spiritual seeking is all fun and games until the YouTube algorithm decides (again) to try the lizard cabal / interdimensional overlord / prison planet / aliens make you trans / woke mind virus pipeline time to turn the computer off maybe forever

What a perfect metaphor lol

"Beware of any Christian movement that acts as though the world is full of enemies to be destroyed rather than full of neighbors to be loved. Beware of any Christian movement that demands the government be an instrument of God's wrath, but never a source of God's mercy, generosity, or compassion."

you’re never a former theater kid, you’re always a theater kid in recovery

nah this slaps though

i have a similar rule for friends and colleagues: engage in human trafficking up to sixteen times, that's all well and good. seventeen? you done crossed a line, son.

In Monrovia, California, protesters are purchasing 17¢ ICE scrapers from Home Depot and immediately returning them to create long lines and slow down the entire store. Their aim is to disrupt sales and convey a message opposing ICE raids occurring in their neighborhood.

Quantum Candy

Every time I see piggy lash out, I remember this.

OK, Tina. We will press you, then. What have you done to jam up the Trump agenda? Have you ever refused unanimous consent? Have you ever forced a quorum call? Have you ever taken to the floor of the U.S. Senate to denounce this president and argue for his impeachment and conviction?

Various group-philosophical pessimisms will have you believing that universalism is impossible, not worth striving for. That if you don't oppress, you will inevitably be a victim. I refuse. We are best protected by democracy, by the rule of law, by human and civil rights.

yes! cutting edge science!

Thinking really deep thoughts about that episode of Star Trek TNG where Picard learns to play a tiny flute

I believe the word is kleptocrat.

What if science discovered that meditating next to plants made them grow really good and so all of industrial farming collapsed overnight and suddenly the most valuable skill across the land is agricultural scale plant meditation and suddenly ha haaaaaa I am the richest man in town!!!

again i am perfectly fine with locking every one of Jeffrey Epstein's friends in prison, Democrat, Republican or Whatever.

it is insane that this is real

started an online qigong class today through our local community education program. it was great, but the best part was my cat instantly detecting the nice warm bubble of qi building in my lower dantian, and insisting upon his right to sit there, not budging

more people need to read Cyclonopedia.

There's enough for everyone—but they'd rather throw it away than share it with you. crimethinc.com/posters/capi...

PSA

hey bub, why don’t you make like a tree and grow deep, stable roots that’ll nourish and sustain you for years to come

Republican failures in voting rights cases continues to be a dominant theme of election law in 2025, just as it has been for the last five years. Perhaps more in the legacy media could cover this important trend.

Lmao literally having a "we're rich" party while they cut SNAP is like cartoon level evil it's like the villain in a Dr. Seuss book

Algorithm served two interesting videos today: 1st was the latest @neongalactic.bsky.social with Jim Garrison (youtu.be/YqoWfl5_1uA?...) and another from @drmichaellevin.bsky.social "Against Mind-Blindness" (youtu.be/x9qb3bKREI4?...) Maybe Dr. Levin's lab could win that $100,000 prize lol

www.the-taoism-for-modern-world.com/podcast-tran... Slowly learning more and more about Taoism over the years. This podcast really has me hoping the whole Qi power is stronger than Martial power thing is legit because... (gestures at everything)

Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.

Wishing all of you the peace I find in the natural world everyday. Good night, friends. Hold fast for this week - we need you.

This video from Portland is a metaphor for what is going on in America. ICE trying so hard to get Americans to cross a line and if they don't, dragging them across the line and violently attacking.

"Tzefardea Tzedek" (Frog of Righteousness) As soon as the Portland Frog became a meme, Jewish social media blew up with jokes about the 2nd Passover plague - tzefarde'a (frogs) - and the Rabbinical commentary around it. I knew I had to make a calligraphy piece encompassing all of it. (more in alt.)

its remarkable to see random suburbanites in their fucking PJs have more courage than the vast majority of america's political, social, and civil elites

I’ve been to a good number of protests recently, today’s focused on Sec. Noem near Minneapolis was the loudest and most tense I’ve experienced. It was particularly moving to see faith leaders standing together across the front doors as the crowd settled down into a more comfortable vibe.

This dark time should wake us up to the bankruptcy of the corporate Democratic Party. It should mark the birth of the people’s Democratic Party. Zohran Mamdani and others like him are its future. Some thoughts... https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-mamdani-moment

Stay the course. Polls put Dems so far ahead it will be a blue tsunami despite the gerrymandering

Stop acting like we don’t get to decide the outcome.

Tis the season🦇

the symbolism of “Trump destroying the White House for a overpriced luxury vanity project, during a government shut down, days after a historically-large mass demonstration against his regime called “No Kings”’ would be rightly viewed as laying it on a little thick if it was in a work of fiction

the president has destroyed the east wing of the white house without so much as a word of input from anyone else to build a royal ballroom paid for with bribes

looking at the birds

The AWS outage today is a good reminder that there is no "cloud", there's just somebody else's computer.

No image has ever spoken so succinctly about the current situation in the US.

BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Fiction is important because it’s just not safe to rawdog reality anymore

Heads up: We will be calling for a National Economic Blackout on Black Friday (11/28). Please join us as we suspend all economic activity on the most important shopping day of the year. Spread the word about Black(out) Friday.

every morning I believe I am coping with how deeply weird the world has become yet every evening I am proven wrong