Tom, standing outside an ICE concentration camp, screaming at the detainees inside: don’t worry this isn’t full fascism!

Banks are targeting individuals by name because of their "high risk" line of work who are too outspoken. This is why we need you to stand up for nsfw creators

Post your favorite Star Trek character(s). Wrong answers only.

Post your favorite Star Trek character. Wrong answers only.

I generally treat land acknowledgements like I do corporate DEI trainings: I may inwardly roll my eyes on occasion, but I'm instantly suspicious of people who become outwardly aggrieved by them. For that reason alone I think they actually provide some value.

collective memory is something you have to work at constantly, and the persistent drumbeat of land acknowledgements is an extremely valuable way to produce widespread consciousness of basic material fact of dispossession and genocide

The Epstein story gets a something that is tearing at the heart of the electorate: elite impunity. The idea that wealthy and powerful people can do terrible things *at scale* and face no consequences for them. Whatever political party actually stops it could rule the country for a generation.

Giorgio Morandi (1890-1964): 1) “Metaphysical Still Life” (1918) and 2) “Metaphysical Still Life with Triangle” (1919).

Nuzzi's fawning coverage of the sociopathic conspiracy crank she was having an affair with aided his rise to political power, which he is using to perpetrate the worst intentional public health catastrophe of our unnecessarily shortened lifetimes, and THAT is the STORY.

the sooner people internalize this about the dems, stop projecting their fantasies on the party, and start demanding more, the better off we’ll all be.

Still-life paintings by Georges Braque (1882-1963).

My most woke opinion is that if a white person hears another white person do a racism they have a moral obligation to call it out. This is the part of wokeness conservatives hate- the one where they can no longer feel safe being racist in all-white spaces.

It’s interesting, my most actually radical position is probably prison abolition but I don’t think I’d call that the “wokest” position. That would probably be something like “Performative anti-racism and anti-sexism actually do serve an important norm setting function in society.”

6/To those who call my position political correctness, being woke, an example of cancel culture, I say the following. A profession's decisions on how to allocate opportunities has dimensions that define its professional ethos and culture. There are spillover effects that matter.

my wokest opinion is that land acknowledgements are fine. people knowing a little bit about the land you're on, even if one isn't invested in a land back project, is not particularly worse than the status quo, even if one comes by this info in a way that is somewhat cringe and forced

Current (permanent) mood as an American in 2025:

According to Getty these girls are 13 an 15. If you think it's okay for an adult man to have sex with one of these girls you should be stoned to death

It just feels like everything is being flattened. Rape, genocide, wildfires, etc etc is all just fodder for internet discourse rather than turning points that lead to… something, anything better or different.

Aubrey Plaza appreciation post.

'We do not have any evidence that frUmP raped children.' Uh yeah we do. Believe the mutilple women who were raped as children. I do.

Every decade, we hear "the kids can't read or write!" Interventions that don't work are proposed. Those that do work are ignored: reducing class sizes, making kids & families feel safe at school and welcome, becoming a community resource. When their expensive reform fails, they yell at us again.

We could solve like half the problems in education with smaller class sizes (like 15 instead of 30 kids crushed in a room). Including that it would be easier to find teachers b/c they wouldn’t get so burnt out.

So many vulnerable people were hurt, harassed and raped by these ghouls and now—I’m worried—it’s gonna become hehe haha lurid internet circus instead of a long overdue moral reckoning. I’m scared of who we all are becoming. That man has brought us ALL low.

If the NYT told the story of the homeless teenager exploited by Matt Gaetz with even half as much empathy as it tells the story of Olivia Nuzzi, it would be in danger of committing journalism.

If AI is inevitable then why does it need so much government support and why are they constantly worried Rhetorical RHETORICAL

It cannot be remembered enough that these were the same people who got worked up about drag brunches

People are basically good, and if we as a society provided everyone with a baseline level of comfortable housing, good food, and good healthcare, without fear for the future, life would be chill

This is the part about Platner that pisses me off the most. Even if I bought all of his bullshit about the posts, the tattoo, etc. and believed that he really is a Changed Man yadda yadda yadda… …ok, fine: Run for city council or county commissioner or something first, not for the U.S. Senate.

"What if one of YOUR favorite politicians/celebrities/etc is on the list?" Did you all not notice how quickly we dropped Neil Gaiman when we found out about the things he did? Do you know how beloved that guy used to be and how loathed he is now? I think that right there should answer your question.

Reminder that this is a man who worked on 128 episodes of a very popular TV series, and he's got to sell off all of his shit just to afford cancer treatment. SO, HOW IS THE AVERAGE PERSON SUPPOSED TO?

[To the tune of Pretty Woman by Roy Orbison] 🎵Baba Yaga 🎵Walking down the street 🎵Baba Yaga 🎵House with chicken feet 🎵Baba Yaga

Stop forcing me to pay for aircraft carriers and let me pay for shit that actually improves people's lives!!

I think my "most woke" opinion is that I don't want "free" stuff. I want my taxes to pay for things that better society. Universal childcare, universal basic income, no means testing, universal (and accessible) Pre-K to 16 education (college/trade school). Not "free" I've paid for it.

So we are going to bring forth a world where anyone who wants to be a lone wolf is welcome to walk into the woods without a single damn thing a global community made for him, and perish howling at the moon. The rest of us will live in a society.

We are a social species, and we have always prevailed through cooperation. Caring for our sick. Raising children we didn't sire or birth because they were part of our village or extended family. We are not breeders and predators, we are communicators and survivors. We evolved to UNITE.

"my least woke opinion is---" That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania. Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.

we have a world where mr beast pulls down half a billion dollars a year to torture people for entertainment, while countless creatives are just trying to make ends meet with no desire to take more than they need. it's just all so fucking bleak.

A quick study of Equestrian portrait of Louis XIV I took some shrimperties 🦐

“There is a cult of ignorance in the US & there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political & cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.” -Isaac Asimov

The Witch I'm excited to show you my personal project #art #fantasy #darkart

[laughs in Karen]

I was suspended right before the Epstein emails were released. If the BlueSky search engine works, you will find a wealth of posts from me about the people in those emails, who I wrote about in my books HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT and THEY KNEW. This is the work I feared would be erased on Twitter.

the cool thing about ai is that if its a bubble we will go into a recession and there wont be any jobs, but if its not a bubble we will go into a recession and there wont be any jobs

some sort of god mode where combat is laughably easy so i can actually progress. i dont care about fighting. i dont like it. i dont like stealth i dont like timer countdowns i only like exploring and puzzles and talking to people and fun little side quests

Utterly brilliant thread

The pickup truck already reached peak form, in the 90s. Anything beyond that is just inbreeding for hyper-exaggerated traits at the expense of the health of the truck. Its gross, really, the things people have done to the pickup truck.

pickup trucks for the average person should not have been allowed to advance past this. if you need anything bigger, you should have to provide some kind of documentation showing you have the license and need for special heavy machinery, otherwise you get the 1990 toyota hilux