A woman recently went viral for holding up a window sign during a traffic stop, part of a growing trend of drivers using cards to assert their rights instead of speaking to police.

Literally my in-laws

One of the most reliable benchmarks I have ever encountered for judging the character of someone has been: how they treat their furry frens. People can be consistent fuck ups in just about every other way, but if they take good care of their fren, I'm gonna think "jury still out on that person".

Normally I'm pretty receptive to stuff like this, but I dunno - guess it might depend on where you live. Here in Colorado, I'm still seeing lots of underground DIY stuff happening. Instagram as an (unfortunately) necessary tool of promotion predates the pandemic. We still rave in warehouses here FFS

Evergreen post, no matter the "conspiracy"

I knew it would take less than a day for a tiktok dj to make something.

Jurango ‘Taíno Gold’ out today on Livity Sound. Bandcamp / stream - idol-io.ffm.to/livity071 @jurango.bsky.social

Our daughter started a family Delta Green campaign, and it's fairly hilarious to see my boardgame-loving-but-new-to-RPGs (this will be her first RPG playthrough) queen try and familiarize herself with the "i cant believe you can roll dice online!" nerd tools of Discord, d20-dot-net etc. 🤣

Mamdani was recently overheard saying "when people pay taxes to Uncle Sam" in a speech. An exhaustive investigation has revealed that not only does he NOT have an "Uncle Sam", this apparent confession has launched an investigation by the DOJ into what officials describe as "massive tax fraud".

All the third term nonsense is intended to distract from the growing awareness that Trump has suffered at least one but more likely multiple strokes during his term so far.

This is exactly why they're pouring so much money into surveillance and policing. The AI data centres are being built to control and dominate us, not to help us write emails

Seems counterintuitive for a company that is dealing with major logistics issues and destroying peoples shipments because they can’t figure out the constantly changing tariffs. Then again I’m not a sociopath who makes their nut moving money from container to container.

Let's see, should we judge this guy based on a handful of cherry-picked, out of context posts filtered through the media, or thousands of posts made over a decade? Jacobin did everyone a favor, picked the latter, and came out with this

I feel compelled to state that although I do give into the temptation of snark from time to time, my primary interest in being on this social media platform is to engage in good faith discussion with reasonable people. Go elsewhere if you're looking for a fight or a negging endorphin boost.

The perfect trap isn’t one you’re forced into. It’s one you build yourself, one rational choice at a time, until you realize the door locked behind you and you’re holding the key but it doesn’t work anymore.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

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Sorry but this is the funniest headline I will read all year

My feelings, exactly.

Whoa. Chicago mayor calls for a general strike; now we're talking www.huffpost.com/entry/chicag...

“Now Scientific American has updated and re-released what it calls the “classic graphic” that shows that a human on a bicycle—able to coast, or freewheel, without pedaling—remains the world’s most energy effecient traveler.” @carltonreid.com on the re-release of the iconic graph in @forbes.com.

Today I discovered I'm being blocked by 65 accounts, and I feel very neutral/unemotional about this

This is the way - but my advice is to check the blocklist carefully prior to subscription, some are run by zealots who will reply to a comment like "the Biden administration was halfway decent on antitrust issues" with "so what you're really saying is you support the genocide of the Palestinians?"

full employment + Covid WFH + BLM + MeToo broke the brains of so, so, SO many american elites

I always love it when law enforcement appropriates the Punisher logo, not understanding that Frank Castle aka the Punisher, actually hates law enforcement and felt forced into vigilantism due to the impotence & outright corruption of law enforcement. He literally rips his logo off cop uniforms.

Saw Autechre & Mark Broom tonight. Somebody told me Mark is a big hardgroove DJ, but I don't really know what hardgroove is. He played a variety of stuff. Dug it. Was my fourth time seeing Autechre, the first 40 minutes were great. After that absence of contrast started to get tiring. 6/10 night.

Pure speculation: AIPAC is squeezing Jeffries, on the one side promising a well-funded pro-Israel primary challenge if he endorses Mamdani; on the other side, withholding endorsement earns help w/left-wing primary challenge. They made him praise Adams to send a clear message: dance, puppet, dance.

Make a porn wholesome The hung tv repairman is such a professional that he never even notices that the young woman answering the door is wearing lingerie, or her topless friend Sherry who came over to take a shower. He simply fixes the cable, thanks the women for being loyal customers, and leaves.

One thing I will never understand is all the people who feel compelled to point out in all their replies that “it won’t matter”, “its pointless”, “like it’ll make a difference”, etc. if all that’s true, then why bother replying at all? Is it because they feel obligated to destroy hope?

as a man, I am always baffled by the things that people assume I care about

New Autism just dropped, and it's a rager

100% agree. Absolute perfection.

There’s a certain type of poster that seems to think it’s helpful to stamp out anything hopeful in the name of being realistic about how bad things are. Don’t be that poster. We know how bad things are. But for most of us, hope helps a lot more than your cynicism. Rebellions are built on hope…

It seems like a tragedy that 40% of my job is seemingly being a Google search middleman for developers who apparently have not figured out how to use the ubiquitous search engine. Them: I can't do X on [build process I've never touched] ! Wah! Me: *queries google for X, sends link* Them: thanks

Use of the word "evil" in official congressional e-newsletters, over time, by party

it does seem weird to declare war on people and then demand they mourn your dead

My keyboard has been gaslighting me. For months the amount of typos I make had inexplicably gone way up but only for certain letters; I worried I might be experiencing some sort of limited cognitive decline. Winds up a couple keys fail to register every 500-1000 presses or so and I am so relieved.

I wonder if the plans to canonize Kirk will be scaled back now that his murder can't be used to punish the left

i think the @wsj.com should pay every trans person's rent this month

So is this being done to comply with the anticipated demands of the fascist regime to remove any satirical criticism of a murdered RW influencer they would like to see canonized and whitewashed, or because Paramount's corporate owners saw an opportunity to censor opinions they disagree with?

Trump's new push to ban mail-in ballots is not b/c of traditional Republican hostility to making voting easier, but because he's planning on sending ICE goon squads/red state LEO proxies to conduct voter intimidation ops in blue precinct polling places under guise of "making sure only citizens vote"

Slightly diminish a band: The Thankful Dead

Employing a tune from the tragically-underutilized Ronnie James Dio-era Black Sabbath over the closing credits of episode 1 of Alien Earth is such a class move! The whole cup of the episode overfloweth with great ideas, but hearing The Mob Rules at the end was absolute icing. FUCK. YES.

The phrase "weird parasocial relationship that you use to facilitate getting into arguments online" constitutes most of which passes for online fandom, tbh

Even before Clyde's takeover of the other place, I didn't post a lot - mostly because nobody bothered to respond. Social media, for me, is not usually where I go when I want to be seen or heard, but it can be lonely sometimes. What a diff experience bsky has been. Really grateful for this place ❤️