Today’s xkcd made me cry. In a good way. xkcd.com/3172/

Sometimes I think it’s going to be the librarians who will save us all.

important to realize just how seriously feelings of powerlessness in the face of vast structures & a learned understanding of the futility of individual effort are generational givens that anybody my age or older (work hard! succeed! things work out!) has no way to fully grasp—but we need to try

Just dropped the second trailer for our upcoming game Australia Did It, this time diving into the gameplay and explaining the cool blend the team blended out of this mix of turn based strategy and bullet heaven game. youtu.be/nHvQ6fCmfkc

This film is delightfully fun. If there's a showing near you, I strongly urge you to make the time for it.

With #AltText, because I am so fucking tired of you all cutting disabled people out of important information.

So Harvard is keeping this guy, but Claudine Gay had to step down over ginned up plagiarism accusations and bad-faith accusations of anti-Semitism. Got it.

when will the lesson finally get learned? #cloudflare

We're primarying John Fetterman. Last week, Fetterman again sold out working Pennsylvanians. He was the deciding vote for a Republican budget bill that will strip healthcare from over 400,000 Pennsylvanians. We deserve real working class leadership in the Senate, not a Trump-enabling Democrat.

Afternoon Sol 1686 MastCam-Z mosaic of the Jezero Crater rim from the Mars Perseverance Rover. flic.kr/p/2rFXSip

Nothing is a better demonstration of the anti-scientific nature of banning trans women from sports than the fact that the IOC's OWN STUDY found no evidence trans women have any advantage over cis women in sports, but they're planning on going ahead with banning us anyways

We need your help! But let me explain why:

NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen. Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

Look, sometimes posting here can be a grind, but you have to jump in feet first and everything will come out fine on the other side

First off, my suspension has ended. Got a little harsh with a post a few days ago but I didn’t have my feet on the ground and I’m sorry if I offended anyone. Will try to be more chipper. Knock on wood!

“The US has the best healthcare in the world if you can afford it!” You can’t afford it. Star of one of the biggest TV shows of all time can’t afford it. Capitalism is a disease, and every day it goes on our prognosis gets worse. But we have a cure right in front of us.

"What if one of YOUR favorite politicians/celebrities/etc is on the list?" Did you all not notice how quickly we dropped Neil Gaiman when we found out about the things he did? Do you know how beloved that guy used to be and how loathed he is now? I think that right there should answer your question.

Any other time, any other President, and "the dude was in a global conspiracy to fuck them kids" would have been 24/7 coverage. Even Dubya. I remember the fucking Lewinsky coverage. Our media have become craven hacks carrying water for rich pedophiles and I feel insane typing that but there it is.

*Enslaves/loots entire continents, starves entire nations, commits the Holocaust* "Those people over there sure are violent"

Remember when the people who started two world wars and developed/used nuclear weaponry spent the 80s musing if Black/brown people were just naturally, genetically violent

Throw them all in jail, seize their fortunes, give us UBI and healthcare. I know I'm just fantasizing but it's weird how many people don't realize that THIS is what everyone on the left is thinking about, not protecting abusers who happen to be Democrats.

You apparently get the same suspension time for posting tongue-in-cheek song lyrics as you do for harvesting hundreds of nudes from trans users and sharing a link to a big album of them all.

Yes there's a lot of denial, but I've seen it: when it snaps, it snaps hard. "Powerful men covered up child sex abuse" isn't outlandish when you've seen that happen in church, boy scouts, school athletics, and every other social pillar of your conservative middle-class life in the past few decades.

There would be nothing wrong with AI substituting people in jobs, if there were a system already in place for the distribution of the wealth generated by AI jobs at a universal level (universal basic income guarantee).

Universal, Unconditional Healthcare, Education and Basic Income. If we want to stop being a late stage capitalist hellhole, where it's OK for people to starve, or die of preventable diseases, or work themselves to the nubs while a small fraction of people hoard wealth, this is where we start.

this is how joyce carol oates executed elon musk on live television

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This deal to reopen the government is fucking disgraceful. Tens of millions will lose their healthcare. Trump will be emboldened. This is exactly what’s wrong with Democratic Party leadership and why we need more people in Congress who will actually hold the line.

chuck schumer needs to be primaried into the earth’s core. I want that man BURIED.

NEWS — The Oregon Department of Human Services has issued 100% of November SNAP benefits, per an alert on their website. I've received reports that the funds have already hit recipients' EBT accounts. www.oregon.gov/odhs/news/Pa...

It’s not your fault. It’s the most cynical abuse of people who believed there can be ethical consumption under capitalism. You were sold the idea of a car that doesn’t destroy our environment. What you did was finance global dictatorships & mass murder. You should be so irate that you burn the car.

If you have a Tesla you should get rid of it immediately.

Our social assistance system - Broken Employment insurance - Broken Financial supports for disabled people - Broken Health care - Inadequate without dental, medication and mental health No wonder so many people go hungry and lack a home. UBI helps everyone live better lives.

Again, these maps have got to be causing a massive panic in any state where they're considering gerrymandering.

I have to imagine far-right Catholics are really struggling with the fact that they can now hear this stuff in English directly from the pope.

Thank you, New York City. Together we made history. Now let’s get to work. transition2025.com

That's what's up!

This needs more attention: Zohran SPLIT the straights with Cuomo. ALL of his margin was from LGBTQ+ voters. Every Dem who ever said “we should abandon the transes” needs this shoved down their fucking throat with a ramrod.

Friends in Brooklyn! Thrilled by the victory and eager for MORE ACTION??? Come to the @bkindivisible.bsky.social meeting TONIGHT at 7 pm! Love this group - they DO THINGS! LOTS of things! Something for everyone, whatever kind of activism you're interested in!

Find your polling place here! Early voting continues through Sunday, 11/2. And then Election Day is 11/4. Your early voting and election day polling sites may be different, so be sure to check! Vote early if you can, but definitely VOTE! vote.nyc

FUUUUUUUUCK THIS COUNTRY

Apropos of nothing: It is vitally important to always have a person in your life that will not hesitate to, honestly and kindly, tell you when you are completely full of shit.

#Etchtober Day 17 Today's prompt: "Bill & Ted in the phone booth," requested by @jesseferguson.bsky.social (of course!) You get a two-fer today because I wasn't entirely satisfied with my first attempt. www.kickstarter.com/projects/jhl...