In 1953 Iran had a functioning democracy. A free press. Seven political parties. Women in universities. Women granted voting rights in municipal councils in 1952. A secular prime minister named Mosaddegh who believed Iran's oil belonged to Iran. The US and Britain decided he had to go.

Iranian women in 1953 were in college. In the workforce. Gaining rights. Today they are arrested for showing their hair. The United States and Britain overthrew a secular democracy and created the conditions for a theocracy. We are now bombing their universities. This is the receipt.

This is what I think of every time someone is like "What do you expect the Democrats to do?"

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"Hamburger Shonen" was absolutely a thing that existed in the 2000s though!

The US military has 22 sites in the UK. Every day long range US bombers are taking off here to drop bombs on Iran. This is a rogue state carrying out war crimes, and threatening more. The UK Government must grow a spine - and stop our bases being used for this war.

The two truths: 1) There is nothing wrong with porn, let people safely make it, let people safely enjoy it. 2) If you let people define porn as bad, authoritarians will ALWAYS expand the definition until their hands are around your neck.

Pretty interesting chain of logic which, if applied in the inverse, would functionally legitimate airstrikes on everyone in Israel or the US

“you simply cannot achieve economic success as a company while sustaining your original ethical and safety commitments, the markets won’t let you” is the biggest argument for anticapitalism i’ve ever heard

every feed today lol

Emphasizing again: you can transmit covid even if you don’t feel sick and even if you are vaccinated. That is why we mask

I think we are in this present Hitlerian moment of violent excess because we coddle the troops and pretend they have zero agency. You can't oppose Hitler's War and the crimes perpetrated by Wehrmacht soldiers across Europe but somehow still support the soldier. The only good soldier disobeys.

Like clockwork.

happy easter

I've also noticed this shift, which was inevitable under Trump. At the end of the day, the US has produced a society that can oppose the war, but have no real mechanism with which to end it given the weak political opposition, material consequences of direct action, and broader individualism.

When we talk about what the NYT is up to now, it’s actually helpful to be attentive to the fact that they have *always* done shit like this

Anyway, we should not stop talking about because Israel got away with Gaza because of western complicity they are doing the same thing again in Lebanon and won’t stop there

me: why does no one take my threats seriously? my threats:

I think about this one a lot.

One of my favorite webcomics by a real cool dude! 20 years, holy shit

Drip and Slop all over your best pants in this Sludge-tastic new title! Goop from a Bucket is now available on the Nintendo Switch 1 and Nintendo Switch 2 Systems.

one of my strongest and clearest takeaways from spending all of Lent knee-deep in ICE death reporting is that Camp East Montana should be razed to the ground and every single person who built it, worked there or approved their decisions deserves criminal charges. it is beyond what I imagined.

If you’re interested in the pen in this video, it’s one that I make and sell, and it’s available here: thingsbydan.myshopify.com I find this pen so much fun to draw with. Times are tight at the moment so reposts are very welcome!

I once told an investment bro that silicon valley died after the iphone and facebook and was now just a culture of grifters and conmen rich kids who make shitty javascript programs and try to spin it as gold to dogshit moron investors. Literal snake oil salesmen. I have yet to be proven wrong.

This is suuuuuch a good example of how Realis works. Both the way that it allows for a sort of narrative maneuvering /and/ the way it pushes everyone to really get creative with what they have on their sheets. www.reddit.com/r/rpg/commen...

TMU fashion professor Leila Kelleher and technical designer Gabby Brown aim to transform fashion education with their new textbook, challenging the long history of designing around thin bodies.

Puppy Guard - Inner Peace

If you inexplicably feel the urge to help Nestlé with ANYTHING, maybe remember the 10+ million infants they murdered in the last half century

if you want to hear a bit about my experience playing, here is a thread where i detail the full realization journey of one class sentence from my character. once the full book is out and her class is public i'll probably post more. bsky.app/profile/el3p...

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Turns out poor people spent a lot of money on tea and sugar *because they were poor* and that was their inadequate replacement for unaffordable things like cooking fuel, food with actual nutritional content, and enough calories to slave away over a loom for 12 hours.

Today we've ported over my critique of Troupe! A lovely game about wandering minstrels in a land of Jewish myth. medium.com/@radmadrpgs/...

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We’re just innocent men

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This is my trans agenda

the fact that conversion therapy is torture had been settled socially, scientifically, and politically. but the "trans debate" manufactured by the epstein class and its media empire, in particular the attack on youth transition, has created a new angle to legitimize the practice

The cal-arts/bean mouth style doesn't exist. If there are stylistic similarities between shows, it's because of how they are made. Production has to simplify complex designs to help animators work efficiently. Also, off-model doesn't mean anything in a straight storyboard to animator show pipeline.

Note that the workers who made Beast Breaker ARE getting rev-share on sales of the game on Steam, even though the studio shut down. Why? Because we had a union, and we negotiated for it.

The degree to which the bluesky leadership does not understand the people who populate their service is extremely funny. Their AI tool is followed by 1,500 people but blocked by 125,000.

reading a book about a bad person will in fact turn you into one. authors are lying to you about this because they’re all bad people themselves

neither a garrison state nor an apartheid state, just a normal country, a bastion of democracy even, that happens to subject an ethnically distinct population to a different, militarized legal system complete with capital punishment

Nothing Doing no. 64

if a leftist says he's anti-zionist because of the war crimes of a sovereign nation the times will suggest he is an anti-semite. if a conservative says that he is "j-pilled" the times will say it's about foreign policy.

Is there anything cuter than bat peek-a-boo? Please ignore the little human squeak you hear, it was very hard not to laugh. 🦇 #bats #arizona #wildanimals #cuteanimals #peekaboo

toby fox exists in a special kind of hell i will call “the mcelroy zone” where a huge number of people latched onto his work when they were teenagers and every misstep of his is the end of their world

ghosts are real and they can hurt you