This was more relevant when writers were assumed to have grown up on a farm, been to war and traveled in a different country, then moved to the big city before going to a writing workshop.

The podcast's tagline is, "Family therapy through politics." Frankly, I think it's some sort of sick debasement ritual to stick this out. They can call the parents stupid, but who are the stupid ones, the morally nihilistic authoritarians or the ones expecting them to change? Let's get real.

They tried to bury us… they forgot we were ONIONS! 😤 🧅 🧅

People will say this and be shocked when their party becomes a sectarian microcult

When my uncle died, I got a call at work and I called back during break. I went back to work, then cried in the bathroom. I went back to work. I’d like to think this is an Amazon problem but it wasn’t. I genuinely can’t handle the inhumanity of capitalism.

Decades ago, Kris Hansen showed 3M that its PFAS chemicals were in people's bodies. Her bosses halted her work. Now she wrestles with the secrets that 3M kept from her and the world. (Published May 2024)

the whole thing reminds me a lot of a post i saw, i forget if it was here or elsewhere, went something like "i opened a game's accessibility menu and found a bunch of cheat codes and no option to resize the subtitles"

With his new comedy show and debut novel, is it time to let Louis C.K. force women to watch him masturbate again?

Lmaaaoooo katietightpussy blocked me for commenting that her take on Weapons was stupid in someone else’s thread.

What will Zohran Mamdani do about this?

What are posts like this supposed to accomplish? Do people think that oppressed people are hopeless and in despair because someone told them it was cringe to be hopeful?

There is no “cloud,” just someone else's computer—and when the cops come knocking on their door, these hosts need to be willing to stand up for privacy. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

most monogamists never establish enthusiastic consent around exclusivity

She hated it. She cried about it. But she followed orders.

It’s why conservative discourse practically never attempts to defend conservative ideas on the merits, but instead cry about it how it’s unfair that they don‘t win automatically.

I strongly believe the only reason drag story hours were not riddled with bullets is because counter protestors (leftists) showed up strapped in response to anti trans folks showing up with AR-15s

"Heartwarming: Homeless man literally crushed to death by the state causes others to think deeply about the meaning and impermanence of life." I am going to become the fucking Joker

This shit is why I hate veterans. It’s the most crybaby bullshit about how they’re the real victim for killing all those people. Like the guy I worked with who came crying to me about how he kept seeing the little girl he killed and how he wanted to kill himself. Hated playing therapist for monsters

In 2024 I enrolled in university and since then I had to drop out because of the same reasons I can’t hold a job but it was stunning how illiterate my classmates were. I know I’m a better reader and writer than even my cohort but it was worse than 2000s high school.

of course the inverse of these findings we already know: cars kill not just through traffic violence, but also through trapping older people in socially isolated car deserts, barring the physical body both from participating in its own transportation and also the community at large

Stephen Miller fully expects to live as long as Kissinger, and there's literally no evidence he is wrong. When was the last time the US *didn't* reward the architects of genocide with a lifetime of comfort, wealth, freedom, and continued influence on policy?

Universities are assembling larger and larger teams to deal with academic integrity issues--mostly focused on AI--while simultaneously holding AI "writing" contests, AI-themed events, "hey, come play with these fun tools!" The messages are so mixed, it's criminal. Because AI is bloated with money.

An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.

At left: a New York Times letter to the editor from October 9, 2001, warning that "the newly formed homeland security office" could lead America to a very dark place At right: Tweets today from the Trump Department of Homeland Security

The EU's criminalization of saving lives at sea + illegal pushbacks in the Mediterranean set the stage for Trump's bombing campaign against South American fishermen.

The EU has still killed more civilians in the Mediterranean than Trump has killed off the shores of Venezuela.

ICE still FROZEN at Centre St & Howard in lower Manhattan right now as calls continue circulating for people to join. NYPD arriving with barricades.

The problem with fetishizing the rule of law is that people have to break the law to resist fascism, state violence, and oppression. This has always been true, and is very much the case RIGHT NOW.

"The agreement places no restrictions on our transgender community." Except whether they can play sports, where they can use the bathroom or locker room, what kind of housing they can live in, and what healthcare they can receive.

In rigidly hierarchical organisations like LGB Alliance, it is not surprising that sexual harassment and sexual assault are endemic, and its perpetrators protected by its elite members

I can’t stop thinking about this. It seems like MAGA literally has a psychological disorder. A genuine mass psychosis caused by encouraging the overdevelopment of id to the detriment of everything else, especially superego. These people genuinely don’t know or care how they look to healthy people.

Remember our enemies think middle school level writing is good.

calmly explaining why we shouldn't bomb random venezuelan boats to people who argued we should torture random iraqis and then won an election by saying they were against a war they advocated for

incredible quote lol

"Canadian-made weapons, mining interests, and restrictive refugee policies have contributed to the current atrocities in North Darfur." "It’s past time for Canada to end its complicity in the genocide." #Canada #Sudan #UAE #Mining #Asylum #Genocide #Military #Weapons

How is this different from what MAGA would do to support ICE?

Violent Urges #scene #emo #art

Jordan destroyed morale by assembling various orders from restaurants and caused untold amounts of mental damage

Really valuable and honest piece by friend and comrade @nikeshshukla.bsky.social about the anti-immigration protests at hotels this year. There's a danger in trying to "understand" someone's hate if it's based on the faulty assumption that there's anything to understand in the first place.

You need to write a six page essay on the Critique of the Gotha Programme before you can join the polycule

We need cracker control posthaste

I don't recall where I found this, but I'd say this looks about right.

"Jewish-Israeli high schoolers showed up to the courtroom ... chanted 'Death to Arabs' at the Palestinian families and lawyers, and proceeded to shove and spit on them. Rather than intervene, the court security personnel screamed at the Palestinian families and forced them to exit."

One really cool way of making sure American soldiers don't get killed while occupying American cities is to not deploy soldiers to occupy American cities

The DC shooting story is really getting to me because we literally trained this man as a child soldier for a death squad in a forever war and Stephen Miller et al want to blame it on other cultures? It's our culture, American culture, that killed that woman.

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