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In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.

new explanation for our current political climate just dropped

Tom Hanks in "Splash"

Tom Hanks as David S. Pumpkins

September 30 // October 1

JA Westenberg @Daojoan@mastodon.social My 9 year old and his classmates have started using “that’s AI” to mean “I don’t believe you.” Me: we’re having dinosaur meat for dinner Kiddo: that’s AI Sep 24, 2025, 07:36 AM

They've lost the 9yos

if I buy a software i want to get physical media or at least a one time access code that lets me use the thing forever. you can sell updates and improvements but you can’t yoink away what I bought already

omg do you promise?????

the youth yearn for livejournal and dreamwidth

um, kindly wtf

Picture of traffic cone being reflected onto car surface. Latin cone is labeled “Latin poetry in translation.” The reflection, warped to look suspiciously similar to an anal plug, is labeled “Latin poetry in Latin.”

Fox Mulder from X-Files saying “Hey, you got to stay alive if you want to stick it to the government”

“If you die, you let them off the hook.”

Needed this reminder today.

Honestly, I hate that we collectively decided on "skeet" and wish that we would come up with something else. Does no one remember the early 2000s?

Oh nooooo

When I used to get hypomanic, one of the effects was that everything irritated the fuck out of me. Brains are stupid

Don't think single people get enough credit for doing life alone. Rent/mortgage is double, household responsibility and life admin is down to one person, you're your own emotional support, holidays are more expensive, you've to trap and transport human sacrifices for the solstice bonfire solo, etc.

Ooooooh boyyyyyy, what a way to go in

Ooo, was there something that happened or was this just a "fuck Amazon in general" move? (Or some secret third reason)

Photo of standard "hi! have a sweet day!" sticker on Flour takeout bag that has "Miss you" written on it.

On a scale of 1-10, how embarrassing is it that my local Flour seems to remember me.

Ooo, I do have AAA, thanks for the tip!!

I was happy with GEICO for years because I would periodically check with other companies and they had the cheapest premium by far, but they jacked it a few years ago, so I've been on the hunt

wait are you serious about the car insurance

A horrific image of a someone who seems to have his hands tied behind his back. A big cat (the predator kind, not the overfed pet kind) has jumped up at him and is devouring his face. Blood splashes on the floor.

For Blue Monday we can't think of anything more appropriate than this charming depiction of a man getting his face eaten off by a leopard.

#MosaicMonday

Horror podcast, sorry 😅

Obsessed with the fact that literally everyone is queer in The Sheridan Tapes

there's a bad second-level impulse in response to a lot of stories like this that comes down to "I want to believe abusers are ontologically evil so that I can avoid thinking that I might need to have a painful confrontation with someone I care about"

One more thought about Gaiman, which I’ve been chewing on all day: I understand the impulse to argue that his image as a Friendly Feminist Writer was an intentional construction — a lie — that hid the abuse, which was true. More disturbing to me is the possibility that both facets were real

Today would have been Carl Sagan's 90th birthday. How fitting that he predicted the current state of our country almost 30 years ago. Worth reading. Happy Birthday, Carl. We miss you. 💙

linkedin finally has a shitposter

I mean, if you want it to be, go for it. Let your imagination run wild

Not what it sounds like, I assure you!! (SMS phishing. In the running for one of the worst portmanteaus.)