Reminder that Xena: Warrior Princess lasted longer than the Confederacy.

Leon Panetta on CNN saying "In my experience, the Israelis usually fire and then ask questions." It's like a dam broke and everybody who's known about the shit Israel's been doing for decades but wouldn't say anything is coming out of the woodwork

look at how israel lean on other countries unquestioning acceptance of their lies about NRWA workers to justify further atrocities we are complicit in this genocide

Give a man a profile pic, and it's only good for a day; teach a man to hold a fish in it and he has a profile pic for a lifetime.

when u can not find the remote but do not want to move so u just sit there watching the same channel all night

Young man-- there's no need to feel down I said young man-- Pagliacci's in town You can go there-- see the world's greatest clown Now why do- you- wince- so sadly?

"Altman is joining other tech leaders, chiefly Bill Gates, in proposing that we fix the problems caused by our fucking with our atmosphere by... fucking with our atmosphere."

I saw somebody say the sheer volume of murder going on in Gaza is unmatched on earth since the Rwandan genocide in 1994. Thought I had some point to make about the impact of that comparison, but nope. I've got nothing.

The Hulks have chosen a new Pope.

For this same reason I really would like people to stop calling the output from diffusion models 'AI art'. They're not, they're AI-generated images - that's what we researchers call them. It's just hucksters who call it art. Don't let them get away with it through repetition.

How many times are we going to have a study exposing this only for nothing to happen? How many years have we known this now? How many decades?

Turns out I am able to live a perfectly functional online life without using Facebook, Twitter, or Google, a realization that more and more people are coming to after years of these services becoming more and more aggressively hostile to their users.

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“The depth of the horror [in Gaza] surpasses our ability to describe it,” said James Elder, a spokesperson with the United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef). “I’ve not seen that level of devastation in 20 years with the UN."

Every modern genocide has been framed as defensive or retaliatory and I would say not understanding that disqualifies you from weighing in on the subject

They’ve arrived at a place where “be the absolute biggest fucking asshole you can be at all times” is a sign of in-group virtue! It’s very weird.

And the broader point here is how much antisocial behavior is now embraced and coded as conservative and pro-social behavior is coded as left wing! They’ve decided that not being a gross weirdo is “woke.”

I'll be sharing some pictures of birds that have visited my yard over the past few years . . . Black Capped Chickadee #BirdsinMyYard

Breaking Good News: Of The Tens Of Millions Of Children Infected With Covid, Only Tens Of Millions Of Them Will Have Increased Risk Of Lifelong Life-Changing Life-Shortening Health Conditions

more children killed in Gaza in four months than in all global conflicts the past four years

baby Tarragon was so wiggly

the entire "social media ideological bubbles" talking point is wild. I'm not "preventing myself from considering disparate views", I hear right-wing politics ALL THE TIME: they're bad. That's the problem. I hang in leftist communities to get a BREAK from hearing ghoulish dogshit.

the thing about the vances, the hawleys, the cottons and the desantises is that they all have loser energy, meaning they all have politics that seem to emerge from deep seated feelings of social inadequacy and resentment toward people with the status they crave

Find someone who holds you like Shanitoba caresses a tub of ketchup.

A weird fact about our cat is that she loves to eat roses. Truly she knows that we need bread and roses too.

The reviews are in: Self-proclaimed originalists aren't happy with the Supreme Court's Trump ballot ruling, with one calling it a "disaster." And some say it's just another illustration of how originalism is "bullshit." More here: www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...

My wife asked if we could foster kittens again. I told her definitely not, we have too much else going on, so just NO. Anyway, here's the mom and two of the four kittens we're fostering now. I've named the one with his mouth open "Belphegor, High Kitten of Gluttony" (We're still workshopping it).

IT WAS SO GOOD Y’ALL

It's not just Netanyahu. "Benny Gantz, who was seen as the alternative to Netanyahu, campaigned on the promise of annexing more Palestinian land, and being more belligerent towards Gaza. Gantz, who was at the helm of Israel’s 2014 butchery in Gaza, was seen as a center left politician in Israel."

I wrote my first novel than when I was 50. I'm over 60 and I'm writing in genres I've never written in before. This.

This girl 🥹

After someone has apologized, either you can accept the apology in good faith, or you can continue to complain and use that person as your Teachable Moment. If you're in the second category, you are why we can't have nice things. It enforces a system where people aren't allowed to make mistakes.

I think I spilled some coke on my carpet the other day because I just vacuumed earlier and my vacuum cleaner won't turn off and keeps pitching me business ideas

Arlo sees how hard you're trying, and knows you are enough

Flashback photo of an earnest Trinket demanding to go outside (before she learned how to use the door bell)

My friend insists it is not so much that the pandemic has changed people as that it has revealed who they always were but if that is the case there are so many people who I liked better before the pandemic revealed who they always were.

The King of England lies dying and one of his sons has been exiled. A princess has vanished. Plague stalks the land and the Treasury has been plundered. NOW is the time for strange women lying in ponds to distribute swords to form the basis of government.

HECKING BIG CONCERN

The moments have shrunk Now they are even more precious

With great power comes great damage to the empathy center of your brain

Fuck it, I’m tapping the sign

This joke’s for all the D&D nerds out there. You know who you are.

WHAT DID I TELL Y'ALL ABOUT NOT FUCKING WITH POSEIDON The ocean is pitiless and cares nothing for fragile humans and their homes

"On top of record low unemployment and a stock market at all time highs, wage inequality is compressing" is extremely good news about the Biden Boom economy and the exact reason a lot of bosses, capitalists and other parasites are calling loudly for austerity and tight monetary policy to kill it.

Seriously - people are making new, bold art all the time, all over the world, as they always have been. **Support them.** Please don't force indie artists to have to put on a "it's so dire" *show* to get support. Support and boost *all* the time. Before it's dire. This affects us *all*.

Mr. T pities the fool. Mr. T pities the hierophant. Mr. T pities the hermit. what I’m saying is that Mr. T pities the entire tarot deck