsilver.bsky.social for SNAP replacement grocery gift cards; I'll do up to 20 of those this weekend. See thread for details and quotes of this post for availability.

Little pink houses, fer you and me

I reckon the most interesting subset of discourse here is when presumed [good] factors are actually either actually bad, or there to downplay or dismiss the bad even if the amount of good is way smaller than the bad.

A short thread to explain: on "training for electrification" + "demand response"

Idiocracy - Idiocracy: This Particular Individual | IMDb Idiocracy: This Particular Individual

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Nashville finds first measles case since 2005 as vaccine exemptions gain popularity Nashville has its first reported measles case in 20 years, and the infected person is now in isolation.

“Nashville has its first reported measles case in 20 years, according to the city health department.
The announcement on Friday indicates the sick person was unvaccinated against measles and had been traveling. That person is now in isolation.”

There is a tendency for popular science to fall back on "great man" theories for science (something Nobel prizes tend to reinforce), but if you read this article, you'll see that a lot of people contribute to the discoveries that get credited to just a few individuals.

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The ChatGPT suicide hotline is a hotline that talks you into committing suicide. Doesn't seem like a service that should be legal.

Vietnam sees 35 rainfall records broken in October - VnExpress International Vietnam's northern and central regions saw a total of 35 rain records broken in October alone as two storms, Matmo and Fengshen, caused unprecedented downpours.

The Vietnamese Bach Ma Mountain Peak station recorded one-day rainfall of 1,739 mm - close to the global one-day record and perhaps a new record for the northern hemisphere. It is part of a deluge Viet Nam has seen in October, shattering 35 precip records. e.vnexpress.net/news/news/en...

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I tried to whistle over a stray cat in my neighborhood and a woman walked by, who I worried thought I whistled at her. So I said “im whistling at the cat” but when I looked back down at it I realized it was just an old fast food bag

My kids have measles and my SNAP benefits were cut. But at least those cashiers at Walmart aren’t writing “they/them” on their name tags anymore.

Holy christ on a cracker

YouTube video by CNN Candace Owens on Charlie Kirk’s death

Candace Owens, world expert on what (((they))) don’t want you to know about Charlie Kirk’s murder, thinks the Tyler Robinson messages released by the FBI were on Discord and now can’t be found. But they were text messages, as the indictment clearly stated. youtube.com/shorts/9S5lH...

"Uncanny valley," hell. That's an uncanny gulch

Ah, this reminds me of teaching Clash of Civilizations. GIven that Huntington's concept of clvilization was largley based on religion, how was South America a different civilization? European Catholics are part of the west but not South American ones? Brown Catholics don't count. So much racism

Republicans fucking *hate* Americans. I've never seen anyone since the second world war work harder to kill us than the Republican Party.

My 11-year-old: Someday, the people who say "skibbidy toilet" will be the grandmas.

The thing this always reminds me of is the apocryphal stories of, like, a cargo cult or somesuch hearing a radio for the first time and thinking there must be a tiny man trapped inside.

“Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.”

— George Orwell, 1984

I wish Democrats fought for anything with the intensity that Donald Trump fights to starve poor people.

Even right-wing propagandists think X has a right-wing propaganda problem that is poisoning people's brains.

That should cause concern among the many media / politics types who still use it and who consider their feeds to be representative of the public's views.

Trump Turns to Supreme Court to Block Order to Fully Fund SNAP The Trump administration is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to block a lower-court order that said the government must fully fund SNAP food aid.

JUST IN: The Trump administration is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to block a lower-court order that said the government must fully fund SNAP food aid payments. buff.ly/xzMrojG