Give a man a fish and someone with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about people getting free handouts. Teach a man to fish? Yeah, that person with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about that too.

Changing our status from 'Oh we're FUCKED fucked' to 'FUCKED Fucked, like REALLY fucked.'

Lots of folks captioning aurora photos like "for a few minutes we didn't think about politics" guess I'm built different, every time I'm out trying to see night sky stuff I frequently think about how much light pollution is entirely preventable with just a tiny bit of regulation

Because, as everybody knows, Dumptruck Dr. Manhattan is infinitely more powerful than original recipe Dr. Manhattan.

New Orc City /was/ Orcstantinople But now it's New Orc City, not Orcstantinople Also (and I really have to stress this part) it's been a long time gone, Orcstantinople that is.

I remain skeptical that any rich people plot to control the media requires them to bother dictating day to day coverage, when class solidarity can also get it done, and with less effort

As age verification laws proliferate around the world, people have predictably turned to VPNs to protect their privacy. Instead of taking this as a sign that surveillance isn't popular, lawmakers have decided they might as well ban VPNs altogether. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

If you live in the US, call your fucking representatives and tell them to oppose KOSA, STOP CSAM and the SCREEN Act and tell them to protect Section 230.

let this radicalize you. bsky.app/profile/vult...

New BC regulations mean employers can’t ask for a sick note for the first two times you're sick for 5 days or less in a calendar year. This change frees up time for doctors to focus on patients who truly need care, and helps workers focus on getting better. Learn more here: news.gov.bc.ca/33012

God we can't have fucking ANYTHING anymore...

It's called Lovely Lady RPG and it's about being a trans person in 2025 England if 2025 England were also 1920s England and also Disco Elysium store.steampowered.com/app/3567040/...

the nebulous, totemic abstraction of "crime," distinct from actual crime, and measured in hatred of poor people

"The Western Hemisphere is America's neighborhood" is some "The Spanish and Portuguese fighting over where to designate The New World" colonial ass shit.

Reminder: for The Prodigy’s 15th anniversary for their album Fat of the Land, the anniversary cover art simply added More Crabs

People will post anything on this website. "Yelling at NYT journos is exactly the same as yelling at HobbyLobby cashiers." No it's not. That's not true.

As Senate Democrats accept a shutdown deal without ACA tax credits, House Democrats launch a discharge petition to force a vote on restoring them—needing at least four Republicans to sign on.

Still trying to keep the power on while I still have yet to be paid!!

The Quebec Superior Court has authorized a class-action lawsuit on behalf of First Nations, Métis, and Inuit children who suffered abuse at the hands of Quebec’s youth protection services since 1950. www.aptnnews.ca/national-new...

the vet wrote in one of our ferrets’ charts “patient was wiggly” and I keep thinking about how cute that is

funny thing is the dems coming out to say protecting the filibuster is so important wouldn't be so bad if they were willing to scrap the virtual filibuster and force a return to the talking filibuster but these fuckers who refuse to skip a three day weekend are never gonna do that either

lmfao these people really are just sleepwalking through their jobs, huh? At no point would I admit to fumbling one of the greatest criminal cover-ups in American history!

Drafting foreign policy documents /before/ securing your pathway to separation certainly is... Some kind of a strategy, I presume.

If you ever wonder why your artist friend is so pissed off whenever they see AI slop used instead of real, human-created art, it's exactly what you think:

I legitimately think this article misses the mark, because Canadians are not avoiding travel out of some principled boycott of the USA over tariffs. Canadians who are avoiding the USA are seeing images of masked government thugs kidnapping people and teargassing children.

Really difficult to overstate the fury one should feel that the GOP and institutions like the New York Times went all in on transphobia as some mortal threat to women and girls while covering up something like this.

"Oh you want everybody to win? Then you get the worst ending actually; entire towns dry up and blow away because of your childish utopianism. Fuck you."

CLAIM: Zohran Mamdani is a communist. FALSE – Communists will gladly spend six hours explaining why this isn't true.

Oh man they booted the city attorney too? Rad.

If you're asking "What if I do both?" I signed up under 400 in general

Thinking about how one of the first Epstein victims was trans and got relentlessly mocked in the media when she spoke up www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/07/when...

"Anti-immigration and anti-trans rhetoric are smokescreens deployed by the international pedophilia cabal to obfuscate its own existence" sounds like InfoWars shit, And yet–

Wait... Holy shit y'all. Y'all. She's latina too. She's trans and Latina. The first woman to publicly accuse Epstein stands at the intersection of the two groups who just before the 2010s Became two of the biggest focuses of the alt right culture wars. Amplifying the hate that was there up to 11

He has insurance paid for by the constituents he screwed,

a heinous news cycle in every sense of the word

When the only interface is communication, and your agent accepts all inputs as truth, then there's no way to create a secure AGI, example ten million:

Having played both, I'd agree that sucking in Rivals feels significantly less bad than sucking at OW2

A veteran of the Free Speech Movement in the ‘60s, historian David Hollinger shares hard-won lessons about defending free speech and academic freedom from extinction in the age of Trump.

toy company CEOs: "at long last, we have created the Sinister Talking Doll Factory from the acclaimed movie 'Don't Create the Sinister Talking Doll Factory'" futurism.com/artificial-i...

Almost like systemic poverty is a policy choice, and a coercive one at that.

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"I can't afford a house" and "I only qualify for a 50-year mortgage" mean the same thing.

Lowkey tired of people acting like A: we’re a blue state where “this doesn’t happen” or B: we’re this haven of secret racists It’s both and neither at the same time. Borders aren’t real and people suck everywhere just like people are wonderful everywhere. Still. Fuck this guy in particular.

Scheduled PAID holiday, no less.

I wish more people were mad about government shutdowns just being a scheduled holiday for congress

It's all connected; it always was.

I think there are a number of people employed at the New York Times -- certainly not all of them, but many! -- who simply do not grasp how badly the paper's credibility has been shaken over the past few years, along several different axes, and for multiple different reasons

I'm just $30 short of what I need to square away my utility payment this month, which is my biggest concern rn, but my roommate isn't able to help me with my loan payment this month either, so I'll ideally need another $80 before the 21st to avoid any late fees on that also uwu;