What do you call camps where people keep disappearing and dying

Discovered my ma, who is in her 70s, has become a person who puts Trump "I Did That" on gas pumps around her rural Virginia town. I love it. I'm proud of her for doing something.

This is too aspirational. The "definitive millennial song" will not be a good song, it will be a song that any reasonable person would absolutely hate but for some reason is beloved. That song is Mr Brightside

Just like, patently nuts. I'm not sure I can think of a single end that could justify means such as these. This could be generating World Peace and I would say we should try something else. This is like Omelas but instead a shimmering city it powers a computer that lies to you.

There was a long time where most shows were $5 - $25. There was a fest I used to go to every year that was $50 for 3 days. We had dollar movie theaters. If you were super hard up you could hang w/folks all night at a diner for just coffee as long as you were cool to staff. We really hurt the youth

John Brown was born 226 years ago today. An ardent and uncompromising abolitionist, he spent the last years of his life engaged in armed struggle against slavery. "He done more in dying than 100 men would in living.” —Harriett Tubman

posting for academic purposes

many liberals act like voting has solved problems of struggle & violence instead of sublimating them. they want to see politics as a consensus-building process when it's just not set up to be that way at all. (this also colors how they see the law, and cops.)

New Panopticon goes absolutely fucking crazy.

like a butterfly dropping into its grave, of course. a phrase we’ve all used and a very normal, relatable kind of image that conveys clear meaning. i’m always saying this. so beautiful, like a delicate butterfly croaking mid-air and gently floating into a tiny open bug grave at the insect cemetery.

I'm about to make a major life change without quite enough money to do it so I thought "maybe I should sell my LPs, I've not had a record player for years" but I looked at them and they're all bangers and it's crazy that the median price for my Sword Heaven record is like $10

I am not a Buddhist so I don't really have skin in this game but my understanding is Buddhism is primarily a set of teachings by which people can come out of their condition of suffering through developing an awareness of reality, and I'm quite sure that robot isn't aware of anything

Off the top of my head. Some of these are "duh of course you'd say that" but I think it's worth saying anyways.

Blocked for being pedantic!

Happening now: Cook County officials, the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant & Refugee Rights and other immigrant advocacy groups are holding a presser outside the county's Domestic Violence Court in Chicago, re: federal immigration agents being spotted at 4 separate Cook County courthouses today.

there's also the slide here that the cops are helping along, suggesting that there's something inherently violent about play, when in fact the only violence here is coming from a trigger-happy police force and prompted by a general population that has decided it, too, must be trigger happy police

"this game played with nerf guns is dangerous because I and my coworkers might shoot you for playing it" okay lol

This fucking sucks man. Sorry but we can't outlaw play just because we've created a culture where a handful of people have decided the only impact they can possibly make is one wherein they commit a horrific act of violence. We gotta let kids play. www.chicagotribune.com/2026/05/02/s...

Kind of a tender episode imo

The UAE's vision for the region relies on Israel - twin forces to suppress the people of the Middle East and build the authoritarian infrastructure necessary to maintain this control.

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PATREON BONUS: A Scanner Darkly (2006) We talk about drugs, and looking at yourself in the mirror and how the person you see is never the person you feel like. Also, Charlie explains that Barto has been picking at a traumatic something for the last few years. www.patreon.com/posts/bonus-...

I think I just have Deleuze and Freud but that's because whenever Agamben can't keep getting away with it, it's too bleak and I just post a picture of him looking upset, and whenever Foucault can't keep getting away with it I post this because you can't top this.

Some of the strongest evidence I've seen thus far that Oedipus has cast his long shadow over the Western world and Republican men cannot help but see Donald Trump as their virile father!

She's running...

This is besides the point but James Cameron is a terrible interviewer. You have to let the person answer your question before you talk again.

there is only one class—the bourgeoisie. the opposition is between *that* class and everyone else who is outside of it.

Marshall McLuhan observing modern society: haha holy shit lol

I just don't think the 90s were that much different than the landscape that pervades today. Some social stuff is way less caustic than when I was growing up, but I have said for many years that we are in the long 1980s and I basically haven't seen anything new to make me think otherwise.

only a few days left till im out of CA! thanks to yalls help a lot of the biggest costs like uhaul have been surmounted, but ive got a few big costs (remaining rent, trip gas, prescriptions) approaching that i would deeply appreciate some more help/sharing from anyone able to <3 thank you all again!

little cut from some rhythm changes last night

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something poetic about the creepiest men in the world going from treating women like objects to treating objects like women

This is basically my strategy in chess and, lemme tell ya, it doesn't work there either.

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I'm also reading my wife's novel which doesn't have a cover yet but is fucking great

Not a single day has passed so far without Israel violating the "ceasefire" in Lebanon several times

Can I offer you a nice Dogon egg in this trying time?

It's so crazy to believe that the industrial output of the US no longer exists because a handful of liberal scolds tut-tutted it away.

*tapping the sign*

I've said it before but, while targeted individuals aren't describing an experience from a shared ontological reality when they complain about gangstalking, they are tapped into a phenomenon that is directionally correct.

Death drive!? In my fatha's day men knew the purpose of life was the programme of the pleasure principle! And they liked it!

Oh wow are we having discourse about the history and ethics of stealing as a strategy of resistance? How about looting? Well do I have the book for you! It's @vickyacab.bsky.social's In Defense of Looting!!! Moreover, ICE must be destroyed theanarchistlibrary.org/library/vick...

My example of the impotent paternal figure is when he's turning around and screaming into the back seat that "if you don't stop, I'm going to turn this car around!" I think there's something telling about how that outburst of impotent rage reads as "passionate" to some people.

everything went downhill once mammoths went extinct