"Full speed ahead to uber-woke, net-zeroist rejoinerism" is the funniest thing a Labour MP has said for some time I'll give it that. It's like a Jordan Peterson quote about Elmo.

apart from the ten thousand more immediate things wrong with them (see: racism) it is impossible to ignore how JOYLESS these people are. angrily choking down the worst shit in the world and pretending it’s delicious rather than admit something can be both “good” and “in Spanish” at the same time

Keep Khalil and his family in your thoughts today.

Most people experienced the fall of the Roman Empire as: “One day a bridge collapsed, and no one came to fix it.”

like for context, gun to my head my favorite website was stumbleupon. when that shit launched my mind was blown, i found so many cool artists and musicians through it that i still follow today the internet didnt used to feel like a service that we pay our sanity to use

would really be something if there were consequences, Senator

It's not even midnight and we're already at "Deport Elmo."

I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.

Every time I see "AI" being crammed into another consumer product I think of how in the 50s we put radium in suppositories because "the atom" was the snakeoil hype of the moment

Orgs that care about real justice for survivors of SA are nowhere near this well-funded & even if they were they wouldn't spend that money on football ads! It's disgusting!

i'm baffled by all the people in the replies to posts about the spy doorbells asking for alternatives. like... the alternative is a regualr fucking doorbell with no camera in it. or a door knocker. get you a weird gargoyle guy! you dont need a camera!

There are SO MANY ways to help. So many things need doing; so many kinds of support are useful and good, and only a few ever make it into the public eye via social media/media attention. So how do non-online-all-the-time people find each other? Buttons, hats, and whistles.

doubt this speech will be any different from the others

One of these days, people will look back on these sports betting ads like we do on the ads for patent medicines featuring cocaine.

i love that for the average american, activism is just watching TV the correct way

as the contradictions tighten between our false domestic democracy & brutal foreign policy, the stress will effect an increasing number of ever more marginalized & precarious people. if you do nothing else, then take care of yourself & your neighbors. live on out of spite. we will get through this.

the empire is weak & largely run by the nepobabies of oligarchs with generational wealth. America clings to power through horrible violence as it plunders the rest of the world. Now that same violence & pillaging is coming home to roost in the imperial core. this often happens as an empire dies.

The fact that life goes on despite the incompetence and violence of the supposed rulers and their enforcers is evidence that life can go on even better without them. When people act together in community, keeping out that violent system from above, we make miracles for each other.

it'll take ten years of ads where a smiling man holds a can of beans in front of the camera saying "you eat them. in your mouth" before we can sell a real product again. maybe we never find the golden age of the gorilla on a drum kit ever again

i worry that a 5-year stretch of nothing but ads for NFTs, bitcoin, and AI is a long enough gap that this nation's once-great advertising industry will forget how to sell a product people actually want

Important perspective.

so much of our present misery is just a giant, prolonged backlash to integration

Just saw a post with George Clinton citing the Beatles as his favorite band, which reminded me of this quote he once gave me

Thinking

Like the Mars colony he said would be in existence in 2026 ten years ago?

NB there is no Labour Liz Truss

The dumbest people on earth love this stuff and the most evil people on earth promote this stuff, so

before you post, ask yourself, is this a proper "SKEET?" Stupid Kafkaesque Esoteric Erotic Transsexual

Well I know what image I'm going to be seeing every time The Atlantic posts an article this site doesn't like.

If someone doesn’t believe in abolishing the Gestapo (especially when they’re in a position to do so), then that person is a piece of shit =) it’s that simple

Leaked footage of Starmer's address to the Nation

The monarchy is rotten to its core. It's time to scrap the damned thing and become a real democracy. Agree? ✍️ 👇 greens.scot/AbolishTheMo...

while many of you are likely yelling “go patriots” or “go seahawks!” i’m yelling “go robert mueller and the rule of law!”

"What hardworking, British, middle class, corrupt, evil, gambling lobbyist, white families need to know right know is that I'm deeply, truly sorry that even you aren't fooled by my efforts."

Please help Hammam and his family

Please help Abood

Khalil is truly at his wit's end trying to feed his children every day.

FUUUUUUCK YESSSSSS THE SOCIALIST ABSOLUTELY DESTROYED THE FASCIST IN THE PREZ ELECTION WHERE I LIVE LET ME KNOW IF YOU WANT HELP IMMIGRATING HERE

The Winter Olympics is a series of ‘how on earth did they do that?’ and ‘oh my god the skill involved’ and contrasted to politicians it’s always ‘you’re an idiot, I know a hundred people more competent than you’ and ‘you lack basic skills, you can’t order a sandwich’ and ‘evil’

It is possible for multiple things to be bad without it being a Manchurian candidate criminal conspiracy

The Russian Federation under Vladimir Putin did not create the Department of Homeland Security in the United States which is building the concentration camps that is genociding Latinos here

Or to put it in another way, the pro-Israel wing has become increasingly irrational and iconoclastic in the face of unfriendlier political terrain!

It’s like austerity and Brexit being disastrous, or like how the Iraq War blowing up in our leaders’ faces did at least expose them for who they actually were. But these were also totally unnecessary calamities, and the latter was absolutely horrifying.

It is grimly gratifying to see Mandelson/McSweeney exposed for what they are, but: I have to live here, I have to raise a family here. These idiots fucking it into the sun is very funny but it’s not *good news*, is it? It shows us how utterly boned we are, and it’s not going to get better now.

I’m exactly the type of person he’s talking about and all there is in this situation is minor satisfaction at seeing people who behaved horrifically getting some small measure of justice. We have burned ten years to disaster, just because these clowns refused to accept nobody likes or wants them.