Sometimes it seems like this is the most quoted lengthy bit of Marx and surely the most from the 1844 mss, even above alienation, but tbf it's a banger and he got it pretty dead-on

It's near-white out conditions in Chicago as the snow comes down, and tonight's anti-ICE/CBP rally is wrapping up in front of city hall. But not before the crowd bounces and chants, "I believe that we will win!"

“Fascism is a counter-revolution against a revolution that never took place.”

insisting on calling every mass day of protest or one-day boycott a "general strike" is not the move. it's good to see people rallying around the cause, it matters, but if you want to be part of a large-scale labor action that shuts down the gears of capital, start by unionizing your workplace!!!

tag yourself i’m I AM MANOEUVRING WITH DIFFICULTY

Read: sifu tweety thinking through AI by way of John McPhee

"This Whole Thing Smacks Of Gender," i holler as i overturn my captain's try-works and turn the hunt for the white whale into the hunt for Shit. 🐋

there's a good bit in The Search For Signs Of Intelligent Life In The Universe about this (from a different POV), and it's too bad that it's not easier to make screencaps from plays

Fuck Off I (2025) In Buuti Pedersen’s watercolour Fuck Off I, there are two figures: the legendary figure in Kalaallit culture, Kaassassuk, an orphan who was teased and then eventually acquired superhuman abilities and took revenge on those who hurt him, and US President Donald Trump. In the work,

MY PETS (Palindrome) Dog. A sad dog or fat cat. Nine dragons (no garden intact). A frog, odd as a god.

If you want to read something good, start with Mr. McManlypants’s thread here and end in one of the books

“It’s a movie about what it means to love someone forever in a world that’s temporary. It’s about the unimaginable tragedy of every love story that must end with one partner predeceasing the other,” writes @mangiotto.bsky.social who reviews the 4K release of BIRTH.

Dorothy Malone was born on this day in 1924. While she won an Oscar and had a star turn in "Peyton Place", we should all take a moment to remember her as the bookstore clerk horny on main for Bogart in "The Big Sleep".

My dad is 80 and found a neighborhood 70-y-o who helped him build a bed for my nephew. They're absolute little bitches to each other over minor questions of carpentry, I'm so happy for both of them and for my stepmom

remember how in 2007 every nerd on the internet instantly fell in love forever with the woman who led off the Flagpole Sitta lipdub? anyway,

everyone who is flipping through Bluesky to help them decide what to see at Sundance (that is how it works) should go to Jaripeo, the queer Mexican "remittance rodeo" documentary. My old colleague Rebecca Zweig co-directed it and it looks great.

we used to talk about the "corporate death penalty" to raise the stakes beyond a-fine-is-a-price for bad actors. Maybe that should apply to government agencies too.

Annie Wilkes from Misery is spiritually Millennial: ▪️cottagecore ▪️extremely toxic fandom ▪️aggressive side part ▪️weird childish curses ▪️puritanical, but also ▪️horrifyingly perverted RIP Annie you would have been so good at BookTok

today I learned about "Kirby frames", and I want to use it in my communications trainings. now I need to learn how to explain who Kirby is

"What if Spielberg movies had fun sex scenes" is an A+ idea

my guy was back out there doin Good Work with a broken rib from his previous encounter. name a fucking high school after him.

"You know Bovino leaving won't st..." Yes I fucking know. I shipped 800 whistles across the country today. I'll ship another 500 tomorrow. I will not stop until they are stopped and also I will take the fucking W when one of their top fash fucks gets the boot.

It’s fine to keep your eyes on the prize, but today the government appears much less confident in its ability to kill protesters without consequence than it was last week, and I think it’s OK to notch that as a victory

Always know which Wojack you are

Good reminder that the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, part of the Smithsonian, has had its board stacked by Trump, and that other Holocaust museums should take pains to distinguish themselves from this statement and call out what is plainly happening.

some of my favorite good vibes on the whole internet right here:

“Someone is BANKROLLING THIS” from a guy who probably doesn’t know his own routing number because his wife took over all the finances when he lost $2k in 10 hours on DraftKings

Extremely funny that the champion of the revolutionary left/socialist boogeyman of Republicans everywhere is basically Leslie Knope.

Mt Washington homeowner: I wish we had not elected Donald Trump Cal State LA neighbor: fuck Pete Wilson, governor of California from 1991 to 1999 and the architect of prop 187

The goal of nonviolent civil resistance is not to convince the regime they're wrong. The goal of nonviolent civil resistance is to convince the people to work together to make it impossible for the regime to sustain itself. We aren't nonviolent for the regime. We're nonviolent for each other.

Snowstorm #Goals from the @squirrel_boxes instagram 🥰😴 #sqrlpix

*Minnehaha

It would happen no matter what. The US President is basically a Roomba. When he runs into opposition he turns and starts devouring in another direction. Sooner or later he always circles back, though.

They should really fly over to Minneapolis and just start handing out Nobel peace prizes

@bcdreyer.social a legislative motion is written by an author and a second, often as (Smith-Jones). What's the right punctuation if one of them has a hyphen in their name? e.g. Gathering to oppose a motion (Raman–Harris-Dawson) before the city council that would amend voter-approved Measure ULA

Today is, among other things, a reminder that you don't get a general strike by posting that we should have a general strike. You get a general strike—on the rare occasions you do—by the long slow slog of building organizing power with those around you in response to local conditions.

seen at 38th & Hiawatha this morning

Hung a guy at Nuremburg for doing this, FYI. Not "a thing like this" but literally this, exactly.

I'm Michael, I write queer cosmic and supernatural horror (and SF). International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, and Transphobia (May 17), because of its explicit inclusion of work by activists outside the US/"West"/etc. and of the entire spectrum of queer identities. #HorrorWritersChat

I am introducing the Melt ICE Act to end funding for immigrant detention and monitoring. We have seen the danger in infusing resources into DHS’s abuses of power. Funding for ICE is fuel for human suffering. It’s time to start melting ICE.

I am once again asking: what exactly is the criterion, here

Mamdani: "I am in support of abolishing ICE. What we see is an entity that has no interest in fulfilling its stated reason to exist. We're seeing a government agency that is supposed to be enforcing some kind of immigration law, but instead what it's doing is terrorizing people."

The curse of the Bluesky comments was anticipated almost perfectly by @fmanjoo.bsky.social's 2011 magnum opus about the most annoying people in the world: letter-writers to public radio

Double rainbow over SP Crater at sunset. #Photography The SP stands for 'shit pot.' So, there's not *exactly* a pot of gold at the end of this rainbow...

this will be a fun year for me because I can finally work off of the metadata in my iTunes library, and an incredibly cursed year for Kent because everyone is going to work off of the metadata in their iTunes libraries

Was Britney reading Ulysses????

seems irresponsible not to mention how much for candles