Black people five years ago: you know, they can kill anyone they want to out there Everybody today: hot damn, did you know they can kill anyone they want to out there?

A friend in Minneapolis just sent me this video. Looks like thousands have come together for a vigil after an ICE agent shot and killed 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good. This was my neighborhood for several years before coming to Portland.

You and your wife drop your 6-year-old off at school. You just moved here. You see ICE terrorizing your new neighbors. You film them, as is your legal right. Your wife complies with orders. She is then shot in the head. You still have to pick up your child later today. This could be you.

Welcome to finding out what it’s like to be a Black person in America.

My second favorite Lynch film

🤬 The Swearsky Index is currently much higher than normal at 5.6%.

Not super fun to think about the degree to which literal brain damage is setting the American agenda at the moment

Fukushima Mizuho of Japan’s Social Democratic Party opposes govt plans to create an anti-spy law & external spy agency. She says: “This would create a surveillance society; it’s preparation for war”. She claims even oshikatsu (fan behaviour) wouldn’t be allowed. www.sankei.com/article/2026...

AOC: ICE has less accountability than virtually any law enforcement agency in the U.S., yet they are some of the most well-funded, operating with impunity—and we just saw them murder an American citizen in cold blood in the street.

Really worth watching this interview with a bystander who witnessed the ICE shooting in Minneapolis: "I'm pretty right-leaning. But seeing this, this is not how we're supposed to be doing things in America.”

This kind of crass, absurd and obscene embrace of willful murder from a top official is basically participation in murder after the fact

If you think about it, isekai and getting off have something in common. Getting hit by a Hitachi.

Her name was Renee Nicole Good and she was murdered by an ICE officer today in Minnesota. She was only 37 years old.

A 6-year-old just lost his mother. A woman was shot in the face in front of her wife. The swift, lockstep attempt to dehumanize and villainize Renee Nicole Good might be the most depraved thing we've seen yet from these ghouls and their supporters. These people are utterly fucking dead inside.

I met Renee and her wife just a few weeks ago. She fed me tea and cookies at her house while we talked about school stuff. Such a warm and loving mother. This is tragic beyond words.

I'm sorry, but I just think it's very telling when we differentiate between ICE's killing of American citizens versus undocumented immigrants. And I'm seeing that a lot right now.

Like I said: ICE done fucked up by killing a white woman. It was barely a blip on the news when they killed brown people. But an American white woman? Now people will get mad.

If they could do this to Renee Nicole Good, they could do this to you. This is a lawless regime.

An ICE agent shot Renee Nicole Good, then agents refused to let any medical personnel treat her. They straight up murdered that woman

me: i really need to cut down on my weed consumption things in world: happen me: dammit

Dismantle ICE. Nothing but a band of thugs and murderers

Mayor Jacob Frey: “To ICE, get the fuck out of Minneapolis.”

Abolish and prosecute ICE. They did a murder in broad daylight today. Imagine what they're doing in the closed facilities we're somehow not even allowed to see.

More impunity invites more brazen acts of violence against innocent bystanders.

"act of domestic terrorism" The whole thing is literally on video, just fyi

Mayor Jacob Frey: "They are already trying to spin this as an action of self defense. Having seen the video myself, I want to tell everybody directly that is bullshit."

They will murder unarmed citizens and then accuse them of wrongdoing. Zero sense of accountability or shame.

man there’s just nothing you can be in the middle of when the feds kill you that’s innocent enough to dissuade this kind of spin is there. you can be halfway through the three point turn that would have driven you away from them when they murder you and they’ll still call it domestic terrorism

I’m officially a convert to double edged safety razors. Takes a little more time to use but the results are amazing and the blades are soooo cheap

No one I’ve admitted this year for influenza has been vaccinated.

"I went on Twitter and I saw all these terrible posts" Oh fuck man really? Did you also go to the dump and find a bunch of rotting food? Why are you making it my problem now.

Tokyo Shimbun editorial: "For the sake of bringing the United States back to the rule of law, the Japanese government must denounce the Trump administration's attack on Venezuela and the detention of Maduro."

Psst, a lot of you who think fujoshi means "annoying straight woman who is obsessed with gay men" should use this instead

Scott Adams practiced the ancient Japanese art of 自業自得

Wifey just informed me about this Japanese gem 草草草

Porn and erotica are important and societally valuable forms of speech, and the defense of them, in the face of state and church attempts at repression, is a necessary political act.

If your position is that regime change should be forced on countries where the president does not respect democratic norms and regularly kidnaps opponents using an officially sanctioned paramiliatary, have I got news for you about your position on the United States

Update: I got all my money back and the finder didn't want any compensation (under Japanese law, finders can request the owner 5~20% of the value of the lost property)

tech companies using society as a staging server

Watching Trump speak and justify why the US is entitled to invade another country and kidnap the president makes me think that when we started talking about the “post-truth” era, we had no idea of how deeply post-truth it’d become. Perception of reality is now random and optional.

This all seems pretty unbecoming of a FIFA Peace Prize winner

Why are people calling for Trump to be impeached when they know that absolutely won't happen under the current gov? Realistic action, please

More to my personal list of reasons.

Grok Can't Apologize. Grok Isn't Sentient. So Why Do Headlines Keep Saying It Did? open.substack.com/pub/readtpa/...

I didn't even need this to hate Christianity, opening a history book is enough for that. But hatred can always go up.

sometimes I’ll make a joke to my wife and she’ll roll her eyes and ask if I’m “gonna post that one on bluesky.” I mean, yes, but her tone is very hurtful

It’s no guarantee but the first thing you should do if you see an outrageous story that’s just an image or screenshot or video with no link to a reputable source is to check the replies and see if someone is saying “that’s an AI fake.” And then don’t spread it either way because it’s not sourced.

This is a thread of major media outlets falsely anthropomorphising the "Grok" chatbot program and in doing so, actively and directly removing responsibility and accountability from individual people working at X who created a child pornography generator (Elon Musk, Nikita Bier etc) #1: Reuters

Japanese Christians proselytizing outside of Meiji Jingu during Oshogatsu, the largest time of the year for Shinto shrines, crystallizes why I hate Christianity