There’s a young southern woman on tt doing an experiment: calling churches & asking if they can help her get baby formula, saying she can’t afford it. Of the 30+ she’s called, nearly every church has said no. The ones who said yes were: Black Baptist Churches A Mosque A small Appalachian church

This tugged on my wig a little bit /pos so I’m passing it on

Because I have self respect I do not live rent free in people’s heads, I live extravagantly at great cost

My friend is nonbinary and had to get a breast reduction because their GP was worried about their spine, and now they have to get a hysterectomy because they've got endometriosis, and I can't believe a person can be so biologically transgender that the NHS accidentally insists on transitioning them.

I listened to the brainworms and left the house today to go Shorping

2024 Cadillac V-Series.R picture: Rick Flores https://www.flickr.com/people/ricardojesusflores/ under CC BY 2.0

If y’all missed having more actually good djent that actually has riffs in your library lemme help you out youtu.be/M6SWho6Ntks

As it should be

call your friends cute! call them hot! say i love you! fuck me dude ive spent twenty two years thinking i had to be polite about my friends when you should frankly be a little in love with everyone youre close with. they matter to you. let them know it

No drastic moves I’m flirting with @tess.bzky.team by giving her music to listen to. Don’t anyone dare bother anything for the ten minutes it takes for her to listen to it. Please respect the gotdangm mysic youtu.be/saccx5dTmKU

"AI is a direct attack on the way we verify information: AI both creates fake sources and obscures its actual sources. That is the opposite of what librarians do, and teachers do, and scientists do, and experts do." 🔗 www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...

What a banger

cannot emphasize this enough: we need to push the mainstream political discourse towards mass prosecution and execution of ice agents it doesn't really matter if they actually get killed by the state, but we need to build towards a society that widely agrees they *should* have been, morally

It’s not just a baggage claim. It’s a baggage FACT.

Yes and yet several European countries are embracing a far-right worldview that would burn these policies to the ground, so let’s be not be smug or complacent here - particularly as Mamdani‘s pro-immigration stance is radical by European standards.

‘S there anyone else who’s enough of a sicko to still be remembering Fuck This Gay Earth

2 weeks until holiday and I’m looking at a local milsurp store site and getting a massive urge to go Shorping

we genuinely have to take LLMs away from people like openai because this is too transformative a technology to let them render it radioactive like this

The WPA is my roman empire

Vi sitter här I Venten och spelar little Douthat

I'm one of the four fired employees. I was a writer & producer at Bon Appétit for nearly five years, during which I helped organize our union and sat on our bargaining committee. I am, to my knowledge, the only trans woman in our union and the only trans woman on editorial who doesn't work at Them

With several deliberate misunderstandings and oversimplifications of anthropological history, you too can argue that the Mexicans are Mongolian

I was an ORCA card reader for Halloween

Just a reminder that archive .is openly courts right-wing extremists to use their site to coordinate harassment campaigns and to filter any concerns about "preservation" accordingly

MAKE SOUTH WILLIAMSBURG DIY NOISE VENUES AGAIN! A NEW ERA FOR NYC, LFG @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social

genie: you have three wishes me: infinite scab to pick whenever i want genie: uhhh me: nobody can see my pick my nose in public genie: huh? me: one zit i can pop forever genie: put me back in the lamp. fuck you. no

hey i hope your day goes okay. i hope you rest if you need it and take a step or two toward your goals if you’re able to and give yourself grace if you can’t

This is one of the most bittersweet things I’ve read this year.

…in previous decades religious observance meant the inherited ones felt pressured into doing good works. Even more ironic is that a whole cabal of Tech & Finance Bros are big into a self-exculpatory form of Christianity [where wealth washes away original sin] & try to evangelise it!

When “the public decided they’ve had enough of experts”, they really were saying it’s time to let people who don’t know what they’re talking about order us around. And here we are, slowly drowning in it.

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It wasn't deep. It didn't have much to say. But Xiao Xiao inspired millions to try Flash animation for themselves. A Beijing artist made this series -- and turned stick fights into a phenomenon. We're exploring why and how he did it: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/when-stick...

We strip-mined the future, the rich tearing the whole planet apart, the middle class getting bought off with a house. Now the future is the present and the kids who have to grow up in the ruins are asking: where's my future? And the answer is "fuck you, why are you trying to take my house?"

very soon the only way to tell ground truth reality will be going offline and talking to other people who are also offline

Just saw someone call the dodgers fandom the greater California co-prosperity sphere lmao

New awareness campaign

This is Native American History month and the earliest Zionists compared Palestinians with the "Red Indians" as Jabotinsky called us .. praising US policy in embracing the violence needed to get rid of us because we resented colonization regardless of settler "kindness" Our struggles are connected.

Absolutely, and also, while I do think re-training is a thing we should do and enable and encourage for a whole host of reasons, anyone who suggests that people should "just" go get some different kind of job is categorically fucking stupid.

And then still be discerning! "Am I listening to someone upper-class and invested in projecting a certain image of their country? Am I talking to someone who is conservative and supports the country's local right-wing parties? Am I talking to an activist or a worker or a zealot?"

🔥🔥 Please read this, it's such a crucial point so many Western leftists miss (and they reproduce the orientalist BS)

I think one thing you need to learn to do if you're a white westerner is to become wise to western POC inserting themselves between you and the non-western POC they want to talk over. Those people often have their own motives. We live in the age of the internet, so go to the source.

Holy shit, we just got a big donation from a generous contributor, putting Team Alf way up the board, so we're moving the goalposts out to $30,000. $30,000 to help address the shortfall left by SNAP. Can we get there tonight?

Calling all Friends of Alf: let’s raise money to support food banks during this time of extreme need. Follow the link below to donate:

I am finally Free of my obligations to Train Properly, and next week maybe I will try a compound bow and unlock yet another domain of irresistible GAS

I released LAST TRAM TO HAPPY VALLEY yesterday! 🚊 It's a tarot-based storytelling game about ghosts taking the last tram home. 👻 #ttrpg #lyricgame Check it out here: aryl-ether.itch.io/lasttram

‘Study after study shows that students want to develop these critical thinking skills, are not lazy, and large numbers of them would be in favor of banning ChatGPT and similar tools in universities’, says @olivia.science www.ru.nl/en/research/...

A reminder that we've not seen (new) photos of Joshua Wong in years as not only is he in prison but the authorities have prevented/barred journalists and others from photographing him (and, for that matter, all of Hong Kong's other political prisoners).