That’s why I hang onto this meme

the lesson of the pandemic lockdowns should have been "the only people important to the functioning of society are the workers who actually do things" if every rich asshole on earth vanished in a puff of smoke tomorrow, nobody would notice or care

✨⚔️🌅 ~ Commission for a friend on Discord! #commission #ffxiv #ffxivart

If you're celebrating this (you should) and also wondering why the Democrats didn't do the same with Trump, just remember that the Biden administration wanted to nominate Yoon for the Nobel Peace Prize because they saw him as key to their Asia strategy, at the expense of the Korean people.

The latest Dollars & Sense pod is up - talking about wages, Coles and wondering whether businesses raising prices to increase profits affects inflation (which measures how much prices go up….) australiainstitute.org.au/post/real-wa...

You have to. Politicians aren't your friends, and you're not their fans. "Critical support", if you will Rid your minds of the idea that you have to support a politician 100% or 0%. They are not infallible beings and a single error doesn't make them evil

Yes, but if the Council of Nicaea *had* been overseen by an English unitary authority with a directly-elected mayor, I reckon we’d have more consistent dates for Easter. The movable feast thing plays havoc with the bin collection timetables.

I support the idea of Elordi being Bond purely because of that time he allegedly hit a Kyle and Jackie O producer for being a creep at a bar

heard a few audio grabs of this clip later and seems our friendly press gallery folks are editing the clip to erase Albanese’s specific contempt for mothers. Which gender-neutralises his statement and thereby hides his misogyny from their audience. Which is misinformation.

Love those famous sitcom catchphrases

Yesterday I gave a guest lecture in a colleague's class. They had just wrapped up the ODYSSEY and had discussed other epics like the RAMAYANA before reading an excerpt from my FEATHERED SERPENT, DARK HEART OF SKY: MYTHS OF MEXICO. I discussed an "Aztec" equivalent to "arete" and "dharma." 1/

The power of stories to explain culture, and of context to understand stories.

Travelers has an actually pretty great portrait of an abuser - including the rarely-shown honeymoon period where he's charming and seems to have genuinely turned things around That's the thing that makes them harder to deal with. You can write off the bad stuff as the aberration

there's final fantasy discourse on the TL so ill just add that the best Final Fantasy is Final Fantasy XII: Zodiac Age and if you disagree you can sound off in the replies

I personally wouldn’t consider “you rolled the weakest ass coup imaginable” as a mitigating but it’s funny to throw it in his face like this at least.

When South Korea successfully stopped a coup, arrested the former president, and prosecuted him, it sent a very strong message to everyone else: "You can trust that 4 years from now, you won't have to worry about him returning and fucking everything up." The US under Biden did the exact opposite.

After 222 responses, I can objectively determine that it's clocky to have a small penis

This came across my feed again so I must make it cross all of yours again because this rendition of Much Ado About Nothing is simply fantastic. A link to the full production via Internet Archive is in the thread and I *highly* recommend it.

It turns out the hate speech laws were always going to be used to target satirical antifascist use of hate symbols, rather than their genuine use by fascists, with which the Government is completely on board

There's a lot of middle-class women of color in the UK who are pretty all-in on the trans panic. It seems to be common thing with conservatives who have one or more marginalized identities to just not consider whether runaway Nationalism is eventually going to be a problem for them.

The reality is that we are less successful than the final phases of the queer rights movement because we are operating in a far more and increasingly hostile environment, facing far more money and centralised power, and being more universally sold out. Messaging is just window dressing

noting that AI proponents sound exactly like Newsom stans in how they treat people

A decapitated snake, for example a cottonmouth, can still bite you and kill you if you're not careful. No thought, no target, just unthinking instinctual violence. The essence of the snake, in its final moment, reduced to mindless violence.

Part 1 was yesterday. bsky.app/profile/rick...

let me say that again: rational self-interest as a cis woman requires protecting trans rights and if you’ve let yourself be convinced that the interests of cis women and the interests of trans people are opposed, rather than aligned, you have fallen for a psyop

If your definition of socialism isn't based around the liberation of the proeltariat by seizing the means of production, your definition of socialism is bullshit And no, the government saying it's proletariat doesn't make it true

I think the actual solution to this is if you're a streamer and you want to go to China you have to spend a year as a migrant worker, we'll even get you a good migrant worker job and you can work at one of the Foxconn plants or some shit! You're an American you're Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

The other thing I'll say about this is that it's word for word what all of the comedians who did shows in Saudi Arabia said, it's this thing where you stand American racism on it's head and go see look these non-American people aren't Oriental Savages they're normal Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

started my day with me sweet girl puppy on my lap in bed, and ending it the same way I love my baby girl

angel without his wings

*He's right, but if you actually go to Barcelona now, they're having complete, hair-tearing fits about hordes of pedestrian tourists

I've seen a lot of people asking for an option for "are" in the marshdeer xkcd-2501 generator... so I made one! Yay open source. foone.github.io/xkcd2501-gen... (pull request about to be in progress, but this is my fork of my changes)

ramadan mubarak

FASCINATING that all the "positive" responses here boil down to "I can't be bothered to read my own email or update my own diary". That's literally it. Hundreds of billions of dollars.

it's one thing to say with regards to a general election "vote blue no matter who" but it's a completely different thing to insist (as *lots* of Dem accounts I've personally seen are saying) that trans ppl *must* vote for Newsom when we're still several years away from presidential primaries!

“Is there a technology the left is excited about” Solar panels dropping in price and massively scaling up in production is pretty cool, so are RNA vaccines and - oh, sorry, did these have to be billionaire vanity projects or software? My mistake.

it really was a supreme act of cowardice and political stupidity that democrats didnt turn trans rights into a policy pillar like gay marriage after the massive nationwide backlash against north carolinas bathroom ban in 2016

anyway im ranting about this bc theres another article making the rounds where an ostensible liberal outlet is acting like trans rights are a political liability when in reality trans rights are a key part of building a liberal coalition with a vision for society that unites and inspires its base

One thing that may dramatically shake up our political life on this planet is the advent of a strong new El Niño. (Also our, you know, life life) billmckibben.substack.com/p/an-el-nino...

“The left is missing out on AI!” YEP. Most of us want to miss out! If it ever proves its actual usefulness to our actual lives, stops plagiarizing, and is no longer an environmental disaster, maybe we revisit. Burden of proof is on the industry. So far they’ve done the opposite of that!

Damn, Amanda Tapping makes a good villain (Travelers)

none of the reasonable and nuanced arguments ever seem to dissuade people who think AI is good so it's time to start being unreasonable and mean! the thing they think is good looks like shit! tell them they suck! tell them they've diminished themselves in your eyes. hurt their feelings about it!

My elementary, middle and high schools were all hit, and I don't really know the results of those attacks because there's not really anyone around but my parents to report it. My parents whose car windows were smashed along with the whole neighborhood. We need reporters out there.

There's an account on Twitter that posts Breaking Bad photos, and... Damn, Aaron Paul. I truly was not familiar with your game.

We’ve come full circle

"Decent" war criminal and homophobe: George W. Bush. Anyway, Chris Fields is primarying Cory from his left, and I wish him well!

Yeah yeah yeah sure let’s “jump ahead” of the complaints about the lack of explanatory power of our core argument. A one-sentence sneering aside in parentheses should do it. Once you remind people that men are isolated and lonely they don’t read much more anyway because they’re too busy crying.

douglas adams was our most accurate futurist

keep hitting it we gotta deplete the full health bar before it recovers

Still thinking about this quote.