Got to pet a couple of neighborhood kitties on the walk tonight 😭

if anyone can help boost this, Nic and I really appreciate it. I'm sorry about spamming this. I would just really like for Nic to be able to have her clothes and for us to be able to continue to afford to meet the requirements of our visa. Going back to the US is not an option.

Translation: "I arrived in Bogotá. I no longer have a visa to travel to the USA. I don't care," responded the Colombian president. "The seat of the United Nations cannot continue in New York," he added.

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They made my existence into an "issue" then complained I'd become a single issue voter

I genuinely cannot emphasize enough how cooked you have to be to even have heard of this shit like medbeds is several tiers beyond believing in aliens, it's like right around secret US space program in terms of Cooked Moreover, ICE must be destroyed bsky.app/profile/ashl...

The medbed stuff is cooked by QAnon standards and the fucking president is just posting it while he's talking about sending the army to Portland and doing counter-terrorism operations against "antifa" what the fuck is happening Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

I had to check that this is real and Trump actually posted this AI video of him saying everyone is getting medbed cards and yeah no he really did post this on truth social I don't even................................................. Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

I think the reason Portland is such a bugbear to the right is that they are confused and upset by the idea that the whitest metropolitan city in the US hates them *that intensely*

the president just said the military should start shooting american civilians if they want to

The way the media spins stories like this is “look how the dogged cops cleared this terrible quadruple-murder 34 years later” and not “oh by the way they totally accused and convicted the wrong guys before, oops lol” www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

We also need to raise hell for every trans and brown and queer and black person who is not nearly as famous as Kimmel. Normal, everyday people deserve to be just as loudly defended.

i fucking forgot that amid everything else (and Kaleb was a writer who's every piece i read with a mixture of love and awe and "i wish i could figure out how to do my own version of this"), Kaleb also created this, one of my favourite pieces of internet art ever ever ever. the liars are coming.

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I love walking around flower/garden shops.

www.gofundme.com/f/help-vyria... I'm so close to the finish line, please help if you are able. I really want to be able to get this done and over with early next year if I can and part of that is having enough funds to do so

Assata Shakur has "died in Havana, Cuba, as a result of health conditions and her advanced age." She was 78.

repeating the phrase "full books" as I slam my head against my desk until I pass out

A mass walkout of the UN General Assembly as Netanyahu prepares to speak.

OMG: The IDF has taken over the cell phones of people in Gaza and broadcasting Netanyahu’s UN speech live on the devices.

Oh, the people who demand we stop calling them Nazis are now putting up walls around minority neighborhoods.

Oh hey, going on a walk made my brain feel good again.

Let me be clear. As someone who has been professionally involved with the biodefense / biosecurity sector for nearly 20 years, and has worked on biological risk analysis for Covid-19 since early 2020, reducing one's risk of being infected is not health anxiety. It's just smart.

I've written about this topic before, but going through the tumultous feminist history of the 70s and how bereft of substance this book is remains ever-revelant.

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People need to understand the fascists are coming for everything. There’s no negotiating. There’s no hiding. We either come together or we get picked off one by one.

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Implicit in the "enjoy the camps" discourse is that liberals have no intention of doing anything whatsoever about said camps, should it come to that

These guys are going “What else.. what else” with the most horrific shit throughout American history

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Why do I hate the "Because I have empathy?" answer? It's too easy, it plays into this idea that caring is enough, & it's smug and superior in a "Oh, you had to learn? I was born knowing" way. It also stops you from actually examining your personal history and figuring out how you got where you are.

I kinda hate the glib "I was born with empathy" answers to the "what radicalized you?" question. So how about this: What moment made you realize that you were going to have to be an active participant, that caring wasn't enough and you couldn't just rely on others to take care of society's problems?

people helpfully replying "Trump doesn't have the power to do that" in response to discussions about Trump literally in the process of doing those things

The revolution will begin at an abandoned fuddruckers 🕵

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CHOTINER: Record shows you didn’t post a Chotiner meme until Thursday? ME: That’s correct. CHOTINER: That seems unusual. Wouldn’t you say you usually jump on all the viral ‘bits?’ ME: I’d say so, but I had lots of work to do yesterday. CHOTINER: So, that work is done now?

Really interesting tidbits in this latest NYT focus group

Hey, so, survivor of CSAM (child sexual abuse material) here—and a global survivor advocate, including policy work! Fictional material is not illegal. That’s actually why deepfakes are such a big issue for survivors too. That said, actual art should *not* be made illegal. Why? (Con’t)

The “ur paid a bit more so it’s fine” mindset ignores exploitation. If I earn $1 more per hour, but each hour adds $5 more in surplus for my boss, my exploitation worsens. Higher wages don’t change the fact that the gap between what I produce and what I keep keeps growing.

This was extremely obvious from the increased inequality and concentration of wealth stats. People who refused to see this are stupid.

marx failed to consider that people would not read what he wrote

I would like to recommend a book to these nutty people

Can't help but hear this in Mikey Barbaro's gross, gullible tones

If your music video doesn't have both Hugh Laurie AND John Malkovich in it, I am simply not interested

Would do unsavory thing for a pepperoni roll right now ngl

still play this in my head at least once a day