the biden administration suspecting and proving that homan would take a bribe and then being unprepared to take the next step and just letting him walk away with $50k for doing nothing is so on the nose it just doesnt feel real

I like to use Shaun King social media discourses as a convenient reminder to replace my HVAC filter and test the batteries in my smoke detectors.

today in wikipedia sentences that are alarming if you don't know which article they're from:

Hiroo Isono

The Wife Put Me in Charge of the Toilet

dudes rock

it's not exactly an index of things but it is pretty funny that fall of US hegemony is coinciding with the silent hill franchise switching its setting to japan

Wishing everyone a great Fall.

One sick puppy.

sometimes you see something so evangelical that it takes your breath away

Hey there Delilah Upward it mooned while onstreaming And if you understand these words Then you must be from that gleaming land of Tlön, the one where all the maps are gone We made it spawn

(me getting the joke) ohhhh, it's from Jorge Luis

Hey there Delilah I am writing the Quixote Adding hermeneutic weight to what Miguel wrought crude and floaty Vis-à-vis The work— attributed to me? Or only he?

The next two minutes of video show me offering to walk off with him since he's not being detained. He declines, because he "doesn't want to be rude". Less than two minutes later, they place him in cuffs with no explanation and stuff him into a car with NY plates.

As you can see, this man is as cool as a cucumber, knows his rights, and is confident that he is here legally.

This morning at 11am, corner of Hathorn and Broadway in Somerville MA. 3 ICE vehicles idling on nearby corners. I was following two ICE cars that were cruising around the neighborhood. This person was just walking down the sidewalk when two ICE vehicles stopped and officers jumped out to stop him.

Pickle pickle burning bright Give me sodium if you might

Is Kirby a blue mage?

tonight is my first rodeo. closing the bar saturday night at my new job for the first time. also there is a literal rodeo at the arena just down the street and they are all coming here

This may seem cute but if you do this too much the cyclists may become reliant on cars feeding them, disrupting the delicate roadway ecosystem

Remember when Disney lawyers were supposed to be this invincible force of cataphracts that would bury any opposition, no matter if it was a government or a grief-stricken parent putting Spider-man on their son's grave

great news! you're not actually seeing karl rove, john yoo, and david frum criticize the administration's lawlessness more stridently than dem leadership. you, reader, were infected with rabies by a brown bat 36 hours ago and this is all just the virus working its way through your nervous system

me playing a metal gear solid game for the first time

every time i feel anxious and unsettled i just try to remember that beneath the earth lies an immense stone labyrinth that awaits us with the patience of a hunter

Stunning piece. A horror movie of sorts. Will be familiar to anyone on the left trying to navigate the centrist American legacy media, albeit made all the more difficult when your bosses and colleagues all assume your people are by default murderous barbarians. bidoun.org/articles/hou...

time for me to man up and fill this out

The thing about being an artist is that sometimes you’ll have a really silly/cursed image enter your head and spend hours of your life drawing it. Hours you’ll never get back.

"Porn bans" ALWAYS lead to trans bans Michigan bill seeks to lock up trans people for posting selfies.

You can't eat the internet.

Larry Tesler, inventor of the cut, copy, and paste commands, dies at 74

English people love saying shit like "hobknobs are my favorite dunker"

interesting moment in time to have such limited computer specs that supplementary materials are produced to fill in the gaps of the abstracted visuals. invites you to synthesize the pile of materials into a new thing only you can see.

*playing Starcraft for the first time as an 11 year old* there's so many different types of Lisks

ok so the vice president took over his podcasting duties so leaning towards probably he was

When I worked at UT, the campus hosted Nazi speakers (twice, I think), and a professor called for cars to "run down" protestors. He wasn't disciplined.

Pulitzer Feeling Increasingly Out Of Place In Washington Post Office

hey sorry for putting this on your feed but @jay.bsky.team won't explain why this is still up despite violating Bluesky TOS. I also havent gotten any email from the multiple reports I've filed on it. Could you guys report it also and tell me if you at least get an email? bsky.app/profile/nypo...

This morning in East Somerville, MA masked agents who told bystanders they were from Homeland Security abducted a man who lives in the neighborhood while he was on his way to do laundry. Video shared directly with me of the moments after he was detained and put in an unmarked vehicle:

so I did see Godspeed tonight but that didn't stop me from listening to Moomin Music and also Central American Experimental Cello

you already know what the fuck going on

korean reporting is nightmarish on the conditions Korean workers were contained in

A dream of the Abyss

in the hierarchy of forgettable 90s toons the "furry leather daddy" genre (biker mice, swat kats) is far more respectable than the "jokes and paraphilias" genre (tiny toons)

finally broke the seal on the Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge re-release and holy shit the new mix job completely revitalizes WAY more of these songs than I expected

You want tourists to go to shows and galleries in your city now? you needed to give artists that revitalized block of warehouses for cheap ten years ago and allow them go to the fucking doctor while they were still in good health.

Just to emphasise the point: The campaign to smear Jeremy Corbyn as an antisemite that led to people describing his pronunication of 'Epstein' as a dogwhistle was spearheaded by a man who was Epstein's "best pal" and who defended him when he was jailed for soliciting minors for prostitution.

This feels relevant today

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