Not fully leaving this site, but I’m literally only going to follow people posting art or shitposts from now on. If I unfollow you, it’s nothing personal, I’ve just decided that discourse and news are no longer things that this site is providing in a healthy manner.

"A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people." —The Declaration of Independence

Consider: North Atlantic Transexual Organization

On the plus side, dealing with my MacBook means that I didn’t spend most of today dealing with some Very Difficult Emotions relating to a personal anniversary on this date. Go me!

one thing i wish i could impress on a lot of you is that trump et al are not the only people with agency

Folks, if every last news outlet pulled out all the stops like they did for Biden Old, Trump would be out in a week, tops. We all know that the media has the power to swift boat anyone they want. They are choosing not to do this to Trump *because they have been on his side the whole time*.

Really convenient that my MacBook and I coordinated our breakdowns to happen on the same day ✨yeaaaaah twinsies, girrrrrl✨

This is correct but also Sinners was the only movie I’ve seen in the last several years that wouldn’t have benefit from an additional 10-30 minutes of screen time. ‘Movies should be longer, actually’ is my stupid hill to die on

Well, half my feed is whining about Star Trek, so I can safely assume that no important news has happened while I was offline. Cool, I can log off now.

This. This this this this this. This has been my mantra all year. We will win. We will triumph. It's not going to be this month. It almost certainly won't be this year. Find things that bring you joy--people especially--and drink the very liquid pleasure of it all. It will fuel your fight.

Seems unfair that you only get to use the bouncy slide to get off a plane when things have gone wrong. The bouncy slide should be a treat they give to the best passengers who did the flight correctly.

If you work for ice please understand that your kids will laugh at a character based on you dying in an action movie before the end of the decade. They’ll be in movies for really little kids. Like Phineas and Ferb shit. There will be an action figure of you with a detachable head

In memory of Scott Adams, I think more people should be talking about the series finale of the Dilbert cartoon, a two part episode in which Dilbert is force-femmed by Mpreg

A decision was made in nov 2024 that was not simply a repudiation of one Black woman But a repudiation of Black womanhood

"This is a critique of the concept of multiculturalism from the left" No, that's dumb. Desist.

My own personal happiness and psychological health has *massively* improved since moving to The City, and yeah anyone opposed go multiculturalism is just evil. It is immoral to be opposed to multiculturalism. It just is. It's a stance not worth considering.

It’s sort of insane how pervasive the framing that multiculturalism is some weird liberal experiment has become. It’s the default state of what happens when people have easy movement and aren’t actively being told to hate each other. You can prove it by going outside in almost any city.

multiculturalism is so objectively good that if you don't enjoy it you are defective and you should feel defective

Literally every aspect of life is better in a multicultural environment. Monocultural ‘small communities’ are a literal blight on humanity, and only when they are no longer idolized can all peoples be free

I realise I'm just a freak, but living in a multicultural city is the best thing of all time, it's just the best possible human experience and i can not understand why anyone on earth would be like "weve got to destroy this"

I've increasingly come to view cynicism as the seedbed of totalitarianism, both because it can paralyze the opposition and because it implicitly validates the might-makes-right ethic of the authoritarian.

Forget the Bechtel test, why about the “this woman is a stand-in for the writers’ distaste for Hillary Clinton” test because I gotta say that trope keeps playing

Someday there will be a show with a woman in a position of authority who is both competent and sympathetic

"this is not who we are" is 90% of the time a normative statement of aspiration, it's not an empirical claim of "these events have never taken place in this country before". one of the most obnoxious genres of "actually..." is reacting like it's the latter when it's clearly the former.

1. Crush the MAGA murderers, give them no quarter, and salt the cursed earth from whence they came. 2. Crush the MAGA murderers, give them no quarter, and salt the cursed earth from whence they came. 3. Crush the MAGA murderers, give them no quarter, and salt the cursed earth from whence they…

how DARE you be aware of what IS going on in Mpls right now and NOT fucking love our country? Because America isn't fucking Trump. America is the Somali immigrants who came here because this is where hope lived, because America is the rope that bound them fast to what they wanted to keep

I keep thinking about how one time for a laugh, I tried to write a fictional authoritarian regime that was actually stable and helped its people. I ended up reinventing liberal social democracy, with the dictatorship being mostly ceremonial & only existing in the first place through sci-fi bullshit.

I don’t care WHY they do it!

I am calling for a complete and total boycott of the Mercator projection in all news stories about Greenland until every member of the American public has seen this

This is why it doesn't sit well with me when people make it about us, like, "look at these brave Iranians, why can't WE be like that?" I mean, my god. This is NOT what you want. Ever. And our terrible government is not their terrible government. It's indecent to compare yourself to those people.

They lie about their jobs because they know their jobs are reviled by the public. They know they’re hated—that people will think less of them if they know they work for ICE—and it bothers them. Which is good for everyone to remember. They’re ashamed. They’re miserable. They’re LOSERS. Remind them.

rip dante alighieri you would have had such an uncomfortable meeting with the high school guidance counselor and school resource officer

I am really really fucking sick of Americans pulling this “we are the root of Naziism and all evils in the world” schtick. Shockingly, genocides didn’t start in 1776.

Like, this take- which is endlessly, *endlessly* regurgitated on here- borders on Holocaust denialism in the form of erasing over a thousand years of antisemitism in Europe to pretend that pogroms started happening because of a bad vibe from the US *and* trivializes my own people's suffering.

Jesus fucking christ, I am tired of ppl saying the Shoah was based off what the US did. Literally going to ignore the long fucking history of antisemitism that fucking existed prior to the US even being a thing. Literally look at what Martin Luther wrote about us Jews.

kind of darkly funny that "gender studies" is the stereotypical "useless degree" because gender studies will help you understand a large and important chunk of the current psychosis in american life

Every few years, an optimistic studio trying to do a "gritty, realistic" take on a public domain property like Robin Hood or King Arthur:

Got a spam email in my work inbox about the dangerous impacts of AI… that was very obviously written in ChatGPT. I don’t know how to handle this.

So yes, important to stay focused on the Trump Admin and the bad actors who enabled this, and that means absolutely knowing which disingenuous fanatics to ignore at all costs

yayyyyy

Porn and erotica are important and societally valuable forms of speech, and the defense of them, in the face of state and church attempts at repression, is a necessary political act.

Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago

Days after his third dementia screening in six months the president of the United States, who is an open pedophile, abducts a foreign head of state

Hey, Bluesky, can we put the fucking clout down for one night and actually spend all of our time blaming the Republican Party for their own actions for once?

Republicans HATE the US! They hate the country, they hate its people, they hate its founding principles and ideals, and because they hate it so much they’re doing everything in their power to destroy it

When you’re doom posting about how everything is inevitable and no one can stop them, you’re doing their work for them. Stop that

"Overthrowing a dictator sounds morally right. No one mourns a tyrant. But intl law wasn't built to protect the good, but restrain the powerful. It prohibits force almost without exception because if each country decides whom to "liberate" by force, the world reverts to the law of the strongest."