Just a reminder, the greatest living American historian filmmaker, Ken Burns, released a 720 min exploration of every facet of the American revolution using zero generative AI and paying for all of its assets instead of cobbling it from stolen data, then he gave it away for free on PBS this year.

Weird how YouTube is suddenly pushing a bunch of shitty "tech influencer" videos telling me not to use a VPN. No VPN service is perfect and it's not a catch all privacy solution, but it can be an important tool when trying to protect and segment your data. I don't trust anyone saying otherwise.

I think we should normalize musicians selling their own music on CD-R with minimal packaging. It can be kind of expensive to get a physical run with cases, artwork, etc. It should be okay for indies to sell burnt CDs in paper sleeves for $5-15. It's digital, so it doesn't affect the sound quality.

We are participating in the Friday, Jan. 30 National Shutdown Day. Every small or big action you take matters. Let's build this movement and continue to grow towards a General Strike. generalstrikeus.com/demands

This time last year I was still basically bedridden. Yesterday I was able to shovel our apartment steps without being literally exhausted for a day and a half. A little sore and tired today, but not bad. Little by little life is finally getting back to normal. Just in time for unprecedented times...

Gavin Newsom is nobody's friend...

Did you like January 6. Was that fun for you. What do you think is going to happen in three years

Take his personal army away from him while you can, you stupid, stupid assholes. You’re like an armadillo playing dead in the middle of the road so the semi won’t hurt you

I never felt closer to my dead grandfather than when my mom told me stories about him being on the picket line. Apparently he would fill glass Christmas tree ornaments with paint and throw them at the management, scabs, and union busters. It's a shame he died so young, I think we would vibe 😅

If your whole basis for your morality is built around legality, you’ve already lost a major battle inside your head against fascism.

This isn't mine, and I can't definitively find the original source. But I love this little bit of wisdom: "If you're a fifteen-minute walk from a coffee shop, but the server there has to drive an hour to get to work, you don't live in a walkable city. You live in a theme park."

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The ICE agent who murdered Renee Good was part of Trump’s ICE, Biden’s ICE, and Obama’s ICE.

Rep. Jamie Raskin says a nationwide general strike may be needed to stop Trump’s authoritarian crackdown, praising Minnesotans’ mass demonstrations and general strike as “the direction we may need to go” nationally.

Philip Glass says his latest work is "a portrait of Abraham Lincoln, and the values of the Kennedy Center today are in direct conflict with the message of the Symphony. Therefore, I feel an obligation to withdraw this Symphony premiere from the Kennedy Center under its current leadership."

It's funny going back to old favorites where I strongly related to certain characters and finding them completely ridiculous and/or misguided. Example: I now see almost nothing of myself in Dante and Randal from Clerks. I guess therapy works? 😅

i have just gotten off a productive call with sauron where i laid out our requests - nazgul bodycams - morgul knife must remain sheathed unless suspect is determined to be carrying the one ring - shelob will be the new point of contact

I took a nap earlier this evening and now I'll never sleep again.

(Dude suddenly stops pushing his broom across the floor of the Death Star) Does this look like a big laser to anyone else

I think the most telling thing about far right conservatives is they project their own limitations onto everyone else. Many are supremely incompetent in most practical things, so the idea of organizing your community and working together to accomplish stuff is foreign to them. They can't fathom it.

Modern Times is a South Minneapolis staple, and a personal favorite haunt. For the duration of the occupation they're renaming themselves Post Modern Times and going to a donation-only model. Everyone but ICE can eat for free. Donations: Venmo: moderntimescafe givemn.org/story/centralimpactfund

Voting NO on the DHS funding bill is the bare minimum. Backing Kristi Noem’s impeachment is the bare minimum. Holding law-breaking ICE agents legally accountable is the bare minimum. ICE is beyond reform. Abolish it.

Watching The Quick and the Dead for the first time. First, this shit is just an anime (meant in the most complimentary way). Second, I wish I could look like Sharon Stone in the opening of this film. Her outfit is great and there's zero percent chance I could look half as good as her in it.

ACLU Minnesota commission.

hey everybody lifelong tech expert here > "system crash” deleted nearly two weeks of surveillance footage from inside the facility that's not how anything works they're lying and destroying evidence hope that helps

Man, I really like my Iron Rangers, but if Red Wing Shoes is going to be signing onto weak shit like this, I might have to email them and let them know I won't be buying another pair in black to replace my Docs like I was planning.

If I had a nickel for every time Rick Moranis was in a weird musical with '50s greaser and doo-wop vibes, I would only have two nickels but it's weird that it happened twice. Right?

People keep saying the codenames in Metal Gear Solid sound like Megaman X bosses, so I decided to give them actual designs. Matches the scale of my other X mockups. Something I've been sitting on for several years that I finally decided to wrap up tonight. #megaman #pixelart #ドット絵

remember when a group of armed right wing militia members had a month-long standoff with federal agents in 2016 and then they were all acquitted? haha that was so crazy. anyway what were you saying about being armed and "obstructing federal agents"?

theres literally no reason for them to be there, there is no immigration crisis let alone in minnesota. they are there to get revenge on the population for how they’ve voted and the media playing along with this kayfabe bull shit is getting people killed

ACLU Minnesota commission.

“abolish ICE” does not even begin to capture the type of change that needs to occur here

"The greatest danger to society is not rebellion, but the gradual acceptance of injustice." -Gustave Le Bon

Anyone that is still an ICE agent by the end of the day Monday has made their choice. They should all be held responsible from this point on. There's no slipping back into the floor boards for these Nazis. We'll never rest again... youtu.be/KYG7-d_Q9zU

the name of the ICE agent who murdered Keith Porter is Brian Palacios www.latimes.com/california/s...

Hey, if you need a reason to not support any upcoming Earthworm Jim stuff.....you can go on X, The Torment App and see the creator Doug TenNapel talk about how great AI is and quote tweeting everyone who disagrees. I wouldn't suggest it though.

Hey I know it's hard to stick it to the American government and billionaires in general.....but one simple way is to not produce and share AI images of Donald Trump drinking gallons of milk and Usha Vance dressed like a couch. GenAI defeats nothing other than the environment and makes the right 💲💲💲

I just saw the footage from the person in the red coat, and if it's authentic, it was so much worse than it initially looked. It looked like a street execution. I wouldn't recommend anyone else watch it. He was helping someone up. He was no threat. They sprayed him, beat him, and then shot him.

I don’t want to hear anything from an elected official unless it’s a plan to defund the DHS and impeach Noem, Bovino, etc. No texts. No emails. No talk about the economy. Step up or step off.

Reminder: All it would take to end the murder of American citizens by an untrained government goon squad is 16 Republicans in Congress voting with Dems to defund ICE (or 23 to impeach and remove Trump — 3 in House & 20 in Senate). That’s it. 23 Americans can vote for the public and end all of this.

They accused an old man they dragged through freezing weather in his underwear of living with sex criminals. It was a lie. They called Renee Good a domestic terrorist. Their word is worth less than dirt.

I hope that Democrats realize what’s happening in Minnesota is also a dry run for what the regime has planned for the midterms.

This sure seems more like the tyranny the Constitution is supposed to protect against than forgiving student loans.

Not even a full day after the first general strike in over 80 years and a huge peaceful protest, ICE mobbed, beat, and then killed another person on the street. No fixing this evil.