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on the one hand: absolutely not on the other hand: perhaps this is all being manufactured by octopus accelerationists

an excellent point – DJs developed blending as an art. And it is an art! When do it yourself, you generally don’t get what you get from a great DJ. The tech guys really think the computer can do what the DJ does, but it cannot. Instead, it makes something that sucks, then makes it the default

Every journalist of color I know would be punished or fired for being repeatedly late on deadline and filing "provocative" expense reports. We are also constantly concerned about layoffs or had direct experience with them. I hate this.

The Take Care Clause was a byproduct of the lessons learned from the Glorious Revolution that the executive should not be able to dispense with the law promulgated by the legislature. It was not a constitutional provision to empower the executive branch— but to constrain it!

They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.

some significant part of this is just catch-all fear for “this is not the child I ordered” I think

it's crazy how they obviously just put trump in a room somewhere with an ipad while all the real fascists who still have their mental faculties make decisions about how the country should be run

were NONE of you gonna tell me that the article riley gaines 2.0 was writing a shitty paper about DOESN'T EVEN MENTION TRANS PEOPLE?? it's about GENDER VARIANCE IN CHILDREN (e.g. boys who do ballet) and its relationship to bullying?? her paper makes it seem like it's all about accepting trans kids!

it is impossible to overstate the extent to which this country is now being run by people you would leave a party rather than talk to for five minutes

any time someone talks about needing to childsafe & remove sexuality from the fake third spaces the internet has, i want you to kill them. just immediately destroy their brain with some kind of evil spell

Hey so just fyi, if you're abandoning trans rights you're abandoning all civil rights At that point what the fuck is the point of the democracy you're willing to sacrifice trans people for This actually isn't hard at all, quit making it pretend hard because you finally feel scared too

the reason that it's so disturbing when Newsom/Buttigieg/Harris say that they want to force trans ppl out of sports is that it signals that they don't want to fight for trans rights at a time when there is a massive genocidal campaign against trans people. 1

What To Know About ‘Heated Rivalry’ https://theonion.com/what-to-know-about-heated-rivalry/

Im sorry

everyone needs to start pirating movies and TV shows again NOW

getting the onion newspaper is worth it alone for the ads

the economy is understimulated because people aren't buying things to counter this, we should stimulate the economy with stimulus checks in order to bring stability, we should keep doing it consistently, perhaps every month, for every person, universally it's quite basic really

The President is actively dying right next to his team of simps yelling about what a Big Strong Leader Man he is. Just sitting there, eyes closed, croaking in front of our eyes.

I have something to tell you about the united states military. you might want to sit down for this one

If you get robbed in our parking garage don’t blame us. You should have left with less money

RIGHT-WING CHURCHES: we must exterminate the trannies RIGHT-WING POLITICIANS: we must exterminate the trannies RIGHT-WING MEDIA: we must exterminate the trannies RIGHT-WING MOGULS: we must exterminate the trannies THE CENTRE: to fail the essay "But Da Bible Said So" is viewpoint discrimination

we are well past the point at which anyone who cannot identify bad faith like this is disqualified from commenting on it the girl and her mother are basically screaming THIS IS A BAD FAITH ATTACK ON TRANS PEOPLE at the top of their lungs and if you can't see that you're stupid or lying

This is extremely bad and worrisome for obvious reasons, but it's worth pointing out that this was obviously the student's goal She knowingly wrote a garbage essay for her trans prof's class and when she obviously got a terrible grade stirred up a media storm This was clearly the intended outcome

every trans person i see post about the OU suspension knows that the suspended target is trans & a grad student, & has an innate awareness that this is about purging trans employees. every cis person i see thinks the target is a rando professor & that this is about giving conservatives good grades

i’m genuinely so convinced all of this has been a planned operation by the student and her mother (who is commenting on this publicly, and associated closely with the republican party), and big far right propaganda account going all in on it. this is designed to oust trans people from public life

a lot of people debating the merits of that dogshit essay meanwhile the girl’s mom is retweeting demands to ban all trans people from teaching at any level. it’s forest for the trees shit

@katelynburns.com: "The student's mom... is a former Springfield, MO city council member who faced a recall campaign in 2017 before resigning in late 2018. She's a conservative attorney who sued several cities in 2020 seeking to overturn local mask mandates and went on to defend several J6ers."

Walmart and McDonald’s are among the top employers of workers who rely on food stamps. McDonald's CEO raked in $18.2M last year — over 1,000x the company's median employee pay. Walmart's CEO pocketed $27.4M — 930x the company's median employee pay. See the problem?

art films should be titled shit like "The Earth Is A Womb And It's Bleeding" and that should mean either that it's a movie about literally what the title describes or that it's a story about a white girl coming of age in minnesota in the 1990s and finding out she really likes bicycling

in the emergency room for a snake bite and they rush in a camel to watch The Notebook

i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao

MAGIC WIZARD: Tsk tsk, Billy. Have you learned nothing from our time in the Land of Misers and Keep-For-Myselfs? BILLY: I want to go home. MAGIC WIZARD: To hoard is to be bored! We must share, to be fair BILLY: I don’t want to do this anymore. MAGIC WIZARD: I think I hear a tune on the wind! Welll 🎶

Fifteen Years xkcd.com/3172/

it’s really weird to see these headlines in which chicago pope repeats the literal doctrine of the catholic church that have people going like “wow this pope’s so woke“ “wow this guy is problematic actually.” he is literally just stating the company line lmfao

all stanning of popes is necessarily conditional, the Church is the Church, but the man said AI won't stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God's creation so with all our conditions intact yes we stan

At this point, I wonder if he isn't lying when he says he has "my highest Poll Numbers, ever" since it's entirely possible that's what his aides are telling him. It's quite likely that there's an entire Potemkin village built around Trump right now.

a chatbot was made in 1966 based entirely on scripted responses to certain keywords in your inputs. and almost immediately people started attributing emotions or feelings to the words on the screen we need to stop humoring people who are clearly just having a delusion while talking to a phone

If you are concerned about people swiping books from your little free library and reselling those books, I ask you to go to your local used bookstore and sell a book Okay? Understand? Alright, next question

great time to conquer the US, really about the most opportune time in memory

Good times

Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea

darvo is ridiculous. i should get a free latte and a government assigned session with a therapy cat, not texts on my phone about how i'm a uniquely awful person who will pay for my crimes

spinel 1000x sronger than me. put me in that situation and im afraid id curbstomp little steve to bring rose back so i could yell at her. good thing im not an alien rock.

A lot of people with SNAP literally went off got certifications, got a job that pays above minimum wage and still qualify. CNAs at the largest employer in my city make $11/hr 🙃