Imagine escaping the literal Nazis, making it to America, living three quarters of a century there making your life, and then this:

man good luck hosting a world cup or an olympics, let alone something like a sxsw

Do NOT license your voice to ElevenLabs. Their highest-paid actor made $30k last year. Sounds a lot, but that’s from 1.2 bn paid uses - $0.000025 per job. ElevenLabs charge 20 cents per 1,000 words. So they’re making at least 8,000 times what their artists are. www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

Hey Charlotte folks-Compare Foods has waived delivery fees for groceries, so if you know anyone who'd like to get groceries delivered rather than go out to the store while the nazis are in town, spread the word

@govpritzker.illinois.gov I want you to watch this video of me slammed to the ground- why are you allowing this to happen to people you know are on the right side of history. They tied my hands behind my back and when I asked them to be loosened because I was going numb they said, “STFU.”

"How to Report ICE" #Charlotte edition zine is up! drive.google.com/file/d/1p_vF...

I hate being awake and feeling so alone at 3am.

I’ve just watched the Royal Ballet’s 2016 production of Frankenstein. It’s absolutely marvellous. If you’re expecting prettiness and frivolity, think again. It’s dark and brutal with hangings and child-murdering on stage. Wonderful stuff!

Few things make me happier than when a performer I admire and grew up with get the recognition they deserve. Though frankly why he doesn’t have a knighthood and is just now getting his MBE I don’t know! But still lovely to see. Pic from Radio Times. He still records audio stories for Big Finish!

Not to get all Sun Tzu on it, but when the enemy is weak and divided amongst itself, you do not relieve the enemy by allowing their partisans into your camp. You drive them closer together, force them into tighter company, and intensify their conflict.

THIS IS NOT A DRILL!!! The production of TWELTH NIGHT with Lupita Nyong’o, Junior Nyong’o, Peter Dinklage, Sandra Oh, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, and Daphne Rubin-Vega is now on the PBS app!!!! www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/t...

I wanted to share probably the most important sermon I’ve given and it’s while I’m being arrested. It’s torture pure and simple what happens at #Broadview. I’m ok, though I was thrown to the ground and choked with my pectoral cross. A review of the video shows I was peaceful - did I deserve this?

Rudy Bridges is younger than the Sitting President of the United States and 29 sitting United States Senators

Please stop using language that suggests that people with criminal records are appropriate targets for this administration's violence. One in three adults has a criminal record. Stop playing sacrifice games with fascists. Stop surrendering entire categories of people in your own mind.

No people cannot "text with Jesus" and it's appalling media is doing advertising for the ponzi scheme trying to destroy art.

“The government is allowed to post real death threats on social media but you’re not allowed to post sarcastic death threats on social media” is actually a pretty apt distillation of power and violence

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Google is hosting CBP’s new facial-recognition app that helps police identify immigrants and alert ICE — while removing community apps that track ICE activity. By shutting down tools meant to document abuses and approving tech that expands government surveillance, Google isn’t being neutral.

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The indicators to wear a mask just continue to pile up. Comfort will soon cease to be comfort and become the vehicle through which people's lives change forever.

November 14, 1152 BCE: the first recorded workers' strike occurred in ancient Egypt under Pharaoh Ramses III. Artisans and laborers working on the royal tombs at Deir el-Medina stopped working in protest of delayed and insufficient rations, a form of wages. collezioni.museoegizio.it/en-GB/materi...

"Scientists Just Developed A Blood Test That Can Diagnose Chronic Fatigue And Long Covid." 🔹Blood test detected CFS with 92% accuracy. 🔹CFS and long COVID overlap means it may lead to a long COVID test. 🔹Unclear exactly when either test might be available. Source: archive.li/K0txX

The Bank of America Institute just dropped a startling number: Nearly 1 in 4 U.S. households (24%) are officially living paycheck to paycheck. That means necessity costs (rent, food, gas) are eating up 95% or more of their income.

Lots of pretty things up for nabbin'. LGBTQIA+ staffed and owned. Thanks for shares/peeks! www.peculiarityshop.com

Today’s mood:

Wut www.them.us/story/charli...

If you have to get permission to teach in your area of expertise from people who are definitionally not qualified to adjudicate your expertise then you are no longer working at a university. You’re working at a state propaganda factory.

At The Wire website, listen to the music we played to Test Dept during their Invisible Jukebox interview in The Wire 502, featuring Diamanda Galás, Faust, Arvo Pärt, Vic Reeves and more www.thewire.co.uk/audio/tracks...

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Priorities.

"In 2025, 40% of women aged 15 to 44 say they would move abroad permanently if they had the opportunity. The current figure is four times higher than the 10% who shared this desire in 2014, when it was generally in line with other age and gender groups" Something tells me it's more than wanderlust

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Parallels, by Folk Physics and Mike Block, is a lovely album and providing a soundtrack to grading this morning. #Music #NowListening tidal.com/album/433592...

"In 2025, 40% of women aged 15 to 44 say they would move abroad permanently if they had the opportunity. The current figure is four times higher than the 10% who shared this desire in 2014, when it was generally in line with other age and gender groups."

just a reminder this guy slashed the tires on his much younger female coworkers tires to trick her into getting in his car he was married at the time

Equating “leaving a country” = “ceasing to fight on behalf of the people in it” is the logic of the state, and I wish we would stop doing it

I can't stop thinking about that article about how people literally can't read because they're basically taught to guess over the last like two decades and like. It's really starting to make why people will respond aggressively, agreeing with what you said but convinced you said the opposite

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Transitioning later in life means stepping into the life you’ve always deserved. It’s a reminder to everyone that hope doesn’t vanish with time. It grows when you finally choose you.

today, a federal judge ordered the release of 615 people wrongfully abducted by ICE / CBP from june to october (yay!). as if they haven't already been through enough trauma and violence, they each still have to pay a $1500 bond (aka ransom & extortion) (boo!). donate here twd the $900K+ in bond:

Look the thing is, you can personally dislike someone -- or even have serious political *strategy* disagreements with them -- while also being clear that they don't deserve to be mistreated On a level, our enemies are relying on us to forget this

Under the Big Ugly Bill, Alphabet gets $17.9B in tax breaks. That could pay for SNAP benefits for 7.5 million Americans. Amazon gets $15.7B. That could lower ACA premiums for 2.4 million people. Microsoft gets $12.5B. That could cover Medicaid for 3.8 million children.

“Stigmatizing fascist beliefs is not at odds with the ideal of the open society because a commitment to that ideal is not a suicide pact.” www.liberalcurrents.com/liberalisms-...

Suzie Quatro with her bass guitar, 1973. #SuzieQuatro

Thousands of veterans in every state use SNAP to supplement their low income to put food on the table for themselves and their families. More from our friends at @centeronbudget.bsky.social

If there's one thing I would like everyone over 25 to know, it's that way more of the government is run by the people who just decided to show up to meetings than you realize. Attend a couple city commission meetings yourself, and they lose a lot of the mystique.

This seems like the most straightforward and also basically accurate message.

Many people were driven into military service because impoverished communities had so few choices for escaping a cycle of poverty, it was the only path by design. This Veteran's Day I think of them, and others who laid down their lives for a country betraying its own principles of "freedom."