Doing some video research and I just hit this gem in 'The Running Man': "His face subtle and Chinese with disappointment" Jesus christ Stephen lmao

"Data centers are proliferating in VA and a blind man in [MD] is suddenly contending with sharply higher power bills...It’s an increasingly dramatic ripple effect of the AI boom as energy-hungry data centers...[pull]...households into paying for the digital economy" www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

my Saudi prince saw a sign that said FREE PARKING and panicked that it said FREE INDENTURED LABORERS. the Saudis are tiiiiiiiired

Boycotting Saudi Arabia, the only democracy in the Middle East and a country which deeply shares our values, is anti-Arab racism. What about the other 180+ countries that also have human rights violations?

When I am at an anime convention and meet other shippers:

It is actually peak absurdity that we still have people arguing that voters should bend to the positions of their political representatives instead of the other way around.

Now is the time to be brave. Republicans in Georgia have controlled our state for over 20 years leading to underfunded schools, closing hospitals, & low wages stuck at $5.15. I'm running for Governor to change that.

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yeah, someone who has written extensively on american racial apartheid would have no insight on the israeli state

The problem with this supposition is that everything that drove these revolutions to occur is mostly accounted for now. These revolutionaries gained their principles under absolutist monarchies and dictatorships that hyperexploited them.

Though they don't understand it in this way, I think a lot of Democratic politicians intuitively understand that an increasing number of their constituents find this grand vision - a capitalist society that also takes care of workers and taxes the rich - completely implausible

Unfortunately it's too late, I've already portrayed myself as the cool dog stealing sausages and you as the humidity riddled furious kitten.

The problem with this point-of-view is that it is imagining some kind of hyper-progressive actuality of liberalism being denied somehow by liberal politicians, liberal ideologues, and even everyday liberals that all repeatedly assure people like Aubery that liberals are, indeed, center-right and

Discworld QOTD, from Going Postal

🚨 New directive NSPM-7 targets "anti-capitalism," “anti-Christian,” and “anti-American" opinions as indicators of extremist violence, authorizing an army of 4,000 counter-terrorism officers to prevent crimes that haven't happened: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/trumps-nsp...

Gutted at the news that Kaleb Horton is gone. Kaleb was a brilliant writer, of course, but he was also a gifted photographer. Years ago I encouraged him to sell his pieces. His work was so good, I told him, and people should see it. Here are some of his beautiful shots.

Trump: everyone in the US died from drugs last week Reporter: [nods] Trump: so we must murder on the high seas Reporter: [nods] Trump: I caught Trix rabbit once Reporter: [nods] Trump: the cock on that bunny Reporter: [nods] Trump: bigger than you think Headline: Trump Policy Seeks To Save Lives

I don’t really think shaming Dearborn, Michigan, as an entire municipality, for ”protesting” the democratic candidate really zings like the insult you think it does in September of 2025. I suspect the salience of this issue, however, is helped when you’re not a white guy slinging it around.

State Dept's revoking visa of Colombia's president because he said in Spanish "That's why from here, from New York I ask all the soldiers of the army of the United States not to point their guns at people. Disobey the orders of Trump. Obey the orders of humanity." www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

If someone from another country explained that their president could violate their constitution's plain text but that it was completely legitimate because lifetime judges who belong to political parties said he could on the "shadow docket," you would laugh at them because their country is primitive.

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JERUSALEM (AP) — In 'unprecedented operation,' Israeli army takes over mobile phones of Gaza residents to carry Netanyahu UN speech live.

Soggy Uni's meow!

Are you truly into that conflict if you do not call it "The Great War", or even "The First Great War"? This is one of my crank opinions as a History Guy™️

This generic acetaminophen had an Amtrak ACS-64, four Amfleet 1 cars, a Conrail EMD GP15-1, and some Conrail rolling stock in it. The problem is more serious than I thought.

Saw someone post about how it's really fucked up that we all have to speculate about whether or not the FBI manufactured evidence to back their version of events. The thing is, you should always suspect that about law enforcement—these guys are just more clown-ish and obvious about it.

I am struggling to read Pynchon's 'Vineland', I feel so ashamed lmao

This is huge: “A drug that provides near-perfect protection against H.I.V. with shots just twice a year will be made available at $40 per patient annually in low- and middle-income countries, offering new hope… making lenacapavir a realistic choice in countries with constrained resources.”

this is real

UN says the genocide in Gaza won't stop as it's profitable. Palestine is a training field to test weapons & surveillance tech that are now sold worldwide. Those making billions? Palantir, Lockheed Martin, Alphabet, Amazon, IBM, Caterpillar, Microsoft, MIT, Blackrock, insurers, real estate firms.

I keep thinking of all the soft boiled liberal defenses of this genocide from 2 years ago, how many smart people i saw on here defend it, the lies, the rationalizations, all of it. It was obvious within days and I wish this humility would actually leave a mark upon those who dutifully defended it.

The question is not "can" or "if", but "why" should Liberalism be saved. The ideology is centuries old and achieved total victory in the 20th century; we are still living within the Liberal World, with every president and institution having operated within and without as such.

Thinking “titans of industry” are the “guardrails to democracy” is just as dumb as any maga brained science. Honesty dumber because Ivermectin doesn’t give you covid

I regret to inform you that Gwar has pushed the boundaries of good taste.

I mean... is he wrong, though? Looking back on America, the West, and all other's interactions with the so-called "international law" reveals an imperial doublestandard: international law as PR, unchecked violence, expansion, and brutality since 1945. We are still living in the GWOT!!

To be clear: this entire “we’ve got to run more pro-lifers” insanity is because literally a week ago polling showed that Democrats would prefer politicians like AOC and Mamdani over Jefferies and Schumer by, let me emphasize this, a 20 point fucking margin. www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

The Dunning-Kruger Effect continues to prove itself every day. "Why won't the GOP impeach Trump/RFK Jr./etc??" I dunno man, something about wanting to keep power and not destroy their party, stupid shit like that. I'm sure it'll happen any day now, nevermind the haters. Keep asking the Big Questions

Capitalism has time and again shown no other recourse but to concentrate resources into a vanishingly smaller group of hands. It is inherently an authoritarian system.

I feel real bad for everyone who's been struggling to care for a delusional family member, watching whatever progress they've made get annihilated by ChatGPT in an afternoon.

this exists it is called thinking

Happy Fraggy Friday

While PRRI finds that around 4 in 10 Americans hold strong authoritarian views, adherence to authoritarian and Christian nationalist views differ across race. Read more in the Spotlight Analysis from PRRI Public Fellow Michael R. Fisher Jr., Ph.D., where he explores these differences.

Biden did this shit *to Obama*

Fewer girls are playing sports after govt erected barriers for girls to play sports. edmontonjournal.com/news/local-n...

the people who loudly proclaim your kids shouldnt go to college all went to yale and duke. the people who are working tirelessly to ensure your children work in factories send their own kids to stanford and give them control of their own investment banks in their 20s