Political violence has had its global center in the United States. Saying it has no place here is just fucking stupid and ahistorical. A lie. It just usually happens to one class around the globe.

sam altman is trying to find the guy who did this

dragonite doodle in krita #pokemon #art

taps the sign

it’s that time of year again

I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy. I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.

you have been visited by the sleepy sea turtle

Worth a watch: Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.

Always loved the people who are like, "But my ancestors came here the legal way!" and by that they mean they arrived via ratship to an island, a man asked them their name, they were like, "Uh, Jeff... Smith?" another guy said "sure?" and then they became permanent residents of the United States.

individualism is the greatest societal cancer we have ever witnessed, the root of almost all rot in todays world

floodgates to a sea of the most annoying people on earth just opened

Greta Thunberg, arriving back in Europe after her abduction by Israel in international waters, explains in 40 seconds why western governments are colluding in genocide:

If you’re worried about property destruction wait until you hear about climate change

third amendment continues to pull its weight as the secret funniest load bearing cog in america's stupid machine

"You can cover your faces, we can still tell you're pigs" Seen in Seattle

I think if you grabbed any famous thinker from centuries ago and showed them Wikipedia and told them it was free for anyone to access, they would say it is humanity's crowning achievement and would be indifferent to the moon landings, modern medicine, flight, or anything else you showed them

the humble garlic knot

watching oppenheimer the way christopher nolan intended for it to be seen: on a boox palma ereader

This is the hardest I’ve ever been owned online

Grok AI is now randomly inserting mentions of South Africa and white genocide into response to completely random questions x.com/phil_so_sill...

It's 2015. President Barack Obama has accepted a "sky palace" jumbo jet from the Qatari government, which he'll own after he leaves office. "Everybody relax," he says in an interview with the New York Times. Everyone does. The networks then televise the military parade in his honor on his birthday.

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your child will toil valiantly in the factory. it will be masculine. it will restore our national character. it will make america great again. oh my child? my child will run a lucrative rightwing podcast

this feels like an incredible new urban legend taking shape on reddit otoh I've lowkey seen this happen. like jerusalem syndrome but for talking to the computer

i think most white americans who have never been Policed don’t realize that you are always already a criminal. the second anyone with institutional power believes you to be, needs you to be, or wants you to be a criminal you are and always have been.

American exceptionalism is electing a pariah government so repugnant that it tanks the electoral prospects of aligned right wing governments across the entire anglosphere

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Wow it would be really great if someone in Congress just mentioned that he doesn’t have the power to constantly play with tariffs via posts on social media because it’s an enumerated power of Congress

Wow

you don't need to be jacques lacan to see how desperately transmuting material loss into symbolic gain is really just slapping a fancy new signifier atop a yawning black hole but hey it doesn't hurt

lol the united states would never find a way to do a bigger dumber brexit haha

Spotted in Bellingham, WA. @bombsfall.bsky.social

River ecosystems 🌿

Sorry if it's cringe or virtue signaling or whatever but unqualified and unconditional love and support to every trans person on earth. You will win and I will help you.

I do not want to see pictures of that one Based DOGE Zoomer with the broccoli haircut anymore. He looks like if one of the Ghoulies was 1) real and 2) rich enough that his dad owned a sailboat. He looks a toilet brush that somehow developed the ability to become libertarian. Enough.

love it when i am a humanist who believes our only hope is to become a multiplanetary society and have lots of babies and also i cut off all funding to starving infants and NASA

US liberals talk about protecting democracy a lot but they seem to revile it in practice. the idea that a politician should ever be required to do anything to win votes, rather than simply represent an amorphously 'good' or 'bad' team, is treated as some sick heresy

I'm starting to doubt your commitment to queening out bro